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Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #663 - 1953 Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as Matt The Cat takes you back 70 years and highlights the top jukebox hits of the second half of 1953. ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
UpFront Soul #2023.03-January 17-23, 2023- Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This week, we honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear excerpts of his sermons, speeches, and interviews, along with funk,...

Bought by KZUM, WOUB, KAAD-LP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSTK and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 13
Broadway Bound Reboot #1
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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With what Garrett Stack considers, with few exceptions, a dismal state of musical theater for the last decade, a new programming format focuses alm...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
Episode #662 - 1953 Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as Matt The Cat takes you back 70 years and highlights the top jukebox hits of the first half of 1953. Y...

Bought by KSRQ, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
20230102: A Brief History of the American Southwest Radio Special, 1/2/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour, we explore the unique history of our region: the high desert southwest United States in the radio special of our ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
A Brief History of the American Southwest Radio Special
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour, we explore the unique history of our region: the high desert southwest United States in the radio special of our ...

Bought by KECG, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WUTC and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
20221226: Best of 2022, 12/26/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This week on The Children's Hour, we explore the best musical releases for kids in 2022, including the five nominees for the Best Children's Grammy.

  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Best of 2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This week on The Children's Hour, we explore the best musical releases for kids in 2022, including the five nominees for the Best Children's Grammy.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KRSC, WUTC, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Fallen Heroes 2022
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of social justice leaders in communities all over the world passed away this year. We're closing out the year, as we usually do, with in...

Bought by WXDU and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Night Lights Wonderland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Holidays
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Celebrate the holidays with The Children's Hour, in our musical special honoring Christmas, Hanukkah, and including the world debut of the story "S...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WUTC, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KRSC and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
NL 22-52: A Night Lights Wonderland, 12/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
Episode #659 - Rhythm & Blues Christmas, Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Matt The Cat has dug up some more R&B Christmas treasures and added a few tunes about New Years for this week’s continuation of the “Juke In The Ba...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #658 - Rhythm & Blues Christmas Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
It's the Holiday Season, so why not grab a glass of 'nog, sit back and relax and dig on some great vintage Rhythm & Blues Christmas tunes. It’s the...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
In The Wind Somewhere (Vol.3)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Another spin in the wind with bluegrass, jazz and stylistically blended selections.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:27
20221219: Holidays 2022, 12/19/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Celebrate the holidays with The Children's Hour, in our musical special honoring Christmas, Hanukkah, and including the world debut of the story "S...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
It’s Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Vince Guaraldi Story
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A look at the early jazz career and subsequent Peanuts success of pianist Vince Guaraldi, including interviews with jazz critic Doug Ramsey, Guaral...

Bought by KMUW and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Mountains (Vol.3)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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From the mountains of North-central Vermont to your ears comes a third volume of high country bluegrass, jazz and that high lonesome groove between.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:40
National American Indian Heritage Month- Busting the Thanksgiving Myth: Native Sovereignty & the Red Road
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Pilgrims, Indians, the myth of the grateful colonized person — it’s been at the core of a persistent but false Thanksgiving narrative that has dist...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Grateful Thanksgiving
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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We’re celebrating Thanksgiving with a musical special in recognition of how thankful we are. Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at The Children's Ho...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSTK, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #655 - Pookie Hudson (The Spaniels)
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Pookie Hudson spent his entire life close to the music he loved. In high school, he began to develop his own style using his falsetto with just a t...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KTRT RADIO INC, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
UpFront Soul #2022.47 November 22-28
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Redbone
We'll celebrate Native American Heritage Month with music from Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, A Tribe Called Red, Khu.eex, Jim Pepper, Redbone, Geo Neptu...

Bought by WOMR, RADIOLEX, KAAD-LP, WOUB, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 14
20221121: Grateful Thanksgiving, 11/21/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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We’re celebrating Thanksgiving with a musical special in recognition of how thankful we are. Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at The Children's Ho...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 58:00

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