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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
Bad Poetry (EDITED)
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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A set of very bad poetry reflected by some not so bad music.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2016
  • Length: 53:16
  • Purchases: 1
Prince-The Early Years in Minneapolis
From: Paul Metsa
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1st segment: Pepe Willie (the man who discovered Prince) is interviewed. 2nd Segment: Chris Moon (the man who gave the keys to his studio) is inte...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pilot Episode
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Three amazing true stories from Alaska about a heartwarming killer whale encounter, surviving a flash flood, and a Jewish girl from New Jersey movi...

Bought by American Voices, WJCT, KMXT, and KHNS


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 31:31
  • Purchases: 4
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
Pawpaw (Pledge Drive Special)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Moore
As fruits go, the pawpaw is about as unique, historically important, yet mysteriously undervalued as it gets.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 24:18
  • Purchases: 2
This Guy - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Mix a dry martini, put a platter on the turntable and sit back as Mike Heron takes us back to the smooth sounds of the sixties with Herb Alpert and...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 03:42
Bill Kirchen: Honky Tonk god, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bill Kirchen
He’s been called the Titan of the Telecaster, the King of Diesel Billy. Bill Kirchen is all that and a lot more. He’s a master in a league of his o...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 27:45
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
Paradise in the Everglades
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Maureen and Lucky Cole, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Two of the only human inhabitants of the Everglades live just off Loop Road less than a mile before it links back up with Tamiani Trail. Their comp...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 26:16
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
¡Gaytino!
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
Caption: Dan Guerrero
¡Gaytino! - written and performed by Dan Guerrero - is a remarkable life journey from 1950s East LA to New York’s Great White Way in the 60s and 70...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KWMR, Radio Catskill, KTSW 89.9, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 9
Authors Anonymous
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Authors Anonymous
Screenplay writer and radio host Dave Congalton’s movie is now available from video on demand. Authors Anonymous opens in theaters on April 18 … s...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 21:21
What are you reading? (Asked to 4th Graders)
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
Caption: 4th Grader Book Lovers
With budget cuts closing many Los Angeles school libraries, students told Hank Rosenfeld about their love of books and what they were currently re...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
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 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
Riddles from the Border Regions, 6/15/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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PROCLAMATION CAVERNOUS ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 6/1/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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MY FIRST, THE LABOR ....

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1