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Sounds Jewish, celebrates Mother's Day with maternal tunes and shtick from around the Jewish world -- and without guilt.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Sounds Jewish commemorates Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, with solemn music, poignant storytelling and a bit of sardonic comedy.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 03, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The same old dreck with a radio musical thrown in for the single theater-minded listener out there.
- Added: Sep 04, 2018
- Length: 03:11:18
The regular listeners to Saturday night radio meet at a New Orleans music club for the music, drinks, food and each other in this live broadcast.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: May 28, 2018
- Length: 02:56:14
- Purchases: 1
Plenty of New Orleans music and songs about yo yos. Then I had "these urges" that turned into unrehearsed stunts.
- Added: Dec 25, 2017
- Length: 03:07:17
Music that incorporates mechanical noises into the rhythm, gunslinger songs (including a psychological analysis of a gunslinger) and my Jerry Samue...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 02:24:40
This week's episode is a bit of nonsense verse set to music: "Well, it was nine o'clock at midnight in the early afternoon / And I was picking all...
- Added: Dec 07, 2016
- Length: 01:21
I was hanging around down by the waterfront the other day ... keeping an eye on the harbor seals. Sometimes they leak, you know ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 06:55
It started out as a biscuits and gravy kind of a morning down at Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 06:38
This week's episode is an ever so slightly spooky song about an old growth forest, a crooked beak, and a pair of yellow eyes ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 01:25
My friend Jimy Fingerbutton once invented a new kind of dishwarsher. At least, I thought it was a dishwarsher. It looked just like an old-fashone...
- Added: Nov 02, 2016
- Length: 05:12
Here's a little ditty about how we make the seasons, and why sometimes they get just a tiny bit mixed up ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 01:31
You know the seasons are turning when you wake up with frost in your beard ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 03:36
Every day I find something new out here on Wild Side. Something I've never seen before. Something that makes me say to myself, “slow down! Stop ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 04:33
I was poking around out on Wild Side the other day, keeping an eye out for blue shade trees ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2016
- Length: 06:00
This may be my best poem yet: "Far away, out beyond the Great Desert of Proom, Where the wind sweeps across the sharp sand like a broom ..."
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 05:51
I once met an old-timer who lives out beyond the Wandering Hills, out there in the shadow of Gusty Ridge. The old-timer's name is Dale Hill. Dale...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 04:48
Here's a little ditty in honor of county fair season ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 01:30
This morning I was in the second-hand store, looking at all the second hands ... when a lady said to me, she said “beautiful day, isn't it?” I sai...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 05:22
Good morning everybody, this is Bill Melater, coming to you live from the beautiful city of Upper Case – Capitol of the Kingdom of Wonderstan and t...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 03:09
- Added: Aug 07, 2016
- Length: 02:51:23
My friend Bill O'Sale just opened a new retail store down at the corner of High Street and Low Road. I asked him what he's selling this time. He ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 05:35
What kind of bee keeps buzzing all year long? A May bee!
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 01:52
The other day down at Elmer's Cafe, a bunch of us regulars were bragging about our most dangerous escapades and feats of derring-do ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 06:00
It was summer vacation, and Jessica wanted to be in two places at once ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 06:20
