Episodes
Do not adjust your radio. It’s actually supposed to sound like this.
Australia's unofficial anthem.
For listeners of a certain age, a song about King Tutankhamen immediately brings Steve Martin to the mind’s theater. His “King Tut” mock-reprimanded the commercialization of the Treasures of Tutankhamen exhibit that toured from 1976 to ’79.
When 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.
Johannes Sebastian Bach’s first published piece
Cylinders served as much more than simple entertainment. This one aimed to capture, and perhaps ease, a nation’s sorrow.
Now grab your partner by the hand…
You're listening to Paul Robeson with “Shenandoah” and…
The Harlem Hamfats...born at the wrong time.
It’s hard to imagine a jazzy Hit Parade favorite having once been a poem…and a super-creepy poem at that.
Elvis played guitar on this 1957 RCA recording, but…not in the way you’d think.
Walter Huston recites the words of Walt Whitman.
Jack Hylton would become one of Britain’s foremost bandleaders, but got his start in barrooms…at the age of 8.
You’re listening to Jim Reeves with I Could Cry, an Abbott 45 from 1953, and… Gentleman Jim Reeves had 51 top ten hits in a career cut short when a small plane he was piloting crashed in 1964. For your next Morbid Trivia Night: He was taught by the s...
Well you know this one…the first verse anyway.
Get out your Cajun dictionary...you're gonna need it.
You’re listening to Julius Larosa with 1955’s “Let's Stay Home Tonight” and…
You’re listening to Harry Stewart, by way of “psychic medium”...