[CovenBuster]

I hope it’s okay that I’m coloring outside the lines. Instead of posting songs from the movie, I’m posting some that those kids were listening to but didn’t make it in the movie. :) It’s my favorite era of music, and I have most of these on a 45. Thank God for YouTube. I can find them much faster than going through boxes of vinyl.

Back in ‘73 before “American Graffiti” was released, we went to an advanced showing. My brother-in-law was an entertainer with a few connections and was given tickets to the showing. My husband and I went with his sister and her husband. I was 26, SIL was a couple of years older. We were Boomers. Our husbands were from the Greatest Generation. Age apparently factored in when we were rating the movie afterwards. Our husbands weren’t impressed and felt sure it would never really make it off the ground. My SIL and I LOVED it, and tried to convince them how wrong they were. We got the last laugh.

I’ve seen the movie several times. It’s fun to watch it with classmates and equate the characters with the kids from our class.

Anyway, here’s a cross-section of what they would have been listening to in those days:

Harlem Nocturne (The Viscounts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIdgddIJUnI

He’s so Fine (The Chiffons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinz9Avvq6A

Hello Stranger (Barbara Lewis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5BRuWS9iAk

At Last (Etta James)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJU8G7gR_g

Candy Girl (Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-efs62E0SE

Mathilda (Cookie and the Cupcakes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2W2aB7E24M

Workout (Jackie Wilson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p0HaD0aQmM

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, CovenBuster...we don’t have any lines, so you don’t have to worry about staying inside them. 😊

Music for all ages is always welcome. About the only thing that gets me upset is tunes with bad language or content that are posted without a warning.

So post away!

[Fiji Hill]

This tune was in the original version of the movie, but for some reason, it was cut out. I saw the uncut version on TV years after the film was released.

Louie, Louie--Richard Berry & the Pharaohs (1957)

[Fiji Hill]

I saw American Graffiti in the theater during its first run and then saw it several more times. I wore out two cassette versions of the soundtrack. When I see the movie, I have a feeling that I’m in it—one of the teenagers cruising the streets of Modesto, Calif. on Saturday, September 1, 1962.