HeyJaredRainbow Valley
Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history.
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Episode 001 - Janis Joplin (opens the original)
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Episode 001 – Janis Joplin For the very first episode of Rainbow Valley, we begin with one of the most unforgettable voices of the 1960s: Janis Joplin. Raw, rebellious, wounded and extraordinary, Janis Joplin became one of the defining figures of the counter-culture era. Born in conservative Port Arthur, Texas, she never quite fitted the world around her. Drawn to the blues, to outsider voices, and to the freedom of self-expression, Janis found in music a place where all her pain, humour, defian
Episode 044 - Seven Inches Of History 005- Johnny Preston - Running Bear (opens the original)
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A song about doomed love, written by a man who never lived to see it top the charts. "Running Bear" is a cheerful record about two people who drown. That tension between the bouncy production and the tragic storyline is part of what makes it so fascinating, and part of why it shot to number one in March 1960 and stayed there for two weeks. But the real story here isn't Johnny Preston. It's the man who wrote the song. Jiles Perry Richardson Junior, better known as the Big Bopper, died on February
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