My baby brother was born 1955. I was 7 yrs old. There were 3 of us. I remember gas being 29 cents. We got our 1st. Tv. And phone. I remember walt disney. We got an aluminum tree with red balls. I remember Ed Sullivan. And going to the drive in with my friends. Those were great and happy days. I remember all these things. I used to want to go to my neighbors and watch bonanza in color. We only had black & white.
Unless you were Black living in the segregated South with continous sense of shame from most whites still in a sense a form of slavery still slavery. and also the horror of lynching.
1950s had rock & roll, but the other post WW2 sound as well, which was covered up among oldie stations..in some cities They'd only play Elvis and other doo wop groups Metal guitar, is more ROCK than Rock n Roll Even chords progressions changed.. Around JFK assassination Then after 6/6/66
That's really neat George. I turned 11 in May 1968 which was extremely tumultuous as you remember. It would have been nice living in America still during its best years.
Thank you for the amazing history bringing 1955 back to life! ~ l was born August 20th, and appreciate the days when life was slower and less complicated ❣ Raised in S. California, Disneyland was always a fun part of my life, and we took good music and affordable gas for granted driving to Luguna Beach in our VW bug. Miss those simple days!
Me, too, though I was only 5 in 1955. Did most of my growing up in the 60s as a teenager, was a young adult in the 70s and 80s. Today, I am 74. MY, MY! How did THAT happen?
I was born in 1955, on September 2nd. I have a lot of personal memories from the 1950s; things like the walks to the grocery store holding my mom's hand.
When my grandfather died in mid 1960's, he had the words to Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White handwritten, folded up on a paper, in his wallet. Great channel!
I WAS BORN IN 1955 WAS ADOPTED 3 DAYS LATER. IM 69 NOW AN FOUND MY REAL FAMILEY LAST YEAR. ALL THOUGH I LOVE MY PARENTS WHO RAISED ME AN MY BROTHER JAMES. ❤ 🙏 🤲 🕍 🕌 ⛪️ 🛕 ✝️ 🕊 I WAS BLESSED O LORD JESUS. AMEN 🙏
I was also born in 1955 the youngest of 11 children I had 8 big brothers and 2 big sisters I had a lovely childhood growing up and not changed much going into adulthood But growing up in a house with all my older siblings I was introduced to the great 60's music which was fantastic especially hearing Elvis and going to the cinema by my much older sister to see Elvis in his movies absolutely awesome.
Hi Morrie Reece, new fan and new subscriber here. I love watching videos with the old black and whites. I saw your "remembering the year 1955." I had to click on it, and now I'm hooked. I didn't think I would enjoy your favorite songs at the end, but I do. When Disneyland opened in 1955, I was 14. The week, before opening to the public, Disney opened the park to all of the construction workers. One of our neighbors was an electrician that worked on the park. for some reason he could not go, so he gave the tickets to us. We went on the third day. We met Walt Disney as he was walking through adventure land. I don't know what happened to the picture that was taken with him 😕. What a wonderful day that was. Life was really difficult back then, but it was good growing up in those years. As a youngster we didn't have a clue what was going on, outside our little circle. My dad had three rules; respect others, don't get into trouble and be home by supper. We were very poor, and my dad raised chickens and rabbets, so we had food on the table. I remember one year he brought home a turkey for thanksgiving, and it was my job to fatten him, tom, up (that's what I named him). He told me not to get fond of the turkey. We became "good" friends. He would follow me everywhere. I almost starved him, poor tom, to death. I did not have Thanksgiving dinner that year. Oh, my dad was not happy with my job on fattening up the turkey. Thanks for posting these videos. For a few minutes, it pulls you out of the present and transports you back to better times.
I live in Canada and was 6 years old in 1955. Started scool in a one room country school. I remember most of the "Remember 1955" Great Days" Thanks for the Memory Lane.
We moved to Atlanta in 1955! Best thing in all my 10 years! No more dirt (muddy) roads, we could walk to school, to a store and even a small park! Also met the love of my life in 1959 and we’ve been married 62 years now! 🥰❤️🥰😢
My sister was born in 1955 . I’m looking forward to seeing your Video on !958 the year I started I it off right for my mom …giving her the !st baby of in the year in the pacific time zone. I was born at 15 seconds after mindight.
