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Music Archive Showcase #166 - Celebrating the Late Paul Buckmaster
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Paul Buckmaster
Paul Ingles hosts a music mix special that elevates some of the finest examples or orchestrator and conductor Paul Buckmaster's contributions to so...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
The Spanish Hour 2416: Remembering Guernica
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Detail from Picasso's Gernika (Guernica)
We commemorate the anniversary of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica (April 26, 1937) with “Guernica” Piano Trio number 1 by Octavio Vá...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KWAX, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2024
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 35
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #356 (Artists Go Solo)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #354 ("Time")
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Music Archive Showcase #164 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Bob Costas' Music Interviews on NBC's LATER (Part 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Bob Costas on LATER set, Credit: Bob Costas
With host Paul Ingles, veteran broadcaster Bob Costas re-visits some of his favorite interviews with music greats during his 6 years as host of NBC...

Bought by KUHF, KSRQ, KSJE, and KFSK


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #351 - "SUMMERTIME 2"
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Music Archive Showcase #163 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Bob Costas' Music Interviews on NBC's LATER (Part 1)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Paul McCartney with Bob Costas, Credit: Bob Costas
With host Paul Ingles, veteran broadcaster Bob Costas re-visits some of his favorite interviews with music greats during his 6 years as host of NB...

Bought by KUHF, KSRQ, KSJE, and KFSK


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Giving New Life to Ancient Easter Tunes
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Join us for an Easter celebration this week on Harmonia! We’ll hear how composers from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods created new m...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Year was 1947
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish takes a deep dive into the Jewish music of 1947.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 24-10: Jazz Women of the 1960s, 3/4/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
HARM 24-14: The Black Hour, 4/1/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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In 1433, around 3:00 PM in Scotland in high summer, the sun vanished. This total solar eclipse came to be known as “The Black Hour.” Join us this ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The Black Hour
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Eclipses are awe-inspiring even today, but imagine witnessing an eclipse in the days before dollar-store glasses. You might not know why the sun wa...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
To Be Somebody: The Hazel Scott Story
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Music Archive Showcase #161 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Peter Case on THE MIDNIGHT BROADCAST Album
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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Highly-regarded singer/songwriter Peter Case offers insight to the creative process of shaping his 2021 album called THE MIDNIGHT BROADCAST into wh...

Bought by KUHF, KSJE, North State Public Radio, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Note to Self
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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https://indianapublicmedia.org/porchlight/note-to-self.php

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Early Morning
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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The hours around dawn, reflected upon in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Buddy
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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One of the greats of early rock 'n' roll, remembered in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Taking Us Higher (An Appreciation) [Optional Hour 2]
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE
An optional second hour with more of our celebration of some of the most irresistible music of the late 1960's and early '70's from Sly and the Fam...

Bought by WUTC, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KUHF, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
NL 24-07: Suite History: Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey, 2/12/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
Suite History - Four Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, Morehead State Public Radio, WLRH and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
WITNESS THE GENIUS: RAY CHARLES (An Appreciation) [Optional Part 2]
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Ray Charles
An optional second hour of a deep dive into the remarkable career of RAY CHARLES, one of the formative forces in 20th century music whose impact is...

Bought by KSJE, KUPR low power FM, WABE, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
WITNESS THE GENIUS: RAY CHARLES (An Appreciation)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Ray Charles
A deep dive into the remarkable career of RAY CHARLES, one of the formative forces in 20th century music whose impact is still clearly felt today. ...

Bought by WJCT, KSJE, WABE, WNMU-FM, KTNA and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
It's Time! Max Roach In The 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A centennial tribute to Max Roach, who set the pace for modern jazz drumming and became an outspoken activist for civil rights.

Bought by WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUAT and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
A Shortcut Through 2023
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: GW Bridge June 2023
A retrospective of the entire year, including the major political, cultural and emotional events, with music and celebrations of those who've left ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSRQ, WJCT, KMSU, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:36
  • Purchases: 6
NL 23-52: Santa-O: A Very Hip Christmas, 12/18/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Swinging round the yule log with music from Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, violinist Eddie South, pianist Charles Brown, singer June Christy, and ot...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:02

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