max40
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posted on July 30, 2006 02:42:47 PM new
http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm
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irked
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posted on July 30, 2006 03:21:42 PM new
I am an old f@rt and proud of it. Best darn music there ever was. Most fun too.
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Well, aren't we a ray of sunshine.
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glassgrl
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posted on July 30, 2006 03:22:07 PM new
That was cute!
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on July 30, 2006 03:33:38 PM new
That was fun!!! Does that make me an Old F@rts too???
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tomwiii
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posted on July 30, 2006 04:28:14 PM new
The 60's ended for me on a FRIDAY afternoon in NOVEMBER, sitting in 10th grade MATH class, and an announcement came over the PA system for ALL students to immediately assemble...
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agate18
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posted on July 30, 2006 04:35:41 PM new
I dont think i am an old fart. but i did enjoy that. Thank you for sharing.
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roadsmith
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posted on July 30, 2006 05:07:48 PM new
Kewl. I think I qualify to be a f@rtelle. Ah, those were the days--music that was sung, not spoken or shouted, words that rhymed, and more importantly, words of more than syllable occasionally, and words you can UNDERSTAND.
The Beach Boys were my favorite; their music was used in this clip but they didn't have a credit in the list.
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birgittaw
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posted on July 30, 2006 05:15:46 PM new
Sure. Probably why I naively asked why a child on visit needs internet supervision.
Loved the Beach Boys. But as an English as a second language younger "f...rt" I was convinced for many years that "Good Vibrations" actually said "Goodbye Bridget!" Makes me smile every time I hear it. And I KNOW it really says "goodbye ...
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iceicepenguin
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posted on July 30, 2006 06:08:01 PM new
Sign me up for the Old Farts Club.
1969 - My dad took me to see Joe Willy play Johnny U at Shea Stadium. I went to every Miracle Mets game I could. And got to see the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
What a year to be a New York sports fan!
Thanks for the music!
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cblev65252
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posted on July 30, 2006 06:28:57 PM new
Another old fart here. Although, the 70's were really my time. I got to sign up for AARP this year. Found my first age spot on my hand and pulled out a couple of grey hairs. I may have arthritis in my shoulder. . .other than that it's marvelous getting older. LOL!
Great site. I really enjoyed it.
Cheryl
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DrArcane
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posted on July 30, 2006 06:36:59 PM new
Ah yes, the 60's--- A good decade to be BORN in, but I wouldn't want to have to actually REMEMBER any of it!
Old Farts!
Dr. Arcane, revelator of mystical secrets
http://www.drarcane.com
Got questions about the secrets of the universe?
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max40
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posted on July 30, 2006 06:38:27 PM new
Tom
You're 5 years younger than me. I was in NCR training school in Denver when I heard it.
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paloma91
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posted on July 30, 2006 06:43:20 PM new
That was so cool. I love that music! Where did you find it?
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max40
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posted on July 30, 2006 06:48:56 PM new
A friend sent it in an email.
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neglus
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posted on July 30, 2006 07:11:33 PM new
Oh yeah - I was there - GREAT MUSIC clips!
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otteropp
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posted on July 30, 2006 07:32:38 PM new
I loved that...what a trip down memory lane.
I must be the OLDEST one here!
I was in my teens in the 1950's and living in London. What a great place then and going in to the 60's there was the greatest with the Beatles, Dave Clark Five, Herman's Hermits etc...
I was doing the Twist at my wedding in 1962!
I also remember exactly what I was doing on that night in November 1963. Sitting feeding a bottle to my 4 month old daughter and watching my 9" ( yes 9" black & white TV when the news came across at around 9pm GMT. I sat and hugged her and cried!
Yesterday in our newspaper I saw an ad for an upcoming concert that I HAVE to go to..Herman's Hermits and Peter Noone is still with them! By golly I am going to be standing up singing "Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter"
and I WILL NOT sit down!
Thank you again and I have to send that link to all my friends both younger and older.
