With the likes of Mr. Riddle, writing and performing such awesome music for television shows, particularly during the 60's, was the only decade that I watched the shows as much for the music as the action. Boy, have times changed, but then again, we can always call up these beautiful sounds and the feelings they evoked and still do..... : )
I was 10 when this show premiered. WHY, and I mean WHY do they not run this show in syndication??? It was the first to actually film on location and it was hypnotic. So what are they doing? Are the films for this show just sitting somewhere rusting?? It is better than 95% of the the s--t that they run now!!!
They sure don,t make em like this masterpiece any more, compared to todays rubbish its a revelation this was MUSIC.
Somebody should build another MT Rushmore for the likes of Nelson Riddle,Elmer Berstein, George Gershwin, Quincy Jones, they gave America and the world more enjoyment than any president.
Damn! What a great piece of music! Driving to Alabama from California in the early 60s we picked up Route 66 in SoCal and left it in Oklahoma City. Reversed that on the way back. I remember that so well. Now it's I-40 and a lot of nothing.
@ Boomerang905 - I couldn't have said it better my friend - this tune just makes me fly I swear - it so reminds me of being a kid and around the grown ups when they were having their parties - it was an amazing time - and don't get me wrong I grew up on the Beatles and then got blown away by Jimi Hendrix but I still love this old stuff...
this song and genre are real pieces of Americana. Mancini and Riddle are American masters. My dream is to take this Hiway from Mo. to Ca in a nice car and take my time on my way, in the summer. Anyone know who the guitar player is?
This takes me back to the easy, breezy days of the early 60s. I was so young and this was such a thrilling and beautiful song to me. I never got the chance to drive down Route 66....but this sound evoked such a desire to do so. Oh my, how I miss those days...Thanks.
@boomerang905 .I know what you mean....I graduated school in '64 and then college in D.C. What a great time to be alive........but growing up in a small southern town with a thriving main street in the late 50's was the best. Now that small little town is abound with darn anitque shops and fancy eateries along main street.aimed for the tourists..not the same.....no more movie theater, malt shop, drug store, hardware store, 5 & 10 and of course the array of men's and ladies clothing shops.
@TheDiscoDays Hey, I'm glad I caught that and that you can identify with me. I was with the Class of 1965 so we know lol! We have Red Arrow Highway, that like Route 66, was far reaching and viable back in the day. Some of the corridors have been changed but it takes you from north of Chicago straight to Detroit. It's been replaced by impersonal things aimed for Tourists as well. I can still feel the quaint breeze of that highway and the beautiful sites! Thanks for the reply! Peace. : )
Starring Todd Styles & Buzz Murdock (Martin Milner & George Maharis) -- yet Mad Magazine's portrayal billed them as " Ted Stools & Bud Mudrock" ... Route 66 was part of the unbeatable CBS Friday night lineup of Rawhide / Route / Twilight Zone / Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Great 60's STUFF !
I live in NM and still see all those old memories of route 66..when I use to live in Cal would go to the Big Route 66 party in San Berdo..great highway, great memories!
@PacRimJim I don't know Baxter but I can attest to Riddle and Mancini. They made music that helped movies and television programs be so exciting with their beautifully constructed themes. I don't even mention names like Riddle anymore. Most of my family is gone that remembers so well and the people nowadays have no idea. Shame, shame, shame. I don't live in the past but my music taste remains there because that music spoke to us. And will always. Peace!
@PacRimJim Not all forgetable. different for sure, but sift dear person, sift and gleen the gems. there are some, just alas not many good theme music items. of late : "young folks" peter john bjorn, "starlings" elbow and others. regards
Part of a wonder historical journey through the start of my life...We even took the real route many time to visit relatives in California. Great times, great memories...
I just can't get enough of that music. Every night I listen to it over and over again and then I just forget for awhile all my troubles. I loved that TV series so much, and I'm just so happy I can watch it on DVD -- all 3 volumes..
Thank you for this video by the greatest, Nelson Riddle
This is completely off-topic and sorry about that but... that piano part at the beginning.. doesn't remind you of Sabbra Cadabbra by Black Sabbath/Metallica?... Just saying...
Thank you for this. Loved the show. the theme, the stars......pure gold! It was way ahead of it's time,and covered many issues and themes. The fore-runner to most of the road movies.and superior to many of them. It epitomised the 60s
I think I read somewhere that Route 66 isn't a viable freeway anymore. I could be wrong but I must say that I dreamed of driving on it in (in a convertible of course) while listening to this very song. So 60's and far fresher than anything we can find today. Makes me blue/happy! Thanks.
@jamy286 That's good news..... which only means I can see some things I want to see in my retirement! Route 66 and Red Arrow Highway (our highway that takes us from Mag Mile in Chicago to downtown Detroit) were compared in an article I was writing. I guess what I saw was some changes that were made on Route 66. There have been a few on Red Arrow Highway too, they're really old. Go figure lol, I love high ways. Thanks again!
cette musique extrêmement bien faite, tellement pro, alors qu'elle semble improvisée, avec une orchestration parfaite, une mélodie qu'on croit simple et qui est très savante, cette musique géniale met de bonne humeur pour toute la journée !
This music extremely well done, so pro with a perfect orchestration (yet this music seems improvised) Melody is believed that is simple but it's very elaborate, this great and sweet catchy music puts in a good mood all day !
Gee! I read allot of the comments posted about Americas decline, and maybe I can grant you some of your thoughts on that decline, but don't equate it with Rome. It took Rome many years to go on that decline, and it didn't happen overnight. Just like the US, it won't happen overnight. And, we have been in messes like this before, and pulled out of it. And I have faith in this Country, that it will happen again. Just don't loose "faith" in yourselves and in your dreams!
i agree hbo has the same shows they had 30 years ago why dont they have a channel that has all the old shows oh i know why because they wouldnt be able to show the junk they have now
@speck444 : There is a new channel on TV called "Antenna TV". This channel has a lot of old but good shows from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. My provider is Mediacom.
@theMICK64 Couldn't state it any better...to borrow a phrase from the late Mr. Cosell, now that's telling it like it is.....I guess many of us at the time didn't know how good we really had it....this was before the late '60s when people started bombing math departments at Wisconsin and elswhere, though. The wonderful thing about this kind of great music...not only is it great music but what timeless memories it can trigger..all my best my friend..
