Episode 28: ’Twas So Good to Be Young Then (1960)

Episode 38: We’ve Got a Lifetime to Share: Competition was tight for the Original Song Oscar for songs released in 1970, as six of the 11 Oscar nominees had already won at least one Oscar. The five songs weren't immensely popular with the public, but they did provide some intriguing storyline... by The Best Song Podcast

79 min listen

Episode 37: Fields of Gold and Forests of the Night: Songwriters tried very, very hard to bring rock 'n' roll music into the Oscar nominees for Original Song in 1969, but the old guard strongly resisted and left off some now-classic tunes from the final list of five. Burt Bacharach and Hal David tried ... by The Best Song Podcast

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Writer Ray Connolly Interviews Elvis, August 1969: Ray Connolly is a British Writer.He is best known for his journalism and for writing the screenplays for the films That'll Be The Day and its sequel Stardust, for which he won a Writers Guild of Great Britain Best Screenplay award He wrote for the London... by Elvis The Ultimate Fan Channel

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Episode 35: A Look That Time Can’t Erase: History was made in 1967, when Quincy Jones became the first Black man to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Jones was having a banner year, writing the nominated song "The Eyes of Love," the title song for the eventual Best P... by The Best Song Podcast

79 min listen

Episode 18: A Kiss Is All I Need: One of the Oscar-nominated songs for the year 1950 is very well-known, but the version of "Mona Lisa" that Nat King Cole made famous is not the one heard in the movie Captain Carey USA. Learn more about the history behind the creation of this song on... by The Best Song Podcast

59 min listen

Episode 32: Wish You Were Here to Warm This Heart: Though 1964 was celebrated for the return of the original movie musical with the release of Mary Poppins, there was another movie release that set the world on fire with its revolutionary music. A Hard Day's Night was the film debut of the Beatles du... by The Best Song Podcast

69 min listen

A Trip in the Time Machine: the 1990 Red Sox: Let's go back 30 years, to the 1990 Red Sox season by Locked On Red Sox - Daily Podcast On The Boston Red Sox

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Episode 31: Be a Happy Camper: Movie songs were on an upswing of popularity with the public after the success of "Moon River," but 1963 did not help that cause with a list of five Oscar-nominated songs that were not major hits. One of the songs came from a cringe-inducing Italian ... by The Best Song Podcast

47 min listen

Ep. 81 - ROGER COOK ("I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"): Though he is now a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer, the British-born Roger Cook began his career in the UK, first making a splash on the US charts with The Fortunes’ Top 10 hit recording of “You’ve Got Your Troubles.” Additional US singles in that era included the Top 10 hits “Green Grass” by Gary Lewis & The Playboys, “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman,” by Whistling Jack Smith, and “Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again” by The Fortunes. In 1972 Cook scored with two different versions of “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing,” an international hit that began as a groundbreaking commercial jingle for Coca-Cola before becoming a successful single for The Hillside Singers and then The New Seekers. Later that year he topped the charts with The Hollies’ “Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress).” He and longtime songwriting partner Roger Greenaway were named British Songwriters of the Year two years in a row for 1971 and 1972 at the I by Songcraft: Spotlight on Songwriters

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Ep. 2: Countryish Music of the 1970s: How Country Radio Killed Traditional Country Music by For the Record: The 70s

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TCBCast 244: Elvis on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show: Six performances on television across nine weeks in early 1956. Not only did Elvis's life and career changed so dramatically between them, but the face of America's cultural landscape, as the establishment voices of popular and country music fought... by TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast

146 min listen

Ian Dury: Sue Lawley's castaway is punk rocker Ian Dury by Desert Island Discs

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Episode 9: A Voice Like Music: Hollywood had reason to be worried in 1941, not the least of which was the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese that December. Commercial television made its debut in July, giving the public a reason to stay home for entertainment instead of going ... by The Best Song Podcast

80 min listen

Ep. 76: Paul Anka: This legendary guest is an acclaimed songwriter, entertainer, and actor. Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, the enormous success of his first number one hit, “Diana” made him a star at the age of 15. Soon after he found himself traveling by bus with th... by And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

86 min listen

Episode 34: You’re No Longer On the Shelf: Though the British Invasion of pop songs took place two years earlier, British cinema was becoming popular in the mid-1960s thanks to London taking the theme of the Swinging '60s very literally. Two of the Oscar-nominated songs from 1966 are title so... by The Best Song Podcast

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Episode 24: The Future’s Not Ours to See: Six of the nine men nominated for the Best Original Song Oscar for 1956 had already won at least one Academy Award. Will this year's winner add another golden boy to their mantel? Or will it be first-timers Tom Adair and Leith Stevens for their song ... by The Best Song Podcast

44 min listen

Ep. 131 - HOLIDAY HITS (4 songwriters on their Christmas classics): Featuring Chris Butler, who wrote the new-wave holiday classic "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses, Randy Brooks, who penned the always-polarizing “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” Chris Eaton, who wrote Amy Grant’s “Breath of Heaven,” and Songwriters Hall of Famer Paul Williams, who is best known for “Rainbow Connection,” but who also wrote all the songs for The Muppet Christmas Carol. American Songwriter Podcast Network: https://americansongwriter.com/podcasts by Songcraft: Spotlight on Songwriters

