Category Archives: 60s

INTERSTATE 45 by Dwight Douglas & The Jayhawkers

May 8, 2012 – 7:02 pm
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END OF THE WORLD / Skeeter Davis

May 4, 2012 – 8:16 am

In 1963 country singer Skeeter Davis struck gold with END OF THE WORLD and the song amazing reached the Top 5 in the R&B charts ie colored charts. A good song is always a good song, unless sung by Pat Boone. For some reason I thought Skeeter was a guy and seeing this video I […]

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Bright Lit Blue Skies by the Rockin Ramrods 1966

April 29, 2012 – 11:44 pm
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House of The Rising Sun – Bob Dylan 1962

April 26, 2012 – 7:46 pm

Fifty years later. The LP BOB DYLAN changed our world. I was ten years old. It was arranged by Dave Van Ronk. The Pope of Greenwich Village.

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Woodstock Plus 55 Years

April 18, 2012 – 8:49 pm

On the weekend of August 15-18 in 1969 I was 17 years-old. My hair was a little long. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of young people were heading to the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. I had to work washing dishes. There was nothing cool about that. I dropped out for permanent that autumn. […]

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