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Subject: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/07 at 1:31 am

It was on this day, September 30th 1967 that BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: whistledog on 09/30/07 at 9:36 am

Top Singles in Canada, this day in 1967 ...
(some songs were double AA or charted at the exact same position, so as you can see, it throws off the numbers lol)




TW | LW | ARTIST / SONG

01 | 05 | Rolling Stones - Dandelion
01 | 05 | Rolling Stones - We Love You
02 | 03 | Ugly Ducklings - Gaslight
04 | 09 | Association - Never My Love
05 | 06 | Bill Cosby - Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything's Alright)
06 | 10 | Brenton Wood - Gimme Little Sign
07 | 08 | Frankie Valli -  I Make A Fool Of Myself
07 | 03 | Box Tops - The Letter
08 | 22 | Bunny Sigler - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
10 | 02 | Paul Revere and the Raiders - I Had A Dream
11 | 11 | Jackie Wilson -  (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
12 | 28 | Young Rascals - How Can I Be Sure
14 | 09 | Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
14 | 11 | Janice Harper -  Bon Vovage
15 | 14 | Lulu - To Sir With Love
16 | 15 | Peter, Paul & Mary - I Dig Rock And Roll Music
17 | 13 | Wilson Pickett - Funky Broadway
18 | 23 | Traffic - Hole In My Shoe
19 | 14 | Bobby Vee -  Come Back When You Grow Up
19 | 30 | Esquires - Get On Up
20 | 16 | Tommy James and the Shondells - Getting' Together
22 | 50 | Buckinghams - Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)
23 | 13 | Sonny & Cher - It's The Little Things
24 | 33 | Petula Clark - Cat In The Window, The (The Bird In The Sky)
25 | 29 | Jimmie Rodgers - Child Of Clay
26 | 32 | Four Tops - You Keep Me Running Away
28 | 20 | Donovan - There Is A Mountain
29 | 39 | Doors - People Are Strange
29 | 23 | Jay & The Techniques - Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
30 | 36 | Tom Jones - I'll Never Fall In Love Again
31 | 34 | King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
31 | 21 | Supremes - Reflections
32 | 35 | Martha & The Vandellas - Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone
33 | 47 | Vikki Carr - It Must Be Him
34 | 21 | Herman's Hermits - Museum
35 | 37 | Marvin Gaye - Your Precious Love
35 | 27 | Animals - San Franciscan Nights
36 | 41 | Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels - What Now My Love
38 | --- | Engelbert Humperdinck - Last Waltz, The
39 | 27 | Mamas & The Papas - Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)
40 | --- | Nancy Sinatra - Lightning's Girl
41 | 25 | Temptations - You're My Everything
43 | --- | Soul Survivors - Expressway To Your Heart
44 | --- | Happenings - Why Do Fools Fall In Love
46 | --- | Gene & Debbe - Go With Me
47 | 45 | James Brown - Cold Sweat
48 | --- | Tremeloes - Even The Bad Times Are Good
50 | --- | Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Paul on 09/30/07 at 11:51 am


Tony Blackburn presents the first show.


And somehow he's still going strong!  :o

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Paul on 09/30/07 at 12:16 pm

As Jason's been kind enough to submit the Canadian list for that day (and some fine stuff in there, I might add!), here's our twenty...

1 (1) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (forget psychedelia...he was the biggest-selling singles act in Britain that year!  :D)
2 (2) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West (like #13, was meant to be part of an ambitious work, but was never completed)
3 (_8) Flowers In The Rain - The Move (the first record to be played on Radio 1 by the aforementioned Blackburn)
4 (3) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (featuring a 'phasing effect', but not for the first time on record)
5 (7) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (Motown goes 'psych...sort-of!)
6 (4) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men (shameless cash-in on the 'summer of love' craze, but a superb one)
7 (10) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic
8 (5) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones (co-written and first released by Lonnie Donegan, no less!)
9 (6) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
10 (15) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard
11 (13) There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan
12 (11) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes
13 (12) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys
14 (24) The Letter - Box Tops
15 (9) Dandelion/We Love You - Rolling Stones (counted as a 'Double A side' over here)
16 (14) Just Loving You - Anita Harris
17 (31) Massachusettes - Bee Gees (the second record played on Radio 1 that morning!)
18 (18) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners
19 (16) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
20 (19) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/07 at 2:35 pm


And somehow he's still going strong!  :o
Tony Blackburn is the King of the Jungle.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/07 at 2:36 pm


As Jason's been kind enough to submit the Canadian list for that day (and some fine stuff in there, I might add!), here's our twenty...

1 (1) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (forget psychedelia...he was the biggest-selling singles act in Britain that year!  :D)
2 (2) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West (like #13, was meant to be part of an ambitious work, but was never completed)
3 (_8) Flowers In The Rain - The Move (the first record to be played on Radio 1 by the aforementioned Blackburn)
4 (3) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (featuring a 'phasing effect', but not for the first time on record)
5 (7) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (Motown goes 'psych...sort-of!)
6 (4) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men (shameless cash-in on the 'summer of love' craze, but a superb one)
7 (10) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic
8 (5) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones (co-written and first released by Lonnie Donegan, no less!)
9 (6) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
10 (15) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard
11 (13) There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan
12 (11) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes
13 (12) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys
14 (24) The Letter - Box Tops
15 (9) Dandelion/We Love You - Rolling Stones (counted as a 'Double A side' over here)
16 (14) Just Loving You - Anita Harris
17 (31) Massachusettes - Bee Gees (the second record played on Radio 1 that morning!)
18 (18) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners
19 (16) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
20 (19) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience
I am hoping to catch up with the radio shows on "Listen Again" over the next week.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Marian on 09/30/07 at 3:09 pm


It was on this day, September 30th 1967 that BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
Wow!

