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Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Greetings!, Credit: Julia Meek
Hey there! It's Salutations, regards, and warm welcomes we're distributing this episode--so expect a most musical reception, on this Folktale of Gr...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WFIU and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Jonathan Crocker, Credit: renee wilde
William Shakespeare famously said “ all the worlds a stage” and Jonathan Crocker has taken those words to heart. For the past 26 seasons, this Yell...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
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The comedy sometimes runs the gamut and what a gamut it is...Bob & Ray; Don Knotts; Myron Cohen; Phil Foster; Peter Sellers; Sheldon Allman; Steve ...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
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Mike Nichols of Nichols & May passed-away a few days before, so we devoted an entire program to Nichols & May. Mike Nichols moved on from comedy t...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2016
  • Length: 57:59
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This installment features the works of Bob Newhart; Jerry Lewis; Nipsey Russell; Phyllis Diller; Weird Al Yankovic; Ellen DeGeneres; Pat McCormick;...

Bought by KZYX and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this edition of The Comedy Hour, we check in with Dimitri Martin; Dan Castellaneta; Gary Owens; Monty Python; Jimmy Fallon; Weird Al Yankovic; H...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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On this installment of The Comedy Hour, writer/producer and comedian Bobcat Goldthwaite; Dimitri Martin from Comedy Central; Bob & Ray; Dan Castell...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
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In this episode, the comedy stylings of Buddy Hackett; Stan Freberg; Spike Jones; Richard Pryor; Jackie Vernon; George Carlin; Jonathan Winters & G...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 57:59
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Featuring The Bickersons (Don Ameche and Frances Langford); The Firesign Theater; Gary Owens; Jackie Vernon; Charlie Weaver; Wally Cox; Steven Wrig...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Featuring The Bickersons (Don Ameche & Frances Langford); Outpatients (Jonathan Winters & Gary Owens); Pat McCormick; Zingers from The Hollywood Sq...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Featuring in this episode: Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks; Weird Al Yankovic; Godfrey Cambridge; Shelley Berman; Mike Nichols & Elaine May; Jim Gaffigan...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
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Featuring Pigmeat Markham; Moms Mabley; Jim Gaffigan; Emo Phillips; Marsha Warfield, Eugene Libowitz, Jeff Altman, Mike Binder, Lenny Rush (Comedy ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
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This installment features the comedy of Jim Gaffigan; Barnes & Barnes; Eddie Lawrence; Laurel & Hardy; Art Linkletter (House Party); Emo Phillips; ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Rhythm tempo Louie Bellson style sets the downbeat, dynamic Maynard and harty Hampton Hawes piano fill the fare next. Mr. Hawes met pianist Toshiko...

Bought by WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 4
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Rediscover splatter platters and how radio takes us on a ride!

  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 11:50
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Off the usual money stuff, but hilarious. The economics of a weird cactus described only as Host Marc can. A must hear classic but not much about m...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:30
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Perhaps the biggest new hit of last summer was this musical gem from the team of Severin Behnen, Stevie Matier and Bruce Burnside. Belfast to Blueg...

Bought by WTIP, KMXT, KALH, KSRQ, KMSU and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: chinking, Credit: renee wilde
The innovate art of chinking, filling the gaps between the logs in a log cabin, is being lost on the present generation. Modern restoration efforts...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:47
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Financial Affairs, Credit: Julia Meek
This week on Folktales, it's a world of finance we're investing in, through a most musical rate of exchange--you can bank on it!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , and WFIU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Revenge, Credit: Julia Meek
Whether you believe in 'an eye for an eye', or 'turning the other cheek' there's musical recourse just for you--so don't get mad--get even--and be ...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Allen Ginsberg reading poetry, Credit: The New York Public Library Digital Collections
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :59
Caption: Frank O'Hara
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :58
Caption: Hayley Quinn, with Olly Mann
Dating. In this age of Tinder, Grindr, no-strings sex and fourth-wave feminism, it's all got rather complicated. How do you find someone you want ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 18:26
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With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:13
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Matt Nathanson talks about his new record, Show Me Your Fangs, being part of Operation Smile and writing for a new feminist anthology, as well as b...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 3