Mar 29, 2011

Did you go to school dances? Did you have dates? What songs or dances were popular?

Yes I went to school dances but rarely stayed in the dance hall for them. They played the music far too loud. Yes I had two dates. One of them I took all but one time for every dance after we turned 16. The other one was with Linda Peatross because Marie and I decided that we should follow the counsel of our church leaders and not steady date. So I took Linda to one dance our senior year and we had fun. Marie ended up not going if I remember correctly. It was on a Friday night and monday morning by the time we got to school rumors were all over the place as to why she and I had broken up. My mother worked in the school library and her mother worked in the school lunch kitchen. They did not hear favorable things at all and so we decided not to try that again. When I went to college my freshmen year I dated several girls during that time and then when she went to college while I was on my mission she dated and was even asked to be married before I got home. Luckily for me she said she wanted to wait and see how things would go with me and he never came back to find out what had happened.
The popular songs were from the Beatles era as well as the Beach Boys, The Monkees, Peter, Paul and Mary  and other bands of the 60's. I remember one dance when I had taken Marie and the last song of the night was "Hey Jude" (the 7 minute version) and I asked her to dance with me. About 3 or so minutes into the dance Leon Mallo tapped me out and so I didn't get to finish dancing it with her. I didn't give up though and walked her home after the dance was over.