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/07 at 3:42 pm


As Jason's been kind enough to submit the Canadian list for that day (and some fine stuff in there, I might add!), here's our twenty...

1 (1) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (forget psychedelia...he was the biggest-selling singles act in Britain that year!  :D)
2 (2) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West (like #13, was meant to be part of an ambitious work, but was never completed)
3 (_8) Flowers In The Rain - The Move (the first record to be played on Radio 1 by the aforementioned Blackburn)
4 (3) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (featuring a 'phasing effect', but not for the first time on record)
5 (7) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (Motown goes 'psych...sort-of!)
6 (4) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men (shameless cash-in on the 'summer of love' craze, but a superb one)
7 (10) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic
8 (5) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones (co-written and first released by Lonnie Donegan, no less!)
9 (6) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
10 (15) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard
11 (13) There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan
12 (11) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes
13 (12) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys
14 (24) The Letter - Box Tops
15 (9) Dandelion/We Love You - Rolling Stones (counted as a 'Double A side' over here)
16 (14) Just Loving You - Anita Harris
17 (31) Massachusettes - Bee Gees (the second record played on Radio 1 that morning!)
18 (18) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners
19 (16) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
20 (19) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience
I have fond memoriees of hearing Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' at the age of ten years old, may be it was because a child hearing the older children singing on the ecord caught my ear.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Paul on 09/30/07 at 4:36 pm


I have fond memoriees of hearing Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' at the age of ten years old, may be it was because a child hearing the older children singing on the ecord caught my ear.


I (and I reckon many other people) knew it as 'Grocer Jack'...

Kiddies' voices or not, the song has quite a sinister, chilling message to it...

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/07 at 3:46 am


I (and I reckon many other people) knew it as 'Grocer Jack'...

Kiddies' voices or not, the song has quite a sinister, chilling message to it...
...also the black and white image of when it was on Top of the Pops.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/07 at 2:19 am

October 2nd 1967

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/07 at 2:57 am

October 10th 1967

The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/07 at 2:06 am

October 11th 1967

Afghan Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/07 at 2:13 am

October 12th 1967

Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam's opposition

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/07 at 2:26 am

October 13th 1967

The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lost to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/07 at 3:21 am

October 14th 1967:

Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/07 at 2:50 am

Born October 16th 1967

Davina McCall, British television presenter
Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/07 at 5:23 am

October 17th 1967

The musical Hair opens at the Anspacher Theater on Broadway.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/07 at 3:04 am

October 19th 1967

The Philadelphia Flyers play the first ever hockey game at the new Spectrum, defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins 1-0.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/07 at 9:40 am

October 20th 1967 - A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/07 at 4:45 am

October 21st 1967 - Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people were arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.

Was that the march that was featured in Forrest Gump?

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/02/07 at 2:18 am

November 2nd 1967 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/07 at 2:02 am

November 3rd 1967 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dak To begins.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/07 at 5:25 am

November 4th 1967 - Racing Club de Avellaneda wins the Intercontinental cup, beating Glasgow Celtic 1-0 at Centenary stadium.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/05/07 at 2:10 am

November 5th 1967 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/07 at 1:57 am

November 7th 1967


Carl B. Stokes was elected as Mayor of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first Black Mayor of a major American city.
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/07 at 2:25 am

November 9th 1967 – French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline first appeared in the pages of Pilote magazine.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Nostalgic on 11/10/07 at 2:06 pm

What an awesome year for music! Here are the 50 biggest songs in the U.S. in 1967, according to Billboard magazine:

1.  TO SIR WITH LOVE - Lulu
2.  THE LETTER - Box Tops
3.  ODE TO BILLIE JOE - Bobby Gentry
4.  WINDY - Association
5.  I'M A BELIEVER - Monkees
6.  LIGHT MY FIRE - Doors
7.  SOMETHIN' STUPID - Nancy and Frank Sinatra
8.  HAPPY TOGETHER - Turtles
9.  GROOVIN' - Young Rascals
10. CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU - Frankie Valli

11. LITTLE BIT O' SOUL - Music Explosion
12. I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW - Tommy James & The Shondells
13. RESPECT - Aretha Franklin
14. I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER - Stevie Wonder
15. COME BACK WHEN YOU GROW UP - Bobby Vee & The Strangers
16. SWEET SOUL MUSIC - Arthur Conley
17. KIND OF A DRAG - Buckinghams
18. EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART - Soul Survivors
19. SOUL MAN - Sam & Dave
20. NEVER MY LOVE - Association

21. APPLES, PEACHES, PUMPKIN PIE - Jay & The Techniques
22. COME ON DOWN TO MY BOAT - Every Mothers' Son
23. INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS - Strawberry Alarm Clock
24. RUBY TUESDAY - Rolling Stones
25. IT MUST BE HIM - Vicki Carr
26. FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH - Buffalo Springfield
27. GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood
28. LOVE IS HERE AND NOW YOU'RE GONE - Supremes
29. THE HAPPENING - Supremes
30. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - Beatles

31. RELEASE ME (AND LET ME LOVE AGAIN) - Engelbert Humperdinck
32. YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
33. SOMEBODY TO LOVE - Jefferson Airplane
34. GET ON UP - Esquires
35. BROWN-EYED GIRL - Van Morrison
36. JIMMY MACK - Martha & The Vandellas
37. I GOT RHYTHM - Happenings
38. A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - Procol Harum
39. DON'T YOU CARE - Buckinghams
40. THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE - Casinos

41. REFLECTIONS - Diana Ross & The Supremes
42. ON A CAROUSEL - Hollies
43. PLEASE LOVE ME FOREVER - Bobby Vinton
44. ALFIE - Dionne Warwick
45. SAN FRANCISCO (BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR) - Scott McKenzie
46. SILENCE IS GOLDEN - Tremeloes
47. MY CUP RUNNETH OVER - Ed Ames
48. UP, UP AND AWAY - Fifth Dimension
49. THE RAIN, THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS - Cowsills
50. THERE'S A KIND OF HUSH - Herman's Hermits


And here are the biggest songs in the U.K. for 1967. Engelbert had the top 3 positions!

