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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Major changes in the top forty music only two months after the kennedy assassination
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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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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Monday, April 25, 2016
The Land That Made Me Me-A Nostalgia Look Back
THEY SAY YOU CANT GO BACK. We say 'why not?'...at least for a SHORT, colorful reminder of how it used to be, good or bad - you decide. No era was 100% good or bad but perhaps this looks pretty good against the NEW 'ME' society >https://youtu.be/NqHTHZsUICA . Let us know what you think... For another fun and interesting piece of nostalgia go see the new movie 'Elvis and Nixon' out now
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
MADMEN - WHY THE EXCITEMENT OVER A TV SERIES SET 50 YEARS AGO?
MADMEN - WHY THE EXCITEMENT OVER A TV SERIES SET 50 YEARS AGO?
"I love the fact, that in one point in time all women didn't look like cheap whores, this show captures that, and many things of that nature."
" ...people have a lot of nostalgia for an era when you could be a complete cipher in 1956 and leading a rich ad agency in 1963, just by getting someone drunk and lying about having received a job offer (as Draper did)... or dropping acid at Woodstock in 1969 and protege of a F-500 CEO in 1974... or completely average and able to buy a house at age 24. The era when no one had heard of the Satanic Trinity (healthcare, housing, and education costs) that would begin eating the middle class a few decades later. That doesn't exist anymore."
With the
seventh and final season of AMC's
blockbuster 'Mad Men' cable TV series now concluded, it's of
interest - at least to those who follow society's trends and sociology - to explore
the amazing following the program has had, especially with younger folks who
weren't even alive during the time the
story line took place. Add to the fact
that that era of the 1950s and 1960s has
been pretty much disregarded (except perhaps for the late '60s) by the same
younger population (and mainstream media) as racist
and repressive without the all-encompassing technology which is
pervasive and key to their world today.
With over 3 million viewers for the final episode over the weekend, it's viewership may not be record-breaking
but it's up there. The show is considered
one of the better written and more subtle series with an underlying message, tailored to reach the ardent watcher of modern TV drama. Madmen creator Andrew Weiner, who wasn't even alive in the early 60s , says he's proud the the series gave women a
voice, showing the mistreatment of women and how they courageously dealt with
it. Like most of today's programs,
writers have taken license to color the earlier eras with a paintbrush, usually
depicting a time much more 'backward'
than today's more tolerant and accepting
society; if we think we still have problems today, boy, look at the those 'mad
men' of the 50s and 60s, Weiner might say.
Long gone are true portrayals of earlier eras, and for that reason we
didn't watch but an episode or two of the program - enough to see a somewhat
contrived depiction of a much misunderstood - and, yes, underappreciated -
era. And, despite all of Weiner's
efforts to ignore or gloss over those better elements of of the
post-war era, it's exactly those
qualities - romance, honesty, realism and 'happy days' - that have attracted so
many viewers, despite the poetic license to alter the true flavor of the era,
which wasn't quite as bad as it was made to appear.
Yes, the rich, white men could be bullies who took advantage
of 'the softer sex,' and who played into racism of the times to some extent.
But, it wasn't quite as black and white
from what you would get watching the series. It was an era before health care, education and housing costs have all but wiped out the middle class, and perhaps a nostalgic quality to that , alone, though the writers do their best to depict the era in a depressing light. Or, perhaps, it's more the human failing. Again, the writing is done to appeal to the modern times, perhaps trying to make us feel better than the sad sacks getting drunk and going crazy before our eyes. You may have a
show set in the '60s but the writers will even admit they would color things
with a modern view point; for example they weren't hesitant to make a 'dowdy'
(as they were called in the day) woman look even dowdier just for effect.
Says Weiner, "I was raised by a strong woman. I have
two powerful, professional older sisters. My wife is a powerful, professional
woman. And I have four sons, so I haven't been able to pass that much on –
except the fact that [as a man] you'd better listen, and you'd better not act
like you're in the majority, and you'd better perceive the world as a human
being and not in terms of gender," he said. But, that may be exactly what
attracted women to men of the era - a strength where men were men and women
women, even if the men would go overboard.
How many times did the woman keep running back to them - or the man to
the woman. Perhaps women wanted to put
up with a sometimes over-the-top man who really showed love and care, rather
than equivocation. Even if he did sometimes drink too much or become
belligerent at times. After all,
marriage rates have only gotten worse since then.
