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Wasn't there a song called 'The Unicorn' during the sixties? Or was that later?
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The Twist- popular dance of the sixties
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MOVING_FORWARD
7/3/07 9:25 P
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Smith -- Basically a mainstream pop/rock band with hard rock and soul-influenced arrangements, Smith hit the Top Ten in 1969 with their drastically revised cover of the Shirelles' "Baby It's You."
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Robert Stack actor in the Untouchables tv show in the 60's.
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Quazar TVs.My first hubby and I got one,when we moved into our first apt in '68.
R is next.
Weezy 
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WANNADROPFIFTY
7/3/07 10:03 A
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psychadelic--drugs, patterns and colors
Q--good luck
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MOVING_FORWARD
7/2/07 11:40 P
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Opie -- The Andy Griffith Show
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Actress Natalie Wood starred as stripperGypsy Rose Lee in the broadway play-based movie "Gypsy".
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"Mashed Potatoe" - a dance popular on the TV show American Bandstand with Dick Clark.
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Lassie,the first one on TV. It had Jeff Martin,his mom Ruth,and his "Gramps".
M is next.
Weezy
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Kingston Trio sang "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" in 1962
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WANNADROPFIFTY
7/2/07 2:00 P
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| Jesus freaks and John Denver--tho not together
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also lots and lots of long hair and neru jackets
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| #1Iremember "man walked on the moon" 68 and babies made in a test tube
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If I Had A Hammer,a song by Trini Lopez.It was part of the folk song era,that was out in the 60s.
J is next.
Weezy 
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MOVING_FORWARD
6/30/07 8:44 P
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WANNADROPFIFTY
6/30/07 8:16 P
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The Twist
Chubby Checkers
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Bob Dylan songwriter, was part of the folk music revival in the 60's
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LIZBETHMSR
6/28/07 9:44 A
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Carson, Rachel - environmentalist, author - Silent Spring
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MOVING_FORWARD
6/27/07 11:56 P
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The Beatniks -- a Brazilian rock band
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Alvin's Orchestra- The Chipmunks in 1960
 
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LIZBETHMSR
6/27/07 8:20 P
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Dark Shadows (TV)
Oliver (Broadway)
Man of LaMancha (Broadway)
The Graduate (Movie)
My Favorite Martian
Laugh In (sock it to me!)... Goldie Hawn!
And one of my favorite children's books...
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
(edited: oops... I guess I was suppose to be following the alphabet... sorry!)
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Zane Grey.Even though his books were out earlier,a lot of movies were made from them,in the 60's.
A is up,now.
Weezy 
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Alan Shepard went to space in the "Freedom 7". 1961
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MOVING_FORWARD
6/26/07 7:55 P
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x-men toys came out in the 60's
"Y" is up next
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I graduated in 66.
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Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse and a Pioneer of animated films, died of cancer on
Dec.15, 1966, but his legend lives on.
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NANABEAR52
6/23/07 3:58 P
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The East Village.....popular Hippie hangout in the 60's.....
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Utz potato chips.It was a big treat,cause in the 60's,they could only be perchased in Pa. and Md.(At least I was told that.)
V is up,now.
Weezy 
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MOVING_FORWARD
6/23/07 1:56 P
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Ike Turner -- helped lay the groundwork for rock & roll; he was also a distinctive guitarist with a biting, nasty tone, and was one of the first to make the whammy bar an integral part of his sound
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WANNADROPFIFTY
6/23/07 1:30 P
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Rain Drops Keep Falling On My Head. The theme song from the movie "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid"
S is up,now.
Weezy 
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quarterback - Joe Namath
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NANABEAR52
6/22/07 6:40 P
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"Only the Lonely"--Roy Orbison's first big hit was recorded in 1960
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New Left - The rapid rise of a "New Left" employed the rhetoric of Marxism but had little organizational connection with older Marxist organizations such as the Communist Party, and even less connection with the supposed focus of Marxist politics, the organized labor movement, and consisting of ephemeral campus-based Trotskyist, Maoist and anarchist groups, some of which by the end of the 1960s had turned to terrorism.
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WANNADROPFIFTY
6/22/07 12:01 P
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| My Girl--one of the great end of the dance songs of all times.
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NANABEAR52
6/22/07 11:36 A
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1961-Kennedy- Ask not what your country can do for you...but what YOU can do for you country!
L is next.
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PEACEFULONE
6/22/07 10:41 A
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Jan and Dean, hits included: Surf City, Little Old Lady from Pasadena, and Dead Man's Curve
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NANABEAR52
6/22/07 6:29 A
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It's My Party and I'll Cry if I want to! by Leslie Gore....
