Baby Boomer Alert: Who Remembers Anita Bryant? (VIDEO)

Singer Anita Bryant turns 74 years old today.

Bryant was a popular singer in the 1960s and 1970s.  She recorded two dozen albums and had a top hit, "Paper Roses," which reached #5 on the charts.  Dick Clark invited her to appear on the American Bandstand Show when the song was a big hit coast to coast.

Bryant was famous for being the spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Growers Association.  As such she basically became the ubiquitous face and voice of the leading agricultural crop of Florida.  Her commercials were on television non stop, day and night.

In the mid-1970s she took on the Gay agenda in America.  Basing her campaign (dubbed "Save Our Children") on her own Conservative Christian beliefs, the singer spoke out stridently about the perceived demonic behavior of gays in America.  She dabbled in politics and writing.  The gay community came at her in a fury and before long her business contacts started to distant themselves with her.

Eventually she lost it all, including her lucrative Florida Orange Juice contract and was forced into bankruptcy.

She hasn't recorded in years and remains out of the spotlight.  There are rumors in Hollywood of a film on her life in the works, perhaps starring actress Uma Thurman as her.

Anita Bryant is 74 today.

Who remembers the peak of the controversy surrounding her, when she was attacked on live TV?