1969 Archives – How Good It Is

Claude Call

English Music Music History

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Episodes 10

Avg. Duration 16m

Activity Highly Active

Since Jul 2019

Latest Episode Jan 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule

Semi-Annually

Format

Episodic

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www.howgooditis.com

About This Podcast

A music podcast by Claude Call

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Recent Episodes

179: Influential Women, Pt. 4–Pattie Boyd

Jan 11, 2026

Ladies and Gentlemen, the queen of them all. Pattie Boyd was the inspiration for a huge number of songs. Some of them went to the top of the charts, some of them weren’t released as singles, but…

160: Failing Upward, Vol 2

Aug 01, 2022 10m

Pardon my allergies; I’ve sounded kind of rough for a week or so. There was a lot of throat-clearing to edit out of this one. I can’t even blame the Southern Studio on this one; it’s the direct…

139: And When I Die

Mar 02, 2021 17m

Laura Nigro was a sixteen-year-old musical prodigy who was trying on several last names, as creative types sometimes do. She happened to be “Nyro” when she finally started to catch on in the music…

127: Foreign Influence

Sep 21, 2020 12m

I don’t know why it fascinated me so much recently to poke around with songs that had foreign lyrics in them. But, here we are. This week’s show (and I promise I’m done with the premise for awhile)…

115–Cold Turkey

May 25, 2020 20m

So I’m sitting here in my home office-slash-podcast studio, researching and writing this week’s episode, and setting up the audio clips, and my dog is sitting at my feet pretty much the entire time.…

S1 Episode 106–Proud Mary

Feb 26, 2020 16m

John Fogerty had already picked up some popularity with his band The Golliwogs, but Uncle Sam came a-calling in 1966. In order to avoid being sent to Vietnam, he instead enlisted in the Army…

S1 Episode 105–Under the Covers, Part 6

Feb 18, 2020 17m

True story: I hire models from Fiverr to do these pictures. All three of them, coincidentally, are from the same (non-US) nation. I don’t do that on purpose but I’m starting to think I have a “type”.…

S1 Episode 102–The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Jan 06, 2020 20m

Roberta Flack was one of those artists that the label couldn’t quite pigeonhole, which meant that they couldn’t find a way to make her accessible to listeners. As a result, her first two albums got…

Episode 89–Woodstock

Aug 19, 2019 14m

The Summer of 1969 was also the Summer of Woodstock. Hundreds of thousands of people made their way to Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York (they couldn’t get a permit for the town of Woodstock, but…

Episode 87–Hair

Jul 28, 2019 19m

Click here for a transcript of this episode. In the late 1960s, both the music scene and the theater scene were changing, and the 1968 premiere of the show Hair on Broadway was a confluence…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does 1969 Archives – How Good It Is have?

1969 Archives – How Good It Is has published 10 episodes since July 2019, covering topics in Music, Music History.

Is 1969 Archives – How Good It Is still active?

1969 Archives – How Good It Is is currently highly active with new episodes semi-annually. Average episode length is 16m.