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An extended trailer to the upcoming public radio documentary, produced by Paul Ingles, on the early emergence and on-going stellar career of musici...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 10:42
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tony Lindsay, Credit: Shefik
Change - Tony Lindsay is a producer and director, known for "Where Hearts Lie" (2016). The film features such notable actors as Clifton Powell ("Ra...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:42
Caption: Leaveil Degree, Credit: Shefik
Time - Leaveil Degree is a member of The Whispers. The group scored 15 top-ten R&B singles, and eight top-ten R&B albums, with two of them, "The Wh...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:24
Caption: Dan Stokes, Credit: Shefik
Strength - Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:43
Caption: Dan Stokes, Credit: Shefik
Sex - Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded thei...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 01:21
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For the first time, a complete unreleased album is being issued from Prince’s vault. Over the next hour, we’re going to go deep on “The Story of We...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KFCF FM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Kevin Clash, Credit: Kevin Clash
Kevin Clash made Sesame Street’s Elmo the global phenomenon he is today.  He worked with The Muppets starring as Clifford, who went on to host Mupp...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:34:21
Caption: Professor Longhair, Credit: Michael P. Smith © The Historic New Orleans Collection
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sony Turner, Credit: Shefik
Dreams - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:26
Caption: Brendon Hamilton, Credit: Shefik
Remorse - Brendon Hamilton has been writing and performing since he was a young child. Influenced by some of rock, pop, and R&B's greatest recordin...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:44
Caption: Quindon Tarver, Credit: Shefik
Birds - Quindon Tarver is an American singer. He is best known for his cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry" for the 1996 film "William Shakespeare's ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
Caption: Neddy Smith, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditiona...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:02
Caption: Neddy Smith, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditiona...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:31
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Bill...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Love - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Ho...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:42
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Identity - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboar...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:04
Caption: M.C. El Bee, Credit: Shefik
Identity - Author Larry Boatright, also known as M.C. El Bee in the hip-hop community, talks about the birth and propagation of hip-hop in the 1970...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
Caption: Melba Moore, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - American R&B singer and actress Melba Moore is a 4-time Grammy Award nominee and the winner of the 1970 Tony Award for Best Performa...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: :56
Caption: Jeghetto, Credit: Jeghetto
Tarish Pipkins performs puppetry under the name Jeghetto. The creations that emerge from Jeghetto’s Workshop are incredibly unique and endlessly fa...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 36:32
Caption: Skippy White and Marc Siegel
Physical record stores have made a comeback in recent years, but there's one in Boston that never went away. At Skippy White's CDs & Records, owner...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 21:17
Caption: Moonlight
"For any child that has been struggling with their sexuality, who has seen that movie. That could have been a life saving moment for them." - Mike ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:11:37
Caption: A still from Killer of Sheep
"[Charles Burnett's] filmmaking is so quiet. It’s a deeply reflective cinema; it’s cinema that focuses on characterization, that really gives chara...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
Caption: Eric Arnold, Credit: Fantastic Negrito at the UC Theater in Berkeley, Ca
In the last three years, Fantastic Negrito, an Oakland-based black roots revivalist has gone from busking at bus stops to winning a Grammy and tour...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Nique Love Rhodes
Nique Love Rhodes We have a social entrepreneur of a different kind, she is a rapper! You will have an opportunity to learn how the social and bus...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 39:03
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n this episode of For the Record, Tom and Julian look at one man's version of how Jazz began and go behind the scenes of the original cast recordin...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:59