<p>how about marcus welby?</p>
<p>I think Kildare and Casey were before Welby. I remember actually buying an album of songs by Richard Chamberlain! Wish I still had it-- its probably a collectors item! He probably sold like 2… the other one bought by his mother.</p>
<p>I thought of another oldie today while I was out and about… but I forgot it…</p>
<p>By the way- how old were you when you got your first color tv? I still remember our first TV-- big cabinet-- little screen. Then we got a “better” b&w. The color set came in a big piece of furniture (someone mentioned this earlier) with a turntable on one side, the tv controls on the other. This big ol’ magnavox thing took up almost an entire wall of our den.</p>
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<p>I did this ALL the time–the other big drink in our house was Kool-aid made with 2 cups of sugar! And the one who drank the last cup had to make the new pitcher’s worth. So the pitcher limped along with little more than 2 fingers’ worth in the bottom until someone broke down and drank the last drink.</p>
<p>You know you’re old when you take your kids to their first concert (punk rock) and the coffee looks better then the beer. Also you still use the expression “E ticket” remember the ticket books at Disneyland?</p>
<p>How about the old metal rollerskates with the key you wore around your neck?
And how many Pez dispensers did you have?
Who was your favorite character on: The Three Stooges, Our Gang (Spanky and Our Gang), Sea Hunt, Our Miss Brooks, The Dick Van Dyke Show?</p>
<p>And where were YOU when the Beatles first came to the US (4 mos after the Kennedy assassination)?</p>
<p>Did you watch the Jack Benny Show? The original Tonight Show with Steve Allen? Ok-- time for my Geritol…</p>
<p>I actually saw the Beatles in August of '64. I had just gotten my first record-player and the LP “Meet the Beatles.”</p>
<p>Did any of you fight over who was better - Elvis or the Beatles?</p>
<p>I can remember Beatles vs. Dave Clark 5–what were we thinking?!! (Sorry, Dave, wherever you are…)</p>
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<p>Since I grew up in Disneyland’s backyard, I still have some old ticket books – I still keep them in my sock drawer after all these years. Weird! Since moving to AL, I miss hearing the Disneyland fireworks everynight during the summer.</p>
<p>Sing along, now… I gotta brand-new pair of roller skates, you got a brand-new key… bum,bum,bum, I think that we should get together and ??? (oh,no, forgot the words!)</p>
<p>Well, I’ve got a brand new pair of rollerskates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them on to see </p>
<p>[courtesy of Google - not my memory !!!]</p>
<p>I thought that was the dumbest song, but that was before I got old enough to realize that they weren’t talking about roller-skates at all!</p>
<p>(actually, I still think it’s a dumb song…)</p>
<p>(but not as dumb as that song about muskrats…)</p>
<p>if i could put “time” in a bottle</p>
<p>bye bye american pie…longest, longest song!</p>
<p>urban cowboy - how about those mechanical bulls? anybody ride one of those?</p>
<p>klackers…weren’t those also called popper knockers??? we used to tie a key to ours and hold them by the key.</p>
<p>elephant legged pants, crocheted vests</p>
<p>david cassidy…the partridge family</p>
<p>saturdays…american bandstand</p>
<p>solid gold…was that on saturdays or sundays?</p>
<p>I was there the first time Don McLean sang American Pie in public. He had it on a sheet of legal paper, and we made him sing it twice. He was the opening show for a Laura Nyro concert on the basketball court at St. Joes Prep in Philadelphia. I have no clue what Laura Nyro sang that evening.</p>
<p>bye bye american pie…longest, longest song!
I think that would actually be * ina gadda da vida*
If you are talking actual song length 
We did actually have several bars- where peanut shells on the floor and mechanical bulls were part of the “atmosphere”
Of course I rode one- I don’t think I fell off- but then I don’t think it ws set very high.
Im sure there are still cowboy type bars around after all this is the * wild west*
re: Partridge family- I enjoyed seeing Susan Dey on L.A. Law.</p>
<p>When I want to make my Ds crazy and they are arguing with each other I sing the Roller Skate song- thakn you Melanie, it has a way of getting stuck in the head, an ear worm</p>
<p>When I explain it was about sex, they still hate the song…</p>
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<p>My sister got on the mechanical bull and had bruises on her legs to prove it. I was never bold enough.</p>
<p>CGM:
It was about sex??? ;)</p>
<p>Same question. It was about sex???</p>
<p>I got a brand new pair of roller skates,
You’ve got a brand new key</p>
<p>Think about it. And I’m mortified that I can recall those lyrics but not the name of something I read the other day.</p>
<p>And if I had a nickle, for each time I’d been gambled on,
I would be the nickle king and sing the nickle song.</p>
<p>When I was a teen I asked my father for a transistor radio (so I could listen to songs like ‘inna godda da vida’, ‘american woman’ etc) . My father (an original) brought me a popular mechanics magazine from the library, an aligator clip and a rock crystal…I could hear KJR in Seattle, but only after 11 pm 
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<p>Instead of seatbelts our family car (ancient 1954 Cadillac) had a rope across the back of the front seat, the four of us kids used to hold on tight when the fast corners came up so we wouldn’t pile up against the door. And when my mother had her first driving lesson, didn’t turn the steering wheel fast enough and flew across the road, over the boulevard, down a ditch and up an oak tree, well we didn’t even get a nosebleed!</p>