Category Beatles

It’s June 1965 – You’re A Teenager – You’re In L.A. – You Have A Pen-Pal – She Sent A Tape – It Has Changed Your Life.

The Pen-Pal letter

– Radio London – June 25, 1965 – Stuart Busby/United DJs Collection – You have a Pen-Pal. Her name is Fern. Fern Lives in London. You were assigned Fern by your Social Studies Teacher when the semester started. You were…

A Conversation With Lennon And McCartney – 1968 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

Lennon-McCartney

– Newsfront Interview with Lennon and McCartney – May 11, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Unlike the Billie Holiday interview I ran some time back, this interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney has been discovered recently and…

It’s October 1967 – You’re A Teenager, You Live In L.A. – And You Want A BMR Halloween Mask.

KFWB – B. Mitchel Reed – KRLA – Reb Foster – October 20 (approx.) 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Summer of Love is over, but radio is sill going strong. KFWB and KRLA are dispensing the music…

It’s 1967 – You Live In L.A. – You’re 16 – This Is What You Were Listening To – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

– KRLA-KFWB-KHJ-KBLA- recorded between February and May, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Long before the days of downloading, streaming and ripping, if you wanted to listen to a new song over and over, the only way you could…

Pop Goes The Beatles 1963 – Past Daily Soundbooth

Beatles - Pop Goes The Beatles - BBC

While we’re on the subject of The British Invasion this week . . . I have rarely run Beatles material on Past Daily. No good reason – other than, the subject is covered so thoroughly by so many other sites,…

It’s The Day After Christmas 1964 – You’re A Teenager – You Had A Blast On Christmas Day – That’s What Your Friends Told You – It’s Your First Hangover.

Christmas Day 1964

KYA – Norman Davis Substituting for Tom Donahue – December 26, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – ‘Tis the morning after Christmas; 1964. You are laying in bed, you are very quiet. You gradually open your eyes. Your mouth…

December 8, 1980 – Dream Is Over – The Death Of John Lennon

John Lennon - vigil

Stunned incomprehensible silence. That was a reaction many people had when they first heard the news that John Lennon was dead, gunned down as he stepped out of a car, on his way home from a recording session. And as…

If You Were A Teenager, And You Lived In L.A. , October 16, 1965 Sounded Like This.

Beatlemania - 1965

If you’ve ever wanted to hear a slice of an average day of Top-40 radio in Los Angeles during those halcyon days of Rock, all things British Invasion and Motown, this may be your chance. It comes with a caveat…

John Lennon – In A Few Words – 1965 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

John Lennon - Book Beatle - 1965

John Lennon: Book Beatle – with Wilfred De’Ath – July 3, 1965 – BBC John Lennon – those of us of a certain age who thought turning 30 was a distant, almost unfathomable milestone, now look at one of our…