Coffee & Tidbits - The 60s. Ep. 2

This is Golden Baby Boomer look at the 1960 with personal story telling by Randy Weckerly. Creative lyrics and musical story telling will bring memories and maybe a tear to your eye. 

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Transcript

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The Beatles and the 60s This isn't just the Beatles biography It's really a song about the 1960s told through the Beatles The progression mirrors the decade 1965 and that's 1965 1967 I did an experimentation 1960 Protest and unrest Peace movement and uncertainty The breakup Welcome to Coffee and Tibbets 60 Show Remembering the Beatles when their songs changed everything And now look back at our lives during the Beatles are stepping off the plane They're remembering where they were when the Beatles changed everything And now let's go to Coffee and Tibbets Look back at the Beatles Good morning everybody and with a cup of coffee in hand It's time for coffee and tidbits We got stories we can share From the lakeside to the pot Sitting over there My grandpa never left me His love is everywhere Coffee and tidbits Where old friends still belong Celebrating all the good things in life one story one sip once From a lakeside cabin his grandpa built decades ago Where the coffee's always hot and every story has a lesson Welcome to Coffee and Tidbits with Randy Wickerly Well everybody There you go This is old Uncle Randy and I am so happy that you are enjoying another uh time with me on Coffee and Tidbits.

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I hope you do have a a favorite beverage in your hand, whether it's tea, milk, or a great cup of coffee. Uh myself I've got a cup of Distillery Channel coffee that uh we do sell on our website called the Distillery Channel, and it'll be going live uh again in about two weeks. Great coffee is from all over the world. This one I'm drinking today just for your information coming from the wonderful area of Hawaii. Some of the best coffee in the world that uh we roll right in our own uh location. And if you haven't ever gotten any coffee rolling. A lot of fun, but uh welcome to coffee and headbeds. Uh this is the first time you've tuned in with us. Uh show number one. That was a show that uh was a reflection on the leader of my life, my grandfather, and I was a boy, and what it was like growing up in the fifties. And uh anyway, all the music that you hear today, the lyrics I am responsible for and I work out and give a lot of thought to the music is from our background and the uh the control room and uh with the help of uh many different people. Uh with what we call our all the good things in life being a wonderful music. Last week I introduced being a baby boomer. Um reflected baby boomers and babies at this point, and we had a pretty glorious run. Back when we were growing up in the fifties, uh what the last show was about. Um there's a definition that there is actually baby boomers, which went from about 1946 to 1954 that era. And honestly, it's actually divided into two eras, and uh one ending in the fifties, and those are called Golden Baby Boomers, those that were born in the forties and then in the mid-50s. Of which I am one of those. So anyway, this song I'm coming is from last week, which people wanted to hear again. And it is called Golden Baby Boomer. And uh that's the group that I come from because uh well, it was just a golden time of life from radios to satellites, we were there to see it happen.

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What a time to be alive, I was born when the war was over, and America was on the rise, black and white television, and wondering our eyes. The phone hung on the kitchen wall, we knew every neighbor's name, and every kid on every block played the same backyard games.

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We drank from garden poses, built forts and summer trees, rode our bikes from miles to miles, straight up at the day, I'm a golden baby boomer from a golden time of place Star Wars changing at an unbelievable place from the bottom to the moon from the house to satellite We put that just to make it happen for the titles to be the last call to bag of the boom out, still carrying the flame We get the baby ball past and put with prize Away we came We played in baseball cards, listen to the game, you'll be white, Roger Mickey, every kid knew all their names. We caught the monks and measles lined up for the shot Then cheered the day when polio's finally stopped We watched the rock gets lifted into a bright new sky And gathered round the tail of vision when men learned out to fly a golden baby boom from a golden time place We start the world keeps changing at an unbelievable face From big hand on to the moon from the radio to the satellite We were there just to see it happen for the time to be alive now to stay away with old fashioned Maybe that's partly true But we learned about hard work and dinner promised through sat at dinner every year all time And somehow in those simple days We learn what mattered in life Where the golden baby boomers still standing proud today We've seen a thousand changes and somehow found our way From the first TV in the living room to a that's online We're grateful for the memories and the blessings of our time Golden Baby bullet A generation strong And if we do it all again We glad that same it's gone When the street lights started blowing We knew the day was done And we're gonna race our bikes back home again Before the settings on Golden Baby Boomer What a ride it's been Well there's no question about that it was a ride and it still is and a lot of my great friends have uh taken it to heart to to work out, to eat well and stay healthy, and uh it was a great time of life, and the that that whole last show was devoted to the fifties.

