The sixties was a decade unlike any other decade in our history.Just what were we thinking, or were we thinking at all? We had just finished the fifties which was full of war, then peace, returning veterans, G.I. Bills, new suburbs, employment boom, baby boom and our cars were decorated with tail fins that competed with one another for style and size. The car boom was on, the baby boom was on, business was booming and there were boom boxes everywhere. (Did you know that the first boombox was invented in 1923?) (The compact disc is now old enough to drink. The first compact disc was turned out by Sony in 1982. If my math is correct, That should make it 21 years old.) It's impossible to imagine President Harding walking around the White House grounds with a boom box on his shoulders.
Anyway, enough trivia, now back to the sixties. The sixties erupted with the "Age of Aquarius," Camelot and the Flower Child Freedom Movement, freedom of love and a freedom of self-expression in our personal appearance. The hippie movement was upon us, bell bottoms were below us and hair was everywhere on top of us. The sixties could almost be defined as the "Age of Hair." Women wore long hair, women wore short hair and men wore long hair. If a man wore the traditional short haircut, he was pointed to as being square, it was definitely not cool.
The Age of Camelot and the Kennedy dream team in the White House, came to a halt on a dreary November day, the Great Society took over with civil rights, voting rights and equal opportunity rights. Lady Bird had her great beautification program. Billboards were torn down, limited with new standards, scrap yards were fenced from public view, trees were planted and interstates were spiffed up.
Stanley Kubrick taught us to "Love the Bomb," Bob Dylan taught us to love one another and Cassius Clay taught us to love poetry.
The "Age of Aquarius" was the birth of the silent majority, the Newport Folk Festival, Woodstock, I Have a Dream, Altamont, love-ins, sit-ins, love-outs, protests, the Beatles, Presidential debates, hijacking, Etch-A-Sketch, Wal-Mart and man visiting the moon.
Dion was one of several Italian-Americans to make important pop rock in the 60s. ... Joey Dee was the most popular white twist artist of the 60s with his hit Peppermint Twist. ... This band Featured a thick Organ sound of Felix cavaliere,They had a number one hit titled Good Lovin in 1966. ... The American band the byrds combined folk and rock which created a number one hit on the billboard music charts. ... (sixties). ...
70's Music Having to follow a decade like the sixties for music was indeed a formidable task. ... He had already released many records in the sixties, though none were successful. ... Among his many U.K were three number 1 singles "I"m The Leader Of The Gang" "I Love You Love" and "Always Yours". MID-70"S Glam rock was phasing out in the mid-seventies, making way for new artists and a few one-hit-wonders. ... Today, "pop music" is brought out weeks before it is released and often stays at number for one week. ...
I could already tell the next hour would be the longest one of my life. ... Angela began to accelerate, and reached sixty miles per hour. She slowed down to forty-five, and then back up to sixty. ... he responded, then hit his brake once more. ... I was on a different lesson number than her, so Ron let me decide where to drive. ...
With many hits skyrocketing through the billboard charts, The Beatles had over twenty-six singles and seven number one albums in the top forty. ... The Beatles took the number one spot for record sellers of the century. ... One of the first shows they appeared on was The Ed Sullivan Show. ... Although The Beatles had a few hardships throughout their career they still had hits that climbed the charts. ... With their awesome multi-talents and hip trends they easily paved their way through the sixties. ...
Teenagers across America first accepted Presley as one of them' and quickly made the music their lifestyle as soon as Presley's first hit came out, "That's Alright Mama-. Musician, Bob Luman describes the scene one at a show: "This cat came out in red pants and a green coat and a pink shirt and socks, he had a grin on his face for five minutes he then hit his guitar a lick and broke two strings. ... However why did the song become a hit? ... The song contains the line "the time for a number of things- expressed the way drugs make it necessary to slow down one's ac...
This song became a number one hit and established Motown as an important independent company. ... She turned out to be the first real star for the label with a good number of pop hits. ... Then the Supremes came out with five consecutive number one hits, "Where Did Our Love Go," "Baby Love," "Come See About Me," "Stop! ... This song also went to number one. ... It sold over one million copies and had three number one R&B hits. ...
One thing people remember about the sixties was the years of the "American Camelot". ... In the sixties the "Cold War" was heating up. ... With leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, the Civil Rights Movement grew to be one of the most important movement in the sixties. The movement was started in the fifties-- and it hit it's peek with Dr. ... One bullet passed through Kennedy's neck, and the other bullet hit the president in the head. ...
They had various series, of which no one had seen the likes of before on T.V. ... In 1967 the hippy era hit the peak, love and peace was available by the bucket load, but there were bands that went against the typical love songs. ... On January 13th 1963 the Beatles single I Want to Hold Your Hand' was released in the U.S.A and in just a two weeks the song reached number one on the Billboard pop singles chart. ... Although the sixties music side of things was very much dominated by bands such as The Rolling Stones and The Beatles there were still a number of bands that became huge succe...
