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The Exciting Broadway Overture
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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In a bygone era, the overture at the start of a Broadway musical created excitement and anticipation, teasing us about what was to come. Listen to...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
Alaska's Fresh Catch (week of 11/20/23)
From: Dave Emmert
Series: Alaska's Fresh Catch
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This week we are catching up with Anchorage singer/songwriter, Zane Penny, to chat with him about his first tour this summer and his debut record, ...

Bought by KHNS, KTNA, KNBA, KSTK, KMXT and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Labor Day Workers Salute (Reworked)
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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The Broadway musical is replete with characters who have jobs, from a street vendor In the Heights, to a London pie maker in Sweeney Todd.

Bought by WMNR and Interlochen Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 2
American Stories as Told in Broadway Songs
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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The musical theater is brimming with all things American. From events, to people, to crimes and politics.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
AFVN: The GI's Companion
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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For ten years, the Armed Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) radio served as a lifeline to "home" for the millions who served in Vietnam and southeast Asia.

Bought by KSRQ, KFSK, WABE, WMNR, KCNP and more


  • Added: May 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 7
TINA TURNER: Simply the Best (A Tribute) [Optional Hour 2]
From: Paul Ingles
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In this second optional hour of a music special from producer Paul Ingles, listeners will hear more tracks from over 50 years of recording and perf...

Bought by Prairie Public, RadioStPete Florida, KSJE, WRVO Public Media, KUT and more


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Rachmaninoff 150 – A Celebration
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth, acclaimed musicians discuss and perform his compositions, and Rachmaninoff himsel...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KRPS, WHQR, WMNR, KENW and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 15
Burt Bacharach: A Celebration in Song
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Burt Bacharach stands alongside all the giants in popular music: "Music by Burt Bacharach." Hew wrote hundreds of hits as varied as the weather in ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Digging Into Broadway's Black History
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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Black Americans have been major stars of the musical theater since 1906. Who was the first black Broadway star? What was the first all-black musica...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
Broadway Bound Reboot #1
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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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
OLD SCHOOL: Mistletoe Jam
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: “It felt like a kiss...”
Professor Mikey's Old School Christmas special presents a detention hall you may not remember but you will never forget!

Bought by KDUR and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 2
THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE (Hour 3 of 3)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Jackson Browne
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY TO BE RUN IF YOUR STATION IS RUNNING ALL THREE HOURS OF **THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE**. THERE WILL BE OTHER VERSIONS POSTED...

Bought by KSJE, KUPR low power FM, KFSK, Prairie Public, and WUTC


  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE (Hour 2 of 3)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Jackson Browne
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY TO BE RUN IF YOUR STATION IS RUNNING ALL THREE HOURS OF **THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE**. THERE WILL BE OTHER VERSIONS POST...

Bought by KSJE, KFSK, Prairie Public, and WUTC


  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Gustav Mahler: Turmoil and Triumph
From: Charlie Warren
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"To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world," said Mahler. Hear unique historical comment and quotes from biographers, authors, conductor...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WHRV


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
  • Purchases: 5
Bicentennial Jukebox
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Countdown of the Top-40 hits on Billboard's Hot-100 when America turned 200 – July 4, 1976

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:27:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fathers
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Popular music has forever had songs written about relationships with fathers. All genres, all times.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Musical Black History
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour we explore black history through music. We've put together a special playlist of songs to educate about a few of t...

Bought by KECG, WVTF, KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRSC and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20220221: Musical Black History, 2/21/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour we explore black history through music. We've put together a special playlist of songs to educate about a few of t...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
GEORGE HARRISON: Best Year Ever - 1971 (Single Hour Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: All Thing Must Pass & The Concert for Bangladesh by George Harrison
GEORGE HARRISON – BEST YEAR EVER celebrates two landmark events that rolled out from George Harrison in 1971. First, it's a deep dive into Harrison...

Bought by KUNM, WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, KVMR, and KGLT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Conversations in African American Music: Spirituals Revisited
From: WGTE Public Media
Caption: Dr. Louise Toppin
Dr. Louise Toppin, noted soprano and professor of voice at the University of Michigan, takes us on a tour of African American folk music: the spiri...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WVIA, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Jewish Blues Part 2
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish concludes its two-part series on Jewish blues with cool tunes in three languages.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mahler's First Symphony
From: Aaron Cohen
Series: Embrace Everything - The World of Gustav Mahler
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This episode focuses on Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major (1888), taking listeners back to the work’s origins in the street songs, folk tunes and ...

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, WMNR, WGTE Public Media, Classic107.3, and WMNR


  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Wild Ride of Jerry Lee Lewis (extended edition)
From: Paul Ingles
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An 89 minute version of THE WILD RIDE OF JERRY LEE LEWIS. (There is a 59:00 / 54:00 version at PRX as well - see link in station info). Music d...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 01:28:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Wild Ride of Jerry Lee Lewis
From: Paul Ingles
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Music documentarian Paul Ingles presents an exploration and celebration of the music and often times controversial story of rock legend Jerry Lee L...

Bought by KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KUPR low power FM, KRVS, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 17
20 Artists That Shaped the Psychedelic Era
From: Stephen R Webb
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This a special standalone edition of Stuck in the Psychedelic Era celebrating the artists who made it all happen. It is also available as episode P...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Royalton Community Radio, WOMR, WFHB, and KKRN


  • Added: May 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 5