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Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in Florida. When he told an insurance investigator he wa...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 41:57
Mystery Monday is a series of one hour program that features vintage radio mystery programs from the 1930's through the 1950's.
- Added: Dec 31, 2018
- Length: 56:58
- Purchases: 4
Those beautiful female voicalists who became pioneers in the art of jazz voicing in the early 1920s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Originally transmitted May 16, 2105. Joe Nick Patoski spins more great Texas platters and provides his trademark brand of radio salvation.
- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 01:48:54
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
Look around your daily life. There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Feb 05, 2014
- Length: 23:26
- Purchases: 7
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... A night of great interstitials from the Firesign Theater and a reading and music ab...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 02:48:30
American icon Cole Porter learned piano and violin at age six. He became very good at both, but he disliked the violin's harsh sound and so his ene...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
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
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
July 4th Classic
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Spokane Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more
- Added: Jul 02, 2008
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 32
A humorous accounting of the history and recording of the New Orleans Mardi Gras standard Carnival Time
- Added: Jan 18, 2008
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 2
Never-before released interviews with the late Dick Latvala, the first official archivist for the Grateful Dead.
Bought by KZYX
- Added: May 03, 2007
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
