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- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
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
This episode explores the colorful (and sometimes risk-filled) history of pigments and painters, and the conservators who save paintings from the r...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 30:34
- Purchases: 1
Joe Palca is one of the best science storytellers out there. As an NPR science correspondent he’s covered all sorts of obscure topics, from soccer-...
Bought by WTJU, Radio Newark, and WTJU
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 09:03
- Purchases: 3
