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  • Re-live your memories of the 60s, the decade that vibrated a nation, right here on The 60s Official Site where "music is our middle name."
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  • I grew up in a small town in Ohio with a population of 10,000 the population now is around 13,000). Circleville is located 23 miles south of Columbus, Ohio and I think the population hasn't grown much above 13,000 in 50 years since I left.
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  • This page indicates new content that has been added to The 60s Official Site.
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  • Revisit Soundtrack of the 60s with the late great Neal Stevens. Previously recorded, enjoy Neal's best of the best shows on Soundtrack of the 60s./.
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  • Look back at the 60s decade through music and events of the era of music that vibrated a nation.
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  • Common and little known facts about everything. Just for fun check it out.
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  • Take a shot at today's trivia question. A new question daily.
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  • Do you need a quick fix? Oldies music fix that is. If so you can check in here daily for a new five song medley of oldies to start your day off to give you that needed fix for the day. I guarantee it will put a smile on your face and your feet will start tappin'. What a way to start the day. The 60s Official Site remains the top choice on the internet to listen to the great sounds of the 60s. Enjoy whether at work, play or whatever you may be doing.
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  • Enjoy this historical documentary on the Early Years of Rock 'n Roll, the building blocks of the music of the 60s and beyond.
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  • Enjoy your latest excursion of the baby boomer years with 2 1/2 hours of the best music ever recorded right here on Solid Gold Memories. The oldies we remember and the memories we grew up with, the music of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
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  • Enjoy this special presentation of the best music ever recorded. This jukebox is loaded with your favorites of 60s music. Non stop music for your listening enjoyment.
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  • Enjoy the greatest music ever recorded. Different approaches for different tastes just for you.
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  • Remember when we bought a 45 record and flipped it over to play Side B? Many great songs were recorded on the B-Side and became bigger hits than the A Side and some just memorable. I selected 40 of these flip side songs.
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  • All-The-Number-One-Songs-of-the-60s-Decade.html
  • A novelty song is a type of song built upon some form of novel concept, such as a gimmick, a piece of humor, or a sample of popular culture. They had a resurgence of interest in the 1950s and 1960s. Enjoy the best of the novelty songs of the 1950s and 1960s.
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  • Easy Listening and Soft Sentimental Rock Jukebox
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  • Best love songs of the 50s and 60s jukebox.
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  • Elvis Presley fans enjoy this jukebox of nothing but the music from the "King of Rock 'N Roll" himself.
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  • The music of Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons
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  • Beatles Jukebox Music
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  • Enjoy this jukebox of bands and artists that were involved with the British Invasion, the music phenomenon that occurred between 1964 and 1966 in the United States. Great music and great memories.
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  • Motown Musical Memories Jukebox
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  • The Nifty Fifties Jukebox - The music of the 1950s.
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  • One-Hit-Wonders-Jukebox.html
  • Country Music Side of the 60s Jukebox
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  • Garage Band Music Jukebox
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  • Summer-of-Love-1967-Jukebox.html
  • Memories of those special summers during the 50s and 60s take special meaning as you listen to these songs. These selections are songs that were popular and on the charts during the summer months and also songs that have a summer theme. Enjoy this special jukebox as it plays the best music ever recorded.
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  • Baby boomers were born between 1946-1964. Many who experienced the 1960s remember the great music of the 60s but music of the 70s were a huge part of our musical memories as well. Enjoy these selections of the early 70s. (1970-1973).
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  • Baby boomers were born between 1946-1964. Many who experienced the 1960s remember the great music of the 60s but music of the 70s were a huge part of our musical memories as well. Enjoy these selections of the mid 70s (1974-1976)
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  • Larry Ravenswood was born in Chicago in the early 1960s, and practically from the point of birth , he had always had a happy ear for music, especially popular music. He remembers his mother playing Beatles records(and that means RECORDS ..VINYL!) when he was in the playpen.
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  • Enjoy this time sweep of all the number one hits of the 50s & 60s decade presented in a montage format by Larry Ravenswood.
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  • Check out the top ten songs on this day according to Billboard Magazine. Select your important year, month and day and discover what was the top ten songs.
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  • Check out the top ten songs of any day of the year 1960
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  • Check out the top ten songs of any day of the year 1961.
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  • Check out the top ten songs of any day of the year 1963.
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  • Check out the top ten songs of any day of the year 1963.
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  • Check out the top ten songs of any day of the year 1964.
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  • Check out the top ten songs of any day of the year 1965.
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  • Check out the top ten songs of any day of the year 1966.
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  • Check out the top ten songs of any day of the year 1967.
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  • Check out the top ten songs of any day of the year 1968.
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  • Check out the top ten songs of any day of the year 1969.
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  • Every Sunday we countdown the top ten songs according to Billboard Hot 100 from the current week from a year during the 60s decade.
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  • Featured here are the weekly number one hits for each year of the sixites decade according to Billboard Magazine. You can not only check out the songs but listen to them as well. Check back weekly as the playlist changes according to the weekly charts.
