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Jewish Tango!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Don’t you love an intimate tango? Jewish singers, instrumentalists and songwriters have brought us tangos in Yiddish and Hebrew for more than a cen...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
220320 The Dating Game for Dogs and Oil Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Azzurri the Bachelorette
Hi, I'm Jim Lange and this is the Dating Game for dogs. In the post-WWII world, this music that was later called "Rock and Roll" was simply popula...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:45
  • Purchases: 6
Notes from the Jazz Underground #149 - The Music of Cowboy Bebop
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we'll explore the music of Yokko Kanno and the Seatbelts, and their music for Cowboy Bebop.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, KRSC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Notes from the Jazz Underground X-Mas Special (encore)
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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a bunch of Christmas classics and not yet classics from John Zorn, Moe., Wynton Marsalis and more!

Bought by KRPS, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 3
01-32 Rear and Obscure 45's
From: KSJE
Series: Turntable Taxi
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Freuden shears his rear obscure 45 records

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 55:21
Notes from the Jazz Underground #83
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll get weird with Dweezil Zappa, we'll get funky with Zony Mash and the Sugarman 3, we'll go Honky-Tonkin' with Astroturf Noise, and ...

Bought by KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Radio-586-AZ-Roots-06-10-to-06-16-20-show-355
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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Johnny D and Bacpac's Phoenix Sound 5 of 6. What has led up to this segment evolved from “Arizona Sound series,” “The Phoenix Panorama,” “The Arizo...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
01-28: Organ Jazz
From: KSJE
Series: Turntable Taxi
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Freuden play jazz music performed on Harmon organ

  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 58:35
01-02: Jazz on 45s
From: KSJE
Series: Turntable Taxi
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Feruden finds a small collection of Jazz on 45RPM Records

  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 56:52
Traveling Music
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Howard Johnson's
On the road home with Art Linkletter, Warren Oates, Jon Hamm, Jessica Pare, Marshall Efron, Bob & Ray, John Witherspoon, Ice Cube, James Taylor, Jo...

Bought by WLRH and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Hacksaw #1710 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11-07-2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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A goodly sized group starts us off brassy and swinging with Pete Christlieb and Linda Small followed by a piano/vocal duo ballad sung by Tony DeSar...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WOUB, WKAR and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 7
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
Tales of Brave Ventriloquists, Warthogs, Pressed Rats & Drummers
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Freeform Pioneers, Credit: Richard Avedon
Join us for tributes to Ginger Baker, Marshall Efron, Jimmy Nelson, Diahann Carroll. Jessye Norman, and WBAI with Steve Post, Spiro Agnew, Richard ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:29
180825 Worthless Super Powers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Super powers that cause others to shrug and think, "who cares." The super power to move clouds with your eyes, to turn oxygen into carbon dioxide...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:32:49
Episode #125
From: Sigil Of Brass
Series: DJ Scooby's Sound Of Wonder
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World music show presented with spoken links by a Yorkshireman with an impenetrable accent - Think 'Uncle Peter' but musical. For more on the show ...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:00
Radio Musical - The Lady and The Tramp in Chinatown
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The reciprocal of a "theatrical musical" where music suddenly interrupts the story line, a "radio musical" has the story line suddenly interrupted ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 20:55
Sangre Y Tierra: What Blood What Earth
From: Josh Landes
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"What Blood, What Earth", is a documentary on the life of Puerto Rican black metal artist MQ. His story leads the listener on a journey from pre-co...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 27:20
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1557 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/01/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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In our continuing tribute to the mighty Mose, an anatomical description definitely causes us to reflect a la Monk mood, Coltrane’s tenor giving tha...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
All Mixed Up with Bob & Ray
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Bob and Ray, Credit: Radio Foundation
Celebrating the lives of Bob Elliott, Maurice White and Dan Hicks with comedy classics and music from Earth, Wind & Fire, Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:31
Sweet Crude
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Sweet Crude, Credit: Zack Smith
Keeping Louisiana French Alive

  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 52:00
Show 516 - Times Square
From: Thomas Florek
Series: The Tom and Doug Show
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This week, Tom and Doug are doing their show from Times Square. They are in Times Square because they seek to make sure that New York City retains...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
introducing: Tom and Doug (even more)
From: Thomas Florek
Series: The Tom and Doug Show
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Tom and Doug continue to introduce themselves to the world. In honor of Valentine's day, today's show features horrific love songs.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
150103 Listeners On The Radio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The idea was boneheaded in conception and worse in execution. That's why I'm on Saturday at midnight - nobody listen except drunks and they don't ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 03:03:28
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