1.  RELEASE ME - Engelbert Humperdinck
2.  THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING - Engelbert Humperdinck
3.  THE LAST WALTZ - Engelbert Humperdinck
4.  JUST LOVING YOU - Anita Harris
5.  SAN FRANCISCO (BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR) - Scott McKenzie
6.  PUPPET ON A STRING - Sandie Shaw
7.  I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN - Tom Jones
8.  THERE MUST BE A WAY - Frankie Vaughan
9.  A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - Procol Harum
10. I'M A BELIEVER - The Monkees

11. SOMETHIN' STUPID - Frank & Nancy Sinatra
12. DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE - The Mamas and the Papas
13. IT MUST BE HIM - Vicki Carr
14. EXCERPT FROM A TEENAGE OPERA - Keith West
15. MASSACHUSETTS - The Bee Gees
16. SILENCE IS GOLDEN - The Tremeloes
17. EDELWEISS - Vince Hill
18. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - The Beatles
19. THIS IS MY SONG - Petula Clark
20. IF I WERE A RICH MAN - Topol

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/07 at 4:26 am

November 14th 1967 - The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as: "Day of the Colombian Woman".

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/07 at 1:58 am

November 15th 1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft, and is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/07 at 8:58 am

November 17th 1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/07 at 2:12 am

November 19th 1967 - The Establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/07 at 2:04 am

November 21st 1967 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/07 at 12:51 am

November 22nd 1967 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 242 in the aftermath of the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/07 at 1:53 am

November 27, 1967


Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/07 at 1:53 am

November 29th 1967 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/07 at 11:34 pm

November 30th 1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/07 at 2:24 am

December 3rd 1967


At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes its last run from New York City to Chicago (the train was inaugurated on June 15, 1902).



Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/07 at 2:01 am

December 4th 1967 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 12/06/07 at 7:47 am

December 6th 1967: my husband was born in Bridgend hospital

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/07 at 9:23 am


December 6th 1967: my husband was born in Bridgend hospital
Happy Birthday to your husband.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Dukeoworc on 12/06/07 at 11:20 am

The week of December 1, 1967, the cover of Time Magazine features miniskirt designer Rudi Gernreich. The headline: "The Miniskirt is Here to Stay (Till Spring, Anyway)"

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/07 at 2:28 am

December 11, 1967


6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established


Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/07 at 4:26 am

December 13th 1967 - United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/07 at 4:12 am

December 15th 1967 - The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/07 at 4:20 am

December 15th 1967- Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Nostalgic on 12/16/07 at 9:01 pm

^ lol, I've never head of it. I didn't know the Beatles recorded a Christmas song ...  :-[

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/07 at 2:08 am

17th December 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and was presumed drowned.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/07 at 2:09 am


December 15th 1967- Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"

^ lol, I've never head of it. I didn't know the Beatles recorded a Christmas song ...  :-[
The record was only released to members of the Beatles fanclub who were willing to order the record through the mail.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/07 at 2:22 am

December 19th 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/07 at 2:11 am

December 20th 1967 - "The Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/07 at 3:24 am

December 21st 1967 - Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/08 at 2:35 am

January 5th 1968 - Alexander Dubček comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/09/08 at 2:19 am

January 9th 1968 - The only known snowfall occurs in Mexico City, additional snow falls on Jan. 10 and 11.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/16/08 at 2:43 am

January 16th 1968 - The Youth International Party (Yippies) is founded.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/20/08 at 4:23 am

January 20th 1968 - Game of the Century, influential in college sports broadcasting.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/21/08 at 2:30 am

January 21st 1968 – Vietnam War: The Vietnam People's Army attacked Khe Sanh Combat Base, a U.S. Marines outpost in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, starting the Battle of Khe Sanh.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/22/08 at 2:14 am

January 22nd 1968 - The TV sketch comedy Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/08 at 1:45 am

January 23rd 1968 – USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 01/24/08 at 9:19 am


January 24th 1962: Brian Epstein signs a management contract with the Beatles


Shouldn't this thread be things that happened in 1968?  Or are you using in the sense of 40-50 years ago?

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/24/08 at 9:38 am


Shouldn't this thread be things that happened in 1968?  Or are you using in the sense of 40-50 years ago?
An error on my part.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 01/24/08 at 9:54 am


An error on my part.


I was meaning it as a criticism, more a clarification

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/08 at 3:05 pm

January 30th 1968 – Vietnam War: Forces of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam People's Army launched the Tết Offensive on Tết (Vietnamese New Year's Day) to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/08 at 2:05 am

January 31st 1968 -


Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon
Nauru declares independence from Australia.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/01/08 at 2:07 am

February 1st 1968 - The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/01/08 at 2:31 am

February 1st 1968 - Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/05/08 at 1:58 am

February 5th 1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/08 at 1:47 am

February 11th 1968 - Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/16/08 at 3:59 am

February 16th 1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/17/08 at 2:52 am

February 17th 1968 - In Springfield, Massachusetts the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/19/08 at 1:11 am

February 19th 1968 - First U.S. Teachers strike in Florida

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/23/08 at 6:13 am

February 23rd 1968 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/24/08 at 3:29 am

February 24th 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/08 at 1:53 am

March 4th 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign.

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March 5th 1968 - U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/12/08 at 1:31 am

March 12th 1968 - Mauritius achieves independence.