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  • Top Ten Defining Songs of the 60s Decade
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  • The ten defining moments of the 60s decade
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  • Top ten defining movies of the 60s decade
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  • Top Ten Defining Sci-Fi Movies of the 60s Decade
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  • August 16 is the anniversary of Elvis Presley's untimely death and nobody deserves more recognition on The 60s Official Site than Elvis Presley so I am allowing a complete page and tribute to the "King of Rock 'n Roll."
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  • The 60s Garage Band Era produced some of the best music of the decade.
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  • Chickeman began in 1966
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  • Chickenman, WCFL's "winged warrior" crimefighter has been identified. This is an update about Benton Harbor, alias Chickenman, a product of Dick Orkin of WCFL. Glen Teason has located the pictures of Chickenman he had stashed away but not to be forgotten. To bring you back up to date.
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  • Richard Alan Orkin was an American voice actor and commercial radio producer who created the Chickenman radio series and The Secret Adventures of the Tooth Fairy. His voice was used in many radio advertisements and public-service announcements. Enjoy the late great Dick Orkin's Chickenman.
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  • By 1962 the Brill Building contained 165 music businesses: A musician could find a publisher and printer, cut a demo, promote the record and cut a deal with radio promoters, all within this one building. The creative culture of the independent music companies in the Brill Building and the nearby 1650 Broadway came to define the influential "Brill Building Sound" and the style of popular songwriting and recording created by its writers and producers.
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  • Remember Those Sweet Yesterdays video performed by James Marvell
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  • Growing up druing the 1950s and 1960s we all loved the Saturday Morning Cartoons. They were special with many being produced by Hanna Barbera. Many of those old cartoon series can be seen on The Cartoon Network. The commercials featured breakfast cereal and kids toy. Do you remember these cartoon characters?
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  • Growing up during the fifties and sixties you tend to remember items, services and products we used which many do not exist today. Here is a few to take you down memory lane.
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  • How many of these baby boomer commercial jingles do you remember?These should ring a bell with almost all baby boomers.
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  • Television in the 60s was unique compared to what it is today. We only had 3 channels ABC, CBS, and NBC. We received our TV reception either through a pair of rabbit ears antenna located on top of the TV or an aerial antenna attached to our homes or on the roof. We had no idea what cable TV was or what its impact would be later.
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  • 77 Sunset Strip is an American television private detective drama series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roger Smith, Richard Long (from 1960 to 1961) and Edd Byrnes (billed as Edward Byrnes). Each episode was one hour long including commercials. The show ran from 1958 to 1964
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  • Adam-12 is an American television police procedural drama that follows Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed as they ride the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series that was created, hosted, and produced by Alfred Hitchcock; the program aired on CBS and NBC between 1955 and 1965. It featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Between 1962 and 1965 it was renamed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
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  • The Alvin Show originally aired as a Wednesday night prime-time television series for 11 months (October 14, 1961, through September 12, 1962) on CBS-TV. The program was based on the success of Ross Bagdasarian's novelty records that were issued by the Chipmunks
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  • American Bandstand began as a local program on WFIL-TV (now WPVI), Channel 6 in Philadelphia on October 7, 1952. Then it was hosted by Bob Horn and was called Bob Horn's Bandstand. On July 9 of 1956 the show got a new host, a clean-cut 26 year old named Dick Clark. When ABC picked the show up, it was renamed American Bandstand, airing it's first national show on August 5, 1957
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  • Andy's Gang was a children's television program that ran on NBC from August 20, 1955, to December 31, 1960. It was hosted by actor Andy Devine and was the successor to the radio and television programs Smilin' Ed McConnell and his Buster Brown Gang, later shortened to Smilin' Ed McConnell and his Gang.
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  • Batman is a 1960s American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name, which stars Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin, two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network for two and a half seasons from January 12, 1966 to March 14, 1968.
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  • The series stars Vince Edwards as medical doctor Ben Casey, a young, intense but idealistic surgeon at County General Hospital. His mentor was Doctor David Zorba, played by Sam Jaffe.
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  • This delightful comedy lasted almost eight years on ABC. It aired from September 1964 until July 1972 with 252 episodes being produced. Bewitched was one of the most beloved show's on TV.
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  • Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969, which starred Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother.
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  • Bonanza was the first color western and one of the longest running TV shows. Bonanza first aired in 1959 on NBC and there were 430 sixty minute episodes produced.
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  • The Bronco series aired from September 23, 1958 until August 20, 1962. There were 68 episodes and all of them were in black and white.
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  • Burke's Law is a detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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  • Candid Camera was a hidden camera television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947. After a series of theatrical film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone, Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948.
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  • Captain Kangaroo was an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS from 1955 to 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.
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  • Car 54, Where Are You? is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from September 17, 1961 to September 8,1963, airing 60 episodes. Most of its filming was on location in the The Bronx and at Biograph Studios.
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  • Cheyenne Bodie played by Clint walker was a large man, 6'6" tall) a former army scout, who wandered the west and tried to avoid trouble at all cost but with little success.
