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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
Caption: Helen Gillet performs in WNIJ's Studio A, Credit: Carl Nelson/WNIJ
Helen Gillet is a classically-trained cellist that melds world music influence with New Orleans jazz and funk, while using looping and other effect...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 51:59
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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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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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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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Staff members at WMNR contribute poems for "Words & Music".

  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 09:03
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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
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This week's episode is a bit of nonsense verse set to music: "Well, it was nine o'clock at midnight in the early afternoon / And I was picking all...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:21
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This week's episode is an ever so slightly spooky song about an old growth forest, a crooked beak, and a pair of yellow eyes ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:25
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Here's a little ditty about how we make the seasons, and why sometimes they get just a tiny bit mixed up ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:31
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The connection between drinking beer and dancing the polka goes back quite a ways. Certainly in 1927 a piece was written in Poland whose lyrics gav...

Bought by KZUM and WUAL


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:58:16
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Here's a little ditty in honor of county fair season ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
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Interactive media means bringing in the least and most uncommon denominators so to do interactive radio, it's gotta be really simple. Especially S...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:55:53
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Under construction. The flood has me working more than the usual hour per week so I'm just posting the audio and hoping I'll get back my drivel fo...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:49:37
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still under construction but the music is loaded (and so am I).

  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:53:37
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What kind of bee keeps buzzing all year long? A May bee!

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:52
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When did the explosion of Americana music creativity in the late 1950s start to collapse on itself? It was August 15th, 1965 with the Beatles at ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:17:31
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Canadian musicians and bands named after synthetic fibers plus songs about Baltimore and not trusting "that guy." What did you expect from a radio...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:59:30
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Plenty of interstitials tonight but the breakthrough is discovering the obvious. We have all heard them. Heard their first doo wop riffs. How c...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:01