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Pop Song Shrinkage

Mar 06, 201931 min
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Episode description

Once upon a time, the belief was that pop songs should be short, catchy, inoffensive and lighthearted. That time has returned. But the reason why is dramatically different this time around. In 1957, the first year of the Billboard Top 100 Chart, the song of the year was Elvis Presley’s “All Shook Up,” which ran […]

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