Johnny Colon Does the Boogaloo
In the 1960s and ‘70s, Latin boogaloo arose from the jazz, soul and R&B traditions around New York. Spanish Harlem native Johnny Colon was part of the boogaloo wave and helped define the iconic...
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Revisiting A '70s Teen 'Dream'
While writing an album's worth of songs is no small task, recording those songs has never been easier, thanks, in part, to digital technology and the distribution potential of the Internet. But in the...
View ArticleThe People Behind The Music Of 'Free To Be...'
All this week, we'’ve been talking about the influential children’s album Free To Be… You And Me, which turns 40 years old this month. We've spoken with a cultural historian, the producer of the...
View ArticleShuggie Otis Spreads His 'Wings,' 40 Years Later
Most listeners know Shuggie Otis from his song, “Strawberry Letter 23,” which went on to be one of the big hits of 1977 in a version by the Brothers Johnson. But musicians always knew there was more to...
View ArticleSex, Drugs, And Rock And Roll, 'In The Limo'
The 1960’s established rock and roll as a movement of peace, love, and community. In the 1970s, it became sex, drugs, and rock and roll. According to writer Michael Walker, 1973 was a watershed moment...
View ArticleSylvester: The Other Queen Of Disco
Donna Summer is known by many as the "queen of disco," and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame last year. But as Anthony Wayne, the lead actor and director of a new play, Mighty Real: A...
View ArticleFlipside
In 1973 a TV show called Flipside lasted for just one season on CBS and then slipped into obscurity. Andrew Marks's father produced Flipside, and Roseanne Shelnut was its associate producer. They talk...
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Striking Vintage EPA Photos Show Troubling Proximity of People and Pollution...
"Chemical plants on shore are considered prime source of pollution." (Marc St. Gil, Lake Charles, Louisiana, June 1972. National Archives, EPA Documerica Project)These photos are beautiful. They're...
View ArticleRobert Indiana's Complicated LOVE Affair
On this week's Weekend Edition, Robert Indiana called his iconic LOVE image 'a terrible mistake', but in 1971 he seemed much more optimistic about the work's influence on his career. Listen to Indiana...
View ArticleMayor Versus Nature, Take Two
A rookie mayor takes office. A few days later, crazy winter weather hits and keeps on hitting. Sound familiar?In his State of the City address earlier this month, Mayor Bill de Blasio said his...
View ArticleA Walking Tour of Don Draper's New York
Don Draper probably isn't hustling into the 1970s, but rumor has it this season's Mad Men might end at the dawn of that tumultuous decade. What did New York actually look and sound like at the time? We...
View ArticleHappy Earth Day - Now Move Your Car
Mayor John V. Lindsay implores New Yorkers to be more tidy on the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970.In a wide-ranging speech, the mayor ties the city's quality of life issues to the greater concerns of...
View ArticleAll the Serious Artists Have Moved to the East Village
This is the third and final installment of Pan Am's audio walking tour of New York City. The clip features areas of the Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, and Washington Square Park, and much like...
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Channelling Memories: Opera in 1970s Paris and London
ABOARD EUROSTAR TRAIN #9018—I am writing this dispatch aboard a sleek quiet train speeding through the English countryside toward the Channel (or, as the French call it, La Manche—The Sleeve). As a...
View ArticleThe Middle Class Americans Who Bombed Federal Buildings
Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough talks about the decade-long battle between the FBI and homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s, like The Weathermen, the FALN, and the Black...
View ArticleA Friendship Out of Fallout
Brian Balogh speaks with Shigeko Sasamori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, and Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of the man who ordered that strike, about the friendship that grew as both of...
View ArticleAndy Warhol and Norman Rockwell Have a "Conversation"
Andy Warhol and Norman Rockwell had very different approaches to their work.Rockwell painted magazine covers for Look and the Saturday Evening Post. These were funny, beautifully realized illustrations...
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How Gentrification, Industry and Art Have Transformed SoHo
Aaron Shkuda, urban historian and project manager of the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities at Princeton University, writes about the changing face of SoHo in his...
View Article30 Issues | American Isolation and the 1973 Oil Crisis
Hear how the 1973 oil crisis contributed to Americans losing faith in government with Meg Jacobs, research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.She's also the author of Panic at...
View ArticleSinger Rita Coolidge on her Solo Career, 'Layla' and Kris Kristofferson
Two-time Grammy winning singer and songwriter Rita Coolidge talks about her memoir Delta Lady. Coolidge recounts her solo music career, and her early life as a backup singer for artists including Eric...
View ArticleZim Heavy: Rock and Revolution in Zimbabwe, Snap #717 - Shake, Rattle, and Roll
Before there was Zimbabwe, there was the “Heavy” scene. In the 1970’s, Rock music rang out from the black townships in Rhodesia. One band, Wells Fargo, became the voice of the people. Founding members...
View ArticleMets Pitcher Ron Darling, Pop Legend Tom Jones, Actor Tony Roberts
This episode is a rebroadcast of interviews that originally aired on April 6, 2016 and December 17, 2015. 1986 may have been a landmark season for the Mets, but for starting pitcher Ron Darling, it was...
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Tony Roberts' Life in the Spotlight
This is a rebroadcast of an interview that originally aired on December 17, 2015. Tony Roberts discusses his memoir, Do You Know Me? The book spans his 55 years as a professional actor, including his...
View ArticleNorman Lear Looks Back on a Lifetime in Television
Sitcom creator Norman Lear joins directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady talk about their film "Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You." It details his life and work, including the creation of his...
View ArticleThe Editor Behind Hunter Thompson, Jim Harrison and David Carr
Editor and writer Terry McDonell has edited several iconic magazines including Rolling Stone, Esquire and Sports Illustrated. In his memoir, The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writers and...
View ArticleDoes a New Netflix Series 'Get it Down' in its Portrayal of the Bronx?
Jake Offenhartz, freelance journalsit and editor at HistoryBuff.com, and Mark Naison, professor of History and African American Studies at Fordham University, discuss the depictions of the Bronx in the...
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Painting a vibrant picture of Brooklyn in the tumultuous 1970s
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Next: a novelist and poet who writes for young people and adults, and a new work of fiction that looks back at a world she knew well.Jeffrey Brown...
View ArticleBittersweet Memories of Growing Up in 'Another Brooklyn'
National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson joins us to talk about her new novel, Another Brooklyn. She tells the story of August, a woman who reflects on her coming-of-age in Brooklyn during...
View ArticleCarole Bayer Sager on Writing Pop Hits and a Life in Show Business
Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager wrote the lyrics some of the most recognized pop songs of the past 50 years including, “Nobody Does It Better,” “A Groovy Kind of Love”...
View ArticleThe Editor Behind Hunter Thompson, Jim Harrison and David Carr
This is a rebroadcast of an interview that originally aired on August 9, 2016. Editor and writer Terry McDonell has edited several iconic magazines including Rolling Stone, Esquire and Sports...
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August Wilson's “Jitney,” Comes to Broadway
Actor John Douglas Thompson and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson join us to discuss Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway debut of August Wilson’s “Jitney,” the only one of the ten plays in Wilson’s The...
View ArticleActor Tony Roberts Looks Back on 40 Years Since 'Annie Hall'
Actor Tony Roberts, joins us to discuss his life and film career. Best known for his roles in several Woody Allen classics, Roberts has also enjoyed an extensive stage acting career and done voice work...
View ArticleThe 'Feral Intensity' of the 70s
Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN legal analyst and author of American Heiress: The Wild Saga of...
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