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  • Combat! is an American television program that aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. Created by Robert Pirosh, Combat! ran for five seasons, of which the first four are in black-and-white, with a move to color for the final season.
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  • This show was American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television
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  • Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area.
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  • Deputy Dawg was a below average lawman, more concerned with napping than with catching bad guys. The lazy deputy was regularly reprimanded by his human boss, the Sheriff, while his friends Muskie the Muskrat, Ty Coon, and Vincent Van Gopher looked on in amusement.
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  • Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave millions of audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers.
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  • Dr. Kildare is an NBC medical drama television series which ran from September 27, 1961 until April 5, 1966 encompassing a total of 190 episodes. The show, which premiered at the same time as an ABC medical drama, Ben Casey, quickly achieved success and helped spark a number of new shows dealing with the medical field.
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  • F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes.
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  • Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966, to March 4, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do engineer and bachelor Bill Davis (Brian Keith) as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment.
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  • The television show Flipper is an adaptation of the 1963 film Flipper starring Chuck Connors and Luke Halpin as Porter and Sandy Ricks, and its 1964 sequel, Flipper's New Adventure, where Brian Kelly took over the role of Porter.
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  • Gilligan's Island is an American television situation comedy created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The series featured Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jr., Jim Backus, and Tina Louise, and aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964, to September 4, 1967.
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  • The Gomer Pyle series was a spinoff from The Andy Griffith Show. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., premiered on CBS on September 25, 1964 and exited September 19, 1969 after completing 150 episodes.
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  • CBS produced 170 episodes of Green Acres and it appeared on television from September 1965 till September 1971. Green acres was a spinoff of Petticoat Junction.
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  • Richard Boone stars as the black clad good guy Paladin, a modern day detective working in the old west. In this 60s television western he lived in San Francisco and his services did not come cheap.
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  • Hawaiian Eye is an American television series that ran from October 1959 to September 1963 on the ABC television network
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  • Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and created by Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. At the airing of its last episode it was the longest-running police drama in American television history.
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  • Hazel is an American sitcom about a live-in maid named Hazel Burke (played by Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in prime time from September 28, 1961, to April 11, 1966,
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  • The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell, which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971.
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  • Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series that aired from 1955-1959. The series was syndicated by Ziv TV. Broderick Crawford as Dan MatthewsIt starred Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in a large, unidentified Western state.
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  • Hogan's Heroes was an American classic TV show that produced 168 episodes and aired on CBS from September 17, 1965 to March 28, 1971.The show was set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during the Second World War. Bob Crane had the starring role as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, who coordinated an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp.
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  • Honey West is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC during the 1965-1966 television season. The series stars Anne Francis as female private detective Honey West.
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  • Hootenanny was a musical variety television show broadcast in the United States on ABC from April 1963 to September 1964. The program was hosted by Jack Linkletter.
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  • Hullabaloo' was a lot like 'Shindig', and lasted only a year and a half as well, debuting in January of 1965, and continuing until the Fall of 1966.
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  • I Dream of Jeannie appeared on NBC for five years beginning September 1965 and ending after 139 episodes on September 1, 1970.
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  • I Spy is an American secret-agent television adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed US intelligence agents Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp) and Alexander "Scotty" Scott (Bill Cosby), traveling undercover as international "tennis bums". Robinson poses as an amateur with Scott as his trainer, playing against wealthy opponents in return for food and lodging. Their work involved chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women.
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  • I've Got a Secret was a panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. Created by comedy writers Allan Sherman and Howard Merrill, it was a derivative of Goodson-Todman's own panel show What's My Line? Instead of celebrity panelists trying to determine a contestant's occupation, the panel tries to determine a contestant's "secret": something that is unusual, amazing, embarrassing or humorous about that person/people.
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  • Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr. as Andy Sherman.
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  • Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, both human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 25, 1973.
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  • Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s.
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  • Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was ranked #42 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973.
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  • Leave it to Beaveraired on CBS and ABC for 234 episodes from October 1957 to September 1963. The family of the Cleavers lived in Mayfield at 211 Pine Street.
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  • Lost in Space was a science fiction televsion series produced by Irwin Allen for broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968 (the unaired pilot "No Place To Hide" and the 1998 reunion "Lost In Space Forever" bring the total number of episodes to 85).
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  • Mannix began its appearance on television September 7, 1967 and remained at CBS until August 24, 1975 with 154 episodes being filmed.
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  • Maverick is an American Western dramatic television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner. The show ran for five seasons from September 22, 1957, to July 8, 1962, on ABC.
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  • McHale's Navy is an American television sitcom series which ran for 138 half-hour episodes from October 11, 1962 to August 31, 1966 on the ABC network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated in a one-hour drama called Seven Against the Sea, broadcast on April 3, 1962.
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  • Mighty Mouse is an American animated anthropomorphic, superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. The character first appeared in 1942 (originally named Super Mouse) and subsequently in 80 theatrical films between 1942 and 1961. These films appeared on American television from 1955 through 1967, Saturday mornings on the CBS television network.
