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You’re A Grand Old Rag

How a Civil War vet inspired one of our favorite patriotic tunes.

November 11, 2024
How Tom Whitewashed the Fence

This excerpt from Tom Sawyer, coming in the book’s second chapter shows Tom at his cunning, conniving best.

November 6, 2024
Cocaine Blues

Love, Loss and Cold-blooded killers…It’s Murder Ballad week.

October 23, 2024
Creation of the Female Monster

The story of how Franz Waxman came to compose Bride of Frankenstein.

October 16, 2024
Spellbound

On today’s episode we’re talking electronic music…and the importance of a thorough resume.

October 16, 2024
Snickelfritz!

Freddie Fisher and “America’s most unsophisticated band”.

October 11, 2024
Band of Gideon

The Fisk Jubilee Singers with Band of Gideon, a cylinder recording from 1927

October 4, 2024
If I Only Had a Heart

It was L. Frank Baum’s mother-in-law who encouraged him to write down the fanciful stories he told his kids. Seems he put a bit of himself into the tales, too.

September 28, 2024
A Paris!

Yves Montand with A Paris, an Odeon record from 1949.

August 29, 2024
Low Bridge!

Why did Governor Dewitt Clinton build a giant ditch across New York state? To get to the other side.

August 17, 2024