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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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I wish it wasn’t so, but there are an awful lot of things going on as this national holiday approaches that have me feeling curmudgeonly. It’s hard to ...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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I’m ashamed to say that I was unaware of Bo Diddley’s passing for more than a week. Much of it is my own fault, due to a schedule that barely allows me ...read more
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Recently, a beautiful book of photography was brought to my attention. “On the Brink of Fame – Pop Stars in the Swinging ‘60s” is a gorgeous collection of ...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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1978 was an interesting year for popular music, if only for the diversity that it offered. On this show, we look at the pop charts and the album charts to ...read more
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Rather than go on (again) about how great pop music was in 1968, I figured it would be a good idea to just let the songs speak for themselves. To prep for ...read more
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