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We're gonna be moving into the sixties in this show, and again, as we go through these different decades, that's not really what we're gonna do with Coffee and Tibbs. It's gonna be a little bit more topical. But I had a lot of people that really liked what we did uh last week, so I thought we'd continue on into the sixties. Certainly had a big influence in our life. But uh as we were growing up in the late fifties, early sixties Okay, get this kid. And uh when I was four and five years old, we did a couple things we did not have. A phone or a television. Can you believe that? No kidding. Uh we had a radio, we sat around and listened to it if we wanted to. But again, I'm only four or five years old. It's 1953, 54. Um, didn't really think too much about it. We did a lot of coloring work and our workplay, and head friends overhead ladies, and dad went to work many interesting casual every day, but uh the 60s went on and TV came into play. Uh very few uh uh real television stations actually. Um and uh why why did anybody need a TV? Um but they did come about. It really came and I grew up in Northern Illinois, and there was uh Illinois brought in a television station, so I guess it was time for us to get one. But the fun thing was that to get the uh reception, we had these things called rabbiters sitting on top of these big black way black TVs and they were just like two metal holes. And uh as the years went on and uh Yankees became popular on Saturdays we uh would gather around whether it was family or with my grandfather, one of the first things we had to do was find what if we could find a channel, because there were very few channels that were covering the Yankees and whoever they were gonna be up on that day, and uh yeah, decided to tune in the TV. And uh so the next song up here is gonna be called Rabbit Ears Baseball. What kind of fun we had gathering around the TV trying to tune it in on a Saturday?

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Saturday afternoon, the chores were finally done.

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Dad was in his easy chair, mom was having fun, the television flickered, black and white and small. And if you wanted baseball, you had to catch the signal first of all.

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Move it to the left, no, back the other way. Standing there with the rabbit ears, try to save the day. Rabbit ears and baseball games on the sunshine found the night. Bringin' baseball and the ribs back for life stints to fall and free. Rabbit ears, and baseball games for me. Yogi crowds behind the fleet, white if Ford was feeling heat. Rodra Mars one for history. Every game felt bittersweet. The Yankees singed invincible heroes larger than a lot. There we go, there we go on to that baseball line. The stream model, the picture faded. Somehow we still watch that. Baseball games, don't you?

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What a family, that's cold drink in your hand.

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Never stop by trapping through. Nobody can't plant fell through.

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Because baseball wasn't up. Today the picture's crystal clear. Every game is on your phone. But sometimes I miss those Saturdays when home felt more like home. I still hear busy laughing, still see little swings, still remember how a baseball game could make a young boy dream. Memories that still remember. Mickey Roger Yogi to the heroes that we always knew. The years roll by, but I still see that little boy inside of me. Living every baseball dream.

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The pictures gone, the pictures gone, the years have flown, the years have fallen. The old TV has lost, since gone. Somewhere in my memories, the game is still playing on the rabbites and baseball games.

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Pee-wee Reese and Dizzy Dean watching the Yankees, as I said, uh it was just wonderful. Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, and uh the home run derby of 1961. And with that thought in mind, you know, we're now pushing thoughtfully through the 50s and getting a little bit older and going to the lake, and uh at that point in time I started playing a little bit of baseball at home in eighth grade, ninth grade, and uh you know, my days are filled, there is on a bike and go. Nobody else where nobody reporting Nobody knew where we were going. And uh reporting generally uh like a round like a lot of money bread. Life was good. In the afternoon you all play on baseball and over and under light. I didn't get to go to movies very often, but when we did it was outdoor movies. Get in the back road in the back, and you'd be seeing where you've been, not where you're going. And probably fucking a lot of exhaust. Um but when it came to going to the movies at the outdoor theater, uh that's what we did and uh coming to talk a little bit music about that and just call popcorn in the air. That's what it we did in the 60s. Daddy come home, and it would be time to go have some fun. Saturday night. Here we go.

