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Popular Hit Music - The Next Generation - Part 3

This week Joel Najman's My Place presents a part 3 program of pairs of pop music hits recorded by different generations of the same family. All of the examples presented are suggestions sent in by My Place listeners following the airing of our two earlier programs of this theme. The program presents seven pairings by recording artists who kept it in the family when it came to placing hit records on the pop music Hot 100.

Playlist

This Land Is Your land
Composer
Album The Original Vision Woodie Guthrie And Lead Belly
Record Label Smithsonian Folkways Records SPW 4000 2005

The City Of New Orleans
Composer
Album no album name - 45rpm record
Record Label Reprise 1103

Marianne
Composer
Album no album name - 45rpm record
Record Label Columbia 40817

Coast
Composer
Album Hard Times In Babylon
Record Label Red House Records

Hey, Good Lookin'
Composer
Album no album name - 78rpm record
Record Label MGM K1100

Family Tradition
Composer
Album no album name - 45rpm record
Record Label Elektra/Curb 46046

I Don't Know
Composer
Album no album name - single download
Record Label Curb

Walking The Dog
Composer
Album no album name - 45rpm record
Record Label Stax 140

Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes)
Composer
Album no album name - 45rpm record
Record Label Atlantic 2086

Let's Talk It Over
Composer
Album no album name - 45rpm record
Record Label Geffen 28365

Sweet Inspiration
Composer
Album no album name - 45rpm record
Record Label Atlantic 2476

Saving All My Love For You
Composer
Album no album name - 45rpm record
Record Label Arista 9381

Pather Panchali
Composer
Album no album name - 45rpm record
Record Label World Pacific 77871

Don't Know Why
Composer
Album Don't Know Why
Record Label Blue Note 7243 5 32088 2 0

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.

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