I saw this as a meme at a blog I was reading earlier. It's kinda cool. Go to You Tube and type the year you were born into the search bar, and then post a few of the videos at your blog.

I found some neat stuff from my birth year, 1969.

Here's a truly weird commercial for the truly sweet '68 Mustang:

You're not gonna find a bigger Johnny Cash fan than yours truly, here ... and I enjoyed the following clip from 1968 of Johnny performing Ring Of Fire on TV with the Tennessee Three and the Carters (I'm pretty sure) on background vocals. Nonetheless, Johnny was clearly hopped up on some kind of pills. Note the way his hand jump all over that guitar, doing everything except playing the darn thing:

How about the Red Soviet Army, showing off a bit in Moscow?

It's no secret that I'm not a John Lennon fan, and this '68 clip is as good a bit of evidence as any as to why I don't like the guy. These words, coming from Lennon, would probably be touted by most as brilliant ... but put Mike Myers in a shag wig and have him deliver these same words with the same accent and people would realize that it's pure comedy: "Don't write pop songs and do that and do that, everything you do is the same thing, so do it the same way."

Even 38 years ago, drugs were baaaad neeeews, man. About a minute in you'll see a woman holding a spray-paint can and a cigarette, dancing. She is easily the most wonderful human being I've ever seen.

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