My Place
Saturdays, 7 p.m.
Host Joel Najman weaves musicology, anthropology, sociology, and even psychology among the music of the '50s and '60s, creating a snapshot of life at that time. With My Place, you enjoy the music as well as the story behind the song.
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Latest Episodes
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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�
