Flash 1962 Movies & Music
With each year of my flashback on movies & music I generally will only give one song, unless is was a special year for me 
Although it was the year of my birth, in many ways 1962 isn’t that special because I simply don’t remember it 
The music of 1962 is Johnny Angel by Shelly Fabares.
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Of course there were many other songs of similar style for that era, and I could list even give you preview of many more that I own. Personally though of the list this is one of my more favorite from the year. Some of the other songs of the year were: Blowin’ in the Wind, Go Away Little Girl, Days of Wine and Roses, The Loco-Motion, Sherry, Monster Mash, Big Girls Don’t Cry.
Movies that year contained several real hits. How about What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with Bette Davis & Joan Crawford.
I am sure many of heard of To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck.
Maybe your memory is all about Elvis, at this point is making movies and singing. In 1962 his movie was Girls! Girls! Girls!
Another classic movie from the year is The Miracle Worker starring Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft. In this clip you can see how utterly young Patty Duke is. I actually remember watching this film in a class sometime in high school.
My final movie flashback in The Birdman of Alcatraz starring Burt Lancaster.
Now I picked these particular movies because they are movies I actually like from my birth year! I have seen all these movies more than once much to the shame of my children who can’t understand who watches movies in black & white! 
It just amazes them that color was not available when I was born - that makes me so utterly old in their eyes
Of course I can’t forget the television where the popular shows where: I’ve Got a Secret, Beverly Hillbillies, Route 66, The Flinstones, Price is Right, Ben Casey, The Dick Van Dyke show. But alas television was not on 24/7 in 1962, and reruns hadn’t caught on yet. 90% of US households own a Television Set
Maybe a book would be better to pick up: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee; Letting Go by Philip Roth; Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey; The Thin Red Line by James Jones; Happiness is a Warm Puppy by Charles Schultz