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  • The Millionaire is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1955 to 1960. It was originally sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive. The series, produced by Don Fedderson and Fred Henry, explored the ways that sudden and unexpected wealth changed life, for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars ($9.54 million in 2019 dollars) from a benefactor who insisted they must never know his identity, with one exception.
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  • Mission Impossible invaded CBS on September 17, 1966 and ended its run in September 1973 after 171 episodes
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  • The Mod Squad is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968 to August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Peter "Pete" Cochran, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Lincoln "Linc" Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas.
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  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E., whose letters stand for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
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  • My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to May 1, 1966 for 107 episodes (75 in black and white 1963–1965, 32 color 1965–1966). The show starred Ray Walston as Uncle Martin (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara.
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  • Mister Ed is an American television sitcom produced by Filmways that originally aired in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961, and then on CBS from October 1, 1961 to February 6, 1966. The show's title character – a talking horse – originally appeared in short stories by Walter R. Brooks.
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  • My Three Sons is an American sitcom. The series had a long run, from 1960 through 1972. ABC covered it from 1960 through 1965, and then the series moved to CBS until the end of its run on April 13, 1972. My Three Sons chronicles the life of widower and aeronautical engineer Steven Douglas (Fred MacMurray) as he raises his three sons.
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  • Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic "semi-documentary" format.
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  • One Step Beyond is an American television series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from 1959 to 1961 and remains syndicated to this day.
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  • The Outer Limits is an American television series. Similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, though tending more to science fiction than fantasy, The Outer Limits is an anthology show in which each episode is a self-contained story, sometimes with a plot twist. In its original incarnation the show ran for two seasons from 1963 to 1965 in black-and-white.
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  • For nine seasons, originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. the famous defense attorney solved murder cases in the courtroom. Assisting him in solving those complex puzzles was his personal investigator, Paul Drake and his secretary Della Street.
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  • There were 222 episodes of Petticoat Junction produced for CBS and was on television from September 1963 till September 1970.
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  • Popeye the Sailor has been well-known to comic strip fans since his first appearance in the newspaper strip Thimble Theater in 1929. The hot-tempered old salt with bulging forearms and a fractured vocabulary was at first a minor character, but he grew to dominate the strip as readers fell for Popeye "the sailor man." A comical cast of characters grew up around him: skinny flirt Olive Oyl, origin-free orphan Swee'pea, tattered hamburger-lover J. Wellington Wimpy, and the bewhiskered brute Bluto, Popeye's perennial rival for Olive's attention.
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  • The Quick Draw McGraw Show premiered in syndication on September 28, 1959 with new episodes being produced up until 1962. The show was re-broadcast Saturday mornings on CBS from September 1963 to September 1966.
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  • Starring Eric Fleming as Gil Favor and Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates, Rawhide was the continuing story of a group of Texas headed by trail boss, Gil Favor, moving a herd of 3000 cattle to market up north. Rawhide first aired on January 9, 1959 and its last episode was January 4, 1966.
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  • The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is the collective name for two separate American television animated series: Rocky and His Friends (1959–1961) and The Bullwinkle Show (1961–1964). Rocky & Bullwinkle enjoyed great popularity during the 1960s. Much of this success was a result of it being targeted towards both children and adults.
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  • Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television that aired on ABC for 112 episodes from September 17, 1969, until January 11, 1974.
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  • Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock.
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  • Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premiered on September 13, 1969. This cartoon introduced four kids and a dog named Scooby-Doo. These kids were Daphne Blake, Freddy Jones, Velma Dinkley, Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, and their mascot.
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  • Danger Man (retitled Secret Agent in the United States, and Destination Danger and John Drake in other non-UK markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968.
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  • Shindig!, hosted by LA disc jockey Jimmy O'Neill, was broadcast live on ABC September 16, 1964, with house band the Shin-diggers (later the Shindogs) and the Shindigger dancers (the reason anyone over twenty-five might be watching the show). Most of the 'Shindig' shows were broadcast in glorious black and white
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  • Sky King was an American radio and television series. Its lead character was Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King. The series may have been based on a true-life personality of the 1930s, Jack Cones, known as the "Flying Constable" of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California, although this notion is unverified.
    Sky-King.html
  • Star Trek started its journey on television with NBC on September 8, 1966 and completed its final journey on April 4, 1969 after 78 episodes.The Enterprise CrewThe series Star Trek was set in the 23rd Century on Starship Enterprise commanded by Captain James Kirk played by William Shatner.
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  • Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster,
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  • Surfside 6 is an ABC television series (1960–1962) about a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat, featuring Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield, II, Van Williams as Kenny Madison (a character recycled from Bourbon Street Beat, a similar series that had appeared in the same time slot the season before), and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne.
    Surfside-6.html
  • The Addams Family series was the story of an eccentric family that lived on North Cemetery Ridge. The series aired on ABC as a 30 minute comedy from September 1964 to September 1966. In all there were 64 episodes produced.