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March 16th 1968 – Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh district of South Vietnam.

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March 18th 1968 - Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/08 at 2:09 am

March 20th 1968 - Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/27/08 at 3:10 am

March 27th 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Cosmonaut, first human in space dies in aircraft training accident.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/31/08 at 1:53 am

March 31st 1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/08 at 9:46 am

April 1st 1968 - KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/03/08 at 1:58 am

April 3rd 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

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A sad day in history.

April 4th 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Written By: nally on 04/04/08 at 7:02 pm


April 3rd 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

Little did he know that that would be his last full day on earth. :\'(



A sad day in history.

April 4th 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

So sad. :\'( :\'( That has got to be perhaps one of the most famous deaths for today.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/05/08 at 4:24 am


Little did he know that that would be his last full day on earth. :\'(

So sad. :\'( :\'( That has got to be perhaps one of the most famous deaths for today.
I did not realise that The Rev. Jesse Jackson was with him at the time.

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Written By: nally on 04/07/08 at 10:37 am


I did not realise that The Rev. Jesse Jackson was with him at the time.

I didn't even know that myself.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/07/08 at 10:41 am


I didn't even know that myself.
Please read here.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/08 at 1:58 am

10th April 1968 - Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine outside Wellington harbour.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/08 at 1:43 am

April 12th 1968 - Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/20/08 at 1:38 am

April 20th 1968 – British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell made his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech in opposition to immigration and anti-discrimination legislation, resulting in his removal from the Shadow Cabinet.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/08 at 1:53 am

April 23rd 1968 - Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.

Was this event featured in movie Forrett Gump?

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/08 at 1:45 am

April 24th 1968 - Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/08 at 3:12 am

April 25th 1968 - "Half a Sixpence" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 512 performances

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/08 at 11:58 pm

April 29th 1968 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

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May 10th 1968 - Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the U.S. and North Vietnam

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/08 at 1:42 am

May 13th 1968 - 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle and Pompidou

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/22/08 at 2:24 am

May 22nd 1968 - The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/24/08 at 1:03 am

May 24th 1968 - FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/08 at 1:53 am

May 27th 1968 - the meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (The National Union of the Students of France), most outstanding of the events of May 1968, proceeds and gathers 30.000 to 50.000 people in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/08 at 1:01 am

May 29th 1968 - Manchester United wins the European Cup, the first English Club to do so.

I remember watching this live on television.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/08 at 11:31 am

May 30th 1968 - President De Gaulle disbands French parliament

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/03/08 at 12:14 am

June 3rd 1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/08 at 12:59 am

June 5th 1968 – Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan mortally shot U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy inside the kitchen pantry of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, an event that has spawned a variety of conspiracy theories since then.

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June 6th 1968 - Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/08/08 at 1:25 am

June 8th 1968 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/09/08 at 2:06 am

June 9th 1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/08 at 4:57 am

June 19th 1968 - 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/23/08 at 1:45 am

June 23rd 1968 - 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/08 at 2:11 am

July 1st 1968:

The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva, Switzerland.
Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.



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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/04/08 at 1:25 am

July 4th 1968 - Two teens are killed at Lake Herman Road in California. They were the first (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/08 at 12:32 am

July 10th 1968 - Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/08 at 2:34 am

July 17th 1968 - Revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown and the Ba'ath Party installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/08 at 1:50 am

July 18th 1968 - The Intel Corporation was founded in Santa Clara, California

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/08 at 2:03 am

July 23rd 1968 - The first and only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft took place when a 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers was taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/08 at 1:54 am

July 26th 1968 - Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/08 at 1:10 am

August 1st 1968 - The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/08 at 1:49 am

August 8th 1968 - Jurō Wada successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/11/08 at 12:46 am

August 11th 1968 - The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returns to Liverpool before having their fires dropped for the last time - this working was known as the Fifteen Guinea Special.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/08 at 1:15 am

August 14th 1968 – Greek politician Alexandros Panagoulis attempted to assassinate Greek leader Georgios Papadopoulos.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/08 at 1:53 am

August 20th 1968 - 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.

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August 22nd 1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/23/08 at 6:11 pm

August 24th 1968 - France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.

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Written By: nally on 08/25/08 at 1:38 pm

On August 25, 1968, television chef Rachael Ray was born.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/25/08 at 11:03 pm

August 26th 1968 - The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/08 at 3:02 am

August 28th 1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/06/08 at 2:15 am

September 6th 1968 – Swaziland becomes independent.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/08/08 at 1:29 am

September 8th 1968 - The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit Hey Jude.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/15/08 at 1:57 am

September 15th 1968 - The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

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October 1st 1968 - The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/08 at 12:28 am

October 2nd 1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in the Tlatelolco area of Mexico City ended when army and police forces began firing into the crowd.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/05/08 at 1:27 am

October 5th 1968 - Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland - considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/07/08 at 6:03 pm

October 8th 1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Sealords - United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/08 at 6:23 pm

October 11th 1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.

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October 14th 1968 - The rebuilt Euston railway station in London is opened.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/08 at 2:10 am

October 16th 1968 - Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/08 at 12:41 am

October 20th 1968 - Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/08 at 2:33 am

October 22nd 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/08 at 7:50 pm

October 31st 1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.

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Written By: Green Lantern on 10/30/08 at 7:54 pm


I have fond memoriees of hearing Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' at the age of ten years old, may be it was because a child hearing the older children singing on the ecord caught my ear.




I (and I reckon many other people) knew it as 'Grocer Jack'...

Kiddies' voices or not, the song has quite a sinister, chilling message to it...



Yeah ... about how '82' brings many fears !



...also the black and white image of when it was on Top of the Pops.



