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Originally transmitted May 16, 2105. Joe Nick Patoski spins more great Texas platters and provides his trademark brand of radio salvation.
- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 01:48:54
An unusual request for vinyl from management, we can do that. The most famous jazzman on record, Duke Ellington, begins a tour of blues, acid and s...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 01:59:57
- Purchases: 3
First hour is distinguishing the music from the usual 50s to 70s music by removing the usual 500 songs from the library of millions....
- Added: Apr 05, 2015
- Length: 02:54:28
This program is devoted to several vaudeville performers who were forced to ply their trade elsewhere when silent movies and Broadway reviews close...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
A journey rebooting radio for 2015: From Boston moving south, traveling light from Brazil, hit blues revisited and looking forward. Guitar prowess...
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 02:00:02
- Purchases: 3
Guitarist Eddie Lang is well known for his artistry. He’s credited for bringing the guitar out of the rhythm section, and creating a solo instrumen...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore songs about fireworks.
- Added: Sep 19, 2014
- Length: 09:58
A Tribute to the late Cosimo Matassa who's J&M Studio and engineering skills recorded history and defined the way rock and roll would sound.
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 04:28
What do frog jumping, transatlantic telephones and sliced bread have in common? 1928. This program is a very brief overview of the music heard duri...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 02, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
In the latter days of the Golden Age of steamboats, many musicians plied their trade with the orchestras traveling the Mississippi. Memphis and St....
Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey were two very important factors in the formation of jazz in the 1920s. They performed together with the California Ramblers ...
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
The chance meeting of Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon shortly after World War I lead to one of the most successful bands of the 1920s. You could say,...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Spasm bands, or skiffle bands, (created out of found objects not usually found in musical groups) originated in the streets of New Orleans around 1...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Although Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller was one of the most prolific recording artists in the 1920s and 1930s, very little of his earlier music is heard.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Some call it R&B or early R&R. I'm looking for those songs from the 1950s to 70s ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2014
- Length: 02:53:39
Half a dozen brothers and sisters, mother, father, and a cousin made up the core of the Brunies family. They were all good musicians. Many of them ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and KCBX
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
She was known as “The First Lady of Radio.” Vaughn De Leath’s recording career began in 1921, which lead to hundreds of titles over the next decade...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and KCBX
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 19, 2014
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Eddie Condon is one of the liked musicians during the early years of jazz. A Chicago style guitarist, is probably best remembered for his wit, humo...
- Added: Mar 03, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Fredinand Joseph LaMothe Morton was there when it all began. Although it may be a dubious title to say he created jazz, it is true that he was one ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Here is a sampling of some of the bands of the 1920s; most didn’t make it beyond their geographical boarders. By no means does that lesson their ta...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 15, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
You could not find two more opposite musicians forming a partnership: Stephane Grappelli and Django Rienhardt. In the early ‘30s they created the h...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
The Dixie Stompers were formed for one purpose: to record for a less expensive label for those who couldn’t afford to buy the 75-cent discs.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
When you think of America’s original art form – jazz – the last place you’ll probably think of is Belgium. Yet, they too were swept up in the craze...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 26, 2014
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
The Starr Piano Company opened the doors to their new recording studio in Richmond, Indiana in 1916. The first few years they waxed the standard fa...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
