From Carroll Iowa, The Fabulous Thunderbolts!!
Well, after I sent you links yesterday for The Rumbles and the Pete Klint Quintet, Peggy reminded us of another regional band from our era. The Fabulous Thunderbolts were from Carroll, some or all of them graduates of Kuemper H.S. The lead vocalist was a guy named Jerry Hauser. According to blogger comments, the Thunderbolts were inducted into the Iowa Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. ....W.Riedesel and P.Clark Irlmeier

The Fabulous Thunderbolts!!!

Remember “Jezebel”, The Rumbles?
(popular 1967-68)
The Rumbles were a Council Bluffs-based band that hit it pretty big for awhile, getting tremendous play on Top 40 radio all across the midsection of the country. They played all the well-known ballrooms of the era, and lot of college campuses.
Another Midwest favorite and very big with the Class of ‘68.......W.Riedesel
 
THE RUMBLES

Do You Remember These Guys?
They billed themselves as 60's Blue-eyed Northern Soul!
They played all over the Upper Midwest in places like the Starline Ballroom in Carroll, Laramar Ballroom in Ft Dodge, etc. I remember watching them perform in the ISU Memorial Union parking lot during “Orientation Week” my first year on the Iowa State campus (September 1968)........W.Riedesel
 
PETE KLINT QUINTET

AND FROM LINCOLN, NEBRASKA

Zager and Evans’ “In the Year 2525” topped the charts nationally for six weeks in 1969. It was the no. 1 song the week astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong made the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969.

The lyrics were perhaps prescient, warning of the dangers of technology, portraying a future in which the human race would be threatened by its own technological and medical innovations:

In the year 2525, if man is still alive If woman can survive, they may find

In the year 3535, ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie Everything you think, do and sayIs in the pill you took today
In the year 4545, you ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes, you won't find a thing to chew, nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555, your arms hangin' limp at your sidesyour legs got nothin' to do, some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565, you won't need no husband, won't need no wife, you'll pick your son, pick your daughter too, from the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510, if God's a-coming, He oughta make it by then, maybe He'll look around Himself and say"Guess it's time for the Judgement Day"
In the year 8510, God is gonna shake His mighty head, He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been "Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595, I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive, he's taken everything this old earth can give and he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been ten thousand years, man has cried a billion tears

For what he never knew, now man's reign is through

But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight, so very far away, maybe it's only yesterday

The Lincoln, Nebr. duo Zager and Evans proved to be a “one-hit wonder” but they sold a whopping 10 million copies of “In the Year 2525.”.    W. Riedesel
 
ZAGER AND EVANS

The Music Of The Sixties And Early Seventies.....
I do not want to sound like a late night, Time Life commercial, but the music of this time period was the best. The reason? There were SO MANY different types and styles to choose from. Man, it is the sixties. The early Rock and Rollers, the Teen Idols, the great Girl Groups, the Dance crazes, the Beach and Hot Rod music, the British Invasion, Motown (my favorite), Acid Rock, Gosh, there was even some decent Country music in those days (Johnny Cash).  We had so much to enjoy.

I love music. In my classroom, I used it all of the time. Every decade has it's own style. I had a great Fifties Rock and Roll unit and a super Jazz (Harlem Renaissance) of the 1920s. Big Band, Swing....but nothing like the great music of the Sixties.

  So Send Me Some Of Your Favorites  .....Here are a few of mine.......d.tryon