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Christmas Eve 1920s
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Christmas
Jazz with popular Christmas songs and trivia.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Industry
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Brunswick record label
With the public's thirst for jazz, the number of record producers increased very quickly in the 1920s. Sounds good. But most of those new comers we...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Speakeasy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Prohibionists
The fixture of the 1920s and early ‘30s was a result of the Volstead Act that introduced America to prohibition, and fostered the nightclubs that s...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A McKenzie Christmas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Christmas
Secular Christmas music had been around for decades before jazz began to incorporate the season into their music. When they finally did in the mid ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Geography
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jazzy
In spite of their multiple talents, most jazz musicians in the 1920s didn’t travel to the major cities to record. Part of the reason was the limite...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Brilliant Decade
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Decade
The 1920s was one of the most inventive periods in American history. On the one hand, jazz became an music art form that swept the world, on the ot...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Georgia Peach
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Although Atlanta isn’t thought of as a hub for early jazz, nevertheless, it was a hive of musical activity in the 1920s. There were enough venues, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
180811 Music You've Never Heard...
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Back to the Saturday night sound of, "Up-tempo, music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." Radio from a time long ago before ...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:52:05
Teacher & Student
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: James P. Johnson
Music from the father of Stride piano, James P. Johnson, and his prize student, Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller - 1928-1934.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Bernstein Encore
From: Wind & Rhythm
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When Leonard Bernstein hosted the Young People’s Concerts in 1958, he started with the William Tell Overture and the black and white video captured...

Bought by 'The Sea', KTXK, WUAL, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KMFA


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 5
171230 Topical Themes and Radio Musicals
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Topical themes tonight ranging from the "Henry" of Etta James' "Dance With Me Henry" to Cleopatra songs and another absurdist radio musical. My fa...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:33:08
Boundaries Please
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Traveling Musician
So many musicians with loads of talent seldom ventured beyond their own boundaries. Here's a sampling of the riches of the 1920s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
American Standard Time
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jan Garber
Popular music of the 1920s was jazz.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
On a Lighter Note
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Rosa Henderson
It took years for the jazz vocal to develop. Prior to vocalists like Eva Taylor and Louis Armstrong, pop music and vaudeville styles dominated the ...

Bought by WJSU and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Apollo Theater
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Apollo Theater
The neo-classically designed Apollo with it’s plush interior opened for business in 1913. At first it was a burlesque venue. Later featuring vaudev...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Play It Again Sam
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Berlin
Here is a selection of songs from the early years of jazz that had longevity. Their popularity lasted for decades.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spreading the Word
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Early Radio
Jazz connected with audiences in the 1920s, but it was the combination of a prolific recording industry and the abundance of radio’s that boosted i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Rivals & Friends
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Paul Whiteman
Although bandleaders Paul Whiteman and Jean Goldkette were competitors in the 1920s, through their careers they remained friendly rivals.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paper Hits
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Durium Records
As the Great Depression set in, record sales began to slump early in 1930. But one record company had an answer.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
151031 Being Robbed On A Saturday Night in New Orleans
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music about being robbed at a hotel on your one-nighter (more like a one-half nighter) and black bubblegum music. As always, music you've never h...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:42:45
150926 Music you've never heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Plus lessons on the magical incantation that keeps the FCC police at bay.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 02:56:19
Boys With the Band
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Charles "Buddy" Rogers
During the early years of jazz, vocalists had to experiment with the best way to compliment musicians that specialized in improvisation and counter...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of the Jazz Age
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blossom Seeley
Before the 1920s it was almost unheard of for female vocalists to record popular music. That is unless they were singing a number from their Broadw...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
150717 Live From Black Mold's Substitution
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... Tonight another live broadcast from a New Orleans music club from the theater dist...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:51:17
150704 Live From
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Broadcasting live from a music club in the French Quarter.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:57:04