Rainbow Valley

Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history. Join us as we celebrate the 1960's with the stories surrounding the music and news events of the decade that shook the world.

The 1960s was a decade that would prove itself to be one of the most culturally significant decades of all time. And now looking back, it's probably quite safe to say that it was an important ten years from a worldwide political point of view with events that would shake the world almost to its very core. One year , particularly important to the story of the sixties was 1961. It was a year that would divide countries, events would take place that would lay the foundations for potential global nuclear destruction and see the first man escape the confines of the earth's atmosphere. The so called permissive society would poke its head further over the parapet , the space race would pick up speed and the cold war would begin to freeze to a previously unimaginable temperature. And amongst all of this, the soundtrack of 1961 would be presented to us by Elvis Presley, Shirley Bassey and Helen Shapiro.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rainbow Valley is proud to present the story of the hits and headlines of 1961.

Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history. Join us as we celebrate the 1960's with the stories surrounding the music and news events of the decade that shook the world.

On October 14th 1964, African American civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. At 35 years of age the Georgia born minister was the youngest person to receive the award.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta in 1929, the son of a Baptist minister. He received a doctorate degree in theology and in 1955 organized the first major protest of the civil rights movement: the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott. King adhered to Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence and promoted nonaggressive civil disobedience to racial segregation. The peaceful protests he led throughout the American South were often met with violence, but King and his supporters persevered, and their nonviolent crusade gained momentum.

A powerful speechmaker, he appealed to Christian and American principles and won increasing backing from the federal government and northern whites. In 1963, he led an enormous March on Washington, and in front of a quarter of a million people , he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" address.

Just prior to Dr King accepting his Nobel Prize, In 1964, the civil rights movement achieved two of its greatest successes: the ratification of the 24th Amendment, which abolished the poll tax, and the introduction of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public facilities.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination based on race in the United States, but while legally black people were allowed the vote, some southern state officials obstructed their efforts to register. Local groups in Selma had already been agitating for change, but when Dr Martin Luther King chose it as the testing ground for his black voter registration campaign in early 1965, it drew national attention to the Alabama town.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rainbow Valley is proud to present the story of Selma to Montgomery – Martin Luther King and the March for Freedom

Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history. Join us as we celebrate the 1960's with the stories surrounding the music and news events of the decade that shook the world.

In the early part of the 1960's, there was a challenge to country music's Nashville sound. It came like a pincer movement, with the rival Bakersfield sound on one flank and the seemingly unstoppable British invasion on another. The world of country music would be robbed suddenly of the beloved talents that were Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves who would both die in airplane crashes. Nashville's pop song structure became more distinct with the gradual adaptation in what became known as Countrypolitan music. This would be brought to the forefront by stars such as Glen Campbell, Charlie Rich, Lynn Anderson and Charley Pride and was characterized through the use of lavish string arrangements with a genuine orchestra and occasionally, backing vocals provided by a choir. It was aimed at the middle-of-the-road market and sold well throughout the later 1960s and into the early seventies. The mid sixties would see Johnny cash take a different, more ambitious route releasing concept albums about the American West and the Indian a few years before rock bands would come up with the self-same idea. He would soon conceive of the ultimate concept album and an audacious idea that would propel his career.

When Johnny Cash walked into the gloomy Folsom Prison on January 13th 1968, he had no idea how it would change his life or the course of popular music.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rainbow Valley is proud to present the story of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.

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Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history. Join us as we celebrate the 1960's with the stories surrounding the music and news events of the decade that shook the world.

1960, the first year of the swinging decade. In cinemas across the world, audiences would laugh along at the misfortunes of Jack Lemmon in The Apartment, cheer for Kirk Douglas in Spartacus and ride into Mexico with The Magnificent Seven. But they would also be watching from the very edges of their seats as the master of suspense himself unleashed a film that as well as being terrifying and horrific has also gone down as one of the truly great Hollywood motion pictures.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rainbow Valley is proud to present the story of the making of Psycho.

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Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history. Join us as we celebrate the 1960's with the stories surrounding the music and news events of the decade that shook the world.

