Rock and Roll Flashback Podcast

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and in this episode of Forgotten Rock Bands I will feature the South African folk-rock group known as the Four Jacks & A Jill, which achieved international success in the late 1960's. We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on...

Welcome to rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Jumpin' John, and in today's episode I will take us back to the late 1950's and the impact of that great harmonizing duo, The Everly Brothers! We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on the Rock and Roll Flashback Podcast are produce...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Jumpin' John, and in this episode I will highlight the career of one of the most influential bands of the late 1960's and 1970's.  This band blended funk, soul, rock, and psychedelic music into a groundbreaking sound that helped shape modern pop, R&B, and hip-hop.  Of course, I'm referring to the one and only Sly and the Family...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and in this episode of 60's Duos, I will feature Paul and Paula, who were active from 1962 to 1965 and had a million selling hit in 1962. We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on the Rock and Roll Flashback Podcast are produced b...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and in this episode of 60's Instrumentals, I will feature two recordings that - even though they were not technically Rock and Roll - both singles became hits. Interestingly, one was recorded by a US bandleader and his well-known television show orchestra and the other by a Jazz band from the UK.    We welcome your feedback, so please...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Jumpin' John, and I will devote this podcast episode to reviewing the highlights of the most successful folk-rock duo of the 1960's: Simon and Garfunkel! We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on the Rock and Roll Flashback Podcast are p...

Welcome, all of you time travelers, to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Jumpin' John, and on this episode in the One Hit Wonders Series I will indeed transport you back to the year 1965.  That year a quickly recorded protest song shot up to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100:  Barry McGuire's version of “Eve of Destruction”! We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  We are your hosts, Jumpin' John McDermott and Bill Price.  In this episode we are going to discuss the first 8 years in the career of one of the most successful performers of the 1960's.  This group also became the flagship act of Motown Records :  The Supremes!  Our focus will be on what one might call the "Diana Ross version" of the group,...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and in this episode of One Hit Wonders, I’ll feature Robin Ward who had a million selling hit in 1963 and Terry Stafford, whose number three hit competed with the Beatles in early 1964. We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on the Roc...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and this episode from the series 60's Vocal Groups, will feature the psychedelic soul and R&B group that was active from 1969 to 1976, The Friends of Distinction. We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on the Rock and Roll Fla...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Jumpin' John, and in this podcast episode I will review the career of the great soul singer and songwriter, Wilson Pickett! We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on the Rock and Roll Flashback Podcast are produced by brothers-in-law Bill Pri...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and in this edition of the One Hit Wonders Series on Rock and Roll Flashback, I will cover two instrumental artists from the 1960's who were also one hit wonders: Hugh Masekela and Chuck Mangione. We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All pod...

Welcome, time travelers, to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm your podcast host, Jumpin' John, and in this episode I will discuss the career of guitarist and singer Ellas McDaniel, who was known professionally as Bo Diddley! We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on the Rock and Roll Fl...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and in this episode of Rock and Roll Flashback, I will cover the early history of Rock’s most enduring band, The Rolling Stones. This super group has been recording and performing for more than 60 years. Like many Rock bands, the Stones went through some personnel changes, and evolution from their early musical style. We welcome your feedba...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Jumpin' John, and in this installment of our Girl Groups Series on Rock and Roll Flashback, I will discuss one of the premier groups who emerged in the 1960's.  That group was Martha and the Vandellas.  Lead by Martha Reeves, they were a prominent Detroit singing group who challenged the Supremes as Motown Records’ premier female group in the...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and in this episode of One Hit Wonders, I will look at the careers of two Rock and Roll artists from the mid-1960's, Question Mark and the Mysterians and Millie Small! We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on the Rock and Roll Fl...

Hello, time travelers!  I’m your Rock and Roll Flashback host, Jumpin’ John, and in this podcast episode I will review the first 10 years of one of the most commercially successful folk groups ever:  The Kingston Trio!   We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on the Rock and Roll Flashback Po...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and in this episode of One Hit Wonders on Rock and Roll Flashback, I will highlight the Spanish band known as Los Bravos and the vocalist Jimmy Soul. We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via phone text! All podcasts on the Rock and Roll Flashback Podcast are pro...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and in this Rock and Roll Flashback series we will take a look back at the stories behind those bands that Rock history seems to have been forgotten. In this episode of Forgotten Rock Bands, I will feature the band known as Marmalade. We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or su...

Welcome to another edition of Rock and Roll Flashback podcasts!  This podcast episode is Part 2 of a three part series of podcasts that I am recording about the extensive career of one of the most influential musicians of the past 60 years:  Stevie Wonder!  Part 2 will review Stevie's so-called "Classic Period" from 1972 through early 1977. We welcome your feedback, so please feel f...

Welcome to another edition of Rock and Roll Flashback podcasts!  This podcast episode is Part 3 of a three part series of podcasts that I am recording about the extensive career of one of the most influential musicians of the past 60 years:  Stevie Wonder!  Part 3 will review Stevie's career from 1979 to the present day. We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and...

Welcome to another edition of Rock and Roll Flashback podcasts!  This podcast episode is Part 1 of a three part series of podcasts that I am recording about the extensive career of one of the most influential musicians of the past 60 years:  Stevie Wonder!  Part 1 will review Stevie's early life and career from 1950 through 1971. We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  In the 1960's, several bands were formed that went on to achieve successful careers.  I'm Bill Price, and in this episode of Rock and Roll Flashback, I will feature one of the rock bands of the late 1960's: Three Dog Night! We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and let us know your thoughts and/or suggestions via pho...

Welcome to another edition of the Songs That Were Covers series on Rock and Roll Flashback podcasts!  I'm Jumpin' John, and in this episode I will briefly review one song that had the unique distinction of, on two different occasions, reaching the #1 position on the US singles charts while being performed by two different non-American bands.  That song is entitled "Venus"! We w...

Welcome to Rock and Roll Flashback!  I'm Bill Price, and in this episode of the Doo Wop series, we will focus on two groups from the late 1950's and early 1960's, The Classics and The Earls. Interestingly both groups had a hit that had two words in the song’s title, and also used the same second word, “Then”. We welcome your feedback, so please feel free to click on this link and le...