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This week, we celebrate singer and film star Judy Garland. We’ll chronicle her music career and feature many of her recordings from the 1940s to th...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 59:00
On this special, we celebrate singer and film star Judy Garland on what would have been her 100th birthday (June 10, 2022). We’ll chronicle her mus...
- Added: May 18, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This week on Afterglow, our spotlight is on Miss Peggy Lee, with a closer look at the 1960s, a time when her music and persona became more sleek, r...
- Added: Apr 18, 2022
- Length: 59:00
It’s been 30 years since Natalie Cole swept the Grammy Awards with the album Unforgettable… With Love. This week on Afterglow, we pay tribute to Co...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 59:00
We recently took a trip that was "Out of This World," and coming up on the next Simply Timeless, we gaze toward heaven. Join host Jay Daniels for h...
- Added: Apr 18, 2021
- Length: 01:50:40
In honor of Earth Day, we wanted to bring you a few songs are simply "Out of This World." Join host Jay Daniels for music from Veronica Swift, Dave...
- Added: Apr 16, 2021
- Length: 01:50:40
It's never easy to lose something, and this week our theme centers around a song first recorded by Nat Cole. Join host Jay Daniels as we bring you ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2021
- Length: 01:50:40
Wishes - LaChandra is a recording artist and owner of the beauty salon Posh by LaChandra, located in New York City. In the late 1980s, LaChandra re...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 04:16
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
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:07
There is an amazing year, 1938, when several world class composers were born: Joan Tower, William Bolcom, John Corigliano, Charles Wuorinen, and Jo...
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Two Blue Note sessions set the tone, Stanley Turrentine and Hank Mobley for our post-bop voicings. Two brand-new releases follow from trumpeter/voc...
Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 02:00:00
- Purchases: 6
Judy Garland, the 20th century show-biz icon from Minnesota is one of Maud Hixson’s great inspirations as a singer. Maud has rounded up a group of ...
- Added: Sep 22, 2016
- Length: 05:01
How Moshe Dayan’s wife and Yasser Arafat’s mother-in-law became bosom buddies, and other tales of unlikely friendships.
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 44:06
Matt Nathanson talks about his new record, Show Me Your Fangs, being part of Operation Smile and writing for a new feminist anthology, as well as b...
Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 3
Sometimes a love is written as just a honky tonk song.
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 03:59
A poor rejected man looks out his lowly cabin window at the big mansion on the hill where he knows she is not happy.
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 03:16
Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This pre-season sneak-peek features singer/songwriter/creativ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2014
- Length: 10:06
One hour special features Kelly Clarkson's holiday memories and stories about the songs on her new holiday music album, Wrapped in Red.
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPVL, and KMXT
- Added: Nov 07, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
The imaginary travails of myself reacting to rude patrons making noise with candy wrappers, cell phones, and other rude behavior in public movie th...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 05:48
My Uncle Harry died in World War II, before I was born. What I didn’t know was where he died, in a secret battle in the Aleutian Islands.
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 05:51
Gail describes her recent visit to an Irish bar in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood.
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 15:20
My friendship with legendary puppeteer, Burr Tillstrom, and love affair with Kukla, Ollie, Fletcher Rabbit, and the rest of the Kuklapolitan Player...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 12:39
We all have too much stuff, right? It overflows from our houses, our garages, and our cars, and is the reason the storage locker business is the g...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 03:51
The heartbreaking account of losing my black lab, named Samba, to Cancer and how my yellow lab, Maggie May, changed our lives.
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 04:07
