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The History of ROck and Role

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I know this has been running on WNEW-FM since Christmas.
I'd love to get a copy of the intire thing.
I know it was produced by Drake a while ago, but is it just talk of the songs and artests? songs and talk? what exactly is it, and does anyone have any airchecks?
 
I've been listening off and on over the last few weeks and honestly, I don't think its that great of a show. There is some good music for sure, but its interrupted too much by cut-ins from the announcer of the show, too many montages of 15 second bits of songs, all of the interviews with any of the major players of the era are all called-in over the phone sound bites, and plugs for WNEW's all-news format too regularly.

Personally, I wouldn't pay for it if I wanted it.
 
Sounds like parts of songs play, then like say in the middle of the bridge or second verse, someone'll just start yackin?
I can understand the call in part, this was produced in the um. 70's?
 
The first versions were produced in 1969 at KHJ. Other RKO stations like CKLW produced their own versions. It was completely redone 1977 and syndicated, a new version was done in 1981 and more than likely you are hearing the '81 version.
 
What I remember as run on WLS in the mid 70s took over a week to get through the years,
at least the way it ran then with local content.
I don't recall a lot of excerpts, incomplete songs, or intruding into the music.
 
I think this is definitely the latest incarnation of it. This one did mention the death of Bill Haley which was in 1981, and the announcer said it, as if it had been some time ago.

The call-in "interviews" seem a bit on the cheap side to me. I'd think that even in years past, they could have captured these voices on tape and replayed them at the production studio. Hearing Sam Phillips on a grainy, poor connection over the phone is sort of sad, really.
 
It was often run as a 48 to 52 hour special, sometimes on a holiday weekend or a couple of hours daily for several weeks. The phoners were chopped to take the "uh's ah's: etc out, so "I uh got my ah start in...it was...let's see 1956: became "I got my start in 1956". Some of the interviews were old even then.
 
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