Conclusive proof that growing up in the 1960s was the best.



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Ha - love it, Curt - thanks!!!
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From LIFE Magazine, May of 1966.......

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I would turn 13 in one more week. I still have this 45......

The Young Rascals "Groovin'" on The Ed Sullivan Show, June 4, 1967.

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I can’t say I’m embracing it anymore. Looking back is just sad and depressing to me. It was a good life, but that’s not me dancing anymore.

Eydie Gorme, Blame it on the Bossa Nova. 1963 - 7 YO? My Mom had the 45. I was just old enough to work the player (over and over and over) and literally can still summon endorphins from the memory.

As to the kid reading cereal boxes, there was also reading toothpaste tubes or hairspray cans on the throne.

Everyone in our family always got together to watch the Ed Sullivan show on Sunday night.

Us too, Kurt. Also The Jackie Gleason Show, Lawrence Welk, and others.

My Dad LOVED listening to good music and had a nice album collection of various recording artists of that time.

He played the piano and accordion and he loved Lawrence Welk's Jo Ann Castle on piano.....

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From the album "Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66" released in August 1966.
Original video edited and remastered with HQ stereo sound
"Day Tripper" is a song originally written and performed by The Beatles. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 created a popular bossa nova cover of this song. Their version is included on the album "Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66", which was released in 1966.
The song's structure in The Beatles' original version is built around a distinctive riff, with verses that incorporate a twelve-bar blues form. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 put their unique twist on it with their signature bossa nova style.

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@Baz,wow, 12 bars of tremolo. I haven't heard that much extended tremolo very often. I would think she'd get a cramp, but she could probably do that for 15 minutes.

That set design is really snazzy too, Milt. The drum kit atop Sergio's piano? Over the top with the coolness factor!

I was referring to Jo Ann. Sergio's vid was good.

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Nice - thanks, Bob.

To this day I can distinctly remember the girls in Jr High from '67 - '69 - who walked to school each day along with me and my crew.....they looked and dressed the same way.

I always felt they were in a whole class by themselves.....and unapproachable.....but my goodness did I admire them from afar!

Back when I was about 14 I "discovered" the hottest girls were the 18 and 19 year old high school seniors. My opinion has not ever changed. I was invisible to them back then, and still invisible.

I graduated in 1973, and the height of mini skirts (pun intended) the hemlines were short. Our school had a minimum, the skirt had to come to the end of the girl's thumbs when her arms were hanging at her sides. As a teenage boy full of hormones I loved it.

The only car crash I ever had was because one of the prettiest girls in school was walking in front of the school, on a windy day. For some reason I was focused on her and not the idiot in front of me that stopped at the red light. I just tapped him at 5 MPH with the tires locked up on my 60 VW bug. The wrong head was in charge of my driving that day.

Looking at my high school yearbook, I am astonished how shot the skirts and dresses were. And very few if any girls in jeans or slacks.

The bad news of that year was the horrible fashions for men.

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That was all that was in the stores. That and bell bottoms, yuck.

Who was looking at the men? If the girls didn't mind....

No plaid for me. Every fall, part of the ritual for going back to school was to buy new clothes with money earned through the summer. GWG jeans and Arrow shirts. By the time I graduated in '72 I must have had a dozen, all solid colors of various hues. Then I got to university where everyone dressed like they had just come out of the woods.:D when the "hipster" trend came along I just shook my head.

We had to buy clothes!

I refused the plaids and the worst, the HUGE cuffs on the bottom of slacks, like the photo I posted above. For most of the time I was OK in Levis 501s which did not have the idiotic bell bottoms, but I HATED the stupid button fly.

I had to wear slacks and a sport coat to go to the state capitol and photograph the senators and house members making the laws. And to Governor's Wallace's office when he had a press conference, or made a state of the state speech. It was dang near impossible to find "normal" slacks in that era, except the slacks from a suit.

Those fashion designers of the era needed a punch in the nose and motivation to get back to normal fashions. I really feel sorry for women. The fashions changed fast, and the prices were nuts. All just to sell more clothes.

Eff all the fashion designers.

Not much in the 70's related in any way to fashion needs to be repeated. Clothes, house interiors, car designs....

The colors of the Porsche lineup was fantastic. Not just variations of silver.