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If you judged solely by the pop charts, nobody would claim 1978 to be a banner year for music. Our glance at the top 10 chart for this week 30 years ago is ...read more
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Last week we discussed the prominence of singles artists from this era, while alluding to the number of artists who were developing reputations as album ...read more
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With Wedding Anniversaries, the 40th year is known as the “Ruby Anniversary.” For our purposes, we’ll utilize the same signifier to celebrate popular music ...read more
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With the New Year, we return to our format of celebrating various anniversaries in popular music by taking a look at the first week of January 1958.
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If you’ve been listening to American Hit Radio, then you know that we’ve been spending a great deal of time and energy focusing on music from 1967, and for ...read more
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Despite the implications of the title for today’s show, great music did not suddenly cease as the Summer of Love came to a close. Quite the opposite ...read more
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Lately, I’ve been so distracted by day-to-day responsibilities and mundanities that I’ve lost track of the date. Heck, I sometimes forget what time of year ...read more
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Most people think of San Francisco when they think of the Summer of Love. Granted, a great deal of change did occur in California, but the West Coast ...read more
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A few weeks ago, in our coverage of the ‘Summer of Love’, we dedicated one program to the Monterey Pop Festival, a key event in the development of pop ...read more
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This summer, we’ve celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love in many different ways, with shows dedicated to album tracks, relevant singles, ...read more
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