I was born on July 2, 1951. We did not have a color TV until the 60's. I remember watching the Mickey Mouse Club, Gunsmoke (30 min. version), Sky King, Roy Rogers and more or Saturday morning until Mom said to "go outside until I call you for dinner"!
Pat from Canada says thank you so much Morrie . I turned 2 years old in 1955 so thanks for showing me what things were like when I was still in diapers.
HELLO, I WAS BORN IN 1946. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. THIS WAS SO FUN TO REMEMBER SOME OF THE THINGS POSTED. MAYBE MOST OF THEM, I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF THE WORK. LOVE THIS MAN PLAYING AND SINGING THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC. HOW SAD IT IS GOING FROM THE INNOCENT DAYS OF BEING 9 YEARS TO NOW WITH SO MANY HORRIBLE THINGS. HOWEVER, HOW NICE TO FEEL SOME OF THE PEACE WE HAD THEN. WE STILL HAVE SOME BUT THE BAD IS OUTWEIGHING MUCH OF THE GOOD AT THIS TIME. I REMEMBER THIS ONE AIN'T THAT A SHAME. I HAVE AN OLDER BROTHER AND HE WAS LISTENING TO LOTS OF MUSIC. BEST WISHES
1955 is as classic as many of the cars and songs that year, also born in good old 1955, the Flux Capacitor (which is what made Back to the Future possible).😉 I was also born that year, thanks you really did a thorough job on this great benchmark year. 👍👍
In 1955 I was a junior in high school in Marked Tree Arkansas, a small town about 30 miles from Memphis. In 55 or 56 i got to see Elvis in a concert in Ellis Auditorium in Memphis.. He came out singing, "You Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog". I never heard another word becouse of the young girls screaming. Whad a delight!
I came back to Canada in Dec19/55 on the Queen Mary. I was born in Toronto in 1931. My Scottish parents had to move back to Aberdeen, Scotland. Due to the depression when I was 4 yrs. old.I grew up there duringWW2 3 brothers served in the forces.I married my husband( Gordon Highlander) 1951. My heart is divided between Aberdeen, & Toronto.Thanks for the memories of 1955!🏴🇨🇦🇬🇧👍🏻
I was 6 in 1955. I started 1st grade. I remember a lot of the things in this neat program . I really enjoyed your performances. You’re great. Richard in Dallas
"Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford is the first song I remember hearing on the radio that I realized was a "hit" song because they played it so much.
I was 10 in 1955 and remember Les Baxter's "Unchained Melody," I didn't know it had lyrics until I was in college, 1963. I had a roommate, John Craig, who I knew could sing quite well. In early December he held a recital, "An Afternoon With John" and of course I went. He sang several songs but the only one I remember to this day was his rendition of "Unchained Melody." He sang both verses (the Righteous Brothers only sang one verse) with such heart that I was moved to tears. John had some deep-seated problems and had to leave school several months later. I never heard from him again nor did I know what had happened to him, but I'll always remember John fondly for his great performance of that great song.
in 1955 I was 4, we did not have a TV and when we finally did around 1957 there were only three channels. Back then you could tell not only who made the car but also what year and model it was. They all look the same to me now.
I was 11 in 1955. I could tell what make, year and model a car was from a BLOCK away. Even most European cars, NO Japanese or Korean cars at that time!
Well presented and we'll played. The John Wayne and Lana Turner film had in the cast an actor Tab Hunter, he had a big hit with Young Love, my mum taught herself to play piano and Unchained Melody she loved to play. Thank you.
Thank you. Radio broadcasts of Tigers baseball were sponsored by Goebel 22, featuring "crystilled water" and used the Cool Water song with their own words. I, too, am 80, and play by ear. Cello. Subscribed! Freeman GOSDEN. Not Golden.
What a fun site to trip over. :-)) Surfing is what we do and you peaked my interest with your title, "Remembering the Year 1955". I was born in 52' and my first car was a 55' Chevy pickup. Good times from that era. Your stories were really interesting and you're not a half bad musician too. :-))) Thanks for putting this together and I''ll look forward to 56'. 🙂
I was 15 in 1955, I remember other great songs - the beginning of Rock and Roll. Growing up in the Chicago area we had a mix of white and black music which was great. The area also had multiple drive in movie for summertime evening entertainment. A friend had a new Ford Convertable similar to the photo is this video. Riding around we were on the top of the world!!
