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Naughty McKenzie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Flapper
Several of the songs heard in this program were never sold over the counter. If you knew the artist, you’d have to request it from the clerk, who w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Show Stoppers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Broadway 1920s
This is a selection of hits from the Broadway stage and the movies in the 1920s and early ‘30s. But, there's one sleeper

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Arden Junior High School Jazz Band (1973)
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: Highlights
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If you play this piece twice, it'll haunt you -- your leg won't stop rockin' no matter how many times you slap it -- and those wireless speakers be...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 08:55
Then & Now
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Scott Robinson
This is a showpiece for today’s musicians performing music of the 1920s coupled with the original artists.

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Networking: The Creation of Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fess Williams
Jazz didn’t emerge from a vacuum. It was an amalgamation of several musical forms including blues, skiffle, the call and response, vaudeville, and ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Thinking Ahead, Too
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
This is a look at four inventive musicians who pioneered the early stages of jazz: Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Colman Hawkins and Frankie T...

Bought by WDCB and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Thinking Ahead
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Don Redman
By the mid 1920s jazz was established as the primary popular music in America. But, the musicians were not satisfied with just being on top. They h...

Bought by WDCB and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Covered In Covers (Hour 1)
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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Our annual Covers Special returns with new cover songs from Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell's latest release, Amanda Palmer takes on Radiohead using h...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1488 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08/06/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Different shots at strings bring us TJ Kirk as in the Thelonious-James-Kirk-influenced guitar trio, Larry Coryell having to follow that. Ruth Brow...

Bought by KPVL, KMXT, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, and WOUB


  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 5
The Revivalists
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Baby Dodds
As Big Band Swing began to fade in popularity, the musicians of the 1920s saw their chance at reviving their music.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 03, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Boys With the Band
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Charles "Buddy" Rogers
During the early years of jazz, vocalists had to experiment with the best way to compliment musicians that specialized in improvisation and counter...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of the Jazz Age
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blossom Seeley
Before the 1920s it was almost unheard of for female vocalists to record popular music. That is unless they were singing a number from their Broadw...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Another Louis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Metcalf
Louis Metcalf was an inventive jazz cornet and trumpet artist best remembered for his short stint with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1927.

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Merry Makers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Blue Rhythm Band
By 1930 Irving Mills had the world on a string. His music publishing business was booming, and he began to expand his control over his musicians.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Hotsy Totsy Gang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Mills
He may not have been much of a musician, but Irving Mills was enough of an entrepreneur to understand the value of popular music. Jazz was its name.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Sleepers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Crescent City Orchestra
Sleepers: Those wonderfully talented band of the last 1920s who were kept in the dark. Somehow, despite their inventiveness, they never reached a l...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pinto Pete - Nancy Brown
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Pinto Pete and His Ranch Hands
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Pinto Pete and His Ranch Hands is an old time radio cowboy music show. Return to YesterYear while kicking back on the couch or roaming the West. Li...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 12:29
Black Music Month Radio Special (Hour 2)
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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We are breaking down the barriers and showcasing truly powerful songs from some of the best African-American songwriters of all time. In our 2nd ho...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting and WJSU


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Hot Five
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Hot Five
When Okey Records approached Louis Armstrong with the idea of forming his own studio band to bring hot jazz to the American public, Louis jumped at...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Crossin' Beale Street
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Beale Street, Memphis, TN
Memphis Tennessee became a musical Mecca in the 1920s, and Beale Street was its center. W.C. Handy was arguably the most influential composer sprea...

Bought by KMUW and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Early Big Bands
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: King Oliver
The earliest jazz big bands had swing, yet they are not considered part of the “Swing Era.” Part of the reasoning behind that is simply the need to...

Bought by KMUN and KCBX


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Texas Music Hour of Power #1
From: Mal Thursday
Series: The Texas Music Hour of Power
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Originally transmitted May 16, 2105. Joe Nick Patoski spins more great Texas platters and provides his trademark brand of radio salvation.

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 01:48:54
Joe and Eddie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
The all-star battery mates, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang met in high school. Both were violinist, but Eddie eventually switched to guitar. They became...

Bought by KMUW, KCBX, and KCBX


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
They All Play Hoagy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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The music of Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael performed by musicians in the 1920s to the 1990s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Peregrinations
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sidney Bechet
Several pioneers of jazz made their way overseas to perform for a European audience that, in many cases, were far more receptive of their music tha...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1