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In the early 1970s, at the peak of her powers and her success, Aretha Franklin decided that she wanted to make a gospel album, going back to the mu...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 04:35
Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 03:54
George Segal plays an American corporal whose wheeling and dealing makes him a kind of king within the narrow world of a Japanese prisoner of war c...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:24
Jia Zhanke is a Chinese writer and director whose films have garnered steady critical acclaim since the 90s. Years ago I reviewed his 2000 film Pla...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 04:24
Through the years, many national top-10 hits have disappeared from the airwaves. They're here!
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 9
Call it cross pollination or call it mixed genealogies, but Broadway musicals and movie musicals are big business and earn big awards.
Bought by WMNR, KVNO, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Feb 24, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 3
For three years British recording artists dominated the American pop and rock charts. Their influence is a significant piece of popular music history.
Bought by KSRQ, CI Dolphin Radio, and WEZU
- Added: Feb 17, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 3
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Supreme Court Justice and an advocate for civil rights, especially the rights of women. She was the second woman ever appo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:39
Sweet Country is a tough, complex Australian film that provides a glimpse into the painful history of that nations’s brutal treatment of its origin...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:05
A group of Mexican immigrants, as yet undocumented, live together in a crowded apartment in Brooklyn, work hard, and play soccer in an amateur league.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 03:45
Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:55
The Coen brothers’ latest film is a story anthology presenting the dark themes behind that most American of film genres, the western.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:28
As the spring 2019 Broadway season heats up, several new shows are opening, others closing, and many staying put.
Bought by KVNO and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Feb 10, 2019
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 2
The 5 W's are contained in hundreds of our favorite songs. Havin' fun with three dozen of them.
- Added: Sep 23, 2018
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 3
A few musicals, a dozen or so, have been life-changing, mind-blowing shows. Their impact is profound. This is my list. What's yours?
Bought by WMNR, KVNO, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Sep 16, 2018
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 4
Songs with fascinating facts about the records, the people, and the backstories.
- Added: Sep 09, 2018
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 2
Neil Simon wrote the story, "the book", for five major musicals between 1962 and 1993. Here they are.
Bought by WMNR, KVNO, KPIK-LP, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Sep 02, 2018
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 4
The Queen of Soul earned that title with nearly 60 years of performing under her belt. This is a career-spanning tribute.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 4
Music from Broadway that references times of the year, like seasons.
Bought by KVNO, WMNR, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Jul 08, 2018
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 3
The Museum of African American History and Culture is cause for Americans to celebrate. We celebrate the music.
- Added: Jul 03, 2018
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 6
Yesterday's leading men in musicals have been replaced by new younger talents. The cycle of rising and fading stars is a fact of life. Here are the...
Bought by WMNR, KVNO, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 01:57:26
- Purchases: 3
There would be precious few great hits of the '60s and '70s if it weren't for the thrilling sounds of R&B, Soul, Funk and Disco and the black artis...
- Added: Apr 18, 2018
- Length: 01:57:24
- Purchases: 2
Hour 1: Tribute to Lesley Gore who passed away on 2/16/15. She was 68.
Hour 2: Movies have provided us with great songs. Here are several.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 01:57:22
- Purchases: 1
Regular listeners to this show may be aware that I’m not a fan of most Christmas movies. Occasionally, though, I offer suggestions during the holid...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 04:19