Great video Morrie. Enjoyed it very much even though I'm from the UK! A film that I saw as an 11 year old in that year, was the SciFi movie, (made in 1953), called 'It came from Outer Space' - I had nightmares for days after! Another very mundane fact I noticed while attending high school, (we called them that in the UK), was writing the date at the top of the worksheet in the morning - it was the fifth of May 1955 - written as 5/5/55. Wowee! Fancy that! I thought at the time "It's going to be 11 years before I write 6/6/66! Anyway, thanks again for bringing back happy memories to an 81 year old.
Thanks for this. I entered the first grade in 1955. Miss Watson was my teacher. We were in the 60% of families with no TV. Later, I would spend 15 years with Admiral Rickover's navy.
I met Admiral Rickover once while I was a math instructor at the Nuclear Power school. He thought the Naval Academy should eliminate all athletics and extra curricular activities. He maintained all Naval academy sailors should spend all their time studying math and physics and science, not liberal arts and humanities .
@@morriereece5007 This reminds me of Admiral Zumwalt's account (I think it was him) who went to his interview and got into an argument with Admiral Rickover over Plato's Republic.
@@DBrown-ig8em Sounds right. I know everyone in the reactor division on the Enterprise was extremely nervous when we found out Rickover was coming aboard. He didn't give a damn about your rank or status. He treated Senators like he treated a young seaman. I heard this story: Rickover was on a nuck ship (or sub) and he go his shoes wet with some water. He insisted those shoes be decontaminated. So they took the shoes to the RadCon office, cleaned them off and shinds them and brought them back to him. He tool one look at the shiny black shoes and declared they had not been properly decontaminated. They took the shoes back to the RadCon office, scrubbed them with a steel bristle brush, and brought them back to him...the shoes looking like they were made out of fuzzy black wool. He looked at the shoes...grunted his approval...and put them on without comment.
What did you do in the Navy ? My wife found one of my Enterprise cruise books a few weeks ago (358 pages) and was shocked to see all the scantly clad women pictured in the cruise book. I explained that they were USO entertainers that came aboard to entertain the sailors. War is Hell !
@@morriereece5007 I was actually a civilian shipyard test engineer at Pearl -- Reactor Plant Chief Test Engineer. While a civilian, I still directed my share of reactor startups. I specialized in Skate class ships. Their keels were laid in the 1950s.
I was 8 yrs old in 1955- i was in 3rd grade and stood in a line of vaccine of Salk's polio shots- in Elementary school- i was scared but injections were glass shots- As Blue Birds, we give them who had polio in those large cans in hospital, some presents we made for them/ That was Beaumont, Texas- we afraid to get polio
if you were born 1955 ,you are a classic
I was born in Chicago in 1955 and even through all the hardships I’d be willing to do it again. Most people would too. Thanks for the memories.
I was born in 1955. A very good year.
Likewise!
Wish the world was still like that now. The good stuff , things today seem so wrong.
I got married in 1955, All those beautiful songs that my wife and I use to listen to,
Lots of love songs, at wedding anniversaries
From year you married
Remember Garden in the Rain by the Four Aces?
Great music in the mid 50’s and then came Elvis. Music was a new experience.
I was born in 1955 and yes it was the best years in the history of North America, Canada and USA, sure miss the simplicity of life it seemed. 🙂👍🙏
YES! They were GOOD times, IF you were a "white" person. I look back now and wonder why "WE" treated "blacks'" the way we did.
I was born in 1955 it is interesting to knew what was going on that year.
I was 13 in 55 and everything was great, the cars, music, the girls ❤❤❤, just everything!
1955 one of the best years almost wish I could go back , 10/17/1955
Happy belated birthday
11/11/1955 here a Veterans Day baby!
My baby brother was born 1955. I was 7 yrs old. There were 3 of us. I remember gas being 29 cents. We got our 1st. Tv. And phone. I remember walt disney. We got an aluminum tree with red balls. I remember Ed Sullivan. And going to the drive in with my friends. Those were great and happy days. I remember all these things. I used to want to go to my neighbors and watch bonanza in color. We only had black & white.
1955 was a great year!
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Unless you were Black living in the segregated South with continous sense of shame from most whites still in a sense a form of slavery still slavery. and also the horror of lynching.
