"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Herd- So Much In Love – 1966 The Herd are probably best known as the band the legendary Peter Frampton got his start in. Having just turned 16, and just finished…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Bob Crane Show – Feb. 24, 1960 In retrospect, it really wasn’t that long ago that radio was a veritable hotbed of Personalities – every station and every format seemed to have…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: MarcBolan – San Francisco Poet – 1966 Long before T. Rex, and just before John’s Children, Marc Bolan was pounding the musical pavement, hoping for recognition. He was briefly signed by Decca…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Nashville Teens – Tobacco Road – 1964 Just about every collector of Rock knows this track backwards and forwards and you’ve probably heard it at least a thousand times. But I remember…
Become a Patron! Something vocal this weekend and in honor of her birthday (April 25). The immortal Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by The Lou Levy Quartet, live at The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and recorded by Radio Nederland on February 18, 1961.…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ann Peebles – Walk Away – 1969 Switching gears a bit and heading into Memphis Soul territory. Ann Peebles is probably best known for her 1973 smash hit I Can’t Stand The…
Click on the link here for Audio Player:The Dovers – The Third Eye – 1966 If I stopped posting music by bands that made it, that had hit records, that became household names, and just concentrated on the overlooked, underrated…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: KMPC – Dick Whittinghill – June 1968 As strange as this may seem, this was the other radio format that competed with Top-40 in the 1960’s. It was more middle-of-the-road than straight…
Click on the link here for Audio player: CBS Radio – Virginia Integration – 1958 When the Supreme Court handed down its decision on Brown vs.The Board of Education, declaring segregated schools unconstitutional in 1954, you would have thought the…
Click on the link here for Audio player: The Leading Question – Education Bill -1961 I ran across this Sunday Interview show from September of 1961, part of the CBS Radio series “Leading Question” – it deals with the death…