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We kick off the New Year by taking a long glance back over our shoulders to the year 1957 - Fifty years ago, to be exact.
In January of that year, a ...read more
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We’ve been doing this show for a number of years now, and our self-appointed charter allows us to get very eclectic whenever we wish. You may already know ...read more
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A lot sure has happened in the past forty years. In 1966, there were no cell phones, no internet, no home computers, no VCR’s, no CD’s – heck, the cassette ...read more
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While reviewing the list of songs that we cover for today’s show, I’m struck by the diversity of material that was popular back in 1965. There is literally ...read more
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Back in the days before we took it upon ourselves to cover the London Observer’s List of ‘50 Albums that Changed Music’, we used to have a format. Remember ...read more
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It’s time to get back to basics here at American Hit Radio. For a number of shows, we’ve been focusing on topical events and/or individual artists, so we ...read more
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For a few reasons, the music from 1992 still confounds me. At the time, most of what passed for ‘rock’ music (an obsolete term that was never adequately ...read more
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Can it really be 24 years have passed since these songs were released? It doesn’t feel that way, but history (and a glance at the calendar) proves ...read more
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I always marvel at America’s way of classifying something as an “oldie” once it exceeds its immediate shelf life. This was especially true in the ...read more
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The Spring of 1972 was a confusing time for popular music. Most of us were still trying to get used to the fact that the Beatles were no more. At the time, ...read more
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