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.
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Episode 87: “Apache” by the Shadows
Episode 86: “LSD-25” by the Gamblers
Episode 85: “Three Steps to Heaven” by Eddie Cochran
Episode 84: “Shakin’ All Over” by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
Episode 83: “Only The Lonely” by Roy Orbison
Episode 82: “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” by Elvis Presley
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Episode 80: “Money” by Barrett Strong
Episode 79: “Sweet Nothin’s” by Brenda Lee
Episode 78: “What’d I Say” by Ray Charles
Episode 77: “Brand New Cadillac” by Vince Taylor and the Playboys
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Episode 75: “There Goes My Baby” by the Drifters
Episode 74: “It Doesn’t Matter Any More” by Buddy Holly
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Episode 72: “Trouble” by Elvis Presley
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