The following information contributed by Sonja Allen Bevan
TV shows our classmates experienced during school years!
During our early years, we experienced “Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s Superman”, the TV show played by George Reeves as Superman, also known as Clark Kent.
Also, we watched “I Love Lucy” with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
We also watched the “Mickey Mouse Club” with Annette Funicello as one of the mouseketeers.
Other TV shows we watched: “Bonanza”, “Gilligan’s Island”, ”The Andy Griffith Show”, “Gunsmoke”, “Perry Mason”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Wanted Dead or Alive”, “The Jackie Gleason Show”, “Rawhide”,” The Dick Van Dyke Show”, “Lassie”, “Hop-Along Cassidy”, “Maverick”, “Bewitched”, “The Andy Griffith Show” and many more.
Famous Quotes in 1964 in Movies & TV
“Skipper!” – Gilligan
“Does she or doesn’t she?”- Clairol
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”- Peter Sellers, in ‘Dr. Strangelove’
“Come alive! You’re in the Pepsi generation”- Pepsi
“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”- Sean Connery, as James Bond, in ‘Goldfinger’
“Please don’t squeeze the Charmin”- Dick Wilson, as Mr. George Whipple
“Let your fingers do the walking”- Yellow Pages
“Put a tiger in your tank”- Esso (later Exxon)
What happened in 1964? Sports and Hollywood
* World Series Winner: St. Louis Cardinals
* NCAA Basketball Champions: UCLA
* US Open Golf winner: Ken Venturi
* Oscar Winning Movie 1964: “My Fair Lady”
* NFL Champions: Cleveland Browns
* AFL Champions: Buffalo Bills (Super Bowl was introduced in 1967).
* NBA Champions: Boston Celtics
* Famous Women in 1964: Jayne Mansfield, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Doris Day, Annette Funicello, Kim Novak
Songs our classmates enjoyed!
* Elvis Presley – the King of Rock and Roll, “Don’t Be Cruel”, “Love Me Tender”.
* Also, the Beatles in the 60’s we listened to: “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You”, “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Can’t Buy Me Love”, among others.
* Bobby Rydell’s “Volare”, Little Anthony and the Imperials “Tears on my Pillow”, “Dream Lover” by Bobby Darin, Gene Chandler’s “Duke of Earl”, Del-Vikings “Come and Go with me”, The Crests “16 Candles”, The Rays “Silhouettes on the Shade”, Dedicated to the One I Love, the Shirelles, Connie Francis “Where the Boys Are”, Brenda Lee “I’m Sorry”, Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman”, Dean Martin’s “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime”, “Dancin’ in the Streets” Martha and the VanDellas, “Under the Boardwalk” by the Drifters, Mary Wells “My Guy”, The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go”, “Mack the Knife” by Bobby Darin, “Wild One” by Bobby Rydell, “Dream Lover” by Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, “Hello Dolly” by Louis Armstrong, “Chapel of Love” the Dixie Cups
Other links about 1964:
http://rhs1964.tripod.com/1964TheYear.html