you know your old when you remember...

[ksinger]

The first songs I remember from the radio: Spinning Wheel by BS&T and American Pie.

you ain't that old..

Well, if you're saying I'm really not old enough to remember those, I assure you I am. I've known every word to American Pie since I was 6.

If you're saying that remembering those songs means I'm still just a whippersnapper, I will smile and say, "Thank you very much!"

 

[Missy]

I remember the song "I wish I was an Oscar Mayer Weiner" from the commercial. Catchy tune even all these years later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmPRHJd3uHI

Also Slinky - remember "Slinky Slinky what a wonderful wonderful toy"
http://www.lostateminor.com/2010/01/17/1980s-slinky-ads/

 

[HollyS]

The first songs I remember from the radio: Spinning Wheel by BS&T and American Pie.

you ain't that old..

Well, if you're saying I'm really not old enough to remember those, I assure you I am. I've known every word to American Pie since I was 6.

If you're saying that remembering those songs means I'm still just a whippersnapper, I will smile and say, "Thank you very much!"

I hang my head, knowing I'm ancient compared to thee. My first recollected song: The Beat Goes On by Sonny & Cher. What's that . . . 1965?? (I remember seeing the Beatles, but their music didn't really impact me at age 5. But by 1st grade, I was listening to my transistor radio non-stop.)

I also remember the Vietnam war on TV news, every night, from a tiny tot to a high school junior when we pulled out of Saigon.

I feel oldest, though, when someone from Sixties television bites the dust . . . and I can remember when they were r-e-a-l-l-y young. Chad Everett. anyone? Don Grady?

 

[Enerchi]

Damn those "Archies"!!! I've been humming that song all day - and its driving me INSANE!

"Sugar...dodoDODOdodo... oh honey, honey... You are my CANDY girl, and you got me wanting you.... I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you, I just can't believe its true....when you kiss me babe, I knew how good a love could be... "

OMG.. make it STOP!

that and Rick Springfield (at the tale end of this era) "You know I wish that I had ... JESSIE's GIRL!!" or how about The Stampeders "Swweeeeeeeeeeet, sweet city woman... I can hear your voice, I can see your face, I can almost touch you.... "

yikes - I gotta find me a 60's/70's/80's station RIGHT AWAY!

 

[kenny]

I remember leaving empty glass milk containers on our doorstep for the milkman to replace with full ones before we woke up.

The glass bottles were thick and heavy, and had a round paper cap with a tab you had to lift and pull to remove.

 

[JewelFreak]

...My dad's car with a velvet rope strung across the back of the front seat. His next one had fins so huge, he couldn't close the garage door.

...Captain Midnight De-Coder Rings (in cereal boxes? or did you send in for them?)

...The original Micky Mouse Club. Sky King. Bonanza. Anybody remember Fury?

...My parents bought a 150-yr-old 4400 sq. ft. house on 2.5 acres for $45K. It last sold, several families later, for $900K+.

...All the neighborhood kids & dogs playing in the street & front lawns, and nobody got run over. We had a bell too, & you had a nanosecond to make it home for dinner after Mom rang it!

...Oh yes, and "Harvest Gold" refrigerators!

 

[JewelFreak]

Forgot one...

...Party phone lines before exchanges. Our number was 2435J.

 

[HollyS]

Forgot one...

...Party phone lines before exchanges. Our number was 2435J.

Haven't used this number in 34 years: 452-2874. We had too many people in town for party lines by the time I grew up, though.

I remember milk service, kenny. We had a metal box with a flap top that the milkman would leave them in. We could order dairy products, eggs, and a lot of other things from our milkman.

I remember one summer when "love" beads became The Thing. Everybody was making them and exchanging them.

I remember hose BEFORE pantyhose. Garters and girdles, anyone? Thank goodness I didn't have to endure that very long before pantyhose were the norm. And prior to L'legs, there was no LYCRA in them; so, yeah, they would get saggy in the knees. So attractive.

