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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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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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