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Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Pride Month begins with former California Supreme Court attorney, Michael Nava. The author of now ten novels in the Henry Rios mystery series, seve...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.
- Added: Aug 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Rocket 88,” by Jackie Brenston — widely considered to be one of the archetypal records of rock ‘n’ roll.
- Added: Aug 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Baby Scratch My Back” by Slim Harpo — the only number one hit on the Excello label during its 23 year run.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Key to the Highway” — one of the enduring classics of the blues, first recorded by pianist Charlie Segar in 1940.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Stick McGhee’s 1949 anthem to good times and cheap booze — a big hit that saved a fledgling Atlantic Records from bankruptcy.
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile B.B. King, who hit the number one spot on the Billboard R&B charts with “Three O’Clock Blues,” this week in 1952.
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Guitar Slim, who — much to everyone’s surprise — hit the top of the R&B charts with “The Things That I Used To Do,” in 1954.
- Added: Jul 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with “Homesick” James Williamson and Johnny Shines.
- Added: Jul 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Elmore James, Arthur Spires, and Johnny Williams.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile “Open the Door, Richard” — a 1947 novelty record that quickly embedded itself into the American consciousness.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Son House and B.B. King, who both made historic live appearances in Chicago the Saturday night before Thanksgiving, 1964.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile James “Beale Street” Clark — barely a footnote in blues history — who recorded an enduring classic, this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Windy City keyboard legend Little Johnny Jones, who was in the studio with Muddy Waters and Leroy Foster in 1949.
- Added: Apr 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who recorded an iconic slice of down home blues, "That's All Right," this week in 1946.
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi guitarist Tommy Johnson, who cut one of the prophetic masterpieces of the blues, this week in 1928.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 03:29
It is most space fans’ favorite planetary science mission, and with good reason. We visit with the man who has been in charge of Voyager mission sc...
Bought by WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 7
Rod Pyle reveals bizarre yet fascinating space projects of the past in his new book. Pyle also exposes previously classified information about mis...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 6
Today's hits are inevitably stolen gems from the past.
Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, KSRQ, WYAP, and KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Two history books are profiled that both provide a timeline of history for peace periods, peace leaders, key philosophers, important turning points...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM
- Added: Apr 27, 2016
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of CC, we continue our coverage of the Winona County Historical Societies’ annual Voices from the Past Cemetery Walk”. The walk is ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 28:35
On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you part one Voices of the Past Cemetery Discovery Walk 2015, sponsored by the Winona County Historical...
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 28:35
On this episode of CC, we continue our coverage of the Winona County Historical Societies' annual Voices from the Past Cemetery Walk”. The walk is ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 19:01
On this episode of Culture Clique, we continue our coverage of the Winona County Historical Societies' annual Voices from the Past Cemetery Walk”. ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 11:06
