Sound Beat

A trip through the history of recorded sound

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Episodes

• Sitting On Top Of The World

  Tuesday, September 21, 2021

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  GRATEFUL ROOTS: Sittin’ On Top of the World

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• If a Table at Rector’s Could Talk

  Friday, September 10, 2021

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  There's "hungry" and then there's "Diamond Jim Brady hungry".

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• Now and Forever

  Thursday, September 2, 2021

  You’re listening to Artie Wayne with Freddy Martin and His Orchestra and…   You’re on the Sound Beat.   While Howard Hughes’ aviation career is popularly associated with “The Spruce Goose”, the Hughes H-1 Racer set the landplane air-speed record in...

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• The Banjo King

  Wednesday, September 1, 2021

  You can’t help but admire the patriotism of a guy who lies about his age to get into the Navy. Especially if that age is 14!

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• Mule Skinner Blues

  Wednesday, September 1, 2021

  A muleskinner’s job was not quite as…grim as it sounds. Still...kinda grim though.

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• Blue Moon

  Tuesday, August 31, 2021

  There are a couple different definitions for a blue moon, both of them kind of rare, and neither of them have to do with color of any sort.

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• The Man of 1,000 Voices

  Thursday, August 26, 2021

  The Man of 1,000 Voices...

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• The Edison Tone Tests

  Wednesday, August 25, 2021

  Is it live, or is it…Edison?

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• Kerouac’s Moon

  Tuesday, August 24, 2021

  The moon has served as muse for countless numbers of poets, from the unnamed and unknown, to Shelley, Dickinson, and Kerouac. But only one of these had to worry about record label execs. You’re on the Sound Beat.

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• Oscar’s Blues

  Wednesday, August 18, 2021

  The National Film Board of Canada honored Oscar Peterson with a short film, "Begone Dull Care", in 1949. It was  directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Using drawn-on-film animation, McLaren and Lambart paint and scratch directly onto film stoc...

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• Hymn to Apollo

  Monday, August 16, 2021

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  You’re listening to the Palestrina Choir on a Victor 78 from 1927 And, you’re on the Sound Beat! The choir is singing the Hymn to Apollo, one of the Homeric hymns: a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual god...

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• The Kid Auto Races in Venice

  Friday, August 13, 2021

  Charlie Chaplin would become the world’s biggest star, but the first emergence of the Little Tramp played second fiddle to…go-karts.

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• The Flying Saucer

  Thursday, August 12, 2021

  War of the Worlds…dj style.

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• Elder Charlie Beck

  Wednesday, August 11, 2021

  Where did you go in the 1930s when you wanted some of ground-breaking music that would become rock and roll? Sometimes…you just went to church.

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• Babes In The Wood

  Tuesday, August 10, 2021

  Little Einsteins, Mozart for Mommies…we’ve come a long way, babies!

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• “I Owe My Soul to….”

  Friday, August 6, 2021

  Merle Travis recorded the original 16 tons in 1946...though he did have a little help with its legacy.

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• Coolidge, Lindbergh and The Atlantic by Moonlight

  Monday, August 2, 2021

  Charles Lindbergh’s solo transatlantic flight made him a hero, garnered him presidential praise, and changed commercial flight forever.

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• Let Me Call You Sweetheart

  Wednesday, April 21, 2021

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  The song you hear ”Let Me Call You Sweetheart” by Bing Crosby with Georgie Stoll and His Orchestra was recorded in 1934 on the Decca label. You’re on the Sound Beat. “Let Me Call You Sweetheart“ was originally written by Leo Freidman and Beth Sla...

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• 25 Minutes to Go

  Friday, January 29, 2021

  Johnny Cash got a little help from a beloved children's book author on this one.

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• Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown

  Thursday, January 28, 2021

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