Hmm ... I'll have to see if it's on youtube. I LOVE that trumpet type fanfare ending .... gorgeous !

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Written By: Green Lantern on 10/30/08 at 7:57 pm

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-ABlOapajWE

It is ! ^

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/08 at 7:57 pm




Yeah ... about how '82' brings many fears !



Hmm ... I'll have to see if it's on youtube. I LOVE that trumpet type fanfare ending .... gorgeous !
Even reading these quoted posted brings a chill to my spine.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/08 at 1:40 am

November 1st 1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/08 at 2:04 am

November 11th 1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/08 at 2:00 am

November 17th 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/08 at 1:19 am

November 20th 1968 - Vietnam War: Eleven men comprising a Long Range Patrol team from F Company, 58th Infantry, 101st Airborne are surrounded and nearly wiped out by North Vietnamese army regulars from the 4th and 5th Regiment. The seven wounded survivors are rescued after several hours by an impromptu force made of other men from their unit.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/08 at 2:09 pm

November 22nd 1968 - The Beatles release the double album "The Beatles", now commonly known as The White Album

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/08 at 1:45 am

November 26th 1968 - Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/08 at 1:32 am

December 9th 1968 – The NLS, a computer collaboration system that was the first to employ the practical use of hypertext, the computer mouse, and other modern computing concepts, was publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/08 at 6:23 pm

December 10th 1968 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/08 at 1:08 am

December 11th 1958 - Upper Volta gains self-government from France, and becomes an autonomous republic in the French Community.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/08 at 1:19 am

December 13th 1968 - Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 (or the fifth Institutional Act), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/08 at 2:19 am

December 23rd 1968 - The United States won the release of 82 sailors by issuing a written apology to North Korea for spying on the Communist country.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/26/08 at 11:37 pm

December 27th 1968 - Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/02/09 at 3:51 am

January 2nd 1969 - Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/19/09 at 8:22 am

January 19th 1969 - Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/09 at 4:27 am

January 30th 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/09 at 3:57 am

March 2nd 1969 - In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/03/09 at 5:03 am

March 3rd 1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/10/09 at 2:45 am

March 10th 1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/09 at 2:31 am

March 13th 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/09 at 2:50 am

March 17th March 17th 1969 – Golda Meir of the Labor Party became the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/09 at 3:10 am

March 19th 1969 - The 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build- up.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/09 at 2:31 am

March 20th 1969 - John Lennon and Yoko ono were married.

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Written By: nally on 03/20/09 at 11:56 am


March 20th 1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married.


That's right!! :o If Lennon were still alive, this would've been their 40th wedding anniversary! :-\\ :\'(

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/09 at 2:03 pm


That's right!! :o If Lennon were still alive, this would've been their 40th wedding anniversary! :-\\ :\'(
Yoko should be remembering that day.

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Written By: Frank on 03/24/09 at 12:29 am


March 20th 1969 - John Lennon and Yoko ono were married.


They were married on Bobby Orr's birthday (Best Hockey player ever)
Bobby is now 61..Yeeks...Can't believe he's that old..he still looks good.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/27/09 at 2:49 am

March 27th 1969 - Mariner 7 is launched.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/28/09 at 4:06 am

March 28th 1969 - Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.

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Written By: Womble on 03/28/09 at 12:20 pm

March 28, 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president/general WWII, dies in Washington at the age of 78 from congestive heart failure.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/09 at 1:36 am

April 1st 1969 - The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/03/09 at 2:59 am

April 3rd 1969 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.

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Written By: Frank on 04/03/09 at 3:02 am


March 28, 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president/general WWII, dies in Washington at the age of 78 from congestive heart failure.

I remember watching his funeral as a kid

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/04/09 at 3:30 am

April 4th 1969 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/05/09 at 2:02 am

April 5th 1969 - Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/07/09 at 1:39 am

April 7th 1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/09 at 1:59 am

April 9th 1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/09 at 1:49 am

April 17th 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/09 at 2:04 am

April 22nd 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 04/22/09 at 9:55 pm

I'm old enough to remember cigarette vending machines, but not cigarette girls.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/09 at 2:00 am

April 28th 1969 – Terence O'Neill announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/09 at 2:00 am

April 28th 1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/10/09 at 5:51 am

May 10th 1969 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.

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Written By: nally on 05/16/09 at 12:12 am

May 15, 1969 - Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/09 at 2:20 am

May 16th 1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/20/09 at 1:41 am

May 20th 1969 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/22/09 at 1:31 am

May 22nd 1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/26/09 at 8:50 am

May 26th 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 06/20/09 at 3:19 pm

On June 20, 1969, my mom graduated from high school. :D :)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/09 at 2:21 am

June 22nd 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/23/09 at 1:47 am

June 23rd 1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Womble on 06/27/09 at 2:35 pm

June 27, 1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/09 at 2:00 am

June 30th 1969 – Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/09 at 12:39 am

July 3rd 1969 – The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/09 at 1:16 am

July 7th 1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/14/09 at 1:30 am

July 14th 1969 – The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.

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Written By: Frank on 07/14/09 at 1:33 am


July 7th 1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.


And this caused many, many problems in my life.  :-[

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/14/09 at 1:45 am


And this caused many, many problems in my life.  :-[
You just did not know which language to speak?

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Written By: Frank on 07/14/09 at 11:44 pm


You just did not know which language to speak?

Not quite. When this law came in "July 7th 1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government." there were other laws that came into existence resulting from this 1st law. Basically if you were an immigrant in Quebec, you had to send your child to French school ( you did not have a choice)
When I went shopping, there were storeowners who would not speak English to you nor serve you if you spoke English.

