A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Episode ninety-two of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens, and at a seventy-year-long story of powerful people repeatedly ripping off less powerful people, then themselves being ripped off in turn by more powerful people, and at how racism meant that a song that earned fifteen million dollars for other people paid its composer ten shillings. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.
Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Tossin’ and Turnin'” by Bobby Lewis.
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Episode 148: “Light My Fire” by the Doors
Episode 147: “Hey Joe” by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Episode 146: “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys
Episode 145: “Tomorrow Never Knows” by the Beatles
Episode 144: “Last Train to Clarksville” by the Monkees
Episode 143: “Summer in the City” by the Lovin’ Spoonful
Episode 142: “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys
Episode 141: “River Deep, Mountain High” by Ike and Tina Turner
Episode 140: “Trouble Every Day” by the Mothers of Invention
Episode 139: “Eight Miles High” by the Byrds
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Episode 138: “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four
Episode 137: “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” by James Brown
Episode 136: “My Generation” by the Who
Episode 135: “The Sound of Silence” by Simon and Garfunkel
Episode 134: “In the Midnight Hour” by Wilson Pickett
Episode 133: “My Girl” by the Temptations
Episode 132: “I Can’t Help Myself” by the Four Tops
Episode 131: “I Hear a Symphony” by the Supremes
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