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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
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
"Sounds Jewish" welcomes 2024 with Jewish tunes for reflecting and celebrating..

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
“Sounds Jewish” celebrates #Jazzuary – yes, that’s a monthlong thing – with a down-home hour of Jewish jazz.

Bought by WVTF and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Cover art, Credit: Lawton Lovely
Greg seemed to everyone like a mild mannered software developer. No one could predict that his invention could either save democracy, or lock the c...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:03
Caption: Teenagers!
Oh the usual dreck followed by the last hour of songs about the most dreamy teenage boy ever!!!! Johnny, Johnny, Johnny!

Bought by WXXI Rochester and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:00:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but this time with just a Tony Chachere hint of swamp pop.

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:53:14
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Worse than the title of tonight's show, tonight we feature Pee musicians. I would like to say, "It's complicated" but it's not. It's more like, ...

  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 03:07:00
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“Eulogy,” by Ken Cormier Background music: “Earresponsibility,” by David Salowich (from The Blister Pack)

  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 03:39
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A euology for the great St. Ann pothole, Deborah. [A Satire Piece on the State of Roads in New Orleans, LA]

  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:06
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The third hour has girl groups. First couple hours is the price you pay.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:00:43
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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
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Calling out a large number of listener's names on this broadcast from a New Orleans music club.

  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:00:13
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Shirley Songs, Domestic Abuse Songs, Stagger Lee Answer Songs and then we successfully break the radio sound barrier of playing one song per minute...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:51:03
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Starting with Richard Berry Sound-Alikes and some of the lesser known Larry Williams songs with a stop for one of the more unusual Louisiana tra...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:54:41
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There is a tremendous amount of current culture that we now call "Americana" that came from the 1950s to 70s era. Something fundamental to definin...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:57:17
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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
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You're not alone. Even the music identifying application, Shazam, gets stumped on this show. Songs including knock offs of, "The Battle of New ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:06:27
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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
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I guess that show title doesn't justify more support text.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:49:28
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A musical has a song break out inappropriately during a story. A radio musical has a story inappropriately break out during a music show. That's ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:29:48
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Flotsam with a bit of the Jetsons. Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. The music that inspired rock and roll. All the n...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:12:12
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The 14-year-old in all of us believes that song lyrics uncover the hidden mysteries of life so that's where my limited investigative reporting budg...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2017
  • Length: 35:50
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Rockabilly wasn't just a southern music. Wasn't just Elvis and Sun Studios. That's just marketing and you know Saturday Night New Orleans music i...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:51:31
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In a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting the narrative. In a radio musical, a narrative springs up interrupting the music. Okay, s...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 43:56
  • Purchases: 1