Teen History with a look at 1957 The Teen Scene in Pasadena Star News by Steve Propes Video
DIG magazine promoted Teens to write about their scene in California's Southland newspapers, other than the L.A. Times. Here Steve is looking thru old clippings to discover roots of So Cal teen writing. Peter Potter's Jukebox Jury, Low Riders, Music charts, Car culture, cruisin' scene, and all that appealed to the burgeoning youth market in 1956-57 were talked of in the TEEN SCENE.
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so glad i? "bumped ... so glad i? "bumped into" your channel - so much of interest here! and you two are really laid back - it was like sitting around on a Sunday morning drinking coffee and hearing about 50s teen culture... and i love anything retro, so i really enjoyed that!
Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: tinyurl.com Rick Nelson was one of the very biggest of the '50s teen idols, so it took awhile for him to attain the same level of critical respectability as other early rock greats. Yet now the consensus is that he made some of the finest pop/rock recordings of his era. Sure, he had more promotional push than any other rock musician of the '50s; no, he wasn't the greatest singer; and yes, Elvis, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, and others rocked harder. But Nelson was extraordinarily consistent during the first five years of his recording career, crafting pleasant pop-rockabilly hybrids with ace session players and projecting an archetype of the sensitive, reticent young adult with his accomplished vocals. He also played a somewhat underestimated role in rock & roll's absorption into mainstream America -- how bad could rock be if it was featured on one of America's favorite family situation comedies on a weekly basis? Nelson entered professional entertainment before his tenth birthday, when he appeared with father Ozzie, mother Harriet, and brother David on a radio comedy series based around the family. By the early '50s, the series was on television, and Ricky grew into a teenager in public. He was just the right age to have his life turned around by rock & roll in 1956 and started his recording <b>...</b>
1957 TV COMMERCIALS FROM "THE MILT GRANT SHOW" IN WASHINGTON, DC Live television commercials from 1957, courtesy of "The Milt Grant Show" in Washington, DC Milt Grant hosted an "American Bandstand" type of program on a local TV station (WTTG) in Washington from 1956 to 1961. "The Milt Grant Show" featured teenagers dancing to the top music of the day. And the show also had some of the best live television commercials you're likely to see, with Milt Grant himself plugging the various products -- including Motorola radios, Pepsi-Cola, Briggs Ice Cream, The Music Box record stores in the Washington area, among other advertisements. For those who can remember live TV shows like this from the 1950s and 1960s, this is a fun trip down memory lane. RELATED LINKS: en.wikipedia.org www.youtube.com
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