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Ep. 80 - WILLIAM BELL ("Born Under a Bad Sign"): A legendary recording artist and songwriter for the Memphis–based Stax label, William Bell first found success with his own recording of “You Don’t Miss Your Water,” a song that would go on to be covered by Otis Redding, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Byrds, and others. He found chart success in the ‘60s and ‘70s with additional self-penned singles, such as the Top 20 hits “Everybody Loves a Winner,” “A Tribute to a King,” “Private Number,” and “Tryin’ to Love Two,” which hit #1 on the R&B chart and #10 on the pop chart. His Top 10 R&B hit “I Forgot to Be Your Lover” went on to be covered by Billy Idol as the Top 10 pop hit, “To Be a Lover,” and was reinvented once again when Jaheim sampled it in “Put That Woman First,” a Top 5 R&B hit and Top 20 pop hit in 2004. In 2016 Bell returned to the re-formed Stax label to release This Is Where I Live, an album of primarily original songs that featured William’s own interpretation of “Born Under a Bad Si by Songcraft: Spotlight on Songwriters

54 min listen

Episode 51: “Matchbox” by Carl Perkins: Episode fifty-one of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at Matchbox by Carl Perkins, and at the session that turned into the historic Million Dollar Quartet jam session. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, by A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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Ep. 130 - MARSHALL CRENSHAW ("Someday Someway"): The Golden Globe and Grammy nominee whose self-titled debut release was named one of the 100 Best Albums of the Eighties by Rolling Stone joins us to chat about his wide-ranging career, from self-penned hits as an artist such as “Someday Someway,” to co-writing the Top 10 hit "Til I Hear it from You" with the Gin Blossoms, to writing the theme for the parody film Walk Hard. American Songwriter Podcast Network: https://americansongwriter.com/podcasts by Songcraft: Spotlight on Songwriters

56 min listen

Episode 38: “Heartbreak Hotel” by Elvis Presley: Episode thirty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley, and is part three of a trilogy on the aftermath of Elvis leaving Sun, and the birth of rockabilly. Click the full post to read liner notes, by A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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PROJECT AUDION 36 - Escape! LOST EPISODE!: "We Offer You...Escape!" -- starting in 1947 for seven years, the CBS show delivered on that promise. Using some of the finest directors and voice actors, and drawing on the world's great adventure stories, Escape has legions of devoted fans seven... by Moonlight Audio Theatre

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TCBCast 220: The Complete 50s Masters Box Set - The 30th Anniversary: Gurdip returns just in time to cover the winning subject of our Patreon poll: the impact and our memories of the 1992 box set "The King of Rock and Roll: The Complete 50s Masters." As the centerpiece of the early "Elvis in the 90s" campaign run by... by TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast

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TCBCast 128: June 1958 - The Last 50s Session: We wrap up our coverage of Elvis' 1950s non-soundtrack studio sessions with the last session Elvis had before shipping out to Germany. Backed by an A-team of Nashville players, Elvis worked no less hard turning out single material than he did with... by TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast

93 min listen

Ep. 125 - RODNEY CROWELL ("Til I Gain Control Again"): Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Rodney Crowell joins Scott to chat about a remarkable career that has yielded classic songs such as “Til I Gain Control Again,” “I Ain’t Living Long Like This,” “Ashes By Now,” “After All This Time,” and “Shame on the Moon.” American Songwriter Podcast Network: https://americansongwriter.com/podcasts by Songcraft: Spotlight on Songwriters

63 min listen

Bridge Over Troubled Water: The Bridge to Beyoncé by The Opus

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Episode 210 - Lee J. Cobb: Lee J. Cobb was still a rising star in Hollywood - years before his Oscar-nominated turns in On the Waterfront and The Brothers Karamazov and his powerful performances in 12 Angry Men and The Exorcist - when he made his only visit... by Stars on Suspense (Old Time Radio)

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E95: Tony Russell on old-time country music + Phil Everly audio + Bunny Wailer R.I.P.: In this episode we welcome the great blues & country writer Tony Russell, who talks about his new Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records — and the joys of the original Americana sound from the '20s to the '40s. Tony also talks us through his writing career from the late '60s to the present, with a particular nod to a 1972 Cream piece about B.B. King. The focus on the "Old-Time" country of Fiddlin' John Carson & Uncle Dave Macon carries through to discussion of those compelling revivalists Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, big faves of the RBP crew — and then to clips we hear from a 1983 audio interview with Phil Everly of peerless country-pop harmonists the Everly Brothers. Phil talks about the strained relationship with brother Don and the prospect of the Everlys reunion that happened in the fall of that year. For those less smitten by Appalachia and "high lonesome" close-harm by Rock's Backpages

70 min listen

Fleetwood Mac's “Dreams”: The Strange and Beautiful Life of a Breakup Classic by Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs

33 min listen

Jarvis Cocker: Musician, Jarvis Cocker shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. by Desert Island Discs

34 min listen

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