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A lot of the pop music from the late summer of 1970 had a pastoral feel that conveyed the feeling of a warm summer day. In some ways, this made the music ...read more
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In some ways, I feel that my generation was among the luckiest of all generations.
Specifically, the 1958 (when I was born) had me hitting certain ...read more
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It’s hard for songs to remain relevant for 50 years, which is why so few do. Usually, a song will sound cool for a month or two, maybe a year, then fade ...read more
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“Back in the old folky days, the air was magic when we played…” So sang Neil Young in the early ‘70s, lamenting the end of his first great band, Buffalo ...read more
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After last week’s focus on early Summer 1980 from the perspective of singles and albums, we figured it would make a nice show to complete the coverage by ...read more
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Taking the Bad with the Good - Springtime in 1980
In today’s show we go back thirty years to see what the music scene looked like at the same time in ...read more
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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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