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Non-Boring Christmas Music Special
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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We've all heard the same 30 Christmas songs, year in and year out. Whereas most Christmas music is boring, repetitious stuff heard every year, we'r...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WVRU, WSGE, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Klezmer Funk Hip-Hop? Abraham Inc.
From: Michael May
Caption: Fred Wesley, left, and David Krakauer., Credit: David Krakauer
The klezmer-funk-hip-hop group Abraham Inc. will have their debut performance at the Apollo tonight. Reporter Michael May has the story behind this...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Toons (Popular Cartoon themes)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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This one hour music program contains covers and originals of some of the best known Jazz themes for cartoon show on television and in the movies. W...

Bought by KSRQ, WTIP, WVAS, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 26, 2014
  • Length: 57:14
  • Purchases: 4
141026 No Classifications on Saturday Night Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Working out why I don't use identifiers for myself or the music in the first hour of the show.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:50:16
Tituba, Witch of Salem
From: With Good Reason
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There’s a new season brewing for a television series about the Salem Witch Trials. A scholar puts one of the witches under the spotlight. Lilia Fuq...

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 3
Muslims on the Mic
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Classroom in the Islamic School in Seattle, Washington, 1982., Credit: Library of Congress
Scholar Su’ad Abdul Khabeer tells BackStory producer Kelly Jones about Islam’s impact on hip-hop – and how hip-hop opened doors between different M...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 08:35
  • Purchases: 4
Happy trails to you
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaimed Soul: The Wonder of Stevie
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, then Stevie Wonder should know the feeling of flattery well. His son...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 1
Younger Ears and Different Dollars: What Television Can Tell Us About Public Radio
From: PRX
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Is public radio on the cusp of expansion or disruption? PRX CEO Jake Shapiro and Current.org's Mark Fuerst talked about listenership and public rad...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:41
Martin Woods on Challenges for Black Opera Singers
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Martin Woods talks to Audra Wilson about the challenges and the rewards of being a Black Operatic Baritone from the West Side of Chicago, and takin...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 1
140913 New Orleans Music and Few Words About Cosimo Matassa
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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At its heart, my show is about presenting music absent its racial components. For instance, we focus on music from the 1950s to 1979s when musicia...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:54:35
Best things in life are free
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
The Inside Scoop on Serving at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Alan DeValerio was a White House butler for Presidents Carter and Reagan., Credit: Alan DeValerio
"The Butler" didn't do it - or so says real-life White House butler Alan DeValerio.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:15
Bla bla blah
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort

  • Added: Jul 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:25
Classic Rock Originals - Part One
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Do you know who wrote your favorite classic rock songs? ELVIS PRESELY. LED ZEPPLIN. JOHNNY RIVERS. Find out the true writers and secret meanings be...

Bought by KSKQ, KFOK-LPFM, WSLR, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
In Between
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
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Tales of being stuck between two worlds.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Sound Design with Matthew Tibbs
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Today on Art Beat, we learn about sound design and all that goes into your ears! As an audience member, you might not give all that goes into creat...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 26:10
  • Purchases: 3
140614 Pirate Ship Bike and Morse Sugar
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Collector's music from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to 1970s. All the music from just before the first rock and roll song because once ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:55:30
That! Medical Quiz Show - Uneven and Still Normal
From: David Gold
Series: That! Medical Quiz Show ®
Caption: ThatMQS
Host: Dr. Pait and Announcer: Tom Brannon on "That! Medical Quiz Show - Uneven and Still Normal" with contestants: Dustin, Gabby, and Magician De...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2014
  • Length: 26:47
Studio Rio Presents The Brazil Connection
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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What would it sound like if some of the classics of American music were recorded in Rio De Janeiro?

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Harford Community Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Musical Creativity
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Thelonious Monk, Credit: Library of Congress
Musical creativity could be good for the aging brain.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
88 Years of Harmonica-izing
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Jack Hopkins, left, and Frank Jamison, right, jam together at weekly meetings of the Capital Harmonica Club, which Jack founded in 1991., Credit: Eric Shimelonis
Jack Hopkins got his first harmonica at age 7, and nearly 90 years later, he is still going strong.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
Building the geologic history of Game of Thrones
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Ever wonder what Westeros looked like long before the Starks, Baratheons, Lannisters, or Targaryens roamed its surface? How far back can we really ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
Tony Hendra talks "This Is Spinal Tap"
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Tony Hendra - who played band manager Ian Faith - talks to Jeff Kreisler about the ground-breaking film, "This Is Spinal Tap," 30 years after its r...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2014
  • Length: 32:46
140201 With Chris Edward and Jimmy Horn of King James and the Special Man
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight I collected a few music collectors to present collector's music.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:02:40

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