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Interviews with Authors, Musicians, Artists, Poets, Or Maybe Just The Guy Down The Street!!!
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 58:01
Ferrato's Later On Decatur and a round of "before they were."
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 02:38:09
By 1911, tailgate trombonist Kid Ory was leading one of the best-known bands in New Orleans. Eight years later he formed a successful band in Los A...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
The ukulele became as commonplace in the American parlor as the piano in the 1920s. Today we think of the tiny guitar as a Hawaiian instrument, whe...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
There is the Near South Side, The Loop, Uptown, and South Side. The hot spots for finding jazz clubs and speakeasies will to violate prohibition d...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Joe Bev hosts an hour of rare 78 RPM Jazz records of Helen Kane & Billy Costello, who were also cartoon voice actors.
Bought by Radio New Zealand
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 55:16
- Purchases: 1
Give your listeners a break from the news with this one-hour special that mixes new radio theater and classic soundtracks, deconstructed by veteran...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 54:38
- Purchases: 1
Songs about the hot dog and for some reason the interstitial sound clips were working well tonight.
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 02:54:26
A long game of "before they were..." A game for tracking a musician's output from before they found their sound (or were branded with a sound). O...
- Added: Jan 06, 2013
- Length: 03:10:23
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
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
Painstakingly preserved in a cryogenic chamber, today we present the first podcast I ever recorded, rife with puns and strong opinions about video ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 11:53
One of America's most creative and prolific composers and lyricists, Hoagy Carmichael.
- Added: Dec 01, 2011
- Length: 58:53
“And then we used to play hockey in the street, roller skate hockey. So while I was up there playing roller skate hockey I was moving my feet aroun...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 13:21
- Purchases: 1
Whether it's societal progress or a squiggly 11-pound miracle, getting there isn't always pretty.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
The Detroit “Knights” take to the jousting field. It's a marvelously humorous baseball yarn set in jolly ole England.
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 48:06
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 53:48
Great names and great memories—Thanksgiving with Stan Freberg, Jack Benny, and Eve Arden.
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 45:13
- Purchases: 1
An hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, and documentary including an unreleased recording of Daws Butler and his sons Don and Chas Butler perfor...
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 53:33
A humorous journey through Disneyland's ride, including rare audio not used.
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 53:56
The Cartoon Carnival Presidents Day Special - Noted fictional newsman Walter Cockeyed (Joe Bev.) offers up cartoon audio and comedy about George Wa...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Feb 12, 2010
- Length: 54:06
- Purchases: 1
An hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, and documentary, with Bob Clampett's "Time for Beany," Bill Marx, Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, Myrtis Butl...
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 54:38
An hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, and documentary, with Bob Clampett's "Time for Beany," Jay Ward's "Dudley Doo-Right, June Foray, Stan Fr...
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 53:45
