Eric and Eric discuss, give songfacts, and the history of a song a week by the Electric Light Orchestra.
What's funnier than Santa Claus coming down with a deadly disease? Happy holidays!
It's the tragic tale of a songwriter and dental replacements.
Most of Herb Alpert's albums are thrift store mainstays, with Whipped Cream and Other Delights being the most recognizable. However, the reason there are so many is because the music, unlike a lot of…
The top 40 songs for December 15, 1958.
Alice comes back to a cacophony at the farm.
We're taking two weeks off for the holidays.
We'll be back on January 4, 2025.
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We close out the series with the epic 90 minute Mike & Eric show The Mask of the Loon!
A radio show done in the style of bad B-movies from the '50s.
The Screen Director's Playhouse shows how you take a 2 hour, 10 minute movie, and whittle it down to 25 minutes.
As a bonus, it's got Jimmy Stewart!
May 8, 1949
'Twas the night before Christmas, and Santa impaled a naked lady on a pair of antlers by the chimney with care.
The little drummer boy grew up to be the drummer for Iron Butterfly.
True story!
Recently Kate Bush's 1985 single "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" has gained renewed attention due to the show Stranger Things. It was, in fact, her only top 40 hit in the United States, and …
The top 40 songs for December 8, 1958.
What's not on second, What? is on the third track of Looking On.
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December 3: Eric gets a girlfriend.
December 10: Live Christmas show.
Fibber McGee's light display stops traffic.
December 21, 1955
What does this have to do with ELO?
Nothing. But you go where the audience and money is. And it's only four episodes over Christmastime.
Back when Christmas started in December?
Aerosmith, in the mid-1970s, was hated by critics and loved by their loyal fans, the Blue Army. They were one of the biggest hard rock acts of the time, selling millions of records and having back-to…
The top 40 songs for December 1, 1958
A 2013 Christmas message from The Eric Paul Johnson Radiotrola Program.
The names have changed, but the sentiment is the same.
(Just to give you a heads up, there are some very unChristmas words in t…
It's a cornucopia of guest stars. Eric's young cousins, and The Mike & Eric & Kim & Tammy in the Morning Without Tammy Show, plus many other goodies.