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I ran across this clip from 1968 of teenagers dancing to "Nobody but me" by a group called Human Beinz(which I have on a nuggets comp) and I'm asking myself where are all the Long Hairs???
most of the guys have military haircuts and not even one with an early beatles style and this is from 1968?
man, I'm really disappointed and I like `60's music. :-(
Actually, from what I have seen, long hair did not hit the 'mainstream' population until
the very end of the 60s and then into the early 70s.
Longhair in the 60's and 70's was usually viewed as a sign of rebellion and was really frowned on by the "establishment". Most just conformed to the commonly accepted practice of regular haircuts for a "neat, clean-cut look". Parental and other adult pressure was intense and back then most younger folks did not dare balk at adults. (at least not without getting smacked....HA!)
On a practical note, there was no Air-Conditioning back then.....short hair in the summer was standard and almost a necessity.
Ime calling B.S on that. It wasnt neccesary for women so it shouldnt have been for men, end of.
I started junior high in '68 and at that point my school still had a pretty strict dress code. Shirts tucked in and hair short. by 1970 that all went out the window and that's when you started to see longer hair on students in high school.
Bruce
Remember, that is from Stupidville... errr, Steubenville, Ohio, not SanFran or even LA or NYC. The Ohio Valley is a mining area. While this area is very Democratic for the labor unions, they are also very conservative in personal matters. Back then, it was very straight-laced. And, too, that show was created to keep kids occupied so they wouldn't do anything even slightly individual or out of the norm.
Now, how in tarnation did you happen to find something from this area? Are you near me?
no, I was doing a search for a video for this song hoping to locate a clip of the actual band performing it and what they looked like.
were Human Beinz long haired, medium haired or short haired dudes?
hell, if there had been one guy that looked like Marty that would've made a little more sense, but I suppose Marty would've had to submit to a haircut like his Dad back then to attend school in steubinville.
funny, how is hair wasn't questioned in the "back to the future" movie when he went back to the 1950s and attended school there.
Longhair in the 60's and 70's was usually viewed as a sign of rebellion and was really frowned on by the "establishment". Most just conformed to the commonly accepted practice of regular haircuts for a "neat, clean-cut look". Parental and other adult pressure was intense and back then most younger folks did not dare balk at adults. (at least not without getting smacked....HA!)
On a practical note, there was no Air-Conditioning back then.....short hair in the summer was standard and almost a necessity.
Interesting question...Thanks
WWT
It all depends on where you were and who you were
Firstly , I don't think the first ones to grow their hair were teenagers. Teenagers still live with mum and dad, mostly. Probably college students who were 18+ and others who had left home would have grown their hair out before teenagers did.
Secondly, it takes a while to grow hair. You don't watch the Beatles on TV and have long hair the next day.
Thirdly, Luckskind has a point. Long haired guys were on the fringe of soceity inn the '60s. It took a long while for long ahir to get accepted, and by the time it did it was only a year or two before it started to go back out. As he says, that was in the '70s, not the '60s.
Fourthly, and maybe not relevant to your clip, but what was considered to be long hair in the '60s was uaually not very long.
I'm 50, and I started to grow my hair out when I was 15, which would have been in 1972, and it's still a work in progress!
The Beatles hit the UK charts in 1963 with "I Want to Hold Your Hand", or maybe "She Loves You". Actually both, and several other number ones, but I can't remember which was first. Their hair was regarded as long at the time, but we wouldn't call it long today. However, they kept growing it, so they were still considered to have long hair as the fashions changed. To some extent I've done the same. What we called long in the '70s is just mid length.
Everyone in England loved the Beatles. Everyone in my class at school and people in all age groups loved them. That had never happened before. Even as a 6 year old I knew that nobody old listened to pop music until the Beatles came along. It was a phenomenom.
Woolworths sold plastic Beatles wigs! A boy in my class had one. Nobody in RL had long hair of their own, though.
I did have a fringe, but I don't think it was much to do with the Beatles. Conventional male hair in England at the time was called a 'short back and sides', where the hair was allowed to grow a few inches on top of the head, but trimmed very short at the back ad sides, often with clippers. The barber would always ask if you wanted the clippers, and I would always say no, because they were frightening for a small boy.
