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Word: rocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Frumious Bandersnatch, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band. They all headed for the farm owned by Divorcee Betty Nelson, a late-blooming flower child of 39 and, starting right then and there, Sultan's first rock impresario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Up at Betty's Meadow | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...introduces 18-year-old Mary Hopkin, a Welsh folk singer with a high, clear soprano reminiscent of Folk Singer Joan Baez. Singing Those Were the Days, a sort of Mediterranean-style café song, she gives a gently swaying, lyrical performance. Another record, produced by George Harrison, offers Liverpool Rock Singer Jackie Lomax, 24, in a driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band from the Yorkshire town of Queensbury. Producer McCartney decided that their traditional brass sound would be just right for Thingumybob, a theme that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Apples for the Beatles | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

CANTERBURY TALES. The Wife of Bath and other Chaucerian tales set to medieval rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The New Broadway Season | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...15th among the all-time home-run hitters (372), his first major-league pitching victory. Rocky the Reliever is more than likely to appear again. Says Manager Houk: "He did a real fine job for us. I'd like to use him some more." Why not? The unknockable Rock still sports a career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Nobody Knocks the Rock | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...most imitated, if not the most bewildering journalist of the '60s. Wolfe's first collection of articles-The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, written mostly for Esquire and New York magazine-was a carnival of pieces about custom-car styling and demolition derbies, teenage tribal rock music, Las Vegas, and the girl of the year. His reportage on the rages and outrages of modern America's cultural phenomena was fascinating-and fatiguing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom Wolfe and His Electric Wordmobiles | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

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