Category: Events of the Sixties
Important world, national, entertainment, Las Vegas, Hollywood, San Francisco, Honolulu, Indianapolis, recording, cultural events of the sixties, especially the late sixties.
[This is from a collection of scenes, stories and little chapters that were left on the cutting floor now that Things We Lost In The Night is complete.] In early 1965, before the guys in…
I didn’t get to meet Debbie Reynolds the night she and her husband came to see us. My mistake, though our lead singer, Dave, had the honor. It happened on one of the most remarkable…
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The History of San Francisco Music in the ’60s and its Influence Today Source: Summer of Love: The History of San Francisco Music in the ’60s and its Influence Today http://blog.freepeople.com/2015/08/summer-love-history-san-francisco-music-1960s-impacted-music-festivals-today/#ixzz3hyEI1g3i A look back…
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DON”T MISS IT. Tonight The Sixties on CNN, 9 pm (EST), 6 pm (PDT), plus there are usually several re-runs. Covers the war from its beginnings through 1968. The face of war changed forever with…
Hey Everybody! Don’t forget to catch the first episode of The SIXTIES tonight on CNN. Shouldn’t be hard. It’s running several times over the evening. It was one of the most transformative decades of the…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]N AUGUST OF 1966, CAESARS PALACE, the most incredible casino/resort/hotel of it’s time, opened its doors to the public. A few months later the most improbable event imaginable happened when Trish Turner, a talented R&B…
Tony Quarrington An Englishman’s Love Affair with San Francisco An Englishman’s Love Affair with San Francisco I recently ran across this post, and even though it’s from 2012 it reflects again what an amazing phenomenon…
By 1968, Stark Naked and the Car Thieves’ home base in LA was the Rag Doll at Lankershim and Victory in the San Fernando Valley. The club owner, Tony Ferra, promised the band a week’s…