Yup! It was officially called the New Jersey Tercentenary Celebration and it commemorated the year that King Charles granted his brother James a large track of land that made up most of what we'd called NJ today. James named is New Jersey after the Isle of Jersey!
The one you're thinking of was the most famous apparently, both for their music but also because they were a racially integrated group! Quite bold for the time!
Cool story! But I'm quite sure that NJ was not celebrating 300 years of statehood in 1964....maybe the first settlers? :)
Yup! It was officially called the New Jersey Tercentenary Celebration and it commemorated the year that King Charles granted his brother James a large track of land that made up most of what we'd called NJ today. James named is New Jersey after the Isle of Jersey!
That makes more sense!
Yeah, they went all the way back LOL
The name Impalas rang a bell, so I checked on YouTube, and sure enough, I'm familiar with "Sorry."
Yes! Those are the Impalas but alas not our Impalas! I discovered several bands around that time by that name!
Oh! I didn’t know there were multiple groups with that name,
The one you're thinking of was the most famous apparently, both for their music but also because they were a racially integrated group! Quite bold for the time!