Episodes
From Wikipedia: Die MoorsoldatenWohin auch das Auge blicket. Moor und Heide nur ringsum. Vogelsang uns nicht erquicket. Eichen stehen kahl und krumm. Wir sind die Moorsoldaten und ziehen mit dem Spaten ins Moor.
Who better to explain the blues than the woman who named them?
“Born” about 20,000 BC and “died” May 2, 2003. Well, he had a good run.
Barbecue is the best thing to happen to picnics since sliced bread…though if you want to get technical about it, you’d reverse the two.
The pioneers of Country music just sound Country, even by their first names. (Roy, Hank, Gene). Which is why Clarence Albert Pointdexter simply had to go. So how do you get from Clarence to country? Some call Dexter the father of honky tonk music,
February 3rd, 1959 will forever be known as the Day the Music Died. One account of the tragedy remained secret for years.
It’s funny to think it, but even Ol’ Blue Eyes had a first hit.
As far as boxing names go, there are lots of “Sugar Rays”, plenty of “Golden Boys”…but only one Cinderella Man.
Not all press is good press.
In 1936 Natalya Sats commissioned Sergei Prokofiev to compose a piece for Moscow’s Central Children’s Theatre. The goal: to introduce children to the principals of the symphony. Somewhat ironically, the Orchestra went unnamed in this 1938,
Casanova: rakish seducteur, suave, dashing… librarian?
What's an aeronautical adventurer got to do to get some coverage?
Those young drifters; Seems they’d use anything to get a fair maiden to their bed.
You’re listening to The Human Bird, Joe Belmont, with Byron Harlan.
Wicked author Gregory Maguire did much to elicit sympathy for the Wicked Witch of the West.
“The Hunting Wolves”, an Edison cylinder recording made by Ernest Thompson Seton in 1920.
Jimmie Davis is regularly credited as creator of the classic “You Are My Sunshine”, heard here from 1941. But…if that’s true, then how did the Rice Brothers record it in 1939?
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The film Aleksandr Nevsky is a recounting of a 13th century prince’s rise to national hero-dom. But parallels to the storyline echoed through the USSR in the 1930’s.
Who says bluesmen aren't poets? "Mr. Blues" himself with a nod to an early 20th century British modernist poet. And, a fair bit of double entendre.
The history books are full of names of inventors who have, through struggle and determination, brought innovation to humankind. But what of those who make the ultimate sacrifice?
Vernon Dalhart, one of the founding fathers of country music, got his start in...New York City opera halls?
Instrumentation in the past century of recorded music has been dominated by guitars, drums, horns, and, more recently, keyboards and synthesizers. But some instruments have left their unique mark on the recording industry,
You’re listening to - You’re listening to Vaughn DeLeath with “Someday You’ll Say OK”, recorded in 1927 and… with “Someday You’ll Say OK”, recorded in 1927 and…