How 'bout the 36" around bell-bottoms? High waist, maybe plaid, cuffed, and HUGE. Oh, and usually in bullet proof double knit.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Damn those "Archies"!!! I've been humming that song all day - and its driving me INSANE!

"Sugar...dodoDODOdodo... oh honey, honey... You are my CANDY girl, and you got me wanting you.... I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you, I just can't believe its true....when you kiss me babe, I knew how good a love could be... "

like 1970??...i remember "Leaving on the jet plane" by Peter,Paul & Mary .

funny Enerchi....i thought you were like 30-33 yrs old...

 

[Amber St. Clare]

Jim Morrison was a heart throb. The Beates had long hair. Ed Sullivan was must see Sunday nite TV.

eta: I sent away for the
Time Life 60s Music Revoluton--12 CDs of music from the 60s--it has everything from the British Invasion, Motown, Psychedelic, Folk Rock--12 CDs of the music of my growing up. I love it. Well worth the money.

 

[Enerchi]

DF - I *AM* 33/34 years old..... in my mind!

How about "My name is Michael, I've got a nickel, I want to buy me a candy or two...." or "Love. Love will keep us together. Think of me babe whenever... some sweet talkin' girl comes along, singin' a song...."

And I could probably sing along to almost all 100 of these:
http://www.bigoldieschicago.com/top100-60.html

 

[Cluless]

Enerchi, make it stop! lol ................Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose..............

 

[Enerchi]

"for we were young and sure to have our way....those were the days, oh yes those were the days..."

OMG! is this what they call ear worms? Where you get a song stuck in your head and can't shake it?? I'm going back to my AM radio days - I can remember the station call letters/#'s and the DJ's. The call in request lines (and I may - or may not have - left a few prank calls on them, prior to caller display days!) and asking for the same song about a bazillion times!

"rock me gently, rock me slowly, take it easy don't you know, that I have never been loved like this before..."

 

[Dancing Fire]

"for we were young and sure to have our way....those were the days, oh yes those were the days..."

OMG! is this what they call ear worms? Where you get a song stuck in your head and can't shake it?? I'm going back to my AM radio days - I can remember the station call letters/#'s and the DJ's. The call in request lines (and I may - or may not have - left a few prank calls on them, prior to caller display days!) and asking for the same song about a bazillion times!

"rock me gently, rock me slowly, take it easy don't you know, that I have never been loved like this before..."

by one hit wonder Andy Kim... love that song. 1974 or 75? the fun times..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ym3RlvVR9M

 

[Dancing Fire]

DF - I *AM* 33/34 years old..... in my mind!

How about "My name is Michael, I've got a nickel, I want to buy me a candy or two...." or "Love. Love will keep us together. Think of me babe whenever... some sweet talkin' girl comes along, singin' a song...."

And I could probably sing along to almost all 100 of these:
http://www.bigoldieschicago.com/top100-60.html

i remember many of those the 60's-70's songs..thanks for making me feel old... but i'm like 5 yrs younger than you..

 

[HollyS]

"I'm going back to my AM radio days - I can remember the station call letters/#'s and the DJ's. The call in request lines (and I may - or may not have - left a few prank calls on them, prior to caller display days!) and asking for the same song about a bazillion times!"



WLS in Chicago! Larry Lujack and John "Records" Landecker were the top DJs. John Landecker has a syndicated "Oldies" show now, like the Steve Harvey Show. (The DJ, not the comedian.)

If you grew up in the sixties, you had a transistor radio on all. the. time. Night and day, day and night. I went to sleep with it under my pillow; if I had it down low enough, Mom couldn't hear it. I still like to go to bed with music playing, only now it's soft and stress-relieving.


I've got a question for everyone: What anniversary would this be if your HS was having a reunion? Mine would be the 35th.

 

[Dee*Jay]

This would be my 24th HS reunion.

Just occurred to me that they'll probably do something big next year for 25!

