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- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 28:08
British music royalty, Kami Thompson and James Walbourne have combined both their personal and musical lives to form the super duo The Rails. They...
Bought by WRNC-LP
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Show Tunes in Jazz. This features those popular songs of the 1920s and early '30s that became jazz standards, and jazz that made its way to stage.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
It's the rough and tumble 1920s Chicago’s speakeasies. You had to have a password to gain entrance through a side door.
Bought by WDCB, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
The Twin Cities Jewish Chorale was formed six years ago to provide opportunities to sing types of Jewish music other than that which is sung in syn...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 15, 2015
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
This program features lesser known music and artists from the 70's, as radio programming transitioned from AM Top 40 to more progressive free form...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 01:01:56
"The Miller, His Son, and Their Donkey" and "Feathers"
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 28:02
They called themselves the Tennessee Tooters and the Hottentots … along with other monikers. There was Red Nichols, cornet - Miff Mole, Trombone -...
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
We invited Billboard's Judy Cantor-Navas to help us pick out some nominated artists who make great music and deserve the spotlight the 15th annual ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
In the early 20th century there was a recording war - a war of recording studios. There was Thomas Edison on one side. Then there was everybody els...
Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, WSLR, and KCBX
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 4
“The Father of Western Swing” is the moniker tagged to Milton Brown. In 1932, he left the Light Crust Doughboy’s to form his own band: The Musical ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 17, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
With Halloween on the way, it’s scary movie season. That means isolated cabins, psychopathic hillbillies, and evil in the woods. One scholar believ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 3
From winning an amateur contest at Piqua's May's Opera House in the 1920s to the rise of rock and roll in the early fifties and their number one hi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
She was known for her terrific voice. Her ability to shift gears from playfully light to low down growl was unmatched.
But Ethel Waters’ is also k...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
The Gene Kardos Orchestra wasn't know for their hot jazz, but that's not what their bandleader/alto saxophonist had in mind when he brought his gro...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 09, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
"Rabbi and the 29 Witches" and "Man Who Tricked a Ghost"
- Added: Aug 29, 2014
- Length: 28:07
By the mid 1920s, Chicago had become, not only a hot bed of jazz, but the home of a thriving bootleg business. Hundreds of speakeasy’s sprung up ov...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
To say that London was not known as a mecca for early jazz is an understatement, however, Britain adopted America’s music very quickly.
The Savoy ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Jay Baruchel, America Ferrara, Dean Deblois, and Bonnie Arnold talk falling objects, unlikely damsels in distress, and why it’s a three-year wait b...
- Added: Jun 12, 2014
- Length: 11:26
"Zzzng! Zzzng! Zzzng!" and "The Ants and the Grasshopper, Hey, Little Ant!"
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 28:07
"And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" and "Cinder Edna"
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 28:06
She was known as “The Personality Girl,” with a singing style that crossed over between sweet and hot jazz-influenced presentations. Annette Hansha...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
We trace hip hop’s roots, focusing on how it's expressed in different regions of our country, from California to New York, and even in Virginia. Pl...
Bought by WJCT, WABE, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
American-invented hip hop music is now an international phenomenon with rappers in countries like Japan and Senegal. We trace hip hop’s roots, focu...
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 53:52
- Purchases: 4
