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 .
Saturday, December 9, 2017
EV119 (S5E19) A Bubblegum Christmas Card to You
Our special annual very special Echo Valley Christmas Special! A
bubblegum duet with Michael Jackson and The Pipkins! A dramatic reading
of an Alvin and the Chipmunks comic book with Alvin and the Chipmunks
technology! A sad Christmas song marathon! A Christmas tribute to David
Cassidy! Plenty of great bubblegum holiday music from Ohio Express, Ron
Dante, Ron Winters, Kristy McNichol (and her brother Jimmy), Tommy
James, Dana, Bob McGrath (from Sesame Street), Johnny Tillotson, Little
Georgie Holiday, The Flirtations, Oliver Twist, The Rosebuds, and the
Peppermint Kandy Kids!
Sunday, November 5, 2017
EV118 (S5E18) Waldo P. Emerson Jones
Can an obscure Archies song tell us all we need to know to fill
an hour with great bubblegum music? Kid Bubblegum seems to think so,
but Professor Bubblegum has his doubts. Along the way, we get a dramatic
reading of a Kaptain Kool and the Kongs comic book, rediscover the Hudson Brothers
and their friend Chucky Margolis, learn that Paul Simon wrote a classic
proto-bubblegum hit, search fruitlessly for a Jimmy Page-bubblegum
connection, and, unexpectedly, the whole hour becomes about Rick
Springfield for some reason. Enjoy plenty of great bubblegum pop from The Archies, The Rubettes, Shadows of Knight, Rock Hudson and Bea Arthur, Simon and Garfunkel, Picketywitch, Johnny Farnum, Vince Guaraldi, Status Quo, Neil Christian, and Everybody Was in the French Resistence...Now!
Thursday, October 19, 2017
EV117 (S5E17) Clap Your Hands and Stamp Your Feet
Who is Sajid Khan and why did the Monkees' record company give him his own bubblegum album? A dramatic reading from a Banana Splits comic book! Dutch singer Bonnie St. Claire moves into town! Plus plenty of great bubblegum music from The Rubettes, The Pipkins, The Short Circus, The McCoys, Sally Field, Polka Dot (Ron Albanese), The Muppets, The Cattanooga Cats, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Boss Blues, Andy and David Williams, and New Dream!
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
EV116 (S5E16) Karen Valentine Beauty Secrets
A groovy opening medley from the long lost Brady Bunch Hour variety show! The bubblegum sensibilities of Katrina and the Waves! A dramatic reading of a 1970 Karen Valentine interview! Plenty of great bubblegum pop music from The Hudson Brothers, Bobby Sherman, The Wombles, Tony Burrows, The Sweet, The Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus, Judy Thomas, The Monkees, The Hot Wheels, The Sufaris, Johnny Whitaker, Boyce and Hart, and Brian Hyland!
Sunday, September 10, 2017
EV115 (S5E15) Mission Magic
Rick Springfield stars in a spin-off of the Brady Kids cartoon! A dramatic reading of a Brady Bunch
adventure novel with authentic Brady background music! How did Annette
Funicello get her name? Who is Roobarb?! Plenty of bubblegum pop music
from The Cattanooga Cats, Rick Springfield, The Archies, The Rich Kids, The Brady Kids (featuring a Barry Williams solo), Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, The Cowsills, Bobby Sherman, The New Christy Minstrels, The Banana Splits, Banaroo, The Hardy Boys, The Rubettes, and Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans!
Sunday, August 20, 2017
EV114 (S5E14) Bubblegum Dream
Professor Bubblegum dozes off and dreams of a wonderful world where
bubblegum pop music dominates hit radio! His reverie includes great
bubblegum music by The Music Explosion, Boyce and Hart, The
Buckinghams, The Banana Splits, The Partridge Family, Mac and Katie
Kissoon, The Fun and Games, Capt. Groovy and his Bubblegum Army, Crazy
Elephant, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Andy Kim, The
Bugaloos, Josie & the Pussycats, The Harlem Globetrotters, The
Pipkins, The Brady Bunch, The Monkees, The Hot Wheels, The Archies and Danny Bonaduce!