The first year of this remarkable decade would bring us the cold war, the space race, traffic wardens and royal births and weddings. Television would play a major part this year with the first ever televised trial, Grand National and presidential debate. Major changes in Africa. Natural disasters worldwide. A new president, Coronation Street and The Flintstones. Along with The Shadows, Connie Francis and Elvis Presley…

Ladies and gentlemen, Rainbow Valley is proud to present the story of the hits and headlines of 1960.

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Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history. Join us as we celebrate the 1960's with the stories surrounding the music and news events of the decade that shook the world.

In 1963, Brian Epstein's stable of stars had occupied the number one position in the UK charts for an incredible 37 weeks. In just over a year he had gone from running the record department at his father's store to becoming one of the most successful entertainment impresarios.

He had proved to the UK and most of Europe that the Beatles were not going to go away any time soon . And with his sights firmly set on the USA, Brian Epstein would spend the next 3 years managing a worldwide phenomenon the like of which had not been seen before and is likely not to be seen again. But it wasn't going to be easy

Ladies and gentlemen, Rainbow Valley is proud to present the concluding part of the story of Brian Epstein.

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Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history. Join us as we celebrate the 1960's with the stories surrounding the music and news events of the decade that shook the world.

Liverpool legend tells the story of a young eighteen-year-old lad by the name of Raymond Jones. The story goes that on Saturday 18th October 1961, Jones walked into the Whitechapel branch of NEMS, the Liverpool music store and asked for a copy of My Bonnie by a group called The Beatles. The manager behind the counter at the time was Brian Epstein and he prided himself on the fact that any record could be ordered. Unable to track down any trace of the record at the time coupled with two further requests for it that afternoon prompted Epstein to investigate further. An investigation that would lead him to the Cavern Club and meeting with John, Paul, George and Pete. I say legend, because there is dispute as to whether or not Raymond Jones actually existed. But when it comes to telling the story of the biggest band in the world and in particular the man who had the courage and the vision to make them bigger than Elvis himself, I personally prefer the legend.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rainbow Valley is proud to present the story of Brian Epstein.

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Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history. Join us as we celebrate the 1960's with the stories surrounding the music and news events of the decade that shook the world.

Two worlds would collide in the summer of 1961, when a young nightclub showgirl and a British Cabinet minister would meet by chance on an aristocrat's Buckinghamshire estate. Also present that fateful weekend was a Russian spy and a successful man about town whose wit and charm had secured him his position in London's high life.

No one could have known on that hot Sunday afternoon as they relaxed by the estate swimming pool, that this meeting would pave the way for a national sex and security scandal and would lead to tragic personal disaster.

Rainbow Valley is proud to present the story of The Profumo Affair.

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Episode 001 – Janis Joplin

For the very first episode of Rainbow Valley, we begin with one of the most unforgettable voices of the 1960s: Janis Joplin.

Raw, rebellious, wounded and extraordinary, Janis Joplin became one of the defining figures of the counter-culture era. Born in conservative Port Arthur, Texas, she never quite fitted the world around her. Drawn to the blues, to outsider voices, and to the freedom of self-expression, Janis found in music a place where all her pain, humour, defiance and longing could come roaring out.

This episode follows Janis from her difficult teenage years and early musical discoveries, through the folk clubs of Texas and the beat scene of San Francisco, to her explosive rise with Big Brother and the Holding Company. We explore the breakthrough moment of Monterey Pop, the pressures of fame, the chaos of Woodstock, the creation of her stage persona Pearl, and the constant struggle between the woman who wanted love and acceptance, and the performer who could command thousands with a single note.

Janis Joplin's story is one of triumph and tragedy, of blazing talent and terrible vulnerability. Her career lasted only a few short years, but her impact was immense. She helped redefine what a female rock singer could be, bringing blues, soul and sheer emotional honesty into the heart of the psychedelic sixties.

Join Scott for the opening episode of Rainbow Valley, the podcast celebrating the personalities, music and news events of the 1960s — the decade that shook the world — as we remember the life, career and legacy of Miss Janis Joplin.

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