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These Names Have Snob Appeal
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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We look at some names of famous people that, when you pronounce them correctly, can let people know you're an expert... or a snob.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Hacksaw #1935 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/29/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Past is future, and to prove it, the Buselli-Wallarab Orchestra have re-arranged ditties from 100 years ago (from their station of Richmond Indiana...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, KECG, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 11
Full Moon Hacksaw #1907 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08/17/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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This episode is chock full of vintage vinyl, some of it shifted shellac. Take for instance a small Count Basie group recorded by John Hammond pre W...

Bought by KMXT, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Full Moon Hacksaw #1893 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05/11/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Return to sender? Hacksaw unknown: From a large orchestra composition, Dizzy Gillespie’s horn is heard with two drum sets and conga player. Then th...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KECG, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 11
Musician Effects on Music
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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It is said there is Taylor Swift Effect. Her entering the business made a ton of girls buy guitars and play. The Baker Street Effect made the sa...

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT, KTRL and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Full Moon Hacksaw #1869 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/24/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Blues men and vocalists of any kind fall out this entire episode, in fact not a big band to be heard for a solid mile. THESE ARE CRIMES. As we awai...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KMXT, KHNS, KRZA, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
Full Moon Hacksaw #1862 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/06/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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For starters it’s the ultimate tribute irony: Leader Joey DeFrancesco on organ, who died in August 2022, welcoming guest saxophonist Pharaoh Sander...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WOUB, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
Minnesota 'N Ice: Hiking the Frozen Backwaters with the Winona Outdoor Collaborative
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Winter in Minnesota. It’s a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Some love it, some hate it, but we all get through (deal with) it...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 18:31
World Bridges 21 - 13 Host: Tom Berich
From: Tom Berich
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Join Montana Public Radio's Tom Berich for an hour of fun and uplifting music from around the world.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1813 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10-28-2021
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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It’s Basie with electric bass, an arrangement unlike his sound, African rhythms, and an obscure label. How’d you do that, man? Saxophonists Pete Ch...

Bought by WMOT, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
167: Wormnado
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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When out on a walk, Tiffanie Fisher spotted a giant ring of worms and snapped a picture. She posted the photo in the hopes that someone could expla...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Best of the Sam Bush Band | Tent Show Radio | Episode 21:3
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Sam Bush Band , Credit: Sam Bush Band Instagram
If joy were a person, he’d bring both peace and frenzy. He’d be full of music, light, and energy that soothes even as it stirs us up. Eyes closed, ...

Bought by KFCF FM, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ, KSJE and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Radio 586 AZ Roots 09-02 to 09-08-20 show 367
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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Arizona musicians filed under the letter C: Lea Capelli came our way very young in 2014, moving to LA to continue music, Phil Carlin is from Tucson...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
The Physics of Gymnastics
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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In this episode, our hosts analyze the science of Simone Biles' successful Triple Double.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1623 (Hour 1 & 2) 03/08/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We pull the more obscure records & CDs off our shelves for a couple hours of pianists, brass & wind players, singers and guitarists. We start in th...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1615 (Hour 1 & 2) 01/11/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Fortunately the efforts of a metaphysical figure from decades ago stay pertinent and top-of-mind. Take Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his ‘60s flute groov...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WJSU, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 8
170108 Swamp Pop and Surf Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1614 (Hour 1 & 2) 01/04/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Cleared for takeoff in a new broadcast year is Charles McPherson on sax with the first flight out, the descent tracked by pianist Russell Schmidt. ...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WMOT, Troon Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 8
Folktale of Fire & Brimstone
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Fire & Brimstone, Credit: Julia Meek
Marlowe's Dr. Faust noticed "Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell," and that's the direction our Folktale of Fire & Brimstone is taking.

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WFIU


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 4
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1600 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/28/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Stimulating polytonal energy with Roy Hargrove counts off our downbeat, my kind of jazz in the NOW. Respect to tradition, but no napping here, Lizz...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WJSU, WMOT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 6
radio UNLEASHED #1451
From: radio UNLEASHED with Dave Leonard
Series: radio UNLEASHED
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Three broadcast-ready segments with out-cues (one hour total) of weekly new music show, radio UNLEASHED, based out of Woodstock NY.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 55:52
  • Purchases: 1
Bands That Released one Album
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Successful bands that put out one album then called it a wrap.

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP, KKWE Niijii Radio, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
radio UNLEASHED #1446
From: radio UNLEASHED with Dave Leonard
Series: radio UNLEASHED
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Three broadcast-ready segments with out-cues (one hour total) of weekly new music show, radio UNLEASHED, based out of Woodstock NY.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 55:16
  • Purchases: 1
Follies in Concert
From: WQXR
Series: For the Record
Caption: Avery Fisher Hall, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
In this episode of For the Record, Tom and Julian go behind the scenes of a legendary Broadway event and the creation of its exalted recording.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1547 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/22/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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After honking & screaming w/Germany’s Rhythm Bomb Records, Chet Baker croons & plays one then we bring in Sherry Baker, a jazz enthusiast who has b...

Bought by WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 4