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otteropp
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posted on July 30, 2006 07:34:12 PM new
Gosh..I hit a smiley key instead of closing a bracket...sorry guys! Couldn't have been in a worse spot.
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MAH645
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posted on July 30, 2006 08:02:50 PM new
I was thrilled the first time I met Davy Jones. Never got to see Elvis in person.
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Two men sit behind bars,one sees mud the other sees stars.
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profe51
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posted on July 30, 2006 08:08:08 PM new
In the sixties I learned to shear brand castrate dehorn feed raise and slaughter sheep and cattle. I became proficient at throwing a rope off the back of a horse in such a fashion that it was a useful skill. I fixed fences and regraded washed out roads. I hunted elk deer and turkey in the fall and prepped them to last through the winter. I learned to keep the ranch books and became deeply aware that there are traditions that are inviolate, that transcend generational silliness. I graduated high school and went off to college. Then I came home. I'm still here and will not be going anywere thank you very much.
I'm an old fart. But I admit to being puzzled by the sixties. Historically speaking, seems to me like a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ...I forget who said that first, wasn't me.
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neglus
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posted on July 30, 2006 08:08:50 PM new
otteropp - pixiamom saw HH in Oregon in May and said they still "had it" - I am sure she will check in here because she is ALMOST as old as I am.
Dr Arcane - surely you don't think we REMEMBERED the 1960's?? If you remembered the 1960S, you weren't "There".
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profe51
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posted on July 30, 2006 08:17:51 PM new
Ok, so I did see the Stones in Phoenix in 68 or 69. But I was there for a Charro horsemanship competition, and you could actually walk up to the memorial coliseum ticket booth the day of the show and buy good seats. I remember a cutie with no bra told me my old beat up Baily hat was "really bitchin'". I may have given her riding lessons the next day....or not.
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roadsmith
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posted on July 30, 2006 09:39:08 PM new
Otteropp: I was married in 1959 and much of the 60s flew past us as we were into our careers, building a family, etc. etc. About 1969 my best friend, a brilliant woman, introduced us all to the Beatles in depth. That was sort of where we began tuning in.
But we could first vote in 1959, and we both voted for Kennedy, which our families (1) thought was a joke on our parts and when convinced we had really done it (2) were horrified to discover we hadn't voted the family party line.
The Vietnam war radicalized us, and we've never been the same since.
Someone on TV recently was talking about how we are shaped by whether we felt in or out of the loop as teenagers in high school. If we were part of the in crowd, we're probably Republicans now; if on the fringes, we're probably voting Democrat. I wonder if that could be close to the truth.
Edited to correct some silly spelling errors! Do old F@rtresses do that?!!!
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allcash7
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posted on July 30, 2006 09:39:41 PM new
late 60's and the whole decade of the 70's. Best time of my life! Great time to be young. I just got a new hip. guess that qualifies me to be an old fart, though I think of myself as a YOUNG old fart!! Don't think the kids of today are having quite as much fun as we did.
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pixiamom
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posted on July 31, 2006 12:00:48 AM new
I am NOT as old as Neglus! Peter Noone was my first crush and he still has IT (not to be confused with the other IT) Beautiful voice - has taken care of himself, puts on a fine energetic show. Hermans Hermits name is indispute - but what was the group without Herman?
Tom, on November 22nd I came back to school after lunch to hear my sixth grade teacher (a staunch Republican) smugly tell a visiting parent, "It served him right!" It didn't ruin the sixties for me, but certainly changed things forever.
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on July 31, 2006 03:25:01 AM new
"It served him right!" OMG that is horrible. She/He should have been fired for a remark like that!!
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classicrock000
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posted on July 31, 2006 05:25:13 AM new
"Ok, so I did see the Stones in Phoenix in 68 or 69."