Proud to be a baby boomer. Thank you for this great channel
1950s had rock & roll, but the other post WW2 sound as well, which was covered up among oldie stations..in some cities
They'd only play Elvis and other doo wop groups
Metal guitar, is more ROCK than Rock n Roll
Even chords progressions changed..
Around JFK assassination
Then after 6/6/66
@@kathleenking47 JFK assassination was November 22, 1963. Tragic!
Adoptive parents are real parents, with all due respects . You are a lucky fellow.
Thank you for the wonderful music and memories……In this crazy world today this just made my day a little calmer….
I was born in 1955. Thanks for the summary of historical events of that year. And thanks for the music performance. 😊👍🎶🎶
1955...the most important year of my life. I was born 😇😋🖖
Me too! /grins
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Yep. Good year for babies.
add me to this list
Metoo!
I was born in 1955 and was given up for adoption, never knew my real parents, my adoptive parents were wonderful people.
You are wonderful for saying that about your parents. The ones who raised and loved you…
Born that year as well. That's why I had to check it out. So most of the stuff shown here has had a place in my life.
What a wonderful year it was in 1955, my first year of high school.
I was born then too. It's why I clicked.
You are lucky you had good people to appreciate you !! My parents never understood me or took the time to. Aloha my friend
Thanks for the memories
I was 11 years old and experienced all the music and movies you mentioned. You might say I am stuck in the 50’s
That's really neat George. I turned 11 in May 1968 which was extremely tumultuous as you remember. It would have been nice living in America still during its best years.
Me too! Wish I could go back AND stay!
I was born in October , 1955. A wonderful year.
I was, too. Oct.15 1955!
@@bethanyjohnson5598.. Happy Birthday 🎉🎂! My birthday is today, October 16, 1955. Hurrah for both of us. May we have more birthdays to come🎂🎉🌹😊😄😄😁🥰
September 25 here! 1955
What a YOUNGSTER ! I was born in August.......LOL 😊
me too oct 6.
1955... An "extraordinary year"... I was born.👈😁 🤣🤣🤣👍🇨🇦
Me too, lived at kanehoe bay in Hawaii before it was a state
Me too! Little Rock, AR
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Second only to 1954, when I was born.
i grew up in the 50,s.best yr,s usa ever saw.will never see again
loved that crown vic.awsome job on cool water.loved it.thank you
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Will never see again ESPECIALLY if Trumps wins!!
Thank you for the amazing history bringing 1955 back to life! ~ l was born August 20th, and appreciate the days when life was slower and less complicated ❣ Raised in S. California, Disneyland was always a fun part of my life, and we took good music and affordable gas for granted driving to Luguna Beach in our VW bug. Miss those simple days!
Me, too, though I was only 5 in 1955. Did most of my growing up in the 60s as a teenager, was a young adult in the 70s and 80s. Today, I am 74. MY, MY! How did THAT happen?
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Thank you for making my day. It was a great pleasure to listen to the old great songs of 1955.
I was born January 1955 .... it was a good year !!!
WOW! - That sure brought me back to going to my friends to watch TV
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A wonderful time in America, slower pace , no craziness, smack in the middle of baby boomers, thanks so much for the memories ❤😊
Thank you for the walk down memorie lane I was 15 and still love lt all
I was born in 1955, on September 2nd. I have a lot of personal memories from the 1950s; things like the walks to the grocery store holding my mom's hand.
When my grandfather died in mid 1960's, he had the words to Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White handwritten, folded up on a paper, in his wallet. Great channel!
Bless him. The lyrics must have been special to him. Lovely memory.
That is one of my favorite songs. I still play that "vinyl" selection by Jerry Murad's "Harmonicats" !
I WAS BORN IN 1955 WAS ADOPTED 3 DAYS LATER. IM 69 NOW AN FOUND MY REAL FAMILEY LAST YEAR. ALL THOUGH I LOVE MY PARENTS WHO RAISED ME AN MY BROTHER JAMES. ❤ 🙏 🤲 🕍 🕌 ⛪️ 🛕 ✝️ 🕊 I WAS BLESSED O LORD JESUS. AMEN 🙏
@@David-up7rv I am glad for you, may God keep blessing you
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Very enjoyable show, thanks for the memories.
I was 11 yrs old too in 1955, all good memories then, miss those days.
I graduated from high school that year. I sure remember that stuff. Life was a lot better then.
