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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. ...
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How a ten year-old song and a three year-old unpublished play combined to make movie history.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 ...
Xylophonia
For the first quarter of the 20th century, the xylophone was a studio engineer’s darling.
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Those young drifters; Seems they’d use anything to get a fair maiden to their bed.
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton had a habit of making large claims, none larger than the prediction of his own death.
Anchors Aweigh
You’re listening to Anchors Aweigh by the United States Naval Academy Band, and… You’re on the Sound Beat. Spelling seldom makes for great radio, ...
Old King Tut
For listeners of a certain age, a song about King Tutankhamen immediately brings Steve Martin to the mind’s theater. His “King Tut” mock-reprimanded ...
The Kid Auto Races in Venice
Charlie Chaplin would become the world’s biggest star, but the first emergence of the Little Tramp played second fiddle to…go-karts.
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