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This week, some history on the duration of popular songs and some longer versions of familiar tunes not normally played on the radio. Then, some ‘q...
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 01:58:00
A little levity from talented and inventive musicians can go a long way to putting some pep in your step. Fats Waller could hardly keep from adding...
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- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 59:00
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This is a celebration of some of the finest music and talented musicians who recorded between 1923 and 1933. Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Bix Beid...
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Although Atlanta isn’t thought of as a hub for early jazz, nevertheless, it was a hive of musical activity in the 1920s. There were enough venues, ...
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- Added: Dec 12, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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Lyricist, composer, vocalist and bandleader Noble Sissle had a very successful 60-year career in jazz and musical theater. He’s best know as the mu...
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- Added: Dec 05, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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This week, Craig presents a collection of tunes that all contain some sort of popular slogan or truism.
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
instrument was the jug. Clarence Williams was a professional, yet he thoroughly enjoyed a relaxed performing style. Add in a little hokum, and the ...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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You might say he didn’t take his music seriously. On the other hand, bandleader and clarinetist Ted Lewis is one of the best known performers of th...
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- Added: Nov 14, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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This week's tunes all make reference to American cities in some way.
- Added: Nov 04, 2019
- Length: 01:57:59
Throughout time, musicians enjoy performing songs about transportation. The challenges of travel are highlighted in this program.
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- Added: Oct 24, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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In the conclusion of his four-part interview with Tony Arata, Ty Hager talks with the hit songwriter ("The Dance") about the craft of songwriting a...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 08:44
Songwriter and broadcaster Ty Hager's special interview with Tony Arata, songwriter of "The Dance." Part one of four.
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 10:25
In the 1920s, jazz and popular music meant the same thing. At that point the guitar moved out of the rhythm section to became another solo voice.
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- Added: Oct 18, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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In 1925, pianist Joel Shaw became vast friends with bandleader Gene Kardos. They clicked. Their style had elements of jazz, society dance band and ...
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- Added: Oct 11, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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One last week's worth of songs that offer up pieces of advice. There were just too many great options to fit in to last week.
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 01:57:58
It seems that before jazz became popular in America, the British were ready to adopt the new music. Even the Prince of Whales got into the act by b...
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- Added: Oct 03, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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This week, more songs that encourage, cajole, admonish, and reprimand.
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
Musicians were known to violate their recordings contracts fairly regularly in the 1920s. It’s the old story that the talent was underpaid. So, it ...
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- Added: Sep 27, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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This week's collection of eclectic tunes all focus on advice in one form or another. Admissions of all shapes and sizes.
- Added: Sep 23, 2019
- Length: 01:57:58
In the first two decades of jazz, light-heartedness and hokum were prevalent. It wasn’t until the late 1930s that musicians decided to become more ...
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- Added: Sep 20, 2019
- Length: 58:59
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It’s a study of the historical development of the song Baby Please Don’t Go – from its early antecedents to a fairly recent rendering by some Briti...
- Added: Sep 17, 2019
- Length: 01:57:57
Your environment is your identity. That’s exactly why so many tunes in early jazz were written about the street that inspires the song. Naming a mu...
- Added: Sep 13, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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This week, Craig is featuring a collection of songs all about the moon.
- Added: Sep 09, 2019
- Length: 01:57:57
It wasn’t just products, livestock and people transported up and down the Mississippi in the 1920s. It was also music. Specifically jazz. A vast ma...
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- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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This week, Craig takes shares a few different renditions of My Blue Heaven - that classic song from the great American songbook.
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 01:57:58
