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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1977
In the year that Elvis died at Graceland, rock & roll began to evolve – growing louder, angrier, more invigorating, while disco gained momentum with the December release of Saturday Night Fever,...
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This Week On Saturday Morning Flashback: 1968 [Playlist]
Few years during the past few generations can compare for the quantity of timeless music, groundbreaking social movement, and widespread cultural evolution. Join Wendy Rice 8am-Noon on Saturday Morning...
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Playlist: Saturday Morning Flashback 12/4/10
The Joshua Tree Let it snow! We had the music and memories of 1987 to keep us warm. The XRT Listener Poll from ’87 included “Fatal Attraction” as the top movie, “L.A. Law” was the favorite TV show, and...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1991 [Playlist]
The very first Lollapalooza Festival hit Chicago (Tinley Park) on August 3rd, staying for just one crazy night and then moving on to the next venue. The unique tour barnstormed through 21 cities;...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1997 [Playlist]
By Frank E. Lee 1997 made its Flashback debut this week and despite being a slice of relatively recent history, it sounded fresh and nostalgic at the same time. Put 19 years on a backward bottle of...
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Why 1969 Was One Of The Most Important Years For Music
1969 was one of the most important years in music. Not only in terms of releases, but in the social change it enacted. You’ll hear music from 1969 featured on Saturday Morning Flashback this weekend....
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1973 [Playlist]
It was the year the Sears Tower was completed, giving Chicago the world’s tallest building. A horse called Secretariat won the Triple Crown. The reality TV series of the summer was the Senate...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1988 [Playlist]
By Frank E. Lee Had a great 1988 once again (even better than the first go round 29 years ago) filling in for Wendy on Flashback this week sharing news about the exciting advent of zebra mussels,...
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Join Wendy For One More Saturday Morning Flashback
Join Wendy Rice as she broadcasts her final Saturday Morning Flashback this Saturday. Wendy is set to retire from XRT, but not before she features the year in which she started as a programming...
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Wendy’s Final Saturday Morning Flashback Playlist: 1978
Everyone has their favorite Flashback years, and this happens to be one of mine. In the spring of ’78, WXRT Program Director John Platt was the speaker at an annual event hosted by WPGU, the...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1989 [Playlist]
By Frank E. Lee It was back to 1989 this week as the post-Wendy Rice era of Flashback began and the transitional year was celebrated with a delightful blend of the sounds that were very much a part of...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1991 [Playlist]
By Frank E. Lee Once again, the tricky time currents were navigated successfully and the year 1991 returned to the airwaves. No anachronisms or paradoxes were observed. We were treated to cogent...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1987 [Playlist]
By Frank E. Lee It was a thrilling trip back to the big 80’s this week as we relived the year of Black Monday, talking Alf dolls and the fantastic scarf-mitten accessories that almost no one wears...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1992 [Playlist]
By Frank E. Lee Once again (or maybe for the first time) we had a fun three hours in 1992. There were two songs about big love, a one-hit wonder, some good covers, a sequel to a classic album and even...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1983 [Playlist]
By Frank E. Lee Update: 93XRT’s Saturday Morning Flashback will air from 9 AM – 12 PM beginning this Saturday with host Johnny Mars Our trip back to the middle of the rock era went smoothly with no...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1995 [Playlist]
We hit the mid 90’s on Saturday Morning Flashback and we recalled when Coolio had us in a Gangsta’s Paradise, Mel Gibson wore a kilt in Braveheart all the way to Oscar gold and we listened to music...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1974 [Playlist]
By Frank E. Lee 1974 proved to be a difficult journey down the corridors of time primarily because we had to avoid many of the numerous pop hits that became part of our global soundtrack back then. A...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1970 [Playlist]
Some writers have suggested that the spiritual end of the 60’s began at the deadly Rolling Stones concert a the Altamont speedway in December of 1969. In 1970, more grim news with the deaths of Jimi...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1980 [Playlist]
By Frank E. Lee The trip back to 1980 went well with just a few glitches including an on air whoop into a hot mic during the rousing conclusion to “Even It Up” by Heart (which only made the song more...
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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1993 [Playlist]
Our weekly time travel found us drifting almost a quarter-century back to 1993. Bill Clinton was inagurated our 42nd President. Whoomp (There It Is!) was frying our brains. The first Three-Peet, as the...
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