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One of American music's original crossover kings, his music transformed a city and an industry forever.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 18:45
Poets and troubadours have been writing and singing about it for centuries. The music of the 1920s is no different. This program features a selecti...
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- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Cloaked in mythology by the age of 40, this original hero of the Wild West embodied the term "living legend." So why have we forgotten him?
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 17:16
He was the brawny icon of sports' Golden Age, and his singular popularity revolutionized live entertainment forever. So how did this legend get for...
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 12:13
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
Plenty of New Orleans music and songs about yo yos. Then I had "these urges" that turned into unrehearsed stunts.
- Added: Dec 25, 2017
- Length: 03:07:17
Late Saturday in the French Quarter music. Songs about "Sittin,"" an autoharp player inspired by Jimi Hendrix, a string harp in a blues song and ...
- Added: Nov 19, 2017
- Length: 03:50:25
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 20:52
- Purchases: 1
Music that incorporates mechanical noises into the rhythm, gunslinger songs (including a psychological analysis of a gunslinger) and my Jerry Samue...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 02:24:40
Since there were no rules about where jazz fit into the scheme of popular music in the 1920s, every imaginable fell into the grand experiment. Basi...
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- Added: Sep 28, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Long sets of Louisiana music and music about names like "Bud, Shorty and Irma. Bud as in "Uncle Bud" the dirty ditty that is based on Froggy Goes ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2017
- Length: 02:52:04
He was known as "The Titan of the Tuba," and by any measure he was beyond the standard rhythm section player.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
The internet stream and two week archive at WWOZ went out last night so this is an early posting of the raw, unedited show. The finalized posting ...
- Added: May 07, 2017
- Length: 04:30:45
Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...
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- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 01:27
- Purchases: 4
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The dawn of the 20th century ushered in an era of innovation never seen before. By the 1920s it seemed that everything and everyone was in motion.
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- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
There is a myriad of possible themes in musical circles, but among the most common is the love theme. Finding love, being in love, or losing love. ...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Helen Kane's name went up in lights in the in the 1920. She became one of the recording industries biggest stars.
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- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The Alley of Song and America’s popular music of the 1920s, jazz, crossed over in 1917. It wasn’t long before musicians began to revive compositi...
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- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
When there's a movie chase scene, more often than not, the accompanying music is jazz.
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- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Once upon a time all births were natural. A lot has happened since then.
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 01:01:12
In 1946 Milton Mezzrow, otherwise known as Mezz, wrote a tell all book about his experiences with jazz in the 1920s and '30s.
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- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The spontaneous enthusiasm of jazz brought exuberance to the dance floor in the 1920s.
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- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 07, 2016
- Length: 02:51:23
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
