Flower Power
I'd Like To Present the Following as a Tribute To An Amazing Era: The 1960's...
A Time of Turmoil...and a Time of Transcendence.
Here's the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...
And the Magnificent!
This Is For Those Who Fought the War At Home...
And Especially For Those Who Fought an Unpopular War Abroad, For Whose Cause Many Lives Were Lost...
If No One Ever Said It: Thank You...And Welcome Home, Brother!
FLOWER POWER
Flower Power, Vietnam,
Hippies, Woodstock, Yasgur's Farm,
Bay of Pigs, JFK,
"Hey, Hey, LBJ,"
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's.
Tune In, Turn On,
Drop Out, Napalm,
On the Road, Kerouac,
Make Love, Not War, Sugar Shack,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's.
Haight-Ashbury, Grateful Dead,
Dylan, Hendrix, Water Bed,
Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall,
Space Race, Fab Four, Barbie Doll,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's.
Easy Rider, Civil Rights,
Black Power, No Camel Lights,
Altamont, Aquarius,
Rosa Parks Rides the Bus,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's.
Kent State, Mini-Skirt, The Who,
Kruschev-We Will Bury You!
Folk Music, Scarborough Fair,
Wear a Flower In Your Hair,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's.
One Small Step For Man,
Viet Cong, VW Van,
MLK-I Have a Dream,
Chuck Berry, Maybelline,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's.
Cuban Missiles, Monterrey,
On the Dock of the Bay,
Playboy, Motown, LSD,
Do the Twist, Stand By Me,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's.
Pop Art, Nixon, Panty Raid,
Beachboys, Joplin, First Got Laid,
Rolling Stones, On the Pill,
Ho Chi Min, Blueberry Hill,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's.
Long Hair, Twiggy, Bobby's Girl,
Sergeant Pepper, Duke of Earl,
Maharishi, Runaway,
Alley Oop, Lay Lady Lay,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's,
It Was the 60's.
(A Decade, Cliff's Notes Style)
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Thanks for the post...There's some magic in the 60s...Love music and the spirit of that time, love clothes of that time..:)
Yes, it was... My mom was telling me about it. It was the time of her studies at Moscow university.I still keep and sometimes wear one of the skirts she was wearing.Cosmos! very bright and extravagant (like to shock people sometimes...) :)
There's the film "Stilyagy" ( a kind of like "Hippy people") featuring that period in Russia.Lots of humour, love, beautiful people, good music , very high romantic relationship, betrayal, real drama- hippies were persecuted by the government... Lots of beautiful skirts , just like mine, broad and bright with a thin waist, looking really good...jazz and twist banned in the country at that time.. Music, or discs with the songs, were brought secretly from the western countries and recorded on xray films...Don't think people did it anywhere else in the world...:)
Yes, and love children made the history. John Lennon and Janis Joplin,and Rolling Stones there and Bulldozer underground art exhibition here...(There was a group of young painters in Moscow with quite opposite views, and Chrutschev ordered that their exhibition be smashed by bulldozers.)If it hadn't been for those people we wouldnt talk with each other now, and we probably wouldn't have internet in Russia, etc. Mother said there was a girl, her co-student who was expelled from university for her relationship with an American guy.
And still, there were beautiful love people and beautiful music...:)
Hi, I was born in 1954. My first cousin was an officer in the U.S Marine Corps. Hw did five tours of duty in Vietnam and was awarded five purple hearts. Irv.
I am a 1957er. My favourite thing - "way hay, we're the Monkees".
Take care all you sprightly young things (at heart anyway).
Thanks Lynn. The Monkees had some of the best writers of the day cranking out hits for them. The show was fun, too! "We like to monkey around..."
Love this one!
KariLee 1956
A few years ago we did a thank you celebration for Vietnam vets called LZ Lambeau. It was an awesome event and I am so grateful I was able to help in my own small way.
Thanks Kari-'Nam Vets did their jobs under rough circumstances, and were reviled when they returned home (the ones who returned). They really deserved better! :)
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Hey man :-))
Hey Tania. :))
Hey Rick :-)) LOL hope you and yours are all well
Thanks-You, too!