Pop Chronicles

Inspired by the Monterey Pop Festival, John Gilliland narrated the series along with Sie Holliday and Thom Beck (pictured). Also performing interviews were Dick LaPalm, Lew Irwin, Harry Shearer, Mike Masterson, and Richard Perry. The show's brief recurring theme song "The Chronicles of Pop" was written and performed by Len Chandler. The engineer and associate producer of the series was Chester Coleman. KRLA 1110 originally broadcast an hour a week of the Pop Chronicles, by "Hot Air" and broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. The photo above indicates that it was broadcast on KABC-FM sometime before that station became KLOS. The University of North Texas Music Library made the Pop Chronicles available online since June 2010. ==The Pop Chronicles of the 1940s==

The Pop Chronicles of the 1940s was produced by John Gilliland and broadcast on KSFO while he worked there beginning in 1972 for a total of 24 episodes. In 1972, Gilliland had produced and syndicated 12 episodes which covered the first half of the 1940s. He then asked his listeners to write to their stations if they wanted to hear the rest of the series. He would produce another 12 episodes to cover the rest of the 1940s. This series was syndicated by Doug Andrews In 1973 MCA Records used the show to sell a nine-album set of music from the show, so the show could be offered for free to radio stations. But in 1974, RCA negotiated for the rights to the show. In 1994, Gilliland released an edited version as the four cassette audiobook ''Pop Chronicles the 40's: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40's. This was later rereleased as The Big Band Chronicles''. After his death, Gilliand's sister donated the Pop Chronicles tapes to the University of North Texas Music Library where they form the John Gilliland Collection. ==See also==