The Pop Chronicles of the 50s and 60s

The Soul Reformation: Phase Three, Soul Music at the Summit

Part 6 of 8

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English · Music, Radio

The Pop Chronicles of the 50s and 60s is a documentary radio series exploring the development of popular music through recordings and commentary. This installment is identified as “The Soul Reformation: Phase Three, Soul Music at the Summit,” part six of an eight-part sequence.

The program’s documentary approach brings music and spoken context together, tracing the styles and artists associated with its subject. Here, the focus is soul music and its place in the broader story of popular music in the 1950s and 1960s.

Listeners can expect a music-centered historical presentation rather than a fictional radio drama, with the recordings themselves serving as a central part of the experience.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.