Growin' Up Rock

Sonny is sharing a quick history and the music of 3 bands or artists he wants you to hear about. 

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

You will still get a regular full length episode every Sunday as usual...

We got listener Michael Murphy involved and he provided us with 12 rock songs and asked us to rank them. As we tell everyone, we can rank them, but we can't unrank them, so be prepared for us to tell you "OUR" truth.

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Sonny is giving you a chance to test your knowledge in a quick round of trivia Growin’ Up Rock style. Have fun and play along.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

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We had fun with Joey Cassata from Twisted Sister and Steve Wright from Podder Than Hell in a little game of "Twisted Trivia". How will the new drummer from Twisted Sister stack up with trivia centered around his new band?

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Sonny is sharing some of his treasured vinyl collection gems.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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Philadelphia's own Cinderella is the subject of this Board Of Directors episode.

For this episode we put together a board of directors that consisted of 6 Cinderella fans and asked them to rank all the Cinderella songs from their catalog and we are sharing the top 14 results to help put together a "Greatest Hits" package for Tom Keifer and company.

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Sonny is sharing a quick history and the music of 3 bands or artists he wants you to hear about.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

You will still get a regular full length episode every Sunday as usual

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In this episode of “When Rock Ruled The Charts” we take a close look at 9/27/86, the day that Cliff Burton was killed in a bus accident. This week we will be looking at the singles chart for the BB 200 album chart.

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Sonny is giving you a chance to test your knowledge in a quick round of trivia Growin’ Up Rock style. Have fun and play along.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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This week we invited Mac from The Ugly American Werewolf In London Podcast to go track by track through the 1st and only studio album “GTR” from supergroup GTR featuring Steve Howe And Steve Hackett.

Each month in 2026 we will cover a single studio album released in 1986 celebrating its 40th Anniversary.

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Sonny shares some of his private treasured Vinyl collection.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

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We invited our fellow podcaster and book author friend BJ Kramp from the Rock And Or Roll Podcast to discuss and help us rank 10 lesser known Power Pop songs.

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Sonny is giving you a chance to test your knowledge in a quick round of trivia Growin’ Up Rock style. Have fun and play along.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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In this episode I recap all of my adventures in Gatlinburg for the Mountain Music Festival. 3 days of Rock n Roll bliss in the beautiful Smoky Mountains. We also rank 10 songs from some of the musical artist appearing at this year's festival.

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Sonny is sharing a quick history and the music of 3 bands or artists he wants you to hear about.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

You will still get a regular full length episode every Sunday as usual

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This week we invited Brad Rusthoven from Slamfest Podcast to go track by track through the 3rd studio album “Inside The Electric Circus” from WASP.

Each month in 2026 we will cover a single studio album released in 1986 celebrating its 40th Anniversary.

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Sonny shares some of his private Vinyl collection gems.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

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In this episode we look at blues legend Albert King and his influence on Kiss and their song "Love Gun" in particular.

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In this FQF, Sonny has a listener hand pick 10 to 12 songs for us to listen to and rank. Just remember it’s our opinion and we can give it to you but we can’t UN-give it to you.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want...

We are ranking 12 songs from 6 bands that come to us from the Maryland area. Hence the title of this episode as "Maryland Adjacent".

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In this FQF, Sonny finds a bunch of songs with the same exact title and lets them battle it out to see who he thinks deserves his praise.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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We have been around since 2017 and in this episode we are celebrating our 9th Anniversary of bringing our thoughts and meaningless opinions to the masses by ranking the 9s.  WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience:

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Sonny is giving you a chance to test your knowledge in a quick round of trivia Growin’ Up Rock style. Have fun and play along.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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We are covering the best album releases of 2006.

In 2006 our Podcast did not exist, so once a year we select a year to do a "Best Of" episode the same as we do every year at the end of the year, but we select a year in the 2000's before our Podcast was around.

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In this FQF, Sonny has a listener hand pick 10 songs for us to listen to and rank. Just remember it’s our opinion and we can give it to you but we can’t UN-give it to you.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you...

This week we invited Jen from the "Being My Wife Podcast"  to go track by track through the 3rd studio album “Slippery When Wet” from Bon Jovi.

Each month in 2026 we will cover a single studio album released in 1986 celebrating its 40th Anniversary.

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Sonny is sharing a quick history and the music of 3 bands or artists he wants you to hear about.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

You will still get a regular full length episode every Sunday as usual

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This week in the “Alphabet Soup Series”, we hit the letter "K". Let's find out what bands, albums, and songs we end up sharing.

A new series from the mind of "Hollywood"  Pooni. We are calling this one Alphabet Soup. Here's the idea - 1 Band, 2 Albums, 3 Songs, and 1 Movie all starting with a single letter in the alphabet.

The object of this series is to focus on some lesser known bands and songs. As always we will share a little history about bands and songs and we promise as always to ROCK!

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Sonny is sharing some of his treasured vinyl collection gems.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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This week in the Thanking The Greats Series, we want to thank one of the greatest producers in rock n roll Ted Templeman

In the “Thanking The Greats Series” we will explore and discuss an individual Artist, Producer, Song Writer, Manager, or just about anyone involved in the music business we think has had a long career and contributed to the music we grew up loving. Oh and while we are at it, we will also select and play a few tunes we dig that are related to that individual.

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In this FQF, Sonny finds a bunch of songs with the same exact title and lets them battle it out to see who he thinks deserves his praise.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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We are asking the listeners to join us in ranking some of the best Hair Metal albums from the 80s and early 90s.

Taken from a LOUDWIRE article by Joe Divita on 10/24/2022, we compiled a list of 30 Hair Metal Albums and ranked them along with our listeners to see where all the album chips fall.

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Sonny is giving you a chance to test your knowledge in a quick round of trivia Growin’ Up Rock style. Have fun and play along.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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This week we invited Joey Cassata from Zo2, TSO, and now Twisted Sister to go track by track through the 3rd studio album “To Hell With The Devil” from Stryper.

Each month in 2026 we will cover a single studio album released in 1986 celebrating its 40th Anniversary.

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Our resident "Rainman" is back. Hollywood could not let Friday 6-26-26 go by without having a bit of musical numbers fun.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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This week in the “Best Of The Bunch” series, we’ll dig into the studio albums from The Jimi Hendrix Experience. We will do a quick history lesson and share our favorite song off each album.

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For this “Try This 3 Pack” (Volume 2) episode, Sonny is sharing a quick history and the music of 3 bands or artists he wants you to hear about.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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In this album battle we are putting up Whitesnake "Slip Of The Tongue" against the John Sykes driven Blue Murder debut. May the best album win supreme.

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For this “Hollywood’s Private Vinyl Collection” (Vol. 2)  episode, Sonny is sharing some of his treasured vinyl collection gems.

The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.

Every Friday, we will deliver a different segment  that focuses on albums, songs, movies, Playlist,  and generally just about anything we find entertaining and want to share with you.

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In this episode of When Rock Ruled The Charts, we take a close look at the Hot 200 album charts for April 26th 1986. The day Van Halen 5150 hits number 1.

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