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Lost Notes: Groupies
by KCRW
Today: #163 in Music on our combined chart.
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Latest daily rankings: Oct 27. New rankings will appear after the next update.
Position on the Music combined chart over the last 14 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | #163 | #139 |
| Oct 26 | #188 | #164 |
Latest episodes
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The Groupie Dream
November 20, 2024 · 59 minAs the first wave of LA punk started to take hold in Hollywood, both on and off the Sunset Strip, the girls of the rock n roll underground flattened scene hierarchy by carrying the torch of the sexually charged, “I do what I want” spirit…
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The Dawn of Punk
November 20, 2024 · 50 minIn the mid 1970s, as glam rock fizzled out, new kids began to trickle in on the block–kids who looked up to the groupies as party girl icons, as rock’n’roll legends, who went out there and got what they wanted…come hell or high platforms…
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From the Slutmobile to the Starship
November 13, 2024 · 49 minRodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco. The Continental Hyatt House. The Rainbow Bar & Grill. Glam rock was the genre du jour and there was no more convenient or welcoming a circuit for an intrepid teenage groupie to land in than the Strip in…
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The Oral History of Star Magazine: Bad But Not Evil
November 6, 2024 · 41 minA teen magazine so daring, so outrageous, so scandalizing and sexually suggestive that it only lasted…five issues. Star Magazine: from the publishing empire that brought you Hot Rod, Motor Trend, Guns & Ammo, and later in the 90s, Sassy…
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Hollywood Encounters
October 30, 2024 · 50 minAs a girl, Dee Dee Keel ditched the doldrums of Venice for the thrills of Hollywood. Just a few years later, she would soon become the woman behind the world-famous Whisky A Go-Go... as well as an infamously active groupie. Meanwhile…
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Girls Together Outrageously
October 23, 2024 · 46 minVenice Beach teen Dee Dee Keel was desperate to find out what was happening behind the scenes, in the clubs and hotel rooms of Hollywood: so she tracked an intriguing local rocker, Jim Morrison, on his way to the Strip. That’s where she…
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The Fairytale of Miss Pamela
October 16, 2024 · 43 minThe origin story of Miss Pamela Des Barres, the original queen of the groupies, author of the iconic memoir, I’m With the Band. From her mid-Sixties teenage bop room Beatlemania, to in a few short and sexy years, having Mick Jagger on the…
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Lori Lightning and the Baby Groupies
October 16, 2024 · 35 minIn 1973, the Sunset Strip was the epicenter of the rock n roll universe, where rockstar mythology was being built in real time. This is where fourteen-year old Valley girl Lori Lightning found herself, along with her clique of Sable Starr…
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My Lady’s Frustration: How Fela Kuti Found Afrobeat in LA
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Mojo on Trial: The Seedy, Greedy World of Ruth Christie
March 13, 2024 · 34 minLost Notes details the darkly hilarious schemes of record-label magnate Ruth Christie, who instigated one of the most absurd court cases in music history.
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The True Story of ‘Tainted Love’
March 13, 2024 · 30 minLong before “Tainted Love” was an ‘80s anthem, it was a 1965 B-side by LA’s Gloria Jones. We trace the song’s journey from a warehouse floor to the annals of pop history.
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Lost Notes Returns with the True Story of ‘Tainted Love’
November 1, 2023 · 30 min‘Lost Notes’ returns for Season 4 with a special preview episode about the song “Tainted Love,” and its lesser-known origins as a forgotten ‘60s soul gem from LA.
About the show
This season on Lost Notes: Groupies. Women of the Sunset Strip from the Pill to Punk. From KCRW and Golden Teapot.