Remembering AM radio’s 3-minute rule and the songs that broke it

There are various reasons for this difference. In the early days of recorded music, songs tended to be about three minutes due to the technology of the time. The 45 RPM records (and earlier 78s) ...
Yahoo

Belinda Carlisle on Covering ’60s and ’70s AM Radio Hits She Grew Up on for New Album, ‘Once Upon a Time in California,’ and This Year’s Go-Go’s Reunion

The Go-Go’s were good and all, but you know who really had the beat? The DJs who powered KHJ and KRLA in the 1960s and early ’70s, when seemingly every kid in Los Angeles was tuned in to one of just a ...
PBS

American Pop Flashback! Great Hits of the '60s & '70s

Celebrate the feel-good songs of the ’60s and ’70s with a dazzling cavalcade of stars. Join host Micky Dolenz (The Monkees) as he salutes the groundbreaking musicians, teen idols, TV stars and vocal ...
Chicago Tribune

Review: Tributosaurus plays hit songs from the ’70s and it’s a glorious shag-carpet ride

Tributosaurus, one of Chicago’s best-kept secrets, never especially cool, not exactly challenging, pushing nearly 25 years as a mainstay of local bars and theaters, without an original song to their ...