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• Links to Music & Sound On-Line:  Swing into Spring

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The DownStreet Jukebox:  Rockin' Spring

If you like classic Rock, then you'll definitely like this month's DownStreet Jukebox.  ...

Simply click on any of the titles below.  The song will play after a short delay.*
{Just think of it as the jukebox searching for your record.}

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It's not only the sap in the trees that begins to flow this time of year.  ...

This month's selections include some of the classics of Rock 'n' Roll from the late '50's.

What else was going on back then?   ...  Well, not that there weren't lots more important things, but here are just some of the events of pop culture from 1957-1959.

1957 ...

• Jackie Robinson retires.

• At a Miami radio station, a new-comer named Lawrence Harvey Zeiger changes his name to Larry King and begins broadcasting.

• Jack Kerouac's On the Road is published.

• Across the pond, PM Anthony Eden retires after trying to live up to his moniker with a couple of girls called Christine Keeler & Mandy Rice Davies.

1958 ...

• The price of 1st class US postage is raised to 4¢ from 3¢, where it had been for 26 years.

• The first ever Grammy Awards are given.

• The Hula Hoop has hips gyrating across the continent.

• The Chevy Impala hits the market.

1959 ...

• The music dies when a plane crash kills singers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson, a.k.a., "The Big Bopper."

• The microchip is invented.

• Barbie hits the market.  There's speculation that she'll be a boon for plastic surgeons.

• BIC ballpoints are introduced.

The artists of this month's selections?  ...  If you have to ask, maybe you ought to be driving an Edsel. 

Instead of our usual liner notes this month, we thought we'd provide you with some of the lyrics instead.  ...  Alright, then  ...

Lyrics
Click on any of the titles below to get the lyrics ...

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