In 1950, televisions affordable only for the privileged, so that my family could not afford, and we listened to the radio. My uncle had a television in his house, and when we see the children for the first time a TV for the first time, we were afraid of him! Hey, we were 10-12 years, and there were few television sets around the country! We wondered how could all those small numbers in a small box will receive! (Hey, we were children and television was new for allus)
At the end of 1950 my father bought a television, and we have seen shows like Lucy, the honeymoon, My Little Margie, "Leave It to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet, 77 Sunset Strip, Life of Riley, Flash Gordon, the millionaire Ed Sullivan, Gun Smoke, television, etc. was new to everyone in the country. But there was a TV show, which is a must for our to-do list ... was, and the show was American Bandstand! Children oldest American organized Dick Clark, the fair forMany years ago, when it was broadcast (live) from Philadelphia EVERYDAY! At this time, Dick Clark was probably in his mid-twenties.
Because of American Bandstand ... E 'was television and rock and roll, which came together to spread the music of rock and roll all over the country. As children, we have seen all the singers and groups who came from American Bandstand to showcase their talent. What was surprising is the fact that many of these stars are just teenagers or in their earlyWinds at the moment ... as Smokey Robinson, Leslie Gore, Carol King, Buddy Holly, Paul Anka, Neal Sedaka, and many others. Many of the successes that sang ... she wrote herself! And the successes that have written at that time are still alive! (2006)
What a great time to grow!
In the social center along the road from where we lived, we went to dances (sock-hops) every week! Everyone had revealed, including "Long Tall Sally, Peggy Sue, Nadine, and all of us" Splish-Splash in the nightway! There was only one "type" of dance, the favorite was in progress at the moment ... "Band-standing", which was similar to jitter interceptions! Everybody On the Third Day, we learned from watching the dancers on the show!
It 'been exciting to get out of school for three hour in the afternoon ... I ran home ... so you can see all the new stars of American Bandstand! One after another ... all the biggies of rock and roll was the show! Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, ConnieFrancis, the Platters, the Drifters, Chuck Berry, The Coasters, Fats Domino, Elvis-some have called someone or other ... and that was the list is endless! There were, of course, not oldies right now ... how these singers, songs, songwriters and performers, the most important ingredients for the beginning of the era of rock and roll!
But rock and roll, as he had no time by all! In fact, it was down right hated! Parents, schools, government, churches, and"Establishment", wrinkling her forehead on the rock and roll from the start! "Rock and roll was corrupting our children." .. Was the cry! Some songs were banned by the Church, and Creation "in rock and roll frowned. Later he was in the mid-1960s, when the drugs scene and came to the stadium, and was then ... when rock and roll was more accepted by the establishment, "After all, he thought it was best for their children, parents will enjoy ... with music, like the dangers ofDrugs!
If you are over the age of 30 years at the time were not reliable OLD ... ... and were part of the establishment "were ... Bill Cosby what he calls "the elderly"
But rock and roll was and is here to stay! In the early 1960s, contain Mo-town, on the floor, as the great Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, The King of Soul, Soul and all the Queen of Soul. I remember Little Stevie Wonder, when he was only ten years old, singing Fingertips(1 & 2). Singer / Songwriter-block-busters had at this time, and they were so young! How could so many talents are everywhere in 1960? The TV show "Shin Dig" and Solid Gold added to the popularity of rock and roll. Spreading the word about Rock and Roll and has been a long time ... The Ed Sullivan Show, where many new arrivals started their career, including Elvis and the Beatles!
It was 1964 ... and the British Invasion ... I was a novice at the University of New Mexico.Rock and roll continued to dominate the airwaves, but now it is increasingly accepted, and along with Elvis ... E 'was the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who topped the charts. And the Monkees were one of the few groups that contend the Beatles at the end of 1960, its popularity!
As children, we could not afford (45 laps), but we had a friend in the street, whose parents bought her daughter, records, and we went there all the time about the latest hits boogie! I learned to take the waxthe dance floor at a young age! In the early 1960s, dancing partner split apart, and danced on your own! At that time the dance was a soup, "and in 2006, the stock is still present, is only called by another name!