Also, because my parents sent me to a french language school ( I was an English speaking kid), you can't imagine how many fights I was in trying to defend myself. Eventually I had my nose broken and went for emergency surgery (think this was 1970?). I also broke someone else's nose and bruised several ribs of others trying "not to be beaten up" coz I spoke English.
I could go on and on. 


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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 11:46 pm

July 16th 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Frank on 07/16/09 at 12:17 am


July 16th 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.


oooh, did they make it to the moon?  ;)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/09 at 12:23 am


oooh, did they make it to the moon?  ;)
Not make it to Area 51?

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Written By: Frank on 07/16/09 at 12:35 am


Not make it to Area 51?

Shhh.... no one is supposed to know that.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/09 at 12:40 am


Shhh.... no one is supposed to know that.
I saw it in Capricorn One

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 11:38 pm

July 18th 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, United States Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into a tidal channel, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker.

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Written By: Frank on 07/18/09 at 12:59 pm


July 18th 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, United States Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into a tidal channel, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker.


Imagine if this would have happened 2 or 3 days later, with Man landing on the moon, I wonder how much coverage this story would have got?

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:33 am


Imagine if this would have happened 2 or 3 days later, with Man landing on the moon, I wonder how much coverage this story would have got?
"It was a good day to release bad news."

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 3:26 pm

July 20th 1969 – Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully lands on the Moon.

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Written By: nally on 07/20/09 at 4:04 pm


July 20th 1969 – Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully lands on the Moon.


A very historic event.

Google even has an image of it on their homepage.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 4:05 pm


A very historic event.

Google even has an image of it on their homepage.
I have caught it and it is displayed in "Today In History"

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/09 at 2:28 am

July 24th 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/25/09 at 2:02 am

July 25th 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.

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Written By: whistledog on 07/25/09 at 9:21 pm

The Top 40 in Canada during the week beginning July 21, 1969

01 | 01 | Spinning Wheel - Blood, Sweat and Tears
02 | 08 | In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans
03 | 06 | Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James and the Shondells
04 | 05 | One - Three Dog Night
05 | 13 | Quentin's Theme - Charles Randolph Greane Sound
06 | 03 | Theme from Romeo and Juliet - Henry Mancini
07 | 02 | Good Morning Starshine - Oliver
08 | 09 | Baby I Love You - Andy Kim
09 | 04 | Love Me Tonight - Tom Jones
10 | 12 | Colour Him Father - Winstons
11 | 11 | Love Can Sing A Rainbow / Love is Blue - The Dells
12 | 15 | I Turned You On - Isley Brothers
13 | 18 | My Pledge My Love - Joe Jeffrey Group
14 | 14 | Black Pearl - Checkmates
15 | 19 | Rubo Don't Take Your Love to Town - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
16 | 16 | Days of Sand and Shovels - Bobby Vinton
17 | 23 | When I Die - Motherlode
18 | 24 | What Does it Take - Jr. Walker and the Allstars
19 | 29 | Mother Popcorn - James Brown
20 | 36 | Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
21 | 33 | Good Old Rock and Roll - Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys
22 | 10 | In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
23 | 07 | The Ballad of John and Yoko - The Beatles
24 | 31 | My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
25 | 27 | The Girl I'll Never Know - Frankie Valli
26 | 32 | Yesterday When I Was Young - Roy Clarke
27 | 45 | I'd Wait A Million Years - Grass Roots
28 | 17 | Moody Woman - Jerry Butler
29 | 37 | Moments to Remember - Vogues
30 | 30 | The Feeling is Right - Clarence Carter
31 | 44 | Moon Flight - Vik Venus
32 | 20 | Minotaur - Dick Hyman
33 | 34 | Pack it In - Buckstone Hardware
34 | 42 | Canadian Pacific - George Hamilton IV
35 | 35 | Tell All the People - The Doors
36 | 40 | Reconsider Me - Johnny Adams
37 | 46 | Put A Little Love in Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
38 | 53 | Along Came Jones - Ray Stevens
39 | 49 | Laughing - The Guess Who
40 | 40 | So I Can Love You - The Emotions

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/09 at 4:23 am


The Top 40 in Canada during the week beginning July 21, 1969

01 | 01 | Spinning Wheel - Blood, Sweat and Tears
02 | 08 | In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans
03 | 06 | Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James and the Shondells
04 | 05 | One - Three Dog Night
05 | 13 | Quentin's Theme - Charles Randolph Greane Sound
06 | 03 | Theme from Romeo and Juliet - Henry Mancini
07 | 02 | Good Morning Starshine - Oliver
08 | 09 | Baby I Love You - Andy Kim
09 | 04 | Love Me Tonight - Tom Jones
10 | 12 | Colour Him Father - Winstons
11 | 11 | Love Can Sing A Rainbow / Love is Blue - The Dells
12 | 15 | I Turned You On - Isley Brothers
13 | 18 | My Pledge My Love - Joe Jeffrey Group
14 | 14 | Black Pearl - Checkmates
15 | 19 | Rubo Don't Take Your Love to Town - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
16 | 16 | Days of Sand and Shovels - Bobby Vinton
17 | 23 | When I Die - Motherlode
18 | 24 | What Does it Take - Jr. Walker and the Allstars
19 | 29 | Mother Popcorn - James Brown
20 | 36 | Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
21 | 33 | Good Old Rock and Roll - Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys
22 | 10 | In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
23 | 07 | The Ballad of John and Yoko - The Beatles
24 | 31 | My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
25 | 27 | The Girl I'll Never Know - Frankie Valli
26 | 32 | Yesterday When I Was Young - Roy Clarke
27 | 45 | I'd Wait A Million Years - Grass Roots
28 | 17 | Moody Woman - Jerry Butler
29 | 37 | Moments to Remember - Vogues
30 | 30 | The Feeling is Right - Clarence Carter
31 | 44 | Moon Flight - Vik Venus
32 | 20 | Minotaur - Dick Hyman
33 | 34 | Pack it In - Buckstone Hardware
34 | 42 | Canadian Pacific - George Hamilton IV
35 | 35 | Tell All the People - The Doors
36 | 40 | Reconsider Me - Johnny Adams
37 | 46 | Put A Little Love in Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
38 | 53 | Along Came Jones - Ray Stevens
39 | 49 | Laughing - The Guess Who
40 | 40 | So I Can Love You - The Emotions

#1 in the UK at his time was Something In The Air by Thunderclap Newman

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Written By: Paul on 07/27/09 at 1:55 pm


#1 in the UK at his time was Something In The Air by Thunderclap Newman


Rather appropriate, given the recent moon landing!  :D

And the rest? Here you go!

