PRX - Pieces for Topic: Music
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
22 results
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: :12
Music about being 16 years old. Not 15 or 17 or any other age. Just 16 years old. A segment from the 170527 broadcasts.
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 39:12
Similar to a theatrical musical where the story is interrupted with a song, a radio musical has the songs interrupted by a story.
Tonight's radi...
- Added: Apr 17, 2017
- Length: 40:31
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 1
Behind the scenes and before the downbeat… join concert pianist and host Lara Downes backstage in the Green Room for a look into the real lives of ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Joe Bev presents an hour of spooky 78 RPM records, including: Old Man Moze Is Dead - Louis Armstrong (1935), The Ghost of Old Man Mose - Harry Gol...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 59:34
- Purchases: 1
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice.
It’s un...
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 23:29
The legend of musician Buddy Bolden has stretched well beyond the city limits of New Orleans. Whether or not half of the stories are true, really d...
Bought by WRGY and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2012
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 2
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
When Kansas City born Frankie Teschmacher joined the Austin High Gang in the mid-1920s, his instrument of choice was alto saxophone. But, in his yo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 59:01
"Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant" features such strange musical animals as the Pop-up toadsters, the Circular Sawtoise, the Clocktopus, and the Ballp...
- Added: Mar 24, 2012
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Bandleader, vocalist, pianist and composer Noble Sissle began his career in 1915 when he joined ragtime-vaudevillian Eubie Blake. Together they wr...
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 58:59
The music Ambrose performed and recorded through the late 1920s and early 1930s was meant for dancing. Although he didn't experiment with his arran...
- Added: Jan 29, 2012
- Length: 59:00
In recognition of Hanukkah, this show is dedicated to the Jews who catapulted popular music to stage and radio from the 1900 to the early 1930s.
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KWIT, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
An audio postcard about the culinary side of the 41st Annual Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans
- Added: May 10, 2011
- Length: 03:57
- Added: Nov 02, 2008
- Length: 06:51
stories, songs and poems about love performed before a live audience
- Added: Jan 10, 2008
- Length: 59:34
From: Nicole Haldeman
Michael Palin presents a radio special about the Beatles? second movie Help!, which was first released in 1965.
Bought by WGDR, WCPN, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2007
- Length: 48:21
- Purchases: 4
- Added: May 30, 2007
- Length: 05:04
Shimmy and Shake to a Mardi Gras Concert of New Orleans Roots Music
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KZYX, KMUD, KXCR, KMXT and more
- Added: Jan 26, 2007
- Length: 01:04:14
- Purchases: 19