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Early jazz musicians experimented with an array of instrumentation including the kazoo, washboard, jug, hot fountain pin, goofus and comb. They als...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
I do a card trick on radio. Without cards. Without anything tricky. And it I did have cards, it wouldn't have improved the trick.
"Oh yeah, a...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 02:53:03
Ranting and raving like a motivational speaker for musicians...
Oh quit being a big baby waa waa and just try listening for ten minutes. Nope, i...
- Added: Nov 29, 2015
- Length: 02:44:54
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of uncludign cover songs by bands that probably really did play garages as opposed to the ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2015
- Length: 02:53:58
Before rock and roll became a formula for celebrity. Before rock and roll became a formula for making money. Before rock and roll itself became a...
- Added: Jun 07, 2015
- Length: 02:54:41
Finally get a second microphone for proper interviews but a pissed Ernie K-Doe dunks it into a pitcher of beer, brains me with it, then tosses it o...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 02:54:38
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Grammy Winners Ricky Kej and Wouter Kellerman, Musician Sofia Talvik, and Becomi...
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 59:01
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Comedian Joe Crawford, Audie Winner Adele Park, and Runaway Man, in our audioboo...
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 58:01
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Actress Sandra Luesse, Writer Matt James, and Grey Mountain by John Grisham, in ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 57:56
Jamie is visited by the Officer Duane Williams of the dreaded FCC police who is checking whether Jamie's sober to drunk listenership ratio is high ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 02:56:56
This program is devoted to several vaudeville performers who were forced to ply their trade elsewhere when silent movies and Broadway reviews close...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Love songs from the 1920s featuring Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Josephine Baker, and many more.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 11:51
- Purchases: 3
Don Redman was a trendsetter, and inspiration for early jazz. His talents extended to trumpet, piano, alto saxophone, and oboe, but his primary inf...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
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...
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- 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
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,...
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- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
From: Andy Moore
Episode 10 is dedicated to Andy's favorite film festival in San Francisco, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. You’ll hear his conversations wi...
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 45:42
A salute to the pioneering comedy team of Bob & Ray, featuring a new interview with Bob Elliott, many excerpts from Bob & Ray recordings, and some ...
- Added: Jan 08, 2014
- Length: 48:44
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...
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- Added: Dec 25, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
