Singers of the Big Band Era, Vol. 1: Live and On the Air!

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Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring

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Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There

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Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

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What to Listen for in Music

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They Made a Monkee Out of Me: The Only Authorized Story

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Tunes of the Times: An Exploration of Musical Films Through the Ages

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Frank Sinatra: His Life, His Music Career and His Acting Career

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Classic Rock & Rock Radio Commercials - The Beatles

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American Epic: When Music Gave America Her Voice

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My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

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American Country: Bluegrass, Honky-Tonk, and Crossover Sounds

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Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s

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Discover Music of the Baroque Era

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Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

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Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville

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Song: A History in 12 Parts

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Scott Joplin: The Life and Legacy of the King of Ragtime

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The Story of Classical Music

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Awop Bop Aloo Mop: Little Richard: A Life of Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll...and Religion

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Elvis Presley Untamed Heart: The Complete Interviews

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That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde

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Country Music: A Very Short Introduction

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Evelyn Dove: Britain’s Black Cabaret Queen

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Chopin's Concert in Rouen in 1838

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Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, From Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince

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No Sweeter Sound: The History of Black Country Music

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Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim

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American Pop: Hit Makers, Superstars, and Dance Revolutionaries

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The History of Rock & Roll: Volume 1: 1920-1963

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Michael Jackson: Biography of the Most Famous Singer of All Time

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Paris: The Memoir

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Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

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Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe

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Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

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My Effin' Life

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No Sweeter Sound: The History of Black Country Music

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Rememberings

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Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

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Open Book

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The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s

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IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD

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Me: Elton John Official Autobiography

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High School

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More Myself: A Journey

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Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within, Book & Includes Online Downloadable code

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Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity

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The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

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Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

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The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

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The Storyteller: Expanded: ...Because There's More to the Story

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The Addiction Formula: A Holistic Approach to Writing Captivating, Memorable Hit Songs. With 317 Proven Commercial Techniques & 331 Examples

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A Perfect Union of Contrary Things

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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

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Ear Training Course for Piano: Intervals | Practice that and become great at piano playing | A music lesson you don't want to miss

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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

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Fail Until You Don't: Fight Grind Repeat

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Ear Training Course for Piano: Chords | Practice that and become great at piano playing | A music lesson you don't want to miss

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The Autobiography of Gucci Mane

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Episode 16 | "Prince: A Portrait of the Artist in Memories & Memorabilia"/Paul Sexton: Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical phenomenon who constantly reinvented himself throughout his long and colorful career, changing his style and even his name to keep his artistic output fresh and funky. Eccentric and flamboyant with an impressive...

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The Cat and the Mouse (Scherzo Humoristique) (1923): Aaron Copland, American composer, was born in 1900 in New York. He was taught to play the piano by his elder sister, and when he was 15 years old he decided he wanted to be a composer. In 1921 he went to Paris to study with the famous teacher Nadia...

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034: Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978): ULLA!!! Discord & Rhyme tackles an art-rock/disco musical based on the 1898 H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds and which John posits as the most ‘70s album ever made. Featuring an unforgettable spoken word performance by Richard Burton, as well as...

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Lovers of Rebetika - A brief history of Recording companies in Greece

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OSCAR L, Guest Mix - MMP Radio, EP022: Personality, perseverance and energy define him and are qualities that are also found in his particular sound. This week MMP Radio presents episode 022, feat. a special guest mix by Oscar L.

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Ron Chapman: Episode 170

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Sam Cooke | Black History Month

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Meet the producers shaping the sound of British rap: Keziah Wenham-Kenyon touched base with some of the country’s most important beat makers

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Episode 109: Eli Lake / Prince [Part 1]: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) are joined by Eli Lake. Eli is a contributing editor at Commentary, and fellow at the Clements Center at UT-Austin. Follow him on Twitter at @EliLake.

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Television - "See No Evil": Television came out of the CBGB's scene in New York (in fact, they were the first rock band to play the legendary club), but they never fit the "Punk" or "New Wave" label. They were unique, which is why their debut album "Marquee Moon" sounds timeless, as fresh today as the day it was released in 1977. Fronted by two great guitarists-- the mercurial Richard Lloyd and the enigmatic Tom Verlaine, who also provided unorthodox vocals and most of the songwriting-- Television would influence generations of bands that followed. Though they never achieved commercial success, "Marquee Moon" regularly appears on virtually every "Greatest Albums Of All Time" list. On this episode, we explore the track that opens the album, "See No Evil".