I was also born in 1955 the youngest of 11 children I had 8 big brothers and 2 big sisters I had a lovely childhood growing up and not changed much going into adulthood But growing up in a house with all my older siblings I was introduced to the great 60's music which was fantastic especially hearing Elvis and going to the cinema by my much older sister to see Elvis in his movies absolutely awesome.
As you are playing, I'm smiling. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Morrie Reece, new fan and new subscriber here. I love watching videos with the old black and whites. I saw your "remembering the year 1955." I had to click on it, and now I'm hooked. I didn't think I would enjoy your favorite songs at the end, but I do. When Disneyland opened in 1955, I was 14. The week, before opening to the public, Disney opened the park to all of the construction workers. One of our neighbors was an electrician that worked on the park. for some reason he could not go, so he gave the tickets to us. We went on the third day. We met Walt Disney as he was walking through adventure land. I don't know what happened to the picture that was taken with him 😕. What a wonderful day that was. Life was really difficult back then, but it was good growing up in those years. As a youngster we didn't have a clue what was going on, outside our little circle. My dad had three rules; respect others, don't get into trouble and be home by supper. We were very poor, and my dad raised chickens and rabbets, so we had food on the table. I remember one year he brought home a turkey for thanksgiving, and it was my job to fatten him, tom, up (that's what I named him). He told me not to get fond of the turkey. We became "good" friends. He would follow me everywhere. I almost starved him, poor tom, to death. I did not have Thanksgiving dinner that year. Oh, my dad was not happy with my job on fattening up the turkey. Thanks for posting these videos. For a few minutes, it pulls you out of the present and transports you back to better times.
I also was born in55 and adopted by too wonderful parents. The fifties were some of the best years!
Best car chassis and styles of clothing
The 60s, went back to the 20s..
1952 here & I enjoyed all the nostalgia on 1955 , thank you & vote blue . 💙
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No... vote RED !!!
My wife and I just voted by mail-in ballot. I HOPE Kamala wins for the sake of OUR Country!!
I was born in 1944 and I am a classic. I just started watching today, boy you bring back the memories, keep up the good work.
Nice playing, very nice. Keep up the memories,God bless. 🙏🙂
The beautiful 1955 Chevrolet, blue and white.
In 1955 I was 16 years old. I was living in a very small town where everybody knew everybody. It was an interesting time.
This is a nicely crafted remembrance. Thank you for putting on U Tube.
I live in Canada and was 6 years old in 1955. Started scool in a one room country school. I remember most of the "Remember 1955" Great Days" Thanks for the Memory Lane.
I graduated from high school in 1955 😮enjoyed the music you played.
Oh man, those sweet sounds are stirring my soul 😊
My wife was born...great year in world history !!!!
I was born in 1955 !!!!😊
Sent me back in time, 9 yrs old riding in the back seat of my folks Plymouth. New car and my dad splurged on the radio option.
YES, "AM" radio rules!
We moved to Atlanta in 1955! Best thing in all my 10 years! No more dirt (muddy) roads, we could walk to school, to a store and even a small park! Also met the love of my life in 1959 and we’ve been married 62 years now! 🥰❤️🥰😢
My Lil Brother Frank Joined Us In 1955!! Awesome Year!! AWESOME BROTHER!!! ❤Loved Your Video!! Nicely Done!! Thank-You So Much!!🎉
My brother was born just two years later, in 1957. I was 7 at the time. Now, I'm 74. WOW!
I was 17 and it was a very good year.
Thank you so much for this video.
LOVE your singing and playing at the end. So cool!
My sister was born in 1955 . I’m looking forward to seeing your Video on !958 the year I started I it off right for my mom …giving her the !st baby of in the year in the pacific time zone. I was born at 15 seconds after mindight.
Enjoyed the memories as I was there with my two brothers and sister. We had a Tv, and I was just 7.
You really brought back the memories. I was 10.
I was born on July 2, 1951. We did not have a color TV until the 60's. I remember watching the Mickey Mouse Club, Gunsmoke (30 min. version), Sky King, Roy Rogers and more or Saturday morning until Mom said to "go outside until I call you for dinner"!
I was 16 years old in 1955 and I remember all of what you showed. What a wonderful time it was
Pat from Canada says thank you so much Morrie . I turned 2 years old in 1955 so thanks for showing me what things were like when I was still in diapers.
Great musical session, quite a good presentation overall.
