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Think about something you've spent your whole life wanting to do. Now try to think about what's kept you from doing it. What comes to mind? For...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 19, 2016
- Length: 10:34
- Purchases: 2
It started out as a biscuits and gravy kind of a morning down at Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 06:38
The Alley of Song and America’s popular music of the 1920s, jazz, crossed over in 1917. It wasn’t long before musicians began to revive compositi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's episode is an ever so slightly spooky song about an old growth forest, a crooked beak, and a pair of yellow eyes ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 01:25
My friend Jimy Fingerbutton once invented a new kind of dishwarsher. At least, I thought it was a dishwarsher. It looked just like an old-fashone...
- Added: Nov 02, 2016
- Length: 05:12
Here's a little song about apple season: I planted an apple in the springtime / I wanted an apple tree to grow ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 01:45
Here's a little ditty about how we make the seasons, and why sometimes they get just a tiny bit mixed up ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 01:31
You know the seasons are turning when you wake up with frost in your beard ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 03:36
This bit of nonsense verse is inspired by the Maori hangi - a traditional method of cooking which is still very popular in New Zealand and elsewher...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: :46
When a bear is not a bear, a dead ermine is not a dead ermine, and a motivational speaker is not really a motivational speaker.
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
When there's a movie chase scene, more often than not, the accompanying music is jazz.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1946 Milton Mezzrow, otherwise known as Mezz, wrote a tell all book about his experiences with jazz in the 1920s and '30s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
After 2 members of the Allen Thompson Band broke their backs in separate freak accidents, the band re-evaluated their personal lives and the direct...
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 58:00
Every day I find something new out here on Wild Side. Something I've never seen before. Something that makes me say to myself, “slow down! Stop ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 04:33
I was poking around out on Wild Side the other day, keeping an eye out for blue shade trees ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2016
- Length: 06:00
This may be my best poem yet: "Far away, out beyond the Great Desert of Proom, Where the wind sweeps across the sharp sand like a broom ..."
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 05:51
I once met an old-timer who lives out beyond the Wandering Hills, out there in the shadow of Gusty Ridge. The old-timer's name is Dale Hill. Dale...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 04:48
Here's a little ditty in honor of county fair season ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 01:30
This morning I was in the second-hand store, looking at all the second hands ... when a lady said to me, she said “beautiful day, isn't it?” I sai...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 05:22
Good morning everybody, this is Bill Melater, coming to you live from the beautiful city of Upper Case – Capitol of the Kingdom of Wonderstan and t...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 03:09
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:45
The spontaneous enthusiasm of jazz brought exuberance to the dance floor in the 1920s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
My friend Bill O'Sale just opened a new retail store down at the corner of High Street and Low Road. I asked him what he's selling this time. He ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 05:35
What kind of bee keeps buzzing all year long? A May bee!
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 01:52
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
