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Scrambled Shortcuts
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Diner Chatter
Let's eat! A virtual audio buffet featuring food songs and visits to classic diners and restaurants with vintage movie, television clips and Spam o...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 31:42
Music of the Nuclear Age
From: David Dunaway
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Today's headlines include threats of nuclear war in Ukraine and the possibility of contamination from bombing off Ukraine's nuclear power plant. Th...

Bought by Prairie Public and KVCR


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
180630 Your Prom Night
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A faux live broadcast from your prom. As you can imagine, it didn't go well for me.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:49:54
180519 Faux Live Show
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The regular listeners to Saturday night radio meet at a New Orleans music club for the music, drinks, food and each other in this live broadcast.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:56:14
  • Purchases: 1
170909 Songs About Shorty plus "Uncle Bud - The Radio Musical"
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
151212 Discovering Why Card Tricks Don't Work on Radio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
151128 Where Does Great Music Originate?
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
150718 From the Studio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
150606 From the Studio - Hopping Noise
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
150502 Live From
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
Jazz-O-Rama #5: "Betty Boop Meets Popeye"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
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
The Missourians
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Missourians
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Sophisticated Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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
Clarence Williams
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Clarence Williams
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
Small Group Sessions
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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
A Tribute to Hoagy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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
The Beatles One-Hour Radio Special: "Help! Is On The Way..." Narrated by Michael Palin
From: Nicole Haldeman
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Michael Palin presents a radio special about the Beatles? second movie Help!, which was first released in 1965.

Bought by WGDR, WCPN, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2007
  • Length: 48:21
  • Purchases: 4
Denny Doherty of the Mama's & Papa's interview on FM Odyssey
From: FM Odyssey
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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
Beware of Shortcuts!
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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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
Happy Birthday Stan Freberg!
From: Jeff Brown
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A salute to Stan Freberg

Bought by KUT-HD, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WILL, Spokane Public Radio, KLCC and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2006
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 14
Happy Birthday Spike Jones
From: Jeff Brown
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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