Episodes
GRATEFUL ROOTS: Sittin’ On Top of the World
There's "hungry" and then there's "Diamond Jim Brady hungry".
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...
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!
A muleskinner’s job was not quite as…grim as it sounds. Still...kinda grim though.
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.
The Man of 1,000 Voices...
Is it live, or is it…Edison?
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.
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...
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...
Charlie Chaplin would become the world’s biggest star, but the first emergence of the Little Tramp played second fiddle to…go-karts.
War of the Worlds…dj style.
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.
Little Einsteins, Mozart for Mommies…we’ve come a long way, babies!
Merle Travis recorded the original 16 tons in 1946...though he did have a little help with its legacy.
Charles Lindbergh’s solo transatlantic flight made him a hero, garnered him presidential praise, and changed commercial flight forever.
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...
Johnny Cash got a little help from a beloved children's book author on this one.