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Let's eat! A virtual audio buffet featuring food songs and visits to classic diners and restaurants with vintage movie, television clips and Spam o...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 31:42
Pre WWII songs revived by rock stars and the songs "Crazy Legs" and "Good Lovin.'" Plus a focus on the original songs covered by The Paladins as ...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, Prairie Public, WQCS, KFCF FM, and WYAP
- Added: Nov 22, 2022
- Length: 02:59:00
- Purchases: 5
Today's headlines include threats of nuclear war in Ukraine and the possibility of contamination from bombing off Ukraine's nuclear power plant. Th...
Bought by Prairie Public and KVCR
- Added: Oct 04, 2022
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
Searching for the first rock and roll song in all the music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. This week, we'll start with son...
Bought by KFCF FM, WQCS, KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Sep 21, 2022
- Length: 02:59:00
- Purchases: 6
Tracks from some new recordings, and some surprises.
- Added: Sep 10, 2022
- Length: 57:51
Whether we like it or not, we pick up skills from our habits. Everyone talks up the good habits and their good skills but nobody talks up the bad ...
Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM
- Added: Dec 24, 2020
- Length: 02:56:58
- Purchases: 2
The final program of the 2019-2020 season presents some favorite Night Cafe performances.
- Added: Jun 27, 2020
- Length: 58:41
More Washington Phillips music contrasted with contemporary songs and a "whisper in your ear" talk about imagery, radio and the ideal of an audio p...
- Added: Jan 12, 2020
- Length: 03:36:46
A little levity from talented and inventive musicians can go a long way to putting some pep in your step. Fats Waller could hardly keep from adding...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
You might say he didn’t take his music seriously. On the other hand, bandleader and clarinetist Ted Lewis is one of the best known performers of th...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 14, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1925, pianist Joel Shaw became vast friends with bandleader Gene Kardos. They clicked. Their style had elements of jazz, society dance band and ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 11, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Looking through old photos elicits a myriad of feelings.
- Added: Mar 10, 2019
- Length: 59:21
An alternative take on Valentine's Day.
- Added: Feb 09, 2019
- Length: 54:03
The same old dreck with a radio musical thrown in for the single theater-minded listener out there.
- Added: Sep 04, 2018
- Length: 03:11:18
A faux live broadcast from your prom. As you can imagine, it didn't go well for me.
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 03:49:54
The regular listeners to Saturday night radio meet at a New Orleans music club for the music, drinks, food and each other in this live broadcast.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: May 28, 2018
- Length: 02:56:14
- Purchases: 1
During prohibition train fare to Canada was considerably cheaper than dealing with the mob syndicate that controlled liquor distribution. Not only ...
- Added: May 24, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
In the latter 1920s the art of crooning became very popular. Male vocalists began performing their songs in a romantic, intimate, just-for-you styl...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 18, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
One of American music's original crossover kings, his music transformed a city and an industry forever.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 18:45
Poets and troubadours have been writing and singing about it for centuries. The music of the 1920s is no different. This program features a selecti...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Plenty of New Orleans music and songs about yo yos. Then I had "these urges" that turned into unrehearsed stunts.
- Added: Dec 25, 2017
- Length: 03:07:17
Late Saturday in the French Quarter music. Songs about "Sittin,"" an autoharp player inspired by Jimi Hendrix, a string harp in a blues song and ...
- Added: Nov 19, 2017
- Length: 03:50:25
Music that incorporates mechanical noises into the rhythm, gunslinger songs (including a psychological analysis of a gunslinger) and my Jerry Samue...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 02:24:40
Since there were no rules about where jazz fit into the scheme of popular music in the 1920s, every imaginable fell into the grand experiment. Basi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 28, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
