And now we have another installment in our look at pivotal years in music. For Lesson 115 we turn to the year 1957 when Leave It To Beaver and American Bandstand debuted on television, Dwight Eisenhower began his second term as President, and those pesky nuisances Rock ‘n’ Roll and Rhythm ‘n’ Blues were turning teenagers into immoral, degenerate juvenile delinquents. It’s 90 mins in a time capsule taking you back to when you could get a milkshake at the drugstore and a pack of smokes was 50 cents – just the right size for rolling up in a shirtsleeve.
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