Echo Valley: Bubblegum Music

We broadcast from the Osmond Compound in Utah! Join us for a very special Echo Valley Christmas Special with music from Donny and Marie, Jimmy, The Osmond Brothers, The Osmond Wives, and Mother and Father! Plenty of other goodies, too, from The Archies, The Monkees, The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, 1910 Fruitgum Company, T. Rex, Bobby Sherman, Loretta Lynn, New Kids on the Block, San Francisco Earthquake, Hep Stars, and William Penn and The Quakers!

The Archies teach American history! We learn to macramé! The groovy sounds of producer Steve Barri! Plenty of bubblegum pop music from Changing Colours, Gil and Johnny, The Ohio Express, The Gloomys, The Grass Roots, The  Brady Bunch Hour, The Harlem Globetrotters, The Archies, Micky Dolenz, The Groovie Goolies, Andy Kim, Magpie Stump, Arkade, Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra, The Penny Arcade and The Village Sound!

A legendary teen idol moves into town! Who is it?! (SPOILER: Bobby Sherman!) An hour of bubblegum music featuring all of his hits! A dramatic reading from 16  Magazine revealing Bobby's secret son! Strange Gum from American Juniors! Plus some great happy sweetness from Johnny Young, Jungle Jim, Andy and David Williams and Bill Amesbury!

An hour of bubblegum brilliance! We listen to every top 100 hit Ron Dante ever had! Across The Archies, The Cuff Links, and, yes, The Detergents! A dramatic reading from a Partridge Family novel! A battle between Barry Green and Barry Blue! Plenty of great bubblegum pop from Des Lee and Miami, The Lemon Pipers, The Cattanooga Cats, Andy Kim, The Archies, The Arrangements, Austin Roberts, Barry Green, Barry Blue, The Partridge Family, Keith Colley, The Detergents and a surprise pop superstar!

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, Michael Lloyd, The Cattanooga Cats, Jack Wild, Andy Kim, April Stevens, Micky Dolenz, Dave "Baby" Cortez, Tommy James and Jackpot!

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!

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 Express, Farrah Fawcett and Jean-Paul Vignin, The Variations, The Rotary Connection, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Cyrkle, Brendan Hanlon and the Batmen, Little Jimmy Thomas, Miss Piggy and Rudolf Nureyev and The Jackson 5!

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. Claire, John Denver, The Partridge Family, Anson Williams, Gregorious, Captain Groovy and his Bubblegum Army and Millie Small!

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! Plus plenty of great bubblegum music from The American Breed, The DeFranco Family, Carita Holmström, Olivia Newton-John, The Wombles, Ireen Sheer, Lynda Carter, White Plains, Ricky and the Vacels, Tina Reynolds, Mouth and MacNeal, The Music Explosion and ABBA!

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 Company, The Monkees, The Brady Bunch, Bobby Goldsboro, Tommy Roe, George Gobel, Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, The Hondells, The Pipsqueeks, The Trashmen, Fred Flintstone, The Rosebuds, and Owl City!

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 Orlando), Tommy Roe, The Original Caste, The Partridge Family, Joan Holloway, Peter Lawford, The Rare Breed, Rachel Sweet and Rex Smith!

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 Partridge Family, The McCoys, Trini Lopez, Bobby Sherman, Rodney Allen Rippy, The Jackpots, The Jalopy Five, The 1970 English World Cup Team, Dana Countryman, Cyan, John Fred and his Playboy Band, The Garden Gnomes, and The Cattanooga Cats!

A fast moving hour of tasty bubblegum sweetness! Ellen Greenwich sings her own songs! Will Danny Partridge survive a kidnapping? We've heard of Herb Alpert, but who's this Dore Alpert? A double bubble of commercials from The Cyrkle! Adorable Rodney Allen Rippy! A whole bunch of bubblegum pop from Bobby Sherman, Trini Lopez, The Partridge Family, The McCoys, The Ohio Express, Dana Countryman, The Cattanooga Cats, John Fred and His Playboy Band, Cyan, The Garden Gnomes, The Jackpots, The Jalopy Five, and The 1970 English World Cup Team!

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 Band (1978), Grease (1978), Head (1968), Jem and the Holograms (2015), The Thing You Do (1996), and The Idolmaker (1980).

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!

That bubblegum music just keeps bubblin' away! Is Rupert Holmes the secret genius behind bubblegum pop? Who are The Jackpots and why do they deserve a double bubble? Soupy Sales teaches us The Mouse! Learn about Davy Jones' special kiss! A Song from Pogo! Lots and lots of bubblegum pop from The Cuff Links, Andy and David Williams, The Pipkins, The Archies, Every Mother's Son, The 1910 Fruitgum Company, The Brady Bunch, The Kids from Fame, The Monkees, The DeFranco Family, The Flying Giraffe, The Royal Guardsmen, and Bobby Bloom!

The 11th Annual Echo Valley Christmas Special! It's ok to open this hour of goodies before Christmas Day! A Brady Bunch Double Bubble! We take your calls! Learn how to put the little tykes to bed! A sentimental tribute to Sesame Street's Bob McGrath! Pacman loves Christmas! Johnny Carson looks at popular Christmas toys! Plenty of stocking stuffers from The Partridge Family, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Davy Jones, The Beach Boys, The Buckingham's, The Archies, Barbie and Ken, The Jackson 5, Dressy Bessy, Detroit Junior, The Ivy League, Marv Meredith, The Flintstones, and Carnegy Hall!

Another hour of sweet, sweet fun! Kid Bubblegum is taking some college classes in how to write bubblegum music! Has bubblegum come to the Ponderosa? What Barry Manilow hit was a cover of a David Cassidy song? A double bubble from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids! Plenty of bubblegum pop from Josie and the Pussycats, Ohio Express, The Partridge Family, Brass Button, Common Ground, Hello, The 1910 Fruitgum Company, David Cassidy, Ricky Wilde, Bobby Sherman, Lorne Greene, The Monkees, The Vogues and Ed “Kookie” Byrnes!

There sure are a lot of bubblegum songs that like the alphabet! What makes up the New Sound?! Who are the Liverbirds and how do they pronounce their name?! Enjoy an hour of bubblegum music from The Bay City Rollers, The Brady Bunch, Alacran, Albert Hammond, The Monkees, ABCMouse, East Main Street Explosion, Sparrow, The Liverbirds, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, Barry Kirk, and Steve Day and the Syndicate!

Truck drivers chew bubblegum! The New Zealand super group, The Avengers! Does Shaun Cassidy ever call his mom? Is there such a thing as country-western bubblegum? Some proto-gum from The Crows! An hour of too groovy bubblegum pop from The James Boys, The Archies, C.W. McCall, Doug Powell, The Rubettes, Lidsville, Annette Funnicello, The Brady Kids, Gilbert O'Sullivan, The Ohio Express, The Troggs and The Hardy Boys!