Episodes
You’re listening to Harry Stewart as Yogi Yorgesson and…
Perhaps no man is more qualified to sing a song of impending execution than the "Murderous Minstrel" himself, Huddie Ledbetter.
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.
In 1967, WSYR in Syracuse, NY issued the following message, an interruption to their scheduled broadcast.
No matter what your line of work..it’s always good to have a back-up plan. Just ask James "Kokomo" Arnold.
A song for the lovelorn.
Beethoven initially considered Napoleon a kindred spirit; indeed, they were more or less the same age, grew up in modest households, and neither had to stoop to pass through doorways.
One of the most famous, and best-selling, marches of all time.
Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann was, perhaps, one of music’s great inventors…and, probably, one of 19th-century Germany’s worst neighbors.
One man’s trash is another man’s…million-selling record.
There was only partner who really filled Fred Astaire's dance card.
"Harry though they drew the color line, you're a champion just the same."
You’re listening to Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra with Herbie Fields on sax.
The original hipster.
Wait, they banned what?
One of the first songs in rock and roll history, and maybe the first to use guitar distortion…but, not on purpose.
Few 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.
One of the first operas. Period.