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Number One Hits of the Sixties What Were We Thinking? The sixties was a decade unlike any other decade in our history.Just what were we thinking, or were we thinking at all? We had just finished the fifties which was full of war, then peace, returning veterans, G.I. Bills, new suburbs, employment boom, baby boom and our cars were decorated with tail fins that competed with one another for style and size. The car boom was on, the baby boom was on, business was booming and there were boom boxes everywhere. (Did you know that the first boombox was invented in 1923?) (The compact disc is now old enough to drink. The first compact disc was turned out by Sony in 1982. If my math is correct, That should make it 21 years old.) It’s impossible to imagine President Harding walking around the White House grounds with a boom box on his shoulders. Anyway, enough trivia, now back to the sixties. The sixties erupted with the “Age of Aquarius,” Camelot and the Flower Child Freedom Movement, freedom of love and a freedom of self-expression in our personal appearance. The hippie movement was upon us, bell bottoms were below us and hair was everywhere on top of us. The sixties could almost be defined as the “Age of Hair.”