    The-Addams-Family.html
  • In September of 1956 a TV series named The Adventures of Jim Bowie was aired on ABC. The show was only on the air for two years from 1956 to 1958 and produced 76 episodes.
    The-Adventures-of-Jim-Bowie.html
  • The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet show appeared on ABC for 15 years beginning October 1952 and ending September 1966. There were 435 episodes produced that followed the Nelsons day to day adventures as an average middle-class family.
    The-Adventures-of-Ozzie-and-Harriet.html
  • The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program which originally aired in 166 episodes on ABC from October 1954 until August 1959. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known in the series as Fort Apache.
    The-Adventures-of-Rin-Tin-Tin.html
  • The Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created in 1938. The show was the first television series to feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California on RKO-Pathé stages and the RKO Forty Acres back lot. Cereal manufacturer Kellogg's sponsored the show.
    The-Adventures-of-Superman.html
  • The Andy Griffith Show was one of the top rated shows of all times. It appeared on CBS from October 1960 to September 1968 for a total of 249 episodes.
    The-Andy-Griffith-Show.html
  • The Andy Williams Show premiered on NBC in 1962 and exited July 17, 1971.
    The-Andy-Williams-Show.html
  • The Beatles is an animated television series featuring representations of the popular English rock band of the same name. It was originally broadcast from 1965 to 1969 on ABC in the U.S. (only 1965 to 1967 was first run; later seasons were repeats). The series debuted on 25 September 1965 and new episodes ended on 21 October 1967
    The-Beatles-Cartoons.html
  • The Beverly Hillbillies were an instant success. It was the number one show for the 1962 and 1963 season. It was shown on CBS from September 1962 till September 1971. The situation comedy produced 274 thirty minute episodes.
    The-Beverly-Hillbillies.html
  • The Bugs Bunny Show was a long-running American television anthology series hosted by Bugs Bunny, that was mainly composed of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons made between 1948 and 1963. The show originally debuted as a primetime ABC program in 1960, with newly produced wraparound segments done by the Warner Bros. animation staff
    The-Bugs-Bunny-Show.html
  • Carol Burnett and her TV warriors entertained us with song, dance and comedy for over ten years in one of television's most successful variety shows of all time. Jim Nabors was considered her good luck charm as he appeared on the first show. The show raked in the Emmy Awards. The CBS variety show began on September 11, 1967 and ended its successful run on March 29, 1978.
    The-Carol-BurnettShow.html
  • The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series that ran on CBS from 1961–1965. It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases
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  • The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 until June 1, 1966. There were 158 episodes plus one reunion telecast. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.
    The-Dick-Van-Dyke-Show.html
  • The Donna Reed Show was an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the upper middle class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz appears as her pediatrician husband Alex, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children Mary and Jeff. The show originally aired on ABC at 10 pm from September 24, 1958 to March 19, 1966.
    The-Donna-Reed-Show.html
  • Ed Sullivan started in 1948 and left the air in 1971. Our family would sit down to watch the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS every Sunday night.
    The-Ed-Sullivan-Show.html
  • The Everglades is an American crime-adventure television series that aired in first-run syndication for one season from 1961–62 and in reruns. Ron Hayes starred as Constable Lincoln Vail, a law enforcement officer of the fictional Everglades County Patrol who traveled the Florida Everglades in an airboat
    The-Everglades.html
  • The Flintstones first aired at 8pm Wednesdays beginning in 1960, making it the first prime time cartoon series ever on TV.
    The-Flintstones.html
  • The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios, which starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille. The sitcom ran for three seasons, and produced 82 color episodes from September 7, 1967, to September 18, 1970, on ABC.
    The-Flying-Nun.html
  • The Fugitive as a very successful series that aired on ABC from September 1963 to August 1967 with 120 episodes being produced.
    The-Fugitive.html
  • The Huckleberry Hound Show was probably the series that truly made Hanna-Barbera a household name, thanks to Huckleberry (or "Huck" as he was sometimes nicknamed, referencing the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) and the two supporting segments of the show: Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo
    The-Huckleberry-Hound-Show.html
  • The Invaders aired on ABC from January 10, 1967 to March 26, 1968 and starred Roy Thinnes from General Hospital fame. On General Hospital he played Dr. Brewer.
    The-Invaders.html
  • The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962 to 1968. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the fourth season (1965–1966) divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star.
    The-Lucy-Show.html
  • The Jetsons originally aired in prime time from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963, then later in syndication
    The-Jetsons.html
  • The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a western television series loosely based on the adventures of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black and white series ran on ABC-TV from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian as Earp.
    The-Life-and-Legend-of-Wyatt-Earp.html
  • The Lone Ranger is an American western drama television series that aired on the ABC Television network from 1949 to 1957, with Clayton Moore in the starring role. Jay Silverheels, a member of the Mohawk Aboriginal people in Canada, played The Lone Ranger's Indian companion Tonto.
