Had the internet never come around, or perhaps just not YouTube, the video footage seen below would most likely have rotted away in some distant and forgotten television studio vault. I was just a gleam in my mother’s eye when these revelries took place so long ago, a time when there were still two years left in Dwight Eisenhower’s administration, the Beatles were just teenagers in Liverpool, Sputnik 1 was still orbiting the earth and J. Fred Muggs tenure on the Today Show was coming to an end. I’m sure people 51 years from now people will look back on 2008 as a strange time in its own right, laughing quizzically about things such as Facebook, Hannah Montana, reality TV, Sarah Palin, our soon-departing simian-looking chief executive and I’m sure much, much more. How fun hindsight can be…

Enjoy!