I always wanted the Corvette in that show...now it's worth about 90K....great song...thanks for posting and the memories it brought back..wm7473..did you ever cruise over to the Triple X (XXX) for a burger, fries and root beer?..Yes, I too remember not having to lock the doors at night...now its a triple lock set..silent alarms,gated communities and triple security..I guess that is what they call progress...
You know, I could listen to this tune over and over again.....reliving my first trip to California from Kansas before I-40.........as said previously, this is REAL music to help us remember a time when we could do something as simple as go to bed without locking the doors.......wait for the old TV to warm up (before watching THIS show!!)....or going to an A&W for a Papaburger.......
67rml. It's in our minds, but oh what wonderful memories pop up. I still try to recreate some of those pleasant times with my brother and friends by finding old 1950's Revell models, etc. that I built as a kid. Not to build, but to display for younger generations what we did back then. Ebay has come through..What neat "stuff" we had access to..It is so different now that computers, cell phones, etc., have replaced board games, friendly poker sessions, etc. Oh well....
This was the magic of 1960!!! Even though Ike was still President (and I am not criticizing him), 1960 was the beginning of the really modern era, as we thought of it then. This TV program and theme song is the epitome of that time. If you were not there it's impossible to describe it.
I never tire of hearing this fabulous rendition. What great road music. Now, it's from a past that we'll never see again. I grew up during these times and will never forget the superb adventures we had as youngsters. We weren't that well off, but we had imaginations and friends. Maybe our world wasn't "perfect", but we had each other.
I know, I was ten years old and I do understand. I hear this music and try to INSERT myself back then. We can't do it, you know. Does that time exist anymore except in our minds??
Hi flaflaflohay, ditto your comment on the "feel" of 1961 vis-a-vis (Percy Faith's 1960) "Theme from 'A Summer Place,' " based on the 1959 movie, based on a novel by Sloan Wilson. (His son, David Sloan Wilson, is an evolutionary biologist. Now your life is complete, knowing that, Ar! Ar!) Would like to invite your attention to the 1965 Top 40 hit of that same title by The Lettermen. Also, Bobby Troup's different song by same title, especially by The Four Freshmen.
Can't think of a better song that sums up the "feel" of 1962, and what America was like at that time....sort of like Theme from a Summer Place sums up the "feel" of 1961.
Many of you have expressed sorrow over decline in American values. I am in total aggreement with you. I am 60 years old now, and I still think back on the old days when todd and buzz were cruising 66. The answer lies in the Bible passage (Proverbs): "The increase in knowledge is the beginning of sorrows."
finaly a video with out a argument in the comments, im 16 right now and i use a lot of the new technology and stuff just cause it makes things easier and more convenient but other than that i really wish i could have been this age in the 50's then the government didnt run EVERYTHING the cars were waayyy cooler and built better and i love the styling of that era. back then kids were always outside unlike now were everyones alway inside plying videogames or something but i dont like modern times.
When I was in jr high history we read about the fall of the roman empire and I remember wondering "If they made it to the top why on earth would they forget, why would they go into decline?" It just didn't make any sense to me. Now having lived through the decline of our own empire it's still a mystery to me? What did we do wrong????
When The Rise and Fall of America is written, the fall will finger 1) pizza, 2) beer, 3) personal, corporate, and union greed, and 4) lots of insouciant shoulder shrugging over the ideals that had made the U.S. so great. The West is vastly better than Islam, but its people, not Muslims, are closing the gap between the two.
Americans have so lost their will to apply standards, are so eager to please, that they now go down to the beach to hand maps to invaders who insist they've come from God.
When Nelson Riddle died 25 years ago, I said to my wife that an era was ending. That sounds overdramatic, but the music died that day for me far more surely than it had on February 3, 1959. (Riddle was young and still active. He'd be 89 today, hardly an impossible age.)
If the U.S. is ever again to achieve such grace, it could begin by understanding that Islam is not a religion. It's an insurrection against civilization that is content for now to move at a deliberate pace.
Duh! and Christianity is a goal that very few American's can comprehend. Love thy enemy is Christian. Eye for an eye is old testament Jewish. What you call civilization is in reality the desire to consume more than your fair share. This music was great because is was naive to the direction America was on. CIA/Mafia assassination of Kennedy, Viet Nam holocaust, consumption on the scale of Hummers, empire expansion leading to collapse while Bozos proclaim America's greatness
Fantastic show....never missed it when I was growing up. Had a huge crush on George Maharis. He was so handsome and virile. Too bad tv shows nowadays can't be as good as this one was. I think our society is regressing.
The power of this Nelson Riddle composition for us late baby boomers is difficult for me to describe...my parents bought this album and I heard it blasting from their hi fi when I was a kid...so many things I took for granted, such as wonderful tracks like this would grow on trees...I've known for many years that that's not true.
i grew up back then and really do miss those days, life was so much simpler, sweeter and enjoyable back then. Little did we know what was in store for us in the future in spite of Walt Disneys projections. Try explaining those days to the
youth today, they have zero idea what it was like. Thank God we have the Kingdom of God in our next life which will make the 50's and 60's pale in comparison. Thank you Jesus.
Guess I'm really showing my age but whatever....I loved this show as a kid and the music just brings back so many memories. Those were the days alright!!
@a0d1m The American Dream is just that, a dream. The chance of it becoming real died with the Patriot Act. 2010 is the first year that nobody got a cost of living increase except those in power. The good ol' days are gone, but not forgotten.
God, I miss those days! My wife and I drove what we could on Route 66 in New Mexico and Arizona last year. Albuquerque has about a twelve mile stretch left through town with quite a few old motels and restaurants still open. You can also eat at the 66 Diner...still serve milk shakes in the metal container it was mixed in. The waitressess wear poodle skirts...those were the days!!!
That stretch includes the UNM campus, where I used to cross Rte. 66 frequently.
Yes, those were the days. Today's days certainly are not. Take it from an American expat who lives on an Asian mountainside because his homeland, the United States of America, could not fit him in anywhere. And to think that I now spend my retirement years defending the United States and the West, generally, against the scourge of Islam. Enemies are invited in, defenders are kicked out. The U.S. has lost its way.
I must put in a word, also, for Nelson Riddle, a really marvelous arranger. When he died in October twenty-five years ago, I felt that an era had passed. Strange that I should have measured eras with respect to arrangers of music, but that's what I felt that day.
