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1968 (Forty years later...)
Katie77:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 19, 2008, 09:22:01 pm ---I wouldn't say that, Katie. After all, the "speaker" is telling her to go away. And I could be wrong, but it seems in my memory that little girls maybe didn't grow up as quickly in 1968 as they seem to do today. She might be a "young girl," but I never imagined she was that young.
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True Jeff.....I wasnt thinking of anyone really really young....maybe someone who was maybe just underage but looked older......jail bait......and you are right, just like Gary Puckett was to tell her to "get out of his life".
Hope that's cleared that up...... ::)
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on April 27, 2008, 01:48:22 pm ---That amazing summer--
Anyway: this film, "3,000 Paintings in 3 minutes," was made by a UCLA graduate student-filmmaker named Dan McLaughlin.
The music, of course, is "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams.
It was screened on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" during the summer of 1968 (Glenn Campbell was the host)--
The impact was HUGE. I was 14 years old, and I have never, ever forgotten it.
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It's great reading everyones memorys of that time and their ages.
I was about 18 months old. Maybe about Jenny's age give or take a few months.
jstephens9:
I think this is interesting and this thread seems to be a good place to post it. I work at a University that consists of traditional college age students - 17 to 21 or so years old. School just started back and they are having a poster sale on the breezeway of the big student center. It is packed with students buying posters. This is something they have every year. Anyway, what amazes me and what has amazed me for several years are the posters they are selling and the posters the students are buying. I also know that these same type posters are mainly what the students have in their dorm rooms. The music posters are of The Beatles (several different ones), The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Mamas and The Papas, The Animals, Led Zeppelin, Queen, etc. I even noticed that the movie posters are of Rocky (the old one), Indiana Jones (the old one), The Godfather, etc. although I did see one of Donnie Darko. The song that was playing as I walked by was "The Ballad of John and Yoko" by The Beatles.
So what is up with this? These students were born around the years of 1987 - 1991. These groups, and even the movies, had happened long before they were even born. However, these are the posters they are buying, hanging up and even in many cases the music they are listening to. This has been going on for several years now. These are of course posters of the groups when they were young and popular, but still it is hard to understand. I know I find a lot of the music that is out now not very good, but if I were of that generation it seems I would maybe like it. Well maybe. There are groups and singers I do like such as Nickelback, Staind, 3 Doors Down, etc.
Now here is a really strange thing that happened a couple of years ago. I went down with the Resnet person (they help students establish their Internet connection) and someone had a box of LPs, you know vinyl as it is called now. The LP at the front was Liberace's Greatest Hits ;D Now that was beyond strange. I can't even imagine me at any point in my life carrying around a record by Liberace :laugh:
jstephens9:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on August 18, 2008, 09:04:39 pm ---
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.
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I remember when I was growing up and I would try to see the different places I could get radio stations from. That was great!!! I can remember picking up several stations from New York City, New Orleans, Fort Wayne Indiana, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia and it is no telling where else. Some stations even were in another language meaning at the time that I was picking up something outside of the United States. Once I even started making a list of each station I could get. This was on my parents' really cool huge stereo that they actually still have. It is a piece of furniture. It literally is.
Jeff Wrangler:
LIberace had "greatest hits"? That is beyond strange!
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