50 Years Ago This Week
Hosted by Jim Melloan and Edward Kish LIVE every Tuesday at 8:00pm
Host Edward Kish brings you a retrospective countdown of the Billboard Top 40 exactly as it was 50 Years Ago This Week. At the top of the 2nd hour, we'll visit the headlines of the day before going back to the countdown. 1976 has a lot of great artists, Kool & the Gang, Queen, Melissa Manchester, David Bowie, Willie Nelson, John Denver, Maxine Nightengale, Eddie Kendricks and so many more. Relive it all or experience it for the first time, in real time, on the 50 Years Ago This Week Show, every Tuesday 8pm EST.
About Jim Melloan
Jim Melloan is an actor, editor, musician, and writer. He has been involved with the downtown NYC performance scene since 1996. He has worked as the project manager for the Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for Inc. magazine, and as a writer for Worth magazine. He was a founding member of the ImprovBoston improv troupe in the early 1980s. He is a singer-songwriter who plays keyboard. In 2013 he started doing a weekly post on Facebook about chart-topping hits from 50 years ago. In 2015 he expanded on the concept by starting an occasional column on this music for the downtown newspaper ChelseaNow, and creating the 50 Years Ago This Week radio show on Radio Free Brooklyn.
About Edward Kish
The new host of 50 Years Ago This Week is no stranger to presenting historical information. He's a co-owner/operator/writer/host of "Queer Trivia Extravaganza"; a weekly trivia game that presently appears in Park Slope and Bushwick where teams play along using their own phone. With 10+ years of experience in the quiz craft, finding facts and minutiae for presentation are in his wheel-house. In another life, he'd been an events DJ and has a strong connection to a lot of the music of this era. When not prepping for the next show or trivia game, he can be found working in animal care.
He studied Theater at Borough of Manhattan Community College as well as Mass Media and Networking Technology in High School.
