PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
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There were a hundred thousand "first rock and roll songs," all of them expressing the cultural upheaval of WWII and the realization we better enjoy...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 02:57:42
- Purchases: 4
The usual dreck plus the third hour goes to the roots of zydeco music.
- Added: Aug 03, 2019
- Length: 03:53:42
Forgive my sentimentality on Mother's Day...
- Added: May 14, 2018
- Length: 02:59:48
Contemporary Mardi Gras music and what it means to me.
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 03:21:51
Why instrumental songs with any American Indian tribe other than "Cherokee" seem more authentic than songs with "Cherokee" in the song title. Plus...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 02:50:25
Stuffing four hours of music into three hours. It looks as bad a making sausage but without the good taste!
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 03:50:37
Songs about Eskimos, lists of bars, synthetic Chinese music (why do I love these songs so much?), songs that can be played back to back and over an...
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 02:47:31
Collectors music from the golden era of Americana music. That music just before the first rock and roll record. Tonight's show features the auth...
- Added: Sep 08, 2014
- Length: 02:56:39
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the time just before rock and roll became a commercial commodity. A time when m...
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 02:47:03
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because it is the music just before the first rock and roll record that is the unvarnis...
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 02:48:24
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Songs from the golden era of Americana, the 1950-70s when the modern era of pop mu...
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 02:46:25
Music from the 1950s to 1970s but with a twist - only the non-hit and only the songs before the rock and roll became a boring formula for making mo...
- Added: Jul 26, 2014
- Length: 02:54:18
Of course the title doesn't make sense. None of my titles make sense as the titles and my shows all parse cultural esoterica. Collector's music i...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: May 26, 2014
- Length: 02:57:39
- Purchases: 1
Music from the golden era of Americana music, the 1950s-70s. That music that birthed rock and roll. Yep, this is the music that influenced today'...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 03:00:36
- Purchases: 1
And they're good songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... Music from the 1950s to 70s that influenced the music and musician...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 03:00:27
Christy gets to wrassle with the drunk dialers of the Quarter and uncooperative machines of WWOZ.
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 02:52:41
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Some call it R&B or early R&R. I'm looking for those songs from the 1950s to 70s ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2014
- Length: 02:53:39
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of...
Bought by Troy Public Radio
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 02:52:19
- Purchases: 1
Music from the 1950s to 70s that fits just between rock and roll and rhythm and blues. From musicians you've never heard of, music you wished you ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 02:52:40
Cryptic titles of these shows come from the highly effective Sales Prevention Department. It's more music you've never heard by musicians you've n...
- Added: Mar 16, 2014
- Length: 02:52:30
Music from the 1950s to 1970. A time when race and popular records crossed the then-impassible barriers of segregated America to create the golden...
- Added: Jan 19, 2014
- Length: 03:00:15
More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Tonight, sets of music about bubble gum (very different from bubble gum music) a...
- Added: Jan 05, 2014
- Length: 02:53:56
Music from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to 1970s that you would have heard if public radio existed. Oh, just give it a listen and hear...
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 02:49:17
