This item from a Southern California student newspaper reflects how teenage culture has changed in the past 50 years.
In its December 5 and 19, 1963 issues, The Pleiades, the newspaper at Fullerton High School in Fullerton, Calif. published a series of "most admired" lists after polling the students as to their favorite international figures, actors, actresses, TV programs, musicians, songs, etc. Due to space limitations and time constraints (HTML didn't exist in 1963, so everything has to be coded up), I'm only including the lists of musicians, musical groups and songs.
The top male musicians:
- Johnny Mathis
- Ray Charles
- Andy Williams
- Henry Mancini
- Percy Faith
- Robert Goulet
- Gene Pitney
- Elvis Presley
- Leonard Bernstein
The top female musicians:
- Jackie De Shannon
- Connie Francis
- Skeeter Davis
- Brenda Lee
- Joannie Sommers
- Judy Garland
- Lesley Gore
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Joan Baez
- Dinah Shore
The top musical groups:
- Peter, Paul, and Mary
- The Kingston Trio
- The Smothers Brothers
- The Beach Boys
- The New Christy Minstrels
- The Lettermen
- Dick & Dee Dee
- Ferrante & Teicher
- The Limelighters*
- The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The most popular songs (only half were from 1963!):
- Theme from A summer place
- Washinton Square
- Moon River
- Theme From Exodus
- Blowin' in the Wind
- Green Fields
- Misty
- Wipeout
- Green, Green
- (Tie) Michael, The Mountain's High, A Walk on the Wild Side
*I doubt that they were
these Limelighters