The Music of My Life
Background Music Of My Life
I have gone through life hearing music at critical times and it has helped. I will explain. It doesn't matter where I was, or what I was doing, music seemed to accompany me on my journeys. I don't mean the stuff you get from the radio or youtube. I mean that music that plays in my head over and over again. The music is what I have been hearing my whole life written and performed by the great artists of my time and times before my existence. I hope I keep hearing them sing for the rest of my l...

The Grateful Dead Band
The Grateful Dead, Psychedelic Era
When thinking about the Grateful Dead, a few things come to mind. The Woodstock 1969 Three Day Music Festival that was a peaceful Vietnam War protest. Half a million people attended the Woodstock 1969 music concert on Max's dairy farm. The phrases Deadheads, and Psychedelic Era also come to mind. This lens is about the Grateful Dead music and the history of the band. Not only the band but at Woodstock too! There is plenty of history about the Woodstock 1969 Music Festival music and the perfo...

1956 - Music, Movies and Cars
1956 was a very good year. Remember when.....
---1956 Elvis Presley sings 'Heartbreak Hotel' on the 'Milton Berle Show.' An estimated 25% of the American population tuned in to hear him. ---1956 Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks Don't miss the Hard To Find Jukebox Classics 1956. ---1956 The Green Door by Jim Lowe - peak Billboard position #1 for 3 weeks. What is behind the Green Door? ---1956 80% of U.S. households have a refrigerator, but only 8% of British households do. The VERY popular America...

1948 - Music, Cars and Movies
1948 History
1948 July 29 - King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London 1948 August 10 - Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC Pee Wee Hunt's Twelfth Street Rag was a number one hit in September, 1948

Come to a Rockin' Quiz Party
Welcome to a Rockin' Quiz Party
'''I'm throwing a party and you are invited.''' If you have one Quiz lens and one lens about your favourite Music you will get the VIP treatment. Your 2 lenses can be posted here. We have lots of room - so lets fill up all 5 pages with our best quiz and our rockin music! We will make room for your best snack lens too. So that is a total of your 3 lenses on my Party lens. '''Tell your friends that it is Party Time at GramaBarb's'''

1953 - Music, Movies and Cars
1953 was a very good year. Remember when.....
---1953 The song "The Doggie in the Window" by Patti Page ran 8 weeks as #1 on the Hit Parade How many of these song do you still like to listen to? Til I Waltz Again with You - Teresa Brewer? or maybe Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You) - Mary Ford, Les Paul? ....a total of 25 on one CD - 1953 America's Greatest Hits ---1953 Dow Chemical creates Saran Wrap ---1953 White Rose Redi-tea is the world's first instant iced tea. ---1953 was a very good year for Studebaker - Read the story in Tim...