Welcome to Echo Valley!
Echo Valley is a free, just for fun, radio show that celebrates bubblegum pop music from the 1960's and 1970's.
The Echo Valley podcast is at echovalley.podbean.com!
You can download all episodes of Echo Valley below or from the archive to the right.
If you'd like to subscribe for free to the podcast, you'll find Echo Valley on iTunes, or on any of the podcast apps or channels, or, to do it your own way, here is the "feed" URL you will need to know: http://echovalley.podbean.com/feed.
Contact the Mayor's office at professorbubblegum@hotmail.com .
The Echo Valley podcast is at echovalley.podbean.com!
You can download all episodes of Echo Valley below or from the archive to the right.
If you'd like to subscribe for free to the podcast, you'll find Echo Valley on iTunes, or on any of the podcast apps or channels, or, to do it your own way, here is the "feed" URL you will need to know: http://echovalley.podbean.com/feed.
Contact the Mayor's office at professorbubblegum@hotmail.com .
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
8th Annual Echo Valley Christmas Special
It's the very special 8th annual special Echo Valley bubblegum music Christmas Special! Our first taste of The Monkees'
new Christmas album! A dramatic reading with Leonard Nimoy! And, in a
double bubble of sorts, Mr. Nimoy sings of Bilbo Baggins! The million
dollar quartet of David Cassidy, Shirley Jones, Barbara Eden and Frank
"Music Box Dancer"Mills! Veronica confesses her love for Archie Andrews!
The Brady kids put up our Christmas tree! Who would steal the baby
Jesus on Dragnet?! Plenty of great holiday bubblegum music from The Archies, the 1910 Fruitgum Company, T. Rex, The Beach Girls, Cliff Richard, Bobby Goldsboro, Banaroo, The Cowsills, The Wombles, Derek and Ray, Laughing Wind, Judy and the Duets, and Captain and Tennille! Ho ho ho!
Sunday, November 25, 2018
EV130 (S5E30) Best of Season 5
We look back at Season 5 of Echo Valley with our favorite
segments and the best bubblegum music! Also, we count down the top ten
most popular songs from Season 5! Plenty of great bubblegum music from
The Archies, The Banana Splits, David Cassidy, the 1910 Fruitgum Company, Jonathan King, Danny Bonaduce, The Fun and Games, and more!
Saturday, October 13, 2018
EV129 (S5E29) Kristy McNichol
Whatever happened to Kristy McNichol? A dramatic reading of a 1979 article about her! Ignoring many requests, we again play Puppy Bobby by Café Con Leche! Another sad song marathon!Plenty of great bubblegum pop music by The Archies, Giorgio, The Twilights, The Dixie Cups, Desi Arnaz, The Pipkins, The McCoys, The Flying Circus, The Ohio Express, Sun, Andy Kim, Austin Roberts, KISS, Brown Rice, Kristy and Jimmy McNichol, Middle of the Road, and The Tokens!
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Ev128 (S5E28) The Clapping Song
The Munsters were a bubblegum band?! Learn more about Shirley Ellis' hit The Clapping Song than you knew was there to be known and how is a 1930 country/blues hit by the Light Crust Doughboys involved? A dramatic reading of Lily Munster's shopping trip! The Music Explosion admire The Beatles! Plenty of great bubblegum pop music from The Partridge Family, Alvin Stardust, Tony Ronald, Jigsaw, Ray Russell, Ron Dante, New Dream, The Go-Go's (not THOSE Go-Go's), The Rubettes, The Coronados and Sydney Elliott!
Thursday, September 6, 2018
EV127 (S5E27) Bingo Bingo
Who's Arnie Corrado? What is Rollermania? How do dolphins and porpoises
differ? Those questions and more are answered on this rip-roaring,
jam-packed, sugar-filled episode of Echo Valley! A dramatic reading of a Flipper comic book! Plenty of great bubblegum music by The Hudson Brothers, Austin Roberts, The Bay City Rollers, The Archies, The 1910 Fruitgum Company, The Monkees, The Arbors, Crazy Elephant, The Cryan Shames, Bobby Sherman, The Bugaloos and The Fun and Games Commission!
Sunday, July 29, 2018
EV126 (S5E26) Short and Sweet
Bubblegum songs tend to be short. And sweet. But can even Professor Bubblegum fit 40 songs into a single episode of Echo Valley?
