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Episode 4 - Misheard Lyrics
From: Joe Boehnlein
Series: A Blast from the Past: The Pod
Caption: A Blast from the Past Logo
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer

  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
Episode 3 - Misheard Lyrics
From: Joe Boehnlein
Series: A Blast from the Past: The Pod
Caption: A Blast from the Past Logo
Tiny Dancer - Elton John

  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
Episode 2 - Misheard Lyrics
From: Joe Boehnlein
Series: A Blast from the Past: The Pod
Caption: A Blast from the Past Logo
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
Episode 1 - Misheard Lyrics
From: Joe Boehnlein
Series: A Blast from the Past: The Pod
Caption: A Blast from the Past Logo
Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
The Journey of Vinayakram
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mahesh Vinayakram
Sandip Roy shares the journey of Mahesh Vinayakram, from the verse of Carnatic music to the world stage of Cirque du Soleil.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Baluji Shrivastav has an Inner Vision
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Baluji Shrivastav, Credit: Sandip Roy
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns. But Baluji...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Joni Mitchell on Illusions
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don’t know why I seem to bring that out in people." - Joni Mitchell as told to Joe Smith ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 3
Open Source Song Writing
From: Fil Corbitt
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Billy Mack got a house, and then got 95 people to play a song about it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
150228 Spock! Martian Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Spock Listening To My Show
Lyrics referring to Mars with interstitials from Spock. If you like this, you'll need to move out of your parent's basement and leave the record s...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:59:36
150221 Music for Ash Weekend (my invented holiday)
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music for the weekend after Mardi Gras - a celebration of Ash Weekend. Plenty of Louisiana swamp blues music for the geared-down mood. Then again...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:54:24
150207 First Weekend of Mardi Gras
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: From Salt Lake City's premier restaurant critic (and a mean bassist), Ted Scheffler. , Credit: Ted "Da Bob" Scheffler
Songs about outer space, satellites, rockets and hot rods with plenty of instrumentals you can "do it yourself" sing over. Even an example of Jami...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:51:43
Love the French Way 6 - Nathalie
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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A young Frenchman visits the Red Square in Moscow. His guide is a pretty Russian girl. Romance blossoms, notwithstanding Cold War politics.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
Joy and freedom onstage
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Classical piano or "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"--makes no difference, as long as Aleksya can be onstage, performing for an audience.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:20
Gypsy Swing
From: Richard Paul
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Explaining Gypsy Swing

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 11:37
  • Purchases: 2
Swing Jazz
From: Richard Paul
Caption: Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
Explaining Swing Jazz

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 12:10
  • Purchases: 2
Does it Swing?
From: Richard Paul
Caption: Count Basie
There’s a question every good jazz musician can answer just by listening to a song: "Does it Swing?"

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 13:09
  • Purchases: 2
NEA Jazz Master Johnny Mandel
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Six Moments with 2011 NEA Jazz Master, composer, and arranger Johnny Mandel.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WART FM, WUSF and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 7
NEA Jazz Master Jason Marsalis
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Two Moments featuring 2011 NEA Jazz Master Jason Marsalis

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KBEM, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 07:29
  • Purchases: 13
Music Styles of the Arab World
From: Richard Paul
Caption: Moroccan musicians performing with double-ended rattles in Rabat
Musicians from across the Arab World join Georges Collinet to demonstrate musical culture of diverse Arabic nations.

Bought by WSLR, WSLR, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2009
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 3
Instruments and Rhythms of the Arab World
From: Richard Paul
Caption: An Arab musician demonstrates traditional upright fiddle-playing
Georges Collinet on the instruments and rhythms of the Arab World

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2009
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
What Makes Arabic Music Unique?
From: Richard Paul
Caption: Qatari men perform a traditional Ardha (warriors' dance)
Georges Collinet on the unique elements of Arabic musical culture

  • Added: Nov 07, 2009
  • Length: 12:07
Music That Matters To Tim Surrett
From: WAMU
Series: Music That Matters
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WAMU's Bluegrass Country asks some of the finest musicians in bluegrass music what they are listening to and how it influences their own music.

  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 01:49
Music That Matters To Chris Pandolfi
From: WAMU
Series: Music That Matters
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WAMU's Bluegrass Country asks some of the finest musicians in bluegrass music what they are listening to and how it influences their own music.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2009
  • Length: 01:36
NEA Jazz Master Snooky Young on starting out.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Snooky Young on his unique name and his start in music.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KBEM, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 9
Part 1 - the 18th Century
From: Richard Paul
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Classical music in the years before and just after the Revolution

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 15:02
  • Purchases: 1