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For two days, listeners were treated to a unique montage of music and interview with the movers and shakers of the preceding 15 years of pop music, narrated by legendary KHJ disc jockey Robert W. Morgan. The program also aired on KHJ’s affiliate stations around the country with local announcers reading from the same the script and was a huge national hit. It was repeated later that year, then revised several times in the 1970s and early 1980s, with the last revision still airing occasionally today. Using excerpts of the original broadcast and others from the time, this presentation will look at the program’s success in the context of music radio of the period, as well as its longer lasting influence on popular music, popular audiences and radio programming itself. A later version of the program, as well as other radio rock and roll histories, will also be sampled.\"\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew Barton has worked at the Library of Congress since 2003, first as a sound engineer and archivist, and since 2008, as the Curator of Recorded Sound at the Library's Packard Campus for Audiovisual Conservation Culpepper, Virginia. From 1996 to 2003, he was the production coordinator of the Alan Lomax Collection compact disc series issued by Rounder Records. He has written extensively on recorded music and sound, and is a contributor to the book The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering Folksong Transformed Academic Thought and American Identity, published in 2012 by Scarecrow Press. In May of this year, he began a two-year term as President of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eTop 40 radio was all about the newest hits, with little sense of history; but for 48 hours starting at noon on Friday, February 21st, 1969, KHJ of Los Angeles, one of the biggest Top 40 outlets in the country, aired the first comprehensive history of rock and roll attempted in any medium. For two days, listeners were treated to a unique montage of music and interview with the movers and shakers of the preceding 15 years of pop music, narrated by legendary KHJ disc jockey Robert W. Morgan. The program also aired on KHJ\u0026rsquo;s affiliate stations around the country with local announcers reading from the same the script and was a huge national hit. It was repeated later that year, then revised several times in the 1970s and early 1980s, with the last revision still airing occasionally today. Using excerpts of the original broadcast and others from the time, this presentation will look at the program\u0026rsquo;s success in the context of music radio of the period, as well as its longer lasting influence on popular music, popular audiences and radio programming itself. A later version of the program, as well as other radio rock and roll histories, will also be sampled.\"\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew Barton has worked at the Library of Congress since 2003, first as a sound engineer and archivist, and since 2008, as the Curator of Recorded Sound at the Library's Packard Campus for Audiovisual Conservation Culpepper, Virginia. 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