The America We Knew: August 1965

Remembering US.

[@Ij-jan]

It seems like all of the news back then is comparable to our recent history. Riots, governor taking off to Mexico when their state was in trouble. And so much more. Thank you for a very informative video.😊

[@ordinaryperson1808]

Yep, some things never change I guess.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Jan. I learn stuff as well when I make these videos.

[@eldoradony]

Riots-same players

[@SalvationinCHRISTalone888]

Absolutely! Just shows you that man is destructive in every generation. “Man born of a woman is of few days and …full of trouble”. ( Job 14:1 ). 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾Praying for our world

[@tomklock568]

Thanks Fred! Memories from when I was six years old plus!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Tom.

[@davek5027]

FredFlix videos get an automatic Like 👍🏻 as soon as I click on the thumbnail.

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Dave.

[@spatrick8035]

The more things change, the more they stay the same!

[@dwaynecoy1871]

What makes this chanel so great and the quality of the video so good is the music that is chosen for these videos. It's music that I still listen to today. Once again, another great selection of music to accompany the video Mr. FredFlix, nicely done!

[@FredFlix]

Dwayne, you obviously have good taste!

[@virgiljohnson7504]

My favorite place to go and watch videos!!!!!!! Keep it up Fred 👏👏👏😁👍

[@FredFlix]

I will, Virgil.

[@ordinaryperson1808]

Thank you for another groovy video, Fred! I was 15 in summer of 1965 and living in Toronto. I would often sneak out of the house at night with my friends and go down to Yorkville, which was like Greenwich village in New York at the time. You had hippies and beatniks all over the streets and several coffee shops with different singers and bands performing. I would often come home to an angry, screaming mother saying “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out,” but it was all worth it. The ‘60s were wild but I wouldn’t trade living in that time for anything.

[@FredFlix]

Sounds like an interesting time for you, OP.

[@mikedrown2721]

I turned 19 years old in 1965

[@Iloveoldies-z3z]

I turned 17. I miss those days.

[@mikedrown2721]

@Iloveoldies-z3z So do I

[@azmike1]

God Bless you.

[@dalekmoon]

I would be 13 in October that was my last Summer as a 'young kid' we were still stationed in Germany and on our way home to the U.S. in a couple of weeks. Good times. ♥ Thanks Fred ♥

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Dale.

[@judyjones5089]

Wow we had just gotten back from Germany in late May! Where were you guys stationed? Dad was at the Giebelstadt Air Force installation, and we lived just off the Army base in Wurzburg.

[@hiridavidfeign]

The Rolling Stones will never last.

[@NickvonZ]

Yep! They are just a fad, just like the automobile, airplanes, and the internet! 😅 (Hard to believe that people ACTUALLY THOUGHT those things!))

[@johnmoreno96]

I was 9yrs old living in E.L.A. I remember the L.A. riots or Watts Riots of 1965., fortunately it never reached E.L.A. The music was soo great, but I didn’t see Russ Myer’s Faster Pussycat Kill Kill until recently a fun movie for sure..✌🏼 Thanks Again Fredflix

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, John.

[@khj8716]

Then you remember the Chicano moratorium, the riots the killing of Ruben Salazar. Those were some crazy times bro!

[@johnmoreno96]

@@khj8716 Absolutely remember those times a sad day losing Ruben Salazar. Everything changed in E.L.A. after that day.

[@khj8716]

@@johnmoreno96 I was 10 at the time and lived on Eastman Ave and Princeton right across Rowan Ave Elementary School. I remember the Sheriff's dept used the playground for a tactical base. I was like whoa!

[@johnmoreno96]

@@khj8716 I went to Eastman Elementary School on Olympic Blvd. in the late 60’s.

[@judyjones5089]

Fred!!! Wonderful as usual. I was about ready to go into 7th grade. Living in Colorado Springs at the time with Air Force family. In his career, dad was stationed at various times at all three installations - Norad, ADC and Cheyenne Mountain.

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Judy.

[@ernestcruz6316]

The late Susan Bernard of "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" was always one of my very favorite Playboy Playmates. She had that "girl next door" look that very few post-1980s Playmates even approached. Many of the women in that magazine since the '90s looked they were built on an assembly line or from a kit. Thanks Fred!

[@FredFlix]

I agree, Ernest.

[@mac55122]

10 years old. I always enjoy the comic covers you add, Fred. I remember them all from being a kid then.

[@FredFlix]

I was 10 as well, Mac, and my life revolved around Marvel Comics.

