Re(6): Be good to your Chief Engineer Posted on June 12, 2021 at 01:51:48 AM by Sons of the Greatest Generation
No no, you're too young to remember. Those were warbabies, born prior to 1946 when the soldiers came home. Bobbysoxers, Do whop, black girls buying 45s. We boomers were in middle school to Johnny Angel. In abt 62, the California sound swept white America as Motown had a deep grip on black kids.
But WHB played white music, KPRS played black music even in 65 but even white kids got turned onto Motown with the Beachboys and drag racing--out of American Graffiti.
In mid 64, the moptops came over here in the British Invasion and the music was incredible. Radio was totally at its most popular period. They rode that wave til 1976 when FM came along.
But with the late 60s drugs and the Beatles Strawberry Fields, etc, well it all changed again. Psychedelic but radio stations often woudln't play that drug infested music that was so popular in Vietnam and in California. It was goodshit, as we said when we enhaled.
But Dolan (my boss), Phil Jay, et al here in the BIble belt were still shorthaired and wearing thin ties to work. Even Wichita was ahead of KC if you can believe that! Vietnam and the draft was the big mix-em-up and the soldiers from all over the country went home with new music ideas durign those Nixon years.
Again, we boomers didn't do do-whop. Those people now are late in their 70s and they just ddn't do drugs and didn't like the Beatles much when the turned into hippies. I dont think they listened to KY or even SuperQ. WHB, loed by us early boomers up and died in 1976. I was there in 76 and people were headed to the lifeboats already.
I saw it as early as 1970 when my Armed Forces Radio cohort, Nate Oeser played underground FM music that was foreign to me, born and raised on WHB. He was doing Baez, Nyro, Santana and rebellion folk.
The midwest had ALwaYS been 5-10 years behind the coasts, until the soldiers came back. I never even SMELLED dope til I got overseas in 69 but the coasts were the mecca of the hip scene, well before we were.
Well, I think it was said the blacks and the gays were toking while we were drinking 3.2 beer. Course when I got back in 71, everything had changed. Braless girls everywhere, Janis Joplin playing in KCK, Woodstock...
So don't ever confuse us boomers with the older war babies, we didn't hardly talk to the Happy Days crowd at the diner. Or the Country crowd. We were in our apartments gettin high and paranoid Vern MIller would bust us.
We didn't miss out on ANY of that, my friend! (Well I did, I missed Woodstock because I was overseas) but the concert scene was roaring when I got back to Kansas. And nobody bought 45s. We were all Album Oriented Rock.
Of course the music died in the 80s with Disco, and now you know the rest of the story! Replies: