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Think of your favorite Motown song. If there is a flute or piccolo on that song, it was played by Dayna Hartwick. For close to a decade, she was ...
Bought by KTRL, KSRQ, WYAP, KWIT, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
There's a trivia questions goes around asking, what is the first posthumous number one hit? The answer that is probably expected is Sittin on the ...
Bought by KTRL, WYAP, KSRQ, KWIT, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: May 30, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
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....
- Added: May 07, 2021
- Length: 59:24
- Purchases: 2
Will Rogers thought about peace often, but didn't always trust it
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: :59
Some of Will's greatest jokes about Congress
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: :59
The President is an obvious subject for Will's humor. He spoke about the office, and the men in that position, often.
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: :59
Traffic lights, a hair relaxant, gas masks, the zig-zag stitch on sewing machines...all of these important inventions have one thing in common, Gar...
- Added: Feb 21, 2021
- Length: 05:57
This week in 1969, Rolling Stone made their cover story, Groupies and Other Girls. It is generally believed this is where the word came into commo...
Bought by WNYO, KSRQ, Harford Community Radio, KWIT, and WOUB
- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Author Marc Hartzman’s new book celebrates the wonder of the Red Planet and how it entered popular culture.
Bought by WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, KWMR and more
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 9
Will Rogers was a cowboy until the day he died. He visited ranches around the world to see that the cowboy way of life was still alive.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00
Will Rogers proposed we could look at political change like we look at Groundhog Day.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:17
Even though he wasn't a great student, Will Rogers knew the value of a good education.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00
For as much as he poked fun at those who ran the nation, it was clear that Will loved America.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00
There are over 70 examples of knights fighting snails in illuminated manuscripts from the 1300s. But why? First meme? A silly inside joke? A weird ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 04:47
Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Col. William H Jackson had a favorite tree. So, somewhere around 1832, Colonel Jackson gave the white oak tree to itself (and the city of Athens, G...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 1
Will owed much of his success to the fact that he stayed a country boy, even after becoming famous.
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 01:01
Tired of cold feet and longs nights huddled under not quite warm enough blankets? Maybe you need a box bed. Originating in medieval times, making a...
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 04:45
Ramesses II (Also known as Ramses or Rameses) became Pharaoh at the age of 14, had more children than any other Egyptian ruler, and reigned during ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
(Air Dates: Dec 29 - Jan 4) On this week's archive episode of 12th Street Jump, we celebrate the birthday of Chet Baker with our special guest Stan...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 59:00
Will Rogers was a proud member of the Cherokee Nation
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 01:01
Will Rogers loved to travel, but he also loved to poke fun at his fellow tourists
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 01:01
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 1
(Air Dates: December 22 - 28, 2018) On this week's archive edition of 12th Street Jump, we celebrate the birthday of jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano wi...
- Added: Dec 06, 2020
- Length: 59:00
(Air Dates: December 15 - 21) On this week's archive edition of 12th Street Jump, we celebrate the birthday of blues harmonica player, Paul Butterf...
- Added: Dec 06, 2020
- Length: 59:00
