The KRLA Beat!

[michael hagerty]

Okay...this is pretty cool. Someone has taken enormous time and care and turned several (as in more than 50) issues of KRLA's newspaper, The KRLA Beat, into .pdf files that you can read and built a blog around it. It includes issue #1 (October 9, 1964) and the last issue ever printed (May 4, 1968).

Read 'em in order and watch as clean-cut pop culture goes berserk....from Shelly Fabares to The Fugs.

And remember...The KRLA Beat had a three-year head start on Rolling Stone. At the time, this was stuff you weren't going to get anyplace else.

Oh, yeah...there are airchecks, too.

http://krlabeat.sakionline.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi

---Michael Hagerty

 

[oldmanradio]

Okay...this is pretty cool. Someone has taken enormous time and care and turned several (as in more than 50) issues of KRLA's newspaper, The KRLA Beat, into .pdf files that you can read and built a blog around it. It includes issue #1 (October 9, 1964) and the last issue ever printed (May 4, 1968).

Read 'em in order and watch as clean-cut pop culture goes berserk....from Shelly Fabares to The Fugs.

And remember...The KRLA Beat had a three-year head start on Rolling Stone. At the time, this was stuff you weren't going to get anyplace else.

Oh, yeah...there are airchecks, too.

http://krlabeat.sakionline.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi

---Michael Hagerty

Great! Thanks Michael.

Is the book, Dream House by Bill Earl about the history of KRLA available anywhere?

 

[michael hagerty]

Okay...this is pretty cool. Someone has taken enormous time and care and turned several (as in more than 50) issues of KRLA's newspaper, The KRLA Beat, into .pdf files that you can read and built a blog around it. It includes issue #1 (October 9, 1964) and the last issue ever printed (May 4, 1968).

Read 'em in order and watch as clean-cut pop culture goes berserk....from Shelly Fabares to The Fugs.

And remember...The KRLA Beat had a three-year head start on Rolling Stone. At the time, this was stuff you weren't going to get anyplace else.

Oh, yeah...there are airchecks, too.

http://krlabeat.sakionline.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi

---Michael Hagerty

Great! Thanks Michael.

Is the book, Dream House by Bill Earl about the history of KRLA available anywhere?

Long out of print, but if you follow the link to Bill Earl on the KRLA Beat site, I think you'll end up at a site where he has scanned every page of the book. some of the pages are crooked and they come up in reverse order, but they're there.

---Michael Hagerty

 

[michael hagerty]

The link is not as obvious as I had thought...so go to the link below instead and scroll down. At the bottom of the page is page 143, the final page of "Dream House".

Use the "older posts" link at the bottom of each page to go back through the book.

http://classicdjradioscrapbook.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-05-27T18%3A46%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=17

---Michael Hagerty

 

[GeorgeJ.]

Okay...this is pretty cool. Someone has taken enormous time and care and turned several (as in more than 50) issues of KRLA's newspaper, The KRLA Beat, into .pdf files that you can read and built a blog around it. It includes issue #1 (October 9, 1964) and the last issue ever printed (May 4, 1968).

Read 'em in order and watch as clean-cut pop culture goes berserk....from Shelly Fabares to The Fugs.

And remember...The KRLA Beat had a three-year head start on Rolling Stone. At the time, this was stuff you weren't going to get anyplace else.

Oh, yeah...there are airchecks, too.

http://krlabeat.sakionline.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi

---Michael Hagerty

Great! Thanks Michael.

Is the book, Dream House by Bill Earl about the history of KRLA available anywhere?

Bill Earl still has a few copies of the book left; I bought 3 from him earlier this year to give to friends and to replace the copy I had loaned out years ago & never got back...You should be able to get one directly from him. His e-mail is on the blogspot website..

Reading from the book is a lot easier than trying to read it on his blogspot...He should have copied & pasted the text from his scans rather than just putting up the scans...it's REALLY hard to try and read it from the website...not very enjoyable. You'l like the actual book better..