Pop – Legacy Podcasts

“Billy Joel – Words and Music” includes Billy Joel, himself, with his own thoughts behind what inspires him as an artist.  These recordings come from the many master class lectures he hosted as colleges around the country since the 1990s.   Includes excerpts his many hit songs – “Big Shot,” “The Entertainer,” “Tell Her About It” and more.

Producer: Joyride Media

Essential Carole King

In stores now on 2-CDs or mp3 album with King’s solo classics, plus 15 songwriting hits made famous by others (Aretha Franklin, The Shirelles, The Monkees, Billy Joel, Everly Brothers and more).

Series also features music from Carole King & James Taylor: Live at the Troubadour CD/DVD. Carole King & James Taylor perform 15 early classics together on a new CD and bonus DVD. Recorded live at the Troubadour in 2007. In stores 5/4 from Hear Music.

Producer: Joyride Media

Essential Carole King

In stores now on 2-CDs or mp3 album with King’s solo classics, plus 15 songwriting hits made famous by others (Aretha Franklin, The Shirelles, The Monkees, Billy Joel, Everly Brothers and more).

Series also features music from Carole King & James Taylor: Live at the Troubadour CD/DVD. Carole King & James Taylor perform 15 early classics together on a new CD and bonus DVD. Recorded live at the Troubadour in 2007. In stores 5/4 from Hear Music.

Producer: Joyride Media

Essential Carole King

In stores now on 2-CDs or mp3 album with King’s solo classics, plus 15 songwriting hits made famous by others (Aretha Franklin, The Shirelles, The Monkees, Billy Joel, Everly Brothers and more).

Series also features music from Carole King & James Taylor: Live at the Troubadour CD/DVD. Carole King & James Taylor perform 15 early classics together on a new CD and bonus DVD. Recorded live at the Troubadour in 2007. In stores 5/4 from Hear Music.

Welcome to the new 4-part podcast series, Carole King and James Taylor - You've Got a Friend. King and Taylor look back on their long musical friendship, and how it was influenced by the West Hollywood club, the Troubadour. New episodes go live Mondays in May - 5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24.

The Simon & Garfunkel “Live 1969” podcast continues with Paul Simon discussing his songwriting style as interviewed in 1966. Bud Scoppa adds comments on the full band arrangements on this tour, and how the crowd reacted to their first exposure to songs from the yet-to-be-released “Bridge Over Troubled Water” album.

Features these tracks from Live 1969

“Silver Haired Daddy of Mine”

“Why Don’t You Write Me”

“Mrs Robinson”

“Kathy’s Song”

“Bridge Over Troubled Water”

“Time of Innocence”

Producer: Joyride Media

Episode 2 begins with journalist Bud Scoppa’s thoughts on how Simon & Garfunkel’s music compared and contrasted with the early 1960s folk revivalists like The Kingston Trio, as well as the later folk-rock sounds of the three Bs – Bob Dylan, The Byrds and The Beatles.

Features these tracks from Live 1969

“Why Don’t You Write Me”

“That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine”

“Scarborough Fair”

“Sounds of Silence”

“Time of Innocence”

Producer: Joyride Media

Rita Houston from WFUV-FM in New York hosts the story of Simon & Garfunkel, from their early days in Queens, NY to their 1969 tour captured on the new live album, Live 1969.

Throughout this series, we’ll hear archival interview clips with Paul and Art and new comments by pop journalist Bud Scoppa. We’ll even hear from two of Paul & Art’s Forest Hills High School classmates – Stuart Hochman and Robert Lieberman (director of the documentary Last Stop Kew Gardens).

Featured tracks from Live 1969

Homeward Bound

Song For the Asking

At the Zoo

The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin Groovy)

Old Friends

For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her

Producer: Joyride Media