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Fifty years removed from the release dates, a lot of this material may sound ancient to modern ears, but many of these songs have been extraordinarily ...read more
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I know I have precious little to say that’s nice about popular music in the ‘90s, but things really weren’t so bad then. Back in 1998, if you liked an ...read more
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One of the purposes of American Hit Radio is to convey what it must have been like to be alive at a specific time when certain songs were new. As such, the ...read more
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Album Rock’ was not invented in the Summer of 1968, but that is the time when it came into fruition. In point of fact, a lot of album rock wasn’t even ...read more
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God, I love the music of 1968. There is such a wonderful balance to most of it, combining melody and pop appeal with creativity, originality and nuance.
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I know it’s been said that things were much simpler 50 years ago, and that may have been true in many other ways, but I don’t think it applied to popular ...read more
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Ten years is a long time…or is it? In my personal life, virtually everything has changed in the past ten years, but in the music scene, it appears as ...read more
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1978 was an interesting year for popular music, if only for the diversity that it offered. On this show, we look at the pop charts and the album charts to ...read more
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Rather than go on (again) about how great pop music was in 1968, I figured it would be a good idea to just let the songs speak for themselves. To prep for ...read more
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The charter for American Hit Radio has been based on hits, which translated to hit singles. In the past year or so, we’ve broadened our coverage to include ...read more
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