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1967 - inspired by ETMN - Freija - 06-22-2024 Elements in EndTheMaddnessNow’s post today inspired me. Not sure whether it was the list of top 40 music or the Volkswagens but something fired up the old noggin to dig deep into the memory banks and retrieve a few files I thought I would share. 1967 Having a birthday during the first week of January is kind of cool because except for a couple of days, each calendar year is equivalent to a year of my life so it is easy to keep track of things or at least as best as my months away from 70 year old brain can. I turned 12 in 1967. Because of my “problems” and after enduring a tumultuous 5th and 6th grade at four different schools in Reno, NV, my parents (mom & step-dad) decided a fresh start was needed as they were tired of moving and stuff to try and keep me in a school that wasn’t horrible so after the 6th grade we decided to move to Phoenix, where my mom and I lived before moving to Reno, with the hopes of putting down more substantial roots. I don’t remember much about that summer but things come clearly into focus when it was time to start junior high (7th grade) because the same old shit started happening again – the school wouldn’t enroll me unless I cut my hair and that just wasn’t happening. By this point in my life asserting myself more outwardly like other girls (or at least not as a boy) had become very important to me and my hair was a big part of that. Besides, a pact between my mom and I made after the 3rd grade promised I could grow out my hair if I stopped begging to wear girl’s clothes all the time and I held her to it. In a significant show of love and support, my folks got with an attorney and threatened to sue the school board who eventually caved in and made an exception so right off the bat I was a troublemaker but I was allowed to start school although a week later than everyone else. Let’s just say I was not treated too kindly and I didn’t make it a week before something else happened. A PE coach tried to drag me into the boy’s locker room/showers and I wasn’t having it and fought back. I was promptly suspended and forced to see a school district appointed psychologist before I could return. Having been seeing psychologists and psychiatrists from the time I was 10 before starting the 5th grade, I was none too happy about this but in addition to the school’s minion, my folks also found a “private mental health professional” to send me to so I was seeing two shrinks at once and hated every second of it but lied, bullshitted and stonewalled my way through. I was never really privy to the details but both recognized my extreme distress and I was permanently excused from PE class and the whole locker room/shower debacle. Two weeks later I was allowed back in school and spent 7th and 8th grade PE class folding towels in the coach’s office which was fine with me and something I considered a big win. No doubt encouraged by the shrinks, it was about this time my folks started talking to me about being gay. I didn’t really know what gay (or trans) was, I was mature for my age from all the crap I’d been through and different places I’d lived but naïve and innocent is so many other ways and since most everyone had treated me like a freak, I wasn’t really interested in boys or girls. My folks let me know that if I was gay, it wouldn’t make any difference in their love for me so I just ran with that for the next few years as it was easier than reviving all my early childhood assertions about really being a girl and avoiding the whole shitstorm that caused but moving on… The whole hippie thing and the summer of love was something I saw on the evening news with great fascination. Like other sociopolitical events in the ‘60s, the civil rights movements, women’s liberation and the burgeoning sexual revolution, I found it all very interesting and was excited things were moving beyond the stultifying 1950s ethos and saw many of these changes embraced by my parents who were in their mid 30s in 1967 and fancied themselves as modern, progressive and cool which was definitely to my benefit. It might have been ’67 or ’68 but I got this poster for my bedroom. LBJ on a Harley chopper. LOL! Not that they were hippies or radicals or anything, my step-dad was a retired Lutheran pastor working as a psychologist for the state helping the visually impaired and my mom, a simple farm girl artist turned office person working her way up in construction administration for a custom home builder but they embraced these cultural revolutions and newfound freedoms. In 1967, my step-dad bought a new VW Microbus and my mom a Pontiac GTO. I started driving the VW bus when I got my learner’s permit and took my 1st time driving test in it in 1971 when I turned 16 and got my license. I loved that thing and no, it didn’t have peace signs or flowers on it. Later on I inherited the GTO when my hot rod mom bought a Trans-Am. I went on to own 3 air-cooled Beetles, a Karman Ghia and this rare beast. Looking through ETMN’s music list really brought back some memories. There were two competing AM radio top-40 stations in Phoenix. KRIZ and KRUX and I was super into music as were my folks although they exposed me to other things beyond pop. Music was actually good back then. Here is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1967. How many boomers remember some of these classics? How many not boomers know these songs or artists? 