A 1960s Childhood – Paul Feeney

1960 Apache – The Shadows 1961 On the Rebound – Floyd Cramer 1961 Kon-Tiki – The Shadows 1962 Wonderful Land – The Shadows 1962 Nut Rocker – B. Bumble and the Stingers 1962 Telstar – The Tornados 1963 Dance On – The Shadows 1963 Diamonds – Jet Harris and Tony Meehan (both former members of the Shadows) 1963 Foot Tapper – The Shadows 1968 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Hugo Montenegro Orchestra 1969 Albatross – Fleetwood Mac Typical mid-sixties look that young girls would try to copy.

British entries in the Eurovision Song Contest and position: 1960 Looking High High High – Bryan Johnson 2nd 1961 Are You Sure? – The Allisons 2nd 1962 Ring-A-Ding Girl – Ronnie Carroll Joint 4th 1963 Say Wonderful Things – Ronnie Carroll 4th 1964 I Love the Little Things – Matt Monro 2nd 1965 I Belong – Kathy Kirby 2nd 1966 A Man Without Love – Kenneth McKellar 9th 1967 Puppet on a String – Sandie Shaw 1st 1968 Congratulations – Cliff Richard 2nd 1969 Boom Bang-a-Bang – Lulu Joint 1st 1kitap1.com/en Mods and Rockers Whenever post-war baby boomers find themselves reminiscing about events of the sixties with friends, they are inevitably asked: ‘Were you a mod or a rocker?’

There is always an assumption that you were one or the other, even if only through your taste in music. The smartly dressed mods listened and danced to R&B, Motown, Bluebeat, pop and blues records, whereas the leather-jacketed rockers, as their name suggests, preferred rock and roll music. Of course, most kids growing up in the 1960s were too young at the time to actually be a mod or a rocker, but many still had their own preferences when it came to fashion, style and music.

Perhaps in your own childhood you aspired to become a mod when you got a bit older, but instead, as a 1970s teenager, you found yourself proudly sporting the latest fashion in platform shoes, loon pants and knitted tank tops. Where did it all go wrong? Girls of all ages attempted to make their own clothes to follow fashion. This was a typical dressmaking pattern book for a cotton lace stitch dress to make on a Knitmaster home knitting machine.

There has always been a lot of media emphasis put on the violence of mods and rockers, but in the scale of things it was only a relatively small number that took part in the fighting and rioting that made headline news. The mods played a big part in Britain’s fashion and music culture and the majority of them steered clear of any confrontation or violence.

Three: OUT ON THE STREETS Four: GAMES, HOBBIES AND PASTIMES Five: MUSIC, FASHION AND CINEMA Six: RADIO Seven: TELEVISION Eight: SCHOOLDAYS AND HOLIDAYS Nine: CHRISTMAS Ten: MEMORABLE 1960S EVENTS Eleven: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO? Copyright 1kitap1.com/en ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Gwen Lippingwell for allowing me to reproduce the photograph on page 11. All other pictures and illustrations are from the author’s collection. Every reasonable care has been taken to avoid any copyright infringements, but should any valid issue arise then I will look to correct it in subsequent editions.

1kitap1.com/en One 1kitap1.com/en A DECADE OF CHANGE It’s eight o’clock in the morning on the first day of January 1960, and kids all over the country are dipping freshly cut bread soldiers into the soft yellow yolks of lightly boiled eggs. Just like any other morning, the wireless is already on and Jack de Manio is reading the news on the Today programme. Thousands of grownups are running late for work, having foolishly believed his inaccurate time-checks. Everyone knows that he is prone to giving out the wrong time during his radio show, it is all part of his laid-back presentation style.

He is easy to listen to and can be quite amusing, not at all stuffy like the other BBC newsreaders; even young children happily tolerate his breakfast programme. It’s hard to believe that Christmas Day was only a week ago. It now seems like a distant memory. Some children have already gone back to school, and the rest have just three more days of freedom to enjoy before the dreaded Monday arrives when they too will have to return to school for the start of a new term.

You have just finished the last of your bread soldiers and you are now scraping your spoon around the inside of the eggshell to retrieve every last piece of egg white. There is a cup of tea that’s been sat on the table in front of you for about fifteen minutes, and it’s now cold. You’ve been daydreaming and it’s taking you absolutely ages to eat your breakfast. Meanwhile, your mum is bustling about the room, trying to clear the table around you, but you are oblivious to her loud tutting, too engrossed in your own thoughts and in no rush to finish.

As amazing as your daydreams may be, your imagination will never stretch to encompass all of the astonishing delights that future years will bring to improve the lifestyle that you so readily accept as normal on this, the first day of 1960.

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