Memories of the Swinging Sixties

I saw that tour callistemon 21…I was 13
Or 14 at the time and remember now the Beatles were NOT the headliners !!
Chris Montez was great though ….not so much Tommy Roe !

I was a bit of a hippy. At school I loved Pete Brown and the Battered Ornaments. In fact I was sad to read that Pete Brown died recently. I loved Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. In fact I remember preordering Led Zeppelin 2 from a record shop in Reading. It’s amazing that Robert Plant still has the voice and the hair! The height of my hippiness was going to the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 - the one with Hendrix.

I was a Beatles fan so that was a frenetic time for (mostly) girls in the 60’s.

But two songs that really resonate with me came later in my life - Mister Mister “Broken Wings” and Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls.” Still love those songs, because… 😊🥰😉

Every decade produces music I latch on to for enjoyment. There’s something about Glenn Miller music I really love, although I wasn’t born yet.
Born to dance!
USA Gundy

I was just a little too young to be a proper hippie (Mum wouldn't have let me) but I remember hearing the Beatles sing All You Need is Love on the radio and it was so different to any music which had come before it. The sun always seemed to be shining and there was so much to look forward to.

I’m a 70’s girl so some I remember I did have older brothers! I still love ‘ Beatles songs though as they remind me of my big brothers getting ready to go out on a Saturday night.

Going into Biba on Kensington High Street almost every Saturday and buying anything really,because all the clothes were great and a good price. Once Barbara Helunuki was in there arranging all the clothes rails,another time The Four Tops were lounging on the sofas waiting for their girlfriends. I wish I'd kept those clothes now they would probably be worth some money.

The Byrds, All I really wanna do, conjures up A beautiful Summer's day on the back of my boyfriend's motorbike, long blonde hair flowing out behind me. Bliss...

I've just asked Alexa to play some of the songs mentioned in this post. They took me back to age 15 to 21. Great songs remembered.

I loved reading this thread. Looking back is so nostalgic. I had never heard of David Whitfield so looked him up. I read that he died in Sydney when he was only 54. I asked Alexa to play him singing. What a voice! I loved Cara Mia. I was already married with 2 children in the 60s and living in Australia. I still listen to 60s music and love the memories it evokes. So Big Louis is a Liverpudlian! We are everywhere. Did you go to Grove Street Big Louis or another city school?

Such wonderful songs and times. Any of these songs take me straight back to the sixties, the best time. Motown and all the fantastic groups we had in this era. It was a great time to be young and wear the fabulous fashions from Biba etc. So many memories.

Just turned 16, Easter of 1967, in Germany for 3 weeks to improve my German language. Met the nephew of my hosts who was staying over the Easter weekend on holiday from uni. He was unbelievably handsome and I was amazed that he showed an interest in me. We went to a disco (with his aunt and uncle also there - chaperoning!) Procul Harum’s ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ was played over and over again. It was a blissful evening .

Well, I was nine in 1960 and only interested in classical music, so the sixties and seventies were mainly a matter of wondering what on earth everyone else saw in the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

My hero was Yehudi Menuhin.

From the seventies I do remember Sandie Shaw's "Puppet on a String" and the various Spanish entries to the Eurovision Song contest that either were winners or runners up and played all summer the years they won.

If I remember correctly ABBA was the first pop group to interest me even remotely.

I too spent my teenage years at the Cavern watching all the merseyside groups, the Beatles a few times too when they did a marathon. Doing the stomp in our all black clothes we thought we were really cool. Also spent a week with friends in Blackpool and saw the Rolling Stones at the tower and The Animals who were at number one at the time with House of the Rising Sun and Manfred Mann with Do Wa Diddy Diddy. I loved every second of my teens.

Hey Jude, being snogged by a John Lennon look alike at a freshers party at Trinity College, Oxford. never saw him again!

I went to many balls in various colleges during my time as an art student at Oxford. Most memorable was Marmelade, the week they went to No 1 with Obla di obla da, Creedence Clearwater revival with their hit Proud Mary, and Four tops Buttercup Baby. Dudley Moore playing the piano and Monty Python cabaret with first outing for the Albatross sketch.

Mary Hopkins Those Were the Days is very nostalgic for that time. Bob Dylan Lay Lady Lay and Jane Birkin Je T'aime. All canons at that time.

My ex husband has a spreadsheet of it all! Can't think why I divorced him! Still a boring old fart.

My white broderie anglaise mini dress was a winner and I loved my white Lulu boots, my mini suede skirt.

Those really were the days.

Callistemon21

My mother would have said "He seems very nice, dear. Where did you meet him?"
With a wary look in her eye and her fingers crossed that he'd last a couple of weeks then be sent on his way 😁

He's 80!!

Oh I know! A couple of years older than me. We would have been Lower 6th. He must only have been 19 or 20.
I did like it when Lovejoy was on.
My mother would have flirted with him. I only realised when I was older what a flirt she was. Even in her 80s she waved at a hotel chef and he blew kisses to her!

My mother would have said "He seems very nice, dear. Where did you meet him?"
With a wary look in her eye and her fingers crossed that he'd last a couple of weeks then be sent on his way 😁

He's 80!!

Callistemon21

Ooh, he always looked like an attractive bad boy, Glorianny 😁
The kind your mother never wanted you to bring home!!

He was! We were seated on a sort of scaffolding arrangement and in one scene he climbed up the back and appeared just at the end of the row. Not very tall, but devastatingly handsome.

Ooh, he always looked like an attractive bad boy, Glorianny 😁
The kind your mother never wanted you to bring home!!

Callistemon21

Dinsdale Landon, Dorothy Tutin, Judi Dench, Ian Holm and others but I don't remember all of them.
We lived near enough to go for rare day trips.
There weren't many school trips in those days but they were memorable.

We were taken to York as well to see the Mystery Plays. Judi Dench was Mary and Ian McShane was the devil. We all fell for the devil!

“Will you still love me tomorrow” sends me into a dream and memories of a first kiss by the boss’s son, innocent and lovely.

kittylester

Oooh, calli, Dinsdale Landon!!

You're ok, kittylester, I claimed Ian Holm! 😁

David Whitfield ( did he have a hit with Cara Mia Mine?)had a fish and chop shop? I was an early fan.
Halibut and chips sounds exotic, it’s only get cod or plaice round here.

I remember David Whitfield the crooner. He later also owned the Gainsboro fish restaurant in Hull where I used to have Halibut and Chips, bread and butter and a cup of tea for 3 shillings and 6 pence. Those were the days!

Oooh, calli, Dinsdale Landon!!

Glorianny

Callistemon21

Oh!

Perhaps some of us had eclectic tastes. We went to the theatre at Stratford on school trips. Brilliant!

I liked Elvis Presley too. My friend and I went to see all his films.

We did a school trip to Stratford as well! Stayed in the Youth Hostel there. We were supposed to see Paul Schofield but he had a throat problem and didn't appear. Brilliant times!

I went on a school trip to Stratford in the 1960s as well. We stayed in a B&B and there were fights over who had to share the double beds!!! Girls only.
On the way home we were called Philistines by the Head for saying our favourite was Dr Faustus....of course, we would Helen of Troy walked across the stage completely nude sprayed in Gold.