Riddle's wonderful orchestral arrangement conveys the excitement of being on the road, discovering the endless possibilities of our huge and varied country. The show itself was a remarkable pop culture bridge from Kerouac's Beat novel On the Road to millions of young viewers who would themselves become travellers and participants in the alternative cultures of the '60's.
Hmm! If I could throw something out their..if people like this era in Americana, check out "Mad Men (AMC)"..this show has allot of throwback to the early 60's to the point of leaving your mouth wide open. I grew up in the 50's and 60's so I should know, but this shows throws some heavy flashbacks for me (replicating the 60's to a "T") ..Route 66 was a great show..I like the series especially with Glenn Corbett..
Nelson Riddle and Route 66; good song. This was the first Interstate highway to connect Chicago and Los Angeles, all the way. Route 66 became famous throughout the United States, as we started to see the superhighways manifest and completed in the next 20-years in the 1980s, using the Route 66 example; and prophecy from this year 1962 hit song, #46 on the charts.
Great song. Possibly the best of the era. Whenever I hear it, I can't help but stop what I'm doing, and start snapping my fingers, and tapping my toes. It really takes me back to that lost time. I find it best to listen with your eyes closed, unless you're driving. Thanks for posting it.
Couldn't agree more with downrightman....this song just makes you want to jump in a red 1961 Corvette and start driving, to nowhere in particular...there's an excellent book about Nelson Riddle's life and career, called "September in the Rain" by Peter Levinson.
Oh I sure do agree with you OldMrMemories, I may only be 53, but, I have heard so much about those wonderful days gone by from my folks that I feel I lived them, in fact, I only like the older movies of the 40's and 50's and the music as well. As to the food, well, it is awful anymore, no taste and no love in it. Watching TV, hardly anymore unless it is an old show, I watch my DVD's and Videos with dad, it is so sad how things have changed, I could cry. I love this song by the way.
@The1Susie I grew up in the late 50's/60's and my fondest memories are of the shows like Route 66, the Avengers, ect. Love the old music. Time could have stood still for me back then, miss those days SOOOOO much.
Thanks for this great song and images to go with it. I've done the California portion of Route 66 - not to be missed; what an adventure. I had this song playing several times as I drove, it fits the mood perfectly.
I'm not sure the TV show was really that good. The music sure was and it was the first TV show to have as its star... a car. Now the gals may have liked George Maharis but every American boys eye was on those early 1960s Corvettes and dreaming they had one,
I wish there were still reruns of this show. Such sensitvity, depth of character, were displayed by Milner and Maharis. As I remember they seem to bring hope to the hopless, and misunderstanding to what others deemed as meddling to every town they blew into. Truely a classic.
I agree with you 1000%. I remember riding down Rt 66 with my mom and dad on our way to see my grandparents. I never made it west of Oklahoma City, but the part that I was on ( IL, MO, KS, and OK) was still relly great. OH to be able to go back to the good old days.
My fondest memories are driving thru Malibu Canyon wnere I grew up. My home is still standing across from Malibu creek state park. We lived by the corner of Mulholland and Las Virgenes Rd. I loved this song and driving thru the canyon to the beach and listening to this song was magical. It is the best jazz I know of for me.Richard Widmark used to pick me up hitchhiking on Los Virgenes.
I remember my father use to play this song. I was young. I loved hearing it. Then we havent heard this song some 40 yrs. It always stuck in the back of my mind over the yrs. Before my father died 6 yrs ago, I use to ask him If he he remembered that song, but he didn't. Sadly a few yrs aftre he passed I stumbled across it on Youtube. I wish he was here to hear it. This song will always remind me of an erra when times were good and the world was a better place...
I am currently from New Mexico, but grew up in California. This Highway has always been apart of my life, or anyone that grew up in the Southwest. But before I left Calif, I use to go to the Route 66 party in San Berdo..and saw Marty Milner their once..In NM you see Route 66 all over the place, if you want to slow down and go back in time, take 66 in New Mexico..San Berdo is neat also..
This music is about a trip but it is a TRIP...like its swept you up standin still and suddenly you're leisurely crusin at 70 mph down the world's most beautiful highway!!!
omfg...I love the car culture of the 1950's of America!!I wanna move in the USA and to the middle of the 50's, than get rich, and buy Caddys Fords Chevys etc. and cruise around in the USA !!!!!!
This series and this great music made me want to be an AMERICAN! drive fast convertibles and look for adventure! God bless that generation of great achievers. The world loved them !!!
I lament every time i hear these old tunes. Just like everything else, when things "change" it does'nt always mean good "change" I remember the old t.v. series too, and it was'nt only the golden age of television but the golden age of our society too.
@JUMPMASTER1963 I could not have stated better friend. When I think of those days and my childhood and the way America was it really saddens me. The TV shows, the Movies and Music, even the food seemed to taste better
.Watching TV today makes me sick. Thank God for DVD's. I don't even want the premium channels on cable. Its a waste of money, and the music of todays youth lacks soul and heart. It's just put together cheap jangling. So sad.
@OldMrMemories Yes indeed bro, when i think of those times my heart gets heavy. Our countries cultures are the very same, and it seems that ever since the hippies of the 60's things have been going downhill People are dumb today. Our Moms and dads taught us right from wrong and raised us best they could. And T.V. Today is crap! I don't even watch t.v. anymore. It's nothing but social engineering. Take care Bro.
My best wishes to you my friend. I will continue to maintain the standards I was brought up with . I don't align myself with all the Politically Correct nonsense of today
I know how you feel. My next door neighbour has a 'vette he takes out once a week in the summer. Some 20 years ago I travelled on a bit of the old Route, somewhere in northern AZ, seeing these little towns with their great value restaurant and motels, that grew up and then died when the I-40 was built. Come back the 60's, come back Todd and Buzz
@OldMrMemories I'm with you on how rich the music/TV was back in the 50s-60's. I would have been VERY happy to have seen things stay that way for the rest of my life. Even into the 70s, things were much better, then the gas crunch of 73'. Things started to change, and NOT for the better. I go here to YOUTUBE to visit my youth on a regular basis, thanks for this and other wonderful posts.
I put this on full blast while crusing through the Hill Country near Austin Texas this past December, didn't want to stop....
MrSupplemental 5 hours ago
I listen to this and I just want to drive...
ronetteloverz 1 week ago
Better time in America. The only downfall is that they had the draft.
inbredagogo 1 week ago
...Its a Musical Onslaught...like an Explosives laden Barrage...aimed at your Ears!!!!