1 To Sir With Love Lulu 2 The Letter The Box Tops 3 Ode to Billie Joe Bobbie Gentry 4 Windy The Association 5 I'm a Believer The Monkees 6 Light My Fire The Doors 7 Somethin' Stupid Frank & Nancy Sinatra 8 Happy Together The Turtles 9 Groovin' The Young Rascals 10 Can't Take My Eyes Off You Frankie Valli 11 Little Bit O' Soul The Music Explosion 12 I Think We're Alone Now Tommy James and the Shondells 13 Respect Aretha Franklin 14 I Was Made to Love Her Stevie Wonder 15 Come Back When You Grow Up Bobby Vee 16 Kind of a Drag The Buckinghams 17 Sweet Soul Music Arthur Conley 18 Expressway to Your Heart Soul Survivors 19 Soul Man Sam & Dave 20 Never My Love The Association 21 Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie Jay & the Techniques 22 Come On Down to My Boat Every Mother's Son 23 Incense and Peppermints Strawberry Alarm Clock 24 Ruby Tuesday The Rolling Stones 25 It Must Be Him Vikki Carr 26 Love Is Here and Now You're Gone The Supremes 27 For What It's Worth Buffalo Springfield 28 Gimme Little Sign Brenton Wood 29 The Happening The Supremes 30 All You Need Is Love The Beatles 31 Release Me Engelbert Humperdinck 32 Your Precious Love Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 33 Somebody to Love Jefferson Airplane 34 Get on Up The Esquires 35 Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison 36 Jimmy Mack Martha and the Vandellas 37 I Got Rhythm The Happenings 38 A Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum 39 Don't You Care The Buckinghams 40 Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye The Casinos 41 Reflections The Supremes 42 On a Carousel The Hollies 43 Please Love Me Forever Bobby Vinton 44 Alfie Dionne Warwick 45 Silence Is Golden The Tremeloes 46 My Cup Runneth Over Ed Ames 47 Up, Up and Away The 5th Dimension 48 San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) Scott McKenzie 49 The Rain, the Park & Other Things The Cowsills 50 There's a Kind of Hush Herman's Hermits 51 Mercy, Mercy, Mercy The Buckinghams 52 This Is My Song Petula Clark 53 (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher Jackie Wilson 54 I've Been Lonely Too Long The Young Rascals 55 Penny Lane The Beatles 56 You're My Everything The Temptations 57 Georgy Girl The Seekers 58 Western Union Five Americans 59 Baby I Love You Aretha Franklin 60 A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You The Monkees 61 California Nights Lesley Gore 62 Dedicated to the One I Love The Mamas & the Papas 63 How Can I Be Sure The Young Rascals 64 Carrie Anne The Hollies 65 (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet Blues Magoos 66 Friday on My Mind The Easybeats 67 Soul Finger Bar-Kays 68 Gimme Some Lovin' The Spencer Davis Group 69 Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) The Hombres 70 Let's Live for Today The Grass Roots 71 Close Your Eyes Peaches & Herb 72 Groovin' Booker T. & the M.G.'s 73 Funky Broadway Wilson Pickett 74 Pleasant Valley Sunday The Monkees 75 I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) Aretha Franklin 76 Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville 77 Cold Sweat James Brown 78 She'd Rather Be with Me The Turtles 79 98.6 Keith 80 Here We Go Again Ray Charles 81 White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane 82 Bernadette Four Tops 83 The Beat Goes On Sonny & Cher 84 Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron The Royal Guardsmen 85 Society's Child Janis Ian 86 Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon Neil Diamond 87 Ain't No Mountain High Enough Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 88 I Take It Back Sandy Posey 89 Here Comes My Baby The Tremeloes 90 Everlasting Love Robert Knight 91 I Dig Rock and Roll Music Peter, Paul and Mary 92 Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright) Bill Cosby 93 I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) The Electric Prunes 94 Daydream Believer The Monkees 95 Baby I Need Your Lovin' Johnny Rivers 96 I Can See for Miles The Who 97 Mirage Tommy James and the Shondells 98 Green, Green Grass of Home Tom Jones 99 Don't Sleep in the Subway Petula Clark 100 Thank the Lord for the Night Time Neil Diamond What were you doing in 1967? RE: 1967 - inspired by ETMN - NightskyeB4Dawn - 06-22-2024 (06-22-2024, 09:36 AM)Freija Wrote: 1967 didn't stand out for me, so I had to search for some help. Looking back it seems it was the standard SSDD. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/02/50-years-ago-a-look-back-at-1967/516174/ RE: 1967 - inspired by ETMN - Freija - 06-22-2024 (06-22-2024, 12:31 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: 1967 didn't stand out for me, so I had to search for some help. Great link, photos and captions - thanks! For those that weren't around back then or were too young to remember (I think you and I are among the oldest if not the oldest here?) there was a lot going on in the past that puts some of the crap going on today into perspective. I feel lucky to have been witness to so much change and historically significant happenings and to those that think the world is going to hell in a hand basket today, we've always been going to hell in a hand basket but are still here and will continue to be. Like you so wisely observed, same shit - different day. RE: 1967 - inspired by ETMN - NightskyeB4Dawn - 06-22-2024 (06-22-2024, 07:14 PM)Freija Wrote: I feel lucky to have been witness to so much change and historically significant happenings and to those that think the world is going to hell in a hand basket today, we've( Indeed. I think I am the oldest. 