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Caption: WBAI Staff, Credit: 1960s
In honor of radio pioneers Larry Josephson, Steve Post and Bob Fass, a look back at the early days of free form radio at Pacifica and WBAI in New Y...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Ira Karp lives on a farm in northern Vermont, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over his brief lifetime, he ha...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's search for the first rock and roll record is in songs about satellites, songs with the word "zoom" in the lyrics, Mexican rocanrol, and...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and KPRG


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:34
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: The Creeps (with Ronnie Dawson on the far left)
A special show featuring songs that include mouth noises as a substitute for SFX (special effects) noises. Unlike SFX, humans imitate natural soun...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:16
  • Purchases: 1
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It's Covid time so Mardi Gras is going to be less on the streets and more in our heads. But Mardi Gras and music are so similar that we really don...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:21
  • Purchases: 3
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Bois Forte resident/elder, Heart Warrior Chosa talks of Unexplained Phenomenon.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 05:29
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Bois Forte Elder, Dayshun Goodsky talks about strange things around the Nett Lake, MN community.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:13
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Bois Forte resident, Dani Pierotos talks of an experience she had when she witnessed something unexplained in the sky.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 04:11
Caption: Gene Vincent
The Writer takes over to program music and run the board.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:52:49
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
End of the show are Paladins songs as they probably first heard them.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:58:58
Caption: Loren Greene On the Ponderosa
I never guessed there would be so many singing groupies for Ringo Starr but you would never believe how many songs I didn't play because they were ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:55:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Urban musicians often chose country music because it was lucrative. They wore the country music costumes, played the instrumentation, and made the...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:52:29
Caption: Yip Jump! Music, Credit: Daniel Johnston
Celebrating the great outside artist, songwriter and performer with his music and exclusive interviews.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 32:35
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It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:39:09
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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
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I think this show worked as a deep dive into late Saturday night radio. Starting the night with the novelties of me juggling chopsticks and shoes ...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:50:33
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In preparing my show, I rapidly listen to many snippets of many songs which is a process of dis-assembling and re-assembling sounds separate from t...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:01:26
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The musician, song writer and music producer, Bert Berns, was another Brill Building character. Not loveable nor a scamp, he was more of a garden ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 01:41:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the 1950s to the 1970s. Plus... More sleepless musings on radio. The Fowler doc...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:43:24
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Tonight's show - obscure New Orleans musicians playing that New Orleans sound.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:37
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Playing off our usual catch phrase of, "Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of," tonight we will focus on music you've heard b...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:23:48
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A substitution gig on the Thursday New Orleans Music Show. With ramblings on, "What is New Orleans?" and a fine set of live music from Kristin Di...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:44:33
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A show about that small step, the stumble from being an artist to being homelessness and helplessness. Music and readings by those folks who lived...

  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:57:43
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The night before Easter and there are many more songs about rabbits than Easter so I only cobbled together a set of music. Usually it is a rabbit...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:47:27
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From the 1950s to 1970s - the golden era of American music. Collectors music for non-collectors who simply enjoy the joy of discovering the musica...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:50:07
  • Purchases: 1