[@jimmorrison6421]

Me too except I didn't start collecting to about 11 or 12 years later I've got a large collection to this day​@@FredFlix

[@FredFlix]

@@jimmorrison6421 I once had every Marvel superhero comic from 1961 to 1988. Sold them for the price of FF #1 alone today. Trying to build back but it'll never be what it was.

[@mochawitch]

I was born that year❤❤❤❤

[@michaelrochester48]

It was Bob Eubanks who promoted the Beatles at the Hollywood bowl. I got to talk to him a couple of years ago at a comic con about that whole experience.

[@georgehenderson7783]

What a time to be alive!

[@chuckf6163]

Amother great one from the 60s, thanks for posting.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Chuck.

[@NickvonZ]

Exactly when I began the "Terrible 2s"!

[@melaniemills4505]

Another great video! ❤

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Melanie.

[@azmike1]

I was 10 and that year was the most surrealitic of my life. So much was learned. It was shocking how the boundaries were pushed in American life. Freedom does that to a people.

[@davidkenner-rb8go]

I loved those Merlin Jones movies! They were just so...comfortable.

[@judyjones5089]

O yeah, I also got the Ticket To Ride and Help albums. I remember Monkey's Uncle movie, loved it. The Beach Boys were great, also loved Jan and Dean. California Girls was a present to me from my sister's then fiance, and I always think of him when I hear this song. I didn't see the movie but also had the What's New Pussycat forty-five. O the We Five, that was played on the radio constantly at one point. What fun days back then. Thank you so much for this jaunt down memory lane.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Judy.

[@JeffPattawi-Gamlin]

Another video from before my time, though I grew up loving a lot of culture from the sixties partially thanks to my mom's influence who would always keep the oldies radio station on when we were in the car. When I was in high school in the eighties, while everyone else was into The Cure, Depeche Mode and The Smiths, all whom I later got into, I was into The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Monkees. So much great stuff from this decade. Fun to see the trailer for Help!. I always wished I could have been alive when The Beatles were still together, as I was born the year they broke up. It just seems like it would have been so amazing to be alive when all that music was coming out. I envy those of you who were. I mean, don't get me wrong, as a huge Beatles fan, I was very excited when the 3 of them reunited to work on John's demos and make them into full songs, that was thrilling to me, but obviously still couldn't compare to hearing them all together as a group when they were originally touring and recording music together. Such transformative times. Also great to hear one of the great classic Beach Boys songs. Of course, I'm talking about The Monkey's Uncle. Just kidding, but thanks for including that one, as I've never seen the movie before, though I do have the original 45 of the song. It's funny watching Mike Love on screen right just kind of dancing around because when he's not singing lead, and he doesn't have a tambourine or something to play, he's kind of got nothing to do. It just seems like It must have felt kind of awkward for him filming that. But of course, the real Beach Boys classic is California Girls, the song with one of the greatest instrumental introductions in pop history, deceptively simple, but such a great arrangement. At least The Beach Boys have still been together as I've been alive, though they had produced much of their classic stuff before I was born, and I was too young to appreciate albums like Surf's Up or Sunflower when they came out, though I do now. Anyway, thanks for another fun one, Fred!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Jeff. I saw A Hard Day's Night in the theater when it first came out. Yeah, I'm old. But I wouldn't trade that experience to be younger.

[@Borella309]

To Sir Fred: Your choice and balance on how to tell the story of each month (in a short video), through music, the other pop culture highlights (and ordinary day to day things), the serious matters of public concern and interest and just the way of how, everyone experienced the world at the time, is more than seriously impressive, its bloody fantastic! From a pop culture point of view, I think this is the peak of the mountain (Stones' "Satisfaction", anything Beatleific is 12/10, "California Girls", Iprcess File with Sir Michael Caine, flicks with Julie Christie and Joy Harmon! this 1 month tops the past 20 years in pop culture!!!). Thangs again for another eFFing FFantastic video!

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

I was 5 years old that year, the Beatles were Huge and the stones were right behind them, the Beatles were the clean cut guys and the stones were the long haired,lol, dirty boys of rock and roll. I still can't get No Satisfaction 60 years later.

[@gregggoss2210]

I had no idea Russ Meyer was doing his thing that long ago! Some great music Fred. 👍

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Gregg.

[@luisreyes1963]

Guess "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" got overlooked by the Academy Awards. 😂

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Excellent stuff!! I was just about to enter kindergarten the following month, exciting times! Thanks, yet again, Fred for more marvelous and fun memories!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Nunetc.