1967 was not as long ago as many think it was. I was living below the Mason Dickinson line and racism was the norm. I grew up with white and colored water fountains, and separate entrances for colored people, if they were allowed to come in at all. There was war and rumors of wars, and America was considered the greatest place on Earth, by Americans. Even by those that were considered less than, because at least they felt they were better than the non Americans that were also colored. Other countries saw us in a less favorable light. They labeled us as "ugly Americans". From my own personal experiences abroad, I have seen many Americans live up to that moniker. Sometimes I feel like I was hit with that old Chinese curse, for I have truly lived through some interesting times. I too think of myself as very lucky that I was born in this time period. I feel like I got to star in the prequel, the sequel, and I have a good chance of of doing a cameo in the re-make. RE: 1967 - inspired by ETMN - EndtheMadnessNow - 06-23-2024 I periodically flip back to the 60s history and think, WoW!! How did the country make it through that era?? Awful lot was going on, much more than today, imo. It certainly makes what has been going on the past 5 years seem miniscule and for boomers, ah, here we go again but on a different level, like childish nonsense level. I don't remember any of those songs, BUT I do recall them from radio listening in the 80s. Awesome tunes! I have days where I feel I was born about 12 years too early or too late. Weird. Oh, look what I missed... On second thought, glad I missed that whole Vietnam era. From NightskyeB4Dawn Link. RE: 1967 - inspired by ETMN - Ninurta - 06-24-2024 In 1967, I was learning to take folks out by sticking big ol' firecrackers into apples, lighting the fuse, and chucking them into the other guy's bunkers. You learn real fast not to hold on to them for too long, just like grenades. Good training. I lived just south of Cleveland, OH, in 1967. Then, and for every year afterwards until I left Ohio in 1975, we were waiting for "The Revolution" to burst forth and kill us all. 1967 was semi-quiet in that area, but was bracketed by the Hough Riots in July of 1966, and the Glenville Shootout in July of 1968, and the riots following the shootout. 1967 was relatively quiet between those storms, as the radical elements were trying their hand at political regime change in Cleveland, a regime change they figure would work out to their advantage.They spent 1967 in political action rather than direct action, and were too busy electing Carl Stokes - I believe he was the first Black mayor of any major city anywhere in the US - to the mayor's office to kill many folks or tear much stuff up. Mayor Stokes was elected in November 1967, but turned out not to be quite radical enough for the radicals when he got into office, and so we got the Glenville thing just after they figured that out in 1968. I remember almost all of the songs on the song list. Not all of them, but almost all of them. Matter of fact, I was listening to several of them just a few nights ago. My second wife, who would have been turning 16 in 1967, was a big fan of most of them, too. There are only three post-60's songs I ever caught her listening to - one was "Hell's Bells" by AC/DC, the second was "Love is all Around" by Wet Wet Wet (but I do believe that song also had a 60's version originally, by the Trogs as I recall), And "Strokin'" by Clarence Carter - honestly, I don't recall when he came out with that anyhow. 1967 was, I think, the year I saw my first color TV, an Admiral as I recall. It was magic. I'd been watching TV on a bitty little black and white TV with about a 14" screen and a bakelite housing case, and that big ol' 32" Admiral wooden console TV in color just blew my ass away! "Alice's Restaurant" and the moon landing were still a couple of years in the future. 1967 was the calm between the storms. The only thing I had to worry about was my uncle, who, in 1967, was taking his turn at getting his ass shot at by the Little Brown People in Vietnam. He made it back, and I'll never forget how good it felt to see him tear into the driveway in his Mustang Fastback in 1968 when his tour was over. I didn't have to look for his name in the news scrolls every evening any more - you remember, the scroll they ran of all the guys that bit the Big One in the past day in Vietnam. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Except the dead soldier news scrolls. They didn't do that for our last war. I guess they figured it was too depressing and demoralizing to repeat again. I was also up in that area a few years later for the Kent State riots. One of my sisters was taking Speech Therapy at Kent State when that happened... but luckily we avoided the campus for that whole week while all that stupid was going on. The students had pretty much taken over the town of Kent, bad juju was going on, and we had a feeling that something wicked was heading that way, so we avoided it. Kids be Krazy, same then as it is now. . RE: 1967 - inspired by ETMN - BIAD - 06-24-2024 I was seven years-old and that big thing called the world rolled on by without usually tickling my attention. But one of those times it succeeded was when Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision Song Contest of 1967 with the ditty 'Puppet On A String'. It wasn't the tune that caught my interest, it was what I'd heard grown-ups were calling 'daring' and even 'outrageous' about the pretty lady from Dagenham of Essex. It was Ms Shaw's scandalous act of not wearing shoes on stage. RE: 1967 - inspired by ETMN - Ninurta - 06-25-2024 (06-24-2024, 02:53 PM)BIAD Wrote: I was seven years-old and that big thing called the world rolled on by without usually tickling my attention. Clearly, the poor lass couldn't afford shoes until after she'd won the contest! Just have a look - she even had to appear on stage in the only garment she owned, which happened to be her nightie! . RE: 1967 - inspired by ETMN - GeauxHomeLittleD - 06-26-2024 I was born on New Years Day 1967. RE: 1967 - inspired by ETMN - Ninurta - 06-27-2024 (06-26-2024, 10:37 PM)GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote: I was born on New Years Day 1967. I bet all your memories from 1967 involve bright lights, an operating table, and strange humanoid beings you had never seen before, dressed like doctors then... . |