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Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Don’t you love an intimate tango? Jewish singers, instrumentalists and songwriters have brought us tangos in Yiddish and Hebrew for more than a cen...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish prepares for Thanksgiving with a global playlist of Jewish songs and shtick about gratitude, blessings, hospitality -- and dinner.

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Teenagers!
Oh the usual dreck followed by the last hour of songs about the most dreamy teenage boy ever!!!! Johnny, Johnny, Johnny!

Bought by WXXI Rochester and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:00:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but this time with just a Tony Chachere hint of swamp pop.

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:53:14
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Worse than the title of tonight's show, tonight we feature Pee musicians. I would like to say, "It's complicated" but it's not. It's more like, ...

  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 03:07:00
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Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Super powers that cause others to shrug and think, "who cares." The super power to move clouds with your eyes, to turn oxygen into carbon dioxide...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:32:49
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The third hour has girl groups. First couple hours is the price you pay.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:00:43
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Back to the Saturday night sound of, "Up-tempo, music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." Radio from a time long ago before ...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:52:05
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Calling out a large number of listener's names on this broadcast from a New Orleans music club.

  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:00:13
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Shirley Songs, Domestic Abuse Songs, Stagger Lee Answer Songs and then we successfully break the radio sound barrier of playing one song per minute...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:51:03
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On this episode of Culture Clique we meet Tom Schneider of Winona. At a quiet intersection in Winona, MN, sits a small unassuming brown building. O...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 06:44
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Starting with Richard Berry Sound-Alikes and some of the lesser known Larry Williams songs with a stop for one of the more unusual Louisiana tra...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:54:41
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There is a tremendous amount of current culture that we now call "Americana" that came from the 1950s to 70s era. Something fundamental to definin...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:57:17
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Other than marinating in water, there's not much similarity between Louisiana Swamp Pop music and California Surf music. Oh yeah, both were featur...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:49:42
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I guess that show title doesn't justify more support text.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:49:28
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A musical has a song break out inappropriately during a story. A radio musical has a story inappropriately break out during a music show. That's ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:29:48
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Preview- not money news, off the topic, just a fun newspiece about news reporters by Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti. Funny piece but preview fir...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:18
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Flotsam with a bit of the Jetsons. Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. The music that inspired rock and roll. All the n...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:12:12
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Rockabilly wasn't just a southern music. Wasn't just Elvis and Sun Studios. That's just marketing and you know Saturday Night New Orleans music i...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:51:31
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:58:16
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Interactive media means bringing in the least and most uncommon denominators so to do interactive radio, it's gotta be really simple. Especially S...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:55:53
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Under construction. The flood has me working more than the usual hour per week so I'm just posting the audio and hoping I'll get back my drivel fo...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:49:37
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When did the explosion of Americana music creativity in the late 1950s start to collapse on itself? It was August 15th, 1965 with the Beatles at ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:17:31