America And The Quest For A Good Cry - This Is Nora Drake - 1948 - Past Daily Pop Chronicles
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet - On The Air - 1949 - daily broadcast over WDIA radio in Memphis Tennessee - Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
To Be Young And Strung Out - Drug Addiction in the 1970s - An interview with Junkie Priest Daniel Egan. Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Houdini’s Last Seance – Oct. 31, 1936 In what was promised to be the media event of the decade, the legendary illusionist, magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, who had died on Halloween night 1926, had promised to make an appearance from “beyond the grave” ten years […]
Steve Allen: Farewell to l.A. - December 7, 1950 - Long-time fixture in L.A. entertainment, Steve Allen leaves for New York and The Tonight Show.
The Maddening Hobby Of Taping Off Your Radio In The 1950s - Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles. - Various radio stations.
– Pop Profile: Steve Marriott – BBC Transcription Service 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Anybody who was ever a fan of Small Faces and Humble Pie know the driving force behind both of those bands was Steve Marriott. One of Rock’s greatest singers and an enormously talented writer, Marriott epitomized the 60s, for […]
It's February 1965 - You're A Teenager - You Live In Chicago - The Beatles like The Moody Blues, and so do you. Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBC Radio – Glenn Gould and The Moog Synthesizer – 1968 – CBC Radio Without a doubt, there isn’t a musician or a band in the last 40 years that doesn’t owe some debt (or some curse, depending on how you look at it) to Robert […]
Since it was the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice which ended the Korean War in 1953 earlier this week, I thought I would add a postscript in the form of a radio documentary produced by CBS News on that occasion. Narrated by Wil Rogers Jr. and broadcast around the time of the armistice […]
America's Little Dope Problem - Narcotics In the 1950's - 1951 documentary about the problems of drugs and drug addiction in America.
"My Name Is Tania" The Symbionese Liberation Army Communiqué of June 6, 1974 - tapes made by members of the SLA featuring voice of Patty Hearst.
You're A Teenager - you Live In L.A. - it's May 1989 and They're Taking The Edge Off The Air - You Are not happy - Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Father's Day - 1955 - Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles - NBC Monitor - 12:15-3:15 pm - June 19, 1955 - NBC Radio Network
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Rainbow Quest w/Pete Seeger featuring Johnny Cash and June Carter – March 17, 1969 It’s always amazing what falls off a shelf and hits you when you least expect it. This one has been sitting in the vault gathering dust for a […]
Tuning into Cinco de Mayo in 1949 - Past Daily Pop Chronicles - World Music /Holiday Edition. Historic radio from South of the Border!
Gastronomy L.A. - 1966 - L.A. Eats and listens to Mike Roy Talk About it on KNX "Curious Radio" in Los Angeles - Sept. 24, 1966, - Past Daily Pop Chronicles
– WNEW – Sunday Closeup: A Child Again – November 11, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the 60s progressed, and as the mainstream started to take an interest in the goings on with the Youth of the day, articles began to appear in magazines and newspapers; documentaries started popping up on […]
Keely Smith - In Concert at The Hollywood Bowl - 1962 - Tribute to the late Keely Smith, who passed away on December 16, 2017 - Past Daily Pop Chronicles
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Australia – Interview with Pier Angeli – Sept. 26, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Since we’re within hours of Hollywood‘s Biggest Night, I thought I would run a couple of interviews with Stars on the Rise in the 1950s to […]
Fats Domino Story - BBC Radio Documentary, produced in 1998 - the story of one the most influential figures in early Rock n' Roll.
This Week In Rock - July 24-30, 1978 - BBC Transcription Service - five minute capsules of latest Pop Culture news from London.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Louvin Brothers – Live At The Hollywood Bowl – June 22, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Well, maybe not really a Pop Culture entry this week, but The Louvin Brothers were an influential duo with a lot of folk artists, particularly in the area […]
Swingin' St.Louis - 1952 - Radio During Segregation - Radio station KXLW, St. Louis - The George Logan Mid-Morning show. Past Daily Pop Chronicles.
A Sunday Afternoon in 1955 - An hour of NBC Radio's Monitor, as it was broadcast on June 19, 1955 - Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles.
We Play Phonograph Records - KMET - June 27, 1968 - Free-Form Radio In Los Angeles - Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles: The FM Years.
Before it was Rock it was Race - WDIA, Memphis - December 17th, 1951 - The Sepia Swing Club - Teenager Music in Segregated America.
Marmalade Skies - Drugs in Los Angeles - 1969 - A documentary, produced by KNX-AM in Los Angeles about the drug problem in L.A.
