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Please pardon me if I take a personal approach to today’s show, but it marks a bittersweet signpost in my life. As of today, October 22, I have ‘crossed ...read more
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Last week, our program featured a few hit singles from September of 1968. For the first time since I can remember, there were more classic singles debuting ...read more
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Just this morning, I listened to the radio on the way to work. Rather than tune in the news, I played a music station that happened to play a few new ...read more
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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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