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Four talented clarinetists of the 1920s who came from the Vaudeville and musical stage. Ted Lewis, Fess Williams, Wilton Crawley and Boyd Senter.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
New They Might Be Giants, Vered, and Matt & Kim! Plus Whirligigs, Shine & the Moonbeams, ScribbleMonster, Pink Floyd, and more!
Bought by WNKU
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 50:01
- Purchases: 1
Aaron Brown is producer and host of the Great Northern Radio Show, a live variety show from KAXE in Grand Rapids. He chatted with WTIP's Will Moore...
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 21:46
This week, Alt.Latino plays songs sung in indigenous Latin American languages: Mapuche, Tzotzil, Guarani, Quechua and Tz'utujil from Chile, Argenti...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 8
Every year, over the course of a weekend, San Francisco’s Civic Center is transformed into a giant playground.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:59
Grand Marais is the winner of Budget Travel's 10th annual America's Coolest Small Town contest! WTIP's Ann Possis chatted with Robert Firpo-Cappiel...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 20:31
Show Tunes in Jazz. This features those popular songs of the 1920s and early '30s that became jazz standards, and jazz that made its way to stage.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Show 495: with new music from The Nields, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Cat Doorman, and Molly Ledford & Billy Kelly! Plus we celebrate Liam's 13th bi...
- Added: Feb 22, 2015
- Length: 55:06
It's the rough and tumble 1920s Chicago’s speakeasies. You had to have a password to gain entrance through a side door.
Bought by WDCB, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Guest hosted by 93.9 The River's The Belmontes!
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 48:30
Sean McCarthy was a sixth grader in Roberta Teague's class at NorthShore Community School in Duluth when he wrote and recorded this poem.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 01:25
- Purchases: 1
For our holiday special we turn to the healing and uplifting power of the human voice with the Washington, D.C.-based group, Cantigas. The group's ...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WART FM, and WKAR
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Listeners chime in with their own favorites, including Chicano Batman and Helado Negro.
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
They called themselves the Tennessee Tooters and the Hottentots … along with other monikers. There was Red Nichols, cornet - Miff Mole, Trombone -...
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
In the early 20th century there was a recording war - a war of recording studios. There was Thomas Edison on one side. Then there was everybody els...
Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, WSLR, and KCBX
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 4
“The Father of Western Swing” is the moniker tagged to Milton Brown. In 1932, he left the Light Crust Doughboy’s to form his own band: The Musical ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 17, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
She was called "The First Lady of the Piano", "The First Lady of the Jazz Piano" and "The First Lady of Jazz". She was Mary Lou Williams and was a ...
Bought by Radio Catskill, WVAS, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 57:03
- Purchases: 3
With Halloween on the way, it’s scary movie season. That means isolated cabins, psychopathic hillbillies, and evil in the woods. One scholar believ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 3
Jeremy Fetzer & Spencer Cullum, Jr. met while backing noted singer-songwriters touring Europe, but the fellow Nashville residents decided to put th...
- Added: Oct 12, 2014
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 4
In this episode, we explore songs about Ghosts, Monsters and Scary Things.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 10:00
From winning an amateur contest at Piqua's May's Opera House in the 1920s to the rise of rock and roll in the early fifties and their number one hi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Often imitated, but never duplicated, the "Jucy Lucy" is a Minneapolis food favorite. In this piece, learn the backstory and true mark of this icon...
- Added: Sep 28, 2014
- Length: 03:58
It’s not every day that the small town of Wise, Virginia gets a visit from a major magazine. But two professors from the University of Virginia’s C...
- Added: Sep 26, 2014
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 2
She was known for her terrific voice. Her ability to shift gears from playfully light to low down growl was unmatched.
But Ethel Waters’ is also k...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 21, 2014
- Length: 06:00
