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Featuring: Motor City Magic, Goin' Up The Country, Fundamentally Instrumental, The Cozy Covers Comparison Corner and The Grown Ups' Table.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Featuring: Teen Idol Time, A Touch Of Exotica, Mister 1960 At The Movies, The Artist Spotlight, Rockabillyville and Midcentury Leftovers.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:28
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Featuring: The Grown Ups' Table, They Had To Start Someplace, The British Are Here, The Cozy Covers Comparison Corner, and Brand New Oldies

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Featuring: Let's Hear It For The Girls, Brand New Oldies, Doo Wop After Dark, The Artist Spotlight, Goin' Up The Country, and The Beach Is Back.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:16
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for Jewish music in praise of the late civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Bought by KFCF FM and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT--he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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When you think about Las Vegas, you might picture casinos, opulent hotels and neon signs. Like the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, Circus Cir...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 12:37
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  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:56:51
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A sci-fi television series that debuted ahead of Star Trek in 1966... and a settlement constructed by gold miners in 1850 in a brand new state, sti...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:22:46
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Tonight's show - obscure New Orleans musicians playing that New Orleans sound.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:37
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Playing off our usual catch phrase of, "Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of," tonight we will focus on music you've heard b...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:23:48
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On this episode of The Live Feed we bring you The Winona Municipal Band and its 2016 season. You will hear selections such as Ballad and Dance from...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 50:47
Caption: Ancient Romans created this statuary to memorialize the two finger, five beer joke they loved so much., Credit: Pompeii Statue Photographers, Inc.
The non-commercial music that influenced popular music and rock and roll. Ah, that's the same as every week and who really cares about that? T...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:57:14
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Beltrami county celebrate its sesquicentennial this year, a fact not lost on the Beltrami County Historical Society. Dan Karalus, Executive Directo...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 10:23
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 39:29
Caption: Taff Roberts gives his presentation at the Historic Bunnell House in Winona MN
On this very special Halloween edition of The Live Feed, Winonan Taff Roberts takes us on a ghastly journey to main and then drops us off in Pickwi...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 49:51
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From on-location at Rayner's Chocolate & Coffee Shop, Glendale Arizona, going into its third year of supporting jazz radio, John Mueller is guest D...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WVBI-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, KPVL, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5
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
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Ryan Dawes explores the character of Sherlock Holmes, past and present, by meeting with a group of Minnesotans devoted to preserving Sherlockian cu...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Southern songwriter who penned Polk Salad Annie and Rainy Night In Georgia sat down with us to talk about his newest CD, Hoodoo.

Bought by KMUW, WRNC-LP, Delta College Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of all from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to the 1970s. A time when musicians r...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:54:29
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The Brave New Workshop has helped launch the careers of humorists such as Al Franken and Tom Davis, the first head writers for Saturday Night Live...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:01
  • 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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For the third week of August (8/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female of tejano music

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40