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"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" presented in esoteric themes and highlighted with interstitial sound clips from the t...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:53:25
Caption: Sam Lanin
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
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Music from before David Bowie, Lou Reed, Harry Nillson, Vanilla Fudge and others found their commercial sound. Guess what? It sounded like what w...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:02:27
Caption: One of Liberace's incredible feather capes, Credit: Glen Rutter
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:42
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... A night of great interstitials from the Firesign Theater and a reading and music ab...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:48:30
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Ferrato's Later On Decatur and a round of "before they were."

  • Added: May 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:38:09
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First half of the show focuses on the rarely heard New Orleans R&B songs and artists of the early 1950s. Rick Coleman who authored the definitive ...

  • Added: May 19, 2013
  • Length: 05:48:17
Caption: Irving Berlin
Composer and lyricist Jerome Kern summed up the life and work of Israel Baline (Irving Berlin) when he said, “Irving Berlin has no place in America...

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  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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by Marcheta Fornoff - Held April 6th of each year, Tartan Day is a celebration of the day the Declaration of Arbroath was signed and submitted to P...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
Caption: Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow
Sidney Bechet was one of the early jazz virtuosos. Born in New Orleans, he began his professional career long before jazz was put to wax. Then the...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
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A comparative generational discussion between the older, middle and younger generations on the issues of Social Security.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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"When people get two trumpet players it becomes very competitive...It was [Booker Little], Lee Morgan and myself at the time. We we're the young ...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 11:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pee Wee Russell
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...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption:  Chicago Kent College of Law indoor baseball player, M. Ryan, 1910, Credit: Library of Congress
Just in time for March Madness, we're taking on the history of college sports. It's a subject that has provided some especially heated controversie...

Bought by WFPL News, WOUB, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Irving Caesar
This program features those wonderfully talented lyricists of the 1920s who created such memorial songs as "Margie," "You Took Advantage of Me," "T...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kevin Plank
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Kevin Plank of Under Armour and we hear archival footage of the late Peter Drucker about what marketing means in the...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Fud Livingston
Joseph Anthony Livingston, nicknamed “Fud,” played accordion and piano in his youth. But, in his teens, he found the saxophone more to his liking. ...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Part 2 of Phoenix 20 picks up right where part 1 ended. In this program, executive producer Sister Sue Sanders interviews host Dr. Peter Hilton abo...

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 30:21
  • Purchases: 1
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The roles are reversed as Sister Susan Sanders interviews Veteran Matters host Dr. Peter Hilton about his time in the military during the Vietnam W...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Peter Hilton airs the final episode of this series of Veteran Matters. In this episode, Hilton welcomes back every veteran who has appeared on...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 24:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Peter Hilton continues the Veteran Matters series with the stories of Chris and Norm, two sailors in World War II who were apart of Operation ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Peter Hilton welcomes to the program Bill. Bill is a veteran of the Korean War, and served at the front line of many operations in Korea. They...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Peter Hilton explores how spirituality may have affected the veteran's time in service, and what their experiences were like when they encount...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Veteran Matters continues with part 2 of this series. Host Peter Hilton introduces a new group of veterans, and we learn what roles animals may or ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
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On this edition of Veteran Matters, host Peter Hilton welcomes to the program Norm, a veteran of World War II who served on the U.S.S. Bunker Hill ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 1