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It’s hard to imagine a jazzy Hit Parade favorite having once been a poem…and a super-creepy poem at that.
October 19, 2023Can you name an Army with outposts in over 100 countries, yet 0 weapons?
October 16, 2023Considered one of the most influential saxophonists in history, Lester “Prez” Young succeeded Coleman Hawkins at the height of the swing era.
October 11, 2023Sholom Secunda was a songwriter, not a fisherman. But he could tell you all about the “one that got away.”
October 6, 2023Few today recognize the name Euday Bowman, yet during ragtime’s heyday Bowman’s 12th Street Rag was one of the most well-known tunes around.
October 3, 2023When you think of early aviators, names like Wright, Earhart and Lindbergh probably spring to mind. But unless you’re a confessed aviaphile, names like Cole, Fitzmaurice and von Hünefeld probably do not. You’re on the Sound Beat. When the three made an emergency landing in Greeley Island, Canada in 1928, they’d completed the first transatlantic flight, from East ...
October 2, 2023Do not adjust your radio. It’s actually supposed to sound like this.
October 2, 2023