KRPR

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Classic Rock Without The Talk.

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80 Pieces

a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Feb 10, 2020
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32 Pieces

Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 08, 2023
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52 Pieces

Rochester Music History in 90 Seconds

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 09, 2021
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72 Pieces

Weekly series from KRPR radio, about the people and happenings around town in Rochester, MN and surrounding areas.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 24, 2019
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52 Pieces

Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: May 10, 2022

Latest Pieces

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March 1960, Eddie Cochran, the 21-year-old from Albert Lea, was playing the Empire Theater in Liverpool, England. He was the rising star of rock ‘n...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Don E. Johnson and his polka-playing pals couldn’t decide what to name their group. Why not the TV Hepcats? The name changed to the Blue Banners bu...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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In the 1940s and ‘50s, if you were African-American and spending the night in Rochester, Minnesota, the best place to stay (and one of the only pl...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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There were sixty of them, women vets of World War II, traveling the country in matching white Chevys, singing, playing music and selling meat door ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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When Leighton “Skipper” Berg lost his job in the Great Depression, he did what most parents tell their kids not to do. He went into music, forming ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Spring Valley native Paul Wesley Evans never studied music beyond a few piano lessons with an aunt. But he became a Dixieland maestro with his corn...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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April 30, 1889, Rochester, Minnesota, celebrated the inauguration of the United States’ first president. And one of the performers on the bill was ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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After the Rochester tornado of 1883, Mother Alfred Moes decided to build a hospital for the town. But how would she and the Sisters of St. Francis ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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In 1868, Will Hill of Rushford, Minnesota, reflected on what it had been like settling a frontier town. He set his reflections to an old tune and c...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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While a student at Mayo High School in Rochester, Matt Hauri worked a summer at Camp Olson YMCA. That’s where he came up with the name Yung Gravy, ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30