Showing posts with label 1964. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1964. Show all posts

Saturday, April 4, 2026

On the importance...........................

 

..............................of Ed Sullivan.

Twelve year old Steve, with sister Kate and our parents (and most of the nation), watched the Beatles first performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. We were watching on a 24" Philco black and white set.  My overwhelming memory of that night is not really being able to hear the music over the screaming of the girls in the audience.



Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Even back in 1964..........................


......................................................the New York Times was motivating people in unexpected ways:

     The press relished Bobby's guessing game, and since May it had been parsing every sign that he'd jump in and every hint that he wouldn't.  A strong vote in favor came from President Johnson, who delighted in the prospect of Bobby focusing on an office other than his own, ideally in a place that required a moving van to get to.  But The New York Times weighed in against such a bid, editorializing in mid-May that "there is nothing illegal about the possible nomination of Robert F. Kennedy of Massachusetts as Senator from New York, but there is plenty that is cynical about it. ...If he became a candidate, he would merely be choosing New York as a convenient launching-pad for the political ambitions of himself and others."  That tongue-lashing from a broadsheet he saw as anti-Catholic and anti-Kennedy made Bobby want to run even more.

-Larry Tye,  Bobby Kennedy:  Making of a Liberal Icon

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Fifty years ago.......................


Beach Boys................................................Auld Lang Syne



Ed Note:  Off the Beach Boys' Christmas Album, which was released in November, 1964

Monday, August 24, 2015

Fifty years ago......................................


Del Shannon.....................................................I Go To Pieces



It was made popular by Peter & Gordon, but Shannon wrote this song in 1964 and recorded it in 1965.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Monday, December 15, 2014

Sunday, December 14, 2014