Blizzard of 2015 snow day

What to do when you're stuck inside due to a blizzard? Have the band over and go-go dance, damn it! Go baby, gooooooooooooooo!

time for a go-go lesson...

...from Denise Drysdale, Australia's premiere go-go dancer.

Sunday morning dose of The Beatles

This is a live tv broadcast from 1963, just months before The Beatles arrived in the United States. I love how they play the music for the closing credits. Lots of audience shots!

1963 threads

Here's a film about what Montgomery Ward was offering for 1963.

rock stars with their parents

Check out this 1971 Life Magazine exposé about rock stars at home with their parents. Rock those boots Elton John's mom!

Catch a revue tonight...

...and if you're under 12, you get to see James Brown for 99¢. 😃

Are you a modernist?

Cathy McGowan, known as the Queen of the Mods and host of Ready Steady Go!, appears on To Tell The Truth and answers questions about being a mod from a 1964 broadcast.

Play Your Hunch

Jerry Leiber and Burt Bacharach on the game show in 1958.

let's go-go

I've always been fascinated with rock and roll history, popular culture, and how people dressed, groomed themselves and danced during different eras. The fad dances of the 60s crack me up the most. Seems like people really needed to let go. Yeah baby, yeah!

Record shops had listening booths to preview the latest hits.

Head down to the discotheque and Watusi the night away.

Friday morning dose of 1965

Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames on Ready Steady Go!

haircuts

One man's story of his relationship with the barbershop.