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Largely forgotten, bandleader Sam Lanin is possibly the most prolific recording artist of the 1920s. No one really knows just how many records he ...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 58:57
Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 59:00
"Stompin At The Savoy", "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", and "The Woody Woodpecker Song" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 12th edition of ...
Bought by Radio New Zealand
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 58:31
- Purchases: 1
Joe Bev hosts an hour of 78 RPM Jazz with sense of humor, including Cab Calloway, The Mills Brothers, and Coon Sanders.
Bought by Radio New Zealand
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 1
Joe Bev hosts an hour of 78RPM records of Benny Goodman & Artie Shaw, both born in May. Can be used as May birthday special.
Bought by Radio New Zealand and WEZU
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 55:42
- Purchases: 2
Joe Bev hosts an hour of 78 RPM records of Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, and Bix Beiderbecke.
Bought by Radio New Zealand
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 1
On December 24, 2012 "Desert Island Discs" ended its inaugural season by reprising its first guest JOE DULEY and marking the first time our program...
- Added: Jan 13, 2013
- Length: 01:54:34
On December 24th BARNEY MARTIN became our 38th island castaway. Barney is someone who leads a life in duality with one foot in the white collar wor...
- Added: Jan 09, 2013
- Length: 01:26:23
The Pony Express was a back breaking mail route that got messages across the country in record breaking times around 1861. What important messages...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
In 1848, gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Pretty exciting right? Find out in this episode of Did This Happen?
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
On this episode of Did This Happen?, we are there as the golden spike connecting the transcontinental railroads is driven into the ground!
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
We take a peek back in on the Founding Fathers and see if they’ve gotten any further in their signing of the Declaration of Independence. This is t...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
There’s some debate as to whether or not Benjamin Franklin actually conducted his famous kite/electricity experiment. We explore one possibility of...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Hyman Lipman registered the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser. Well, he did as soon as he found something to write with as we see i...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
There are several theories as to what happened to the people of The Roanoke Colony. We explore one theory in today’s episode of Did This Happen?!
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that during the Napoleonic Wars, the residents of Hartlepool in England once put what they thought was a French spy on trial. We take...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that the sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. We see exactly how far ahead of his time John Montagu was in...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Fourteen year old, Philo T. Farnsworth, continues his work on the electric television. Apparently there was some trouble with some of the early mod...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
We’re very lucky that Philo T. Farnsworth, as a teenager, didn’t have any distractions like television to keep him from inventing…well…television. ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Signed in 1215 in England, The Magna Carta is said to have inspired many constitutional documents including the United States Constitution. Journey...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
In 1803, Lewis & Clark set out to trek across the Pacific Northwest to find passage to the Pacific Ocean. We are there moments after they started t...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Georges Claude is responsible for bringing the first ever neon signs to America when he sold two of them to a Packard Dealership in Los Angeles. We...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
One of Nikola Tesla’s greatest inventions was The Tesla Coil. However, even from the start, people were confused about what it did and what it was ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
