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Long sets of Louisiana music and music about names like "Bud, Shorty and Irma. Bud as in "Uncle Bud" the dirty ditty that is based on Froggy Goes ...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:52:04
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I do a card trick on radio. Without cards. Without anything tricky. And it I did have cards, it wouldn't have improved the trick. "Oh yeah, a...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:03
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Ranting and raving like a motivational speaker for musicians... Oh quit being a big baby waa waa and just try listening for ten minutes. Nope, i...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:44:54
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of uncludign cover songs by bands that probably really did play garages as opposed to the ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:58
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Before rock and roll became a formula for celebrity. Before rock and roll became a formula for making money. Before rock and roll itself became a...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 02:54:41
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Finally get a second microphone for proper interviews but a pissed Ernie K-Doe dunks it into a pitcher of beer, brains me with it, then tosses it o...

  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 02:54:38
Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of Popeye & Betty Boop 78s., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
Joe Bev hosts an hour of rare 78 RPM Jazz records of Helen Kane & Billy Costello, who were also cartoon voice actors.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, XRAY.fm, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 55:16
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Bessie Smith
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
Caption: The Mound City Blue Blowers
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
Caption: Hoagy Carmichael
One of America's most creative and prolific composers and lyricists, Hoagy Carmichael.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 01, 2011
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Music and interview. Denny brings his humor and stories to FM Odyssey and sets the record straight on the real story of the Mama's Papa's with liv...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2007
  • Length: 01:57:43
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A Classic Halloween Special recorded and mixed on a two track machine and spliced together by hand--"from the bodies I took from graveyards..."

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2006
  • Length: 54:37
  • Purchases: 16
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Music and interviews celebrating Spike Jones

Bought by WILL, WCPN, Spokane Public Radio, KSFR, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2005
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6