    The-Lone-Ranger.html
  • The Monkees, an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 1966 to March 1968 follows the adventures of four young men (The Monkees) trying to make a name for themselves as rock 'n roll singers.
    The-Monkees.html
  • The Munsters aired on CBS from September 1964 to September 1966 with 70 episodes being produced. The creepy family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane where the house was infested with spider webs. Herman looked like the Frankenstein monster and worked at a funeral parlor.
    The-Munsters.html
  • The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963, until May 4, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke, who had recently won an Academy Award for The Miracle Worker (1962).
    The-Patty-Duke-Show.html
  • The Rat Patrol is an American television program that aired on ABC during the 1966–1968 seasons. The show follows the exploits of four (three American and one British) Allied soldiers who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II
    The-Rat-Patrol.html
  • The Real McCoys were a happy care free West Virginia Mountain family that pulls up its roots and moves to California. It first aired on ABC October 23, 1957 and later moved to CBS. A total of 224 episodes were made of this 30 minute situation comedy.
    The-Real-McCoys.html
  • The Rebelis a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that ran on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures.
    The-Rebel.html
  • Red Skelton started in radio during the 40s and was one of the brightest new stars to come along. Red was a visual comedian, so unlike many of his counterparts, he made an easy transition to TV. He arrived on TV in 1951 and remained at the top for 20 years. The Red Skelton Show was a classic comedy show.
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  • The 60s television western, The Rifleman aired 169 thirty minute episodes on ABC from 1958 to 1963
    The-Rifleman.html
  • The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was an American comedy and variety show television series hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969.
    The-Smothers-Brothers-Comedy-Hour.html
  • Whirlybirds (sometimes called The Whirlybirds or Copter Patrol) is a syndicated American drama/adventure television series, which aired for 111 episodes — broadcast from February 4, 1957, through January 18, 1960
    The-Whirlybirds.html
  • The Twilight Zone was one of the most popular sci-fi shows on TV. It appeared on CBS from October 1959 to June 1964. So many well-known actors appeared on Twilight Zone, too numerous to mention.
    The-Twilight-Zone.html
  • The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage and incorruptibility
    The-Untouchables.html
  • The Virginian, also known as The Men From Shiloh, is an American Western-themed television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. It was the first Western to air in 90-minute installments each week (75 minutes excluding commercial breaks), and was filmed in the color format from its inception.
    The-Virginian.html
  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen, which enabled the movie's sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the television series.
    Voyage-to-the-Bottom-of-the-Sea.html
  • Wagon train took its inspiration from John's Ford 1950 film Wagonmaster. Each week Wagon Train told the stories of pioneering families moving west from the east to start a new life soon after the Civil War.
    Wagon-Train.html
  • Yogi Bear" was the most popular television cartoon creation of TV's early years. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the "Yogi Bear" cartoons first appeared as a component segment of "The Huckleberry Hound Show" in 1958. An inhabitant of Jellystone National Park, with his little bear buddy. Boo Boo, Yogi
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  • The 1950s and 1960s provided us with some of the greatest music ever recorded and also the best recording artists the world has ever seen.
    The-Top-100-Recording-Artists-of-the-50s-&-60s.html
  • The 50s and the 60s had its share of teen idols and teen queens. I have selected what I feel were not only themost influential doing these decades but the most memorable.
    Teen-Idols.html
  • The 60s decade produced some of the best music of all time. Even today it is listened to not only by the 60s generation but by our children and grandchildren. Oldies stations playing the 60s are popping up everywhere.
    The-60s-A-Decade-of-Great-Music.html
  • A musical movement of the mid-1960s, the British Invasion was composed of British rock-and-roll and beat groups whose popularity spread rapidly to the rest of the English-speaking world, especially the United States which, from the beginnings of rock-and-roll music in the early 1950s, had nearly a monopoly on the genre.
    British-Invasion.html
  • You cannot discuss the sixties without at least mentioning the teeny bopper music known as Bubblegum Music.
    Bubblegum-Music.html
  • The most outstanding memory I recall about the 60s was the DJs. As far as I am concerned today's radio DJs cannot match the wit, humor and fun that these jocks brought to their broadcasts. (Perhaps I just don't get a kick out of crude humor on the air.) It was fun especially when the phone calls to the station over a promotion tied up the phone lines and teed Ma Bell off.
    Best-DJs.html
  • School dances and the dance crazes during that period were something else. I couldn't even begin to write about or even talk about what dances are popular today. I guess I possess a generation gap. I am lost in the 60s
    Dance-Crazes-of-the-60s.html
  • Check your birthday, anniversary or any important date in your life and see what events occurred.
    Baby-Boomers-Key-Notes-and-Events.html
  • January Key Notes and Events
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  • February Key Notes and Events
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  • March Key Notes and Event
    March.html
  • April Key Notes and Events
    April.html
  • May Key Notes and Events
    May.html
  • June Key Notes and Events
    June.html
  • July Key Notes and Events
    July.html
  • August Key Notes and Events
    August.html
  • September Key Notes and Events
    September.html
  • October Key Notes and Events
    October.html
  • November Key Notes and Events
    November.html
  • December Key Notes and Events
    December.html
  • 60s-Rock-'n-Roll-Headlines.html
  • There was a kind of magic about the drive-in movie theater. I can still hear the gravel crunching underneath the tires of our car as we entered to find the perfect spot to watch the movie (depending if you had a date or not.)
