(Above: The psychedelic world of Ron Britain, WCFL.) In the last post I lamented the inability to travel through time to hear the WERX countdown. Today, at least, time travel IS possible, because we have this bit of radio wonderfulness to enjoy. 50 years ago this weekend, Chicago was cleaning up from the Blizzard of … Continue reading Radio time travel: Ron Britain, WCFL, Chicago (January 28, 1967)
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Pop charts: WERX, Grand Rapids, Michigan (January 12, 1967)
(Above: Pepper-Uppers, unite.) If there's one thing we can count on in 2017, it's a lot of 50th anniversary retrospectives looking back at 1967. "Anniversary fatigue" is real, and while I don't want to do a lot of it this year, the problem is that some aspects of popular culture are just too damned good … Continue reading Pop charts: WERX, Grand Rapids, Michigan (January 12, 1967)
Guilty pleasures: Lesley Gore, “California Nights” (1967)
(Above: Lesley Gore as Pussycat, 1967) I will freely go on record as saying I like Lesley Gore records. There. It's out there. Sure, the songs are sometimes over-simplistic. They're often dismissed as watered-down tales of high school romance that devolves into fights ("Judy's Turn to Cry") and frustration about the egghead not noticing her … Continue reading Guilty pleasures: Lesley Gore, “California Nights” (1967)
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