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Benny's Buddies
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Woody Walder
This program highlights the musicians who performed with Benny Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra. The swinging, bluesy sound that became known as “Kans...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Pinnacle of Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: McKinney's Cotton Pickers
A creative explosion occurred in the world of jazz in the years between WWI and the Great Depression. The electrical process allowed the musicians ...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazzy Women
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: blanche Calloway
This program provides a glimpse into the careers of four of the most influential female vocalists in early jazz. Ethel Waters, Eva Taylor, Blanche ...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Liverpool to Hamburg Scene Before The Beatles
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Howie Casey Derry Wilkie and Band
There was the usual Liverpool music scene in Liverpool but there was a spectacular Liverpool musical scene that flourished in ... Hamburg, Germany....

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 2
Varieties Part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lil Hardin
This program features the pianists who were instrumental in melding popular music and jazz in the 1920s. Without their influence, American’s origin...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Varities - Part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Earl Hines
This program features those pianists whose work influenced the future of jazz. In the late 1920s, it was Earl Hines. His experimentations revoluti...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
From Tenor to Baritone
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Seger Ellis
Three major happenings occurred in early jazz vocal. First the art of Crooning became popular, male vocalists singing romantic songs. The second - ...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Call Me Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lonnie Johnson
The blues, as it’s called, evolved decades before jazz. Consequently, the blues and jazz coexisted and melded over the years. The original eight an...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
March of the Hoodlums
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fate Marable Orchestra
The title is borrowed from a Hoagy Carmichael tune written when he was in college. It’s a tribute to those talented musicians who are always on the...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Where's the Trumpet?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Noone
As jazz evolved in the early decades of the 1900s, the trumpet became the natural leader, however, there were a few bands that flew in the in anot...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz in the Big Apple
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: New York City, 1923
Although there were several areas around the country that were popular spots for jazz in the 1920s, New York City stood out as the ultimate destina...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Telephone Show (Feb 2, 2019)
From: Rhythm & News Service
Series: American Rhythm
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This week, American Rhythm explores songs that reference that all-important communication technology: the telephone.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:56
Devils And Angels (August 8th, 2020)
From: Rhythm & News Service
Series: American Rhythm
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This week, a collection of songs that have some connection to the idea of devils and angels.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:57
The Moon Show (July 4, 2020)
From: Rhythm & News Service
Series: American Rhythm
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This week, we focus our iris on that beautiful body in the sky. All of the songs this week are about the moon.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:57
Gone To The Birds, Part 2 (May 16, 2020)
From: Rhythm & News Service
Series: American Rhythm
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This week, Craig heads back into his robust archive for a second helping of songs all about the birds.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:57
A Bit of This 'n' That (July 26, 2020)
From: Rhythm & News Service
Series: American Rhythm
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This week, a little bit of this 'n' that - including a number of songs that were originally recorded as instrumentals before lyrics were added.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:57
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #120 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME w/ Newsman Art Schreiber on THE BEATLES
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Radio newsman Art Schreiber was one of only 2 American reporters allowed on The Beatles historic 1964 first tour of the United States. Schreiber t...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE


  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
The Nickelodeon
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Aeriol Piano c.1920
As jazz pianists arrived in Chicago and New York in the 1920s, they found that their income could be lucratively increased by cutting piano rolls. ...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Djangology
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Djangology
Guitarist Django Reinhardt emerged from obscurity in the early 1930s with the accidental formation of a string quartet. Violinist Stephane Grappell...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #118 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME w/ DOUG CLIFFORD of CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Host Paul Ingles talks with drummer Doug Clifford of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Creedence Clearwater Revival about the early days of the ...

Bought by KUHF, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE


  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Front Moler
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Miff Mole
When Miff Mole came to the Jazz scene in 1919, he was already an accomplished trombonist. As a pioneer artist of the era, he was the first trombon...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Watching, Looking & Seeing (July 18, 2020)
From: Rhythm & News Service
Series: American Rhythm
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This week's collection of tunes focuses on the idea of watching, looking, and seeing and associated matters.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:58
Paul's Circle
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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In the early years of the 1920s bandleader Paul Whiteman began experimenting with jazz. His goal was to introduce the new music to a wider audience...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #116 - "Songwriters At Sea" - Part 4 (John Hiatt / Tift Merritt)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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The fourth in a series of programs that features interviews and music with some of the top names in Americana music over the last 20 years who, in ...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUPR low power FM, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Stay Close To The Music
From: Will Duchon
Series: The Night Cafe
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The final program of the 2019-2020 season presents some favorite Night Cafe performances.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:41