Ah yes, music from our day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tKNEsJjTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcDAlATFK94
My dad went to the same high school as some of the original Four Tops at Pershing HS in Detroit. He said that occasionally, they would do short impromptu performances acapella just for the fun of it, and for the undivided attention of any young ladies within earshot!
The public space was protected to keep it simple and nice, the toughness was when men were at work, our businessmen ate the lunch of their competitors in other countries, our soldiers and sailors, generals and admirals saw their mission and focus as defeating our enemies in war, our cops treated women and children nicely and carried clubs for the troublesome/threatening men, our workmen took pride in their work and the things they built, everyone was aware of the community they were selling to or working in, aware of the women and the children and the family homes that they served no matter what field they worked in.
The virtues were promoted and taught and the vices of pride and egoism, vanity, greed, exploitation and instant gratification taught against and condemned, so much has been totally reversed, there was for almost everyone the sense that a greater power saw what we do and even the few sociopaths had to adapt to that culture and conduct their business in that greater atmosphere and having to hear the checks and admonitions and cautions of the others in the room, even in the boardrooms, there were limits and barriers protecting the public space where the kids and families, churches and moms, daughters and dads existed.
Had a babysitter the night The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan.
She spent the whole time screaming. Thought my parents were nuts to have this girl take care of us!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs
BKMRK.
Black people may have been coming out of the effects of direct and indirect discrimination, but there was little hatred between them. It took the DEMOCRATS, JESSE JACKSON, BLACK PANTHERS, Weathermen, Al Sharptongue and again DEMOCRATS to ratchet it up to war in the Streets, the Courts and in the Schools.
The music was not angry, it was happy for ALL races.