OlymPigs2010 1 week ago
They just don't write scores like this any more. Thanks for the nostalgic treat.
RaysRoost 2 weeks ago
I liked that so well I am going to listen to it again . Wow , great music you wont here on american idol
airkooled05 4 weeks ago
Excellent!
OU812ICRUNVS 1 month ago
Swooning. There are no arrangements today that can compare.
BackInsight 1 month ago 3
One of my favorite pieces of music. I listen to this regularly.
beatricebordercollie 1 month ago 2
Memories...my mom used to love this show. Wish we could return to a simple time and place like America used to be.
JUMPMASTER263 2 months ago 4
With the likes of Mr. Riddle, writing and performing such awesome music for television shows, particularly during the 60's, was the only decade that I watched the shows as much for the music as the action. Boy, have times changed, but then again, we can always call up these beautiful sounds and the feelings they evoked and still do..... : )
boomerang905 2 months ago
Can we just close our eyes and open them in this period in time for, like a week? Please!?!?!? LOVE this!
Brunosgirl 3 months ago in playlist Brunosgirl's favorites
I was 10 when this show premiered. WHY, and I mean WHY do they not run this show in syndication??? It was the first to actually film on location and it was hypnotic. So what are they doing? Are the films for this show just sitting somewhere rusting?? It is better than 95% of the the s--t that they run now!!!
67rml 3 months ago
whoooo hooooo !!!!
road trip !
1zencaptain 3 months ago
I need a cigarette and a highball.
aBerlin1945 3 months ago 2
millions and millions of miles per hour
rocksmeller99 3 months ago
Between this and Peter Gunn theme as to which is best, can't go wrong with either Mancini or Riddle.
mar9man7 3 months ago
The coolest tv theme ever, can still remember watching the show
nemessis081 4 months ago
The show that started my love affair with cars.. One of the best things that's ever happened to me,,,
Thanks for posting this.....
Bonneville462 4 months ago in playlist Music #2
Yes nelson was feeling his oats.The best tv theme of all times!
TheTherese3 4 months ago 2
still riding in the dream...... !
marioaranda711 4 months ago
this is real Americana. Let's keep it alive!
angeloamericano 4 months ago
They sure don,t make em like this masterpiece any more, compared to todays rubbish its a revelation this was MUSIC.
Somebody should build another MT Rushmore for the likes of Nelson Riddle,Elmer Berstein, George Gershwin, Quincy Jones, they gave America and the world more enjoyment than any president.
compsecure77 5 months ago 3
The poster song for "CooL"
In the day, this would be known as a toe-tapper.
Nice photos put to a timeless song. It doesn't get much better than this.
FL8mileshigh1 5 months ago
Without a doubt, this theme is the all time coolest of all. Pure genius.
Mr56strat 5 months ago
Damn! What a great piece of music! Driving to Alabama from California in the early 60s we picked up Route 66 in SoCal and left it in Oklahoma City. Reversed that on the way back. I remember that so well. Now it's I-40 and a lot of nothing.
B17Boy 5 months ago 3
Excellent!
pdxet2 5 months ago
I have never heard any other song, or can remember a song that conveys the feeling of cruising down the open road better than this
inkey2 6 months ago 2
@ Boomerang905 - I couldn't have said it better my friend - this tune just makes me fly I swear - it so reminds me of being a kid and around the grown ups when they were having their parties - it was an amazing time - and don't get me wrong I grew up on the Beatles and then got blown away by Jimi Hendrix but I still love this old stuff...
rogersdrums 6 months ago
They just don't write theme songs like this anymore. Sad.
mimidec67 6 months ago
I only wished that the route passed through Rhode Island.That would have made it total!
TheTherese3 6 months ago
The theme of Americana!the best PERIOD!
TheTherese3 6 months ago
The bass fiddle player is pretty cool too !!!!!!!!!!!!
TheDiscoDays 6 months ago
this song and genre are real pieces of Americana. Mancini and Riddle are American masters. My dream is to take this Hiway from Mo. to Ca in a nice car and take my time on my way, in the summer. Anyone know who the guitar player is?
angeloamericano 6 months ago
@angeloamericano I'm no expert but I like trivia. The guitarist is listed as Timothy Berens. I do hope you take that trip! Peace : )
boomerang905 6 months ago
This takes me back to the easy, breezy days of the early 60s. I was so young and this was such a thrilling and beautiful song to me. I never got the chance to drive down Route 66....but this sound evoked such a desire to do so. Oh my, how I miss those days...Thanks.
boomerang905 6 months ago
@boomerang905 .I know what you mean....I graduated school in '64 and then college in D.C. What a great time to be alive........but growing up in a small southern town with a thriving main street in the late 50's was the best. Now that small little town is abound with darn anitque shops and fancy eateries along main street.aimed for the tourists..not the same.....no more movie theater, malt shop, drug store, hardware store, 5 & 10 and of course the array of men's and ladies clothing shops.
TheDiscoDays 6 months ago
@TheDiscoDays Hey, I'm glad I caught that and that you can identify with me. I was with the Class of 1965 so we know lol! We have Red Arrow Highway, that like Route 66, was far reaching and viable back in the day. Some of the corridors have been changed but it takes you from north of Chicago straight to Detroit. It's been replaced by impersonal things aimed for Tourists as well. I can still feel the quaint breeze of that highway and the beautiful sites! Thanks for the reply! Peace. : )
boomerang905 6 months ago
Starring Todd Styles & Buzz Murdock (Martin Milner & George Maharis) -- yet Mad Magazine's portrayal billed them as " Ted Stools & Bud Mudrock" ... Route 66 was part of the unbeatable CBS Friday night lineup of Rawhide / Route / Twilight Zone / Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Great 60's STUFF !
raiderdanCA 6 months ago 2
You had to be there. I do not think you can possibly understand if not.
67rml 7 months ago
That song brings me great childhood memories.
cgon3188 7 months ago
I live in NM and still see all those old memories of route 66..when I use to live in Cal would go to the Big Route 66 party in San Berdo..great highway, great memories!
billeagle51 7 months ago
How I miss Riddle, Mancini, Baxter, and all the other creators of truly popular music.
What we have now is forgettable trash.
