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Imagine being caught in an earthquake on Mount Everest!
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP
- Added: Dec 21, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 3
When a congenital condition began to destroy Andrew Leland's eyesight, he decided that the result didn't have to be tragic.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 2
How snowfall fits into climate change, snowflake science, and instruments fashioned from ice actually work...and sound good!
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 27, 2022
- Length: 52:49
- Purchases: 2
Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
Long time pop and rock music critic Jim Fusilli (Wall Street Journal) introduces listeners to three 21st Century music artists that music fans migh...
Bought by WRGY, North State Public Radio, KSJE, and KUHF
- Added: Oct 16, 2021
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 4
Topic 1: Who We Are With Dogs Is Who We Are as People. Topic 2: Fake News Isn’t Just Misleading. It Can Create False Memories.
Bought by KOWS
- Added: Aug 11, 2020
- Length: 51:41
- Purchases: 1
Is there a standard I may have missed?
Time to consult the engineers at NIST.
This is Episode 88 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2020
- Length: 06:50
Topic 1: Finding hope on social media. Topic 2: Hollywood's science advisors.
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 49:10
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.
- Added: Aug 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Rocket 88,” by Jackie Brenston — widely considered to be one of the archetypal records of rock ‘n’ roll.
- Added: Aug 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Baby Scratch My Back” by Slim Harpo — the only number one hit on the Excello label during its 23 year run.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Key to the Highway” — one of the enduring classics of the blues, first recorded by pianist Charlie Segar in 1940.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Stick McGhee’s 1949 anthem to good times and cheap booze — a big hit that saved a fledgling Atlantic Records from bankruptcy.
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile B.B. King, who hit the number one spot on the Billboard R&B charts with “Three O’Clock Blues,” this week in 1952.
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
- Added: Aug 03, 2018
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Guitar Slim, who — much to everyone’s surprise — hit the top of the R&B charts with “The Things That I Used To Do,” in 1954.
- Added: Jul 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with “Homesick” James Williamson and Johnny Shines.
- Added: Jul 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Elmore James, Arthur Spires, and Johnny Williams.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile “Open the Door, Richard” — a 1947 novelty record that quickly embedded itself into the American consciousness.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Son House and B.B. King, who both made historic live appearances in Chicago the Saturday night before Thanksgiving, 1964.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Misfits, prostitutes and the cranky owner of a hotel so seedy that it has lost the “e” from its marquee; that’s “Hot l Baltimore”, the latest produ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2018
- Length: 27:24
This time we profile James “Beale Street” Clark — barely a footnote in blues history — who recorded an enduring classic, this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Windy City keyboard legend Little Johnny Jones, who was in the studio with Muddy Waters and Leroy Foster in 1949.
- Added: Apr 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who recorded an iconic slice of down home blues, "That's All Right," this week in 1946.
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi guitarist Tommy Johnson, who cut one of the prophetic masterpieces of the blues, this week in 1928.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 03:29
