A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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We start season four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs with an extra-long look at “San Francisco” by Scott McKenzie, and at the Monterey Pop Festival, and the careers of the Mamas and the Papas and P.F. Sloan. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.
Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Up, Up, and Away” by the 5th Dimension.
Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/
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Also I say that John Phillips wrote “No, No, No, No”. I got this from an interview with McKenzie, but he must have been misremembering — the song is a cover version of “La Poupee Qui Fait Non” by Michel Polnareff, with English-language lyrics by Geoff Stephens
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Song 174B: “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” Part Two, “It Takes Two”
Song 174A: “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” Part One, “If At First You Don’t Succeed…”
An Alert: Someone Plagiarising Me
Song 173: “All Along the Watchtower” Part Two, The Hour is Getting Late
Song 173: “All Along the Watchtower”, Part One: “He’s Not the Messiah”
Song 172, Hickory Wind by the Byrds: Part 4, Hour of Darkness
Song 172, Hickory Wind by the Byrds: Part 3, The Parsons Tale
Song 172, “Hickory Wind” by the Byrds: Part Two, Of Submarines and Second Generations
Song 172, “Hickory Wind” by the Byrds: Part One, Ushering in a New Dimension
Announcement Regarding Schedule
Episode 171: “Hey Jude” by the Beatles
Episode 170: “Astral Weeks” by Van Morrison
Episode 169: “Piece of My Heart” by Big Brother and the Holding Company
Episode 168: “I Say a Little Prayer” by Aretha Franklin
Episode 167: “The Weight” by The Band
Episode 166: “Crossroads” by Cream
Episode 165: “Dark Star” by the Grateful Dead
Episode 164: “White Light/White Heat” by the Velvet Underground
Episode 163: “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding
Episode 162: “Daydream Believer” by the Monkees
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