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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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Recently, another brilliant Ken Burns-affilated documentary has been airing on PBS. In a rather unusual move, a multitude of cd's have been released to ...read more
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Last week, we took a look at the contemporary pop charts as compiled on a CD series entitled “Now That’s What I Call Music.” Although this disk (#25 in the ...read more
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I know we said that last week represented our final show regarding Bob Dylan in the “How Music Changed” series, and that is still true;but with one caveat. ...read more
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A few years ago – I can’t even remember how long it has been now – the American Hit Radio program started as a forum to discuss popular music. That meant ...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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The Summer of Love had typical hot weather throughout the country, but the musical temperature in 1967 was even hotter.
The burgeoning youth movement ...read more
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For today’s show, we’re going to take a short break from our coverage of the “Summer of Love” to look at what music sounded like ten years previous to that ...read more
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AHR correspondent Mike Tietjen conducted this interview with Peter Brewis of Field Music, who according to Mike, is also a founding member of the New ...read more
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I hate to be a ‘glass-is-half-empty’ kind of guy, but reviewing the song titles from today’s show, it’s kind of hard to not feel depressed about the ...read more
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