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Caption: WBAI Staff, Credit: 1960s
In honor of radio pioneers Larry Josephson, Steve Post and Bob Fass, a look back at the early days of free form radio at Pacifica and WBAI in New Y...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Eddie Dugosh
Tonight we talk to the first time listener to explore their feelings on hearing music they've never heard by musicians they've never heard of yet t...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, and WQCS


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:56
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Ernie K-Doe As a Mardi Gras Indian, Credit: From "Ernie K-Doe - The R&B Emperor of the Universe by Ben Sandmel
There were a hundred thousand "first rock and roll songs," all of them expressing the cultural upheaval of WWII and the realization we better enjoy...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:42
  • Purchases: 4
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The usual dreck plus the third hour goes to the roots of zydeco music.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:53:42
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Forgive my sentimentality on Mother's Day...

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:59:48
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Contemporary Mardi Gras music and what it means to me.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:21:51
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Why instrumental songs with any American Indian tribe other than "Cherokee" seem more authentic than songs with "Cherokee" in the song title. Plus...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:50:25
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The idea was boneheaded in conception and worse in execution. That's why I'm on Saturday at midnight - nobody listen except drunks and they don't ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 03:03:28
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Between the usual "music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." will be a mass hypnotism performed by me with the help of some f...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:56:24
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Starting the show with a spotlight on Vince Taylor who many have cited as the real life prototype for David Bowie's wacky character, Ziggy Stardust...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:55:06
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Interactive media being all the rage but I'm a dozen social media behind so I'm trying to catch up by inventing my own interactive media. (That wa...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:44:07
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Stuffing four hours of music into three hours. It looks as bad a making sausage but without the good taste!

  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:50:37
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but who influenced the rock and rollers that everyone has heard. Collector's music for...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:08
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Songs about Eskimos, lists of bars, synthetic Chinese music (why do I love these songs so much?), songs that can be played back to back and over an...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:47:31
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At its heart, my show is about presenting music absent its racial components. For instance, we focus on music from the 1950s to 1979s when musicia...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:54:35
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Collectors music from the golden era of Americana music. That music just before the first rock and roll record. Tonight's show features the auth...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:56:39
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the time just before rock and roll became a commercial commodity. A time when m...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:47:03
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because it is the music just before the first rock and roll record that is the unvarnis...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:48:24
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Songs from the golden era of Americana, the 1950-70s when the modern era of pop mu...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:46:25
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"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of." All the music that came just before the first rock and roll record. Collector's m...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:47:19
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of - From the golden era of Americana, the 1950s - 1970s when popular music and race recor...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:50:35
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Music that came just before rock and roll became a formula. Not the hits but music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. And may...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:55:22
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Music from the 1950s to 1970s but with a twist - only the non-hit and only the songs before the rock and roll became a boring formula for making mo...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:54:18
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As always, collector's music from the 1950s to 70s.but this time with a focus on Australian bands. Their sound fit into the a typical Saturday Nig...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:12
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The music that made rock and roll but that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the 1950s to 1970s, a time just before the ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:22