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Caption: G-Men Under Fire!~
A musical trip to Washington, D.C. with Senate Intel leaders, former directors, acting politicians and Russian spies mixed into an exciting hour of...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:23
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In preparing my show, I rapidly listen to many snippets of many songs which is a process of dis-assembling and re-assembling sounds separate from t...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:01:26
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Similar to a theatrical musical where the story is interrupted with a song, a radio musical has the songs interrupted by a story. Tonight's radi...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 40:31
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The musician, song writer and music producer, Bert Berns, was another Brill Building character. Not loveable nor a scamp, he was more of a garden ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 01:41:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Tonight's show, Mexican rocanrol from the 1950s and 60s plus a radio musical. You know, in a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the 1950s to the 1970s. Plus... More sleepless musings on radio. The Fowler doc...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:43:24
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The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of one Rob Roy MacGregor...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:29:26
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What happens when you take gravediggers, the undead, zombies in love, and a few killers and put them in a radio show? You get one of the most ente...

Bought by KMUD, WOUB, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
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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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Fourth of July broadcast featuring the film "Where the Buffalo Roam"

  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:36:57
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2100 E Monument: One block. Everybody's story.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 48:30
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2100 E Monument: One Block. Everybody's story.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A rebroadcast of the unusual December 2012 show on American music that imitates... Well it's a 1960s Americana perspective on what we thought Chin...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:29
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of (who's first names are either Jimmy or Bobby). To start the show - in honor of the Pr...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:43
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The Lolligaggers Band sets the stage. And the late Robert Lavoy Finicum educates us concerning our rights...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:27:24
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The term "Indo Rock" was worn by Indonese bands from Netherland during the music's peak from 1958 to 1968. Similar to the US-originated rock and r...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:59:38
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I must have fallen into the "Bobby" and "Billy" section of the music library because almost every musician featured tonight has one of those names....

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:55:53
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of all singing about Shirley and pink "stuff."

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:51:31
Caption: Moment of Zen 2015
A unique retrospective of the past year, including audio of the major events of 2015--the cultural highs and lows, mixed with music of the year and...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KMSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Talking Information Center, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:39
  • Purchases: 7
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I do a card trick on radio. Without cards. Without anything tricky. And it I did have cards, it wouldn't have improved the trick. "Oh yeah, a...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:03
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Ranting and raving like a motivational speaker for musicians... Oh quit being a big baby waa waa and just try listening for ten minutes. Nope, i...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:44:54
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Music about being robbed at a hotel on your one-nighter (more like a one-half nighter) and black bubblegum music. As always, music you've never h...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:42:45