"remember the 50s those fat complacent days when the future seemed a century away then up went sputnic gave the world a butt kick and beep beep, tommarrow starts today beep beep beep beep hellow there! sputnic sails giggling through the sky (hai hai hai) red flags red faces jump in the race as the space age begins with a surprise surprise! ... ... sputnic wore out and tumbled back to earth on reentry it buned up very soon hail and good by to that goose in the sky and in twelve more years a man walked on the moon!" (you can probably still get the mp3 of that whole song on promethius.com) just a little something i thought i'd throw in =^^= .../\...
Then the first American attempt at putting up a satellite failed on national TV in a gigantic orange fireball. The media dubbed it "Kaputnik". .
i remember the term kaputnic but thought it has been of an earlier and more generic origen. though come to think of it, i guess it did get kind of popular arround then. and everything elsenic. like beatnic even. precursor to hippieness. at any rate; verse 2: "you generals once thought von braun a wast of cash and gottard needed treament really bad then up went sput nic, gave you a hot foot and beep beep, you blasted off the pad. cho. done for a threat, propiganda or pretege, the point is the thing was in the sky it made the generals frown and put their money down and meet that bet or know the reason why cho ..." =^^= .../\...
Yeah, the 50s... Duck & Cover drills at school, fallout shelters, U-2 spy plane. But also beatniks, jazz, poetry, great early rock & roll and R & B and Blues. Learning to garden... Ah, the 50s... A lot of folks around these forums talk about going back to the 60s, but for me I'd go back to the 50s. Peace, poor_old_dad
I vividly remember the Duck & Roll drills in school and also lining up to get polio vaccine. I remember when yodeling was a fad and listening to my mother yodel when she would be cleaning the house (she used to get so embarassed when I would mention this.) I remember My Weekly Reader in school. Our neighbor's had a bomb shelter. When I got in my teens I used to take girls in there to make out. I remember buying a coke for 5 cents. I remember that some kids couldn't play with me because there was a social stigma when your parents divorced. I remeber going to Disney Land the first year it opened. My favorite TV shows were Howdy Doody and The Mickey Mouse Club. We only got 2 TV stations and they monly showed black and white.
