Category: Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
It’s 1969 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In San Francisco – You Have This Nagging Suspicion You Missed It.
KYA – San Francisco – Tom Campbell – February 22, 1969 – Rob Frankel Collection – Suddenly it hits you – you’ve missed out on everything. Never went to a single love-in. Never went to The Fillmore or The Avalon or The Matrix. Missed all the bands. You went to
It’s December 4, 1980 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – Led Zeppelin Just Broke Up – Your World Fell Down – At Least There’s The Mighty MET.
KMET – Jack Snyder, Paraquat Kelley, Mary Turner – December 4, 1980 – Rob Frankel Collection – It’s almost the end of 1980, December 4th – first year of a new decade. You’ve been quietly mourning the 70s all year; those were your good old days, that’s when everything happened
It’s September 1980 – You Live In L.A. – You’re In College – You Suddenly Realize It’s Not The 70’s Anymore
KHJ – September 3, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – You knew it was going to happen – you thought you forgot about it; time hasn’t stood still. It’s been marching on, constantly since you woke up on New Years Day, with a massive hangover and some vague recollection
It’s 1979 -You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – You Don’t Know And You Don’t Care.
KROQ-FM – Larry Woodside – 11:30am-1:30pm – February 24, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hits you like a ton of bricks – somewhere around 16 1/2 everything gets just a little dark and very uncool. You live in L.A., you have creeping cynicism. You don’t like your teachers,
Moms Has A Few Words For You – An Interview With Moms Mabley – 1961 – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
Moms Mabley – Interview with Studs Terkel – WFMT – June 13, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Jackie “Moms” Mabley. If you’ve never heard of her, you have missed an important part of your life. If you have any inclinations towards stand-up comedy, you’ve probably heard the name
It’s May 1989 – You Live In L.A. – You’re A Teenager – This Is The Last Day Of The Edge – You Are Heartbroken.
KEDG-FM – The Edge – May 15, 1989 – Last Day On the Air – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It may not seem that way now but there was a time, not so long ago, that you had your favorite radio station. Radio was your lifeline; it communicated to
April 14, 1956 – Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers – LaVern Baker – Count Basie – Alan Freed – 1956 – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, LaVern Baker, Count Basie and his Orchestra -CBS Radio: Camel Rock n’ Roll Dance Party – April 16, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 14, 1956 – Sixty-three years ago today, Alan Freed along with LaVerne Baker, Count Basie and Frankie Lymon and
