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Bunny Berigan’s rise to stardom, and extreme fall has been compared to a hero from a Shakespeare tragedy. In a span of only a dozen years, he emerg...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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
This is a look at the various forms of travel in the early part of the 20th century: horseless carriage, boats, rail, and afoot.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
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
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
A magical community radio hour. Late Saturday night, musicians from around the globe and New Orleans drop in for a jam session as part of their tr...
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 01:58:48
In the latter days of the Golden Age of steamboats, many musicians plied their trade with the orchestras traveling the Mississippi. Memphis and St....
Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from a radio studio in the WWOZ bathroom. Plus market testing my new pledge drive prem...
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 02:52:22
The chance meeting of Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon shortly after World War I lead to one of the most successful bands of the 1920s. You could say,...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Stanley “Fess” Williams earned his nickname from his six years teaching music. Although he taught early elements of jazz, you can believe he also i...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 25, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
"Music you've never heard and can't fathom a good reason why not." A highlight of the night are a handful of melodic songs of Bo Diddley that don...
Bought by Troy Public Radio
- Added: Dec 15, 2013
- Length: 02:50:10
- Purchases: 1
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the 1950s to 1970s when teenagers reached across the separation line of a segregat...
- Added: Nov 18, 2013
- Length: 02:59:07
Under the leadership of guitarist Jack Bland, The Rhythmakers constituted one of the more exciting bands of the 1930s boasting a lineup that includ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Our SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES selection this month features a 2001 public reading by Maxine Kumin, who shares poetry on a a variety of topics from b...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Featuring New Orleans musicians you know playing their music that you've never heard before with the headliner, Rudy Ray Moore. When Moore as the ...
Bought by KWIT
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 02:55:37
- Purchases: 1
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!
Featuring Musician Xander Demos and Author Victoria Howard.
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 58:01
Ferrato's Later On Decatur and a round of "before they were."
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 02:38:09
By 1911, tailgate trombonist Kid Ory was leading one of the best-known bands in New Orleans. Eight years later he formed a successful band in Los A...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
The ukulele became as commonplace in the American parlor as the piano in the 1920s. Today we think of the tiny guitar as a Hawaiian instrument, whe...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
There is the Near South Side, The Loop, Uptown, and South Side. The hot spots for finding jazz clubs and speakeasies will to violate prohibition d...
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
Joe Bev hosts an hour of rare 78 RPM Jazz records of Helen Kane & Billy Costello, who were also cartoon voice actors.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, XRAY.fm, and Radio New Zealand
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 55:16
- Purchases: 3
A long game of "before they were..." A game for tracking a musician's output from before they found their sound (or were branded with a sound). O...
- Added: Jan 06, 2013
- Length: 03:10:23
An hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, and documentary, with Bob Clampett's "Time for Beany," Jay Ward's "Dudley Doo-Right, June Foray, Stan Fr...
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 53:45
An hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, and documentary, with Bob Barker, Daws Butler, Stan Freberg, June Foray and more!
- Added: Oct 27, 2009
- Length: 53:26
An hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, and documentary, with Joe Barbera, Leonard Maltin, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, and June Foray.
- Added: Oct 27, 2009
- Length: 53:44
