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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.
You Are My Sunshine
Jimmie Davis is regularly credited as creator of the classic “You Are My Sunshine”, heard here from 1941. But…if that’s true, then how did ...
Elder Charlie Beck
Where did you go in the 1930s when you wanted some of ground-breaking music that would become rock and roll? Sometimes…you just went to ...
The Cruelest Cut
DISCLAIMER: Sound Beat, its producers and support staff do not, in any way, promote or condone the actions of 19th century Italian doctors or ...
The Contralto and the Physicist
You’re listening to Marian Anderson with “Heav’n, Heav’n”, a Masterpiece 78 from 1943, and You’re on the Sound Beat. When Marian Anderson performed at ...
Danza Number 5!
You’re listening to Johannes Brahms and the Banda de Estado Mayor de Mexico. That’s right, a Hungarian danza by a Mexican banda. You’re on ...
Stealin’
We’re going back, before tie-dye was even a thing, to the Grateful Roots: songs that influenced the Grateful Dead.
All She Wants to do is Rock
Who says bluesmen aren't poets? "Mr. Blues" himself with a nod to an early 20th century British modernist poet. And, a fair bit of ...
Wreck of the Old ’97
Vernon Dalhart, one of the founding fathers of country music, got his start in...New York City opera halls?
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