Category Archives: 60s

Honkie Beware

September 7, 2012 – 6:42 pm

Vice President Joe Biden left the stage at the Charlotte Convention to the music of Earth Wind and Fire, but Barack Obama approached the podium to U2’s City of Blinding Lights and basked in the adorative applause of his audience to Bruce Springstein’s WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN. GOP and Tea Party members must […]

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HOLD ON IT’S COMING Country Joe and the Fish

August 20, 2012 – 1:42 pm

Some sounds are so 60s. To listen to HOLD ON IT’S COMING by Country JOe and The Fish, please go to the following URL

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Marilyn Monroe 50 Years Gone

August 4, 2012 – 2:41 am

geraldine does marilyn. 1979. photo by bobby busnach — with Gerry Visco and Geraldine Winifred Visco at the park royal hotel ny. Marilyn will never leave us.

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1968 Olympic Moment

August 3, 2012 – 7:11 am

In 1968 I ran the 440 and 220 for my high school. My best times of 54 seconds and 28 seconds weren’t even close to my hero Tommie Smith and I dreamed that one day I might get below 50 seconds in the 440 and 26 in the 220. Tommie Smith ran a blistering 200 […]

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Jon Lord Deep Purple RIP

July 18, 2012 – 3:04 am

Deep Purple’s Jon Lord passed out of the Here-Now to join friends, family, and fans in the Here-Before, but his music with the premiere heavy metal band in history shall survive in the Here-Beyond for as long as young boys sing the four note motif of SMOKE ON THE WATER. The classically trained pianist was […]

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