The sixties music was the best music of Rock and Roll times.
The sixties music, yes! they were the best years of Rock and Roll and Country Music. It was the time of love, the twist, music groups, and flower power as fans and groupies and people screamed and shouted, and cried at the live concerts. The sixties were the time of gimmick and answer songs and Dick Clark's American Bandstand. The music industry brought us the Motown sound, The British Invasion, protest songs and the beginning of rock and roll. The market for 45 records and the "Transistor radios" sales exploded, with songs, of all the new groups. Music was playing everywhere from these transistor radios in the streets of every Town and City around North America, Canada, England, France and Germany. "Blue Jeans" were everywhere and the girls were all wearing "mini skirts" to School and the boys were doing the "twist" and the "limbo Rock", and letting their hair grow long. It was like a hurricane as teenagers brought records of their idols like the Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Beach boys, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Elvis Presley and many other groups. Remember the moments with songs like, "Pretty Woman", "The House Of The Rising Sun" and "Twist and Shout". Who never dreamed to dance to the songs of, "When A Man Loves A Women" or twist to the song, "Twist and Shout" by the Beatles. Those were the days, when we hung around the ice cream store and listened to all our favorite groups on the "juke box" and played the pin ball games. Social revolution with its mini-skirt and contraceptive pill wasn't for everyone. What America called the Baby Boom generation had come out to play, but the older generation were clinging desperately to the fast eroding traditions of the early fifties. For the young teenagers these standards were uncool, and morality was out. This was the time of sixties music.
After "London, San Francisco" became the new light, for the Hippie culture and the West Coast sound of the "Jefferson Airplane" and the "Grateful Dead". 1967, was a magic year with the Summer of Love and the "Monterey Festival" and the enflammatory words of Jimi Hendrix. Jimi also sang at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Do you remember The Supremes with Diana Ross with all their great songs? Do you remember the Surf sixties music from those wonderful times? The Surf songs started in the late fifties in many clubs and dance halls in Southern California. A few of the most important surf groups were the Del-Tones, The Gamblers, The Revels, The Surfaris and The Bel-Airs. After these groups came Jan and Dean and then later the Beach Boys, with hot rod and surfin music. Hippie or not it was impossible to avoid the world of love and peace or its center in California. This was a little bit from the time of sixties music.
A good place for posters about singers or other topics of Sixties Music is at All Posters below. I find their service very good and they have a huge inventory of posters and prints which can be framed.
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