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Females are without question the stars of Hollywood costume design, raking in Oscars in numbers that far outstrip the men. They get lots of well de...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 02:30
On this episode of Audacious, meet three beatboxers: Rahzel, who helped found the craft, Gus Mcafoos, a 12 year-old who competes, and Kaila Mullady...
- Added: Feb 24, 2024
- Length: 50:00
Carmen McRae was one of the most respected jazz singers in the business for four decades. This week, we’ll explore her early recordings for the Dec...
- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week, we celebrate singer and film star Judy Garland. We’ll chronicle her music career and feature many of her recordings from the 1940s to th...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Well, golly - what are we going to do with all this music? Guess we will just have to listen to ALL of it! :)
Listening to tunes from AK artists l...
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Keyboard masterpieces by the Spanish compsoer and piano virtuoso Isaac Albéniz, performed by Miguel Baselga and Judith Jáuregui
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSJE, WRTI, KMUN and more
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 36
Men have an abundance of something women lack. It's starts with a "P" and can be easily remedied with one big change of habit.
Bought by KUPR low power FM
- Added: Jan 07, 2024
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
She was uninspired, out of shape, and longing for the younger version of herself. She thought a hip hop dance class might solve some of her problems.
- Added: Dec 26, 2023
- Length: 28:00
Dog Mountain is set on 150 acres on a private mountaintop spot in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The grounds are always open to people and their dogs.
- Added: Dec 17, 2023
- Length: 28:00
Many great women snagged honors this year, from athletics to movies, science and more, and we lost a few great ones too. But one gets our personal...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 03:00
The Salt Lick Sessions is a weekly showcase of music and interviews with your favorite and soon-to-be-favorite artists. In this episode, host Beane...
- Added: Nov 29, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Mary Bryant Schrader is the host of “Mary’s Nest”, a Youtube channel with over a million subscribers.
- Added: Nov 28, 2023
- Length: 28:00
Singer Keely Smith became famous as the deapan sidekick to her husband Louis Prima, and as a ballad singer in the late 1950s. This week on Afterglo...
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
I said I wasn’t gonna do it, but in the end I gave in. Went to see the Barbie movie. She’s still tall, thin, white, sporting signature long blond h...
- Added: Aug 02, 2023
- Length: 03:00
This week, we explore the songs of Dorothy Fields, a Tin Pan Alley songwriter whose work stretched from the 1920s through the 1970s. We’ll sample h...
- Added: Jul 18, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Swimwear never made more of a splash than when designer Louis Réard unveiled his daring new two-piece at the Piscine Molitor in Paris on July 5th, ...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:47
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for a Mother's Day celebration featuring a global Jewish playlist praising mom.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 12, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Sounds Jewish continues the Women’s History Month celebration with more stellar music and comedy featuring a global assemblage of Jewish women.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 17, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This week, we pay tribute to singer Billie Holiday by hearing a few tributes to her from other artists over the years, including Carmen McRae, Abbe...
- Added: Mar 08, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, we’re taking a deep dive into the recordings of the great Billie Holiday from the 1940s. We’ll hear her work for the Commodore and Decca...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 59:00
It's Black History Month, and that means the gals along with the guys. Visit two women you probably never heard of who were "firsts" in their field...
- Added: Feb 09, 2023
- Length: 02:47
This week, I’ll introduce you to the music of two underrated female singers, revered among jazz aficionados: Lorez Alexandria and Ethel Ennis.
- Added: Jan 09, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, we celebrate the smoky voice of jazz singer Chris Connor, who got her start with Claude Thornhill’s band in the 1940s, and went on to re...
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
The name Beverly Kenney might be a footnote in jazz history, but this singer had an intelligent, alluring and melancholic style that’s among the be...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 59:00
From the 1950s on, Ella Fitzgerald became known around the world as one of the most renowned live performers in jazz. This week, we’ll sample from ...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
