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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
Music to commemorate the city of David. In multiple languages, you'll hear songs of refuge, hope & peace.
Bought by KPVL
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Author and philosopher Jean Houston offers a guidepost into the world of Dorothy and L Frank Baum in which she delves into the deeper messages held...
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 27:55
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 03:01
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe discusses her Christianity in the context of her academic career… and her marriage to a one time climate skeptic...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 23:18
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
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
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
As far back as the 1920s, jazz bands were performing music that had hidden messages inside their songs. Messages that asked their audience to pled...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 49:30
- Purchases: 1
Tin Pan Alley, near Union Square in New York City, became the center for music publishing by 1915. The world of formulaic songwriting – songs with ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Almost 50 years ago, a group of concerned citizens battled energy giant Consolidated Edison and launched the environmental movement.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 16:41
- Purchases: 1
Listen to at least 15 minutes of the music and ask yourself " How could i possibly deprive my community and listening audience from this wonderful...
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Cathy Byrd recorded this Fresh Talk episode when she visited The MacDowell Colony, a highly regarded New Hampshire retreat for artists, writers and...
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 12:33
On this episode of The Conscious Consultant Hour w/Sam Liebowitz: Unlock your inner secrets and find your true self & purpose w/psychic medium Mink...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 01:00:35
Listen to at least 15 minutes of the music and ask yourself " How could i possibly deprive my community and listening audience from this wonderful...
- Added: Jan 23, 2013
- Length: 59:01
Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...
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- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
It's lively. It's lovely. It's comedy. It's old-timy Jewish music!
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 58:59
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 1
In Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets Luci Westphal, a German filmmaker based in New York and Berlin, to talk about Luci's moving postcards and her latest do...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 19:17
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 03:50
WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Elizabeth Foy Larsen, co-author of "Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun, " which the (Minnea...
- Added: Jan 02, 2013
- Length: 19:04
- Purchases: 2
An essay on how to unplug and gain balance during the holiday season by watching classic holiday films.
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 12:26
A fire truck in the driveway, 20 at the table for meals and buying by the dozens (the better for sharing) my father believed in being Santa Claus y...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
