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10,000 GOOD SONGS - #350 - ("Summertime Mix #1)
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: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Celebrating Pride Month
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish celebrates Pride Month with an eclectic hour of music written and performed by LGBTQ+ Jews.

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WCQS, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
THE EMERGENCE OF STEVIE WONDER (3 HOUR VERSION)
From: Paul Ingles
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The early emergence and on-going stellar career of musician STEVIE WONDER is explored and discussed in this three hour special (offered this month ...

Bought by KDUR, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KFAI Minneapolis, KRVS, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 13
Living in America!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish celebrates Jewish American Heritage Month with an eclectic playlist of quintessentially Jewish American music.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
AG 21-22: The Songs That Won The War, 5/24/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special this week, we look at the songs ...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #349 (Optional Hour #3 of "Care for the Planet Special")
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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A 10,000 GOOD SONGS SPECIAL that can be aired on Earth Day or any time. An hour full of musicians singing about caring for the planet. Songs includ...

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #348 (Optional Hour #2 of "Care for the Planet Special")
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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A 10,000 GOOD SONGS SPECIAL that can be aired on Earth Day or any time. An hour full of musicians singing about caring for the planet. Songs incl...

Bought by KLCC, KUHF, KFSK, and WHRV


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Oh Haec: This is the day the Lord has made
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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There’s an antiphon that features in the masses for Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Its words begin: “This is the day the Lord has made,” and e...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
NL 22-12: Jazz Women of the 1940s, 3/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
The Big Ponder #31: Winterreise
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the endless sunshine of Dubai, Bilal Qureshi revisits Franz Schubert’s acclaimed song cycle “Winterreise.” The lyrics of a heartbroken man’s jou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 1
220305 First Rock and Roll Song - Sandy Nelson and Glen Campbell As You've Never Heard Them
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Los Crazy Boys
The great rock drummer Sandy Nelson sound like a very traditional swing drummer and Glen Campbell sounds like a primitive surf band as our perspect...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 6
Memorial in Song with John Brancy and Peter Dugan
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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A program for Memorial Day/Veteran’s Day to honor those whose lives have been forever changed by war, including songs written by composers and poet...

Bought by WVIA, KMFA, Troy Public Radio, KWAX, WGUC/ WVXU and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 26
Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Single Hour Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Mavis Staples
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...

Bought by WJCT, KUHF, WABE, WVIA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 25
Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington’s Early Black-Pride Music
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, Ellington was writing music that celebrated African-American culture, personalities,...

Bought by WJCT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTXK and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Jackie Robinson
Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus, and others.

Bought by WLRH, KRCU Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
We Shall Overcome: Civil-Rights Jazz
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Black History Special A one-hour program of jazz music, exploring the connection between jazz and civil rights in 20th-century America.

Bought by KALW, WLRH, Morehead State Public Radio, KLCC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
NL 22-06: Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes, 1/31/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus and others.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
The Two Williams: Spencer and Clarence (Black History Month Special)
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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On this Afterglow special for Black History Month, we explore the songs of two unrelated black jazz composers from the early 20th century: Spencer ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Mary Wharton on her Tom Petty Film
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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A 2021 documentary film about rocker Tom Petty's landmark WILDFLOWERS album is the focus of a conversation with the film's director Mary Wharton. A...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach, KGLT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and KRCU Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
In Praise of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for Jewish music in praise of the late civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Bought by KFCF FM and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
005 Tony Luisi - Electronic music, NFL Films, and all that jazz
From: Tim Ayres
Series: Off The Beaten Soundtrack
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A tribute to to jazz pianist, composer and Philadelphia studio owner Tony Luisi.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:31
Ebony Classics - A Musical Movement
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Francis Johnson 1792 - 1844, Credit: University Archives University of Pennsylvania
"Ebony Classics - A Musical Movement," is a chapter in the important history of people of African descent in classical music. This segment include...

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 55:19
  • Purchases: 1
1963: A Man's Dream, A Nation's Nightmare
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Andrew Hill's Black Fire LP
An hour-long jazz special: It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 24
A Shortcut 2021 Tribute Mix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Betty White
An extra hour of celebration of those who've left us this year, with music and events that broke too late to be included in A Shortcut Through 2021

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
2021 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL (Optional Second Hour)
From: Paul Ingles
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On this optional second hour of the 2021 Musicians Memorial Special, music host Paul Ingles remembers more of the artists, from multiple music genr...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KAAD-LP, KSJE, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19

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