Hit Parade: Spirit of ’71, Part 1

Slate Daily Feed

Slate Podcasts

News, Business, Society & Culture

4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

At any given time, the music world is celebrating some anniversary, but 1971 has received more than its share of commemorations this year. And with good reason: Carole King. Marvin Gaye. Joni Mitchell. Sly Stone. Janis Joplin. The Who. All released their best work a half-century ago. For our 50th episode of Hit Parade, we go back 50 years, celebrating the semicentennial of the year when, critics claim, “music changed everything.” The Quiet Beatle became the Favorite Beatle, when Mick Jagger sang lyrics even he regrets, when Carole King graduated from songwriter to singer-songwriter, and commercial juggernaut, when blaxploitation took over the charts and the Oscars, and when the radio was somehow awash in Osmonds. It wasn’t a perfect year—but Hit Parade host Chris Molanphy is fond of ’71 for personal reasons. Podcast production by Asha Saluja with help from Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey there, hit parade listeners.
0:02.8	What you're about to hear is part one of this episode.
0:07.1	Part two will arrive in your podcast feed by the end of the month.
0:11.3	Would you like to hear this episode all at once?
0:14.0	The day it drops, sign up for Slate Plus.
0:17.7	You can try it for a month for just one dollar.
0:21.0	And it supports not only this show, but all of Slates acclaimed journalism and podcasts.
0:28.0	Let's go to Slate.com slash hit parade plus.
0:32.2	You'll get to hear every hit parade episode in full.
0:35.7	The day it arrives plus hit parade, the bridge, our bonus episodes with guest interviews,
0:42.8	deeper dives on our episode topics and pop chart trivia.
0:47.4	Once again, to join that's Slate.com slash hit parade plus.
0:52.9	Thanks.
0:53.9	Now please enjoy part one of this hit parade episode.
1:00.9	Welcome to Hit parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine about the hits
1:15.6	from coast to coast.
1:17.4	I'm Chris Melanfee, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slates Why is this song number
1:23.0	one series on today's show 50 years ago?
1:27.9	Today, literally, this was the number one song in America.
1:33.4	A puppy-like cover of an old 60's song, Go Away Little Girl by the country's then-raining
1:41.3	teen idol, Donnie Osmond.
1:44.6	It's largely been forgotten in the half century since it topped Billboard's Hot 100 in mid-September
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.