The Musical Almanac is back on the air for a
full hour every Sunday afternoon
from 2:00 to 3:00 PM Pacific time on CFAX 1070 Victoria.
Click here to listen.
SCOTT WALKER’S
MUSICAL ALMANAC is a popular weekly feature
that ran for more than
12 years on CBC Radio and is now a weekly
feature on CFAX 1070 Victoria.
It
tells the stories behind some of the musical anniversaries of the
current week.
THE ALMANAC contains stories from the Big
Band era, Broadway, the Movies, the pre-rock years, the early
years of rock'n'roll, the British Invasion,
and the post-Sixties
musical scene.
The information in THE
ALMANAC is drawn from a database of historical events, which
currently contains more than 5,100 entries.
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special occasion coming up? Would you like to commemorate it
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Stories from the week of
July 29th
• A
singer grows restless in a hit band.
• A
publishing superstition forces a name change that captures generations of
children.
•
James Taylor gets his break thanks to the Beatles.
• The
longest #1 hit in history.
Click
on the jukebox to listen to THE ALMANAC for the week of
July 29th
Next update August 4th
• A
telegram changes the course of popular music.
© Scott Walker 2002
Contact Scott: info~at~scottwalker.ca [replace ~at~ with @]