Motown
Motown Motown is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was originally founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmanteau of motor and town,...
Show Feb 11th 2019
Great Show Today! (Friday Feb 8th) and great music by the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Supremes, and others. See you next Monday, Feb 11th. Next Show: Monday, February 11th 2019 Regular showtime: 12:30 PM to 3:00 PM.YOU'RE INVITED!! YOU'RE INVITED!! Topic...
Show February 8th
Topic for the show: The 55th Anniversary of the year 1964, a momentous year which saw Lyndon B. Johnson as president of the United States.
1964 Music
I Want to Hold Your Hand: The Beatles is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and recorded in October 1963, it was the first Beatles record to be made using four-track equipment. With advance orders exceeding one...
1964 (Part 2)
June 17, Author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters embark on their cross-country trip aboard Farther (bus) spreading the gospel of LSD. The Supremes were an American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded as The Primettes...
1964 (Part 1)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Formerly the 37th vice president of the United States from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of...
Show February 4th 2019 – Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper
Music of the 1950's: Show of Feb 4th. When: Monday, February 4th 2019YOU'RE INVITED!! YOU'RE INVITED!! Podcast: A shout from the past:Topic for the show: Music of the 1950's I'll be talking about and playing music from: The Birth of Rock and Roll Elvis,...
Carole King
Carole King is an American composer and singer-songwriter. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1955 and 1999. King also wrote 61 hits...
Brill Building Pop (Songwriters)
Burt Bacharach and Hal David Burt Bacharach, is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award...
Brill Building Pop
Brill Building Pop is a subgenre of pop music originating from the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols in the early 1960s. The term has also become a catch-all for the period...