Ep. 63: Dolly Parton at the Intersection of the Music, Politics, and Culture of the 70s
If there is any one individual who was sitting right at the intersection of the music, politics, and culture of the 1970s, it was Dolly Part...
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For the Record: The 70s
An audio documentary of 1970s music and history. This podcast examines the intersection of a wide variety of musical genres, including pop, rock, country, country-pop, disco, punk, and soul...
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20 of 68 episodesEp. 62: How Rolling Stone, CREEM, and Tiger Beat Shaped 70s Music
Magazines were an important part of the 70s music experience. Rolling Stone, CREEM, and yup, even Tiger Beat gave information and access to...
70s Rerun - The Spirit of 76: Pop Music in America's Bicentennial
As the U.S. approaches the 150th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence, FTR70 looks back to Episode 31, which examines 1976 and sta...
Ep. 61: American Top 40 in the 80s
Casey Kasem was at the height of his powers as the 1980s began. The countdown show that he launched on July 4, 1970, "American Top 40," was...
Ep. 60: One-Hit Wonders of the 70s
The 1970s gave us some of the most memorable songs ever recorded and some artists who, for one reason or another, only broke through once. I...
Ep. 59 - Bands and Booze on the Festival Express of 1970
Imagine a train carrying the precious cargo that includes Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band, and many more of our legendary performe...
Ep. 58 - WKRP in Cincinnati
"Baby, if you ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me, I'm living on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati WKRP." In this episode, WKRP in...
Ep. 57 - Punk and New Wave at New York's CBGB
Television. The Ramones. Patti Smith. The Talking Heads. Blondie. These bands and more used the iconic club, CBGB, as their proving ground,...
Ep. 56 - Talk Shows of the 1970s
Americans watched a lot of television in the 70s and talk shows were among the most popular shows to watch. Talk shows were the true interse...
Ep. 55: Heartland Rock is about More than the Heartland
The heartland is an American region, but heartland rock is not regional. In fact, it can be argued that it is more of a culture than a sub-g...
FTR70 Sound Bite: Remembering Sly Stone
An audio documentary of 1970s music and history. This podcast examines the intersection of a wide variety of musical genres, including pop,...
Ep. 54: Into the 80s! What Came Next for 70s Heavy Metal?
How did heavy metal change from the 70s to the 80s? This episode examines the birth of "hair metal" and how, for a short but LOUD period of...
Ep. 53 - More than Charley Pride: African Americans in 70s Country
The roots of country music are black and white. So, why do most people think of country as a white person's genre? This episode considers an...
Ep. 52 - 70s Christmas Music
It isn't easy to write an original Christmas song that stands the test of the time, but artists of the 70s gave us several, such as "Feliz N...
Ep. 51 - The Softer Side of 70s Rock
Rock critics may have hated it but millions of music fans loved so-called "soft rock." This episode examines possible theories for this genr...
Ep. 3 - Nostalgia, Race, and Rebels in 70s Southern Rock (Encore)
Southern rock from bands such as the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd was not just loved by Americans from the South. Southern rock has br...
Ep. 2: Countryish Music of the 1970s (Encore)
How and why did artists such as John Denver and Olivia Newton-John upset the country music establishment in the 1970s? Country radio has cre...
Ep. 1: Disco Doesn't Suck (Encore)
Disco and the 70s had a love-hate relationship. This episode examines who hated disco and why, as well as why it thrived in the underground...
Ep. 50 - The Travolta Trilogy
In just over a two-year span as the 1970s marched on toward the 1980s, John Travolta starred in three cultural touchstone movies: "Saturday...
Ep. 49 - Austin City Limits and the 70s Country Music Revolution
In 1974, a local Austin PBS station aired the first episode of "Austin City Limits" and, with that, took the first step to showing the entir...