Pop Chronicles
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"The 'Pop Chronicles' Team" circa 1970.[1] From left to right are John Gilliland, unidentified, Sie Holliday, Chester Coleman, and Thom Beck. | |
| Home station | KRLA |
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| Syndicates | Armed Forces Radio |
| Created by | John Gilliland |
| Produced by | Chester Coleman |
| Narrated by | John Gilliland, Sie Holliday, Thom Beck |
| Original release | 1969 – c1971 |
| No. of episodes | 55 |
| Other themes | The Chronicles of Pop by Len Chandler |
| Website | The John Gilliland Collection |
The Pop Chronicles are two radio documentary series which together "may constitute the most complete audio history of 1940s-60s popular music."[2] Both were produced by John Gilliland.
The Pop Chronicles of the 50s and 60s
Inspired by the Monterey Pop Festival,,,,,[3] the Pop Chronicles of the 1950s and 1960s was originally produced at KRLA 1110 and first aired on February 9, 1969.[4] John Gilliland narrated the series along with Sie Holliday and Thom Beck (pictured).[5] Also performing interviews were Dick LaPalm, Lew Irwin, Harry Shearer, Mike Masterson, and Richard Perry.[6] The show's brief recurring theme song “The Chronicles of Pop” was written and performed by Len Chandler.[7] The engineer and associate producer of the series was Chester Coleman.[8][9]
KRLA 1110 originally broadcast an hour a week of the Pop Chronicles,[8] which were later syndicated[1][10] and broadcast on Armed Forces Radio.[11] The photo above indicates that it was broadcast on KABC-FM sometime before that station became KLOS.
The University of North Texas Music Library has made the Pop Chronicles available online[3] since June 2010.[12]
The Pop Chronicles of the 1940s
The Pop Chronicles of the 1940s was produced by John Gilliland and broadcast on KSFO (AM) while he worked there beginning in 1972[10] and 1976.[13] To promote the show, KSFO "had a 40's month celebration with a dance remote and a jitterbug contest at Union Square."[14] This was also syndicated[14] and broadcast on AFRTS.[15] In 1994, an edited version was released as the four cassette audiobook Pop Chronicles the 40's: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40's.[16][17] This was later rereleased as The Big Band Chronicles.[18][19]
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Cover of the audiobook version | |
| Home station | KSFO |
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| Syndicates | AFRTS |
| Created by | John Gilliland |
| Narrated by | John Gilliland |
| Original release | 1972 – 1976 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
After his death, Gilliand's sister donated the Pop Chronicles tapes to the University of North Texas Music Library where they form the John Gilliland Collection.[2]
See also
References
Notes
- 1 2 "Billboard - Google Books". Books.google.com. 1970-09-26. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
- 1 2 "ARSC Conference 2008 - Session Abstracts" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-07-13.
- 1 2 "Explore the holdings of UNT Music Library: List View UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. 2010-08-14. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
- ↑ "CLASSIC DJ & RADIO SCRAPBOOK: KRLA POP CHRONICLES Program, 1969 (1 of 2)". Classicdjradioscrapbook.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
- ↑ "Los Angeles Radio People, Where Are They Now, G". Laradio.com. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
- ↑ "Index to Interviews — University of North Texas Libraries". Library.unt.edu. 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
- ↑ "Index to "Pop Chronicles" — University of North Texas Libraries". Library.unt.edu. 2008-07-24. Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
- 1 2
- Hopkins, Jerry (October 4, 1969). "'Pop Chronicles' Chronicle Pop". Rolling Stone (43). p. 34.
- ↑ "CLASSIC DJ & RADIO SCRAPBOOK: KRLA POP CHRONICLES Program, 1969 (2 of 2)". Classicdjradioscrapbook.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
- 1 2 MacKenzie, Bob (1972-10-29). "Radio Returns to the '40s" (PDF). Oakland Tribune. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-09.
- ↑ Gilliland, John (2008-08-18). "Pop chronicles. 36 (RU 11-1 [Sept. 1970]) [WorldCat.org]". [WorldCat.org]. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
- ↑ "Statistics: John Gilliland's Pop Chronicles UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
- ↑ "John Gilliland - Pop Chronicles: The Forties". bayarearadio.org. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
- 1 2 "12-Hour Special Spots Forties' Music & Events". Billboard - Google Books. 1973-01-13. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
- ↑ Gilliland, John (2008-08-18). "Pop chronicles of the 40's. 1 (RU 14-76 [Apr. 1976]) [WorldCat.org]". [WorldCat.org]. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
- ↑ Gilliland, John (2008-08-18). "Pop chronicles". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
- ↑ Gilliland, John (1994). Pop Chronicles the 40s: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40s (audiobook). ISBN 978-1-55935-147-8. OCLC 31611854.
- ↑ Ruhlmann, William. The Big Band Chronicles > Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
- ↑ "The big band chronicles". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
Print sources
- Gilliland, John (1997). "On Chronicling Pop". In Barrett, Don. Los Angeles radio people: Volume 2, 1957-1997. Valencia, CA: Db Marketing. ISBN 978-0-9658907-0-0. OCLC 38994418.(The pages in this book are not numbered, but Gilliland's essay is located between the E and F entries.)
External links
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- The Pop Chronicles audio at the University of North Texas Music Library
- The Pop Chronicles Presents The Forties originally broadcast Sunday, November 5, 1972
- "Index to Interviews at the John Gilliland Collection". The University of North Texas Music Library. Archived from the original on 2009-06-03.
- Los Angeles Radio People, B
- Los Angeles Radio People, G
- The Man on the Beat: John Gilliland and The Pop Chronicles, 2008 Association for Recorded Sound Collections conference presentation by Andrew Justice and Jonathan Thorn (audio).