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From the archives of You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth presents her hugely popular series, “Charles Manson’s Hollywood.” It chronicles the murders committed by followers of Charlie Manson in the summer of 1969, and how the lurid crime and its aftermath were inseparable from the show business milieu in which they occurred. Originally released in 2015. For more great Hollywood stories, subscribe to the You Must Remember This podcast.

You Must Remember Manson Karina Longworth

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From the archives of You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth presents her hugely popular series, “Charles Manson’s Hollywood.” It chronicles the murders committed by followers of Charlie Manson in the summer of 1969, and how the lurid crime and its aftermath were inseparable from the show business milieu in which they occurred. Originally released in 2015. For more great Hollywood stories, subscribe to the You Must Remember This podcast.

    E1: What We Talk About When We Talk About The Manson Murders

    E1: What We Talk About When We Talk About The Manson Murders

    You Must Remember Manson explores the murders committed in the summer of 1969 by followers of Charles Manson. In part one, we’ll talk about what was going on in the show business capital that made Charlie Manson seem like a relatively normal guy. Originally released in 2015. 










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    • 35 min
    E2: How Manson Found His Family

    E2: How Manson Found His Family

    In part two, we trace Charlie Manson's life from his birth to a teenage con artist, through multiple stints in reform schools and prisons, and finally to San Francisco circa 1967, where Manson began to try out his guru act on the local hippie kids. Originally released in 2015.

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    • 34 min
    E3: The Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, and Charles Manson, Songwriter

    E3: The Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, and Charles Manson, Songwriter

    In part three, we’ll talk about Charlie Manson’s arrival in Los Angeles, discuss Dennis Wilson’s life and the role he played in enabling Manson’s rock n’ roll delusions, and explain how The Beach Boys came to record a song written by Charles Manson. Originally released in 2015.

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    • 45 min
    E4: Spahn Ranch and the Beatles’ White Album

    E4: Spahn Ranch and the Beatles’ White Album

    After wearing out his welcome at Dennis Wilson’s house, Charlie Manson moves his family to Spahn Ranch, a dilapidated Western movie set where the cult starts preparing for Helter Skelter, Manson's made-up apocalypse inspired by The Beatles. Originally released in 2015.









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    • 38 min
    E5: Doris Day and Terry Melcher

    E5: Doris Day and Terry Melcher

    Charles Manson became convinced his best chance at rock stardom was impressing Terry Melcher, a record executive who had made stars out of The Byrds, who was also Doris Day's son and Candice Bergen's boyfriend. Originally released in 2015.









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    • 43 min
    E6: Kenneth Anger and Bobby Beausoleil

    E6: Kenneth Anger and Bobby Beausoleil

    The first person to go to jail for a Charles Manson-associated murder was Bobby Beausoleil, a charismatic would-be rock star who had put in time as a muse to Kenneth Anger -- child actor-turned-occultist experimental filmmaker and author. Originally released in 2015.

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    • 47 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
830 Ratings

830 Ratings

Mbett216 ,

Excellent

One of my all time favorite podcasts. I have come back to listen many times. It is well researched and perfectly presented.

lilstarrgazr ,

Ugh

She takes a deep dive and looks at so many different players and angles which is interesting. It’s not her voice that is unpleasant, unless she’s speaking for a Manson Girl, who she decided all speak with nasal annoying voices. It’s her odd pronunciation (“narwritted vs narrated), her odd phrases (“acid gobblers” I believe the term is drop acid not gobble it) and the mispronunciation of just about every major players name. This is one of the most famous cases, and it’s 50 years old. How do you not know how to pronounce the names when you’re doing a podcast? Among the repeated mispronounced names are Jay Sebring, Leno LaBianca, Roman Polanski, Wojciech Frykowski, and my personal favorite, the three different ways she came up with to say Leslie Van Houten. Also spent a good 40 minutes discussing Polanski’s later rape case and shared her personal opinions on what she thought. Regarding the Manson murders, Polanski was the victim, losing both his wife and his child (similarly, his own pregnant mother was killed in Auschwitz). Perhaps not the greatest time to be speaking about his future events. It is also possible to feel terribly sorry for the man for his losses, and dislike the actions he took in the future. It felt almost victim blamey to bring both up in the same episode and focus on the later event.
Also, Pacific Ocean Blue is not a “ hauntingly beautiful” album. It’s an album full of great rock music— not what you would expect from a beach boy except adorably, his brothers singing backup.

blob123456778 ,

Well researched and insight!

Worth to listen to fully understand the crimes especially if you were not alive during this time.

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