PacRimJim 7 months ago 27
@PacRimJim I don't know Baxter but I can attest to Riddle and Mancini. They made music that helped movies and television programs be so exciting with their beautifully constructed themes. I don't even mention names like Riddle anymore. Most of my family is gone that remembers so well and the people nowadays have no idea. Shame, shame, shame. I don't live in the past but my music taste remains there because that music spoke to us. And will always. Peace!
boomerang905 6 months ago
@PacRimJim Not all forgetable. different for sure, but sift dear person, sift and gleen the gems. there are some, just alas not many good theme music items. of late : "young folks" peter john bjorn, "starlings" elbow and others. regards
wizardalvin 6 months ago
@PacRimJim A man after my own true heart. I treasure my 33rpm vinyl like it was gold.
spahjrp 6 months ago 2
@spahjrp
Because it is!!!
MisterNail 5 months ago
@MisterNail Yep...and what's weird? Vinyl's coming back! They sell vinyl in Best Buy...next thing you know, there'll be turntables we can't afford!!!
spahjrp 5 months ago
@PacRimJim I also miss these musicians in addition to Bert Kaempfert, James Last, Herb Alpert, Percy Faith, and others who make today's music trash
glennsaiu 1 week ago
How I miss Riddle, Mancini, Baxter, and all the other creators of truly popular music.
What we have now is forgettable trash.
PacRimJim 7 months ago
A masterpiece of masterpieces, this song is down in history as one of the greats of all time...Nelson, you are a genius!!
kingbrotherman 7 months ago in playlist GOLDEN OLDIES
mad men introduced me to nelson, thanks
southernbrooklyngal 7 months ago
Excellent video; brings back many memories!
motosteve1000 7 months ago
Part of a wonder historical journey through the start of my life...We even took the real route many time to visit relatives in California. Great times, great memories...
deetjay1 8 months ago
I was 7 yrs old when this song and show was released, love them both!
alexk2501 8 months ago
The Immortal Nelson Riddle's Masterpiece. Nice art and photos you've displayed here. Thanks for posting.
Elric33239 8 months ago 2
Watched the TV Show every week
pbgoodwin1 9 months ago 3
I just can't get enough of that music. Every night I listen to it over and over again and then I just forget for awhile all my troubles. I loved that TV series so much, and I'm just so happy I can watch it on DVD -- all 3 volumes..
Thank you for this video by the greatest, Nelson Riddle
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1rickmar 9 months ago 2
What a fantastic theme song!! It's Riddle at his best. It'll
never go out of style!
BrentAW100 9 months ago
This is completely off-topic and sorry about that but... that piano part at the beginning.. doesn't remind you of Sabbra Cadabbra by Black Sabbath/Metallica?... Just saying...
Anyway... this is a very cool song
riggs100 9 months ago
ONE of the COOLEST theme songs EVER!!! LOVE IT LOVE IT!! I even liked it when I was a toddler and my parents watched this show.
ProudKansan08 9 months ago 13
great song; sound track to a bygone age. Glad I was there to live and see it.
25thInf69 10 months ago 3
Nelson Riddle also did some phenominal work with arranging & conducting Frank Sinatra tunes. From capitol & afterwards, a true musical genius!
450984 10 months ago
check out "2010 harley tour south west usa"
MrLrndj 10 months ago
Thank you for this. Loved the show. the theme, the stars......pure gold! It was way ahead of it's time,and covered many issues and themes. The fore-runner to most of the road movies.and superior to many of them. It epitomised the 60s
brizpeg47 10 months ago
his finest....
diane6135 10 months ago 2
Along with Route 101 by Herb Alpert and Memphis by Lonnie Mack,
one of the best traveling music tunes of all time.
Thanks for posting!
maddadram1 10 months ago 2
I have happy memories of the tv show but only really because of the theme.Thanks for posting this..
fendermac 10 months ago
Best TV tune of all-time.
kcbill54 11 months ago
This is one lovely beautiful song. So soothing to the ears.
beatricebordercollie 11 months ago
Played daily on the Bo & Jim show, 92.5 Lone Star deep in the heart of Texas!
SpaceAceTX 11 months ago
I think I read somewhere that Route 66 isn't a viable freeway anymore. I could be wrong but I must say that I dreamed of driving on it in (in a convertible of course) while listening to this very song. So 60's and far fresher than anything we can find today. Makes me blue/happy! Thanks.
9876543217303 11 months ago
@9876543217303 i went there this summer, its a viable freeway ;) (obviously there are some parts that no longer exist and some closed ones)
jamy286 11 months ago
@jamy286 That's good news..... which only means I can see some things I want to see in my retirement! Route 66 and Red Arrow Highway (our highway that takes us from Mag Mile in Chicago to downtown Detroit) were compared in an article I was writing. I guess what I saw was some changes that were made on Route 66. There have been a few on Red Arrow Highway too, they're really old. Go figure lol, I love high ways. Thanks again!
9876543217303 11 months ago
cette musique extrêmement bien faite, tellement pro, alors qu'elle semble improvisée, avec une orchestration parfaite, une mélodie qu'on croit simple et qui est très savante, cette musique géniale met de bonne humeur pour toute la journée !
This music extremely well done, so pro with a perfect orchestration (yet this music seems improvised) Melody is believed that is simple but it's very elaborate, this great and sweet catchy music puts in a good mood all day !
floorembden 11 months ago
Gee! I read allot of the comments posted about Americas decline, and maybe I can grant you some of your thoughts on that decline, but don't equate it with Rome. It took Rome many years to go on that decline, and it didn't happen overnight. Just like the US, it won't happen overnight. And, we have been in messes like this before, and pulled out of it. And I have faith in this Country, that it will happen again. Just don't loose "faith" in yourselves and in your dreams!
billeagle51 11 months ago
Hearing this song and seeing these images makes one want to get out on the road and go somewhere......
JohnCKimbrough 1 year ago
i agree hbo has the same shows they had 30 years ago why dont they have a channel that has all the old shows oh i know why because they wouldnt be able to show the junk they have now
speck444 1 year ago
@speck444 : There is a new channel on TV called "Antenna TV". This channel has a lot of old but good shows from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. My provider is Mediacom.