Despite all the 'colorization' today's audience could see
through to the REAL substance of an era when there were real families, when
people dressed up and real romance
ensued. Yes, there were dress codes then
and rules that many would later rebel against, but that's exactly what many
today seem to miss and yearn for. There
was even an honesty then in the deception that existed.
Something about the debonair Don Draper ending up in a
hippie commune doing yoga just seems a bit contrived. Maybe true, and perhaps the problem with
society quickly jilted from the 'happy days' early 60s Kennedy era to the post-Kennedy 'flower children' times when men gave up their macho honesty for
squishy, phony 'feel good.' Without having seen the episode, what if Don
Draper would have NOT gone to the hippie camp and maintained more of his honest
macho-ism. I just have to assume that
Don started getting squishy to appeal more
'today.' Just to see the photo of the still
white-shirted, Madison-Avenue-looking Draper there in yoga pose with hippies
seems to say it all. Would be
interesting to hear if women preferred
the early 60s Draper or the 'yoga' era Draper. I would guess many would say the former, despite
the politically-incorrectness.
Believable? Or, more poetic license? How easy could people really CHANGE from
their early '60s persona to a totally different late-60s mindset? Matthew Weiner, the series creator, sets lead Don Draper up with a full stack of attractive qualities, then mixes in just enough self-destructiveness and amorality to repulse us. Ideal TV fare ala Breaking Bad if you're into this sort of thing. The postives of the early '60s era get pretty much trashed, as expected, in typical lmodern TV screenplay.
A few comments from the peanut gallery (as they used to say):
"I love the fact, that in one points
in time all women didn't look like cheap whores, this show captures that, and
many things of that nature."
" add the lens of the '60s and the wild contrast
between today's world and that period culturally, and you have the perfect
backdrop to examine aspects of our history that seem mundane now that they've
passed, but were critical and electrifying socially at the time. It's easy to
forget how different things were in this country even 40 years ago, and that
lends a certain voyeuristic aspect to the show, as well as a visual distinction
that makes it unique from almost everything else on TV these days. Avant garde
decor and fashion of the day are jarring in comparison to what we consider chic
or stylish today.'
"I think it can be a good show but it
just gets boring after a while. I liked season one and the Whole 'who's Don
Draper' arc alright but I didn't find much interesting in season 2 and finally
gave up in season three a couple of eps in. It is a lot like the Sopranos in
that some episodes are really good but you have to wade through mountains of
boring garbage to get there and have it make sense."
“Mad Men” is the flagship of
the new Intellectual Vegetable Television complex, the kind of meticulously
crafted TV that the formerly bookish spend their intellectual leisure taking
in. It’s reached the point where lacking cable is worse than announcing you’re
illiterate. “But I stayed in and read Dante,” you whisper, feebly. Why are you
being like that? everyone asks. Dante was agesago. Why aren’t you taking advantage of the Golden
Age of Television and being part of The Conversation?A'
" I've seen
a few episodes. The sets, the interiors, and the clothing are
fascinating....but for me, it felt like "there was no *there* there."
None of the characters seemed particularly interesting or memorable to me, and
everyone just seemed kind of "empty."
I can't enjoy a show about "empty" people.
Also - my parents were young-marrieds in the 1960s. But they were university people and listening to them talk about what they did (had dinners with the international grad students where different couples cooked food from their countries, went to plays and concerts, refinished furniture) seems so much more interesting than the slick surface world Mad Men presents..."
I can't enjoy a show about "empty" people.
Also - my parents were young-marrieds in the 1960s. But they were university people and listening to them talk about what they did (had dinners with the international grad students where different couples cooked food from their countries, went to plays and concerts, refinished furniture) seems so much more interesting than the slick surface world Mad Men presents..."
So, perhaps Mad Men appeals to a certain type of person
willing to while away hours on a program that really goes nowhere, tries to
preach a little. Perhaps, as one commented, the contrasting atmosphere of a
bygone era had some appeal and the soap-opera-like characters appeal to those
who like soap operas, maybe. Or, if you like the phony world of advertising
maybe that's another appeal of the show.
But, certainly, the essence of the 1960s is missing. It's really a show
about characters. Though time moves on, apparently the characters go nowhere,
really.
Why has the this program, set in the so-called repressive era
of the 1950s and '60s rung so true with
so many today?
