This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl is simply too large a concept to be neatly contained within a mere three-hour weekly time slot. Hence these occasional fake TIRnRR playlists, detailing shows we're never really going to do...but could.
Last week, a phony TIRnRR playlist gathered a bunch of tracks that served as my introductions to various musical acts during what I call my crucible years: 1976 to 1978, when I was sixteen to eighteen years old.
Crucibles aren't built overnight. Today we cast our dim widdle spotlight on the years preceding my crucible, when my ear was practically super-glued to AM radio in 1970 through 1975.
It was also a period when I began to shuffle with greater deliberate purpose through older music. I discovered Buddy Holly and the Coasters via hand-me-down 45s in the family library. I discovered Chuck Berry because an AM Top 40 station in Syracuse began playing "Johnny B. Goode" in regular rotation. Great records don't care what year it is.
In constructing this playlist, I tried to avoid one-hit wonders, unless the single-shot superstar in question released other material that I also like to some degree.
The list also includes a few acts (the Four Tops, the Kinks, the Isley Brothers, the Miracles, the Hollies) whom I almost certainly heard as a younger kid in the 1960s. In each of these cases, my first conscious recognition of the act occurred in the '70s instead.
I may circle back to do a similar playlist of acts I remember from younger childhood in the '60s. For now: Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Next stop: The first half of the 1970s.
Far out, man.
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