Talkin About My Generation!

Hello and Happy New Year! Last week, we left off at just about the time the Beatles invaded America in 1964. By the end of the year and the begnning of 1965 there was a lot going on in LA. The Sunset Strip is the name given to the mile and a half stretch of Sunset Boulevard that [...]

I was truly an Anglo-file back in the 60′s. When the Beatles hit our shores, there was no other sound I wanted to hear. However, there was a lot of great music coming out of the good ole USA! The lyrics and music of the time were bound together with the Cold War, the Vietnam War [...]

The sixties were defined by television. Most of us spent inordinate amounts of time watching the boob tube. Advertisers knew this, hired psychologists to poll our behaviors and created an advertising frenzy! It dawned on me that TV commercials played a big part of our lives. We were the boomers! The most consuming group ever! From toys [...]

There were a three critical days in my life that truly defined what I was going to do with the rest of my life. 1-Elvis on Ed Sullivan 1956 2-The Beatles on Ed Sullivan 1964 3-A Hard Day’s Night 1964 These three momentous occasions changed not only my life, but the lives of many professional [...]

Hullabaloo was originally a one-hour music variety show, airing from 8:30-9:30 on Tuesday nights. In June 1965, it shifted to the 10 PM slot, but three months later, the network cut the show to thirty minutes and moved it to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, where it remained to the end of its run, whereupon it [...]

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Here is my last installment about music and television in the 1960′s Where we left off was Shindig and I wanted to let you know that I have devoted next weeks blog to Hullaballoo! I have some interesting stories so stay tuned! We still didn’t get through all of the variety shows that were featuring [...]

I grew up on West 68th St in what at the time was a brand new building called the Dorchester Towers. Since it was centrally located, a number of entertainment folk lived there. Jackie Wilson, Terry Knight (manager of Grand Funk Railroad) Sidney Poitier, newscaster Gabe Pressman and drummer Don Lamond. Don was a well [...]

Since this website/blog is a work in progress, I thought that a segment or two on television in the 60’s, and in particular, television that included musical acts should be included. Does this look familiar to you? Or how about this? The Seal of Good Practice If you woke up very early, I mean before [...]

The Concert Program ahbey Wed. March 28, 1967 I was on Easter vacation and my drummer Lenny (we all had high school bands) and I went to the RKO Keith theater on 58th and 3rd Ave to see the Who the first time they ever played the USA. It was the Murray the K, a [...]