Oh yes, Come and Go With Me. Wasn't it the "Slide" that they use to do to this???? (of course it was before my time)

TIS

Yes, and Dion went to high school with my cousin. They used to harmonize on the street corner, and on Sunday nights, my Aunt Grace would throw pots of water out the window at them to get them to shut up. She used to tell them that she had to get up for work the next morning, and they needed to go home so that she could get some sleep.

SB, that is so totally cool!!! Wouldn't it be nice to see a part of musical history like that?





Ok, you all must remember this three note chime.


TIS


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Scenes like that were memorialized in "A Bronx Tale" and every neighborhood had a few corners on which the local wannabes would practice their singing. (In fact, "A Bronx Tale" was the same neighborhood that Dion came from). My brother remembers The Tokens ("The Lion Sleeps Tonight") singing in Coney Island and he used to be in a group (not very good) who would stand on the corner and doing their doo-wop (Rico Petrocelli, who went on to play for the Red Sox, was another group member).

Jay and the Americans and the Four Seasons were two other big named groups who perfected the "New York sound", but Dion and the Belmonts were truly from the streets.

If you ever wanna watch a really good New York based movie with some awesome music, see "The Wanderers" with Ken Wahl. Its based on an Italian Bronx gang and its a damned good movie.

For whatever reason I can't get page 2 of this thread to load. But thank you TIS for a wonderful site. Hours of enjoyment lie ahead.

TIS, I remember the first time I realized that the peacock was actually in color!!!! I was at a friend's house, and they had just gotten a color TV. The first time that I saw the tail, I was astounded.

TIS, I can't even begin to tell you how much I've been enjoying this site and all its links. Thanks for posting it!!

It was first aired in the realy 60's and it was in black and white,as time went on in went into colour i still watch repeats now,very funny

Your aunt sounds like my kind of woman.

A really good movie about harmonizing on street corners, the 50's music craze, and famous DJ Alan Freed, is a movie called AMERICAN HOT WAX. For some damn reason they never show this movie on cable or tv.


(5 of 10 in the toy quiz. And I got barbie's middle name right!)

I am so glad you guys are enjoying this. Geez, glad I didn't just keep it to myself.

Like I said, I wasn't even looking for it, but sort of happened upon it. What's good about is, you have almost every category of trivia/nostaglia on one page. I'm gonna send it to my brother and sister as well. I'm sure they'll love it.

I still want to try one of the trivia games.

TIS

Awesome site Don:
"When Life Was In Black & White": I will be over there for sometime tonight!

I received this in an e-mail. It isn't from KK but I thought it fit here.


Comments made in the year 1955!


That's only 52 years ago!
"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00."

"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2, 000.00 will only buy a used one."

"If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.

"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"

"If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."

"When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage."

"Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls."

"I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL of DAMN in it."


"I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas ."

"Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President."

"I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."

"It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet."

"It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."

"Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat."

"I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."

"Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress."

"The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."

"There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel."

"No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood."

"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it."

Here is a link to some 1960's tv commercials.

http://www.tvparty.com/vaultcomsat.html