Showing posts with label youth culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youth culture. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Music of 1968
Top 30 Singles of 1968
1. Hey Jude - The Beatles
2. I Heard It Through The Grapevine -Marvin Gaye
3. Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat
4. Love Child - Diana Ross &The Supremes
5. Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
6. Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay -Otis Redding
7. People Got To Be Free - The Rascals
8. This Guy's In Love With You - Herb Alpert
9. Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) -John Fred &His Playboy Band
10. Woman Woman - Gary Puckett &The Union Gap
11. Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
12. Who's Making Love - Johnnie Taylor
13. Hello I Love You - The Doors
14. Tighten Up - Archie Bell &The Drells
15. Young Girl - Gary Puckett &The Union Gap
16. Harper Valley Pta - Jeannie C. Riley
17. Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin
18. Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
19. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly -Hugo Montenegro
20. Bend Me, Shape Me - American Breed
21. Cry Like A Baby - The Box Tops
22. Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
23. Green Tambourine - The Lemon Pipers
24. Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots
25. For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder
26. It's A Beautiful Morning - The Rascals
27. Spooky - Classics IV
28. Abraham, Martin And John - Dion
29. Stoned Soul Picnic - 5th Dimension
30. Chain Of Fools - Aretha Franklin
Cool fact about the 5th Dimension and Hair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LANwIgpha7k&feature=related
Pop culture backdrop
Childhood TV shows: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50stv.html
Childhood Toys:
-Mr. Potato Head
The first toy ever advertised on Television, and released in 1952. It made four million dollars in the first year (by today’s standards, that’s over $30 billion).
-The Hula Hoop The Hula Hoop started in Australia as an exercise ring ( made of Bamboo ), a small American toy company Wham-O saw the hoop and made it in plastic and introduced it in 1958 renamed it the Hula-Hoop and it became an instant success with children and parents making it the success of the year .
-While novelty items (which tend to find an audience beyond children, and millions of uses of their own) such as Frisbees and Ant Farms were developed as well in 1957 and 1956 respectively, it was the Barbie Doll, next to Potato Head that has probably maintained the largest following since then. First released in 1959, Barbie Dolls only grew over the years.
Later Toys:
-The Easy Bake Oven was released in 1963 as an extension of the 1950s “homebody” image so often illustrated on TV for young girls.
-In the realm of board games, ingenuity continued to develop and games like Operation arrived, utilizing a simple electric board concept to buzz a losing player for missing their goal. Etch-a-sketch made its first appearance in 1960 and the simple, yet party style addictive Twister was introduced in 1966.
-GI Joe, first released in 1964 is considered one of the biggest toys of the decade.
Technology:
1960 – The female birth control contraceptive, the pill, was released in the United States after Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
1967 – First heart transplantation operation.
Electronics and communications
1960 – The first working laser was demonstrated in May by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories.
1962 – First trans-Atlantic satellite broadcast via the Telstar satellite.
1962 – The first computer video game, Spacewar!, is invented.
1963 – The first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom 2 is launched.
1963 – Touch-Tone telephones introduced.
1963 – Video Recorder The Nottingham Electronic Valve company produces the first home video recorder called the "Telcan".
1964 – The first successful Minicomputer, Digital Equipment Corporation’s 12-bit PDP-8, is marketed.
1964 – The programming language BASIC was created.
1967 – PAL and SECAM broadcast color TV systems start publicly transmitting in Europe.
1967 – The first Automatic Teller Machine is opened in Barclays Bank, London.
1968 – The first public demonstration of the computer mouse, the paper paradigm Graphical user interface, video conferencing, teleconferencing, email, and hypertext.
CARS:
The 1960s saw the emergence of pony cars and muscle cars in America, where performance of vehicles mattered the most. The Ford Mustang was another popular car of this period and enjoyed a great deal of fanfare till Chevrolet released its Camaro Z28 in 1967.
(Below) Camaro: 1967
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