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Lost Chords part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bunny Berigan
The first glimmer that there was something new in the world of music became apparent in the deep south. It was long before Louis Armstrong and Bix ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Juliet Schor– "Selling (to) Our Children"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Born To Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture In the past 50 years, the advent of television as a medium for advertising has ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas with the Club
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Christmas Wish
Despite being one hundred years old, this is a very similar scene to what we experience today. In her research, author Betty Owens discovered that ...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
EP216 Hubert Sumlin
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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He was ranked as #43 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time. That is a great legacy to leave behind.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
Jack Gantos – "How Prison Affected One Man’s Life"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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A Hole In My Life Have you ever been incarcerated? Locked in a prison cell for a number of years? That is what happened to Jack Gantos for being ...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
221217 Songs About Oil and New Orleans Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight's focus is on New Orleans music and songs about oil as our search for the first rock and roll record looks into themes that match our weekl...

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


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Jazz Dance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Dance
In the 1920s, dozens of new dances were introduced to a dance hungry public. From America to Europe, people were feeling the rhythm in their feet.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Stuart Shanker – "The First Idea"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The First Idea: How Symbols, Language and Intelligence Evolved From Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans “The First Idea: How Symbols, Language ...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
221210 The First Rock and Roll Song - Early Canadian Instrumentals
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Gaylarks - a band Frank Zappa saw and swooned over while he was in high school.
The geographic assumption underlying the first rock and roll record was an origination in the Southern U.S. This assumption was superior to, and ...

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


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:22:10
  • Purchases: 6
Yael Berda– "Israeli Human Rights Attorney"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Yael Berda is a young Israeli lawyer, born in New York and raised in Jerusalem. At the age of 14, she became involved in a struggle to free her par...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
New Orleans part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Freddie Keppard
The early Crescent City cornets set the standard for the decade of the 1920s. This program is a followup recognizing those creative artists who gen...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
221203 The First (and Second) Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Veltones
Songs about "I want my baby back," "stronger than dirt" and the probable origin of the song, Twenty Flight Rock as we search for the first rock and...

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
EP213 Magic Slim
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Magic Slim and the Teardrops stayed true to the sound of Chicago Blues

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
EP212 Luther Allison
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Luther Allison took Blues to a new level, yet stayed true to it's roots.

Bought by WLPR and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
New Orleans Horns
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Buddy Bolden
The tradition of Crescent City cornetists and trumpeters begins with Buddy Bolden and ends with Henry “Red” Allen. It’s well documented on record t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. David Ray Griffin– "Was this a Cause of the 9/11 Attacks?" Part 2
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
221126 The Second Rock and Roll Recording
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Connie Allen
Pre WWII songs revived by rock stars and the songs "Crazy Legs" and "Good Lovin.'" Plus a focus on the original songs covered by The Paladins as ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, Prairie Public, WQCS, KFCF FM, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Dr. David Ray Griffin– "Was this a Cause of the 9/11 Attacks?"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Sizzling Syncopators
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Noble Sissle
He joined his first society orchestra in 1916, helped organize a regimental band during WWI, teamed up with rag time pianist Eubie Blake, and forme...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
221120 The Decency Embodied in Soul Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In the post WWII era soul music also emerged along with rock and roll. Soul lyrics were especially light, sweet, and even introspectively sweet. ...

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


  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Jed Barahal– "Cellist Extraordinaire"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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In this edition of Radio Curious, we take a look at the cello, the kind of musical instrument it is and the sounds it makes. My guest is Jed Baraha...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Big Band
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Duke Ellington Orchesrtra
Long before the age of the “Big Band Era”, bandleaders were creating swing in their orchestras. Nineteen-twenty-seven to 1936 was a decade of expe...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Ted Kooser
From: New Letters on the Air
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This week's classic New Letters on the Air features former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, whose poetry from his 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning books h...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
221112 The Second Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rock n' Tones Bop Boy LP Cover
85 song's you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but all could claim to have made "the second rock and roll song." (Because finding...

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


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Ron Whitehead & Sarah Elizabeth – "Beat Poets of Kentucky"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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What is poetry and song? Perhaps we’ll find out in this program, with guests Ron Whitehead and Sarah Elizabeth from Campbellsville, Kentucky. They ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00

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