Category Teen Exploitation

The Plague Called Rock n’ Roll – 1956 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

  . . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Conversation – Rock n’ Roll – July 29,1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection   Generation gaps. Yes, there was a huge one in 1956. Pop Music…

History You Can Dance To – April 1977 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC – Music News For the Week beginning April 7, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection I guess rather than tell you about the world of Rock…

The Plague Of Comic Books – 1956 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – New World: Comic Books – July 1, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the 50s galloped on, and as the Cold War brought…

A Taste Of Top-40 In 1958 – WABC With Alan Freed – August 1958 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry

One of the interesting things about listening to actual history, as opposed to the recreation of it, is how much gets glossed over in the reconstruction and re-telling. Music and Popular Culture is often relegated to those key moments or…

Mamie Van Doren Talks About The Beat Generation – 1959 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Interview with Mamie Van Doren for The Beat Generation – June 6, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. A staple of the American cultural diet since Cinema…

Red Blanchard – Personification Of Zorch – 1954 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – KCBS-AM – Bill Weaver Show – Red Blanchard Filling in – June 30, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. It’s difficult, if not impossible to figure out…

A Place To Disappear – Youth, Circa 1969 – (Part 2) – Past Daily Reference Room

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBC Radio: Searching Part 2 – 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Continuing with the second episode of this 13 part radio series from the CBC in…

Altered Images – In Concert 1981 – Nights At The Roundtable: Concert Edition

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Altered Images – In Concert – Oct. 17, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 Continuing 80s week with Altered Images. Short-lived by most band’s standards, they attracted a…

‘Nobody Understands You. Nobody Will Try’ – Youth In 1969 – Past Daily Reference Room

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBC Radio – Searching – Program 1 – 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Here’s a casual reminder that some things are inevitable, predictable and always on…

Sonny & Cher, Godfrey Cambridge And Irv Kupcinet Talk About Youth In 1970 – Past Daily Reference Room

  . . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Kup’s Show – May 20, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Two things to consider – the people in the photo above are mostly all in…