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Caption: Jordan Corey
Not many aspirational musicians can claim their songs rated alongside groups like Maroon 5 and Gwen Stefani. But, Jordan Corey can! And, she did ...

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
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Scott -- called "The Tomboy of the Air" -- was part of Curtiss' exhibition team, flying upside down and plummeting to the earth in "death dives," ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:21
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Zach is a teenager who creates his own music that combines influences from world cultures!

  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
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One hour. One city block. Everybody's story.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 49:30
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The music of and an in-studio interview with Celtic Thunder songwriter and vocalist Keith Harkin as he releases his first solo CD.

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Rand was even arrested once wearing long underwear and a "censored by the SFPD" sign -- despite the judge's immunity ruling

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
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Phoebe Ann Moses so fascinated a sharpshooting Irish immigrant named Frank Butler by beating him out of a hundred dollar bet that he married her an...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
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Annie Edson Taylor was the first to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
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And at twenty-eight years of age, having beaten every challenge life threw her, O'Neil climbed into the seat of a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
Caption: Art Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), Credit: Blue Note Records
ART BLAKEY known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina was a Jazz drummer and a pioneer of Be-bop and modern Jazz. This one hour program is an introduction...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 52:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Dock Ellis is one of the most memorable characters to ever play baseball. He challenged the baseball establishment, but always had impeccable stye.

Bought by KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Sir Elton John's personal account of his life during the AIDS epidemic, and the story of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Bought by KGLT, WPTC, and KEOS


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 3
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Rodriguez was a music legend in South Africa, but it took 25 years for him to find out.

Bought by CBC Inside the Music, Prairie Public, KFOK-LP, WXXI, WORT and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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The volunteer choral group, Evensong, specializes in singing the last music their audience will ever hear.

Bought by KFAI and WAMC


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:23
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges
This limited series of classical music will feature four composers of African descent and two musicians of African descent. On this program today...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 53:05
Caption: Sheet Music Cover
Walter Donaldson should be one of the most recognizable composers of the 20th century with songs like "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby," and "Love Me, Or ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
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Snappy, Stretcho, and Criss-Cross are like brothers. Together they are The Suspenders Juggling Troupe from Falmouth, Massachusetts. The Suspenders ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
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This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
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He was one of the pioneers of jazz on the violin. Though largely self taught, his career lasted some 77 years, and he recorded hundred of albums. p...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
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The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour pr...

Bought by KOSU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WEKU, WNIJ, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 55
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Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 52:04
Caption: Cubie Burke (with Christina Johnson with the Dance Theatre of Harlem), Credit: http://www.dancephotolibrary.com/dance.php
The "FIVE STAIRSTEPS and CUBIE" was a family pop act who released hit records from 1968 to 1969 on both Curtom and Buddha Records. CUBIE BURKE was ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2011
  • Length: 48:54
Caption: You Can See the Moon, Credit: Chris TEMPLETON
A married Jewish couple are abruptly separated by the KGB when the husband is kidnapped to act as Stalin’s look-alike double

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 13:47
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Although she was physically tiny ... just four foot eleven ... we saw her on television living an outrageous sort of large life, an amazing roller ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: 'You Can See the Moon', Credit: Producer Chris TEMPLETON
This touching dramatised reconstruction, is based on the extraordinary discovery of the love letters of two Russian Jews living in Stalin’s Russia.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 15:21