Joel Najman
Music Host (My Place)Joel has been a part of Vermont's radio scene since 1964. He began his career at WIPS in Ticonderoga, New York. In 1965, he moved to WFAD in Middlebury, Vermont, where he attended Middlebury College. Over the years, Joel worked at radio stations WJOY, WQCR, WDOT, WDEV and WVAA where he served at various times as Morning Announcer, Program Director and News Director.
None of his radio gigs allowed him to express his love for 50s and 60s rock 'n roll music - until Vermont Public. Joel began his association with Vermont Public in the early 1980s, and since 1982 has been the host and producer of Vermont Public's weekly My Place program. Self-taught, he weaves musicology, anthropology, sociology and even psychology among the music, creating a snapshot of life at that time.
Joel was inducted into the Vermont Association Of Broadcasters Hall Of Fame in 2004.
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From 1960 and beyond, saxophonist extraordinaire Artie Kaplan played on the studio recordings of over 150 nationally charted pop music hit records,… -
Group harmony doo-wop hits of the 1950s and pre-Beatles 1960s most often dealt with one aspect or another of young love. This week, My Place relates a… -
The name Ron Dante is hardly a household name, but he’s been heard thousands of times on the radio as the anonymous lead voice on several of the biggest… -
Many of the artists who propelled the popular folk music revival of the early 1960s by mid-decade had traded their acoustic guitars for amplified… -
Collaborating with a number of highly talented lyricists over the past half-century, particularly Hal David, Burt Bacharach has generated hundreds of… -
A street tough young man from Brooklyn discovered back in the 1950s that he had a talent for composing song lyrics. Over the next 50 years, tunesmith Paul… -
As a studio musician, multi-instrumentalist Larry Knechtel was a member of Los Angeles' elite Wrecking Crew and played on dozens of major hit recordings… -
Entertainers frequently use professional or stage names that are different than their given birth names and the golden age rock and roll artists are no… -
Since 1984, the Happy Together Tour has brought together premier recording acts of the 1960s in live performances of some of the most cherished and… -
On rare occasions During the 1960s American rock and roll recording artists recorded versions of their English language hit songs in foreign languages for…
