just one look-Linda Ronstadt
duke of earl
where the boys are
just one look
The twist -Chubby Checker
watusi
The lion sleeps tonight
come a little bit closer
i will follow him
Come softly to me
it's my party
Stand by me
I get around
All I have to do is dream
little darlin
Breakin up is hard to do
Save the last dance for me
Hello stranger
Good Golly Miss Molly
Blue berry hill
rock and roll music
that'l be the day
apache
california dreamin
pretty woman
born to be wild
sunshine of your love
yesterday
whole lotta lovin
hey jude
purple haze
Across the Universe
Unchained Melody Righteous brothers
little deuce coup- beach boys
wouldn't it be nice-beach boys
I get around-- Beach boys
Good Vibrations-Beach boys
California Girls-Beach Boys
Drag City-Jan and Dean
Surfin' Hearse-Jan and Dean
Surf City- Jan and Dean
Linda- Jan and Dean
Little old lady from Pasadena- Jan and Dean
Ride the Wild Surf- Jan and dean from movie same name 1964
Popsicle- Jan and dean
Little GTO -Ronnie and the Daytonas
The sounds of Silence- Simon an
misirlu- Dick Dale
Apache- The Shadows
California Dreamin-
Pretty Woman
Somebody to Love-Jefferson Airplane
Tambourine man
Sunshine of your love-Cream
House of the Rising Sun-Animals
Whole lotta Love- Led Zepillin
Heard it through the grapevine
I wanna hold your hand-Beatles
Like a rolling stone-Bob Dylan
Can't get no satisfaction
Respect
Purple haze
If you haven't heard any of them they likely are at youtube.com to hear all or part of them now. Or if you haven't heard some of them since you were younger or little you might take a trip down memory lane too.
Here's a 2000 version of Apache:
Apache - Hank Marvin - 2000
And WAh-Watusi
Wah-Watusi-the Orlons-original song-1962
original song, oldie.
For me, I lived American Graffiti in from 1960 to 1969 when my buddy went off to Viet Nam in the Air Force. It started when my friend lived over the high cement fence in back of Bob's Big Boy on Colorado STreet in Glendale. All the coolest hot rods and street racers would rev up their engines and come there to be seen among the street racing crowds on Friday and Saturday nights. My best friend and I would sit on top of the 8 foot high cement wall and watch all the excitement. Then by 14 my best friend bought a 40 ford coupe and then a 1953 Mercury which we rebuilt the transmission on. Then he bought a 1951 Ford convertible when I was 15 and because he was 16 and could legally drive we drove all over including to the beach with our surfboards sticking straight up with the top down behind our seats on the freeways to the beach from Glendale. Then at 15 I started dating and so did my friend so we could go to Bob's Big Boy in Glendale and show off my friends hopped up 1951 Red Ford Convertible. Then he bought a 57 Chevy and built that up for street racing. Then he went to Glendale College and got a certificate in building and maintaining jet engines so he could do that in Viet Nam and after instead of dying on the front lines. So, in 1969 he joined the air force and was sent to Thailand to maintain fighter jets and jet bombers. But, he passed on now a few years ago now. I moved to Venice, California (which then sort of was the Southern California Haight Ashbury) and then to San Diego and my parents moved to San Diego too where I went to college. My friend's mother moved to Santa Barbara and my friend and I lost touch during the Viet Nam WAr until the 1990s when we found each other through yahoo email addresses. We climbed up to Vernal Falls in the 1990s in Yosemite like we did at age 15 in 1963 when Yosemite had firefalls and was sort of like American Graffiti in some ways too back then. It's 50 years now since I was 16 in 1964.
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