"Pink and Black Days," a program about the early years of rock and roll heard at 8:00 PM PST on Saturdays over the Fifties on Five channel on Sirius satellite radio is one of my favorite broadcasts.
In the years just before rock and roll’s emergence, we watched Your Hit Parade every week, showcasing the top ten songs of that week. YHP didn’t survive rock and roll, probably because the rock songs didn’t sound as good when done by pop artists like Snookie Lanson, Dorothy Collins, or Giselle McKinsey. McKinsey just couldn’t sing rock and absolutely hated it, anyway. She went to her dying day cursing rock and roll.
Up until then, we had to listen to stuff like “Sixteen Tons,” “Canadian Sunset”,”How Much is that Doggie in the Window”, “This Old House,” and “Dance with me Henry.”
It was tough, I tell ya.
At the height of pink and black, Packard came out with a Clipper convertible tricked out in those colors. It’s the only car I’ve ever seen like that. It was like, whoa!