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The Songsters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: George & Ira Gershwin
Tin Pan Alley, near Union Square in New York City, became the center for music publishing by 1915. The world of formulaic songwriting – songs with ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
It's About Eubie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Young Eubie Blake
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.

Bought by KMUW, WVIA, KCBX, and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Race Record label
Singer, songwriter, pianist, singer and vaudeville and minstrel performer Perry Bradford, forever changed the sound of American popular music by co...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Belles of the Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alberta Hunter
The four blues vocalists in this hour are not well known. That certainly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of praise and recognition: Alberta Hunter...

Bought by KMUW, KBBI Alaska, WMMT, WJSU, and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
The Needle Drop: 01-23-13
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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New music from Milo, Foxygen, Factory Floor, and more.

Bought by WTIP, WNJR, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 57:11
  • Purchases: 4
Jabbo
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cladys "Jabbo" Smith
Cladys "Jabbo" Smith is one of the finest exponents of early jazz trumpet, yet he is overshadowed by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and many oth...

Bought by WNCU and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
120819 Before they were...
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A long game of "before they were..." A game for tracking a musician's output from before they found their sound (or were branded with a sound). O...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:10:23
Cab & Blanche
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blanche Calloway
Although Blanche Calloway began her show business career several years earlier than younger brother Cabell, she was at least in popularity surpasse...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Butterbeans & Susie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Butterbeans & Susie
Jody and Susie Edwards were apparently married on stage at the Standard Theatre, Philadelphia. They went on perform for several decades billing th...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Sounds Like Bix
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bix Beiderbecke
During Bix Beiderbecke’s years of recording, there were literally hundreds of sound-alike trumpeters and cornet players. They all wanted to sound l...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Pettis & his Pets
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jack Pettis
Saxophonist Jack Pettis was a pioneer in the introduction of the C-Melody in the early 1920s. According to tenor Bud Freeman, he was the king, and ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Miff & Red
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Miff Mole & Red Nichols
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...

Bought by WNCU and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
Anything Goes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cole Porter
American icon Cole Porter learned piano and violin at age six. He became very good at both, but he disliked the violin's harsh sound and so his ene...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Clouds of Joy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy
Bandleader Andy Kirk gave up his post office carrier in 1925 to try his hand in music. He showed talent on the saxophone and tuba, but it evolved t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
SXSW 2012
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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SXSW a world of art and performance in Austin, TX.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:25
Food Sleuth Radio, Mark Winne Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Mark Winne, food activist and author of “Closing the Food Gap” and “ “Food Rebels, Guerrill...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
The Needle Drop 05-14-11
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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New music from Liturgy, Wild Beasts, and Jesu.

Bought by WTIP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 57:09
  • Purchases: 3
The Needle Drop: 04-23-11
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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New music from tUnE-yArDs, Metronomy, and more.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KISU, KPVL, KSJD, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 57:09
  • Purchases: 7
Series 1 Edition 15: Artist's Block
From: Barika Edwards
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Artist's Block- When your career is stopped at the door because of things beyond you. What do you do, when you are blocked at the border, when the ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:48:28
The Needle Drop: 01-15-10
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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New music from British Sea Power, Cake, and more.

Bought by KSJD, KISU, KPVL, Yellowstone Public Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 57:11
  • Purchases: 6
The Needle Drop: 09-18-10
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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New music from Chromeo and the Walkmen.

Bought by WTIP, KPVL, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, KISU and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2010
  • Length: 57:08
  • Purchases: 6
The Needle Drop: 06-26-10
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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Summer songs from Magic Kids and some new bands from the UK.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, KSJD, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2010
  • Length: 57:13
  • Purchases: 7
TND: Chillwave and Highlife
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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This week, chillwave and Ghanaian highlife.

Bought by WTIP, KSJD, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2009
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 4
AVR Interview: Robert Platshorn - Black Tuna Diaries: America's Most Notorious Marijuana Smuggler
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Black Tuna Diaries
Robert Platshorn "Bobby Tuna" spent 30 years behind bars after being convicted of marijuana smuggling in the 1970's. Out of prison now, Bob has pie...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 30:46
The Needle Drop: Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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This week, the Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Cotonou buys Real Estate.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WSLR, KSJD, WTIP, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 57:09
  • Purchases: 6

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