Episode Archive
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Bikini Blues
Whatever can explain the bikini’s popularity? I mean…It’s not rocket science…or, is it?
Peter and the Wolf
In 1936 Natalya Sats commissioned Sergei Prokofiev to compose a piece for Moscow’s Central Children’s Theatre. The goal: to introduce children to the principals ...
Classic Soundtracks: As Time Goes By
How a ten year-old song and a three year-old unpublished play combined to make movie history. Herman Hupfeld wrote As Time Goes By in 1931 ...
Eleven-Cent Cotton, Forty-Cent Meat
It’s been said that farmers felt the stock market crash of 1929 less than most. For them, the Depression had already started years before. ...
“I Owe My Soul to….”
Merle Travis recorded the original 16 tons in 1946...though he did have a little help with its legacy.
Coolidge, Lindbergh and The Atlantic by Moonlight
Charles Lindbergh’s solo transatlantic flight made him a hero, garnered him presidential praise, and changed commercial flight forever.
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Those young drifters; Seems they’d use anything to get a fair maiden to their bed.
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