    Drive-in-Theater-Memories.html
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave this speech on August 28, 1963 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in which over 250,000 people converged on the National Mall to draw public attention to inequalities that African Americans still faced.
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  • The Statler Brothers names most of them. I remember all of them? Do You?
    Do-You-Remember-These.html
  • 60s Fads and Fashions
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  • The 1960s era had some of its own slang where some of these began in the 1960s era while others were just passed down. Some of these words and phrases are still used by our kids and grandchildren. Many of these slang phrases are now part of the dictionary with the slang meaning.
    60s-Slang.html
  • This page is dedicated to all baby boomers and pre-baby boomers. These expressions were used quite often while many of us were growing up in the 50s and 60s. Perhaps you heard your grandparents or parents use them or maybe you at one time have used these expressions of a more simpler time.
    Things-You-Just-Don't-Hear-Anymore.html
  • Many of us baby boomers have grandchildren already, hard to believe isn't it? I get questions all the time and find that my older grandchildren are interested in the days I grew up. It is very difficult sometimes to try and explain what we did for recreation, the toys we played with, the TV we watched (sure a difference in TV and music compared to today.)
    60s-Toys-and-Games.html
  • Eva Pasco's reflections of the 60s as she presents 60s Retro Flashback of her memories of the decade
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  • This distinct honor and privilege of becoming an integral part of The Sixties Official Site enabled my memoirs to mushroom wildly. Give or take a few of those originally presented on the site, I published them as a collection in 2017: 100 WILD Mushrooms: Memoirs of the ‘60s
    My-Shout-Out-to-The-60s-Official-Site.html
  • Happy motoring along the highways and byways of the Sixties as we embark on an imaginary, nostalgic camping trip to New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest campground-- Dolly Copp, the way it was—before the existence of wet wipes, sealable plastic sandwich bags, protein bars and shakes, bottled water, and the sophisticated pastime of RV-ing with 50-amp hookups and floor heat.
    A-Kumbaya-Tent-Revival.html
  • None of that unleaded octane either! That ain’t all! Full service came with a smile along every mile.
    Ding-Ding-Pump-My-Ride.html
  • For whom does the doorbell toll? In the Sixties, it tolled quite often for stay-at-home moms. Avon reps, Fuller Brush Men, magazine hawkers, Jehovah’s Witnesses, tin men trying to get a little on the side—customers for aluminum siding, that is. Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong!
    For-Whom-The-Bell-Tolls.html
  • Lazy, hazy days of summer preclude packing a cooler prior to embarking on road trips or picnics. Chicken salad, egg salad, and sandwiches with a common denominator holding it all together—mayonnaise!
    May-o-May-o.html
  • Excitement, gravity defiance, adrenalin rush, escape – Down like a roller coaster, Back like a loop-the-loop, And around like a merry-go-round – it’s Palisades Park (1962, Freddie Boom Boom Cannon) or our favorite amusement park we frequented in their heyday.
    No-Longer-So-Amusing-Amusement-Parks.html
  • “Greek Life” at the college dates from the Civil War Era, Sigma Fying that a man belonged to a fraternity or a woman belonged to a sorority. Typically, each blue and pink chapter had their own house of residence on campus. Proponents for college fraternities and sororities cite learning to live with a diverse group of individuals while contending with social and academic pressures, thereby fostering personal growth.
    The-Frat-Pack.html
  • During those sultry summer evenings of the Sixties, my sister and I would scramble along the backseat of our Plymouth Suburban station wagon or one of my dad’s newly restored, vintage Model A’s to go for a family spin. Veering off the beaten path with no particular place to go, we’d often wind up at Edward’s Ice Cream Parlor in Fairlawn, the citified burb of Lincoln.
    Tutti-Fruitti.html
  • And don’t tell me what to do, and don’t tell me what to say! Even though Lesley Gore put her foot down at the young age of seventeen, this 45 rpm, nouveau, defiance-in-vinyl was a radical departure from her attitude the previous year when boyfriend Johnny disappeared from her birthday party, only to show up with Judy, wearing his ring.
    You-Don't-Own-Me.html
  • Post-graduation sentiment for Be True to Your School and let the colors fly fading, barely 18 that summer of 1969, a coveted driver’s license under my seatbelt, the beach was the place to go.
    My-Summer-Place.html
  • In the Sixties there rose the Motown Sound originating from the Motor City of Detroit under Berry Gordy, Jr. A blend of R&B and Pop, strong vocals, and the distinctive sound of the tambourine, drums, and bass guitar put the motion in Motown for artists such as The Supremes, The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, and The Four Tops.
