Echo Valley: The Original Bubblegum Music Podcast

Who are The Conquests and why do they claim to be both The Rare Breed and Ohio Express?! We read the true story of the first time that Time magazine officially recognized "bubblegum" pop music! A double bubble from Amen Corner! A shout out to Kid Bubblegum from The Banana Splits! Tasty bubblegum rarities you may have never heard before from Bobby Bloom, the Batman TV series, and Salt Water Taffy!...

Season Four begins! A look at the ABC Saturday morning bubblegum lineup for 1969! A dramatic reading from a Lois Lane comic book letter column! A double bubble from the Lords of London! The rarely heard alternate title song from Sigmund and the Sea Monsters! Plenty of great bubblegum happiness from folks like The Sugar Bears, Josie and the Pussycats, The Monkees, Ohio Express, Johnny Whitaker, The...

A clip show featuring  the best parts of Season 3! A Top 10 count down of the most popular bubblegum songs from Season 3! How did Sinatra's Strangers in the Night influence bubblegum music?  Magazine articles full of groovy dating advice! What do the Cowsills hate about girls? A spotlight on the first bubblegum band in history, The Comedian Harmonists! And plenty of great bubblegum pop!

Gavel to gavel coverage as student court Judge Kid Bubblegum reaches a verdict in the trial of Greg Brady! A shocking outcome that no one saw coming in this season finale episode of Echo Valley! Live reporting from Old Man Bubblegum! During breaks in the proceedings, we still find time for a tribute to cartoon voice Janet Waldo (Judy Jetson, Josie of the Pussycats), a cameo from Casey Kasem, an Ec...

The Echo Valley Talent Show finals! The outcome will shock you! We also have time for a dramatic reading from a vintage Sally Field interview! Double Bubble music from Beano! Plenty of feel good bubblegum from The Bugaloos, The Banana Splits, The Archies, The Monkees, The Music Explosion, The Brady Kids, Arkade, The Art Movement, Sally Field, The New Dawn, Rotation, The Saturday Morning Cartoon Sh...

TV actor Robert Conrad's pop rock career! The Who's gummiest classic! Who won the Echo Valley Talent Show semi-finals?!  A dramatic reading from a 1971 family guide to teen dating! Casey Kasem doesn't recognize Yellow Balloon's and My Three Sons' Don Grady! Strange gum from Kids' Hit Singers! Plenty of great bubblegum music from The Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Company, The Archies, The Partridge F...

Who are the two optimistic songwriters who argued that we could solve the world's problems as easily as tying a t-shirt together and dying it all the colors of the world?! It's an Echo Valley mystery, solved in this spectacular hour! Plus a dramatic reading from a book on groovy crafts! Bubblegum from Captain Kangaroo! Plenty of great gummy pop from the 1910 Fruitgum Company, The Left Banke, The N...

Welcome Ricky Segall (Ricky Stevens from The Partridge Family) and his family to Echo Valley! We explore the secret origins of the Barry Manilow classic Mandy! In our dramatic reading, we learn what the Cowsills like and don't like about girls! Get the scoop on a semifinal round of the Echo Valley Riverdale High School Talent Show! Plenty of great bubblegum pop music from Blue Mink, Jigsaw, The Cu...

Who wants some bubblegum? A spotlight on Tony Ronald, the Dutch (or Spanish or Mexican) pop star! Another dramatic reading from another 1970 novelization of another short lived "relevant" ABC TV show about another group of hip young people! A pair of rare Echo Valley corrections! A New Seekers Double Bubble! Every bubblegum song about airplanes (both of them)! With plenty of bubblegum music by the...

A celebration of the brief super-stardom of the four-hit wonder, Every Mother's Son! Is the Theme from H.R. Pufnstuf "already been chewed" gum? A tribute to the great Lee Pockriss, the best songwriter you've never heard of! A dramatic profile of Lidsville and Munsters star, Butch Patrick, from a 1972 guide to the "pop scene"! And which version of the forgotten classic, I.O.I.O., do you like better...

Non-stop bubblegum pop! Focus on the Cattanooga Cats! Meet Cheryl Ladd, Charlie's grooviest angel! Telly Savalas "sings" country western! A double bubble from the Magid Triplets! The Partridge Family sing in bubble entendres! Plenty more great bubblegum music from Tommy James and the Shondells, Pharrell Williams, The Bugaloos, The In Crowd, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Josie and the Pussycats, F...