Crewcuts were an American thing, and shaved heads first appeared in the UK in the late '60s on the skinheads, who were a violent subculture that beat up rival fans at soccer games and beat up Pakistani immigrants just for fun. Their technique was to push people to the ground and then kick them with heavy boots. Before that it was a style forcibly applied to prisoners in the 19th century, so even the military never had their hair as short as that, not wanting to look like jailbirds. Shaved heads didn't enter the UK mainstream until the 1990s, by which time I was living in the US. When I moved to the US in 1989 I found guys with buzzcuts quite scary until I realised that they were mostly harmless!
OK, you asked about long hair, not shaved heads, LOL! OTOH, guys in the UK didn't have as far to go for their hair to be perceived as long, especially by Americans, because it was never as short even before the Beatles and the hippies. OTOH, even though Brits never cut their hair really short on top, there was still a strong social taboo against growing it long at the back and the sides, just as strong as there was in the US, probably.
At this point I am beginning to ramble, LOL!
"She Loves You" which was preceded by "From Me To You".
1963
1 Cliff Richard and The Shadows - "The Next Time/Bachelor Boy"
January 3 for 3 weeks
2 The Shadows - "Dance On!"
January 24 for 1 week
3 Jet Harris and Tony Meehan - "Diamonds"
January 31 for 3 weeks
4 Frank Ifield - "The Wayward Wind"
February 21 for 3 weeks
5 Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "Summer Holiday"
March 14 for 2 weeks
6 The Shadows - "Foot Tapper"
March 28 for 1 week
7 Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "Summer Holiday"
April 4 for 1 week
8 Gerry & the Pacemakers - "How Do You Do It?"
April 11 for 3 weeks
9 The Beatles - "From Me to You"
May 2 for 7 weeks
10 Gerry & the Pacemakers - "I Like It"
June 20 for 4 weeks
11 Frank Ifield - "Confessin' (That I Love You)"
July 18 for 2 weeks
12 Elvis Presley - "(You're The) Devil in Disguise"
August 1 for 1 week
13 The Searchers - "Sweets for My Sweet"
August 8 for 2 weeks
4 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas - "Bad to Me"
August 22 for 3 weeks
15 The Beatles - "She Loves You"
September 12 for 4 weeks
16 Brian Poole & The Tremeloes - "Do You Love Me"
October 10 for 3 weeks
17 Gerry & the Pacemakers - "You'll Never Walk Alone"
October 31 for 4 weeks
18 The Beatles - "She Loves You"
November 28 for 2 weeks
19 The Beatles - "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
December 12 for 5 weeks
The clip only shows one group of teens, and for all we know they may have been picked to split the difference between a buzz and longer hair to satisfy the audience by the producers of that show. Depends I think alot of where one was in the country at the time. However the times were still a bit early and there WERE guys with longer hair than this around and I was one of them. By 1970 it really took off, especially when the teens were no longer living with parents.
As a freshman in high school in 1968 and playing ball, the dress code was pretty severe. We didn't have buzz cuts, but it was close. The long hair culture was in existence then, but as others have said it was more the fringe at the time, and an older crowd than high school.
By the time I graduated in 1972 long hair was becoming more common.
Long hair was more early seventies than late sixties. As I recall we toyed with it in the sixties but no more.
keep in mind that in 1968 most T.V. networks
prefered the "nice clean cut" look so those teenagers
were probly hand picked to have the aperance that they wanted.
also like others have said long hair was not real common
in all places yet.
back then before the internet when news traveld slow
by the time long hair was "in" in some places it was going out
in others heck it was 1970 before I even heard of woodstock
long after it was over
It's depend what "long hair" means. In the early 60s long was only long top hair and long (sometimes very long) fringe. Like most of teenagers of the time it was like my hair was in 64-65 and it was not without problems (don't you remember ?) ! But in 1968 most of the guys wore long hair. One year later was Woodstock: it enough to watch it again for to see it!
Also I think one of the cool and rebellious hair styles back
then was a flattop with the sides and back long (long then
being between 2" and 4") combed back into a DA.