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Porcupines
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This week on The Children’s Hour we learn all about porcupines from the leading researchers in New Mexico, kids in the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring ...

Bought by KECG, KCHU, Allegheny Mountain Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Broadway Musicals: The 20 Longest Runs REWORKED
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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A run on Broadway can be a matter of days, or years or decades. The list keeps changing as some musicals continue their runs and others close. Here...

Bought by WMNR, KVNO, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:23
  • Purchases: 3
The Rolling Stones - 1964-1967
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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The Rolling Stones records from 1964 to 1967

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:55:46
  • Purchases: 1
Love's Gone. It's Over.
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Songs of lost love, finished love, tired of loving you. These emotions have fueled the songwriting pens of thousands of composers through the years...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
What's Your Name? – Take 2
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Thousands of songs include names of people. Here's a bunch from the '60s, '70s and some '80s.

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
2021 Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Best Songs Ever
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Drawing from Rolling Stone Magazine's 2021 list, the first one since 2004, we look at the top-100 and select 28 songs from the 1960s and 1970's. St...

Bought by KSRQ and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Wokin' For a Living
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Work has dignity. Work gives life meaning. Jobs in song. Work is important.

Bought by WMNR and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 2
My Broadway Journey
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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Thinking about the 150+ musicals I've seen on Broadway throughout my life, I picked out 25 to chronicle from 1967 on.

Bought by WMNR, KVNO, Raven Radio, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 4
Steve's List: News Reporter's Best Ever Picks
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Steven Slosberg, columnist for the Westerly (RI) Sun, selected his "best picks" by recording artists in the '60s and '70s.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
City Hoppin': US Cities in Song
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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City names have made their way into songs of every genre. Here's 33 of them.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 08, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
C'mon a-My House
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Come on over. Let's hang out. Drink some wine and listen to my albums from the '60s and '70s.

Bought by WMNR and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 25, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Carolina Shag & Beach Music
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Beach music is unique along the Grand Strand of the Carolinas. It all started in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where the shag took hold.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 11, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Saxes--and More--of Steve Douglas
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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The career of the legendary saxophone player, Steve Douglas

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 01:56:15
  • Purchases: 1
Hit the Road!
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Drivin', ridin', truckin'. We're on the road in everything from a Corvair (yes a song about a Corvair) to a Cadillac, from a Chevy Van to a Mack tr...

Bought by WMNR and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Summers Across the Charts: Part 2 - The '70s
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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A look at Billboard's Hot-100, R&B and Country charts in the summers of 1970's. Simultaneous #1 hits on each of the charts in each of the summers,...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
Summers Across the Charts: Part 1 - The '60s
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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#1 hits of summers past that appeared simultaneously in their genre on Billboard's Hot-100, R&B, and Country charts. Three from each summer, 1960 –...

  • Added: May 30, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:52
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – or Shame?
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Since 1986 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has inducted "members" through a shroud of secrecy. Some of the best are inducted. But many of the best ...

  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
About Moms
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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Broadway is fertile ground for songs about mothers and their lives as wives, caregivers, protectors, and doing the best they can. (Yes, that's Ethe...

Bought by WMNR


  • Added: May 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
CELEBRATE!
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Through music, this special edition of American Jukebox® celebrates the beginning of the return to "normal" after over a year of COVID lockdown.

  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
Kids & Autism
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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The Kids Crew learn about autism from authors Justin & David Flood who wrote A Kids Book About Autism, and from renown scientist with autism, Templ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 13
The Beach Boys' 60th & Philadelphia International Records 50th
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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2021 marks two major anniversaries in pop, rock and soul music history: The Beach Boys formed 60 years ago and the "Philly soul" label, Philadelphi...

Bought by KSRQ, WMNR, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 01:40:45
  • Purchases: 3
The Rigged Grammys
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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The Grammy Awards were established in 1958 to recognize "good" music, elevate the taste in American popular music, and systematically ignore and ne...

Bought by WMNR


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:16
  • Purchases: 1
Let's Hear It For The Boys! REWORKED
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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It seems most Broadway musicals focus on leading females. What about the guys? These musicals are all about the boys.

Bought by WMNR


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:42
  • Purchases: 1
Academy Awards Best Song Oscar - REWORKED
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
Caption: Best Song Oscars
And the Oscar for the Best Song written for a film goes to...

Bought by WMNR, WUFT, WEZU, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 4
The 35 Most Popular Groups of the '60s (Reworked)
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
Caption: Based on Dann Isbell's "Ranking the '60s"
According to Dann Isbell's book, RANKING THE '60s, these are the 35 most successful vocal groups of the 1960's.

Bought by WMNR, WEZU, and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 3