"An Incompleat History of Rock 'n Roll" -- Episode 2 -- Springsteen at Sing Sing, 1972

[EFerrari]

Run time: 04:41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPBm8q4ChJo   Posted on YouTube: March 20, 2010 By YouTube Member: Sinclair34 Views on YouTube: 25703   Posted on DU: June 19, 2011 By DU Member: EFerrari Views on DU: 1110

 
Greg Mitchell, formerly editor at Editor & Publisher, lately blogging Wikileaks, helped launch the E Street Band when he was at Crawdaddy. (Now, that is a well rounded career.)

[dipsydoodle]

1. I grew up with it

:)

Earlier stuff here : Rock & Roll Riffs 1945 to 1963 Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ftf7jEvV4&feature=related. Been able to dance to that stuff for 50 years now. Yes - it does keep me fit.

[EFerrari]

2. I remember my mom putting me up on a table in a pizza parlor

to dance to Elvis Presley when I was about 4 while she was waiting for her order. I must have been hungry.

lol

[dipsydoodle]

3. I'll tell you what's funny.

When I'm dancing and whoever I'm dancing with sings the words to something like a Chuck Berry track from the mid fifies. When the track finishes I just smile and say "do you realise that the only way you'd know the lyrics is if you were about when the record was released" Oh dear ! is the usual response. :rofl:

[EFerrari]

4. Worse -- my cousin and I drove from San Francisco to Los Angeles

for my brother's wedding. She put a PERRY COMO tape (tape!) into the car player and said, "Check it out, you know the words to every song."

Her mom and mine were like twins, got us all together every weekend and every Saturday night ( I think it was) whereever we were, the family would watch his show.

She was RIGHT. I DID know the words to every tune! Is it too late to sue my mom for child abuse? :rofl:

[dipsydoodle]

5. We had the Perry Como Show on B &W TV

in the '50s. It made his hairstyle at that time popular here.

Magic Moments : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ND3oghPL5M&feature=related

I hope you're singing along. :rofl:

[EFerrari]

6. LOL!

My mom and her sibs had really mixed tastes. They were immigrants so they watched Como and Andy Williams and even the King Family on the tube to try to get a feel for the culture. But they all had Mexican pop stars, too, and Belafonte's "Calypso" album, Nat King Cole and Johnny Mathis, and when Chubbie Checkers came out with the "Twist", I remember them playing it in the garage and everyone dancing, even us kids. My one, too brainy, oddball uncle became addicted to swing and when I was older, he and I used to get up really early after a family sleepover, make a big pot of coffee and listen to original recordings together. All my good swing is what he taped for me. "Pardon me, boys, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?"

Chances are -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8

Our parents were really young - when I was four, my Mom was only 26! They had a party at one of our houses every weekend, with their SOs or husbands and kids. And they all danced whenever possible, that went without saying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwIeP9eDb-s&NR=1

:rofl:

[dipsydoodle]

7. Golden oldies

When I was 4 my mum was only 22. :)