Lost Notes: Groupies

KCRW

This season on Lost Notes: Groupies. Women of the Sunset Strip from the Pill to Punk. From KCRW and Golden Teapot.

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70 episodes
Updated Nov 20, 2024

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Nov 20, 2024 · 59 min
8: The Groupie Dream
Pamela, Lori, Morgana, and Dee Dee look back on their rock'n'roll lives.
Nov 20, 2024 · 49 min
7: The Dawn of Punk
In the mid 1970s, as glam rock fizzled out, new kids began to trickle in on the block–kids who looked up to the groupies as party girl icons, as rock’n’roll legends, who went out there and got what they wanted…come hell or high platforms. Kid Congo Powers, Alice Bag, Pleasant Gehman, and Theresa Kereakas all were pulled towards the glitter and guitars and debauchery, and give their first-hand teenage accounts of those crucial years where glam burnt out and in its embers, early LA punk started cooking.
Nov 18, 2024 · 41 min
Supreme Glamour (from "Dressed")
Mary Wilson archiving music's greatest gowns.
Nov 13, 2024 · 49 min
6: From the Slutmobile to the Starship
Led Zeppelin comes home to the Sunset Strip - and groupie scene.
Nov 6, 2024 · 40 min
5: The Oral History of Star Magazine: Bad But Not Evil
A teen magazine so daring, so outrageous, so scandalizing and sexually suggestive that it only lasted…five issues. Star Magazine: from the publishing empire that brought you Hot Rod, Motor Trend, Guns & Ammo, and later in the 90s, Sassy, there was, in 1973, a red-hot new music rag that glamorized the teenage groupie lifestyle rampant on the Sunset Strip. Or did it? We asked the original staff who made the magazine: who, exactly, was a Star girl?
Oct 30, 2024 · 50 min
4: Hollywood Encounters
A scene-savvy Beverly Hills High Schooler gets in with Led Zeppelin, and other powerful party boys.
Oct 23, 2024 · 46 min
3: Girls Together Outrageously
The rise and fall of the first girl group of Groupies.
Oct 16, 2024 · 43 min
2: The Fairytale of Miss Pamela
The origin story of Miss Pamela Des Barres, the original queen of the groupies, author of the iconic memoir, I’m With the Band
Oct 16, 2024 · 34 min
1: Lori Lightning and the Baby Groupies
In 1973, fourteen-year old Valley girl Lori Lightning found herself as one of the teenage rulers of the Hollywood music scene.
Oct 10, 2024 · 2 min
Coming soon... Groupies: Women of the Sunset Strip from the Pill to Punk
In the early 1970s, LA’s Sunset Strip was the epicenter of the rock'n'roll universe. Drugs, sex, private planes, limos, destroying hotel rooms – it wasn’t a myth. At at the center of it all, were groupies. It’s a story we all know – but it’s never been told from this perspective. This season, on Lost Notes, we bring you GROUPIES: The Women of Sunset Strip, from the Pill to Punk. The real, riotous, rock'n'roll stories of the girls who lived it all, hosted by Dylan Tupper Rupert, from KCRW and Golden Teapot.
Sep 18, 2024 · 56 min
Chasing the Watermelon Man
An audio folk story examining the tradition of Black watermelon long-haulers, who drive to farms in the South for watermelon and sell them in Black neighborhoods around the US.
Aug 28, 2024 · 47 min
Gloria Jones In Conversation
KCRW’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, returns for its fourth season. Co-hosts Novena Carmel (KCRW) and Michael Barnes (KCRW / KPFK / Artform Radio) guide you through eight wildly different and deeply human stories, each set against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of LA’s soul and R&B scene of the 1950s-1970s. Support KCRW’s original programming like Lost Notes by donating or becoming a member. This season of Lost Notes kicked off with the story of “Tainted Love” – and, more specifically, the story of its original singer, Gloria Jones. Despite a fascinating and wide-ranging career that stretched over decades, Gloria largely suffered the indignity of being a one-hit wonder who never even enjoyed having that one hit for herself. But as anyone who heard our episode knows, Gloria Jones was responsible for so much amazing music … with a life story to match. Now, we conclude our season by hearing it all from Gloria herself, from the original recording of “Tainted Love” to her songwriting career at Motown and her life with Marc Bolan of T. Rex – as well as the 60th anniversary of that legendary and iconic song. Gloria sat down with Michael Barnes at KCRW in July of 2024.
Aug 14, 2024 · 41 min
Talking Fela Kuti with Sandra Izsadore
