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By 1988, the singles charts had deteriorated so badly that is was laughable – well, it wasn’t laughable if you were living through it and listening to top ...read more
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Last show, we dedicated our program to a few of the better 45-RPM singles from February 1968. This week, we look at the long players. While the singles ...read more
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I was alive in 1968, and yet I still cannot believe the amount of versatility that the charts exhibited back then. In the intervening years, radio became ...read more
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If you’re looking for classic rock and roll, then you’ve tuned in to the right show. Today, we turn the clock back to February 1958, and what a time it ...read more
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How much can happen in ten years? From decade to decade, changes can be rapid, or they can be glacial. To my ears, it feels as though not much has changed ...read more
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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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Making a ‘best of’ list for 2007 is a frustrating affair, and ultimately pointless. Looking back at a few of my previous lists provides the reason. There ...read more
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