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At the drive-in.

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Saturday finally rolled around. Dad got off at five, mom was packing sandwiches, everybody felt alive, the station wagons loaded, a blanket in the back, a cooler full of sodas, and enough snacks for the pack. The sun was slowly setting, the movie screen stood tall, and for a couple dollars, you could entertain a song Saturday night at the driving, popcorn in the air. Kids were running to the playground without a single care. Big cars lined up for miles underneath the stars. Saturday night at the drive-in was the best thing about ours. The little kids wore pajamas, curled up in the back seat, watching cartoons before the feature, sharing something sweet. The speaker hung beside the window, crackling now and then, but somehow ever a movie sounded better way back when the smell of buttered popcorn, the glow of neon lights, the whole town gathering together on warm summer nights, a Saturday night at the drive-in. Popcorn in the air, kids running to the playground without a single care. Big cars lined up for miles Underneath stars Saturday night at the driving was the best thing about us. And somewhere near the back rope, a young couple sat alone, sharing stolen kisses, pretending they were grown. Bench seats wide a sofas, a chevroletor forward, holding hands through scary movies was a teenager's reward.

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The movie might be playing, but no. I really care because first love bloom in summer evening air. The years keep rolling forward. The driving's mostly gone. But the memory still flicker like an old familiar song.

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I can still hear children laughing, still smell the popcorn stand, still see the stars above us, and a sweetheart's waiting Saturday night at the drive-in.

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A simpler place and time. Families, friends, and first romances, all standing in light.

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The movies may have ended, but the memories never will.

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Saturday night drive in lives inside us still. The screen fades to black, the credits roll, the speaker crackles one last time. Somewhere in the darkness, a young couple shares one final kiss before heading home.

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Saturday night driving.

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Boy, oh boy, oh boy. Those uh those bayol cars or those bayol back seats. I don't know. You can leave it at your imagination go to that. But basically, it was the innocence of kids going to the shows. Sometimes you can even sit on the top of the car, the hood of the car, put blankets out there, lean up against the window. He had this little speaker that came on a stand. And uh you just hung it in the window and uh, you know, you took a look at this uh screen out in front of it. It was an innocent time. And uh we moved from the fifties into the sixties, and you know, you get to be older and I went through high school and graduated, and there was gonna be a day that uh you know family is gonna be heading off to school. And uh nobody told you that it's gonna be the last meal that you had with your family. You don't know that it just happened. Nobody tells you it's gonna be the last meal that you had with your family. It just happened. Nobody tells you that your birthday that you celebrated at all in April. And nobody tells you that life is changing because you have to begin grownup. And nobody told me that that was coming. And boy, was life changing.

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Nobody rang a bell. There wasn't any warning sign that I could really tell.

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One day I was chasing baseballs, running barefoot through the yard. The next day people started saying life was going to get hard. The summers fell forever, the winters moved so slow. Back when all the answers were things I didn't need to know. It was the last day, childhood, though I didn't know then at the end of the yesterday, getting ready to begin. The road ahead was waiting. The road behind was gone. Somewhere, the boy was moving on. School bill rang for one last time. The yearbook page is closed. Friends talk about the future, all the different roads. Some are heading off to college, some are heading off to work, some are trying hard to figure out exactly what they were worth. The world suddenly looked bigger than it ever had before. Every choice seemed like a different open door. It was the last day of childhood, though I didn't know it then. Standing at the edge of yesterday, getting ready to begin. The road ahead was waiting. The road behind was gone. Somewhere between the two, the boy was moving on. The first love, the first heartbreak, the first goodbye, the first mistake, the first time realizing mom and dad weren't always right.

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And the first time facing questions that kept you up at night, the innocence was fading, but something else was born.

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The courage to keep walking into every new dawn. Years have passed since then, more than I can count.

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Yet sometimes I still visit that place of moving out. The day before responsibility, the day before the climb, the day before adulthood Came calling for my time.

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Still being written, still trying to do its best. The years may keep on rolling, but one truth still remains.

