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Early Morning
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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The hours around dawn, reflected upon in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Buddy
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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One of the greats of early rock 'n' roll, remembered in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Too Soon
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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Remembering some greats who departed before their time.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Solstice '65
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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Reflections on the summer of 1965 in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Harvest
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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Recalling a time when farm-to-table dining wasn't a movement, it was just how things were.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Taking Us Higher (An Appreciation) [Optional Hour 2]
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE
An optional second hour with more of our celebration of some of the most irresistible music of the late 1960's and early '70's from Sly and the Fam...

Bought by WUTC, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KUHF, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
20240219: Negro Baseball Leagues, 2/19/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
PE 2408
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Primitive gods.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Royalton Community Radio, KHNS, WFHB, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 22
DC 2408
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Short list, long jam.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRSC, KRZA, KKWE Niijii Radio, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
NL 24-08: Charles Mingus and Debut Records, 2/19/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1952, bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach formed their own record company in an attempt to assert creative and entrepreneural control o...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:48
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Taking Us Higher (An Appreciation)
From: Paul Ingles
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A celebration of some of the most irresistible music of the late 1960's and early '70's from group leader Sly Stone and the FAMILY STONE band - tha...

Bought by WDDE, WUTC, KTNA, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
PE 2407
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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The week of several artists' sets (and a Battle of the Bands)

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


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 21
DC 2407
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Playing the hits? Hardly (well, maybe a couple).

Bought by KRSC, KRZA, KIYU-FM, KSLU, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Atomic Hour Episode 98- The Man Turned To Me And He Said...
From: KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
Series: The Atomic Hour
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Featuring: The Cozy Covers Comparison Corner, Brand New Oldies, The Grown Ups' Table, and Much More!

Bought by KSRQ and KECG


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
The philosophers who invented the modern self
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: TTBOOK Favorites of the Week for PRX Remix
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Just over 200 years ago, a group of renegade German writers and philosophers came together in a small town and forever changed who we think we are....

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 20:18
  • Purchases: 1
NL 24-07: Suite History: Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey, 2/12/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
Glenn Miller Orchestra | Episode 24-06
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: 2024 Episodes | Tent Show Radio
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

Bought by KMSU, WRFA-LP, WNMU-FM, WTIP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
PE 2406
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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A fairly typical show

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Royalton Community Radio, KHNS, WFHB, KZUM and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 22
DC 2406
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Half and Half

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, Royalton Community Radio, KIYU-FM, KSLU and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
NL 24-06: The Teacher: Billy Taylor, 2/5/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Billy Taylor was a jazz pianist, educator, broadcaster, composer of a civil rights anthem, and the man who dubbed jazz “America’s classical music.”...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
NL 24-05: Mel Powell, 1/29/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Mel Powell was still a teenager when he hit the jazz scene in the early 1940s as the pianist in Benny Goodman’s popular big band. This tribute expl...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
PE 2405
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Perfectly balanced, with attitude

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Royalton Community Radio, KHNS, WFHB, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 21
DC 2405
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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A Look Inside A Musical Box

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KRSC, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Atomic Hour Episode 97- "Death To Spies, Minister."
From: KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
Series: The Atomic Hour
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Featuring: Spy-Fi On The Hi-Fi, Sweet Soul Music, Brand New Oldies and More!

Bought by KECG


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
867: Losing Yourself In Fantasy / 868: African Cities Of The Future, 1/27/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Losing Yourself In Fantasy" - When the real world becomes too much, fantasy might be your ticket out. But at what point does fantasy go ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01

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