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30-year reunion

1992

Generation

Baby Boomer

You'd be about

High School

1958–1962

The lunch table, the hallway crush, the parking lot.

Theme from "A Summer Place" (Single Version)

Percy Faith

1960

Tossin' and Turnin'

Bobby Lewis

1961

Stranger On the Shore

Acker Bilk

1962

He'll Have to Go (feat. Jim Reeves)

Skeeter Davis

1960

I Fall To Pieces (feat. The Jordanaires)

Patsy Cline

1961

I Can't Stop Loving You

Ray Charles

1962

Cathy's Clown

The Everly Brothers

1960

Michael

The Highwaymen

1961

Mashed Potato Time

Dee Dee Sharp

1962

Running Bear

Johnny Preston

1960

Crying

Roy Orbison

1961

Roses Are Red (My Love)

Bobby Vinton

1962

First Car

1960–1962

Windows down, volume up, finally free.

Theme from "A Summer Place" (Single Version)

Percy Faith

1960

Tossin' and Turnin'

Bobby Lewis

1961

Stranger On the Shore

Acker Bilk

1962

He'll Have to Go (feat. Jim Reeves)

Skeeter Davis

1960

I Fall To Pieces (feat. The Jordanaires)

Patsy Cline

1961

I Can't Stop Loving You

Ray Charles

1962

Cathy's Clown

The Everly Brothers

1960

Michael

The Highwaymen

1961

Mashed Potato Time

Dee Dee Sharp

1962

Running Bear

Johnny Preston

1960

Crying

Roy Orbison

1961

Roses Are Red (My Love)

Bobby Vinton

1962

College Years

1962–1966

Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.

Stranger On the Shore

Acker Bilk

1962

Surfin' U.S.A.

The Beach Boys

1963

I Want to Hold Your Hand

The Beatles

1964

Wooly Bully (Re-Recorded)

Pharaohs & Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs

1965

California Dreamin'

The Mamas & the Papas

1965

I Can't Stop Loving You

Ray Charles

1962

The End of the World

Skeeter Davis

1963

I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)

Four Tops

1965

96 Tears

? and The Mysterians

1966

Mashed Potato Time

Dee Dee Sharp

1962

Rhythm of the Rain (LP Version)

The Cascades

1963

Hello, Dolly!

Louis Armstrong

1964

Early Adulthood

1967–1971

First apartment, first heartbreak, first paycheck.

To Sir With Love

Lulu

1967

Hey Jude

The Beatles

1968

Sugar, Sugar

The Archies

1969

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

1970

Joy to the World

Three Dog Night

1971

The Letter

The Box Tops

1967

Love Is Blue

Paul Mauriat

1968

Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

The 5th Dimension

1969

(They Long To Be) Close To You (Live At Féile, Tipperary, Ireland / 1994)

The Cranberries

1970

Maggie May

Rod Stewart

1971

Ode to Billie Joe

Bobbie Gentry

1967

Honey

Bobby Goldsboro

1968

The world when you walked the stage

At the MoviesLawrence of Arabia

Dr. No

To Kill a Mockingbird

On TVThe Beverly Hillbillies

The Jetsons

Johnny Carson's Tonight Show

In the HeadlinesCuban Missile Crisis

John Glenn orbits Earth

First Walmart and Kmart open

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