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High School Reunions take place only a few times in our lives and are special events for that very reason alone ... It is a chance to re-connect and celebrate what high school and the friends meant to us ... It is also a chance to go back (if only for an evening) and recapture the nostalgia of carefree days before adulthood, parenthood and all the responsibilities that become our reality .... It is a great time to remember the great late-nite parties, the friendships we lived for, the guys or gals we thought we loved and couldn't live without, and the music we listened to, with the memories they could conjure up ... It's a time to go back and remember the days of transistor radios, the smell of mimeograph paper, drive-in movies, TV rabbit ears, playing 45s, and listening to Woo Woo Ginsberg and Dale Dorman on Boston's old WMEX and WRKO ... the days before the internet, computers, cable TV and cell phones ... At our 25th reunions, we compared our lives, while at our 50th reunion we share our memories.

For my 50th high school reunion, I created two music videos to celebrate the occasion, that were shown at the party .... They were a huge success and I was asked to do the same for our high school's Class of 1968's 50th reunion, and for the Class of 1969's also ... other schools celebrating their 50th reunion heard about the videos and I was asked to adapt them for their high school class' reunion too ... Let me do the same for you and your high school class !!!

The first music video is called the "Video Yearbook" and is a collection of pictures, all set to six different songs, whose lyrics highlight the different decades of our lives ... There are "Then & Now" pictures of your classmates, candid photos from your high school yearbook, pictures taken by classmates at high school parties back in the day and those grammar school class pictures ... There are nostalgia pictures from the town you lived in, pictures of the stores where you shopped and of the places you called your "hang-outs" ... Also are pictures of "pop culture", the bands, the movies, who was on TV and what was going on in the world ... All the pictures are set to coincide with the lyrics of the six songs I use ... The music and pictures are designed to take you and your classmates back to the days you all were in school and recapture the feelings everyone shared !!.

The second music video is a tribute to all your classmates who you've lost over the past years ... It is called the "Rainbow Bridge"

Let me re-create those memories with these two videos for your High School Reunion, show them at your reunion on the big screen and DJ/emcee the entire night afterward ... then at no extra cost, I will update the "Video Yearbook" with pictures from the reunion party.

First I will research everyone in your class to provide you with a list of current addresses and phone numbers, using the people search engines on the internet ... my price structure is based primarily on doing the research!!!! ... I will then show the videos at your reunion and DJ the night at no extra cost to you ... that's right I will throw in my DJ services for FREE!!

At the beginning I set out to create a soft setting where people can talk while music quietly is playing in the background ... Then after dinner, during coffee and desert, everyone will get a chance to enjoy the two videos ... After that, it's party time! ... If people want to dance, I'll play the great sounds from yesterday and today ... I have music videos from TV favorites such as Ed Sullivan, American Bandstand, Shindig, and Hullabaloo ... I'll take you back in time ... oh, about 50 years ago :)

On November 22nd, 1963 one of the most heart-wrenching events occurred in American History. President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. It was the Baby-Boomer equivalent of the bombing of Pearl Harbor for our parents, in that we all can still remember where we were, and what we were doing, when we heard the news.

It was also the first major news event that was carried live on television. For three days the American public was glued to their TV sets and nothing got done. Then everyone went in a collective period of mourning that lasted throughout the winter.

Meanwhile, in Europe, there would be another historical event that was taking shape. It was something that would affect the Baby-Boomer generation and society as a whole, for the remainder of the decade.

Four boys from Liverpool would affect a whole way of life. The Beatles not only changed music but became a cultural force that was totally embraced by the young generation. They transformed the way pop music was made and culturally pushed aside conventionality, leading by being independent and irreverent. Whatever the Beatles did, music and society followed along throughout the decade.

Two months after the Kennedy assassination, the country needed a shot in the arm to get out of their depression and get back to living. On February 9th, 1964 the Beatles made their television debut on the Ed Sullivan Show and life would never be the same. That too was another major event propelled along by television. On that night music and the new generation that JFK talked about, took over and eventually changed everything. Some say it was the night 1950s ended and the night the 1960s began.

I hope you enjoy the above video that shows exactly how it all unfolded and took place on live TV.