PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 1920s dancers
Remember Dick Powell the actor? How about Dick Powell the jazz banjo player? He’s just one of many obscure early jazz performers heard in this pro...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
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It kind of destroys the point of radio plays if you have to show up in costume. But two quirky guys built one quirky radio troupe anyway. This is r...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2012
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Confederate Civil War reenactors in Maine? The 15th Alabama is the largest Confederate Civil War reenacting group in the state.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Was DC really built on a swamp? Why does the grid system have no J Street? And what's up with all those crazy traffic circles?

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 3
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For stations that may be planning to broadcast the CD or other recording of Orson Welles' famed 1938 Halloween eve broadcast of his adaption of H.G...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:00
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Great songs about the jukebox from a wide variety of musical genres.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 07, 2007
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1