    Mohair.html
  • Back in the Sixties nurses basically wore all white from head to toe which encompassed their dress, stockings, and cap. The waiting room public heard the constant reverberations of doctors being paged around the clock. There arose two medical drama series which sexified men in ill-fitting scrubs:
    Paging-Dr.-Kildaireand-Dr.-Casey.html
  • Pinkos: non-card carrying, long legged, gregarious wading birds that flock together as birds of a feather and form a plurality of “flamingos” or “flamingoes.”
    PINKOS.html
  • Not our former dentist’s real name, the moniker belies his imposing, athletic stature—affable and gregarious too. Dr. Piccolo was a prominent, cutting-edge dentist, so charged for services accordingly. His four-dollar fillings were considered pricey at the time.
    The-Dentist.html
  • Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder when it comes to those Dam Trolls! Originally known as Leprocauns, and also called Wishniks, Thomas Dam’s creation became one of America’s most lovable dolls for the short duration of 1963-65
    Those-Damn-Trolls.html
  • Ever since “Elvis the Pelvis” generated heat and got everyone’s dander up on The Milton Berle Show by swiveling his hips and vamping a half tempo croon to Hound Dog in June of 1956—“You ain’t-a-nuthin’ but a hound dog, cuh-crying all the time—it’s been win, place, or show for canines cavorting as cartoon characters or pedigreed stars on a television series. A credit to their impersonators or trainers, I’m tossing a bone to memorable barking dogs of the Sixties that never bit.
    Top-Dawgs-of-theSixties.html
  • Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Allens & Burns, Martin & Lewis, Rowan & Martin and even the Sixties comedy team Tom & Dick Smothers had a “straight man.”
    Two-Smothered-Brothers.html
  • Wholesome and winsome TV dads of the Sixties were primarily well-to-do widowers with live-in help. S-o-o-o many contenders in the “grandest-of-all” arena for female divorcees and widows in the neighborhood to walk over their pot luck dinners in the hope of winning a man’s heart through his stomach.
    Wholesome-Winsome-Widowed-TV-Dads-of-the-Sixties.html
  • Bam, bam, shoot ‘em up, pow! The cowboy who epitomized rugged, individualistic, masculinity endured as a cultural icon in the Sixties despite relaxation of social taboos relating to sexism, and retaliation against conservatism, social conformity, and our government’s escalating military involvement in Vietnam.
    Yippi-Yi-Yo-Kayah.html
  • During the late Fifties and early Sixties, the aluminum tinsel tree made its debut as fashion transitioned from leather to the bright, bold, geometric ”mod” look originating from London’s Carnaby Street and Kings Road.
    Hi-Yo-Silver.html
  • The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Even though I am home and just work on line as an Internet marketer, there is something about a Saturday morning. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise,
    A-Thousand-Marbles.html
  • As far back as I can remember, the pickle jar sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parentThe Pickle Jars' bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar.
    The-Pickle-Jar.html
  • We as children during the 50s and 60s had our own gags and tricks from the obvious "your shoe is untied," or to when somebody bent over you tore a sheet of paper to sound like that person's pants had ripped. Even the cherry bomb in the toilet routine was a 50s and 60s gag. Today many gags and jokes are sent via email. So be on the watch.
    April-Fools-Day.html
  • Thinking back to the time when I had my first beer, I remember the disgusting taste and how much I hated it. I thought beer would NEVER be my choice of drinks. I will stick to my Pepsi or RC Cola. Of course we had to be macho and I pretended to enjoy it as my friends who took their first sip probably were thinking the same thing.
    Beer-of-the-60s.html
  • Planning a class reunion is easy right? Wrong. Class reunions must be fun for everybody and not planning properly can make it a disaster and result in very few classmates returning for subsequent reunions.
    Class-Reunion-Tips.html
  • Daylight savings time (DST) has been around in some form or another for quite sometime. The idea of daylight savings time originated from Benjamin Franklin really as a humorous and witty comment.
    Daylight-Savings.html
  • The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.
    Summer-of-Love.html
  • The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California.
    Monterey-Pop-Festival.html
  • The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an event held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. For many, it exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era."
    Woodstock.html
  • Images of the the Vietnam war caugjht by correspondents and soldiers themselves.
    Vietnam-War-Through-Photos.html
  • Many untruths and myths surfaced during the Vietnam War. Listed below are theactual myth and the real truth behind each statement of myth.
    Vietnam-War-Myths.html
  • The-Tet-Offensive-An-Explanation.html
  • I served in Vietnam, first with the 5th Trans Bn, 101s Airborne and secondly with A Troop 2/17th Cav 101st Airborne. Below are a few my pictures.
    Serving-in-Vietnam.html
  • While serving in Vietnam and like any other war letters from home were very important and all of us looked forward to receiving them whether in the field or at base camp. It kept us up on what is going on at home with family and country. Of course we had the AFN radio which broadcasted across Vietnam. The music was a constant reminder of how much we missed home and added some sane moments. The country was divided about the war but music united us all.
    Vietnam-Music-from-Home.html

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