Even though Hollywood has gone out of its way to portray the
early part of the '60s in a negative light where men were men and womenwere
downtrodden with racism pervailing and all - and with the end of the '60s a
little more romanticised. But, apparently it's the EARLY 60s, repression and
all, that seems to appeal to alot of people, today.
Women have commented that they would like to go back and live
in that period. This is younger women
who weren't even born then and older women who would like to return to those
days.
Many say that there was REAL love then as compared to today
in the somewhat manufactured society we now live in under technology's mighty
reign, where a date is a text away rather than a more personal phone call. Love letters, by the way, are a thing of the past. Of course, nobody would want to try to
decipher my handwriting, which has gotten only worse with lack of opportunity.
Somehow, even though men may have been more sexist then, it
was a GENUINE sexism without fake airs. Men admitted to being sexist , yet
there was still real love. Whereas today, if there is real love, it's often
hidden somewhere within the layers of technology. Phony sentiment where men are
told to 'play the game' and treat women a certain way even if it's not really
'them'.
The women's movement in recent decades has loved to make fun
of the Leave It To Beaver era and June with her pearls and high heels in the
kitchen washing dishes. But, in fact, that is exactly what a large segment of
women, and perhaps men, want today. A
real family life, even if over-glamorized, where women (and men) dress up..
Maybe that is one of the things that's missing today. A lack of dress code - and rules, in
general. Maybe having a set of guidelines wasn't so bad,
afterall. Could that not be beneficial and help towards a more organized,
interesting life. And what's wrong if men are men and women are women? Today , the sexes have so much closed in on
each other one can instantly pull a
Trans-Jenner. Was it not a more
refreshing time not to have to see people altering their appearances - and sexes
- or, maybe we just like seeing others go through it to make ourselves feel
better. Or, then, maybe it's just prurient interest for titillation value more
than anything.
So, for all the fun that's been made of Ozzie and Harriet and
Father Knows Best, maybe it's all coming back to roost. I loved those shows as a kid- and today would
rather watch them than most anything that's on TV today, including Mad
Men. One could say those early shows
were contrived, too, but there was a certain honesty in those defined
roles.
For what sexism and racism there was back then - and there
may have been a lot, the fac t of the matter is that people still got along -
and better, perhaps , than they do today. If you're a white person how many
black friends do you have, or vice versa? Probably none. Poverty was one-third
among blacks -and society in general- of what it is today. And, outside the
South, races probably got on better then than they do now. I cannot recall all the bickering and racist
accusations then as we hear today. Ask
someone who lived then and now which era saw races getting along better, and, even with 60 years of so-called healing and trillions of dollars of government
busing, wellfare, food stamps, etc. they'll probably tell you there's not a lot of difference between then
and now, if anything then was better.
Today, with political correctness running amok, one of the upper crust who lived during the era can't even get a voice without being called a racist.James B. Duke Professor of Political Science Jerry Hough, a life-long racial liberal who voted for Barack Obama, had the temerity to challenge, in an eloquent reader comment, a New York Times racial fairy tale which had blamed whites for the racist black riots which rocked Baltimore for as many as five days in late April and early May (the MSM and the city, both of whom supported the rioters, refused to provide accurate information on the riots’ duration).
Today, with political correctness running amok, one of the upper crust who lived during the era can't even get a voice without being called a racist.James B. Duke Professor of Political Science Jerry Hough, a life-long racial liberal who voted for Barack Obama, had the temerity to challenge, in an eloquent reader comment, a New York Times racial fairy tale which had blamed whites for the racist black riots which rocked Baltimore for as many as five days in late April and early May (the MSM and the city, both of whom supported the rioters, refused to provide accurate information on the riots’ duration).
So, in summation, why all the fuss over Mad Men? Something to do with your time. And, if you are one who can sit in front of TV for hours watching something that's relaxing and enjoyable to you, more power to you. Your friends may watch it and so you watch it and then you share some thoughts. OK, fine. But, if you're looking for a true depiction or period piece from a bygone era with real drama, intrigue and TOP CHARACTER ACTORS why not watch a singular movie classic like 'Sunset Boulevard.' In two hours you can watch a true epic from a screen writer who lived the times and part - and save yourself a lot of wasted hours of modern movie mush, in our opinion.
MADMEN - WHY THE EXCITEMENT OVER A TV SERIES SET 50 YEARS AGO?
MADMEN - WHY THE EXCITEMENT OVER A TV SERIES SET 50 YEARS AGO?
