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Oscar Songs on The Hollywood Happening
From: Stacy Davies
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The best of the Oscar winners and nominees from the 1960s 'til today!

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:01:48
The Cowboy Jubilee Radio Show - Episode 1012
From: Cowboy Jubilee Show
Series: The Cowboy Jubilee Radio Show
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: May 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 218 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Author Annalee Newitz and host Luke Burbank, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
KEN DAVENPORT, DOUG KATSAROS, AMANDA YESNOWITZ - Writer, composer & lyricist of musical adaptation of Somewhere in Time Writer, journalist and aut...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 218
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Author Annalee Newitz and host Luke Burbank, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
KEN DAVENPORT, DOUG KATSAROS, AMANDA YESNOWITZ - Writer, composer & lyricist of musical adaptation of Somewhere in Time Writer, journalist and aut...

Bought by WFYI, KSRQ, Rhythm & News Service, KWMR-FM, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 217 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: NYTimes Best Selling Author Augusten Burroughs, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author of the NYT best seller "Running with Scissors", AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The Oregonians musical editor, RYAN WHITE Musical Guests, RADIATION CITY

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 217
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: NYTimes Best Selling Author Augusten Burroughs, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author of the NYT best seller "Running with Scissors", AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The Oregonians musical editor, RYAN WHITE Musical Guests, RADIATION CITY

Bought by WFYI, Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KWMR-FM, and 90.5 WESA


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
Happy Mother's Day!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
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Classic songs, celebratory music and comedy in tribute to mothers!

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Hollywood Happening - Songs about Stars!
From: Stacy Davies
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Weird and wonderful songs about stars including "Meryl Streep is from the Future," "Tom Cruise Crazy," "Hattie McDaniel at the Oscars 1939," "Ingri...

  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:02:06
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 216
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Director of C.O.G., Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Director of C.O.G., a film based on the David Sedaris memoir, KYLE PATRICK ALVAREZ Poet, and author of the recent Fall Ill Medicine, CARRI SEITSIN...

Bought by WFYI, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KWMR-FM, Rhythm & News Service, and 90.5 WESA


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 216 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Director of C.O.G., Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Director of C.O.G., a film based on the David Sedaris memoir, KYLE PATRICK ALVAREZ Poet, and author of the recent Fall Ill Medicine, CARRI SEITSIN...

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 2
Rock Star Autobiographies
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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We've discussed rockumentaries before on Rock School, but this week, we'll be talking about rock star autobiographies. Every artist we'll be talkin...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
What Makes A Song a Hit?
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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So what does make a song a hit? Dr. Burns and Beth West along with special guests, Father Cayet Mangiaracina - co-author of Hello Mary Lou, Paul Sa...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 215 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Black Prairie, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author, humorist and youngest SNL writer, SIMON RICH Author of The Orchardist, AMANDA COPLIN Portland string ensemble, BLACK PRAIRIE

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 215
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Black Prairie, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author, humorist and youngest SNL writer, SIMON RICH Author of The Orchardist, AMANDA COPLIN Portland string ensemble, BLACK PRAIRIE

Bought by WFYI, KWMR-FM, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Rhythm & News Service, and 90.5 WESA


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Jazz-O-Rama #30: "The 78s of Fats Waller"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: Remastered Fats Waller 78s on Jazz-O-Rama, Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
The sounds of classic remastered 78 RPM records fill the air when the music of Fats Waller is presented on the 30th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Ram...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:27
Rockumentaries
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week's Rock School will be all about documentaries pertaining to rock bands. We'll be discussing and analyzing many different "Rockumentaries"...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 214 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Film, Television & Voice Actor James Urbaniak, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Film and voice actor JAMES URBANIAK Musician, writer and podcaster JOHN RODERICK Songwriter and singer ROSE COUSINS

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
LIve Wire! Radio - Episode 214
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Film, Television & Voice Actor James Urbaniak, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Film and voice actor JAMES URBANIAK Musician, writer and podcaster JOHN RODERICK Songwriter and singer ROSE COUSINS

Bought by KUOW, KWMR-FM, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Rhythm & News Service, WFYI and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Uke
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cliff Edwards with Ukelele
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
The Mikie Show #61, Stephen
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us as we speak with concert pianist Stephen Cook. Along with being a wonderful player, he is bringing back the old-school piano recital (as Fr...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:03
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 212 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Singer/Songwriter Edna Vazquez, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author HOWARD BLOOM Comedian ALEX FALCONE Singer/Songwriter EDNA VAZQUEZ

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 05, 2013
  • Length: 54:54
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 212
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Singer/Songwriter Edna Vazquez, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author HOWARD BLOOM Comedian ALEX FALCONE Singer/Songwriter EDNA VAZQUEZ

Bought by KUT, Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KWMR-FM, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Rock Star Pseudonyms
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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We all know rock stars can't just be themselves ALL the time, so it's only natural they use a pseudonym. Let's listen to L'angelo Misterioso (Georg...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Great Northern Radio Show - Bagley
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Great Northern Radio Show
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In this, the sixth edition of the Great Northern Radio Show, we're in Clearwater County and Bagley, Minnesota. And the beautiful Bagley High School...

Bought by KUMD


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:56:32
  • Purchases: 1
episode #17 - April Fools
From: Lee Rosevere
Series: Radio Outlet
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A musical whoopee-cushion for your ears.. fake bands, clever pastiches and general silliness.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 59:06