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1968 (Forty years later...)
Katie77:
I turned 17 in 1968.....met my husband in March 1968......got engaged to him in July 1968 (my 17th birthday)......and married him in February 1969.....
(and its still going strong)
I was lucky to be a teenager thru the sixties.....was into Elvis....then Beatlemania.....then the hippie era......there was some fantastic music, and as I look down that list of songs, I reckon I could still sing word for word every one of them.......
OUR song was Young Girl by The Union Gap......whenever we hear it now, we look at each other and smile that "remember when" smile...and you know, when I remember, I can even smell the perfume I wore and the after shave he wore.........there is nothing like a song to bring back memories......
MaineWriter:
I remember every single song on that list (and can hum the opening of all of them) probably because in 1968 I had an AM radio surgically attached to my head (it was attached in 1965, actually, and removed in 1970, when I started listening to FM).
In New York, I listened to WABC - 77 with legendary DJs like Cousin Brucie (Bruce Morrow) and Dan Ingram (Dan Ingram's electric radio theater!). In the summer, when I was hanging out in New Hampshire, I listened to WRKO - 68 from Boston (it was good, but a pale imitator compared to 77).
Those were the days... (no. 30 on the list!)
L
Katie77:
Oh yes Leslie, those certainly were the days.......when we took our transistor radios everywhere we went......(probably much the same now with the kids with their Ipods........
The car we had at the time did not have a radio in it.....back then a radio was an "extra" in a car.......so i used to slide the strap of my transistor radio over the sunvisor in the car, and it would sway back and forth with the movement of the car, but at least we could listen to music.
And everyone had a transistor radio beside them as they sunbaked on the beach...in fact one radio station used to have a call every half hour saying...."time to turn over in the sun".....so everyone would get an even tan.......no one ever thought to tell us to put sun block on though.
Yeah that was back "when a smoke was a smoke and groovin was groovin"........
MaineWriter:
I remember the cars without radios...we did have radios in our cars but you are right, it was an extra.
Late at night (when I was in NH) we could get WABC (from NY) on the radio. We could also get WKBW from Buffalo, NY which made me feel like I was listening to music from Mars! WKBW was a great station, actually, although I could never call myself a "regular" listener since I'd only hear it really late at night, for an hour or two, and only in the summer. LOL.
As for baking on the beach...forget sunscreen! Do you remember the baby oil and iodine concoction we slathered ourselves with? Talk about frying in the sun!
L
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on August 18, 2008, 07:41:22 pm ---
Those were the days... (no. 30 on the list!)
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La La La La
La La La La LA!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5pkkAhETYg[/youtube]
;D
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