01 | 01 | Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
02 | 02 | In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley
03 | 09 | Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
04 | 21 | Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
05 | 04 | Hello Suzie - Amen Corner
06 | 07 | A Way Of Life - Family Dogg
07 | 16 | It Miek - Desmond Dekker & The Aces
08 | 06 | Breakaway - Beach Boys
09 | 18 | Baby Make It Soon - Marmalade
10 | 08 | Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
11 | 03 | The Ballad Of John And Yoko - Beatles
12 | 05 | Living In The Past - Jethro Tull
13 | 13 | Lights Of Cincinatti - Scott Walker
14 | 12 | Frozen Orange Juice - Peter Sarstedt
15 | 20 | That's The Way God Planned It - Billy Preston
16 | 14 | Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' - Crazy Elephant
17 | 10 | Time Is Tight - Booker T. & The M.G.'s
18 | 25 | Saved By The Bell - Robin Gibb
19 | 29 | Make Me An Island - Joe Dolan
20 | 11 | Oh Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins Singers
21 | 33 | Wet Dream - Max Romeo (unsurprisingly, 'banned' outright by the BBC!)
22 | 19 | Dizzy - Tommy Roe
23 | 31 | Goodnight Midnight - Clodagh Rodgers
24 | 32 | Conversations - Cilla Black
25 | NE | Goo Goo Barabajagal - Donovan & The Jeff Beck Group
26 | 35 | Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
27 | 26 | Get Back - Beatles
28 | 27 | My Way - Frank Sinatra
29 | NE | My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
30 | 39 | It's Your Thing - Isley Brothers
31 | 40 | Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
32 | 17 | What Is A Man - Four Tops
33 | 15 | Big Ship - Cliff Richard
34 | 30 | When Two Worlds Collide - Jim Reeves
35 | 22 | I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack
36 | 37 | Happy Heart - Andy Williams
37 | 34 | Love Me Tonight - Tom Jones
38 | 24 | The Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
39 | 36 | Without Her - Herb Alpert
40 | NE | Peaceful - Georgie Fame

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Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 07/27/09 at 2:11 pm


Rather appropriate, given the recent moon landing!  :D

And the rest? Here you go!

01 | 01 | Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
02 | 02 | In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley
03 | 09 | Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
04 | 21 | Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
05 | 04 | Hello Suzie - Amen Corner
06 | 07 | A Way Of Life - Family Dogg
07 | 16 | It Miek - Desmond Dekker & The Aces
08 | 06 | Breakaway - Beach Boys
09 | 18 | Baby Make It Soon - Marmalade
10 | 08 | Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
11 | 03 | The Ballad Of John And Yoko - Beatles
12 | 05 | Living In The Past - Jethro Tull
13 | 13 | Lights Of Cincinatti - Scott Walker
14 | 12 | Frozen Orange Juice - Peter Sarstedt
15 | 20 | That's The Way God Planned It - Billy Preston
16 | 14 | Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' - Crazy Elephant
17 | 10 | Time Is Tight - Booker T. & The M.G.'s
18 | 25 | Saved By The Bell - Robin Gibb
19 | 29 | Make Me An Island - Joe Dolan
20 | 11 | Oh Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins Singers
21 | 33 | Wet Dream - Max Romeo (unsurprisingly, 'banned' outright by the BBC!)
22 | 19 | Dizzy - Tommy Roe
23 | 31 | Goodnight Midnight - Clodagh Rodgers
24 | 32 | Conversations - Cilla Black
25 | NE | Goo Goo Barabajagal - Donovan & The Jeff Beck Group
26 | 35 | Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
27 | 26 | Get Back - Beatles
28 | 27 | My Way - Frank Sinatra
29 | NE | My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
30 | 39 | It's Your Thing - Isley Brothers
31 | 40 | Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
32 | 17 | What Is A Man - Four Tops
33 | 15 | Big Ship - Cliff Richard
34 | 30 | When Two Worlds Collide - Jim Reeves
35 | 22 | I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack
36 | 37 | Happy Heart - Andy Williams
37 | 34 | Love Me Tonight - Tom Jones
38 | 24 | The Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
39 | 36 | Without Her - Herb Alpert
40 | NE | Peaceful - Georgie Fame



Wow!  There's a lot in there that I've never even heard of!  :o

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Written By: nally on 07/27/09 at 2:16 pm


Wow!  There's a lot in there that I've never even heard of!  :o


Me neither. I didn't even know that the Beach Boys had a song called "Break away." I know plenty of their songs (especially those which were hits in the US), but not that one.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/27/09 at 2:18 pm


Rather appropriate, given the recent moon landing!  :D

And the rest? Here you go!

