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When Jazz Was Immoral
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lil Armstrong
the 1920s the watchful eye of a moralist group of private citizens known as the Chicago Vigilance Committee delivered an urgent message to the pub...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jed Barahal– "Cellist Extraordinaire"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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In this edition of Radio Curious, we take a look at the cello, the kind of musical instrument it is and the sounds it makes. My guest is Jed Baraha...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
220611 Rock and Roll as Dance Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Tracey Dey
The conjoinment of music to dance is assumed but before rock and roll, it was big band swing with musicians like Artie Shaw filling huge arenas wit...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 04:17:17
  • Purchases: 8
220429 Rock and Roll Songs That Young Arnold Schwarzenegger Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The bottomless pit of my music library includes a handful of songs from 1963 Austria that are indistinguishable from the best of American rock and ...

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


  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
220409 Radio as Art and Art as Civilization
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bobby Page and the Riff Raffs
An inspired, heartfelt show. Based around an essay on radio as art and art as both a personal way of making a better life and civilization's savio...

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


  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:55:05
  • Purchases: 6
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
From: New Letters on the Air
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U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (2019-2021) talks about her Native American heritage and reads poetry from her multi-award-winning book IN MAD LOVE AN...

Bought by KBIA, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Hawk or Bean
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
"The man for whom Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone." That is how Coleman Hawkins was introduced at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival. This program i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Celebrating the late great pianist Hank Jones
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Hank Jones, Credit: Tom Pich
In celebration of Black History month, we mined the archives and revisited our interview with the late pianist and NEA Jazz Master Hank Jones.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 4
220115 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Jumping Bill Carlisle
The first rock and roll song is centered in the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and ar...

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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 6
211226 The Fleetwoods Demos Aligned With Sun Ra's Doo Wop
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Little Joe Cook and The Thrillers
The Fleetwoods of Olympia Washington were White kids who did precise harmonies much like the more ethnic "doo wop" groups of the same era. Sun Ra...

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


  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 4
Ep. 148: Make Me A Pallet
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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Eighteen more country tracks from off the beaten path.

Bought by KIYU-FM and KSTK


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ed Reinhart & Earl Dixon – "Don’t Shoot The Piano Player"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Earl Dixon is a veteran traveler, a veteran piano player, and he’s actually a veteran, too. An interesting story. Earl Dixon, the man on this show,...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Ep. 137: Midwestern Digging Tri 2021
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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Playing some of the great stuff I found on my recent buying trip to to Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas

Bought by KIYU-FM, KSTK, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Sound of The Sun
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry matched to music about nature.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2021
  • Length: 55:12
Ep 124: Whiskeyville
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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Sixteen more country and hillbilly songs from the dustiest corners of the United States. Featuring forgotten voices, songs, and labels found on 45...

Bought by KSTK and KIYU-FM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #116 - "Songwriters At Sea" - Part 4 (John Hiatt / Tift Merritt)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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The fourth in a series of programs that features interviews and music with some of the top names in Americana music over the last 20 years who, in ...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUPR low power FM, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Passion for Solitude (revised and Edited 2023)
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music which explores the gifts of the solitary life.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00:58
  • Purchases: 1
Duets
From: Will Duchon
Series: The Night Cafe
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A dozen duets to celebrate musical companionship.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:08
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #98 - Open Mic Folk Series Pt. 3
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Three musical acts are featured - Sisters Morales, Irene Farerra and Bonnie Bluhm - from recordings made by Paul Ingles during the 1999 Folk Allian...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE


  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Dressing Up the ’20s
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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The decade that became known as “The Jazz Age” consisted of a lot more than the music. The youth became style conscious thanks in large part to pop...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who's Calling?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cornet Red Nichols
Musicians were known to violate their recordings contracts fairly regularly in the 1920s. It’s the old story that the talent was underpaid. So, it ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Flappers & Suffragettes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Suffragette
As The Jazz Age roared to like in the 1920s so did the suffragette movement. In 1918 women were granted voting rights, and they took that to mean i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Love, I'm Done With You
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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An alternative take on Valentine's Day.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2019
  • Length: 54:03
Ten More From David: A David Bowie Appreciation (Part 2) - Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase #53
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Paul Ingles is joined by music writers Holly George-Warren and Richie Unterberger to further consider the musical legacy of David Bowie. Bowie die...

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


  • Added: Jan 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:40
  • Purchases: 6
Fifty Years of IAJRC
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: IAJRC Volume II
Fifty years ago the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors began publishing the Journal devoted to early jazz.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1