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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
On A Passing Frontier
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A program containing 3 short stories of the old west by Frank Bird Linderman in which the rough dry humor of the cowpuncher is evident.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:11
Red Hot Mama's
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sophie Tucker in 1927
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
Joey Ramone...ya know?
From: Joyride Media
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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
Bob Marley - Marley
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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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
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
Territorial Bands of the 1920s
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Edythe Turnham & her Band
The early history of  jazz often leaves out some very talented musicians simply because they didn’t move to Chicago or New York.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
The Mikie Show #39, Whit
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode thirty-nine! Just had to say it, hope you don’t mind. We speak with Whit Patten, a man who grew up on a farm in the country (he had to boar...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #13, Sharon
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Who says 13 is unlucky? We’ve made it this far and are so thankful to have done so! For thirteen, we travel to just north of Tucson, AZ to intervie...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 1
Earl Wild at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam
From: Boyce Lancaster
Caption: Pianist Earl Wild
Pianist Earl Wild performed before an enthusiastic audience at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam to celebrate his 90th birthday.

Bought by WFIU and BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
The Cartoon Carnival Presidents Day Special
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Cartoon Carnival with Joe Bev.
Caption: Funny Tributes to George Washington and Abe Lincoln air on “The Cartoon Carnival Presidents Day Special” Available February 15, 2010 holiday Broadcast., Credit: Joe Bevilacqua
The Cartoon Carnival Presidents Day Special - Noted fictional newsman Walter Cockeyed (Joe Bev.) offers up cartoon audio and comedy about George Wa...

Bought by WNMU-FM and KVMR


  • Added: Feb 12, 2010
  • Length: 54:06
  • Purchases: 2
The Mikie Show # 12, John Brady
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Show twelve features an interview with commercial airline pilot (now retired) John Brady. He started his career in an open cockpit biplane and reti...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #8 Tom
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Our guest is one of the greats in sound, Tom Clack. We talk about early days at BBC, MTV and traveling the world to record sounds. He performs the ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A '40s Radio Christmas
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
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A reminiscence of Christmas on the radio in the 1940's

Bought by KDUR, KUAT, KSLU, KRPS, WXPN and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2008
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 89
Boston Tea Party
From: Nicholas Demarest
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A radio play on the preceding events and organization of the Boston Tea Party.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2008
  • Length: 06:32
Kasper Hauser: Phone Call to the 14th Century
From: Jesse Thorn
Series: Comedy From Kasper Hauser
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Comedy Sketch from Kasper Hauser

Bought by Radio Newark, KUT, KRCC-FM, The PRX Podcast, KUSP and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 6
Robbie Robertson
From: KUOW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
the guitarist and songwriter reminesces.

Bought by Prairie Public, WETS, KGLT, and WSGE


  • Added: Jun 27, 2006
  • Length: 50:58
  • Purchases: 4
Border Radio: The Big Jukebox in the Sky
From: Texas Folklife
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An hour-long music special on the story of Border Radio. Toe tapping music from hillbilly, western swing, Mexican conjunto and contemporary, rhythm...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTIP, KEOS and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 14
Early Signals
From: Darren Copeland
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sound-rich reflection on origins of wireless and radio broadcasting

Bought by KWMR, KZSC, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 4
Oglala Lakota Sioux
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Worlds Apart
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Oglala Lakota Sioux: A Tour of the Great Plains

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KAAD-LP, WDSE, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2005
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 20
RN Documentary: Will the Real Will Shakespeare Please Stand Up?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt and Amsterdam writer Rodney Bolt face off in a discussion on the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays moderated b...

Bought by KFCF FM, WCPN, KQED, and WHQR


  • Added: Feb 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Hoppin’Alive
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A Radio Netherlands’ program about the revival of the 30’s swing jazz dance Lindy Hop

  • Added: Dec 21, 2004
  • Length: 29:30