Johngtr13 10 months ago
@rentslave. Perhaps one great unexpeted benefit is the appreciation of what they have here in this country upon their return...
rainstormz28 1 year ago
@theMICK64 Couldn't state it any better...to borrow a phrase from the late Mr. Cosell, now that's telling it like it is.....I guess many of us at the time didn't know how good we really had it....this was before the late '60s when people started bombing math departments at Wisconsin and elswhere, though. The wonderful thing about this kind of great music...not only is it great music but what timeless memories it can trigger..all my best my friend..
rainstormz28 1 year ago
I always wanted the Corvette in that show...now it's worth about 90K....great song...thanks for posting and the memories it brought back..wm7473..did you ever cruise over to the Triple X (XXX) for a burger, fries and root beer?..Yes, I too remember not having to lock the doors at night...now its a triple lock set..silent alarms,gated communities and triple security..I guess that is what they call progress...
rainstormz28 1 year ago
You know, I could listen to this tune over and over again.....reliving my first trip to California from Kansas before I-40.........as said previously, this is REAL music to help us remember a time when we could do something as simple as go to bed without locking the doors.......wait for the old TV to warm up (before watching THIS show!!)....or going to an A&W for a Papaburger.......
wm7473 1 year ago
Thank you, thank you, hankgwe.
max31416 1 year ago
67rml. It's in our minds, but oh what wonderful memories pop up. I still try to recreate some of those pleasant times with my brother and friends by finding old 1950's Revell models, etc. that I built as a kid. Not to build, but to display for younger generations what we did back then. Ebay has come through..What neat "stuff" we had access to..It is so different now that computers, cell phones, etc., have replaced board games, friendly poker sessions, etc. Oh well....
Abyss1021 1 year ago
Certainly one of the most beautiful songs.
Johngtr13 1 year ago
This was the magic of 1960!!! Even though Ike was still President (and I am not criticizing him), 1960 was the beginning of the really modern era, as we thought of it then. This TV program and theme song is the epitome of that time. If you were not there it's impossible to describe it.
67rml 1 year ago
oh the drama and anger on this youtube! LOL
spdskte 1 year ago
I never tire of hearing this fabulous rendition. What great road music. Now, it's from a past that we'll never see again. I grew up during these times and will never forget the superb adventures we had as youngsters. We weren't that well off, but we had imaginations and friends. Maybe our world wasn't "perfect", but we had each other.
Abyss1021 1 year ago
@Abyss1021
I know, I was ten years old and I do understand. I hear this music and try to INSERT myself back then. We can't do it, you know. Does that time exist anymore except in our minds??
67rml 1 year ago
fantastic! i love this version
tanzaku38 1 year ago 2
Get your Kicks on Route 66!
gwyllem 1 year ago
Hi flaflaflohay, ditto your comment on the "feel" of 1961 vis-a-vis (Percy Faith's 1960) "Theme from 'A Summer Place,' " based on the 1959 movie, based on a novel by Sloan Wilson. (His son, David Sloan Wilson, is an evolutionary biologist. Now your life is complete, knowing that, Ar! Ar!) Would like to invite your attention to the 1965 Top 40 hit of that same title by The Lettermen. Also, Bobby Troup's different song by same title, especially by The Four Freshmen.
dwsingrs 1 year ago
Didn't Nelson do the music for Emergency! ?
metalbornmetalbred 1 year ago
Can't think of a better song that sums up the "feel" of 1962, and what America was like at that time....sort of like Theme from a Summer Place sums up the "feel" of 1961.
flaflaflohay 1 year ago
now that's what u call style in music!..real class!
TheBlueCream 1 year ago
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lovethediscogirls 1 year ago
Crazy, Man. . .Crazy!
WSenator1 1 year ago 2
Awesome slide show set to beautiful music!
mmmbad 1 year ago
Sadly all the comments lamenting the past fail to recognize their contribution to the demise of those standards.
Could it be the smell of hypocrisy that I smell here?
I am working on several scripts right now that in there way harken back to a more developed pattern and tighter high quality work.
We are looking at life's natural cycle here kiddies, our parents thought we were on the road to perdition too.
okinaneko 1 year ago
@okinaneko Been there. They have great BBQ. ;^)
GonsalvoDeCordova 1 year ago
Simply told: knowledge leads to prosperity. prosperity leads to greed. Greed leads to destruction
radicright 1 year ago
Many of you have expressed sorrow over decline in American values. I am in total aggreement with you. I am 60 years old now, and I still think back on the old days when todd and buzz were cruising 66. The answer lies in the Bible passage (Proverbs): "The increase in knowledge is the beginning of sorrows."
radicright 1 year ago
@radicright - No its not knowledge that causes sorrows - its GREED!!!
OlymPigs2010 1 year ago
@radicright
Although I am an atheist your bible passage gets a huge AMEN from me!
Without further comiserating I'm going to kick back and groove on this tune again and see if I can't bring some of that groove with me into 2010....
chh5555 1 year ago
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G R E A T orchestal sound! Beautiful music to cruise along the highway of imagination and memories. Thanks Hank.
Querencias 1 year ago
G R E A T orchestral sound! Beautiful music to cruise along the highway of imagination and memories. Thanks Hank.
Querencias 1 year ago
wow best ever i love rute 66
Gianukakis17 1 year ago
wow
Gianukakis17 1 year ago
finaly a video with out a argument in the comments, im 16 right now and i use a lot of the new technology and stuff just cause it makes things easier and more convenient but other than that i really wish i could have been this age in the 50's then the government didnt run EVERYTHING the cars were waayyy cooler and built better and i love the styling of that era. back then kids were always outside unlike now were everyones alway inside plying videogames or something but i dont like modern times.
curtmaster3001 1 year ago
When I was in jr high history we read about the fall of the roman empire and I remember wondering "If they made it to the top why on earth would they forget, why would they go into decline?" It just didn't make any sense to me. Now having lived through the decline of our own empire it's still a mystery to me? What did we do wrong????
chh5555 1 year ago
When The Rise and Fall of America is written, the fall will finger 1) pizza, 2) beer, 3) personal, corporate, and union greed, and 4) lots of insouciant shoulder shrugging over the ideals that had made the U.S. so great. The West is vastly better than Islam, but its people, not Muslims, are closing the gap between the two.
Americans have so lost their will to apply standards, are so eager to please, that they now go down to the beach to hand maps to invaders who insist they've come from God.
bangfarang 1 year ago
@bangfarang Wow... we sir, are on the same wavelength!
chh5555 1 year ago
I'm glad to hear it.
When Nelson Riddle died 25 years ago, I said to my wife that an era was ending. That sounds overdramatic, but the music died that day for me far more surely than it had on February 3, 1959. (Riddle was young and still active. He'd be 89 today, hardly an impossible age.)
