British-born singer-songwriter Roger Cook ("Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress") and Brooklyn-born songwriter-recording artist Henry Gross ("Shannon") share tales from their seven decades in the music business and talk about playing mob-owned joints, forming doo-wop groups, opening for the Beatles (and Benny Hill!), being inspired by Jimi Hendrix and hearing t ... Show More
Mar 26
GGACP Rewind: Episode #24: Roger Corman
Legendary B-movie king Roger Corman has produced and directed over 400 films, giving early career breaks to actors like Robert De Niro, Sandra Bullock, Bruce Dern, Charles Bronson and Dennis Hopper and helping to launch the directing careers of Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola, M ... Show More
1h 2m
Mar 2024
DENNIS SCOTT: "Thank You Mister Rogers: Music & Memories"
Hi neighbor! March 20 is the birthday of Fred Rogers, "Mister Rogers" to millions of children who once frolicked in the "Neighborhood of Make Believe" with he and his pals on PBS. Today we welcome two-time Grammy & Emmy award winning composer and producer, Dennis Scott, who has t ... Show More
36m 35s
Dec 2018
Nashville Revolution: Bobby Braddock, Don Schlitz, and Don Henry
Malcolm Gladwell talks to three songwriters who helped transform country music in the 1970s. Gone were cowboy hats, train whistles and church suppers. In came songs about desperation, loss, changes, and regret that changed how Nashville made music and spoke to a new generation of ... Show More
27m 32s
Oct 2016
McFly singer and author Tom Fletcher
<p>Tom Fletcher of McFly, Silent Film pianist Neil Brand, Bookshop frequenter Erica Jones and extreme engineer Jimmy de Ville join Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.</p><p>Tom Fletcher is best known as singer and songwriter of McFly, he's also written for Busted and One Direction, clo ... Show More
1h 25m
Oct 2020
Cory Henry has Something to Say
Cory Henry is a remarkably gifted multi-instrumentalist. Growing up in the church, he started playing the Hammond B3 organ at age 2 and played his first gig at Apollo theater in NYC at age 6. As a professional musician he’s played along side Bruce Springsteen, Boyz II Men, The Ro ... Show More
30m 32s
Dec 2023
Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny & Carl
Today we discover the iconic jamming session that birthed ‘The Million Dollar Quartet’ - Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ Perkins - who spent the day making music together at Sun Studios, Memphis on 4th December, 1956.
Although the event beg ... Show More
11m 46s
<p>How the worst McDonald’s commercial ever made came to be. And how Bobby got mixed up in it.</p> <p><strong>Credits</strong></p> <p><em>Heavyweight</em> is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein.</p> <p>This episode was produced by Stevie Lane, along with Kalila Holt.< ... Show More