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Oh yeah, we all had to grow up real fast. I grew grew up very fast. When the 60s came, we didn't know what was ahead and what was gonna happen in 61, 62, 63. Every year something happened. And of course, we're gonna get into the Beatles invasion and uh some of the dynamic music that they uh inspired through the year and landing on the Ed Sullivan show. But in the early 60s, President Kennedy, in a great speech, thought it was going to be important for us to be the first to land on the moon. And in reference to that, in the years prior, uh Russia had set up the first satellite that went around the Earth very, very small, probably a little bit bigger than a softball. And all it really did was fly around the world and just beat that. But it was the first one to do it. And growing up in the 50s and 60s, you'd see on TV every night all these attempts that America was trying to do to throw a rocket into the air, and basically they there's a magnificent explosion. We didn't get it like 19 I think it was 62. President Kennedy said it was created. But also the draft lottery. The draft lottery came along, and we'll talk about that later, but 1960. The world looked different.

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The war was over, the future was bright. That's where we were. Nobody knew what was coming.

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We were the children of odds and how growing every day by the hour. Building schools because there were millions of us.

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The future looks bright and nobody flush.

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Television glowing, the birds growing, factories running, everybody knowing.

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Tomorrow would be better than today.

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At least that's what they said. Counting down the lightning whips, do greens live into the golden years. Everybody looking through the sky.

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Every kid was even the few made it. Decade started with everybody winning.

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Everybody making bigger trips.

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Nobody knew it's big.

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Cities talking. Politicians walking the country started arguing about who we really were.

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College campuses dwelling, professors telling.

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Students questioning everything they've been selling. Wait a minute.

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What's happening?

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The music changed.

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The country changed.

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Just the conversation Long hair.

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Pizza. Protect watching county line.

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Let's stop this. Everybody questioned it.

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The war was on television. Every night at six. And nobody could agree how to fix it.

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Stone carried flags.

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Gun carried sun.

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Stone stood apart.

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Stone crossed line. Dreams colliding with reality.

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Future look different now.

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Different now. Then came the lottery. Everybody watching, everybody waiting, everybody calculating. What's your number? What's your fate? Can your future really hinge on a random day? Classrooms got quieter, conversations got louder.

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The uncertainty on like a gathering climb. We were the kids to watch bands. The kids to watch bands, the kids to watch.

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The draft lotteries into question.

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We didn't just witness history.

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And somewhere between the moon landing and the draft lottery, a generation grew up.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

Yeah, we did. We grew up real quick. Um college deferments came along in 1967. Norton Illinois University was a smaller school, but they decided, as most colleges did, that if you went to college, you gotta draft deferment for four years, if you can get good grades in stages. So a lot of us did, and uh the schools exploded at NIU in terms of how many people went to school. But there were some things in the 60s that happened that were just really, really quite incredible. On a beautiful sunny day. Jackie riding in the car and celebrating going forward. And life changed. Sadness came across America. We couldn't believe it.

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The lights went out. Yeah, the decade started shining. Speaking of a new frontier, turning a hopeful page. We believe tomorrow waited, just be on the morning sun, and for a little while it felt like anything could be done. Then Dallas came in November. The news spread house to house, and the nation sat in silence, not believing it somehow. When the lights went, we all felt the darkness fall. Generations standing still, trying to understand it all. The future seemed so stubborn. Suddenly filled with doubt. We lost more than leaders when the lights went out. Yeah, the years kept moving forward. But the wounds remained inside. Then a preacher from Atlanta taught his dignity and pride. He spoke of peace and justice. He spoke of love instead. And when Memphis brought the news, another dream lay dead. When the lights went out, we all felt the darkness for a generation standing still, trying to understand it all. The future seemed so sturdy. Just two months later, another voice was gone. A man who carried hope for those tryna move on. The country seemed exhausted. The decade weren't thin. And many wondered quietly if we'd ever heal again. Three moments, three tragedies, three chapters in one time. A president, a preacher, a dream across the lines. They weren't perfect men, no leader ever is. But they gave a generation something bigger than itself. The lights went out. When the lights went out, we searched for what we made. The whole they left behind. The lessons at the past they're keep moving forward, but some memories never perfect. Measure of their lives to still seem in the paths they made. The lights went out, but the dreams survive. Maybe that's the story.

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Not how they died.

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But how they lived. But how they live.

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Yeah, well. Three magnificent men, lives taken horribly and too early. And it just you look back on it now, and all these decades later still can't believe what happened in the 60s. It seemed like every month a page was being flipped, and the pages were of like corduroy and of different colors and texture and feelings, and this war in Vietnam was heating up, and and uh the flop beard group came from England. And uh they sort of defined the 60s. And uh what was their name that appeared on the Ed Sullivan show? Oh yeah, they were called the Beatles.

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The Beatles and the 60s. This isn't just a Beatles biography, it's really a song about the 1960s told through the Beatles. The progression mirrors the decade.

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1965 in a centen sixty-five 1967 an experimentation Protest and unrest Beat movement and uncertainty The breakup Welcome to Coffee and Tibet 60 Show.

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Remembering the Beatles when their songs changed everything, and now looking back at our lives during the Beatles er stepping off the plane. Remembering where they were when the Beatles changed everything. And now let's go to Coffee and Tibets.

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Look back at the Beatles.

SPEAKER_01 42:02

Yeah, that is uh that is one of those nights we'll always remember. Sunday night, black and white, it's Olivan Show. And I had long hair. Can you believe that? Long hair. Now what the reflection of that is that as a kid growing up and I had two brothers, myself and my dad, every other Saturday. We went down to the barber shop and we got her cut and the haircut short, and it never would touch the collar of our shirt. Well, the Beatles come along and they have long hair. How horrible that was. But they were a hit and they came on the telephone shows, and girls cried and they passed out, and they yelled and screamed. And it was the innocence of the Beatles early on, but they did define all of those things that were talked about in here in the second half of the show. We're not gonna play Beatles music, but we're gonna reflect back on it a bit. Because it set the tone for the era of the decade, and again, I went to college in 1967 and late in uh that particular decade with the music defined, the war ongoing, the rebellions around the country, nobody liked it. And uh girls were being killed every day in the reports on the news. Well, how many days we call her? And they'd report that hundreds of our young men to Vietnam, and you never knew what your future was gonna be. You might have a deferment today went from wearing blue jeans to bell bad or flared hands and from hollowed hand. The earth.

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February 1964. Four lads from Liverpool. A television appearance. A few songs. Nobody knew they were about to change the world. They landed in New York City with matching suits and matching grins. Four boys singing love songs, and somehow history begins.

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I wanna hold your hand, fill the airwaves coast to coast. Every kid wanted a guitar, every parent wondered most. What is happening here?

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Who are these boys? Why are the girls screaming? Why is the world changing? From hold your hands to be such. From innocence to circumstance. They didn't just sing the soundtrack, they helped define the age. Four lads from Liverpool, standing center stage. The hair got a little longer, the songs got a little deeper, the world got a little louder, and the questions got a little steeper. Help was more than just a title. Yesterday felt bittersweet. And every year the music seemed to find a different beat. And somehow every Beatles record captured where we were at. From hold your head to yellow submarine to hate you and dreams unseen. Every song became a chapter. Every album turned a page. Four lads from Liverpool writing history on the stage. Vietnam was on television. Protests filled the streets. Bell bottoms replaced bleats. The summer of love exploded. Woodstock filled the sky. And the Beatles seemed to be asking the same questions. Why? The world was looking for answers. The music led the way. And somewhere in the middle, John was saying, Give peace a chance.

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John found Yoko. George found his path.

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Paul kept writing melodies, the whole world would still have. Ringo kept the rhythm, the heartbeat of the band. But even legends sometimes can't hold forever in their hands. The music kept on growing, but the ending came too soon. A decade reaching sunset beneath a different moon. From hold your hands to peace of chance. From black and white beginnings to a generation's dance. They left as something more. The soundtrack of the 60s. The voices of an era we'll never see again.

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Four lets one decade.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

I thought I'd give you a little jolt, a little different way to look at it. But when I went to college, uh just for me, I never really had a girlfriend in high school. My intention was always to get to college and benefit from having a track scholarship.

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We met at a study table in college freshmen.

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First we laid at night. Two college kids just chasing dreams beneath the door. A movie here, a dinner there, nothing grand at all. Just two young hearts discovering the love they couldn't call. Smile across the table, I'd hang on every word, and in those quiet moments, the sweetest songs were heard after all these years. Like an old familiar melody drifting through the rain. Somewhere in my heart gave You'll always be my song. Christmas came and I went home.

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Snow fell soft and white.

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Finally understood that I was deeply in love with you. After all these years, your memory remained. Left behind a photograph faded by the sun.

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Then one December years ago, in a crowded Christmas store, I saw your face across the room. Just like the days before, you told me life had carried on, yet something stayed the same. And for a moment time stood still when I heard you say your name. I'll always be grateful for the time we shared. So here's the dorm dinners and dreams of long ago. To the girl who taught a young man what it means to love and grow. And if somewhere on my life, these memories unfold. No piece of my heart still carries a story worth being told.

SPEAKER_01 55:23

Yeah, that was uh that was my first heartbreak. And uh to get into it, but uh Gail and I were different religions and it just wasn't gonna work anything, unfortunately.

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Ten, nine, eight, the whole world's watching heaven! Four tell me what we're fighting for. Three, two, one, light the sky and watch her ride.

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Started with a new frontier. Kennedy said the future's here. Built new schools for growing crowds, baby boomers shouting loud. NASA drawing on the board, dreaming what had come before. Every kid looked toward the sky, wondering how, and wondering why. Then the decade took a turn. Lessons nobody wanted to learn. Cities marching, voices are rising, questions multiplied.

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Built Dallas, Memphis, Los Angeles, free dreams lost to five-store ears.

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Flags burning, people learning, television bringing tears. Bell box, a blue jeans, everything wanted to see.

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Numbers spinning on the screen. Tell me what they really mean. Everybody had a spot, everybody had a pride, everybody had opinions, nobody put it stuff. What happened to the problems? What happened to the dream? What happened to the country? But we always be.

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Meanwhile, down in Florida, engineers were drawing lines, doing math at midnight, tryna beat the hands of time. Millions of parts, thousands of minds, working through impossible designs.

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While America argued a rocket slowly climb, cool down, reprise, die. It's got a decade hanging on its seven six. Can we still come out? See what we'll do.

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Armstrong Aldrin Collins riding in a tower of fire. 360 feet of thunder, carrying every nation's desire. Past the headlights, past the pain, past the protests and the blame, past every argument and score. Heading where we've never been For One Night Nobody cared who you voted for One Night Nobody cared what side you were on For one night The whole world was looking the side One small step One giant leaf The promises we chose to keep one small step One giant dream Bigger than we'd ever seen rooms from coast to coast Holding on and hoping after all we travel through baby dreams still true The beetles singing Students marching soldiers observing mothers praying children watching the gifts are returning a decade searching and nature learning What's that one giant leap?

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A promise made a prophet step in at the end of a difficult decade when hope was running thin a man stepped on to another world And somehow we all went with him 798 7654321 The 60s were over, but the dream wasn't No, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:19

This is an exciting time uh of life and it continues today. Uh we've gone through the shuttle program and all the different uh things that are flying around the world, tens of thousands of uh pieces of space junk. Just return to the moon here flying around here. Pretty exciting. And uh exploration of humankind continues, but you get a degree. We don't have to commit the hour. We had two kids. And then later on in 1971, we got married, and again it all happened in the leaves were falling softly in the autumn of sixty-eight Douglas Hall was buzzing with students staying up late, the security decks was busy, people coming through the door, and that's where I first noticed Lynn.

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Though I didn't know much more, she had a smile that lit the hallway, athletic, bright, and strong, just another face among the crowd, or so I thought Those were doubtless holidays when life was just beginning. We didn't know where we'd be going, we just knew we were living. One friendship led to another once he's unturned to spring, and sometimes the greatest blessings start as ordinary things, the years roll by so quickly, classes, work, and dreams, the future slowly forming, not always as it seems, then somewhere in those moments, a friendship found its way, and two young people discover a future. Start and start in there 1971 We students that I do Never know in all the chapters life would lead us through Scott and right came along The greatest gifts we know And through every changing season We watched our family grow Life doesn't always follow the plans we think we've made sometimes roads divide sometimes chapters fade But friendships stay between us and love for family too Because some bonds grow deeper than the labels we want to do Those were the list all days they'll always mean so much Because that's where life began to write The story of all of us The years late keep on moving But one thing still remains The family that we built together is worth more than we can explain The leaves still fall in autumn The memories still remain And every now and then I'll walk those halls in Darkness Hall Fall of 68 Darkness Hall Where so much of life began Yeah never knew going to NIU that I was gonna be uh having life-changing moments every year and today my two sons Lynn and I have even though she and I are not together, we're still great friends.

