What an intense time we live in. Where do we hide? Where do we find peace?
Remember the Sixties? Hectic. Unless you were in high school in a small Ohio school. I loved it! The class of 1964! Slotted in the middle of a chaotic decade. Was life better? (Duh!)
JFK, RFK, MLK. Three significant assassinations, just unraveling in 2025.
Elvis. The Everley Brothers. Pat Boone. Connie Francis. The Ronettes. Leslie Gore. Aretha Franklin. Bill Haley. Patsy Cline. The Beatles. The Supremes. Cilla Clark. The Limeliters. Peter, Paul and Mary. Joan Baez. Bob Dylan. Joni Mitchell. and many more singers carried the sixties with music.
Transister radios made it happen. 78 RPM records preceded 45 RPM. Suddenly w had record players that would play both and allow stacking for longer play.
Sock Hops at school events enabled expression through movement- up to a point. We weren't supposed to gyrate like Elvis. Even Elvis was censored on TV which wouldn't show him on the screen below his waist when he sang on the Ed Sullivan show.
It was a good time to be young. What do you think?
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