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Ah, summer, the shortest season of the year. Or, at least it seems that way. This show is devoted to a few really hot bands and vocalists who guar...
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 58:58
More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... A faux live broadcast from somewhere in New Orleans as only you've imagined it.
- Added: Jun 16, 2013
- Length: 03:00:47
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
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
Laughter is the best medicine. But, it feels that today's musicians may be taking themselves too seriously. Here are selections from the 1920s to t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- 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
This week’s program is a collaboration of two terrific NYC Slam establishments. The Anti-Slam and The Melting Pot. The studio will be filled to the...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 51:36
Some of the best music from the 1920s with Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Bix Beiderbecke, and many more to welcome in the New Year.
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 3
We wanted to hear about Christmas from the under 5 demographic and this is what we got!
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 04:35
A classic year-end show that highlights the celebration of the holiday rather than the passing of any specific year. It's all about the going out, ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 28:41
Thomas “Fats” Waller was known for his comedic style vocals, and his feverish motions of left hand creating a profound pattern of “Stride” piano, b...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Saxophonist Jack Pettis was a pioneer in the introduction of the C-Melody in the early 1920s. According to tenor Bud Freeman, he was the king, and ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 21, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
The word "whatever" doesn't seem to mean whatever it used to mean. Tom and Ron explain...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 01:54
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
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
Actual audio from inside Sam’s cab, recorded live throughout a frozen February day in 2007. There is some freestyle singing.
- Added: Nov 29, 2011
- Length: 09:53
“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
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
The 40 year old Star Trek episode, The Return of the Archons, features a society that celebrates a Mardi Gras festival and is lead by a guy named ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00:16
An internationally acclaimed jazz bar in New Orleans where the entertainment on the musical stage was often rivaled by the entertainment behind the...
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 12:53
- 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
- Added: May 02, 2010
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 3
