Pop Chronicles
"The 'Pop Chronicles' Team" circa 1970. From left to right are John Gilliland, unidentified, Sie Holliday, Chester Coleman, and Thom Beck.
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| Home station | KRLA |
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| Syndicates | Armed Forces Radio |
| Created by | John Gilliland |
| Produced by | Chester Coleman |
| Narrated by | John Gilliland, Sie Holliday, Thom Beck |
| Air dates | 1969 to c1971 |
| No. of episodes | 55 |
| Other themes | The Chronicles of Pop by Len Chandler |
| Website | The John Gilliland Collection |
Cover of the audiobook version
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| Home station | KSFO |
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| Syndicates | AFRTS |
| Created by | John Gilliland |
| Narrated by | John Gilliland |
| Air dates | 1972 to 1976 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
The Pop Chronicles are two radio documentary series which together "may constitute the most complete audio history of 1940s-60s popular music." Both were produced by John Gilliland.
Inspired by the Monterey Pop Festival,,,,, the Pop Chronicles of the 1950s and 1960s was originally produced at KRLA 1110 and first aired on February 9, 1969.John Gilliland narrated the series along with Sie Holliday and Thom Beck (pictured). Also performing interviews were Dick LaPalm, Lew Irwin, Harry Shearer, Mike Masterson, and Richard Perry. The show's brief recurring theme song “The Chronicles of Pop” was written and performed by Len Chandler. The engineer and associate producer of the series was Chester Coleman.
KRLA 1110 originally broadcast an hour a week of the Pop Chronicles, which were later syndicated and broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. The photo above indicates that it was broadcast on KABC-FM sometime before that station became KLOS.
The University of North Texas Music Library has made the Pop Chronicles available online since June 2010.
The Pop Chronicles of the 1940s was produced by John Gilliland and broadcast on KSFO (AM) while he worked there beginning in 1972 and 1976. To promote the show, KSFO "had a 40's month celebration with a dance remote and a jitterbug contest at Union Square." This was also syndicated and broadcast on AFRTS. In 1994, an edited version was released as the four cassette audiobook Pop Chronicles the 40's: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40's. This was later rereleased as The Big Band Chronicles.
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