 

[Enerchi]

This year would have been my 35th high school reunion! I would have LOVED to go - but have no idea how to get in touch with anyone. PLUS - i'd have to loose about 50 pounds, get lipo'd and botox'd to death - just so I'd look amazing amongst all those *OLD* people I went to school with!! hahaha!!

Yeah, Newtonbrook Secondary School!!

DF - I'm so glad that us young folk have met!! We are only remembering what our parents and older siblings told us about these things ... right??? (wait - I don't HAVE an older sibling - I AM the older one!)

 

[Dancing Fire]

I've got a question for everyone: What anniversary would this be if your HS was having a reunion? Mine would be the 35th.

class of 1977 ?

 

[VRBeauty]

Sea Monkeys.

My brother ordered them from an ad in his Boys Life Magazine. What he actually got was salt that could be made into salt water, and little eggs that hatched into sea monkeys. The magazine also had ads for amazing ant farms.

I ordered a sea horse, not sure if the ad for that one was in his Boy's Life Magazine or my American Girl Magazine (which had nothing to do with the dolls that came along much, much later). They sent me special salt first so I could make the right sea water, and some food, and then shipped out the little sea horse. The sea horse food turned out to be... sea monkey eggs!

You could also order black&white "autographed" glossy pictures of your favorite stars - I believe I ordered one of Pernell Roberts.

 

[Cluless]

This year would be my 33 year HS reunion, class of 79 ...............wow does time fly wasn't it just yesterday? lol

Here's another for you Enerchi lol

Here she was just a walkin' down the street
[Singing do, wah, ditty, ditty, dum, diddy, do]
Stampin' her finger and then shufflin' her feet
[Singing do, wah, ditty, ditty, dum, diddy, do]

 

[Enerchi]

...she looked good, she looked fine, she looked good she looked fine
and I nearly lost my mind,

Before I knew it she was walking next to me singing do wa diddy diddy dum diddy go..."

Ah!!! I LOVE THIS GAME!!! OMG!! We must be the same age, cluless (well, according to DF, I'm should be in my early 30's, but this WOULD have been my 35th HS reunion year... so one of us is off a bit! - ME, I'm going with DF being right!) tee hee!!!

 

[HollyS]

I've got a question for everyone: What anniversary would this be if your HS was having a reunion? Mine would be the 35th.

class of 1977 ?

Yes. At a high school in central Illinois. Land of Lincoln.

 

[Cluless]

Enerchi lets go with Df's assumptions sooooooooooo you're in your early 30's then that would put me in my late 20's lol, yeah it would be my 33 Hs reunion this year class of 79. Oh and I'm a fellow Canadian also, but being in Quebec I also recall the oldies en français lol.

 

[isaku5]

Yikes!!! It would be my 52nd

 

[Enerchi]

Enerchi lets go with Df's assumptions sooooooooooo you're in your early 30's then that would put me in my late 20's lol, yeah it would be my 33 Hs reunion this year class of 79. Oh and I'm a fellow Canadian also, but being in Quebec I also recall the oldies en français lol.

Whereabouts? I'm in Eastern Ontario....

 

[Cluless]

Born and raised in Montreal, residing in Laval (north shore of Mtl) for the past 15 years. When you say Eastern Ontario I'm thinking our capital?

 

[Enerchi]

Born and raised in Montreal, residing in Laval (north shore of Mtl) for the past 15 years. When you say Eastern Ontario I'm thinking our capital?

Pretty close!!! My DH was born and raised in St Therese then moved to Rosemere before the whole family moved to TO in the early 80's.

 

[Cluless]

Almost neighbors lol

 

[VRBeauty]

Craft kits!

My first made an octopus using pink yarn and a styrofoam ball - it was a gateway kit for sure!



It was followed by paint-by-number kits (they never looked as good as the box cover!), a woodburning kit, a copper plaque kit (ours was "Chief White Feather"):



followed by wagon kits, tissue paper flowers, and kit that used a strange combination of woven cord, beads, and colored aquarium gravel to make pictures.


My poor mother had to find places to display all of our "artwork"!