Posted on 06/26/2010 5:26:01 PM PDT by sussex
Am I the only person on this planet who can watch these clips and recapture those ecstatic moments of feeling I was in a whole new dimension, away from parents, teachers, bosses and that smug, suffocating, pompous world of received opinion?
Rock n’Roll came exploding out of nowhere (or so it seemed to a gangly British 15 year old going through all those frighteningly mysterious upheavals of adolescence in the 1950s).
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WOW! A gold mine - THANK YOU!
Let me SECOND that opinion! I just found Mr Lonely by Bobby Vinton. I've been looking for that song for some time, and when I clicked on a random year and artist, there is was.
There is a song by Dion and The Belmonts. I thought it was ‘Oh Diane’, but I found it through the song title search and it’s called ‘Little Diane’. No wonder I couldn’t find it on U-Tube! Now I can search for it. Tx again.
As I remember it, the fifties culture lasted until at least 1965, here in an eccentric SoCal beach town full of beatniks. Even later in small towns across America. The hippie antiwar movement was a small cult until 1967 or so, and then only in cities and college towns. When Cronkite urged the antiwar movement forward after Tet, things changed in a hurry.
You must be referring to Surf City! aka Huntington Beach, CA. This is where the old beatnik culture, the surfing culture and the LSD culture met.
The beatniks were firmly entrenched in old Tin Can Beach, a bohemian enclave just south of Huntington Beach where bohemians lived rent-free in improvised shacks made of driftwood, plywood, and... tin cans.
The surfers were already there, from Malibu down to San Diego. But HB was the favorite spot, where you could 'shoot the pier' (long ago outlawed).
Finally, the legendary Brotherhood of Eternal Love was headquartered in Laguna Beach. They manufactured and sold or gave away millions of hits of orange sunshine to Marines from Camp Pendleton to surfers already turned on to grass, to kids from the suburbs out for a weekend adventure.
Then the political types (red diaper Marxist youth) were always present, trying to steer the diverse, unorganized counter-cultures into a unified political movement. They were centered in Berkeley (read Radical Son by David Horowitz).
It all ended with the end of the Viet Nam war, the drug busts of Tim Leary and many in the Brotherhood, their Mystic Arts World bookstore was busted for drug dealing, then myteriously burned down. Many in the various movements got real jobs, while the more dissolute got deeper into drugs like cocaine and meth and self-destructed. The hippie movement was over and the 'ME' generation took over. Reagan got elected President in 1980, whose chief legal counsel, Ed Meese, was largely responsible for dismantling the Black Panthers. It was Morning In America again.
Frankie Ford - SEA CRUISE I still love that song and love singing it!
I was born in 1951 but had older siblings so the music was there when I was growing up.
My brother told me a joke when I was 7 years old: What did Jerry Lee Lewis say when he sat on a hot stove? “Goodness, gracious! Great Balls of Fire!”
And Sputnik orbiting overhead. Magical times.
I always think of the 60s as two decades. The first half was a continuation of the 50s. The latter? Ugh. Turned our world upside down, and never got straight again.
For those who haven’t found it yet, www.pandora.com is fantastic. Just put in the name of any of your 50s songs, and it will play your own music, one song after another from that era. That can be done for any genre or time to create ‘your own radio station’ online.
You’re absolutely on target. The 60s were of two sections. The first few years were much the same (at least musically) as the 50s. In fact, XM satellite radio plays 1960, 1961, 1962, and 1963 music on their 50s channel.
I know of a DJ in a large Southern city who was absolutely the best rock jock I’ve ever heard. Since I was in the business myself for a few years and listened critically, I think my opinion is somewhat valid. Anyway, this man was severely injured in, I believe, 1965 or 1966, and when he recovered in 1967, he could not bring himself to play the music then and subsequently retired from DJing. And I don’t blame him.
Thanks for that info on www.pandora.com. Had never heard of it before. That’s what makes FR so great.
Just a bump in case anyone else wants a good oldies source:
http://www.tropicalglen.com/
got it bookmarked, tx!~
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