"The kids of today should defend themselves against the '70s." That was Eddie Vedder, singing on Mike Watt's 1995 song "Against The '70s." The problem, as Watt and Vedder saw it, was that the '90s ...

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: August 21st, 1961, 55 years ago today ... a musical date worth writing home about. For that was the day the Motown label released “Please Mr. Postman.

“Although they’re the hottest female rock’n’roll quartet in the nation with their Please Mr. Postman record, The Marvelettes can only work at weekends,” babbled Jet magazine in early December 1961.

Gladys Horton and Georgia Dobbins, from Inkster, Michigan, couldn’t sing – or so they thought. Along with three classmates, they called themselves The Casinyets (“can’t sing yet”), and took their ...

This year Radioinfo will take you back 50 years to the songs that were released in 1974. It was a mighty fine year for music. I had prepared a different song for this edition but after seeing A Kind ...

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