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Time Traveling to 1962: Reliving a Very Special Year (Funlighter Hub).
On January 1st 1962 I was all of nine days old. While I was busy mewling and puking the wider world was getting up to all sorts of stuff. John Herschel Glenn Jr became the first American in space and the Jetsons, 21st century dwellers of Orbit City, became the first space age cartoon family with an entire TV series broadcast in colour. The Chevrolet Corvette was one of the most popular cars in the United States but the Beverley Hillbillies, stars of America’s most popular comedy series that year, preferred a 1921 Oldsmobile Roadster which had seen better days. Marilyn Monroe died and James Bond hit the big screen for the first time. In October the year, and indeed the world, very nearly came to a premature end thanks to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Fortunately, Khrushchev and Kennedy eventually decided not to blow up the planet, thus enabling an unknown group from Liverpool called the Beatles to release their debut single the same month. I could go on.
I discovered all these fascinating facts in Time Traveling to 1962. This copiously illustrated and wide ranging compendium covers world events, the Cold War, music, television and movies, sport, crime and cars. If you’re looking for a scholarly analysis of the year then this is certainly not your book. But if you fancy an easy to dip into fact based blend of history and nostalgia with lots of charts, lists and photos, it should prove sufficiently diverting.
Most surprising fact? For me this concerned the bestselling single of the year in America. If you had asked me I might have guessed I Can’t Stop Loving You by Ray Charles or The Twist by Chubby Checker, but I would have been wrong. It was, as a matter of rather astonishing fact, the easy listening instrumental Stranger on the Shore by bowler-hatted, goatee bearded, striped waistcoat wearing, Somerset born, trad jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk. Mr Bilk’s fellow British trad jazzer Kenny Ball occupied the no 21 spot with Midnight in Moscow. And I thought the British pop music invasion of the USA began with those loveable Liverpudlian mop tops! Acker and Kenny were clearly the advance guard. True but strange.
I intend to learn one new fact from the book every day and then recite them at random to bewildered strangers in the street.
On January 1st 1962 I was all of nine days old. While I was busy mewling and puking the wider world was getting up to all sorts of stuff. John Herschel Glenn Jr became the first American in space and the Jetsons, 21st century dwellers of Orbit City, became the first space age cartoon family with an entire TV series broadcast in colour. The Chevrolet Corvette was one of the most popular cars in the United States but the Beverley Hillbillies, stars of America’s most popular comedy series that year, preferred a 1921 Oldsmobile Roadster which had seen better days. Marilyn Monroe died and James Bond hit the big screen for the first time. In October the year, and indeed the world, very nearly came to a premature end thanks to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Fortunately, Khrushchev and Kennedy eventually decided not to blow up the planet, thus enabling an unknown group from Liverpool called the Beatles to release their debut single the same month. I could go on.
I discovered all these fascinating facts in Time Traveling to 1962. This copiously illustrated and wide ranging compendium covers world events, the Cold War, music, television and movies, sport, crime and cars. If you’re looking for a scholarly analysis of the year then this is certainly not your book. But if you fancy an easy to dip into fact based blend of history and nostalgia with lots of charts, lists and photos, it should prove sufficiently diverting.
Most surprising fact? For me this concerned the bestselling single of the year in America. If you had asked me I might have guessed I Can’t Stop Loving You by Ray Charles or The Twist by Chubby Checker, but I would have been wrong. It was, as a matter of rather astonishing fact, the easy listening instrumental Stranger on the Shore by bowler-hatted, goatee bearded, striped waistcoat wearing, Somerset born, trad jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk. Mr Bilk’s fellow British trad jazzer Kenny Ball occupied the no 21 spot with Midnight in Moscow. And I thought the British pop music invasion of the USA began with those loveable Liverpudlian mop tops! Acker and Kenny were clearly the advance guard. True but strange.
I intend to learn one new fact from the book every day and then recite them at random to bewildered strangers in the street.
3Archivist13
I received this book through LibraryThing as a gift in return for an honest review, I received it as an eBook
The book was slimmer than I expected, at only 72 pages. It offrers up information on all major events that took place in 1962. I was an enjoyable refresher, with some good illustration, but not much in the way of info that I didn't already know.
I would recommend this to high school, and college students who need a history refresher, as it is an outline of events, not an exhaustive reference work.
The book was slimmer than I expected, at only 72 pages. It offrers up information on all major events that took place in 1962. I was an enjoyable refresher, with some good illustration, but not much in the way of info that I didn't already know.
I would recommend this to high school, and college students who need a history refresher, as it is an outline of events, not an exhaustive reference work.
4rhonda.lomazow
Well written book through of information on 1962 .A really enjoyable read for anyone who is interested in history.Perfect for students.
