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From Coast Coast, from every state in the Union…it’s Groucho Marx and…
February 1, 2025Arthur Godfrey was a 50’s tv and radio icon, an aviator, equestrian…but not such a great tour leader. You’re on the Sound Beat You’re listening to The 1000 Islands Song, a Columbia 78 recorded in 1947. The archipelago lies in the St. Lawrence River, on the US-Canadian border. There are actually about 1800 islands, each passing the ...
January 27, 2025Half a century after the Battle of Gettysburg, veterans from both sides gathered at the battle site to pay tribute to the fallen.
January 8, 2025Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was included on Harris’ Blue Kentucky Girl, a Warner Brothers LP.
January 2, 2025The story of how Franz Waxman came to compose Bride of Frankenstein.
December 13, 2024Where 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 church.
December 13, 2024Here’s a succinct history lesson. “Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople.”
November 30, 2024