Echo Valley 163 (S7E13) It’s Too Groovy

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!

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), That Thing You Do (1996), and The Idolmaker (1980).