I saw the Stones on July 26,1966-40 years ago last Wednesday.It was Mick Jaggers birthday.It was also the same day I got discharged from the U.S.Navy.I had just come back from Vietnam and the month before and was at stationed in Alameda,Ca.My original discharge date was supposed to be Aug 26,1966,but there was such an influx of personel coming into the west coast heading for Vietnam,they let a bunch of us out 30 days early to make room for billiting.Okay-I can live with that LOL.The problem was I had gotten two tickets to see the Beatles at Candlestick Park on Aug 19-well I wasnt going to hang around 3 weeks to see the Beatles,so I just gave the tickets away.Yea,I know what you all thinking-what the hell was I thinking about?? I didnt realize at the time that would be their last concert ever,I just figured I would see them again next year in New York.I wonder how much those two pristine unused tickets would go for on Ebay.
I went to a Beach Boys concert on June 28,1966 at the Cow Palace which included-Neil Diamond,the Byrds,The Loving Spoonful,The Jefferson Airplane,and Chad and Jeremy-the price of the ticket? $5.00.
So when Im ready to go home ,there was a big problem-there was a nation-wide airline strike.I either had to take a bus or train-from San Fransisco to New York.I ended riding the rails for 5 days and 5 nights.
Two things I do remember on that trip.On the second night out around 11pm we were coming out of the rockies into Denver.I was in the dome car and you could see the lights of Denver for 20 miles-what a sight that was.I wish I had a video camera at the time.A couple of days later we pull into Chicago.
It was around the 1st or 2nd of August.I had to change trains there for New York.I pick up a newspaper and the headlines were something like "Texas sniper kills 33" I dont remember the exact number but it was somewhere around there.Some nitwit got up in a tower on the University of Texas and just started shooting for no reason.All this happened 40 years ago around this time.
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bjboswell
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posted on July 31, 2006 07:45:31 AM new
"The Vietnam war radicalized us, and we've never been the same since."
THANK GOD I AM A CHILD OF THE 60'S!!!!
The decade really began for me one evening as my family was eating dinner and watching... who else.... Walter. CBS cut away to a park in New York, Dan Rather interviewed a young man about being the first man to burn his draft card in protest against THE war. My Dad turned to me and said "Isn't that the guy who had dinner here last Friday?" I said, "Yes Daddy I am so proud of Mark"... my first boyfriend! Mark Edelman taught me strength and courage of conviction.
FAST FORWARD TO YESTERDAY:
I stood up in Church and remarked that the news of the week had brought me to my knees in depression,in anger at being in the same ole place ... yet a greatly intensified place, and in prayer.I asked my Congregation to remember the words of a normal "little" person Rodney King who after being beaten up by the Los Angles police dept asked "Why can't we all just get along?" How perfectly simple and profound. Rodney King taught me grace and humility.
Those two men have marked my life,I am grateful.
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roadsmith
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posted on July 31, 2006 08:33:42 AM new
BJ--I find myself viewing the trouble in the middle east through a scrim of having lived in Utah for 21 years (until 2001). A ruling religion and all the rest of us. There is a big amount of resentment among the "gentiles" there about the way That Church rules the roost. There's a glass ceiling for women AND men; when the stakes are high enough, "they" move in and make sure one of their own gets the job, even if he's incompetent. I saw with my own eyes a man who was embezzling from a university; the president wanted to fire him outright, but a trustee who controlled a philanthropist's fortune moved right in and said if you fire that man, you'll never see another cent of that money I control. Etc. etc.
I can't blame anyone for wanting his values to rule the roost, but lordy for most of us "gentiles" it gets worse, not better, as the years go on, living amongst them. I can't see that it would come to war, but in that state it's sort of an underground war.
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stonecold613
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posted on July 31, 2006 08:55:20 PM new
Did someone say old FART?
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bjboswell
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posted on August 1, 2006 05:45:42 AM new
Stone I just celebrated the 14th anniversary of my 42nd birthday. I may be a fart but I an NOT old!!! I have had a tough time with this decade number.... the next one will be better????? I don't think so.
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