Death Of The 60s: The Dream Was Over, But The Music Lives On

Udiscovermusic ^ | July 15, 2025 | Paul McGuinness

[Rummyfan]

Nothing to do with music but I’m reminded of an old L&O episode where McCoy gets a conviction of some long-in-hiding 60s bomber and says ‘she’ll be out in 2005. The sixties should be over by then ‘. LOL! Will they ever be?!

[dfwgator]

I think this is the future.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HXBmgMHcBA&list=RD5HXBmgMHcBA&start_radio=1

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Even if something’s new to you, that doesn’t mean it’s truly new. Just that it’s new to you.

[ansel12]

Motown was great, black music sucks today.

[ansel12]

Press one for English.

[Fiji Hill]

I was a bit younger than you in the summer of '69, but I didn't like the music played at Woodstock. I was listening to songs like At My Front Door by the El Dorados and Little Girl of Mine by the Cleftones. I kept my ear glued to KWIZ, a radio station at 1480 kilocycles that blasted Southern California with Oldies. I also amassed a collection of "Golden Oldies" LPs, which were put out by Roulette Records and could be had in supermarkets for about 99 cents each in 1969.

A few weeks after Woodstock, I began attending Occidental College, on the slope of Fiji Hill, where everyone listened to Woodstock-type music. However, in my dormitory room, I would tune in late at night to XERB, a border blaster station from Rosarita, just below the Mexican border, and listen to Art Laboe play cool Oldies. And my tastes haven't changed all that much over five-plus decades.

[ansel12]

“”””The 15-year-old daughter of one of her coworkers came in one day, all excited, and said, “Mom! I just found this great new group! Pink Floyd!”””””

I got engaged to a teen Welsh girl and one day she called me from Swansea Wales and asked if I had heard a new song called Tuesday Afternoon, by a band called The Moody Blues.

[stanne]

“I’ve been listening to a lot of Allman Bros. recently. Great stuff.”

Same here

Pre 1971, with Duane? Or all?

I wonder if you would say why? They were great

[ChildOfThe60s]

Not my cup of tea. At all.

One of my early girlfriends loaned me her copy of Disraeli Gears and that’s when I knew what I really liked. Along with a couple of Yardbirds LPs I already owned.

[algore]

In the 70’s all we got was more cowbell

[Lake Living]

Chuck Girard passed away this past Aug. 11th. “Who in the world is he?” you ask. He was the founder of Love Song - a group that helped to start the contemporary Christian music movement. His songs were very popular but the radio stations refused to play them.

He had quite a testimony and life story. His dad died from a drug overdose when Chuck was around 5 yrs. of age. He had to move in with grandparents who really didn’t want him and were abusive. At age 16 he was out on his own. A talented musician, he helped with many secular artists of the time but struggled to find meaning in life and to find God. He went from drugs to eastern religions before wondering into Chuck Smith’s Calvary Chapel where he found faith in Jesus. One of his daughters has a moving eulogy on Youtube honoring him. Sounded like a great dad!

His music helped to launch the Jesus Movement of the late 60’s and early 70’s. Perhaps if we would have listened to his songs and message and followed his lead in honoring the God of the Bible, our nation would be a different place today. There is a 3 part special coming this Sept. on Amazon Prime videos examining his life and the influence of Love Song.

[nuconvert]

Mostly pre ‘71...can’t get enough of, Not My Cross to Bear, Please Call Home, and Dreams I’ll Never See.

[Biblebelter]

The summer of 69, I was eighteen and had graduated from high school.

I was working 44 hours a week in a factory grinding welds.

It was a dirty sweaty job, but I made good money and I had college in front of me unlike most folk working there who would likely spend their lives doing this kind of hard labor.

As far as music, I remember how it was delivered and that was on AM Radio.

My alarm clock radio would wake me up at 6:00 am to the sounds of Larry Lujak known as Lawrence of Chicago.

WLS Am played Top 40, but I remembered how eclectic the Top 40 was.

Lujak loved to open up with Skeeter Davis singing The End of the World which had been around awhile and was more country than rock.

WLS would play Frank Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night and a lot of other eclectic tunes such as Percy Faith’s A Summer Place which was all instrumental but it still played mostly Rock and Roll.

I didn’t have my own car and a buddy who also worked at the factory would pick me up and we would listen to WLS on the AM radio both back and forth to the job.

And then of course as I grew older along came Rush Limbaugh who made his bones as AM DJ among other chores.

I miss AM Radio.

It was a populist medium.

I still listen to music but I miss someone spinning the tunes.

[stanne]

Just great.

[nuconvert]

Eat a Peach also has classic songs (without Duane of course)

[DoodleBob]

Zappa’s Who Needs the Peace Corps? is a great testimony to how he detested the hippies.

First I’ll buy some beads
And then perhaps a leather band to go around my head
Some feathers and bells
And a book of Indian lore
I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce
How to get to Haight Street
And smoke an awful lot of dope
I will wander around barefoot
I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times
I will love everyone
I will love the police as they kick the s**t out of me on the street
I will sleep
I will, I will go to a house
That’s, that’s what I will do
I will go to a house
Where there’s a rock and roll band
‘Cause the groups all live together
And I will join a rock & roll band
I will be their road manager
And I will stay there with them
And I will get the crabs
But I won’t care

[nuconvert]

Pretty sure I still have a vinyl copy of Eat a Peach

[mairdie]

Bob Dylan - streaming from my website

Star Trek - My Back Pages
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/st/video/Star-Trek-My-Back-Pages-Bob-Dylan.htm

Sherlock Holmes - Masters of War - Downey, Jr
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/hw/video/Sherlock-Holmes-Masters-of-War-Bob-Dylan.htm

Criminal Minds - Shelter from the Storm
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/crime/video/Criminal-Minds-Shelter-From-the-Storm-Bob-Dylan.htm

Get Smart - If Not For You
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/gs/video/Get-Smart-If-Not-For-You-Bob-Dylan.htm

The Professionals - Baby Blue
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/pros/video/Professionals-Baby-Blue-Bob-Dylan.htm

House - A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/house/video/House-A-Hard-Rains-Gonna-Fall-Bob-Dylan.htm

[Fiji Hill]

More of my favorite creative tunes from the sixties:

• Vision of Love--The Explorers (1960)

• Nobody Loves Me Like You Do--The Flamingos (1960)

• (Welcome) New Lovers--Pat Boone (1960)

• Better Tell Him No--The Starlets (1961)

• Every Time I See the Sun Go Down--Melvin Endsley (1961)

• Stop the music--The Glitters (1962)

• Leave Me Alone--Baby Washington (1963)

• Walk Softly Away--The Starglows (1963)

• I Want to Be Your Lover--Diane Emond (1963)

• Pull the Covers Right Up--The Tran--Sisters (1963)

[stanne]

Oh I have vinyl of Eat a Peach and Fillmore East. Yep