PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Singer Blossom Dearie could be coy, cute, heartbreaking funny, and intimate, and she exhibited all of it on her six albums for Verve Records in the...
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Disney. The soundtrack of our childhood. This week on Afterglow, in honor of Disney's 100th anniversary, I’ll explore the jazz side of Disney songs...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Author Karen Fults Kaler talks about her new book "Eastcliff"
- Added: May 11, 2023
- Length: 08:52
On this Afterglow holiday special, we’ll be featuring some classic Christmas radio broadcasts, performed by favorite jazz singers like Bing Crosby,...
Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KMXT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Maine Public Radio, WHRV and more
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
A piece of local history audio storytelling exploring a now-defunct predominantly black church in Mount Vernon, Ohio, through the voices of its for...
- Added: Sep 16, 2020
- Length: 16:07
Miss Peggy Lee (born May 26, 1920) was more than a pop star: she was also a world-class songwriter in the male-dominated world of jazz. On this Aft...
Bought by Troy Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
50 years after serving together in Vietnam, Army veterans Kay Lee and John Nordeen sat down for StoryCorps to remember how they first met.
- Added: Nov 29, 2018
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 2
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 12:24
Here's a WWII love story you've not heard before.
Bought by KUCB
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 07:45
- Purchases: 1
Ask someone from out of state to describe Minnesota and you’ll probably hear a lot of “Minnesota Nice,” "uff dah’s" and "you betcha’s." Scandinavia...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
Peggy grew up on the Canadian prairie listening to big band on the radio. Hugh grew up in Seattle and tried to stay out of trouble from his Welsh ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2012
- Length: 17:18
The best of Rodgers and Hart's love songs as interpreted by some of the most famous American male and female vocalists.
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 57:30
- Purchases: 2
Of course ice cream is a treat at any time for anyone, but it was awfully difficult to stock in any island store in the 1930’s. Marguerite Staples...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 01:31
When the building housing KOOP Radio caught fire, much of it was damaged and it was later knocked down. These three KOOPers share some memories of ...
Bought by WXLV-FM
- Added: Jul 19, 2006
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 1
The history of the twentieth century told through a love story, a mandolin, and an 81-year-old husband?s guide to good sex?
Bought by WRNC-LP, KUT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP and more
- Added: Dec 01, 2005
- Length: 13:18
- Purchases: 7
Gene Leitner remembers (and relives) the Golden Age of radio every day of his life.
- Added: Sep 08, 2004
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 5