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Saturday February 23, 2008
The "Rhythm" Of Early Rhythm & Blues - 1953"
The Rock & Roll revolution can be said to have occurred in the mid 1950's with a new teen-oriented "music with a beat" that suddenly dominated both record sales and radio airplay. All the elements of Rock & Roll were well in place years earlier in uptempo Rhythm & Blues, as this collection of R&B recordings made in 1953 sonically illustrate.
Saturday February 16, 2008
More From Elvis Presley's Record Collection
Elvis Presley is the most successful recording artist in the history of the recording industry. Among his many recordings are many original songs written for him, but far more than these are Elvis' interpretation of existing songs which, over the years, have been associated with Elvis far more than with the other artists who first recorded them. Elvis Presley had an encyclopedic knowledge of a wide variety of contemporary music and a facility to recall the songs of other artists, and a tendency to blend the diverse influences of pop, country, rhythm & blues and gospel in his own interpretation of them. Many of the "original" versions of songs are little heard and little known today, and are the focus of this week's "My Place" program with Joel Najman, a program titled "More From Elvis Presley's Record Collection"
Saturday February 9, 2008
A Musical Profile Of Singer Cass Elliot
Cass Elliott was a singer who transitioned from the acoustic folk music of Greenwich Village during the early 1960's to an exciting new electric sound come mid-decqade, and a California Dream which brought her and her bandmates to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Beginning with her days as a member of The Big Three and The Mugwumps to her several years as a founding member of the trendsetting Mamas And The Papas, this week's "My Place" program with Joel Najman presents a musical profile of the beloved singer forever remembered as "Mama Cass".
Saturday February 2, 2008
Even More "Answer Records" From Early Rock & Roll
"Answer Records" in contemporary popular music are recordings which in some manner reply or "answer" a hit record which is currently riding high on the Hot 100 popularity charts. There was a proliferation of these novelty items in the late 1950's and early 1960's, and this week, Joel Najman's My Place program excavates another handful of these silly but fascinating artifacts of Rock & Roll's early years.
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