Paul Revere and the Raiders....ahhh, still one of the best bands around, and they're still performing! I remember seeing them in the sixties with lead singer Mark Lindsay. Above I met Paul Revere and have to say....the guy looks great for 73 years old, and this picture was taken just a week ago. Oh ya....just in case you're wondering, I'm the guy in the black coat, Paul is the other., lol
I had talked to Paul Revere (Paul Revere and the Raiders) and told him that I was drawing a cartoon-caricature of him....here's what I came up with!
Sorry for such a late post. This probably isn't news now, but James MacArthur died on Oct. 28th this year.
What would the sixties sitcom "Get Smart" be without "The Chief?"
Today is Fred Flintstone's 50th birthday! Happy Birthday Freddy! This was and still is my all time favorite cartoon show. I had the great pleasure to meet his creator....Bill Hanna. The Flintstones were fashioned after a sitcome called "The Honeymooners.Another great show....too bad today's show's didn't have the imagination the older ones had....
Ahhh...The Twist! A world wide dance craze that started in the early 60's. Most of us associate Chubby Checker with the version we all know, but it was first on the B-side of a Hank Ballard tune.
I remember I had this record in the sixties.....great record! The thing about Englebert Humperdink that some bands today don't realize is that he's sold more records than any of your five most popular bands of today.
I argue with my son all the time about the 60's decade women looking MUCH better than the leading ladies of today.....I still think I'm right, proof up above!
One of my all time favorite 60's movies....better yet, one of my favorite movies period. Taken from the book written by Boris Pasterak, and directed by David Lean (he also directed Bridge over the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia).
Popular 60's character actor and comedian Paul Lynde was as colorful in his private life as he was on TV. Heavy drinking and his lifestyle in the "swinging sixies" helped cause a heart attack at an early age....never the less.....he always brightened up the TV screen on any show he appeared on in the sixties.
Barbara Eden from the sixties sitcom, I dream of Jeannie, turned 76 today! I think she still looks great!
Hanna-Barbera's futuristic cartoon, The Jetsons, premiered on television in 1962. I seen the other day on the news that a flying car was now in production in North America.....maybe George Jetson and his family we'rn't that far off on the cartoon.
I almost have the whole sixties-seventies set of DVD's of Hawaii Five-O,
All I can say about a 1965 Corvette is....does it get any better?
So sorry for the long delay in posts. I was at a caricaturist convention in Ohio last week (the special guests were four artists from Mad Magazine).
As corney as it was, I loved Burke's Law, even though he was a police chief chauffered around in a Rolls-Royce. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, and ran from 1963 till 1965.
Jeese...I don't mean to sound like an "obituary blog," but two more sixties celebrities passed last week. We all know about Soupy Sales, but also Montreal born Jseph Wiseman, or better known as "Dr. No," from the 1961 James Bond film....Dr. No.
We lost sixties crooner, Al Martino on October 13th. When sixties rock and roll dominated the charts, only a few easy listening artists could make a go of it, Al being one of them.