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This is a Christmas special like none other. Holiday music collector and expert Andy Cirzan scours record stores, dustbins, and basements to find t...

Bought by KHNS, KUPR low power FM, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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An hour of springtime songs from the Great American Songbook, sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, Mel Torme, Nina Simone, and more. Hosted by ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, and KSRQ


  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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When Leonard Bernstein hosted the Young People’s Concerts in 1958, he started with the William Tell Overture and the black and white video captured...

Bought by 'The Sea', KTXK, WUAL, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KMFA


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 5
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Vinyl records. Notebooks. Polaroid cameras. Cassette Tapes. All analog technologies that, up to a decade ago, were pretty much extinct. But over th...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 26:31
Caption: Alex Kime
Following their sold-out show in Chicago, Parquet Courts sat down to discuss life on the road and their writing process. Edited by Alex Kime.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 18:30
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What is your favorite name for the jolly fellow in the red suit? St. Nicholas, Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Pelznickle? So many nam...

Bought by KRPS, RadioFreePalmer, WLPR , KRZA, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
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Substituting for California girl, Peggy Lou, so just songs about the idea fo "California."

  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:35
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Substituting for Peggy Lou after I cancelled Hurricane Nate. Trying to mimic her light touch and California sensibilities ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:31:37
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily be...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:39:22
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The reciprocal of a "theatrical musical" where music suddenly interrupts the story line, a "radio musical" has the story line suddenly interrupted ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 20:55
Caption: From the Theater District (of Your Mind)
In a theatrical musical, songs break out during the story line. In a radio musical, a story line breaks out during a set of music. In the radio...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:38
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An Afterglow Christmas special, featuring some familiar standards for Christmas, performed by some jazz and pop crooners, like Bing Crosby, Frank S...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KRPS, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
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An Afterglow show perfect for Valentine's Day! This week, we're saluting L-O-V-E with love songs from the Great American Songbook sung by Chet Bake...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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A one-hour program focusing on jazz singer and songwriter Peggy Lee. Great for Women's History Month!

Bought by KMUW, WJSU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Director, Rick Barbour Director fills us in on, Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Great River Shakespeare Festival. Get the story behind the curtain...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:52
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"Smooth Jazz With a Touch of Soul From the Heart of the Green Mountains."

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:40
  • Purchases: 1
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An Afterglow holiday special for all classic soul fans! Some old-school soul versions of Christmas tunes, by Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Darlene Lov...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Radio Catskill, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WVAS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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March 14th, expressed in numbers as 3.14 has become known PI day. And to celebrate the mathematical constant on PI day, you're encouraged to celeb...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:57
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The Stoop Brothers are three Winona State students who enjoy great music with a heavy folk and blues influence. We will talk with members of the ba...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:17
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An hour of the jazz standards of France. We’ll hear songs written in French, songs with a certain French flair, and some songs written about Paris,...

Bought by KMUW and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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An hour-long special highlighting the music of Brazilian jazz singer Astrud Gilberto, known for such songs as "Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Sta...

Bought by KMUW, Prairie Public, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Christmas Around the World taken at Bronner's Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, Michigan., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints shares the gift of holiday music from around the world.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:55