I was born in 1955 , I am from Canada, still here and happily retired from RCAF.
@@retired3067 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE ! USAF HERE !
Thank you for your service!🏴🇨🇦👍🏻
HELLO, I WAS BORN IN 1946. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. THIS WAS SO FUN TO REMEMBER SOME OF THE THINGS POSTED. MAYBE MOST OF THEM, I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF THE WORK. LOVE THIS MAN PLAYING AND SINGING THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC. HOW SAD IT IS GOING FROM THE INNOCENT DAYS OF BEING 9 YEARS TO NOW WITH SO MANY HORRIBLE THINGS. HOWEVER, HOW NICE TO FEEL SOME OF THE PEACE WE HAD THEN. WE STILL HAVE SOME BUT THE BAD IS OUTWEIGHING MUCH OF THE GOOD AT THIS TIME. I REMEMBER THIS ONE AIN'T THAT A SHAME. I HAVE AN OLDER BROTHER AND HE WAS LISTENING TO LOTS OF MUSIC. BEST WISHES
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I remember standing at the side of my crib, dancing along to these! 😉🎶👶
Sure, brings back memories I really enjoyed your singing and keyboarding.
1955 is as classic as many of the cars and songs that year, also born in good old 1955, the Flux Capacitor (which is what made Back to the Future possible).😉 I was also born that year, thanks you really did a thorough job on this great benchmark year. 👍👍
It was a Saturday December 10th 1955 I was 10 years old. I'll always remember because it was snowing. Love it. I hear ya knocking!
Thanks for this video - I was 11 years old living in Washingtin, D.C.I remember alot of your fine video!
I was a senior in high school in 1955. My parents saw Disneyland starting up, and they took my siblings and me to California. Wonderful time.
A senior in high school and life was great.
In 1955 I was a junior in high school in Marked Tree Arkansas, a small town about 30 miles from Memphis. In 55 or 56 i got to see Elvis in a concert in Ellis Auditorium in Memphis.. He came out singing, "You Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog". I never heard another word becouse of the young girls screaming. Whad a delight!
I came back to Canada in Dec19/55 on the Queen Mary.
I was born in Toronto in 1931. My Scottish parents had to move back to Aberdeen, Scotland. Due to the depression when I was 4 yrs. old.I grew up there duringWW2 3 brothers served in the forces.I married my husband( Gordon Highlander) 1951. My heart is divided between Aberdeen, & Toronto.Thanks for the memories of 1955!🏴🇨🇦🇬🇧👍🏻
I was 6 in 1955. I started 1st grade. I remember a lot of the things in this neat program . I really enjoyed your performances. You’re great. Richard in Dallas
Me too...6 in 1955.
I was born in December of ‘54, so almost.😂 I enjoyed this very much!
"Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford is the first song I remember hearing on the radio that I realized was a "hit" song because they played it so much.
I was 10 in 1955 and remember Les Baxter's "Unchained Melody," I didn't know it had lyrics until I was in college, 1963. I had a roommate, John Craig, who I knew could sing quite well. In early December he held a recital, "An Afternoon With John" and of course I went. He sang several songs but the only one I remember to this day was his rendition of "Unchained Melody." He sang both verses (the Righteous Brothers only sang one verse) with such heart that I was moved to tears. John had some deep-seated problems and had to leave school several months later. I never heard from him again nor did I know what had happened to him, but I'll always remember John fondly for his great performance of that great song.
I was born in 42 so I got to enjoy 55 and it was absolutely great.
Great production,
cheers
Lee
Thank you so much, I was born in 1955❤Obviously A Great Year
Thank you for that.
Thank you so much for this video. I was born in 1955 and I was aware of some of these. But most were new to me.
in 1955 I was 4, we did not have a TV and when we finally did around 1957 there were only three channels. Back then you could tell not only who made the car but also what year and model it was. They all look the same to me now.
I was 11 in 1955. I could tell what make, year and model a car was from a BLOCK away. Even most European cars, NO Japanese or Korean cars at that time!
Well presented and we'll played.
The John Wayne and Lana Turner film had in the cast an actor Tab Hunter, he had a big hit with Young Love, my mum taught herself to play piano and Unchained Melody she loved to play.
Thank you.
I was born in 1955, and it happened to be Thanksgiving Day. 😊
I graduated from St Clair High School. In St Clair michigan.
