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Yet another trip back to the ‘70s, and what a long, strange trip it is…
Rarely, if ever, has there been such a golden era for popular music than at the ...read more
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Either I’m obsessed, with a prejudice to the music of my own youth, or the early ‘70s really were a golden age for popular music. We just finished doing a ...read more
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Last show we played some awesome singles that were charting during the Memorial Day weekend of 1970. This show, we figured we’d dig up some awesome album ...read more
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As the sixties faded into a memory, the hit single still held sway in the early ‘70s. By 1970, the general appeal of the peace and love movement had gone ...read more
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Wow. Things were a lot cooler in 1960 than I might have presumed. While there was some awful crap on the pop radio (and I play some of this for you to gag ...read more
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Thirty years ago, the music scene was going through a significant transition period.
The result was a lot of competition between artists, and a lively ...read more
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Because our show is called ‘American HIT Radio,” we feel obligated to cover the pop charts for whatever era we are covering. Once we pass a certain time ...read more
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You know what was really cool about music in 1970? The hit singles were really good, and the album tracks were really good, too. It wasn’t exclusive, and ...read more
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This is our third and final show dedicated to album tracks from the first two months of 1970.
Previous shows covered nine albums between them, so we ...read more
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The 1970’s were the ‘decade of the album’, for sure. The ‘50s and ‘60s revolved mostly around the single, and the ‘80s and ‘90s kicked off the transition ...read more
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