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Music Archive Showcase #166 - Celebrating the Late Paul Buckmaster
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Paul Buckmaster
Paul Ingles hosts a music mix special that elevates some of the finest examples or orchestrator and conductor Paul Buckmaster's contributions to so...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
THE 2023 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL (Optional Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
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Part 2 of music special producer Paul Ingles' thoughtful, heart-felt, year-end music mix program that allows us all to honor many of the music grea...

Bought by WORT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KSJE, KFSK, KRVS and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
2022 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL - (OPTIONAL) HOUR 2
From: Paul Ingles
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More names in music who passed away in 2022 are noted and celebrated in this optional second hour long special hosted by music historian and docume...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, North State Public Radio, KUHF, KSJE and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Veterans Appreciation Music Mix - Hour 1
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
Caption: Host Paul Ingles' father John S. Ingles, and grandfather Harry C. Ingles, 1944
For on or near VETERAN'S DAY or MEMORIAL DAY, or most any time, a carefully curated hour of music for and about veterans, appreciating their sacrif...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KMXT and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Musicians' Memorial 2020 - Jazz/R&B/Soul Edition
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: McCoy Tyner / Bonnie Pointer / Wallace Roney
Music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts 1 of 4 hours remembering musicians who passed away in 2020. This edition spotlights jazz/R&B/soul artists lo...

Bought by KSJE, Prairie Public, Troy Public Radio, KMSU, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
In Memoriam 2019
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at the musicians we lost in 2019.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 57:44
A Song for Peace
From: Israel Story
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Meant to be an Israeli version of Hair’s ‘Let the Sunshine In,’, Shir La’Shalom was quickly banned by generals and labeled as both defeatist and de...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 12:16
  • Purchases: 2
Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen - Paul Ingles Music Archive Showcase #42
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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A tribute to singer/songwriting legend Leonard Cohen who passed away November 7, 2016 at the age of 82.

Bought by KFSK, KSJE, KUPR low power FM, WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 8
Connecting With a Once Shunned Finnish Past Through Song
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Diane Jarvi, Credit: Courtesy of Diane Jarvi
Finnish immigrants to Minnesota often faced discrimination. Many were radicals. To avoid the "Dirty Finn" label, some Finns shunned their heritage....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
Bob Dylan, The Poet
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Bob Dylan has been singing more than 50 years. But have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?

Bought by Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
Large Hadron Collider Song
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Pledge Drive Songs, Topical Songs & Parodies
Caption: Large Hadron Collider Song
Outro Song suitable for Large Hadron Collider news story segment

  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 03:02
Folktale of the Afterlife
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of the Afterlife, Credit: Julia Meek
Let's face it--that 'final passage' is the most difficult stage of life for 'the departed' AND the loved ones left behind--and it's that road we tr...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KCMJ Community Radio, WFIU and more


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 6
Ladies Sing the Blues
From: Will Duchon
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Blues and blue songs by female jazz singers of today and yesterday.

Bought by Troy Public Radio and WJAB


  • Added: May 23, 2015
  • Length: 56:52
  • Purchases: 2
Viktor Ullman's Compositions in Terezin
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jory Debenham explores the work Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann created in the Terezin concentration camp.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2015
  • Length: 06:53
Elliott Smith on Freaks
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not." - Elliott Smith, as told to Barney Hoskyns in 19...

Bought by WCNY, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 3
Jacob Furr Interview PODCAST/No Music
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock PODCASTS
Caption: Jacob Furr, Credit: Official Press Photo
When coffee blogger, Christina Furr, passed away after an aggressive brain tumor, her husband of three years, songwriter Jacob Furr, wrote Trails &...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 38:11
Bonjour Chanson Series 13, Episode 65
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 13
Caption: Colorful Roofs in Québec City
A Mosaic of songs by Francophone artists that will delight you even if you do not speak a word of French. When you'll listen to the songs you'll k...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Cellist of Sarajevo
From: Claire Cunningham
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bosnian musician Vedran Smailovic describes the incident on 27 May 1992, during the war in Bosnia, which inspired the act of commemoration and grie...

  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
A Diva on Oxygen: The Esther England Story
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Esther England
Esther England was good at everything she did. Singing opera around the world, teaching university students who wanted to be her, doing that even a...

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:40
Parody of Adele's Someone Like You
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The "original" version of Adele's "Someone Like You" reveals her inner stalker... Listen, weep, wipe, repeat.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:07
Centerstage Minnesota with Jessica McShane
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Retribution Gospel Choir
Jessica features a variety of Minnesota musicians including, Mary Bue, Charlie Parr, Retribution Gospel Choir, Low, Haley Bonar, and The State Champs.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Kevin Keller's Ambient Chamber Music
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Ambient chamber music composer Kevin Keller's In Absentia is a study in finely calibrated emotions dealing with the disappearance and likely death ...

  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
The Fountain City
From: Caleb Pringle
Caption: RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Columbus, GA
An observation on the city of Columbus, GA and the arts departments of Columbus State University told with sounds of the street and downtown founta...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 04:14
ballad for me
From: Steve Whalley
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abstract interpretation of thought process.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:23
Ritchie Valens
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
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One of my favorite musical artists, Ritchie Valens. A small biography and commentary piece.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:59