If the U.S. is ever again to achieve such grace, it could begin by understanding that Islam is not a religion. It's an insurrection against civilization that is content for now to move at a deliberate pace.
bangfarang 1 year ago
@bangfarang
Duh! and Christianity is a goal that very few American's can comprehend. Love thy enemy is Christian. Eye for an eye is old testament Jewish. What you call civilization is in reality the desire to consume more than your fair share. This music was great because is was naive to the direction America was on. CIA/Mafia assassination of Kennedy, Viet Nam holocaust, consumption on the scale of Hummers, empire expansion leading to collapse while Bozos proclaim America's greatness
arcoknuti 1 year ago
Music from my youth :)
FanofMarchingMizzou 1 year ago
Fantastic show....never missed it when I was growing up. Had a huge crush on George Maharis. He was so handsome and virile. Too bad tv shows nowadays can't be as good as this one was. I think our society is regressing.
evporretta 1 year ago
One of the best traveling music songs
along with Route 101 by Herb Alpert
and Memphis by Lonnie Mack.
maddadram1 1 year ago 2
nelson riddle was a master at his craft,
diane6135 1 year ago
The power of this Nelson Riddle composition for us late baby boomers is difficult for me to describe...my parents bought this album and I heard it blasting from their hi fi when I was a kid...so many things I took for granted, such as wonderful tracks like this would grow on trees...I've known for many years that that's not true.
joseph60us 1 year ago
my brother and i were so lucky to have grown up in 1950's and 1960's. how i wish my kids and grandkids were so lucky.
diane6135 1 year ago
i grew up back then and really do miss those days, life was so much simpler, sweeter and enjoyable back then. Little did we know what was in store for us in the future in spite of Walt Disneys projections. Try explaining those days to the
youth today, they have zero idea what it was like. Thank God we have the Kingdom of God in our next life which will make the 50's and 60's pale in comparison. Thank you Jesus.
pleximarz 1 year ago
Guess I'm really showing my age but whatever....I loved this show as a kid and the music just brings back so many memories. Those were the days alright!!
TheBooberToober 1 year ago
The American Dream
a0d1m 1 year ago
@a0d1m The American Dream is just that, a dream. The chance of it becoming real died with the Patriot Act. 2010 is the first year that nobody got a cost of living increase except those in power. The good ol' days are gone, but not forgotten.
HapyJac 1 year ago
Phenomenal theme song -- one of the best in the history of TV.
FurtherReview 1 year ago 13
God, I miss those days! My wife and I drove what we could on Route 66 in New Mexico and Arizona last year. Albuquerque has about a twelve mile stretch left through town with quite a few old motels and restaurants still open. You can also eat at the 66 Diner...still serve milk shakes in the metal container it was mixed in. The waitressess wear poodle skirts...those were the days!!!
goomba17 1 year ago
That stretch includes the UNM campus, where I used to cross Rte. 66 frequently.
Yes, those were the days. Today's days certainly are not. Take it from an American expat who lives on an Asian mountainside because his homeland, the United States of America, could not fit him in anywhere. And to think that I now spend my retirement years defending the United States and the West, generally, against the scourge of Islam. Enemies are invited in, defenders are kicked out. The U.S. has lost its way.
bangfarang 1 year ago
I must put in a word, also, for Nelson Riddle, a really marvelous arranger. When he died in October twenty-five years ago, I felt that an era had passed. Strange that I should have measured eras with respect to arrangers of music, but that's what I felt that day.
bangfarang 1 year ago
great song great show....back when TV and movies actually had meaningful dialogue and plot.
Henry28NCT 1 year ago
Bella melodia, con esta musica creci y soñe, la Amo!!
boyvoyager1 1 year ago
One of those great tunes that just define "Cool!" Ya gotta hear this on some of the old 4 channel equipment of the 70's (Sansui QRX6500).
usm7j 1 year ago 2
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GwaiiEagle1 1 year ago
EXCELENTE UNA JOYA!!!!!!
Roberto57105 1 year ago
Riddle's wonderful orchestral arrangement conveys the excitement of being on the road, discovering the endless possibilities of our huge and varied country. The show itself was a remarkable pop culture bridge from Kerouac's Beat novel On the Road to millions of young viewers who would themselves become travellers and participants in the alternative cultures of the '60's.
mobydoug 1 year ago 9
Hmm! If I could throw something out their..if people like this era in Americana, check out "Mad Men (AMC)"..this show has allot of throwback to the early 60's to the point of leaving your mouth wide open. I grew up in the 50's and 60's so I should know, but this shows throws some heavy flashbacks for me (replicating the 60's to a "T") ..Route 66 was a great show..I like the series especially with Glenn Corbett..
billeagle51 1 year ago
Nelson Riddle and Route 66; good song. This was the first Interstate highway to connect Chicago and Los Angeles, all the way. Route 66 became famous throughout the United States, as we started to see the superhighways manifest and completed in the next 20-years in the 1980s, using the Route 66 example; and prophecy from this year 1962 hit song, #46 on the charts.
WOWJBEOWULF 1 year ago
Great song. Possibly the best of the era. Whenever I hear it, I can't help but stop what I'm doing, and start snapping my fingers, and tapping my toes. It really takes me back to that lost time. I find it best to listen with your eyes closed, unless you're driving. Thanks for posting it.
millbastard1 1 year ago 3
Couldn't agree more with downrightman....this song just makes you want to jump in a red 1961 Corvette and start driving, to nowhere in particular...there's an excellent book about Nelson Riddle's life and career, called "September in the Rain" by Peter Levinson.
TheMk1960 1 year ago
Oh I sure do agree with you OldMrMemories, I may only be 53, but, I have heard so much about those wonderful days gone by from my folks that I feel I lived them, in fact, I only like the older movies of the 40's and 50's and the music as well. As to the food, well, it is awful anymore, no taste and no love in it. Watching TV, hardly anymore unless it is an old show, I watch my DVD's and Videos with dad, it is so sad how things have changed, I could cry. I love this song by the way.