A high calorie hour of bubblegum music! Spotlight on Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan! A bit of the H.R. Pufnstuf movie soundtrack! Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz) joins the Partridge Family, along with a dramatic reading from a Partridge Family novel (wherein Shirley risks the family's lives to save a rabbit)! A Giorgio Bubblegum Hall of Fame classic! Late round action from the Riverda...

A special episode exploring the Rat Pack and their contributions to bubblegum pop. Plenty of great bubblegum and precursor bubblegum from Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Dino, Desi and Billy, Jerry Lewis, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop!

Fifty-nine groovy minutes of bubblegum pop fun! We read about a day in the life of David Cassidy! Learn of Florence Henderson's secret absence from the first few Brady Bunch episodes! Who is today's Ohio Express?! Another Echo Valley Sad Song Marathon! Plenty of great bubblegum music from The Archies, Ohio Express, Tommy James and the Shondells, Partridge Family, Sugar Bears, Hardy Boys, Design, D...

The first bubblegummy episode of the new year! A spotlight on The Wombles! Early round action of the Riverdale High School talent competition! Original vinyl recordings from heartthrobs Kurt Russell and John Travolta! Plenty of great bubblegum pop from folks like Dana Countryman, The Walkers, Josie and the Pussycats, Jimmy Osmond, World's Fare, Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution, The Ohio...

The Season 3 Christmas Special! Rare and classic bubblegum Christmas music! Dramatic readings from John-Boy and Grandpa Walton! The Partridge Family and the Jackson 5 sing together (sort of)! Germany sends a Gummi Bear greeting! The DeFranco Family chats with Andy Williams! The Royal Guardsmen celebrate Christmas with Snoopy! Plenty of sugar and holiday music from The Archies, Herman's Hermits, Bo...

An hour of happy, joyful bubblegum music! The lost art of eefing! Dramatic reading from a novel of the short-lived 1969 ABC "relevant" TV series The New People! Davy Jones sings to a monstrous frog on Scooby-Doo! A rare Archies triple play! Plenty of gum from Racey, Bobby Sherman, Melanie, Tommy Roe, Jay and the Techniques,The Coronadoes, Music Motors, Austin Roberts, The Gentrys, The Jackson 5, J...

We focus on the first boy band and maybe the first bubblegum band in history, the 1928 German group, The Comedian Harmonists! Also, enjoy a dramatic reading from a Partridge Family novel! A tribute to the official theme song writer for Hanna-Barbera, Hoyt Curtin! A Monkees double bubble! Plenty of great bubblegum music from Josie and the Pussycats, The Cuff Links, Middle of the Road, Jack Wild, Th...

Broadcasting live from pregame for the big Riverdale High School football game! Go Gummy Bears! Learn the Archie's dance, "The Touchdown"! Spotlight on Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids! A dramatic reading from a 1971 issue of 'Teen Magazine! Burt Ward's Teenage Bill of Rights! Strange gum from The Care Bears! An early bubblegum classic from The Raindrops! Plenty more great bubblegum music by The Ohio...

26 Bubblegum Songs in 1 Hour! No other genre in the history of popular music could fit so much fun into so little time! Enjoy great bubblegum music from (in alphabetical order) Abraham and Strauss, Banana Splits, Chicory Tip, Davy Jones, Edd Byrnes and Connie Stevens, Five Americans, The Glory Rhodes, H.R. Pufnstuf, Ian Whitcomb and His Seaside Syncopators, Jackson 5, Kaye Stevens, The Lemon Piper...

Another hour of non-stop bubblegum fun! An Echo Valley world premiere of a great new Archies tribute song by Bill Dann and Jack Servello! A rare Mike Lookinland solo recording (Bobby from the Brady Bunch)! An amazingly bubbly DeFranco Family single! A dramatic reading of Archie Club News from a 1971 Archie comic book! Bob Marley sings gum! And plenty of unusually catchy bubblegum music from the Bo...

Season 3 begins with more bubblicious music than you can shake a stick of gum at! Eddie himself sings the theme song from Courtship of Eddie's Father! Dramatic reading from Disney's Our Friend, the Atom!  Spotlight on the greatest pop songwriter you've never heard of, Albert Hammond! Plenty of bubblegum music by The Banana Splits, Harry Nilsson, Tommy James, Brandon Cruz, The Archies, Union Expres...