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"Sorry, Wrong Number" ---
Produced eight times between 1943 and 1960, "Sorry, Wrong Number," Lucille Fletcher’s phenomenal success is radio’s mos...
- Added: Jan 02, 2013
- Length: 21:03
A former corporate speechwriter, Joe Wenke is the owner of a leading event marketing company. With his new book, he’s going to have a few more inte...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 15:15
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
SPR's Movies 101 film reviewers give their picks for their top holiday rentals, traditional and not-so-traditional.
Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WVPE, WRFA-LP, KVSC, WVPE and more
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 58:53
The legend of musician Buddy Bolden has stretched well beyond the city limits of New Orleans. Whether or not half of the stories are true, really d...
Bought by WRGY and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2012
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 2
Charlie Drinkwater is in trouble. Not he’s done anything wrong. He’s just morphing into a mutant dinosaur.
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 19:01
Ellis was first a jazz pianist and later jazz vocalist who recorded numerous sides with the Dorsey Brothers, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and many other...
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 58:54
This is 1DERFUL!: Wumbers. The new children's book by Amy Kruse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. The idea is to take words that contain numbers, an...
- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 22:19
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 47:21
Remember Dick Powell the actor? How about Dick Powell the jazz banjo player? He’s just one of many obscure early jazz performers heard in this pro...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 58:55
The rediscovery of recordings lost for 40 years in West Texas rewrites a chapter in American music history. In this hour long radio special "The L...
Bought by CBC Inside the Music, KGLT, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 55:51
- Purchases: 3
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Give a listen to some of those very hot bands of the 1920s. You may not recognize many of the names, but that doesn't lessen their impact.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 58:58
Legions of fans from Boston to Buenos Aires can recite the story of the child born Kal-El, scion of the doomed planet Krypton, who was rocketed to ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jul 03, 2012
- Length: 19:58
- Purchases: 1
The third edition of the Great Northern Radio Show has us at the John Chalberg Theater in Brainerd. Titled "Maybe About Trains," this radio variety...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 01:59:22
- Purchases: 2
Our second annual Delta Music Show, featuring singer/songwriter and Delta bluesman Jimbo Mathus singing and telling stories. True stories told by t...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Jun 08, 2012
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s Windy Hear! But, in the late 1920s and early ‘40s, much of that wind was coming from the great horns of musicians like Ruben Reeves and Louis...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
No one questions the fact that Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton was, in all likelihood, the first arranger of jazz. It’s also true that Jelly Roll was...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 58:58
Jazz Historian Albert McCarthy writes in his book, Big Band Jazz (Exeter Books, NY 1974), “When jazz and dance music began to dominate American pop...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 58:57
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Adrian Rollini was a renaissance man of jazz. Besides being a multi-instrumentalist, he created new ways of performing on existing instruments, inv...
- Added: Mar 30, 2012
- Length: 59:00
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
This segment on the early years of jazz is devoted to the small group session between 1924 and 1930. Oh, yes, we also drift over to 1945.
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 58:58
