You may have to drive a few stat mi these 24-hour interval to find a station wagon with a surfboard tie to the ceiling . Drive - in movies have become scarce , computers are no longer the size of a bus , and distance travel is shortly going to become stock ( for anyone with enough collateral to buy a slate , that is ) .
A heap may have change in the last fifty geezerhood , but at least one rule of American democratic culture has stayed the same : a red-hot summer require a hot soundtrack . Thanks to the wonders of the internet and vinyl radical collectors , the melody that were at the top of the charts in June , July , and August of 1963 are still around to heat up the night .
The hits of fifty year ago that were as swingin ’ then as “ Blurred Lines ” and “ Get Lucky ” are now admit soulful ballads , irresistible rock , and an Australian capitulum - scratcher about kangaroos and dying stock raiser . They emerge from studio in Detroit and California against a backdrop of historic modification both in the United States and afield — the American Civil Rights movement was at its height , with Martin Luther King Jr. ’s “ I Have a Dream Speech ” and protests in Birmingham , Alabama , while in Vietnam U.S. involvement was beginning to increase as inner difference of opinion between Buddhistic protestors and communistic troops escalated . The artists on this list exemplify various region and refinement of the time . Black , whitened , urban , coastal , and rural , they appeared onEd SullivanandAmerican Bandstand , and even play on the tone of the Lincoln Memorial for King ’s March on Washington . Their hearer were even more diverse , and many are still around to retrieve what a year it must have been back when a transistor wireless be about three dollars .
Summer is almost over for 2013 , but these thirty top picks are here to stay — so lash your surfboard to the cap , flap down the car windows , and hop in for a ride to a generation past times .