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| F - Fishnet Stockings How sexy!!!
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| G - go go boots. My thre sisters & i had them. they were a blast!!!
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| I love that song! I felt especially cool since I learned the Enerey the 8th song BEFORE the Hermits did it -thanks to a family friend. So I knew the words right away and felt SO grown up!
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NANABEAR52
6/21/07 8:19 P
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HERMAN'S HERMITS!
I LOVED THEM! THEY WERE MY FAVORITES!!
I'M ENERY THE EIGHTH I YAM!
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MOVING_FORWARD
6/21/07 7:52 P
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Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright in "Bonanza")-- released his first album in 1963, and the following year he scored a surprise number one smash with "Ringo," a Western story song he narrated rather than sang. Greene charted a couple more times with 1965's "The Man" and 1966's "Waco," and released a total of five albums on RCA Victor from 1963-1966.
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FATFREEDRU
6/21/07 7:00 P
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 The Beatles!!!!!, Bell Bottoms, A-Lines, Knee Boots.....
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Essex sang "Easier Said Than Done"
F is up,now.
Weezy 
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NANABEAR52
6/21/07 4:38 P
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Del Shannon sang 'Runaway'...
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PEACEFULONE
6/21/07 4:30 P
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Coco Channel designed suits worn by Jackie Kennedy and Chanel No. 5 perfume worn by my Gramma and lots of other women.
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the "Beatles" appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.
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MOVING_FORWARD
6/20/07 11:14 P
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"The Americanization of Emily" -- a 1964 American motion picture drama/comedy by Paddy Chayefsky, loosely adapted for the screen from the novel by William Bradford Huie. Set during World War II in 1944 in London during the weeks leading up to D-Day, it was filmed in black-and-white, starred James Garner and Julie Andrews and was directed by Arthur Hiller. This is Garner's favorite among his films.
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Zorba the Greek (originally titled Alexis Zorbas) is a 1964 film based on the novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. The film was directed by Michael Cacoyannis and the title character was played by Anthony Quinn–who was not Greek but in fact Irish Mexican.
What a cool thread!
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MOVING_FORWARD
6/20/07 9:53 P
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"Yellow Submarine" -- an album released by the Beatles in 1969
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X - Malcolm X is assassinated on February 21, 1965
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The Watusi - song by the Vibrations
It was a dance also.
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NANABEAR52
6/19/07 6:12 A
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| Martha and the Vandellas were a big hit in the sixties!
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MOVING_FORWARD
6/19/07 12:08 A
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Underwood (typewriters) completed the merger in October 1963 with Olivetti and become known in the US as Olivetti-Underwood
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The troll doll or Dammit doll (named for it's creator
Thomas Dam) was a good luck symbol for all ages.
U is next
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NANABEAR52
6/18/07 8:32 P
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| Shagging on Myrtle Beach in South Carolina to "Sixty Minute Man".....oh yeh!!!!
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MOVING_FORWARD
6/18/07 7:01 P
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Dan Rather began working as a reporter for CBS News in 1962. He covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and wars in Vietnam...
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Questioning - June 13, 1966 - Miranda v. Arizona: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. 
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I remember doing the twist with Chubby Checkers. I still do the twist when I use the boards at Curves.
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Paul Anka. He started singing,in the late '50s,and continued to sing into the late '60s and '70s.
Q is up,next.
Weezy 
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N: Neil Diamond had his first recording contract in 1960.
O: Otis Redding recorded "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" in 1967 three days before his plane crashed.
P is next
(I did 2 'cause I won't have computer access for a few days.)
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Manson,Charles.On August 9 and 10,'69,he and his gang went on a killing spree.On the 9th,they killed Sharon Tate,actress and wife of Roman Polansi,who was 8 1/2 mo.pregnant;Abigail Folger,heiress to Folger's Coffee;Jay Sebring,hairstylist;and a couple of other people ,that Ms.Tate had over for a party.
The next night,they came back and killed Leno La Bianca,and his wife,Rosemary.
N is next.
Weezy
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MOVING_FORWARD
6/18/07 10:17 A
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PEACEFULONE
6/18/07 12:24 A
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Lava lamps invented by an Englishman, Edward Craven Walker, in the 1960s.
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NANABEAR52
6/17/07 9:10 P
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Koolaid with LSD in it.....hm.......
NOT ME! I was afraid of all that stuff...
Boone's Farm was the worst I ever did!
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