The very informative website www.LARadio.com has one part of the website I present here. That LARP Rewind section always gets me to think how fast time goes by and how some things don't seem as old as they are- to me, at least.
From the high school perspective, coming out of Lincoln in 1967 by way of graduation, it was the middle of the war in Vietnam, the Summer of Love was here, and two years had passed since the Watts Riot. It was one year before Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in April 1968, and two months later, Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel here in L.A. after winning the California June primary.
So, you may or may not have some close or vivid memories to these all of events and people, but there should be some here to get you thinking about different times.
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From:
LARP
Rewind: July 9.
On this day in 2010, during a Santana concert at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
in Tinley Park, Illinois, lead guitarist Carlos Santana proposed to his
girlfriend, Cindy Blackman, who toured with the group as their drummer and also
recorded and toured with Lenny Kravitz. They would marry five months later in
Maui.
On this day in 1965, ten weeks after switching from adult contemporary to
top 40, KHJ published its first Boss 30 survey folder. On the cover was
9pm-to-midnight "Boss Jock" Sam Riddle. (Sam Riddle would be hosting locally on Channel 9 each afternoon the very popular dance show, "9th Street West"). The Rolling Stones'
Satisfaction was number one.
On this day in 1957, Dick Clark
replaced Bob Horn as host of WFIL/tv's Bandstand after Horn was fired
following a drunk-driving arrest. The Philadelphia program would go national a
year later on ABC as American Bandstand and run until 1989.
Today,
July 9, 2012, Ed Ames is 85. Born Edmund Urick in Malden, Massachusetts, he
formed a group with his three brothers, Gene, Vic and Joe, while still in high
school. Taking Vic's middle name, they called themselves the Amory Brothers.
They performed around Boston and with Art Mooney's orchestra, then became the
Ames Brothers. From 1948 to 1960 they had 33 top-40 hits, including Rag Mop,
You You You, Tammy and The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane.
Ed
played a Native American character, Mingo, on the first four seasons of Fess
Parker's 1960s tv series, Daniel Boone. In 1967 Ed had a top-ten solo
hit, My Cup Runneth Over. Also today, bluegrass mandolinist Jesse
McReynolds is 83, James Hampton is 76, Brian Dennehy is 74, Richard Roundtree (He played the title role in the movie "Shaft"- made more memorable by the title song that Isaac Hayes sang) is
70, pianist/composer John Tesh is 60, country singer/guitarist David Ball
is 59, Sister Sledge vocalist Debbie Sledge is 58, tv actor Jimmy Smits is 57,
Tom Hanks is 56, Soft Cell lead singer Marc Almond is 55, Kelly McGillis is 55,
Simple Minds lead singer Jim Kerr is 53, Courtney Love is 48, White Stripes lead
singer Jack White is 37, Fred Savage (child star of a favorite of mine in the late 80s to early 90s, "The Wonder Years") is 36, Disney Channel actor/singer Mitchel
Musso is 21.
On July 9,
1977, thirty-five years ago today, Best Of My Love by the Emotions was in
its fourth week at number one on the KGFJ Soul 40. The group was three sisters
who as children had sung gospel and called themselves Heavenly Sunshine. Best
Of My Love would earn them a Grammy for best r&b vocal group. The
Floaters, a Detroit quartet, jumped from #10 to #6 with Float On. War
climbed from #16 to #11 with L.A. Sunshine. High debut at #35 was
Clean Up The Ghetto by the Philadelphia International All Stars (Archie
Bell, Billy Paul, Lou Rawls, Dee Dee Sharp and the O'Jays).
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