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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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Making a ‘best of’ list for 2007 is a frustrating affair, and ultimately pointless. Looking back at a few of my previous lists provides the reason. There ...read more
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Wishing everyone a happy holiday season,
From Tom, Heidy, Mike and all of us at AHN! ...read more
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It’s that time of year again when we look back and ask ourselves, “Did all of that really happen?” From a musical perspective, though, question just as ...read more
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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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Yes, THAT Tommy James, as in “Tommy James and the Shondells…..as in ”Crimson and Clover”…”Mony Mony”…”I Think We’re Alone Now”, and dozens more.
For a ...read more
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