American Music Awards: In 1960 and '70, I loved the American Music Awards, as all the "biggies result," the way in rock and roll. Gladys Knight, Linda Ronstadt, John Denver, Barbara Strisand, Peter,Paul and Mary, The Jackson Five, Bobby Darin, the carpenter, Three Dog Night, The Moody Blues, Fleetwood Mac, The Bee-Gees, Neil Diamond, CCR, Herman's Hermits, The Dave Clark Five, and so on and so forth ! Even Bill Cosby had a hit in the late '60s with "The old man"!
Woodstock? A big orgy ... If you want to orgy! A big pajama party love and drugs ... More than 500,000 people in New York! It 'been a time of free love, drugs and alcohol. As the song says ... everyonestoned ... There has been a member of the famous musical group, said: "If in the 60s ... you wern't there!" Well ... I say this dope head ... I remember the 60, because I was there!
And 1960 were violent and turbulent times ... not only because of Viet Nam, but because the '60s were a time of change in America! The civil rights movement, the emancipation of women, equal rights for all. Civil disobedience, rebellion, City ... burned during what is known at the time, "the long hot summer? L 'Congress did not get it ... The United States of America has been and is not a government of the Congress ... or a government of Republicans ... Democrats or the government ... And 'the Government of the People's Republic THE UNITED STATES AND ... Cities were burning, so as to bring the message of heads in Congress to DOPE ... Cities burned every year until CONGRESS got the message! After Watergate, in the early 1970s, the drug leaders in Congress last message ... now ... PROPERTY of AmericaAGAIN people ... where to stay there forever!
At this point I do not think it was a big city in America, where the National Guard, not because of the rebellion of tears! Here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the National Guard in 1971, was named after the three students killed at Kent State National Guard. The fires were set at the University of New Mexico in protest of Vietnam and the Kent State killings!
And the music reflects the time ofMood of the country! Hundreds of protest songs were written and recorded, and many of these songs are popular even today. (2006) There was a time, "Do Your Own Thing", independent thinking ... free and the "establishment" But to put the music!
I would say that around 1970, rock and roll has begun to change. On one side was "a heavy metal sound, not listening to me and go in a different direction was the so-called" disco! "Over the years, peoplelabels set to music, and to this day in 2006, I have no idea of what constitutes "hard"! The only thing I say disco, my wife and I saw the movie "Grease" in 1970, and we loved the music! The film became a Depp ... but the music was great!
Sorry ... Rick Nelson, Bobby Darin, Eddie Rabbit, John Denver, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison: Mama Cass Eliot, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Janice Joplin, Roger Miller and of course ... the "king" ... all dead, soyoung!
One of the most ironic things that happened to me in the mid-1990 with the Rolling Stones in Albuquerque, NM appeared (where I live) you may remember, back when rock and roll began to hate their parents and the establishment "means the music, was 1995, and took a computer course at a school in the local community, and the stones were in town. The community college was located near the football stadium, where the stones have been met.
That night I had to Class 6:30 through the evening before the Stones show, and as I waited at a traffic light turns green, I saw 40 to 50 years for parents to enroll their children in a Stones concert! One can imagine that? What a difference a generation ago! Back in the hated 1950 / 60's rock and roll parents, and these children now bring their children to a rock and roll ... UNBELIEVABLE!
In 2006, oldies music dominate the airwaves, at least where I live. And> Music will continue to dominate, because the music and the lyrics are so great ... They never die! I never heard too much about new music, much more! Oh ... well ... as the song says ... Rock and Roll is here to stay ... if the songs are the oldies or new songs to be together!
I have always admired the musicians ... those who write a song ... can sing a song ... and play a musical instrument! As for me ... the only instrument that can play ... It's the radio ... and Ialso do well at all!
During the many years of this explosion of music for me, I can not forget one of my favorite bands in time ... the Chipmunks ... Theodore, Alvin and Simon ... ........ ... ALVIN ......
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