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Most people think of San Francisco when they think of the Summer of Love. Granted, a great deal of change did occur in California, but the West Coast ...read more
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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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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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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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No single event better represents the spirit and the music of the ‘Summer of Love’ better than the Monterey Pop Festival. The year may have been 1967, but ...read more
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It was forty years ago today (more or less). As you may already know, each weekly episode of American Hit Radio celebrates an anniversary of popular music. ...read more
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EDITOR'S NOTE - Today's show was inadvertently split into two uneven pieces. Part A is 50 minutes, while Part B is app. 7 minutes in length.
By 1987, ...read more
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Normally, base commercialism is beneath us… but today’s show was practically screaming for a “Two for Tuesday” format, so I relented. It is rare when the ...read more
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