Bill Drake and Charlie Van Dyke are your image voices; Mike Cleaver is our news guy and Robert W. Morgan takes us through the final year of the decade many believe was the most influential in rock (let alone – all) music: 1969!

Everyone’s gone to the moon; the other New York wins the World Series, and as Humble Harve might say: it is time to SPREAD peace and LOVE, baby! Call out the Mounties; IKE Dies; Charles “DeG.” calls it quits; did you wear a Maxicoat, and Joe Namath is on top of his game!

Tommy James tells us all he needed was a rhyming dictionary; John Fogerty says he was the “man in the middle”; The Guess Who only have “eyes” for hits; Florence Gordon from The 5th Dimension shares how two is better than one; and just how BIG were The Archies?

One additional note: A whole lot of people were scratching their heads when we first heard the news voice on this syndicated version of the GOLDEN YEAR 1969. We all thought it HAD to be someone connected with KHJ, but, as it turned out, that was not the case. I played a clip of Cleaver’s voice for a number of people and only after Humble Harve suggested it had to be someone from Canada did REELRADIO contributor Jon Pearkins identify the voice as Mike Cleaver. Cleaver told me CHUM in Toronto produced a number of documentaries with news included and sold them to other production companies, which is probably how Drake/Chenault obtained them.

Drake/Chenault’s syndicated version of THE GOLDEN YEAR: 1969