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Naughty Sweetie Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blanch Calloway
There is a myriad of possible themes in musical circles, but among the most common is the love theme. Finding love, being in love, or losing love. ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tin Pan Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Tin Pan Alley
The Alley of Song and America’s popular music of the 1920s, jazz, crossed over in 1917. It wasn’t long before musicians began to revive compositi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sporkful: Thanksgiving Is For Eaters - 2016
From: WNYC
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An entertaining, informative, and personal radio special with Dan Pashman, host of The Sporkful podcast. Featuring Mo Rocca, Amy Sedaris, Sam Sifto...

Bought by KALW, North Country Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 51:28
  • Purchases: 30
A Bad Reputation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Winold Reiss
When there's a movie chase scene, more often than not, the accompanying music is jazz.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Really the Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Mezz Mezzrow
In 1946 Milton Mezzrow, otherwise known as Mezz, wrote a tell all book about his experiences with jazz in the 1920s and '30s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Snake Hips & the Dance Craze
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jazz Dance
The spontaneous enthusiasm of jazz brought exuberance to the dance floor in the 1920s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Anecdote Notes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s flapper
Here are a few of the many stories surrounding the term jazz.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Not the Usual
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Skiffle Band
Early jazz musicians experimented with an array of instrumentation including the kazoo, washboard, jug, hot fountain pin, goofus and comb. They als...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Phil Collins "Face Value" and "Both Sides": All Access
From: Dan Neer
Series: All Access World Premieres
Caption: Phil Collins "Face Value" & "Both Sides": All Access
Phil Collins talks about the re-issues of his solo albums Face Value and Both Sides with music from the newly remastered and expanded albums

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 52:38
  • Purchases: 2
Candullo & the Big Apple
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe Candullo & his Orchestra
New York City was the happening place during the Jazz Age. Actually, there were more musicians than there were jobs. But somehow, quite a number of...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Drink Local (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A culture has grown up around brewing beer locally and at home. The brewmasters at Champion Brewing Company discuss "shower beer" and beer made wit...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, KEDT, WABE, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Drink Local (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A culture has grown up around brewing beer locally and at home. The brewmasters at Champion Brewing Company discuss "shower beer" and beer made wit...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KVSC, WKCC, KENW and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
#30 MIW - Gina Garro - Elementary School Teacher and Amateur Artist
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Gina Garro on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
This episode of Making it Work, we will chat with Gina Garro, third grade teacher and amateur artist about how she is keeping Common Core in public...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 26:37
Minstrel Miller
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Vaudeville
This program is devoted to several vaudeville performers who were forced to ply their trade elsewhere when silent movies and Broadway reviews close...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
A 1929's Valentine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Valentine
Love songs from the 1920s featuring Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Josephine Baker, and many more.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Don's Harlem Debut
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Don Redman
Don Redman was a trendsetter, and inspiration for early jazz. His talents extended to trumpet, piano, alto saxophone, and oboe, but his primary inf...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Bunny's Bounce
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Roland "Bunny" Berigan
Bunny Berigan’s rise to stardom, and extreme fall has been compared to a hero from a Shakespeare tragedy. In a span of only a dozen years, he emerg...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
On the Road
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Broken down automobile
This is a look at the various forms of travel in the early part of the 20th century: horseless carriage, boats, rail, and afoot.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Riverboat Shuffle
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Mississippi Steamboat
In the latter days of the Golden Age of steamboats, many musicians plied their trade with the orchestras traveling the Mississippi. Memphis and St....

Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Riddles from the Border Regions 12/7/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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NO LETTERS HAS MY FIRST NAME ...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
Riddles from the Border Regions
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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HAS THE HARVEST MOON FALLEN?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
Riddles from the Border Regions
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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I LEAD LAUGHTER ....

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ives Said It
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Liv Rooth
A trio of short plays from a master of the medium, David Ives, with an April Fools Day feel to them. First, in SURE THING, a chance meeting between...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Riddles from the Border Regions 7/27/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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SHALLOW ROOTS ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 7/20/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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A TRIO OF STARTING...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1