the Millennial Throwback Machine

I'm sorry if this week's episode is coming atcha a little bit late, the quarantine has lately made me feel very distracted and it's been harder for me to get stuff done (I recently got back into watching Classic TV shows from the 60's, and I also have been playing video games again, all of this is due to the lack of social in human interaction I've been experiencing lately, but I know I'm not the...

I decided to keep the the Black Lives Matter theme going for my podcast this week, and throughout he 2 years I've been doing this show, I have covered many facets of Black R&B Music in the 60's, from cities such as Chicago and Philadelphia and Memphis, but slightly on purpose, I have avoided talking about or doing an episode on Motown, until now. And the main reason why I have avoided talking abou...

This week's episode is all about the history behind last week's band and artist. and the label, they were signed on to, and the band that played on the music for the label. I also talk about the history, behind last week's song as well, and I talk about how influential the song and artist was and the story behind how it was written, and exactly how groundbreaking the label was at the time and how...

Ladies and gentleman, today I present to you the 100th episode of my podcast, and I know have been waiting long enough for me to put out another episode of my podcast, well, the wait is finally over. Today's interview episode comes from an original member of a band that has lived an incredibly long life beyond just the 60's, their songs have been covered by Joan Jett, Billy Idol, Tiffany and Billi...

Hey Guys! Sorry if I haven't put out an episode in a while, next week will be episode 100 of this podcast, but I just wanted to give you a little teaser episode before that happens. please be sure to send me any questions you might have for Mike Vale (bass player for Tommy James & The Shondells) at samltwilli@icloud.com or you can DM them to me on instagram @iheartoldies. Please note that my websi...

If you were expecting an episode from me last week, I apologize I didn't put one out because I was very busy working out and exercising (the whether in my area has been really good lately to go outside and exercise).and I also went on a vacation last weekend, and I will add into this description of this episode is that this episode wasn't recorded in my usual spot where I record my podcast episode...

Today marks the two year anniversary of me starting this podcast, and I wanted to say thank you for your continued listening of this podcast, so it seemed only fitting for me to release this week's episode today (vs any other day really) and also, the song I'm doing this week happened to be released 60 years ago this month, so I'm honoring this song on it's 60th anniversary, and it's from a group...

in light of all of us being quarantine right now, I decided to shift the day in which I put out these podcast episodes, because I figured Sundays would be the day that most people would have the time to listen to podcasts, but since this crisis has made a lot of us a lot less busy then we were before this whole thing began, I figured why not put the episodes of my podcast out on a different day be...

this week's episode is about a song that I guarantee you you'll be able to relate to even though it was written and recorded before this whole crisis were all in happened, the lyrics to this song strangely coincide with this situation we are all in., and it's also super uplifting and I can guarantee you it can lift your spirits up during these dark and uncertain times were in at the moment. Next w...

This week's Episode I get into the history behind last week's band, in this episode I talk about the important people behind the scenes of this song and what went on behind the scenes with this track and the band that recorded it, and some of the conflict that happened between the artist that recorded the song and the guy that produced it, and I also talk a little bit about the origins of this tun...

I think right about now we need a catchy/upbeat song to lift our spirits up during these dark and weird times, and this one should do the trick, and in today's episode, I'm going to talk about what makes this song so good musically and lyrically, and I'm going to do a deep dive into the song's lyrics and show you just how relevant they are today as far as the human feelings and emotions laced with...

In this time of Crisis, if your looking to escape while being at home not doing much of anything, here's one way you can do it. this week, were going to dive into the history behind last week's song and artist, in this week's episode, were going to talk about how this artist got started in the business and the musicians he used on his records and the behind the scenes information on some of his hi...

this week's episode is I'm going back to the early 60's to talk about a song and artists that very much reflected what was going on in Pop Music in the early 60's before the Beatles came to America. this artist was very much a product of the early 60's and he represented the time period very well but his songs were timeless and were well written and recorded. and today I"m going to talk about what...

this week's episode is all about the history behind last week's song and artist, and also a good overview on the history behind the genre this specific song falls into (which is Bubblegum Pop Music), and the important people behind and the whole evolution of the genre as well, and the certain components to it that made it "Bubblegum", here's the link to last week's song just in case you wanted to...

in This week's episode of my podcast, I'm going to dive into a song that will probably stir up some controversy, and you honestly might not like this song at all, but I guarantee you, that if your a guy, this song will definitely speak to you on many levels, and even though this might not be your favorite 60's song that I have talked about on my podcast, I know that you will definitely find it int...

This Week's Episode of my podcast is all about the history behind last week's song and artist, but it's also on a close look at the British Invasion and what the British Music Industry was like and what were the parallels between what was going on in America and what was happening in England, I also talk about the history behind the artist that wrote the song and some of his career accomplishments...

This week's episode, were going to cover another British Invasion group for this podcast, one that you may not have heard of, but they do have a connection with the biggest one of them all (one that had the most hits), but we'll talk more about the history behind this artist in next week's episode of this podcast, but for now, enjoy my analysis on one of their biggest hit songs that was not writte...

This week's episode is going to be all about the history behind last week's artist. today were going to talk about the origins of this specific artist as far as how he got started in the entertainment industry, and also a big connection between him and a world reknown artist from another decade besides the 60's, and this definitely an episode that you will find interesting especially if your into...

This week's podcast episode is on a very specific genre of music from the 60's that you might be surprised that it had it's origins in the 60's, as this genre didn't come into full fruition until the 70's and 80's but this song definitely pre dated the genre quite a bit and I'm sure you will find this episode super interesting. You might not have heard this song before but I guarantee you are prob...

in This week's episode of my podcast, I'm going to go really in depth with the history behind last week's band, today I'm going to talk about how the band was formed, how they got a hold of a Bob Dylan song and the story behind that, and what made them such an interesting and unique band compared to a lot of other 60's bands from that time period. and I also talk about the history behind last week...

this week's episode to switch things up from doing the super obscure one hit wonders, I'm going to do something different that I haven't done before for the first episode of my podcast in 2020. I'm going to do a song that was by a huge iconic 60's band (that wasn't the Beatles) that never made the Top 40 Nationally. this song originally bubbled under the Hot 100 on Billboard which basically makes...

This week's episode is the last one for this year and trust me, it will be an interesting one once you really dig into it. I am taking a week off for Xmas and new years so there will be no new episode this weekend, and I will resume new episodes of this podcast in the first week of January. this one is another one hit wonder, but there is one piece of really cool and mind blowing and interesting p...

in This weeks' episode, I'm going to go over the strange and weird behind the scenes story of this huge number one hit. this includes who were the musicians on the track and who wrote the song and how the song came about in the first place. I also get into the dictionary definition of a one hit wonder just in case any of you forgot what that is and I also, I give a little aftermath discussion of w...

This week's episode is on a song I'm sure most of you people know, but I'm sure you probably don't know the story behind it or what the song is about lyrically. it's on one of the most well known songs in Pop Music history, and it's heard almost everywhere today I'm going to break it down and show you what makes it so good both musically and lyrically, and next week, I'm gonna dive into the histor...

For this week's episode of the podcast, since it is episode number 80, I'm going to do a very special interview episode of this podcast. I'm gonna be talking to somebody who has written a handful of hit songs back int he 60's, but the amount of hit songs he has written equals to the amount of history that he has within a very historically important and special time frame in music, when he was writ...