Wow, what great memories all these songs and singers have brought back for me! This is the music of my pre teen and teenage years. I used to have the 45's of many of the song's posted here. Every week when I got my allowance I used to ride to the variety store (this was before my family moved to the country)and buy one or two new hit 45's, they were 50 cents each. I had an RCA record player that played 45's only in my bedroom. In the living room we had a big Cherry RCA Hi-Fi, remember those? It had the best sound, but I wasn't allowed to use it if the adults were using the living room. The music of this time always had a happy feeling to it for me, even if they were sometimes sad songs.
BTW, the posting of the hairdrier earlier also brought back a lot of memories. I went to Cosmetology school right out of high school in 1969. At the beauty college I attended in Santa Rosa, Calif. we still had some of these older hairdriers ( by that time the standard salon dryer had a clear, plexi-glass hood). These old driers were really powerful and you had to put a drier net over your patron's hair to keep the rollers and clips from being dislodged and sucked up into the fan. I worked at this profession steadily from 1969 thru 1976, when I went to work for the Telephone Co. as an operator. I still did my favorite customers hair after work. In 1980 I went back to Cosmetology full time until I went to work for the Social Service Dept.in 85'. I kept my license renewed until 2 years ago. I did a lot of those roller sets, razor cuts, permanents, and hair coloring during those 15-16 years. I used to work my ass off on Thur., Fri. and Sat., our busiest days of the week then, doing a lot of "rat and roll'.
Eddie
