Sound Beat

Jimmie Davis is regularly credited as creator of the classic “You Are My Sunshine”, heard here from 1941. But…if that’s true, then how did the Rice Brothers record it in 1939?

Those young drifters; Seems they’d use anything to get a fair maiden to their bed.

The film Aleksandr Nevsky is a recounting of a 13th century prince’s rise to national hero-dom. But parallels to the storyline echoed through the USSR in the 1930’s.

You’re listening to the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University sing Peter on the Sea, from 1927,

A glimpse into…the zoo: after hours.

Wicked author Gregory Maguire did much to elicit sympathy for the Wicked Witch of the West.

Two keys to any good marriage: understanding and coffee.

Not all press is good press.

You’re listening to The Human Bird, Joe Belmont, with Byron Harlan.

“The Hunting Wolves”, an Edison cylinder recording made by Ernest Thompson Seton in 1920.

“Born” about 20,000 BC and “died” May 2, 2003. Well, he had a good run.

GRATEFUL ROOTS: Sittin’ On Top of the World

A man as prolific as Charles Trenet (850 songs published over a 60 year career) probably doesn’t rest much, even on the train.

There's "hungry" and then there's "Diamond Jim Brady hungry".

You’re listening to Artie Wayne with Freddy Martin and His Orchestra and… You’re on the Sound Beat. While Howard Hughes’ aviation career is popularly associated with “The Spruce Goose”, the Hughes H-1 Racer set the landplane air-speed record in 1935, and it occupies a place in history that exists now, and may very well forever. Speaking of that, you’re listening to Now and Forever, from Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony. It was used in the 1943 film, “The Outlaw”, which Hughes produced. As for...

You can’t help but admire the patriotism of a guy who lies about his age to get into the Navy. Especially if that age is 14!

A muleskinner’s job was not quite as…grim as it sounds. Still...kinda grim though.

There are a couple different definitions for a blue moon, both of them kind of rare, and neither of them have to do with color of any sort.

The Man of 1,000 Voices...

Is it live, or is it…Edison?