John Gilliland

John Sanford Gilliland, Jr. (October 18, 1935 – July 27, 1998) spoke on the radio.  He made the Pop Chronicles music documentary, which told the story of popular music in America.  He was an original member of The Credibility Gap comedy group.  He was born and died in  Quanah, Texas.  He worked for radio stations in Texas and California including KOGO in San Diego (1961–1965), KRLA 1110 in Los Angeles (1965–1970), and KSFO (AM) in San Francisco (1971–1978).

Gilliland worked on his radio documentary, The Pop Chronicles, for over two years.  He interviewed many famous musicians. (The pages in this book are not numbered, but Gilliland's essay is located between the E and F entries.)  Then it was first broadcast in 1969. It covered popular music of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1969, KRLA and many other radio stations broadcast this show.  This show can now be heard online.

At KSFO in San Francisco, he also produced and broadcast, beginning in 1972, The Pop Chronicles 40’s.  This show is about the popular music of the 1940s.

He edited and in 1994 published Pop Chronicles: the 40's as a four-cassette audiobook.  This book was also called The Big Band Chronicles.  When he was retired, he still worked for KREB in Houston and KXIC in Quanah.  He died in 1998.  In 2003, Gilliland's sister donated the Pop Chronicles tapes to the University of North Texas Music Library.  They form  The John Gilliland Collection.Earlier version

 Recordings 
 1968: An Album of Political Pornography, with Lew Irwin and The Credibility Gap (Blue Thumb)
 1994:  Pop Chronicles the 40's: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40's (Mind's Eye)  . .

 Sources 

 Other websites 
 [ The Pop Chronicles] (audio) from the University of North Texas Music Library

 Los Angeles Radio People, G
 Obituary from laradio.com

 The Man on the Beat: John Gilliland and The Pop Chronicles , 2008  Association for Recorded Sound Collections conference presentation by Andrew Justice and Jonathan Thorn (audio  & slides).

Category:1935 births
Category:1998 deaths
Category:American radio personalities
Category:Entertainers from Texas