Avsnitt
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...In a hurry!
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Saknas det avsnitt?
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Dame Nellie Melba’s Farewell speech, recorded at Covent Garden in 1926. Plus...dessert!
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The Carter Family’s rendition of "Honey in the Rock", a Coral Record from 1949.
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Nighttime is often the right time for thoughtful reflection..especially when one is on guard duty in the Army.
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One of the most distinctive signature sounds in all of recorded music.
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A buddy song from two of the best buds in the biz.
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You're listening to Pearl Bailey from 1946 and you're on the Sound Beat.
Pearl made her Broadway debut that year, performing "It's a Woman's Prerogative" in St. Louis Woman. Though audiences weren't enamored of the play, her performance marked the beginning of a decades-long love affair between Bailey and the American public. That "special time together" included a Tony award for Hello, Dolly! and later pop-culture staples like "The Love Boat", "The Muppet Show" and "Hollywood Squares".
Ol' softy President Richard M. Nixon made it all official in 1970 proclaiming Bailey "Ambassador of Love". The position was rumored to pay 80,000 hugs annually with a guaranteed pension of half that amount. Nixon even accompanied Bailey on the piano. Turns out he was an amateur composer. Click here for video of Nixon's Concerto No. 1...and some Truman jokes thrown in for good measure. -
Billie Holiday was known to record with ease, often needing only one take for her best studio recordings. This tune, however, was a whole different story.
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What happens when the high-gloss worlds of archived sound and auto insurance collide? Hope you’ve got a policy for excitement.
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Alan Freed may have been the first to attribute "Rock and Roll" to a musical form, but he wasn't the first to use the words together.
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Censorship has been a big issue in the U.S. since, well, before there was a U.S.
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You’re listening to Bransby Williams with Charles Dickens’ redeemed cheapskate.
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As a musician, Art Tatum was a true original – if a recording sounds like Tatum’s…it almost certainly IS Tatum’s.
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You’re listening to Burl Ives with “Blue Tail Fly” from 1944 and…
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Finding the North Pole is hard enough. The harsh terrain, subzero temperatures…oh, and the fact that the pole isn’t even located on land.
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Paganini's talents made him a celebrity, but also inspired "devilish" rumors.
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This one’s good for a laugh.
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History’s full of musicians claiming to have made deals with the devil. But only one claimed to have married into one.
- Visa fler
