Category: Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
It’s December 1, 1978 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – You Just Moved – It’s Your First Day In A New School – You Are Radioactive
KROQ – Fraser Smith Show – December 1, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Face it; just about everybody you know, including you, has either been the “new kid in school” or knows someone who was at least once the “new kid”. It is historically the single most excruciating
Cinerama – In Session – 2001 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Cinerama – In session for John Peel – recorded May 13, 2001 – broadcast May 24, 2001 – BBC Radio 1 – Cinerama in session for John Peel tonight – their seventh of an astonishing ten sessions the band did for Peel throughout the late 90s/early 000’s. Fronted by David
It’s October 1967 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – Wolfman Jack Is Your Way Of Life . . .Or Not.
XERB – Mexico/Hollywood – Wolfman Jack – October 17, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As much as you hated to admit it, just about everybody you knew listened to Wolfman Jack at least once a week. You know, because almost every day you would hear someone doing their
It’s 1963 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In St. Louis – You Keep Thinking About The Future
WIL – Danny Dark – January 4, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1963. Scary times, loads of uncertainty. You almost had the end of the world a few months earlier – the Cuban Missile crisis had you and everyone you knew wondering; Would the future be as scary
Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnette, Otis Williams, Sam “The Man” Taylor – Alan Freed – Live – 1956 – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnette, Otis Williams And The Charms, Sam “The Man” Taylor and his Orch. Alan Freed – CBS Radio: Camel Rock n’ Roll Dance Party – August 7, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As Rock n’ Roll made the breakthrough, from Race Music and Midnight Disc-jockey
It’s July 1957, You’re A Teenager, You Live In Philadelphia, Joe Niagara Is God – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
WIBG – Joe Niagara Show – July 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Depending on how you looked at it; 1957 was either the best it was going to be, and it would all be downhill from there. Or it was the big Question Mark; the future seemed rife
It’s November 4, 1979 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – You Dyed Your Hair White And Your Social Life Is Kinetic – And You Believe What Rodney Tells You
KROQ – Rodney On The Roq – November 4,1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though you’ve been hearing about it, knew there was “something” going on – this was the year you found it. This was the year you marched down to the Barber and asked for a
It’s 1965 – You Live In Los Angeles, But In A Few Days It Will Be Boss Angeles.
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It’s 1961 – You Live In Philadelphia – You Aren’t A Teenager . . . Yet – Parts Don’t Fit Right –
WIBG – Philadelphia – Jerry Stephens – January 6, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Admit it – if you had to do it all over again and were asked which period you would like to skip, you would invariably say “just before puberty hit”. Nothing compares to the