Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote some of the most memorable and enduring hits of the entire rock & roll era, and this week Joel Najman's My Place programs featutres an hour of their most famous and significant compositions.

Again this week Joel Najman's My Place program presents a rarely heard collection of "earlier versions" of songs that became hit radio singles during the first golden period of the Rock & Roll era.

Not every song that rose to the upper rungs of the Hot 100 music popularity charts during the Rock era's early years was the first recording of that song. This week Joel Najman's My Place program presents a collection of rarely-heard original versions of some of rock&rolls's most famous hit singles.

Multi-instrumentalist Larry Knechtel passed away this past August 24, 2009 at age 69. As a member of Los Angeles "Wrecking Crew" of creme de la creme studio musicians, Larry played on several thousand recordings during a career that spanned more than a half century, among these many of the biggest and most enduring radio hits of the rock&roll era. This week Joel Najman's My Place program pays tribute to Larry Knechtel with an hour of some of his most famous and significant work.

This week Joel Najman's My Place program unearths a baker's dozen hit instrumental recordings from the early days of the Rock&Roll era.

Colorful music industry mogul Shelby Singleton passed away on October 10, 2009 at age 77.  This week Joel Najman's My Place program pays tribute to Shelby Singleton with an hour of the memorable hit records he was responsible placing on the contemporary music national popularity charts. 

This week Joel Najman's My Place program looks at the female vocalists of the early years of Rock & Roll, specifically those who adopted professional names different from their original given names.

This week Joel Najman's My Place program looks back more than a half century to revisit some of the big and not-so-big popular hit recordings of 1958

Many recording artists during the Rock era's first golden years became famous using assumed professional names different from their given birth names. This week Joel Najman's  My Place program investigates the little known real names of many of the male pop stars of Rock & Roll along with a presentation of their memorable hit recordings.

This week Joel Najman's My Place program presents an hour of George David Weiss' biggest and most memorable songwriting successes.