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Tonight's music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of include:
Songs made of tool noises and songs with musical instruments imita...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 03:59:13
He was one of the pioneers of jazz on the violin. Though largely self taught, his career lasted some 77 years, and he recorded hundred of albums. p...
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 06:00
Although she was physically tiny ... just four foot eleven ... we saw her on television living an outrageous sort of large life, an amazing roller ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Armstrong was born in Storyville, a redlight district of New Orleans, 1901. His father left and his mother was probably a prostitute. He first lear...
- Added: Jun 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
If the sound of his name isn't familiar, the sound of his voice certainly is. This is the unlikely story of four Detroit kids who went to a birthda...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Although he appeared on stage and in more than 20 motion pictures, Dooley Wilson won immortality for his role as "Sam" in the 1942 film Casablanca....
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 03:00
One of our great actors. His mother called him by his initials R.C., but was mis-heard by the county clerk, so we knew him as Ossie.
- Added: Jan 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The Greeks may have invented wrestling, but it took one man ... Gorgeous George ... to really put the shine on it.
- Added: Dec 01, 2010
- Length: 03:00
His friends called him "Hoochie Coo," and he was one of the great jazz pianists ... composer of hundreds of songs, but best known for writing the t...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 03:00
The Buddy Holly pilot. Everybody knows how Roger Peterson died, but almost nobody knows who he was.
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Added: Nov 24, 2006
- Length: 03:45
- Added: Nov 13, 2006
- Length: 03:40
The lowly garden pea has many fans, including Elvis Presley and NASA.
- Added: Mar 22, 2005
- Length: 02:00
Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett shared a special love for each other, through flowers.
- Added: Mar 22, 2005
- Length: 02:00
