Some Music For The Holiday
This week on Afterglow the program is Popular Song On the Picket Line, a look at a time when American popular-song artists, both singers and composers, found themselves drawn to music with socially significant themes. We'll hear:
Whatever you're up to over this long holiday weekend, whether that's cooking out, watching movies or TV, catching up on reading, or digging into that stack of CDs you haven't listened to yet, have a safe and happy Labor Day. Me, I'm hoping to finally finish Jeanine Basinger's The Star Machine, a fascinating book about how the Hollywood studio system groomed its famous (and not-so-famous) actors and actresses.