I know all you guys think us babyboomers are jerks.

[hickman]

This was the first song I heard that wasn't Elvis. 1963. The President was dead and we thought OK, well, maybe just music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouzndIEbEsc

[marzipanni]

1. For my thirteenth birthday, December 1963, my friends gave me Beatles' fan stuff

I have some of it at my 92-year-old mom's house on the opposite end of the country. I'm saving it so my son can take it to a future 'Antiques Roadshow'!
It seemed like everyone watched the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show!
<snip>
In 1964 Sullivan signed the Beatles for three landmark appearances. Their first slot on 9 February 1964 was at the height of Beatlemania, the beginning of a revolution in music, fashion, and attitude. Sullivan received the biggest ratings of his career, and, with a 60 share, one of the most watched programs in the history of television. Sullivan responded by welcoming icons of the 1960s counterculture into his arena, most notably The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Janis Joplin, and Marvin Gaye. One performer who never appeared was Bob Dylan, who walked off when CBS censors balked at his song "Talkin' John Birch Society Blues."
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/E/htmlE/edsullivans/edsullivans.htm

[hickman]

2. Thank you but we we're barely 17 and we were doubly blessed.

It was a long time ago. A lost time.