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PE 2315
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Battle of the Band...and Artist.

Bought by WMTNradio, Royalton Community Radio, KHNS, WFHB, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 20
Lux Nothing Sacred
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KSLU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 2
23-26 Music by American Composers
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Scott Joplin
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a celebration of music by American composers, Copland, John Philips Sousa, and more, and features...

Bought by Ohm Radio , WPVM 103.7, KMUN, WUAL, WRTI and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 60
Lux Only Angels Have Wings
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSLU, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:34
  • Purchases: 3
NL 23-15: Freddie Hubbard: The CTI Years, 4/3/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the early 1970s trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made a series of records for the CTI label that combined hardbop, funk, modality, and 70s groove.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Summit '63 - The First American Tops Mt. Everest
From: Charlie Warren
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A dramatic retelling of the challenging American expedition to climb the world's highest mountain 61 years ago.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WRFA-LP, PRX Remix, KUER, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 21:26
  • Purchases: 8
The Persistence of Tulare Lake
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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During these many months of heavy rain & thick snowdrifts, we look around the southwest and notice all those playas, those alkaline dry lakes, bles...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lux Penny Serenade
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:46
  • Purchases: 1
Lux Fifthe Avenue Girl
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
Music Archive Showcase #150 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Ed King & Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd [1 of 2]
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Lynyrd Skynyrd
On this MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE episode, it's the first of a two-part edition from our occasional series TALK MUSIC WITH ME. We dig back a few deca...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WHRV, WRVO Public Media, KUHF, and KSJE


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
NL 23-12: The Wayne Shorter Songbook, 3/13/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1960s, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter composed a torrent of music for Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and his own albums as a leader on the Blue N...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Lux Invitation to Happiness
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU and KTXK


  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-11: Q Is For Jazz: Quincy Jones, 3/6/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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One of the world's most successful music producers got his start as a jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader. We'll hear recordings he made in th...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Lux Silver Dollar
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU and KTXK


  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:15
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-10: From Naptown to Paris: Wes Montgomery Live, 2/27/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Wes Montgomery was one of the most influential jazz guitarists of his generation. In recent years newly-discovered live recordings have surfaced, a...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-09: Homecoming: The Return of Dexter Gordon, 2/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Exploring tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon’s triumphant return to the United States in the mid-1970s and the last years of his career.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Lux Manhatten Melodrama
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:38
  • Purchases: 2
Lux Lillian Russell
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 23-08: Here Comes The Sun: Nina Simone On RCA, 2/13/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In late 1966 the fiercely individualistic singer and pianist Nina Simone signed with RCA Records and continued her genre-bending explorations of ja...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Lux One Way Passage
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 04, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:18
  • Purchases: 1
NL 23-07: Jazz Is Not A Noun: Don Shirley, The Extraordinary Pianist, 2/6/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Pianist Don Shirley combined classical, jazz, and spiritual influences on the many recordings he made in the 1950s and 60s. A forgotten figure in ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Lux Dust Be My Destiny
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:41
  • Purchases: 1
Lux knute Rockne All American
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KSLU


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 2

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