50 years ago

[wildcat]

i was just wondering how many of you remember watching the beatles on ed sullivan 50 years ago .it started the british invasion and a lot of good music for that era. i remember our whole family watching the show .i'll never forget my dad ranting and raving about the long hair and the girls screeming and fainting .it's funny,considering now days thoes boys would be considered clean cut ,what with the suit snd ties ,shined shoes (beatle boots). nowdays even rednecks have longer hair.i even had long hair in the early 70's untill it got caught in a creaperwheel at work(ouch big time) .short hair after that lol

[r80rt]

Where I live in Arkansas, 50 years ago television channels didn't have enough signal power to reach us, We didn't have a TV anyway.

[Tirebiter]

The Ed Sullivan Show was one of the weekly shows we, as a family, would watch every week so we did watch the Beatles that night. My dad, a politically conservative WWII vet, believed the world was going to hell in a handbasket and The Beatles, with their long hair, were a prime example of what was wrong with the world. He died in '99 so he lived to see a lot more of what he considered degenerative things and wasn't afraid to tell people what he believed. As he aged though, he actually liked some of the Beatles songs and I believe the Beatles produced some of the most remarkable pop music ever recorded..

Now that I'm old I understand many of his positions and politics however.

[littletommy]

I remember.

[elime]

I sure do!

It is hard to believe 50 years has gone by.

[littletommy]

Gee, if I'd only known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself!!

[old mad max]

I was betting at school that they wouldn't make it 6 months....... Boy was I wrong....... OMM.

[Hoot Gibson]

Hell I was in 9th grade at Celina {OH} High School, and remember watching the old Black and White at home with the screaming 14 and 15 year old chicks{back when the eye docs were making a killing by having all of us wear glasses}, bouncing up and down ... thinking to myself..."Well There Goes Surfer Music"

[Hoot Gibson]

The Ed Sullivan Show was one of the weekly shows we, as a family, would watch every week so we did watch the Beetles that night. My dad, a politically conservative WWII vet, believed the world was going to hell in a handbasket and The Beetles, with their long hair, were a prime example of what was wrong with the world. He died in '99 so he lived to see a lot more of what he considered degenerative things and wasn't afraid to tell people what he believed. As he aged though, he actually liked some of the Beetles songs and I believe the Beetles produced some of the most remarkable pop music ever recorded..

Now that I'm old I understand many of his positions and politics however.

Yea, my old man was a strong right wing type when I was growing up.....now I make him {passed away in 1972} look like a Rainbow Warrior Lib Type...being just a bit to the right of Atilla the Hun myself these days

[Tirebiter]

Yea, my old man was a strong right wing type when I was growing up.....now I make him {passed away in 1972} look like a Rainbow Warrior Lib Type...being just a bit to the right of Atilla the Hun myself these days

Yeah, it's funny how life looks different as we pile on years and experiences. One thing dad did instill in me was a strong work ethic and that I need to understand the consequences of my actions and accept them....hopefully learning something along the way.