[@mrwoodandmrtin]

The Beatles and the Beachboys. Equally fantastic but Pet Sounds will always be my pick for musical genius.

[@davidjames6879]

AAHHH.... to be 6 years old again!

[@merce10554]

The time for choosing between The Beatles or The Stones had arrived for me. And The Fab Four it was. RIP Marianne Faithfull 🕯 Sweet ride, Fred-ssi. 💜🤟

[@FredFlix]

The Fab Four for me as well, Mercedes-ssi.

[@merce10554]

​@@FredFlix 👉👈 💜🤟

[@BrendaProffitt-z4y]

I ❤❤❤❤this thank you so much Fred

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, friend Brenda.

[@asimplehorseman4648]

Here a psyop, there a psyop, everywhere a psyop. E, I, E, I, Oooooo!(lol) Thanks once again Fred

[@FredFlix]

Ha! You're welcome, ASH.

[@continentalgin]

Way cool, Fred!

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, CG.

[@JoanCouncil]

So the mayor had a prior commitment. Hum sounds like los angles is the same ole same ole after all these years.

[@SalvationinCHRISTalone888]

I was 6 yrs old turn 7 in September 1965🌺😘🙏🏾👍🏾🤍🤙🤙. It seems as though NOTHING HAS CHANGED and NOTHING will change until we learn to love and respect GOD first and then each other🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾. Our world so desperately need JESUS! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾. Thank you, Fred.

[@moviesgalore9947]

I just can't get any satisfaction on this crazy video site here.

[@FredFlix]

You can't get no satisfaction. You used proper grammar.😆

[@antsforall]

Russ Meyers...Peter Cushing...Sandra Dee, Monkeys on the Beach....1965 in a nutshell! Thanks, FF!

[@FredFlix]

My pleasure, ants...

[@dennisdeleo74]

Yes Fred, the more things change…but I think (hope) that we are heading in the right direction, but at least we had Soupy, Mickey, Bobby D., Sandra Dee, Annette, We Five, Sonny and Cher ,Bob Dylan and the rest to cushion the blow of the riots, and’Nam…I hear that Dylan and Cher are still around…

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Dennis.

[@azmike1]

My cousin Neil went to Hollywood Bowl for the Beatles. I wonder if he has the ticket stub?

[@moviesgalore9947]

LBJ said in October 1964 "I promise all you moms and dads I won't be sending your boys to Vietnam" then in 1965 the Draft started sending them.

[@ronaldsimmonds1002]

It’s quite obvious that we have learned nothing.

[@RetroJames75]

Hi Fred, is there a way I can contact you, please? I'd love to chat more about what you do, it's fantastic.

[@FredFlix]

Here's my email: [e-mail]

[@thedreadtyger]

Magnus Robot Fighter! 😊

[@luisreyes1963]

Riots in L.A. back in 1965. Wouldn't be the last time. Also, the Vietnam quagmire deepens. Thanks, FredFlix. 😳

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Luis.

[@michaelrochester48]

Pat Brown was still governor of California at the time. He was so ineffective.

[@junkersish]

The Stones' Satisfaction will turn 60 in a few months, the 1st truly modern rock song with the use of the then newly patented fuzzbox and grown up lyrics.

[@asimplehorseman4648]

Don't forget about Ray Davies and the Kinks who were in the states a year before the Stones.

[@junkersish]

@@asimplehorseman4648 but today their early rockers sound old-school unkike Satisfaction

[@asimplehorseman4648]

@ Lol, I understand your point but disagree. The Kinks music has stood the test of time almost more than the Stones. May I reference "Celluloid hero's".

[@junkersish]

@ I am strictly talking about that one song that came out mid 1965

[@asimplehorseman4648]

@@junkersish Lol, I know. Enjoy your day.

[@moviesgalore9947]

Patty Duke starred in a fun movie in 1965 titled Billie - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXTbfGuvmpZ7j6s

[@RobertR3750]

Interesting to see Disney make use of the popular rock aesthetic in one of their movies. Thuse Russ Meyer films were considered so risque back in the day. I thought the lead singer for the Ronettes had a thoroughly mediocre voice--thin and flat. Helps to be sleeping with the record producer. I wish Bobby Darin had been healthier. He was so talented. Thanks Fred.

[@FredFlix]

Yeah, Robert, Darin knew his time was limited so he lived hard and fast.

[@ArmpitStudios]

Her voice was unique in a sea of blandness.

[@saltydog4759]

Damn Fred, you're one hell of an editor. Californy is the place you ought be!