Sunday, August 13, 2017
EV113 (S5E13) The Beagles
Monday, July 3, 2017
EV112 (S5E12) Jingle Jangle
The Archies' Jingle Jangle enters the Bubblegum Hall of Fame! A brief sentimental shout out to the sweet but tragic life of Buffy from Family Affair! We discover the gummy side to the band Paper Lace! A dramatic reading from an Emergency TV comic book! A strange german "schlager" take on a John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John Grease duet! Plenty of great bubblegum pop music from The Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Bobby Sherman, The Archies, Paper Lace, Annette Funicello, Dieter Hallervorden and Helga Feddersen, Banana Splits, Capt. Groovy and His Bubblegum Army, Wahonka, Beano, Johnny Whitaker, Middle of the Road, The Bubble Gum Machine, and The Harlem Globetrotters!
Saturday, May 20, 2017
EV111 (S5E11) Bubblegum Circus
The bubblegum circus has come to Echo Valley! Clowns, carnivals and funny monkeys! A focus on Electric Company's Short Circus! We visit TV's Super Circus from 1950! A dramatic reading from a Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
comic book! Learn about Jackie Lee! Plenty of bubblegum pop music from
Andy Kim, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm and the Bedrock Rockers, The Hardy Boys,
Jack Wild, Kermit the Frog, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Brian Hyland,
Soulful Dynamics, Cattanooga Cats, Rumpelstilskin Kartoon, Normand
Gelinas, and The Avengers!
Saturday, April 22, 2017
EV110 (S5E10) The Hardy Boys
We focus on the animated Hardy Boys' Saturday morning bubblegum band! Did you know that Frank Hardy was a member of The Grass Roots? Political bubblegum with Boyce and Hart and The Brady Bunch's Eve Plumb. A dramatic reading from a Hardy Boys comic book! Plenty of great bubblegum pop with The Archies, Ohio Express, The Fun and Games, The Strangeloves, 1910 Fruitgum Company, The Love Generation, Teresa Brewer, Alan Blakely, Soulful Dynamics, and The Grass Roots.
Sunday, March 26, 2017
EV109 (S5E9) Tony Orlando
A look at the bubblegum world of Tony Orlando! Paul Revere and the Raiders first record! The Archies' Ron Dante helps launch the career of teen supergroup wannabe, Silvermoon! A dramatic reading from For Teens Only magazine, 1968! A rare record from Rare Breed! Plenty of great bubblegum pop music from The Harlem Globetrotters, Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Silvermoon, Wind, Andy and David Williams, Boyce and Hart, The Music Explosion, The Archies, Bobby Sherman, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, 1910 Fruitgum Company, The Ohio Express, and Joey and the Continentals!
Monday, March 13, 2017
EV108 (S5E8) Josie and the Pussycats
Songs from three different versions of Josie and the Pussycats!
Spotlight on The Sugar Bears! A dramatic reading from a Ding Dong School
book! New bubblegum from The Monkees!Two different bands, two different
song titles, same Ron Dante, same song? Plenty of great bubblegum pop
music from Giorgio, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Salt Water Taffy, The Cuff
Links, Two Dollar Question, The Wombles, Union Express, Miss Francis,
Kenny O'Dell, Hollywood Players, Tammy and the Lords of Misrule, and St.
Christopher's Gregorian Chant!
Saturday, February 25, 2017
EV107 (S5E7) The Cattanooga Cats
Spotlight on the cartoon bubblegum group, The Cattanooga Cats! Lee Majors sings of Steve Austin's love for Jaime Summers! A dramatic reading of a Bionic Woman comic book! The secret origin of Do Wah Diddy! A groovy Ron Dante song you've never heard before! Plenty of great bubblegum pop music from Boyce and Hart, Giorgio, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ron Albanese, Phil Harris, The Cowsills, Jeffreys, Rock Candy Mountain (Joey Levine), Bill Amesbury and Manfred Mann!
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