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The story of Elena Fonseca, a remarkable women from Montevideo, Uruguay. Elena was a diplomats wife who lived in a number of countries before retur...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 10:01
- Purchases: 1
The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Whenever bandleader Ed Kirkeby wanted his band to record for another label, he’d tag them with another name. Hence: The Golden Gate Orchestra. An...
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 58:56
Paul Simon recalls the creative sparks and controversies surrounding his landmark album, "Graceland"
Bought by KPSQ-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUKY and more
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 14
Joey Ramone's close friends and family salute him by rocking out and finishing the tracks Joey left behind when he died.
Bought by KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, WSKG, WTJU, KPVL and more
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
A collection of sounds and voices from William Devine Golf course, one of America's oldest public courses, located in inner-city Boston in the hear...
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 01:55
Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheese-maker throughout world history and by und...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 17:10
- Purchases: 1
In the past dozen years, from Y2K to 2012, apocalyptic anticipation in America has leapt from the cultish to the mainstream. Today, nearly 60 perce...
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 28:59
New Orleans, Chicago and New York were the primary hubs for jazz by the mid 1920s. The influences from each location enriched the result. Musicians...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
On April 27th, 2012, I stood on the banks of the Hudson River in NYC.. and watched Space Shuttle Enterprise make a fly-by, strapped to the back of...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 57:37
When Kansas City born Frankie Teschmacher joined the Austin High Gang in the mid-1920s, his instrument of choice was alto saxophone. But, in his yo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
A dramatic musical based on "The Diary of Anne Frank," with music by Michael Cohen and libretto by Enid Futterman. Perfect for scheduling in April ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2012
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Jazz Historian Albert McCarthy writes in his book, Big Band Jazz (Exeter Books, NY 1974), “When jazz and dance music began to dominate American pop...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 58:57
The official radio companion to the MARLEY documentary film in theatres and homes on April 20, 2012.
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KPSQ-LP, Prairie Public, WNMU-FM, KMUW and more
- Added: Apr 13, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 59:01
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
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
In 1921, the Coconut Grove nightclub was the place to see and be seen. Hollywood stars frequently the club located in a peaceful rural setting sur...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 58:57
The pirate, Captain Kidd, was reputed to have buried treasure all up and down the Atlantic Coast and in the Bahamas. Much more gold has been spent ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 15:23
Two legendary figures in early jazz: Johnny Dodds and Tiny Parham. They were at the center of the evolving new music of the 1920s, and contributed ...
- Added: Mar 03, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Blues, jazz and folk music of the 1920s and '30s featuring the guitar, piano, violin and more.
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 59:00
This account of a plot to assassinate President-Elect Lincoln in Baltimore comes from Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln-The War Years"
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 39:25
Huell Howser is a beloved television personality who explores the natural wonders and people of our fine state as the host of “California’s Gold”. ...
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 11:50
- Purchases: 2
Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker were the most recognizable expatriates on the Parisian seen in the 1920s. If you've seen the movie "Midnight in P...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 58:59
