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A live broadcast from a faux music club in the theater of your mind district in New Orleans. Seventy band plus a table full of listeners like you ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2015
- Length: 02:54:17
Before rock and roll became a formula for celebrity. Before rock and roll became a formula for making money. Before rock and roll itself became a...
- Added: Jun 07, 2015
- Length: 02:54:41
Another live show, another drink and dash on the bar tab. Then I had to hide out from the police so I went to the radio station and did the 3am to...
- Added: May 23, 2015
- Length: 05:58:03
Finally get a second microphone for proper interviews but a pissed Ernie K-Doe dunks it into a pitcher of beer, brains me with it, then tosses it o...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 02:54:38
In this episode, Rebecca McInroy is joined by Dr. Coleman Hutchinson, Dr. Dina Berry, and Steve Wilson to discuss the some of the creative decision...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 59:03
From: The WFMT Radio Network
In 1966 Studs Terkel sat down with witch, astrologer, psychic and author Sybil Leek. Join us for this except from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive w...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KYUK, KZYX, KRZA, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 7
Roger Ebert, world renowned film critic, journalist, screen writer and social commentator passed away on April 4, 2013 at the age of 70.
The WFMT ...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 02:07:28
- Purchases: 1
Join Gloria Steinem, Jane Wyatt, Snow White, Lucille Ball, Rex Harrison, Diana Ross & the Supremes,George Burns & Gracie Allen, James Brown and a c...
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 58:12
In Duke Ellington's Eulogy to Billy Strayhorn he wrote, "His greatest virtue, I think, was his honesty--not only to others, but to himself." As we ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Howard Smith's interview with Mick Jagger, Oct. 20th, 1969. The Stones have just arrived in the US for a historic tour, which ends at the infamous ...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 02:49
- Purchases: 1
Friends and family talk about the life and music of Harry Nilsson
Bought by KPSQ-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
A generational discussion about Ballet
- Added: Aug 11, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Joe Bev hosts an hour of rare 78 RPM Jazz records of Helen Kane & Billy Costello, who were also cartoon voice actors.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, XRAY.fm, and Radio New Zealand
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 55:16
- Purchases: 3
Additional tribute mix of more incredible people who left us in 2012--legacies that will continue to inspire...part two of A Shortcut through 2012
- Added: Dec 30, 2012
- Length: 29:26
A classic year-end show that highlights the celebration of the holiday rather than the passing of any specific year. It's all about the going out, ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 28:41
Highlights from Elvis' one and only appearance in New York City.
Bought by KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KMXT, KPVL and more
- Added: Dec 05, 2012
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 10
In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 58:53
The legend of musician Buddy Bolden has stretched well beyond the city limits of New Orleans. Whether or not half of the stories are true, really d...
Bought by WRGY and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2012
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 2
Ellis was first a jazz pianist and later jazz vocalist who recorded numerous sides with the Dorsey Brothers, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and many other...
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Remember Dick Powell the actor? How about Dick Powell the jazz banjo player? He’s just one of many obscure early jazz performers heard in this pro...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 58:55
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Give a listen to some of those very hot bands of the 1920s. You may not recognize many of the names, but that doesn't lessen their impact.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 58:58
It’s Windy Hear! But, in the late 1920s and early ‘40s, much of that wind was coming from the great horns of musicians like Ruben Reeves and Louis...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
