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...
Legends of Guitars Pt 4
Chuck Berry (1926-2017) Chuck Berry was an American singer, songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Berry refined and...
Show Dec 5th 2018
Rock, Pop, Doo Wop, Country and RockabillyShow: Wednesday, December 5th 2018 Regular showtime: 12:30 PM to 3:00 PM.YOU'RE INVITED!! YOU'RE INVITED!! Topic for the show: Rock, Pop, Doo Wop, Country and Rockabilly I'll be playing from the 50s, 60s, and 70s,...
Rock, Pop, Doo Wop, Country, and Rockabilly (Part 3)
Link Wray was a Native American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s. Building on the distorted electric guitar sound of early records, his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble" by Link Wray & His Ray Men popularized "the...
Rock, Pop, Doo Wop, Country, and Rockabilly (Part 2)
Buddy Holly was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, to a musical family during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing...
Rock, Pop, Doo Wop, Country and Rockabilly (Part 1)
Elvis Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply the "King". Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis,...
Roy Orbison (1936-1988)
Roy Orbison was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his powerful voice, wide vocal range, impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. The combination led many critics to describe his music as operatic,...