Echo Valley: The Original Bubblegum Music Podcast

Jan 28 2025 118 ep. 59 mins 1.1k
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We celebrate the best and grooviest sounds of bubblegum pop music from the 60‘s and 70‘s like The Archies, Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, Osmonds, Monkees and Josie & the Pussycats!

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Echo Valley 176 (S8E1) Heartbeat, It's a Love Beat

Jan 28 2025 60 mins  
An hour of bubblegum pop greatness! We catch up with Tony DeFranco! A 1973 teen magazine profile of hopeful teen idol Michael Lloyd! Whatever happened to the first band named Starship?! And oodles of gum from The Partridge Family, The Barbarians, The Royal Guardsmen, The 1910 Fruitgum Company, Bobby Sherman, Paula Wayne, Yellow Balloon, The DeFranco Family, The Ohio Express, Michae

Echo Valley 175 (S7E25) Best of Season 7

Jan 07 2025 60 mins  
A darn clip show! We mean a delightful clip show full of the bubbly best of Season 7 and a countdown of the ten most played bubblegum songs from the Season!

13th Annual Echo Valley Christmas Special

Dec 23 2024 60 mins  
An hour of Christmas candy! A dramatic reading of the life of Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors! A collection of high pitched singing critters! A very rare double bubble Time Machine visit to 1964! A box full of bubblegum pop from The 1910 Fruitgum Company, The Monkees, The Squirrels, Shirley and Squirrely, Dancer, Prancer and Nervous, The Country Squirrels, The Archies, The Ohio Expre

Echo Valley 174 (S7E24) Kid Bubblegum's Song

Nov 29 2024 60 mins  
In this Season 7 Finale, will we finally hear Kid Bubblegum's original bubblegum song? (Editor's Note: Yes) A dramatic reading of a Happy Days novel! A very sad and joyful Sad Song Marathon! Plus plenty of great bubblegum pop from The Action Brass, Tommy James and the Shondells, The Music Man, Josie and the Pussycats, December's Children, Patrice Holloway, Maggie MacNeal, Bonnie St

Echo Valley 173 (S7E23) Eurovision 1974

Jul 02 2024 62 mins  
What better place for Kid Bubblegum to learn how to write a great bubblegum pop song than the 1974 Eurovision finals?! We are witness to the live performances of this historic competition! You might think you know all about that magic year, but there are still plenty of surprises! And in our dramatic reading we learn that TV's Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, can't act but is attractive

Echo Valley 172 (S7E22) Our Elfth Annual Christmas Special

Dec 22 2023 60 mins  
Twelve years in a row, Echo Valley has celebrated Christmas with a ton of bubblegum! Here we go again! What are the bubblegum roots of Silver Bells? Patty Duke "celebrates" the holidays! Dramatic readings of the poetry of Richard Thomas, John Boy from the Waltons, and he sings! Shirley Jones and Shaun Cassidy sing together! Plenty of cheery candy from The Archies, 1910 Fruitgum Com

Echo Valley 171 (S7E21) Marching to the Music

Nov 12 2023 61 mins  
Kid Bubblegum starts to write his own original bubblegum song! Whose voice sings the songs on Scooby-Doo? As part of our dramatic reading, Bobby Sherman gives a rousing speech to a football team! Strange gum from Batman's Adam West! Plenty of gummy good stuff from The Rubettes, The Lemon Pipers, The American Breed, The Cowsills, The New Beats, Austin Roberts, Wind (with Tony Orland

Echo Valley 170 (S7E20) Candy Kisses

Sep 23 2023 58 mins  
A fast moving hour of bubblegum sweetness! A dramatic reading of Danny Partridge and his escape from kidnappers! We've heard of Herb Alpert, but who's Dore Alpert? What bubblegum band was the first member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame? Ellen Greenwich as a solo artist! A couple of commercials sung by The Cyrkle! And a whole bunch more bubblegum pop by The Ohio Express, The Pa

Echo Valley 169 (S7E19) Bubblegum Movies

Aug 27 2023 60 mins  
We sample some of the great songs from bubblegum movies! A dramatic reading of a Monkees paperback! Can we find the legendary 1970 Olivia-Newton John scifi musical Toomorrow? Sha Na Na talk about Grease! Ken sings! Bubblegum pop from Reunion, Andy and David Williams, and a bunch of great movies like Barbie (2023), Pufnstuf (1970), Melody (1971), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Ban

Echo Valley 168 (S7E18) Viva Rock Vegas

Jul 29 2023 62 mins  
Can Kid Bubblegum learn to write songs in Las Vegas? Can Maverick teach us to play poker while singing cowboy songs? Have you ever heard the full length Partridge Family theme? Does Barbie rap? Plenty of great bubblegum music from Tony Christie, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Ann Margrock, Andy Kim, Annemarie, James Garner, Don and the Goodtimes, and First Class!