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Fishing For Sound
From: Glen Lasley
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Some Of My First Recordings Using A Fishing Pole For A Boom Pole.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2022
  • Length: 10:13
A Library Sounds Like This
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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From defunct recording technology to vinyl’s comeback, we've been through a lot of media changes over the last 125 years. And we're still changing!...

Bought by KVNF, KGNU Community Radio, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 3
Christmas Eve 1920s
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Christmas
Jazz with popular Christmas songs and trivia.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Industry
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Brunswick record label
With the public's thirst for jazz, the number of record producers increased very quickly in the 1920s. Sounds good. But most of those new comers we...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Speakeasy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Prohibionists
The fixture of the 1920s and early ‘30s was a result of the Volstead Act that introduced America to prohibition, and fostered the nightclubs that s...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A McKenzie Christmas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Christmas
Secular Christmas music had been around for decades before jazz began to incorporate the season into their music. When they finally did in the mid ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Geography
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jazzy
In spite of their multiple talents, most jazz musicians in the 1920s didn’t travel to the major cities to record. Part of the reason was the limite...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Brilliant Decade
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Decade
The 1920s was one of the most inventive periods in American history. On the one hand, jazz became an music art form that swept the world, on the ot...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Georgia Peach
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Although Atlanta isn’t thought of as a hub for early jazz, nevertheless, it was a hive of musical activity in the 1920s. There were enough venues, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
180811 Music You've Never Heard...
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Back to the Saturday night sound of, "Up-tempo, music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." Radio from a time long ago before ...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:52:05
The Untold Story of the University Program Board's Fall 2018 Open Mic
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack revisits St. Cloud State University’s University Pro...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:06
Bernstein Encore
From: Wind & Rhythm
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When Leonard Bernstein hosted the Young People’s Concerts in 1958, he started with the William Tell Overture and the black and white video captured...

Bought by 'The Sea', KTXK, WUAL, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KMFA


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 5
171230 Topical Themes and Radio Musicals
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Topical themes tonight ranging from the "Henry" of Etta James' "Dance With Me Henry" to Cleopatra songs and another absurdist radio musical. My fa...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:33:08
171125 California Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Substituting for California girl, Peggy Lou, so just songs about the idea fo "California."

  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:35
Boundaries Please
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Traveling Musician
So many musicians with loads of talent seldom ventured beyond their own boundaries. Here's a sampling of the riches of the 1920s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
171007 Cancelling Hurricane Nate and Music Festivals
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Substituting for Peggy Lou after I cancelled Hurricane Nate. Trying to mimic her light touch and California sensibilities ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:31:37
American Standard Time
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jan Garber
Popular music of the 1920s was jazz.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
On a Lighter Note
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Rosa Henderson
It took years for the jazz vocal to develop. Prior to vocalists like Eva Taylor and Louis Armstrong, pop music and vaudeville styles dominated the ...

Bought by WJSU and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Apollo Theater
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Apollo Theater
The neo-classically designed Apollo with it’s plush interior opened for business in 1913. At first it was a burlesque venue. Later featuring vaudev...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Play It Again Sam
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Berlin
Here is a selection of songs from the early years of jazz that had longevity. Their popularity lasted for decades.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spreading the Word
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Early Radio
Jazz connected with audiences in the 1920s, but it was the combination of a prolific recording industry and the abundance of radio’s that boosted i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Rivals & Friends
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Paul Whiteman
Although bandleaders Paul Whiteman and Jean Goldkette were competitors in the 1920s, through their careers they remained friendly rivals.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paper Hits
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Durium Records
As the Great Depression set in, record sales began to slump early in 1930. But one record company had an answer.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
151031 Being Robbed On A Saturday Night in New Orleans
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music about being robbed at a hotel on your one-nighter (more like a one-half nighter) and black bubblegum music. As always, music you've never h...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:42:45
  • Purchases: 1
Zac Little Stops by WFHB
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Zac Little of the American Folk Rock band Saintseneca a talks about the relationship between a necker cube and songwriting on the new album Such Th...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:28