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New Year for Trees!?
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish celebrates the coming holiday of Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish New Year for trees, with Jewish tunes about inspired by the holiday and tree...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Alt 50's Christmas
From: Mike Flanagan
Series: Professor Mikey's Old School
Caption: ALT 50S CHRISTMAS: Satire, Rarities, Oddities, the music of the Cold War Christmas
Sure, Christmas in the 1950s was the stomping ground for Rudolph and Frosty. But underneath the marshmallow world of perfect conformity was anothe...

Bought by KDUR, WDCB, WRVO Public Media, WTIP, KUCB and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 27
DWFC 2202-09: The Freethinker Mozart: Würzburg Mozart Festival, 11/28/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
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Classical music listeners often forget that long-familiar and frequently heard pieces were once totally novel – but that was precisely what was hig...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
220716 Songs Using Stringed Instruments From 230 to 1 Strings and Songs With Car Names
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Frogmen
A piano uses 230 strings while a diddley bow uses one string and between there's all different string counts. Tonight, we start with musicians pl...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
220402 Pre-Ska Jamaican Music is The Mash Potato Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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85 songs you've never heard but could have been titled, "the first rock and roll song" featuring musicians you've never heard of. This show ignore...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, WQCS, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
220326 Answer Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Where we search for the first rock and roll song, is where autocracies die and "hits" are a distraction. All the music you've never heard by music...

Bought by Prairie Public, KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, and WQCS


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 5
220205 The First Rock and Roll Song and a Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Whyte Boots The Lori Burton and Pam Sawyer Fictitious Band
In the post World War II era a new music captured the imagination of people in the US and around the world. This music wasn't called rock and roll...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, and WQCS


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 5
220122 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In the post World War II era a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. This music wasn't called rock ...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, KPRG, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 5
Fly Robin Fly: That Disco-Crazed Moment When The Gay 90's Came Out Of The Closet
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: The Gay 90's in downtown Minneapolis. , Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
In downtown Minneapolis, there's a gay bar with several dance floors conveniently named the Gay 90's. The Gay 90’s hasn’t always been gay. The bar...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:06
S2:E7 The Strange Beethoven Show
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad... Surprises abound.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:56:16
Lives in Music: Mark Robinson - 40 years in the UK's CBSO
From: Robin Valk
Series: Lives in Music
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40 years in one of the UK's finest orchestras. Mark Robinson has stories!

  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 51:21
01-14: Island funk
From: KSJE
Series: Turntable Taxi
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host carl Freuden shows us funk music from different islands around the world.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 58:37
Lives in Music: The Men who Make Mellotrons
From: Robin Valk
Series: Lives in Music
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The legendary Mellotron story from the team who carry on the work that started in the 60s with Streetly Electronics in the UK.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2019
  • Length: 34:17
The Big Pond #33: Texas German – Auf Wiedersehen to a Dialect
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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America is a country of immigrants. Most people know that Spanish is the most widely spoken language in the US besides English, but there’s more th...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2019
  • Length: 42:29
radio UNLEASHED #1465
From: radio UNLEASHED with Dave Leonard
Series: radio UNLEASHED
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Three broadcast-ready segments with out-cues (one hour total) of weekly new music show, radio UNLEASHED, based out of Woodstock NY.

Bought by KSRQ and KHNS


  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 55:55
  • Purchases: 2
Musicals by Disney
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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Musicals by Disney from SNOW WHITE to THE LION KING

  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
Folktale of Communication
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Communication, Credit: Julia Meek
According to Chip Heath: “The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.” If we may have yours, this episode 'transmits' a sampl...

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


  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 10
Reclaimed Soul: Rocket Fueled Soul
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Reclaimed Soul host Ayana Contreras brings us rocket-fueled soul music with outer space themes.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:30
Reclaimed Soul: The Wonder of Stevie
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, then Stevie Wonder should know the feeling of flattery well. His son...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaimed Soul: Women Behind Megastars
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
Caption: Betty Davis, former wife of Miles Davis
This week, Ayana Contreras brings us vintage music from women whose careers were overshadowed by their associations with megastars. From the ex-wif...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 1
Martin Woods on Challenges for Black Opera Singers
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Martin Woods talks to Audra Wilson about the challenges and the rewards of being a Black Operatic Baritone from the West Side of Chicago, and takin...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 1
Francis Scott Key: Lawyer, Layman, Tone-Deaf Lyricist?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Francis Scott Key (shown here in a portrait by Theodor Horydczak) was far more than just the author of what would become our national anthem., Credit: Library of Congress
Turns out the author of our national anthem could very well have been nicknamed "Francis Scott Off-Key."

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
The John Sebastian Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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John Sebastian talks with Jake Feinberg about his mentors and teachers like Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
DIY Music For Kids
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Chris Ballew knows what it's like to be a rock star. (His band Presidents of the United States of America made it big in the 1990s.) But he's gone ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 2
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 27
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Musician Sassy Vee and Artist David Phillips.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 57:59