01 | 01 | Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
02 | 02 | In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley
03 | 09 | Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
04 | 21 | Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
05 | 04 | Hello Suzie - Amen Corner
06 | 07 | A Way Of Life - Family Dogg
07 | 16 | It Miek - Desmond Dekker & The Aces
08 | 06 | Breakaway - Beach Boys
09 | 18 | Baby Make It Soon - Marmalade
10 | 08 | Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
11 | 03 | The Ballad Of John And Yoko - Beatles
12 | 05 | Living In The Past - Jethro Tull
13 | 13 | Lights Of Cincinatti - Scott Walker
14 | 12 | Frozen Orange Juice - Peter Sarstedt
15 | 20 | That's The Way God Planned It - Billy Preston
16 | 14 | Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' - Crazy Elephant
17 | 10 | Time Is Tight - Booker T. & The M.G.'s
18 | 25 | Saved By The Bell - Robin Gibb
19 | 29 | Make Me An Island - Joe Dolan
20 | 11 | Oh Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins Singers
21 | 33 | Wet Dream - Max Romeo (unsurprisingly, 'banned' outright by the BBC!)
22 | 19 | Dizzy - Tommy Roe
23 | 31 | Goodnight Midnight - Clodagh Rodgers
24 | 32 | Conversations - Cilla Black
25 | NE | Goo Goo Barabajagal - Donovan & The Jeff Beck Group
26 | 35 | Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
27 | 26 | Get Back - Beatles
28 | 27 | My Way - Frank Sinatra
29 | NE | My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
30 | 39 | It's Your Thing - Isley Brothers
31 | 40 | Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
32 | 17 | What Is A Man - Four Tops
33 | 15 | Big Ship - Cliff Richard
34 | 30 | When Two Worlds Collide - Jim Reeves
35 | 22 | I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack
36 | 37 | Happy Heart - Andy Williams
37 | 34 | Love Me Tonight - Tom Jones
38 | 24 | The Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
39 | 36 | Without Her - Herb Alpert
40 | NE | Peaceful - Georgie Fame

I should have the 45 of Wet Dream somewhere.

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Written By: Paul on 07/27/09 at 2:26 pm


Me neither. I didn't even know that the Beach Boys had a song called "Break away." I know plenty of their songs (especially those which were hits in the US), but not that one.


Oddly, the Beach Boys had more success in Britain than America in the late 60s...'Breakaway' struggled to reach #63 over there!


I should have the 45 of Wet Dream somewhere.


Naughty boy, Mr. Philip!  ;)

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Written By: nally on 07/27/09 at 2:30 pm


Oddly, the Beach Boys had more success in Britain than America in the late 60s...'Breakaway' struggled to reach #63 over there!

Naughty boy, Mr. Philip!  ;)

That explains it. I guess they had the most success in their native country in the mid-60s. I know the bulk of their music from that era, as it still gets played on oldies stations today.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/09 at 2:44 am

July 30th 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with U.S. military commanders.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/09 at 1:02 am

August 5th 1969 – Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 1:00 am

August 8th 1969, 11.35am. Appointment with photographer Iain MacMillan at EMI Studios, for the photographic session for the `Abbey Road' cover. After this, Paul chooses out of the 6 pictures taken the best one for the LP. 

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 2:29 am

August 9th 1969 – Followers of cult leader Charles Manson brutally murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others in her Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles home.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 2:20 am

August 10th 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/12/09 at 1:13 am

August 12th 1969 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.

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Written By: MrCleveland on 08/16/09 at 2:01 pm

Woodstock Festival has been performed this weekend!

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Written By: nally on 10/06/09 at 11:16 pm

October 6, 1969...the "League Championship Series" was used in Major League Baseball for the first time ever. (since the teams were split into divisions) Also, it was a best-of-5 series at the time, so only 3 wins were needed by a team to advance to the World Series. The New York Mets (east) defeated the Atlanta Braves (west) 7-4 in the final game of the NLCS and the Baltimore Orioles (east) defeated the Minnesota Twins (west) 11-2 in the ALCS.

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Written By: Frank on 10/07/09 at 12:42 am


October 6, 1969...the "League Championship Series" was used in Major League Baseball for the first time ever. (since the teams were split into divisions) Also, it was a best-of-5 series at the time, so only 3 wins were needed by a team to advance to the World Series. The New York Mets (east) defeated the Atlanta Braves (west) 7-4 in the final game of the NLCS and the Baltimore Orioles (east) defeated the Minnesota Twins (west) 11-2 in the ALCS.

I think this was the 1st year I watched MLB.  Mets upset heavily favored Baltimore in the Series. Became an instant fan of Tom Seaver who ( I think) won 25 games that year.

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Written By: Paul on 10/07/09 at 2:27 pm

Missed it by a day or two, but oh well...

5th October 1969: The first show of a new comedy series hit the UK screens, but very quietly! The first programmes were liberally shoved around the TV schedules, mainly because the BBC didn't really know what to do with it!

Eventually, it gained recogntion and became one of the most famous of all comedy outings...

It's...(or was)




Monty Python's Flying Circus!

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 6:34 am

November 14th 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.

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Written By: nally on 12/31/09 at 6:25 pm

Making one last post in this thread before it gets locked up (and restarted in the 1970's section)...


December 31, 1969:
Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, was shot to death along with his wife and daughter in their Clarksville, Pa. home by hitmen acting under the orders of UMWA president Tony Boyle.



If any of you would like to start the new "40 yrs ago" thread in the 1970's board, please feel free. :)

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/01/10 at 4:29 am


Making one last post in this thread before it gets locked up (and restarted in the 1970's section)...


December 31, 1969:
Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, was shot to death along with his wife and daughter in their Clarksville, Pa. home by hitmen acting under the orders of UMWA president Tony Boyle.



If any of you would like to start the new "40 yrs ago" thread in the 1970's board, please feel free. :)
The all new 40 years ago has been started.

Subject: Re: 40 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 01/01/10 at 2:56 pm


The all new 40 years ago has been started.

So you can lock this one.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/01/10 at 3:00 pm


So you can lock this one.
Will do.

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