Friday, August 1, 2014
Little Anthony - Last of Oldies on Fair Circuit, Car Show Entertain at ORIGINAL 1950 Fairground
Little Anthony - Old School Songs, Car Show, Nostalgia at ORIGINAL Solano County Fair, Vallejo, CA
Hardly spoiled by the ravages of time, the Solano County Fair, Vallejo, CA welcomes you for another year of music and thrills in all its original 1950s glory . The fair sits on onoe of the few remaining grounds untouched in over 50 years and just like it was during theFAbulous 50s .But, a move is underway to renovate the old beauty, so, enjoy this Great Ediface while you can.Fair runs to August 5.
Legendary Little Anthony and the Imperials take the stage as twilight takes hold and the crowd readies in excitement.
LITTLE ANTHONY (right) and IMPERIALS, twilight time at Solano County Fair, Vallejo, CA 7-31-14
Little Anthony, Oldies Songs Live on at Classic County Fair in Vallejo, CA
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Little Anthony performs his favorite song, the classic 'Hurt So Bad' under emerald twilight skies at the Solano County Fair, 7-31-14
Harkening back fondly to another place and time, not so long ago, before cell phones and soundbites when the only distraction might be a concert like at the county fair, seeing Little Anthony and imperials - if one could called that a distraction. Actually, it could have been 50 years ago and it could've been last night at the solano County fair. And it was lastnight. For less than two short hours which went by too fast it was like being transported back to a simpler time and place, Vallejo California. Every now and again you'll find a moment where time stands still. so let's go back and you can live that special night right now.Enjoy Little Anthony and Solano county Fair, Vallejo CA 7-31-14 but first the car show earlier in the day...
Classic Cars from the 50s and Sixties Fit Right in at Classic County Fair, Solano County, Vallejo, CA
Time to drag, 'er, cruise the main....
THIS YEAR'S FAIR FEATURES HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN COUNTY FAIR
The first year for the Solano County Fair was 1950 on this very site along Fairgrounds Drive. This year's Solano County Fair, running from August 3-7, will feature new attractions and returning favorites in an exciting themed area in Exposition Hall designed to show off the bounty of Solano County as well as take a look through time at the history of fairs in America, including the Solano County Fair.
Dubbed "Main Street Solano", fair guests can stroll through informative displays from the county, its seven cities and Travis Air Force Base; discover the history of the modern agricultural fair and the Solano County Fair; and sample a variety of local wines from the Suisun Valley.
“When you think about a place that represents the heart of your hometown, 'Main Street’ is often one of the first places to come to mind,” comments Fair General Manager Mike Paluszak. “We wanted to create that same feeling of community and nostalgia by designing Main Street Solano as an experience of the heart of our county, our cities, and of the Fair.”
Centrally located on Main Street Solano, Made in America: the Story of the Modern Fair, is a special exhibit celebrating the 200th anniversary of the modern agricultural fair.
This exhibit unveils the history of the first modern fair and shares the traditions of our farms and ranchers through the years from past to present. Through the use of story boards, artifacts, personal quotes and colorful photos, Made In America will take fairgoers back to the first fair in America held in 1811, through the evolution and growth of fairs across the country during the last 200 years, to the modern fair of today.
Made In America will give guests a chance to discover the history of interesting fair foods, the expansion of entertainment and livestock, and what it takes to create the magical fun and educational experience of fairs everywhere. The unique history of the Solano County Fair will also be explored through images and stories dating back to the fair’s first year in 1950.
Original bandstand where Little Anthony will be performing tonight, one of the many intact relics from the '50s at Vallejo
With night descending on the fair, Little Anthony and the Imperials take the stage of the vintage bandstand
at Solano County Fair, Vallejo,CA 7-31-14
Anthony 'You can callme Little' Gourdaine and Imperials perform another of their many hits, 'Take MeBack
.'Darkness descends on Vallejo,CA as the Imiperials continue to sing their classics, 'Shimmy shimmy KoKo biop, 'Tears On My Pillow,' I'm On The Outside Looking In and 'Going Out Of M y Head.'
Little Anthony Closes the show with his biggest hit, 'Going Out of My Head' (partial here)
Monday, June 24, 2013
Listen and Dance to the Oldies with Crazy Cat All Day Long
I'm Listening to Favorites from 1960-1964
Listen and Dance to the Oldies with Crazy Cat All Day Long ....
Today featuring 1960-1964 and One Hit Wonders from 1955-1958
CELEBRATING 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN GRAFFITI -
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