WELCOME TO JULY AT ULTIMATE OLDIES RADIO!...Thanks to Joyce from Virginia, Michael from Maryland, and Joe from Connecticut for their recent donations...and we appreciate Will Spaulding for supporting us by advertising his company, 'New Light Health Essentials'!....Visit his site and check out his line of pain-relieving products...Our 'Free' Archives features the Jack Gale collection. More than 30 one hour shows by one of radio's most legendary broadcasters...Got an opinion? Question about oldies? Check out the Forum and join the Ultimate Oldies Radio family...Fans of Billy Preston & Bobby Darin, welcome! Tribute shows to those artists and many others are available in the FREE archives...Click on any of the pictures below and then click on the show that corresponds to the content......It's the songs and and the stories behind them at Ultimate Oldies Radio!...

The 1960s
Boppin' Bob Recalls the 60's

This Kennedy guy looked younger than your father. 

We had bomb shelters in our backyards and at school they called us out of class to sit in the halls and duck and cover. 

After school was a whole lot better.  Chubby, Boom-Boom and Bobby Rydell blasted out of my transistor radio. They sounded even better on my buddy's new hi-fi, called a stereo! 

Life was a blur! The Bay of Pigs failed, Marilyn Monroe checked out, and the Peace Corps spread. This place called Viet-whatever was in the news, and how we were sending troops.  I was in school when the announcement came over the loudspeaker that something awful happened to the President in Dallas. 

Seems like right after that, these 4 British guys and others like them were everywhere on the radio. After Ed Sullivan put The Beatles on his Sunday night show I let my crew cut grow into a mop-top. 

The week Martin Luther King was killed I could see the smoke and fires downtown from my backyard. Malcolm X, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis were radical people for a radical time. 

Still, The Mamas and the Papas, Buckinghams, Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Young Rascals, and Spanky & Our Gang did their best to make us feel good.

Nixon said he'd end the war, but flashing a peace sign just didn't cut 

The decade started with Kent State ended with the Trial of the Chicago Seven.  I think we all felt like going up to the country with Canned Heat and staying there with Three Dog Night.  No wonder that old Indian dude had a tear roll down his cheek when he surveyed the scene.


Ultimate Oldies Radio - Rock 'n' Roll Hits of the 50's 60's 70's

Return to Previous Page

1950's | Memories | Record Oddities | Trivia Challenge | Top Hits

1960's | Memories | Record Oddities | Trivia Challenge | Top Hits

1970's | Memories | Record Oddities | Trivia Challenge | Top Hits

Home   Deane

Contact Us

Copyright 1999 - 2006   by Ultimate Oldies Radio