Kitty Wells: Don’t Blame The ‘Honky-Tonk’
In 1952, Hank Thompson’s “The Wild Side of Life” addressed wild women and finding women on the wild side of life. Without a female voice, it was natural that an […]
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The Sounds of America: Flaco Jiménez’s Partners album BMPAudio
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The Sounds of America: The Harder They Come Soundtrack BMPAudio
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Science Of Happiness 76: If You Want to Be More Productive, Cut Yourself Some Slack BMPAudio
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Science of Happiness 73: How to Switch Off Your Critics BMPAudio
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Science of Happiness 72: How To Reconnect With Your Partner BMPAudio
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Red, White and the Blues BMPAudio
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The Science of Happiness 67: Taking Small Steps toward Big Goals BMPAudio
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1A Memorial Day Special BMPAudio
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The Science of Happiness 66: How to Connect When You Must Stay Apart BMPAudio
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The Science of Happiness 64: Helping Kids Think About the Good BMPAudio
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Productions
Mercy: Behind Roy Orbison’s ‘Pretty Woman’
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the death of rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Roy Orbison. Appropriately, this year has seen the release of a four-disc retrospective called The Soul of […]
NYC Mayor LaGuardia’s Legendary Radio Readings
The year is 1945. The world is at war, and New York City’s newspaper delivery men are on strike. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia solves the problem. Independent producer Ben Manilla shares […]
T-Bone Walker’s ‘Stormy Monday’
T-Bone Walker swung the blues, made his guitar cry like no-one else and wrote a classic in “Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday’s Just As Bad).” It’s among the latest […]
Revisiting Cole Porter’s ‘Top’
What does Cole Porter’s song “You’re the Top” have to do with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the end of Prohibition? Written in 1934 for the Broadway musical Anything Goes, the […]
‘Button-Down Mind’ Changed Modern Comedy
Bob Newhart‘s debut album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, was the first comedy album ever to hit No. 1. It saved the struggling Warner Brothers Records and changed the […]
Sam Cooke’s Swan Song of Protest
Though only a modest hit by his standards, Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” became an anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement, and would come to be heralded […]
Bob Marley’s Reggae Landmark
In 1973, a reggae group on the verge of breaking up released an album — its second that year — filled with militant anthems inspired by life in the Jamaican […]