Thoroughly enjoyed the whole show. Love your singing.
Thank you. Radio broadcasts of Tigers baseball were sponsored by Goebel 22, featuring "crystilled water" and used the Cool Water song with their own words. I, too, am 80, and play by ear. Cello. Subscribed! Freeman GOSDEN. Not Golden.
Really enjoyed your video hope to see more!!
I liked to listen to the radio DJs in the 50s. mGuire sisters were big, Al Hibler sang unchained melody.
I was born in May of 1955! I remember all these songs playing on the radio or my mom had a record album of them. Great to relive the memories!
I was born May 12, 1955 great video!
Excellent and so entertaining. Thank you❤️❤️👏
I remember 1955, like it was yesterday. But, I can't remember what the hell I did yesterday.
Sounds like me! I’m 93 1/2 yrs.👍🏻🏴🇨🇦
Was in high school in K.C. Missouri. Such a cool time and good clean fun. Wish I could relive those years over again.
What a fun site to trip over. :-)) Surfing is what we do and you peaked my interest with your title, "Remembering the Year 1955". I was born in 52' and my first car was a 55' Chevy pickup. Good times from that era. Your stories were really interesting and you're not a half bad musician too. :-))) Thanks for putting this together and I''ll look forward to 56'. 🙂
I was 15 in 1955, I remember other great songs - the beginning of Rock and Roll. Growing up in the Chicago area we had a mix of white and black music which was great. The area also had multiple drive in movie for summertime evening entertainment. A friend had a new Ford Convertable similar to the photo is this video. Riding around we were on the top of the world!!
Great video Morrie. Enjoyed it very much even though I'm from the UK! A film that I saw as an 11 year old in that year, was the SciFi movie, (made in 1953), called 'It came from Outer Space' - I had nightmares for days after! Another very mundane fact I noticed while attending high school, (we called them that in the UK), was writing the date at the top of the worksheet in the morning - it was the fifth of May 1955 - written as 5/5/55. Wowee! Fancy that! I thought at the time "It's going to be 11 years before I write 6/6/66! Anyway, thanks again for bringing back happy memories to an 81 year old.
Thanks for this. I entered the first grade in 1955. Miss Watson was my teacher. We were in the 60% of families with no TV. Later, I would spend 15 years with Admiral Rickover's navy.
I met Admiral Rickover once while I was a math instructor at the Nuclear Power school. He thought the Naval Academy should eliminate all athletics and extra curricular activities. He maintained all Naval academy sailors should spend all their time studying math and physics and science, not liberal arts and humanities .
@@morriereece5007 This reminds me of Admiral Zumwalt's account (I think it was him) who went to his interview and got into an argument with Admiral Rickover over Plato's Republic.
@@DBrown-ig8em Sounds right. I know everyone in the reactor division on the Enterprise was extremely nervous when we found out Rickover was coming aboard. He didn't give a damn about your rank or status. He treated Senators like he treated a young seaman. I heard this story: Rickover was on a nuck ship (or sub) and he go his shoes wet with some water. He insisted those shoes be decontaminated. So they took the shoes to the RadCon office, cleaned them off and shinds them and brought them back to him. He tool one look at the shiny black shoes and declared they had not been properly decontaminated. They took the shoes back to the RadCon office, scrubbed them with a steel bristle brush, and brought them back to him...the shoes looking like they were made out of fuzzy black wool. He looked at the shoes...grunted his approval...and put them on without comment.
What did you do in the Navy ? My wife found one of my Enterprise cruise books a few weeks ago (358 pages) and was shocked to see all the scantly clad women pictured in the cruise book. I explained that they were USO entertainers that came aboard to entertain the sailors. War is Hell !
@@morriereece5007 I was actually a civilian shipyard test engineer at Pearl -- Reactor Plant Chief Test Engineer. While a civilian, I still directed my share of reactor startups. I specialized in Skate class ships. Their keels were laid in the 1950s.
I was 8 yrs old in 1955- i was in 3rd grade and stood in a line of vaccine of Salk's polio shots- in Elementary school- i was scared but injections were glass shots- As Blue Birds, we give them who had polio in those large cans in hospital, some presents we made for them/ That was Beaumont, Texas- we afraid to get polio
What a nice man. I'm another 1955 baby. 👍🏼It was a very good year - well done, Morrie!! 👏