🎵 To me Chubby Checker and Bob Dylan seem to be from totally different generations .. but in fact are the same age. 🤯
@JohnPhilpin It is insane to think that Bob Dylan performed at the Lincoln Memorial before MLK jr gave the ‘I have a dream’ speech and I saw Dylan in concert just a few years ago.
@JohnPhilpin That's wild. It drove me to Wikipedia, where I learned that Chubby Checker was high school buddies with Fabiano Forte ,who became a celebrity as Fabian, a name I remember well from the same era. My wife says she had a Fabian poster on her bedroom wall as an adolescent.
@JohnBrady and I’m turn I had to go to ‘the wiki’ … having never heard of Fabian … looks like he might have not made it across the Atlantic … and that’s the excuse I am sticking with.
@JohnPhilpin Bob definitely sang with Joan Baez the same day MLK gave his "I have a dream" speech, which was wonderful. I watched it live on TV. I had no idea who Dylan was at the time, but I certainly knew who MLK was. It's possible I knew who Baez was too. It was a long time ago, but many of us from then are still alive and well today. I had just graduated from high school, about to start college at Oberlin. I began to discover Bob's music three years later and have been following him ever since.
I remember Chubby Checker on TV during my high school years. He was five months younger than Bob. They're both still going strong. Checker performs next in Rohnert Park, CA in early August. Bob just performed last night in Barcelona. youtu.be/liVLIHm71...
Checker performed his big hit, The Twist, on the Ed Sullivan Show in Oct 1961. There's a good chance I saw that on live TV too because we always watched Ed Sullivan every Sunday night. youtu.be/QDGprGUre...
25 months later JFK was assassinated in Dallas and the good times were over. Bob didn't write a song about that atrocity for about 60 years. It took us all a very long time to digest that horror.
Ron
@Ron @JohnPhilpin Very interesting! I just read this over on Mastodon:
Color TV debuted 72 years ago today — June 25, 1951. #EdSullivan hosted PREMIERE, the first commercially sponsored color show (on 5 CBS affiliates). Few saw it, because color sets weren’t on sale yet! And CBS’s color broadcasts were incompatible w/ B&W TVs. #OnThisDay #ClassicTV #1950sTV