KCRW’s relationship with Fela Kuti goes back to 1980, when KCRW’s Tom Schnabel and Roger Steffens were connected with the mighty Afrobeat innovator while he was still imprisoned in Nigeria. Six years later, once Fela was free and clear to tour internationally, he came to Los Angeles and visited KCRW in person, again with Tom Schnabel. The connective tissue between these two events is Sandra Izsadore, who returned to KCRW for the first time in decades to talk with Lost Notes co-host Michael Barnes about meeting Fela in LA in 1969, and her essential role in the creation of the Afrobeat genre. It’s safe to say that without Sandra, there would have been no Fela as we came to know him soon thereafter. And that’s no exaggeration.
Jul 31, 2024 · 45 min
Larry Mizell Live in Conversation at KCRW HQ
KCRW’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, returns for its fourth season. Co-hosts Novena Carmel (KCRW) and Michael Barnes (KCRW / KPFK / Artform Radio) guide you through eight wildly different and deeply human stories, each set against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of LA’s soul and R&B scene of the 1950s-1970s. Support KCRW’s original programming like Lost Notes by donating or becoming a member. On Wednesday, July 17, Lost Notes welcomed the legendary Larry Mizell to KCRW’s Annenberg Performance Studio for an incredible evening of stories and music about his pioneering work with his brother Fonce in 1970s Los Angeles. Anyone who’s been keeping up with the show will already know about the Mizell Brothers … but if you’re new to the family, we encourage you to stop right now and back up to our episode on Larry and Fonce Mizell from earlier in the season. The Mizells’ story is so rich and amazing that it deserves to be heard from the very beginning. And if you know their story, then this week’s episode is going to be extra-special. Today we bring you our live, in-person conversation with a man who, along with his brothers, helped create the sound of Los Angeles in the 1970s: Mr. Larry Mizell.
Jun 19, 2024 · 48 min
Nia Andrews & Terrace Martin on Reggie Andrews
Lost Notes brings you behind-the-scenes conversations with Nia Andrews and Terrace Martin about the legendary Reggie Andrews.
Jun 5, 2024 · 49 min
Do What You Want To Do: The Legacy of Reggie Andrews
Lost Notes examines the legacy of Reggie Andrews, a world-class musician, producer, and mentor who changed the lives of countless young musicians in South LA. Andrews spent more than four decades in the LAUSD school system, teaching and mentoring generations of notable musicians: Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Cameron Graves, Ronald Bruner Jr. and his brother Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner, Patrice Rushen, Gerald Albright, Ndugu Chancler, Rickey Minor, The Pharcyde, Syd from the Internet, Tyrese Gibson, and hundreds more – taking them from South LA to the Hollywood Bowl stage and far beyond.
May 22, 2024 · 43 min
Dear Ruth: How Ruth Dolphin (Re-)Built a Musical Empire
Lost Notes celebrates the life of Ruth Dolphin, who went from being a terrified widow with four kids to the mother of an LA musical empire.
May 8, 2024 · 37 min
Go with the Flow: Community, Virality, and the Politics of Dancing
Lost Notes presents a story about Soul Train, the Slauson Shuffle, and what’s lost – and found – when a regional dance suddenly belongs to the world.
Apr 24, 2024 · 43 min
Places & Spaces: The Mizell Brothers’ LA Alchemy
Lost Notes introduces a pair of brothers - one from NASA, the other from Motown - who launched an entire musical universe from their Hollywood Hills hideout.
Apr 17, 2024 · 30 min
Kendrick Lamar and the big samples (from “Switched on Pop”)
Lost Notes returns with a brand new episode next Wednesday. To tide you over, we’re featuring a deep dive into Kendrick Lamar’s 2022 album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers from our friends at Switched on Pop.

Lost Notes: Groupies

8: The Groupie Dream

7: The Dawn of Punk

Supreme Glamour (from "Dressed")

6: From the Slutmobile to the Starship

5: The Oral History of Star Magazine: Bad But Not Evil

4: Hollywood Encounters

3: Girls Together Outrageously

2: The Fairytale of Miss Pamela

1: Lori Lightning and the Baby Groupies

Coming soon... Groupies: Women of the Sunset Strip from the Pill to Punk

Chasing the Watermelon Man

Gloria Jones In Conversation

Talking Fela Kuti with Sandra Izsadore

Larry Mizell Live in Conversation at KCRW HQ

Nia Andrews & Terrace Martin on Reggie Andrews

Do What You Want To Do: The Legacy of Reggie Andrews

Dear Ruth: How Ruth Dolphin (Re-)Built a Musical Empire

Go with the Flow: Community, Virality, and the Politics of Dancing

Places & Spaces: The Mizell Brothers’ LA Alchemy

Kendrick Lamar and the big samples (from “Switched on Pop”)