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She's a wonderful mother to the kids, and we see and talk to each other all the time. Our two sons got Ryan are just wonderful. Um but we're coming toward the end of the decade, and it wasn't all bad. And at the end of the decade, there were two great teams that did things and sports as we draw the show to a close. And that was an amazing match. It gave us a little joy at the end of this tenure period. You know, we had to celebrate. What the word is that? Celebrate a little as we close out this show.

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1969. The country needed something to cheer about. And then a quarterback made a promise, and a baseball team made a miracle. A lot of folks feeling down.

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Every night another headline, every week another frown.

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The war was on the television, the protests filled the streets, people searching for reasons to believe in something sweet.

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Then a kid from Pennsylvania with confidence to spare Looked the football world right in the eye and said, We'll win it there. They laughed, they doubted, they said it couldn't be done. It was the year the underdogs won. The year of came back to town.

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The year of promise became a victory, and the impossible came around.

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Just wave and see. So did we The Mets had been a punchline? The lovable losing crew From 40 winds to miracle dreams. Nobody knew what they'd do.

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A team that once seemed cold blessed, suddenly couldn't be beat.

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Baltimore stood awaiting. The experts knew the score. Except the amazing man didn't care. Anymore.

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It was the year the underdogs won. The year of hope came back to town.

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The year of promise became a victory, and the impossible came around.

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Just said we're gonna beat him. The next step, just wait and see.

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It was the year the underdogs won and somehow.

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So did we meanwhile in another city A rocket reached the moon.

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Maybe it was something in the air.

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Maybe it happened too soon.

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A nation needed heroes.

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A nation needed dreams.

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That nothing's what it seems. Not Steven Moonshots.

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The year people stood and cheered. The year America looked around and found something sincere.

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A quarterback kept his promise.

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A baseball team shot the world.

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And for one shining moment.

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Hope flew higher than the headlines.

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Hope ran faster than the doubts.

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Hope stood taller than the troubles. And hope.

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One out. 1969.

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The amazing mets.

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Broadway Joe.

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Apollo 11.

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What a year to be alive.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:37

Well, it was a year to be alive. Those amazing Mets. I if I remember correctly, they came back from like 15 games down or some crazy thing against our Chicago Cubs. And I could be entirely wrong with that. Somebody should write in and tell me either right or wrong, but it was the amazing Mets. Because they were really a losing baseball team forever. Joe Willie Nail, he broke my heart because he beat my Baltimore Colts and United. Anybody remember him waving their fingers and we're gonna win? Anyway, my grandfather always said a better footprint because he just don't know who's watching. Talk to you later, folks. Every week. Try to have these up every Sunday so you can just sit and maybe have some good thoughts of your life and uh if you're in our age bracket, what it was like back then. And if you're not, if you're a kid, you know, sometimes the older folks just like to storytell. I've got wonderful grandkids and I take donuts over to them many times. Now known as Grampy Donuts. There's no story to that. But we're having fun. Um always be sure to check in with our uh different Facebook pages we have, is golfers, golf and travel, the distillery channel. Um so many of them. Go to our website all the goodthingsinlife.com. Find out a lot about us there, or you can go to the distillery channel.com and see our different features, different shows, different people that we interview. Um have our own Roku channels, excited mind media, one is called, the other one's called LiveEcoStyle. And a lot of different places you can find us on LinkedIn. Along about 50 different groups there. 17 different Facebook pages, all the good things in life. I think we're just having fun. You guys be safe and healthy and always remember. Leave a better footprint because you just don't know who's watching. Produced by the Distillery Channel, LLC and copyrighted 2020 2015 to 2026. That was great.