The Lively Set, celebrating fifties and sixties movies, music and tv

If you have a soft spot for 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Leave It To Beaver, Father Knows Best, The Donna Reed Show, My Three Sons, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Wagon Train, Surfside Six, Gilligan's Island ...

... Gidget, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, A Summer Place, Parrish, Susan Slade, Bye Bye Birdie, Love With The Proper Stranger, Splendor in the Grass, Where The Boys Are, Come September, The Lively Set, When A Man Answers, Tammy, and all those Beach Party movies...

... James Darren, Sandra Dee, Deborah Walley, Pamela Tiffin, Connie Francis, Troy Donahue, Natalie Wood, Elvis, Dwayne Hickman, Aron Kincaid, Linda Scott, Bobby Rydell, Fabian, Diane McBain, Paul Petersen, Michael Callan, Annette ...

... Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka, Connie Stevens, Fabian, Bobby Vee, Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes, Ann-Margret, Joanie Sommers, Bobby Darin, Yvette Mimeux, Patty Duke, Bobby Rydell, Shelley Fabares, Tuesday Weld, Delores Hart, Julie Parrish and the rest...

The Lively Set provides a feast of recent interviews, articles and reviews, many of them written exclusively for this website by fans, friends and business associates of the stars from fifties and sixties movies, music and television. Here's what one of our favorite visitors had to say:

Los Angeles, California, 14th March 2000
Shaz, My wife Joan and I are big fans of yours. What a super web site and what an amazing job you have done. We look forward to staying in touch with you and all of the visitors to your web site ... You have some great info ... and I should know because I was there!!! Keep up the great work.
Your friend and fan,
Dwayne Hickman a.k.a Dobie Gillis

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Bikinis, Black Denim & Bitchen Sounds
by Stephen J. McParland

"A Musical Appreciation Of Female Surf, Hot-Rod and Related Recordings 1961-1967"

from the Surf 'N' Rock Reference Series of California Music.

Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies
by Thomas Lisanti

I'm a big fan of Tom Lisanti's books, but this one is my favorite. Released April 2005, it covers more than 30 teen pics from the '60s - Gidget, Ride the Wild Surf, Beach Ball, Where The Boys Are, Girl Happy, Blue Hawaii, the Beach Party series and many more. Stars spotlighted include Susan Hart, Sandra Dee, James Darren, Shelley Fabares, Pamela Tiffin, Mickey Dora and Peter Brown to name just a few. 446 pages packed with everything you ever wanted to know about surf and beach movies, along with behind-the-scenes goss as only Tom Lisanti can tell it.

... INTRODUCING ...

a tribute to our very own technicolor movie star
TROY DONAHUE

When you've finished at The Lively Set, visit Shaz's Troy Donahue tribute site at www.troydonahue.com

The Lively Set is dedicated to
the memory of
DEBORAH WALLEY

Contents:

Welcome to The Lively Set,
celebrating 1950s and 1960s movies, music and tv.

you've come to the right place!

Contents:

Welcome to The Lively Set, celebrating 1950s and 1960s movies, music and tv.

you've come to the right place!

Welcome to The Lively Set,
celebrating 1950s and 1960s movies, music and tv.