Hound Dog

Big Mama Thornton - the original



Elvis Presley - most famous cover version

The 1950's - birth of Rock and Roll

Willie and the Hand Jive



From the 1979 movie "Grease"



A video about life in a suburb in the 1950s



The 1950s economic boom



Youth of the 1950s

San Francisco - Scott McKenzie

Live at the Monterrey Pop Festival

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Tony Bennett singing with Judy Garland



Judy Garland singing San Francisco

California

Sittin’ in a park in Paris France readin’ the news and it sure looks bad
They won't give peace a chance, that was just a dream some of us had
Still a lot of lands to see but I wouldn't want to stay here
It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here –aw but California

California I'm coming home
I'm going to see the folks I dig
I'll even kiss a sunset pink
California coming home

I met a man they called the Grecian Owl, who did the goat dance very well
He gave me back my smile but he kept my camera to sell
Oh the rogue the red red rogue, he cooked good omelets and stews
And I might have stayed on with him there but my heart cried out for you California

Aw California I'm coming home
Oh make me feel good rock 'n' roll band
I'm your biggest fan
California I'm coming home

Oh it gets so lonely when you're walking and the streets are full of strangers
All the news of home you read just give you the blues, just give you the blues

So I bought me a ticket, I caught a plane to Spain,
Went to a party down a red dirt road
There were lots of pretty people there, reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue
They said "How long can you hang around?"
I said a week maybe two just until my skin turns brown
Then I'm going home to California

California coming home
Oh will you take me as I am
Strung out on another man
California coming home

Oh it gets so lonely when you're walking and the streets are full of strangers
All the news of home you read - more about the war and the bloody changes
Oh will you take me as I am? Will you take me as I am? Will you?
Will you take me as I am? Take me as I am? Will you take me as I am?

California Dreamin'

All the leaves are brown
(All the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray
(And the sky is gray)
I've been for a walk
(I've been for a walk)
On a winter's day
(On a winter's day)

I'd be safe and warm
(I'd be safe and warm)
if I was in L.A.
(If I was in L.A.)
California dreamin'
(California dreamin') on such a winter's day

Stopped in to a church I passed along the way
Well I got down on my knees
(got down on my knees)
And I began to pray
(I pretend to pray)
You know the preacher likes the cold
(preacher likes the coal)
He knows I'm gonna stay
(knows I'm gonna stay)
California dreamin'
(California dreamin') on such a winter's day.

(Bridge)

All the leaves are brown
(All the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray
(And the sky is gray)
I've been for a walk
(I've been for a walk)
On a winter's day
(On a winter's day)

If I didn't tell her
(If I didn't tell her)
I could leave today
(I could leave today)
California dreamin' (California dreamin')on such a winter's day,
California dreamin' on such a winter's day,
California dreamin' on such a winter's day

America - Neil Diamond

Far,
We've been traveling far
Without a home
But not without a star

Free,
Only want to be free
We huddle close
Hang on to a dream

On the boats and on the planes
They're coming to America
Never looking back again,
They're coming to America

Home
Don't it seem so far away
Oh, we're traveling light today
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm

Home
To a new and a shiny place
Make our bed and we'll say our grace
Freedom's light burning warm
Freedom's light burning warm

Everywhere around the world
They're coming to America
Ev'ry time that flag's unfurled
They're coming to America

Got a dream to take them there
They're coming to America
Got a dream they've come to share
They're coming to America

They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
Today, Today,
Today, Today, Today

My country 'tis of thee (today)
Sweet land of liberty (today)
Of thee I sing (today)
Of thee I sing
Today, Today, Today
Today, today, today......