In Conversation With Raquel Welch - USC Film Historian Arthur Knight inteviews Raquel Welch and discusses her career as film star and Sex Symbol.
A Chat with Robert Palmer - 1986 - Pop Singer, Video icon, Blue-eyed Soul Practitioner, in conversation for Past Daily's Weekend Pop Chronicles.
Bumps Blackwell talks about Little Richard, Sam Cooke and the Early Days Of Rock in a rare 1969 interview. Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles.
It's November 1965 - You're a Teenager living in L.A. and KHJ has The Real Don Steele and he explains it all to you. Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles.
A Chat with Prince - recorded June 6, 1986 - Interview from WHYT-FM, Detroit - Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles: Legends of Rock.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – KFI-AM – Ed Hart Program – August 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Long before the days when Talk Radio routinely slid off the rails, spiraled into name calling, conspiracies, innuendo and general looniness, there was a sense of imparting information to the radio audience about […]
The Day L.A. went from 1972 to 1958 - KFWB at KMET - one 24 hour period, L.A. FM station KMET became KFWB, a powerhouse Top-40 Station from 1958.
– The Story Of Psychedelia – BBC 6 Music – 2004 – BBC Radio – A little over 10 years ago BBC6 Music (one of the mainstays for anyone even remotely interested in music), as part of their ongoing series of informative and in-depth documentaries, ran this 4-part special; The Story Of Psychedelia, which is […]
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Yet another sad passing to report. News today of the passing of Doors co-founder and author Ray Manzarek at 74 from a long bout with Cancer in Germany took a lot of people by surprise, me included. Despite reports coming in confirming his death, there […]
A Word Or Two From Hugh Hefner - 1974 - An interview with legendary publisher of Playboy Magazine Hugh Hefner by James Day - Past Daily Pop Chronicles.
Robert Palmer, two-time Grammy Award-winning love addict caller-outer, can be heard briefly and inexplicably covering Hüsker Dü’s “New Day Rising” in the odd piece of Internet ephemera below. It goes by kind of quickly, and by midway through the clip Palmer’s band has morphed the tune into something else entirely, but it’s worth a listen if only because it’s so weird. After giving myself a quick refresher course on Palmer’s career, because, frankly, I never really paid much attention to it, I could find no mention of any connection whatsoever between the two seemingly polar opposite musical endeavors. If the guy who posted this thing is to be believed, it’s from a Palmer performance at San Diego State University in the spring of 1987. Keep in mind that Hüsker Dü’s “New Day Rising” shows up brutally and gloriously kicking ass as the first track on the absolutely indispensable post-punk album of the same name released in January of 1985, the exact year that Palmer would release Riptide featuring the unfortunate classic, “Addicted to Love.” So I got to thinking. Maybe Palmer’s next record, you know, the one he...
Andy Partridge chats about XTC and the release of their then-latest album Nonsuch, during an interview conducted on June of 1992 - Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Click on the link here for Audio Player: BBC London Report – Week of June 9, 1977 Despite views to the contrary, when a pivotal band loses one or more of their members, things just never feel the same. When I recently saw a concert by the remaining members of The Who (Roger Daltry and […]
January 1, 1980 - BBC Radio 2 - Top 30 Of 1979 - Past Daily Holiday Pop Chronicles - A survey of the top-30 most popular songs of the year 1979 with Terry Wogan.
It's October 1958. You Live In L.A. - You're visiting relatives somewhere on Long Island - you are dial hopping. Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Nichols & May on The Kraft Music Hall – March 1, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection If you’ve been around a while, chances are you remember when Mike Nichols was part of the comedy team Nichols & May. It preceded what […]
– NPR – National Press Club – Senator Harold Hughes: The Nation’s Fight Against Alcoholism – January 26, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This week we’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving – the first of the holiday season. To many people it’s a time of renewal, reacquaintance and celebration. To many more people, it’s the […]
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Rodney On The Roq – April 8, 1979 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Rodney On The Roq – April 8, 1979 – Part 2 Rodney Bingenheimer has been a cornerstone in the world of Pop Culture for decades. Dubbed […]
Click on the link here for Audio Player – News From The 1960 Summer Olympics – NBC Radio – September 3, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This week, 53 years ago, Rome was playing host to the 1960 Summer Olympics. In this report, re-capping the events for the day – it was about upbeat […]
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Joe Pyne Show – 1965 – Syndicated Series – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Much as we like to think the current state of talk radio is something new, it’s not. Going from the polite and civilized to the argumentative and inflammatory was a simple matter of […]
