PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Largely forgotten, bandleader Sam Lanin is possibly the most prolific recording artist of the 1920s. No one really knows just how many records he ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Although he hailed from St. Louis, Charles Ellsworth “Pee Wee” Russell took his clarinet cues from New Orleans. Only now is he beginning to be reco...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Author Vicki Leon takes us for a ride through the ages of aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs, contraception, nymphomania, bisexuality, cross-dressi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 1
Try to imagine drinking your way through this book! That’s what author Leslie M. M. Blume has done in order to provide recipes for 144 cocktails.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 13:16
- Purchases: 1
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
The early history of jazz often leaves out some very talented musicians simply because they didn’t move to Chicago or New York.
- Added: Jan 11, 2012
- Length: 58:59
A city girl gets more than she bargained for when she travels to Spivey's Corner, North Carolina.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 24, 2007
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
My contributution to the third coast project Dollar Storeys
- Added: Apr 16, 2007
- Length: 02:30
Comedy Sketch from Kasper Hauser
Bought by Radio Newark, KUT, KRCC-FM, The PRX Podcast, KUSP and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2006
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 6
Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman and Joshuah Bearman on Presidents' Day, along with a fifteen-piece marching band and a new song about all forty-three pr...
Bought by KWIT, Nevada Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KXOT Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 30, 2006
- Length: 58:34
- Purchases: 13
A commentary on today's dreadfully tacky Major League Baseball uniforms.
- Added: Jun 23, 2005
- Length: 03:33
- Added: May 11, 2005
- Length: 59:16
- Added: May 11, 2005
- Length: 01:51
