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Pop Chronicles

The Pop Chronicles are two radio documentary series which together "may constitute the most complete audio history of 1940s–60s popular music."[3] They originally aired starting in 1969 and concluded about 1974. Both were produced by John Gilliland.

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1969 –
c. 1970

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The Pop Chronicles of the 1950s and 60s[edit]

Inspired by the Monterey Pop Festival,[4] the Pop Chronicles of the 1950s and 1960s originally was produced at KRLA 1110 and first aired on February 9, 1969.[5] John Gilliland[2] narrated the series along with Sie Holliday[6] and Thom Beck (pictured).[7] Also performing interviews were Dick LaPalm, Lew Irwin, Harry Shearer, Mike Masterson, and Richard Perry.[8] The show's brief recurring theme song "The Chronicles of Pop" was written and performed by Len Chandler.[9] The engineer and associate producer of the series was Chester Coleman.[10][11][12]


KRLA 1110 originally broadcast an hour a week of the Pop Chronicles,[10] which were later syndicated[1][13] by "Hot Air"[14] and broadcast on Armed Forces Radio.[15] The photo above indicates that it was broadcast on KABC-FM sometime before that station became KLOS.


The University of North Texas Music Library made the Pop Chronicles available online[4][16] since June 2010.[17]

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1972 –
c. 1974

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 – American radio documentary about rock and roll music

The History of Rock and Roll

Gilliland, John (1997). "On Chronicling Pop". In Barrett, Don (ed.). Los Angeles Radio People: Volume 2, 1957–1997. Valencia, CA: Db Marketing.  978-0-9658907-0-0. OCLC 38994418. (The pages in this book are not numbered, but Gilliland's essay is located between the E and F entries.)

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Official website

and The Pop Chronicles of the 1940s at RadioEchoes.

The Pop Chronicles of the 1950s and 1960s

. Bay Area Radio Museum. November 5, 1972. Archived from the original on August 1, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2018.

"The Pop Chronicles Presents The Forties"

. The University of North Texas Music Library. Archived from the original on June 7, 2007.

"Index to Interviews at the John Gilliland Collection"

2008 Association for Recorded Sound Collections conference presentation by Andrew Justice and Jonathan Thorn (audio & slides).

The Man on the Beat: John Gilliland and The Pop Chronicles