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For the Cooks

Who cooked your last meal?

February 4, 2021
Sweet Afton

Robert Burns was also known as “the Ploughman Poet” and, in Scotland, simply, “The Bard”.

January 25, 2021
The Buffalo Nickel

You’re listening to The Buffalo Nickel, a Bobby Smith Apollo 78

January 18, 2021
THE FIRST SINGING TELEGRAM

 How Rudy Vallee’s 32nd birthday forever changed…the telegram?

January 6, 2021
Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me

This song, Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me, is a response to events surrounding Ford’s newspaper, the Dearborn Independent. One of the largest publications in the US in the 20’s, it printed many anti-semitic articles, “The International Jew” among them. That particular gem proffered that “International financiers are behind all war. They are what is ...

December 22, 2020
“THE JOY OF COOKING”

"THE JOY OF COOKING"

December 3, 2020
Oh, Shenandoah

You’re listening to Paul Robeson with “Shenandoah” and…

December 2, 2020
I’m Going to Vote For a Democrat!

You’re listening to Harry Stewart, by way of “psychic medium”…

November 3, 2020
I’m Going to Vote For a Republican!

You’re listening to Harry Stewart as Yogi Yorgesson and…

November 2, 2020
American Archives Month: Records Revisited

When you wanted a rare or even obscure 78, Records Revisited on West 33rd in New York was your place. Unless, that is, it was the last copy.

October 30, 2020