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PLEDGE WEEK: “I’m Henry VIII I Am” by Herman’s Hermits: This episode is part of Pledge Week 2022. Every day this week, Ill be posting old Patreon bonus episodes of the podcast which will have this short intro. These are short, ten- to twenty-minute bonus podcasts which get posted to Patreon for my paying back

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Epi 128: Jon Farriss Interview Part Three: As Bee and I  come to the close of our Jon Farris trilogy, we are excited to explore his art, musicianship, and the strong bond that he held with the road crew throughout those touring years. Proud as ever to have touring crews that were the envy o...

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Music Depreciation - Dixieland One-Step

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Episode 87: “Apache” by the Shadows: Episode eighty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at Apache, by the Shadows, and at the three years in which they and Cliff Richard were on top of the music world. Patreon backers also have a fifteen-minute bonus episode, on Han

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#41 - The First Multimedia Star: Bing Crosby & His Glittering Career: Nowadays he's the American Father Christmas, the singer of nearly all the classic Christmas songs, but for several decades he was also the biggest pop star in the world. From his early days singing in The Rhythm Boys with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra...

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Laurie Anderson: Russell & Robert meet LIVING LEGEND Laurie Anderson, one of America’s most reknowned – and daring – creative PIONEERS! Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photo...

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Episode 50: “Honky Tonk” by Bill Doggett: Episode fifty of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at Honky Tonk by Bill Doggett, and uses his career to provide a brief summary of the earlier episodes of the podcast as were now moving forward into the next stage of the story. Click t

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#440: Villains by The Verve Pipe: What's your memory of The Verve Pipe? Are they filed away with the alternative rock one-hit wonders of the 90s thanks to the single "The Freshman"? Are they lumped in with other mid-decade "alt rock" bands like Live and Bush? Did you see them in their ea...

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Episode 70: “Move It” by Cliff Richard and the Drifters: Episode seventy of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs looks at Move It by Cliff Richard, and the beginning of rock and roll TV in the UK. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backe

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The Sunday Read: ‘Is Måneskin the Last Rock Band?’: The triumphant return to Rome of Måneskin — arguably the only rock stars of their generation, and almost certainly the biggest Italian rock band of all time — coincided with a heat wave across Southern Europe. On a Thursday morning in July, the band’s vast management team was officially concerned that the night’s sold-out performance at the Stadio Olimpico would be delayed. When Måneskin finally took the stage around 9:30 p.m., it was still well into the 90s — which was too bad, because there would be pyro. The need to feel the rock may explain the documented problem of fans’ taste becoming frozen in whatever era was happening when they were between the ages of 15 and 25. Anyone who adolesced after Spotify, however, did not grow up with rock as an organically developing form and is likely to have experienced the whole catalog simultaneously, listening to Led Zeppelin at the same time they listened to Pixies and Franz Ferdinand — i.e.

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Episode 19: Richard Marx on Ringo's "stunning" skills and why Lionel Richie is "an angel in my life"

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EP144 - Mark Cooper - Co-creator 'Later... with Jools Holland' + Record Mirror Music Journalist

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The Roots of the British Invasion with Daniel Glass: This episode is all about the musicians who inspired the famous British Invasion drummers of the 1960's well before the music reached American soil. Daniel takes us through the 1950's in England to learn about the circumstances that created the famous Rock and Roll sounds that swept across the world, and we learn the geographic factors such as growing up in the completely bombed out post-WW2 England. Plus the impact that the first wave of touring American Rockstars had on the young impressionable musicians of the UK.

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149. Mickey Raphael on Willie Nelson 'Teatro' (1998): Harmonica legend and Willie Nelson's musical right hand for over 40 years, Mickey Raphael reveals the inside story of one of Willie's best albums, 1998's Teatro. Why was the album recorded in an abandoned Mexican movie theatre? How did producer Daniel...

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Nick Millevoi of Grassy Sound - The Vibe Of Vintage

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053: Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974): Follow us back to Olde, Olde England for a look at Richard and Linda Thompson’s classic 1974 album I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight. Actually, 1974 wasn’t that Olde - by that point, the English had been enjoying color TV for eight long years....

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Episode 98 | "Pink Floyd: Every Album, Every Song"/Richard Butterworth: Pink Floyd are one of the most innovative, enduringly successful bands in history. Their influence is incalculable. 1973's ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, though far from the first concept album, established a new model for quasi-symphonic, long-form...

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Episode 45: “Blueberry Hill”, by Fats Domino: Episode forty-five of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino, and at how the racial tensions of the fifties meant that a smiling, diffident, cheerful man playing happy music ended up starting riots all over t

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Beatles & Outlaws: Ken Mansfield Comes Down From The Roof: Ken Mansfield has been "in the room" for several major cultural watershed moments. After a meteoric rise through the ranks at Capitol Records in the 1960s, where he worked with artists like Lou Rawls, The Band, and The Beach Boys, Ken was personally chos...