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Walkin’ Talkin’ Bill Hawkins
Episode 38
In 1948, Bill Hawkins became Cleveland’s first black disc jockey. He had a jiving, rhyming style. People gathered on the street to watch him broadcas…
10 years, 3 months ago
37 – Bone Music: A Collaboration with 99% Invisible
Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, ingenious Russians began recording banned bootlegged jazz, …
10 years, 4 months ago
36 – Tupperware
“Somewhere in the world there’s a Tupperware Party starting every 10 seconds.” And we’re going to one with The Kitchen Sisters.
Parties. Rallies. Sal…
10 years, 4 months ago
35 – Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake
Nick Drake was a British singer songwriter from the early 1970s. His music has attracted a passionate, loyal following and influenced countless music…
10 years, 5 months ago
34 – The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski
Michael Baronowski was a 19-year-old Marine when he landed in Vietnam in 1966. He brought with him a reel-to-reel tape recorder and used it to record…
10 years, 5 months ago
33 – WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts—The First All Girl Radio Station in the Nation—Part 2
When Sam Phillips sold Elvis’ contract in 1955 he used the money to start WHER, an all-girl radio station in Memphis, TN. In this episode we move fro…
10 years, 6 months ago
32 – WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts—The First All Girl Radio Station in the Nation—Part 1
When Sam Phillips sold Elvis’ contract in 1955 he used the money to start an all girl radio station in Memphis, TN. Set in a pink, plush studio in th…
10 years, 6 months ago
31 – Waiting for Joe DiMaggio
April 1993: A small village in Sicily prepares for the first visit of 78-year-old baseball legend Joe DiMaggio to the town where his parents were bor…
10 years, 7 months ago
30 – The Building Stewardesses: Construction Guides at the World Trade Center
As construction commenced in 1968 on the largest building project since the pyramids, questions and controversies swirled around Lower Manhattan. How…
10 years, 7 months ago
29 – King’s Candy: A New Orleans Prison Kitchen Vision
Robert King Wilkerson was imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana for 31 years. Twenty-nine of those years he was in solitary…
10 years, 8 months ago