| Description | Track 1: Recording test, 0.17 mins
Track 2: Frank Smythe and Ian Dove talk about the pop charts, the beginnings of the charts in 1953-1954, dealers buying records because they are in the charts, information from the charts appearing in the national press, 2.44 mins
Track 3: The interviewer asks whether the charts are honest, they talk about how the charts are compiled, they talk about local charts, for example in Liverpool, he talks about compiling the charts by sending forms for the record dealers to fill in, 3.00 mins
Track 4: He talks about the discrepancy between the London charts and the rest of the country; he thinks the answer would be to have area charts, they talk about the growth in record sales, which peaked in 1964 with the Beatles and Elvis Presley, the interviewer asks what is a great pop artist, 2.47 mins
Track 5: They talk about artists who captured a mood, such as Donovan, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles; they talk about elements of revolt in pop, they talk about Josh White, Odetta, Dylan, and The Animals' versions of 'House of the Rising Sun' and the song's origins in sixteenth-century English ballad, 3.52 mins
Track 6: They talk about contemporary protest songs - whether they were effective and Bob Dylan's songwriting, 2.19 mins
Total: 15.01 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0969280 |