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To: otness_e
Here are a few songs from the '60's that probably won't be on the soundtrack:
11 posted on 01/01/2018 12:01:55 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Wonder if any of the Doors’ songs are on the soundtrack

Jim Morrison’s dad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephen_Morrison

In 1963, Morrison took command of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard, flagship of a 3rd Fleet Carrier Division in the Pacific, and based at Naval Air Station Alameda, California. Morrison was in command of the Carrier Division during the controversial Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 1964, which resulted effectively in the true beginning of the Vietnam War by President Lyndon Johnson.[6]


14 posted on 01/01/2018 12:05:26 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Fiji Hill

For What It’s Worth typically turns up in such revisionist historical accounts but it has nothing to do with integration, assassinations, or the Vietnam war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Strip_curfew_riots

The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the “hippie riots”, were a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California in 1966.

...annoyed residents and business owners in the district had encouraged the passage of strict (10:00 p.m.) curfew and loitering laws to reduce the traffic congestion resulting from crowds of young club patrons.[3] This was perceived by young, local rock music fans as an infringement on their civil rights, and for weeks tensions and protests swelled. On Saturday, November 12, 1966, fliers were distributed along the Strip inviting people to demonstrate later that day. Hours before the protest one of L.A.’s rock ‘n’ roll radio stations announced there would be a rally at Pandora’s Box, a club facing forced closure and demolition at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights, and cautioned people to tread carefully.[4] That evening, as many as a 1,000 youthful demonstrators, including such celebrities as Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda (who was handcuffed by police), erupted in protest against the perceived repressive enforcement of these recently invoked curfew laws.

...”For What It’s Worth” performed by Buffalo Springfield and written by Stephen Stills. The song is often used as an antiwar protest song despite not being originally intended as one.[9]Regarding the events, Stills has said: “Riot is a ridiculous name, it was a funeral for Pandora’s Box. But it looked like a revolution.”


15 posted on 01/01/2018 12:09:30 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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