Joel Najman
Music Host (My Place)Joel has been a part of Vermont's radio scene since 1964. He began his career at WIPS in Ticonderoga, New York. In 1965, he moved to WFAD in Middlebury, Vermont, where he attended Middlebury College. Over the years, Joel worked at radio stations WJOY, WQCR, WDOT, WDEV and WVAA where he served at various times as Morning Announcer, Program Director and News Director.
None of his radio gigs allowed him to express his love for 50s and 60s rock 'n roll music - until 开云体育. Joel began his association with 开云体育 in the early 1980s, and since 1982 has been the host and producer of 开云体育's weekly My Place program. Self-taught, he weaves musicology, anthropology, sociology and even psychology among the music, creating a snapshot of life at that time.
Joel was inducted into the Vermont Association Of Broadcasters Hall Of Fame in 2004.
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Chuck Berry passed away at age 90 on March 18, 2017. He was about to release his first new album in 40 years.This week on My Place,鈥� -
This week on the program, I'll tell you the improbable story of singer/songwriter, Johnny Bragg.Bragg wrote one of the biggest hit songs of the 1950s with鈥�
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On this week's program, I'll feature part two in the series on the career of master guitarist Billy Mure. As a studio session musician, Mure played on鈥� -
Guitarist Billy Mure's professional career as a musician extended a full eight decades. As a studio session musician in New York, Billy Mure has played on鈥� -
Throughout the history of popular music, we can find references to cigarette smoking.This week on My Place, we'll trace the history of references to鈥� -
This week's My Place program is a collection of popular songs about roses!I'll play memorable recordings by Bobby Darin, Jack Jones and Linda Ronstadt鈥� -
After hearing many excellent suggestions from My Place listeners, this week's program is another collection of very different songs that share the鈥� -
This week on My Place, I'll present another series of very different popular songs that share an identical title. We will feature memorable recordings by鈥� -
Otis Blackwell grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, listening to cowboy music. Blackwell went on to write some of the biggest seminal hits of the early鈥� -
This week on My Place, we spotlight The Cookies, originally a trio of singing cousins who got together in Brooklyn in 1953. In 1958, two of the Cookies鈥�
