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Blues legend Sugar Pie DeSanto came to StoryCorps with Jim Moore, her manager of 50 years, to talk about her start on the stage and her legacy.

  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 02:53
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next “Sounds Jewish” for an hour of the coolest Jewish music and comedy.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish as I share some of the most moving Hanukkah melodies and a few odes about the Jewish experience on December 25th.

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Last week, "Sounds Jewish" featured music by Jewish power trios. Tune in this week for Jewish music and comedy by duos.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chris Barron on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the acclaimed Spin Doctors frontman with music from his new solo album Ch...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WSLR, KDLG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WOUB and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Harlem dancers
A six square mile area of New York City became the hotspot for jazz in the late 1920s. Duke Ellington called it, “The world’s most glamorous atmos...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Thomas "Fats" Waller
Thomas “Fats” Waller was known for his comedic style vocals, and his feverish motions of left hand creating a profound pattern of “Stride” piano, b...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jack Pettis
Saxophonist Jack Pettis was a pioneer in the introduction of the C-Melody in the early 1920s. According to tenor Bud Freeman, he was the king, and ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Adrain Rollini
Adrian Rollini was a renaissance man of jazz. Besides being a multi-instrumentalist, he created new ways of performing on existing instruments, inv...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Sheet Music Cover
Walter Donaldson should be one of the most recognizable composers of the 20th century with songs like "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby," and "Love Me, Or ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
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Live music from Marshall York. Kanye West, sweet potatoes, and Buddhist cowboys are covered extensively.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:03:28
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This piece is how Ruthella and Sabrina felt that day. We felt hyper, all over the place.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:34
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Two perfect-for-the-season documentaries. The first rips the wrapping off a hushed-up reality of Christmas. It's called Men Bearing Gifts (And The ...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 51:23
  • Purchases: 1