The1Susie 1 year ago
@The1Susie I grew up in the late 50's/60's and my fondest memories are of the shows like Route 66, the Avengers, ect. Love the old music. Time could have stood still for me back then, miss those days SOOOOO much.
theMICK64 1 year ago 2
The definitive highway song. Makes you want to get in your Corvette, and ride this great country. Thank you Nelson Riddle, for the great song.
downrightman 1 year ago
Why Americans travel overseas is beyond my comprehension.
rentslave 1 year ago
Thanks for this great song and images to go with it. I've done the California portion of Route 66 - not to be missed; what an adventure. I had this song playing several times as I drove, it fits the mood perfectly.
wally1435 1 year ago
I'm not sure the TV show was really that good. The music sure was and it was the first TV show to have as its star... a car. Now the gals may have liked George Maharis but every American boys eye was on those early 1960s Corvettes and dreaming they had one,
sangell3 1 year ago
I wish there were still reruns of this show. Such sensitvity, depth of character, were displayed by Milner and Maharis. As I remember they seem to bring hope to the hopless, and misunderstanding to what others deemed as meddling to every town they blew into. Truely a classic.
radicright 1 year ago
@radicright
They are out on DVD. You can rent them from netflix.
debsue 1 year ago
Ah, the good old days of traveling down two lane highways, stopping at a diner to eat and sleeping at a roadside motel. How times have changed.
MultiDave66 1 year ago
I agree with you 1000%. I remember riding down Rt 66 with my mom and dad on our way to see my grandparents. I never made it west of Oklahoma City, but the part that I was on ( IL, MO, KS, and OK) was still relly great. OH to be able to go back to the good old days.
Rob
Keyboardman88 1 year ago 2
The perfect nightcap posting, the perfect thing to hear before you trundle off to bed, merlot buzz flooding through your veins...
The apex of the stunning universe of CBS TV themes from the late '50's-early '60's...
...and maybe the single greatest TV theme of all time.
tuxguys 1 year ago
GO NELSON!!!
kingbrotherman 1 year ago
And Nelson Riddle, my favourite arranger.
onejagjeff 1 year ago
Richard Widmark picked you up. My favourite actor of all time.
onejagjeff 1 year ago
My fondest memories are driving thru Malibu Canyon wnere I grew up. My home is still standing across from Malibu creek state park. We lived by the corner of Mulholland and Las Virgenes Rd. I loved this song and driving thru the canyon to the beach and listening to this song was magical. It is the best jazz I know of for me.Richard Widmark used to pick me up hitchhiking on Los Virgenes.
baloni801 1 year ago
THAT'S "travelin' music"! Great pictures.
edybeast 1 year ago 5
I remember my father use to play this song. I was young. I loved hearing it. Then we havent heard this song some 40 yrs. It always stuck in the back of my mind over the yrs. Before my father died 6 yrs ago, I use to ask him If he he remembered that song, but he didn't. Sadly a few yrs aftre he passed I stumbled across it on Youtube. I wish he was here to hear it. This song will always remind me of an erra when times were good and the world was a better place...
aftdrk 1 year ago 14
@aftdrk - So true, what a world it was!
Great & touching litte note.
God Bless your Dad
curtflirt1 10 months ago
I am currently from New Mexico, but grew up in California. This Highway has always been apart of my life, or anyone that grew up in the Southwest. But before I left Calif, I use to go to the Route 66 party in San Berdo..and saw Marty Milner their once..In NM you see Route 66 all over the place, if you want to slow down and go back in time, take 66 in New Mexico..San Berdo is neat also..
billeagle51 1 year ago 8
Great video. Where did you come up with all those wonderful pictures? I'd love to have a copy of several of them.
Thanks.
JSOO59 1 year ago 4
This music is about a trip but it is a TRIP...like its swept you up standin still and suddenly you're leisurely crusin at 70 mph down the world's most beautiful highway!!!
OlymPigs2010 2 years ago 4
check out kevin shorey's "heavenly" version of route 66 on my channel.
boofitts 2 years ago
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CrankCase08 2 years ago
omfg...I love the car culture of the 1950's of America!!I wanna move in the USA and to the middle of the 50's, than get rich, and buy Caddys Fords Chevys etc. and cruise around in the USA !!!!!!
smellytoilet1996 2 years ago 4
I want to ride Route 66 with Todd and Buzz in a 61 Vette. Ahh the good old days
jb478000 2 years ago 3
This is the kind of music that makes me want to go back in time.
MrAlexKeaton 2 years ago 6
This series and this great music made me want to be an AMERICAN! drive fast convertibles and look for adventure! God bless that generation of great achievers. The world loved them !!!
spooklandusa 2 years ago 4
GREAT TIMELESS MUSIC!!!
vikings4284 2 years ago 9
This is PERFECT music.
bass0111 2 years ago 8
Oh god, I love that Nelson Riddle song and all the memories that go with it.
RennyGd 2 years ago 6
I lament every time i hear these old tunes. Just like everything else, when things "change" it does'nt always mean good "change" I remember the old t.v. series too, and it was'nt only the golden age of television but the golden age of our society too.
JUMPMASTER1963 2 years ago 5
@JUMPMASTER1963 I could not have stated better friend. When I think of those days and my childhood and the way America was it really saddens me. The TV shows, the Movies and Music, even the food seemed to taste better
.Watching TV today makes me sick. Thank God for DVD's. I don't even want the premium channels on cable. Its a waste of money, and the music of todays youth lacks soul and heart. It's just put together cheap jangling. So sad.
OldMrMemories 2 years ago 62
@OldMrMemories Yes indeed bro, when i think of those times my heart gets heavy. Our countries cultures are the very same, and it seems that ever since the hippies of the 60's things have been going downhill People are dumb today. Our Moms and dads taught us right from wrong and raised us best they could. And T.V. Today is crap! I don't even watch t.v. anymore. It's nothing but social engineering. Take care Bro.
JUMPMASTER1963 2 years ago 8
My best wishes to you my friend. I will continue to maintain the standards I was brought up with . I don't align myself with all the Politically Correct nonsense of today
OldMrMemories 2 years ago 12
I know how you feel. My next door neighbour has a 'vette he takes out once a week in the summer. Some 20 years ago I travelled on a bit of the old Route, somewhere in northern AZ, seeing these little towns with their great value restaurant and motels, that grew up and then died when the I-40 was built. Come back the 60's, come back Todd and Buzz
jonathanbirchley 2 years ago 2
@OldMrMemories I'm with you on how rich the music/TV was back in the 50s-60's. I would have been VERY happy to have seen things stay that way for the rest of my life. Even into the 70s, things were much better, then the gas crunch of 73'. Things started to change, and NOT for the better. I go here to YOUTUBE to visit my youth on a regular basis, thanks for this and other wonderful posts.
theMICK64 1 year ago