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Song writers are behind every hit we have ever heard. Here are four songwriting teams that gave use hundreds of our favorite songs in the '60s and ...
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- Added: Jan 21, 2024
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 1
With the British invasion of 1964 a new era of pop music was ushered in. But it was more than the Brits making noise in 1964.
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- Added: Jan 14, 2024
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 1
Many many song titles contain one word repeated two or three or more times. Listen to 34 of them here.
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 3
Mothers name their baby boys all sorts of names. Many of those names find their way into songs. Here are many of them.
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- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 1
A look at some "different" instruments used in some of our favorite records in the the '60s and '70's
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- Added: Jun 11, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we discussed the new book "Dance-Punk," part of a new series of "Genre" books from 33 1/3. We discussed the history of dance-punk ...
- Added: May 20, 2023
- Length: 28:29
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about a new book in the "Decades" series that documents the band Faith No More and thei...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 27:59
Martin McDonagh returns to Ireland for this tale of contagious madness between two friends falling out.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:32
The music business is "a man's world" but is gradually changing. These powerhouses from the '60s and '70s unlocked the doors, and by sheer talent a...
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- Added: Mar 13, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 1
Without Pat Boone, how much longer would white kids have waited for real rock 'n roll?
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- Added: Feb 19, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 1
Love is the best part of life. There's never enough love. Let the music fill you with it.
- Added: Feb 11, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 2
In the fall of 1999 we were getting ready for the new century. This is what was on Broadway.
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- Added: Jan 09, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 1
With what Garrett Stack considers, with few exceptions, a dismal state of musical theater for the last decade, a new programming format focuses alm...
- Added: Jan 08, 2023
- Length: 01:57:59
Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:01
Javier Bardem shines in this dark satire about a glad-handing business owner threatened with scandal and controversy.
- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 03:35
A witty English drama from John Schlesinger about an unusual triangle: a man and a woman both in love with the same man.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:09
The classic Harlem Renaissance novel by Ella Larsen about the American delusion of race is beautifully adapted by Rebecca Hall.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:31
Claire Denis’ latest film explores one of her important themes: how desire in man-woman relationships is more complicated than we often assume.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:35
Alfred Hitchcock made this appeal to join the fight against Hitler a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now this film is valued for being one ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 05:48
In 1999 BMI published its compilation of the most played songs heard on the radio and television during the 20th century. These are the Top-30.
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- Added: Oct 02, 2022
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 1
Musicians listen to each other. When they are awed by something they try to make it theirs in a new way. They are Under The Influence of the ones w...
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- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 01:58:00
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In the history of Indian film, there’s a dividing line between approximately the first forty years of the movie industry, and the release, in 1955,...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:33
A gripping drama based on real events that occurred during the Serbian attack on Bosnia in 1995 brings home to us the nightmare of modern war.
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:18
The yearning and frustrations of two teenage girls in 1950s New Zealand leads to tragedy, in this wildly expressive film based on an actual murder ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:23
A Finnish woman on a Russian train is aggravated by the man with which she’s forced to share a compartment: an insensitive young tough guy with a c...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:12
