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Once on the tip of everybody's tongue and singin' along, these artists and songs are all but forgotten by most. 37 of the "Forgotten" return.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
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Memorial Day weekends bring joy and anticipation as the endless summer approaches. For Baby Boomers it stirs memories of coming of age, riding in c...

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  • Added: May 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Pianist Juho Pohjonen conveys Ravel's macabre yet gorgeous Gaspard de la Nuit. Plus, the Dover Quartet with special guests Ida Kavafian and Peter S...

  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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The essential human expresses love, affection and passion with kisses. And of course many a song has been written about this wondrous part of life.

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  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The trio Sonata in G Major by Handel, and a pair of songs from a vocal recital by Jennifer Johnson Cano with Christopher Cano at the piano. Schuman...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Mothers really are about love. Their ferocious love for you makes them your #1 protector, and your love for Mama is unconditional from birth. Many ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Argentine mezzo Bernarda Fink
The tango may be Argentina's best-known musical export, but it's far from the only musical expression to be discovered. On this edition of The Span...

Bought by WCQS, WRTI, KMUN, KVNO, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 48
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This week, we present a pair of very different works from two French composers. First, two principals from the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra collaborate...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: States of discord: like struggle, disagreement, dispute, and division - is the subject matter of Clar...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Morehead State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KECG and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Records from the 1950s and 1960s featuring rain in the title.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:00
Caption: Max Reger
We continue our month of exploring Romantic musical giants by going to Germany and the music of Max Reger and some of his contemporaries.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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An unprecedented week in pop music history.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:14
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Artists in the rock'n'roll era who scored 4 or more top ten hits in the span of 12 or fewer months

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:53
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On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, tune in for a work by Kerry Politzer for solo piano titled “Microclimates,” and a buzzing work by ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KECG, WDAV Classical Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 7
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This week we highlight the work of American organist and pedagogue Damin Spritzer. Spritzer has enthusiastically brought a new awareness to some co...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Rock'n'roll era records featuring strings!

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:33
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In the pop music Baby Boomer Era, 1955-1985, there were 600 #1 hits. 210 of them were #1 for one week, 1-4-1. Several had significance for one reas...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Why? How? America bought and brought all these oddball hits to #1. Many off-the-wall. Others weird premises. But they all had "cart topper" status.

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The second half of the 20th century saw the beginning of the culmination of American Black Music styles explode into the mainstream. But the genesi...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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60th anniversary of The Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show!

  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:22
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The phenomenon of 1950s and 1960s teen tragedy records

  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:20
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Song writers are behind every hit we have ever heard. Here are four songwriting teams that gave use hundreds of our favorite songs in the '60s and ...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Rock'n'roll artists of Italian descent

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:53
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With the British invasion of 1964 a new era of pop music was ushered in. But it was more than the Brits making noise in 1964.

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Many many song titles contain one word repeated two or three or more times. Listen to 34 of them here.

Bought by WMNR, KSRQ, and WEZU


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 3