(SPOILER ALERT: yes, yes he can.) Plus a dramatic reading from a
Partridge Family novel! Archie dances! Plenty of great gum from The Cattanooga Cats, Jack Wild, Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, Songs from the Pogo, HR Puff'n' Stuf,
Dr. Shrinker, Electrawoman & Dynagirl, Lost Saucer, Wonderbug, Far
Out Space Nuts, The Bugaloos, Bigfoot and Wildboy, Sigmund and the Sea
Monsters, Lidsville, John Kincade, The Tremeloes, Scott Stutzman, The
Chicago Loop, Partridge Family, The Tokens & The Kirby Four, The
Gants, Josie and the Pussycats, Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show, Christoper Knight, Colette, Brady
Bunch, Cast of Return to Riverdale (1990), Kaptain Kool and the Kongs,
The Muppets, The Pipkins, The Archies, Chan Clan, Saturday Morning
Cartoon Show, Banana Splits, The Innocence, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, Bobby Sherman, Beach Boys and Society's Children!
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
EV125 (S5E25) Joey Levine
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
EV124 (S5E24) Bubblegum Wisdom
Advice for the young people from bubblegum's best! Worried about sex, drugs and rock and roll? Confused by the mysteries of love? We answer all your questions on this very wise episode of Echo Valley! A dramatic reading from a Susan Dey book on how to flirt! Spotlight on the singing sages from Space Coaster! Tribute to Schoolhouse Rock's Bob Dorough, We apologize in advance as we hear not one, but two uncomfortable songs (about the age of consent and bad touch)! The Archies get serious! Plenty of great bubblegum from Patty Duke, The Osmonds, The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Josie and the Pussycats, Jonathan King, Space Coasters, Slim Goodbody and Friends, Jay and the Americans, The Ohio Express, The Vogues, The Mind's Eye, The In Crowd, and Ronnie Burns!
Sunday, April 29, 2018
EV123 (S5E23) Scooby-Doo and Lancelot Link
Today's artists pay tribute to Lancelot Link! And Scooby-Doo! Rarely heard early Ron Dante singles by The Detergents! A dramatic reading of a Baskin-Robbins 31-Flavors Ice Cream comic book! Plenty of great bubblegum pop from Tommy Roe, The Beagles, Beano, Scramble, The Brady Kids, The Amazing Pickles, Bohanna, Bobby Rydell, Tommy
James and the Shondells, Rock & Roll Dubble Bubble Trading Card
Company Of Philadelphia 19141, The Buckinghams, A Man Called Flintstone,
Baha Men, Mondo Fumatore, Trap City EU, Yemi Rush, Shaggy, The Velmas, Martin Zeller, Kurt Gallagher, Paul Gilbert, and Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution!
Sunday, April 15, 2018
EV122 (S5E22) The Cowsills
The spotlight is on The Cowsills! We read a scarce comic book of The Cowsills
and how they came to be! We play a bunch of their early songs you have
never heard before! Also, (fair warning) there is a rare Echo Valley Sad Song Marathon! And plenty of great bubblegum music from The Archies, Boyce and Hart, Andy Kim, Andy and David Williams, The Ohio Express, Giorgio, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, Sugar Bears, Cattanooga Cats, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Partridge Family, Len Barry, The Fun and Games, and New World!
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
EV121 (S5E21) Rare Bubblegum
A whole hour of bubblegum pop music that you've never heard before!
Probably. A dramatic reading of Brady Bunch's Florence Henderson's
thoughts about TV husband Robert Reed (SPOILER ALERT: He's a
perfectionist)! A solo number from Marcia Brady (Maureen McCormick)!
Plenty of great bubblegum from Ron Dante, The Kids from C.A.P.E.R., Joey Levine, Barbie and Ken, Apache Dropout, Micky Dolenz, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Ohio Express, Giorgio, Edison Lighthouse, Elton John (as Reg Dwight and Bluesology), Robert Reed, Phil Harris, The Rubettes, Tommy James and the Shondells, The Hudson Brothers, John Wagner Foundation, and Jimmy Osmond!
Monday, February 5, 2018
EV120 (S5E20) David Cassidy
We pay tribute to bubblegum's greatest of them all with songs spanning
all of David Cassidy's career, from his very first recording to his very
last performance! Duets with Shaun Cassidy, Shirley Jones, and (almost)
Susan Dey! The secret origins of The Partridge Family! The surprise appearance of The Partridge Family
at Kid Bubblegum's triumphant concert, Jingle Jangle in the Jungle!
And, in a touching tribute from Kid Bubblegum to his idol, he ends the
show with a Partridge Family song, the program's absolute favorite
Partridge Family song, and yet we've never played it before. Until now.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)