Showing posts with label Kennedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kennedy. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Major changes in the top forty music only two months after the kennedy assassination

Whether the impact came from the Kennedy assassination or otherwise, the music industry has changed dramatically since in just 2 months intervening period since the Kennedy assassination, November 22nd.  in this week's survey we have The Beatles arriving in America with a new sound - a d a new number 1number one 'I wanna hold your hand '.  At number 2 we see social change represented in misic. women's lib isshowing its face for the first time with 'you Don't own me' by Leslie Gore.  At number 3 We have the twilight zonish 'out of limits' instrumental by the marketts.At number 4. We have early heavy metal/Garage rock with 'surfing bird' by the trash man and a number of five we have the beginning of the car sound, with Hey Little  Cobra. That's on the hot 100 . even at number 6, we have Louis louis Louis, which was pretty radical at its time with those questionable lyrics and then of course, we still do have a lot of these softer sound from before with the number 7 there I've said it again from Bobby Vi ton , and ' um, um. ... Interesting title by major Lance, anyone who had Heart by Diana Warwick, and  for you By the famous teen idol, Rick nelsen round out the top 10 and the rest of the survey is a little more traditional, but the top 10 or featuring a new sound and then The Beatles do clocking. With yet another number another big hit. She loves you. I believe that was a deview.  I was trying greatest. I will actually it's one of the greatest upper trends that's number 2022 or 20 on the national Huff $100 the local sound local scene. Rather kW b out of Oakland California. We have a similar top 5 with The Beatles number one and I want to hold your hand women's lips showing its face with you. Don't own me by Leslie, Gordon number 2, Hey, little proverbs, number 3.  A little flip-flop was served in bird from the national survey, and add a limit number 4 and then we you have a soft softer one. It's all in the game, not by Tommy Edwards who had the 58 hit, but by rent Brandon song cliff Richards, one of his few hits in the in America, despite the fact he was the Elvis of England tell Him WA's number 6, but not by the exciting. This was by the drew valves. Number 7 a little more hard rock. Early hard rock from the surf and bird surfer bird from the trashmen and little boxes. And interesting kind of semi radical.  Folk song from Pete Seger clock sent at number 9. And shall be checker residents your staying focused soon and number 10 hooked hookahistory of based on his famous giddy, Queen wife from ugly Sweden. Anyway, so definitely changes in the music scene with the new sound of The Beatles and a lot of changes of.  Shall we say social changes in number 2 number 3 and 4? Anyway that should be a littbelow food for thought or music for that

Friday, September 29, 2023

Overlooked Rock and Roll Era- Kennedy 's Early 60s- A Cultural History


Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America

A Cultural History of the Early 1960s

By: Richard Aquila

Narrated by: Chris Abernath

Rock and roll of the early 60s was easily dismissed by many  after quieting of pioneers like Elvis , Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and before British Invasion following Kennedy assasination- and to this day- thus so many icons still not voted in rock hall of fame(Connie Francis, Neil Sedaka, etc). More than  the music , a Very enjoyable look back at perhaps my favorite era of rock and roll and 'Camelot' upbeat culture with oft overlooked Icons like Roy Orbison, Dion, Shirelles, Connie, Neil, the Ventures, Everly Brothers, Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Brenda Lee, Mary Wells , Marvelettes, Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, Bobby Vee , Bobby Rydell, Leslie Gore, Lou Christie, Chubby Checker, early Motown, Phil Spector / groups like Ronnettes, Righteous  Brothers, etc.
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A rousing, poignant look at the cultural history of rock & roll during the early 1960s
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In the early 1960s, the nation was on track to fulfill its destiny in what was being called "the American Century." Baby boomers and rock & roll shared the country's optimism and energy. For "one brief, shining moment" in the early 1960s, both President John F. Kennedy and young people across the country were riding high. The dream of a New Frontier would soon give way, however, to a new reality involving assassinations, the Vietnam War, Cold War crises, the civil rights movement, a new feminist movement, and various culture wars.

Based on extensive research and exclusive interviews with Dion, Bo Diddley, Brenda Lee, Martha Reeves, Pete Seeger, Bob Gaudio, Dick Clark, and other legendary figures, the book rejects the myth that Buddy Holly's death in 1959 was "the day the music died." It proves that rock & roll during the early 1960s was vibrant and in tune with the history and events of this colorful era. These interviews and Aquila's research reveal unique insights and new details about politics, gender, race, ethnicity, youth culture, and everyday life. Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America recalls an important chapter in rock & roll and American history.

©2022 Richard Aquila (P)2022 

ROLLING STONE , the rock and roll magazine , took off with the Beatles and only really covered Beatles-era music and beyond alomg with 'roots' music. Only when early 60s artist like Roy Orbison and Del Shannon  and Dick Dale were rediscovered with second careers did RS and mainstream media finally pay attention to some extent. Yet to the day the left-leaning media aloong with institutions like the rock Hall Continue to
Play up 'social conscious' artists, often black, gay and, yes, rap. At fairs and events you  see many trubute bands, too, mostly post-65 music, usually black , heavy metal or British, but very little 'whitebread' music such as surf, country rock or  even early motown.
 
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

 

Book review: ‘If Kennedy Lived:

An Alternate History’ by Jeff

Greenfield

 [starrating]

By H.W. Brands, Published: October 25





Would Rocky Marciano have beaten Muhammad Ali if their primes had overlapped? Could Ted Williams have hit Bob Gibson’s fastball? Would John Kennedy have defeated Barry Goldwater in a race for president?Jeff Greenfield is silent on boxing and baseball, but his current contribution to fantasy politics includes a Kennedy victory over Goldwater in 1964, following Kennedy’s survival of the assassination attempt by Lee Harvey Oswald 50 years ago this November. Fantasists will find “If Kennedy Lived” intriguing — students of the real world less so.
(The Penguin Group) - “If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History” by Jeff Greenfield.
 




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There are two reasons to engage in counterfactual history. Greenfield prefers the more lenient label “alternate history.” One is to identify critical events, hinge points of history, and analyze why they turned out the way they did. To ask whether there would have been a Cold War if Franklin Roosevelt had lived to complete his fourth term is to conduct a thought experiment on the causes of the breakdown of the Grand Alliance of World War II. Were personal considerations crucial — was Harry Truman overly suspicious, perhaps? Or were larger factors decisive?Yet guessing can be fun, which is the second reason to engage in counterfactualism. Historical fiction has a long lineage. Homer, Shakespeare and Dickens indulged, as did countless authors less distinguished. Greenfield amuses himself concocting a second inaugural gala at which the Beach Boys sing “Fun, Fun, Fun (in a Second Term With JFK)” and Roy Orbison croons “Oh, Pretty Woman” (“This one’s for you, Jackie,” he says). Kennedy brings the Beatles to the executive mansion and declares, “Not since the British burned the White House in 1812 has a foreign invader conquered our land as swiftly and thoroughly as have John, Paul, George, and Ringo.”