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Bringing listeners back to historic rock moments with clips of breaking media coverage...again!

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight Part One

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
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An Evening With Al Jolson

  • Added: Oct 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Potpouri - Program #1 Featuring the Bikersons, Andy Griffith, Tom Lair, Florence Foster Jenkins, Harry Brewer Group, Arch Obler (The Dark)

  • Added: Oct 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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In the last few decades, the general belief that habitual, high-octane swearing should remain the domain of criminals, vagrants, and frustrated hou...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:35
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:22
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:26
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Paul Robeson
Ah, summer, the shortest season of the year. Or, at least it seems that way. This show is devoted to a few really hot bands and vocalists who guar...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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This is a commercial for a fake product I created to air in the middle of a Sherlock Holmes radio play. It's for a product that acts as an umbrella...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: :30
Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of 78s from 1929., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
"When My Dreams Come True" from Marx Brothers movie THE COCOANUTS by the Australian Cinema Orchestra is among the 78 RPM records heard on the tenth...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Segar Ellis
Ellis was first a jazz pianist and later jazz vocalist who recorded numerous sides with the Dorsey Brothers, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and many other...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:54
Caption: Apollo Theater, Chicago, 1920s
It’s Windy Hear! But, in the late 1920s and early ‘40s, much of that wind was coming from the great horns of musicians like Ruben Reeves and Louis...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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It kind of destroys the point of radio plays if you have to show up in costume. But two quirky guys built one quirky radio troupe anyway. This is r...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2012
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Mound City Blue Blowers
This segment on the early years of jazz is devoted to the small group session between 1924 and 1930. Oh, yes, we also drift over to 1945.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Photograph of the first fraternity on the West Coast.
It turns out fraternities are not just popular in pop culture, but are as old as America itself. Dr Laurie Wilkie and Dr Grahaeme Hesp offer a hist...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
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The name's Corolla. I'm just a two-bit, four door sedan, living with a foreign label in a Minnesota union town.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
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Patty Feld talks about the Edge Center for the Arts production of "Fiddler on the Roof."

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 13:03
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They have no band. No backup. No room for error. In a barbershop quartet the only instrument is the vocal chords.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 06:14
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The author goes in quest of the Boars Head Tavern that was often frequented by Falstaff and Prince Hal in Henry the IV Part 1.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 30:08