A Century of Song – Hour 9: The 1960s, Part Two
The 1960s have presented us with an unusual dilemma. Our preference has always been to venture beyond the familiar, uncovering exceptional music that history—and oldies […]
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A Century of Song – Hour 8: The 1960s, Part One
A Century of Song: The 1960s – Hour One Popular music history has a peculiar habit of treating decades as though somebody flipped a switch […]
A Century of Song – Hour 7: The 1950s Finale
A Century of Song – The 1950s, Hour #5 (Finale) There’s always a danger when extending a musical journey beyond its originally anticipated destination. Eventually, […]
A Century of Song – Hour 6: The 1950s, Part Four
By this point in the 1950s, popular music was becoming a wonderfully crowded neighborhood. Rock and roll was finding its swagger, doo-wop was refining its […]
A Century of Song – Hour 5: The 1950s, Part Three
The 1950s are officially refusing to behave like the simple little bridge decade we once imagined. What looked at first like a short walk from […]
A Century of Song – Hour 4: The 1950s, Part Two
The 1950s rightly deserve their reputation as the decade when rock and roll changed popular music forever. But that revolution was only one part of […]
A Century of Song – Hour 3: The 1950s, Part One
The 1950s are usually presented as the decade when rock and roll suddenly arrived and changed everything. This playlist tells a messier – and more […]
A Century of Song – Hour 1: The 1940s, Part One
When I first imagined A Century of Song, the starting point seemed painfully obvious: the 1920s. A hundred years of recorded music? Start a hundred […]