A trip through the history of recorded sound
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Jul1316 hours agoElvis played guitar on this 1957 RCA recording, but…not in the way you’d think.
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Jul061 week agoDISCLAIMER: Sound Beat, its producers and support staff do not, in any way, promote or condone the actions of 19th century Italian doctors or Opera House directors.
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Jul051 week agoRobert Burns was also known as “the Ploughman Poet” and, in Scotland, simply, “The Bard”.
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Jun292 weeks ago“Born” about 20,000 BC and “died” May 2, 2003. Well, he had a good run.
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Jun28
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Jun272 weeks agoYou’re listening to Marian Anderson with “Heav’n, Heav’n”, a Masterpiece 78 from 1943, and You’re on the Sound Beat. When Marian Anderson performed at Princeton University in 1937, she was one of t...
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Jun223 weeks agoGiuseppe Verdi: revered by music lovers, his countrymen and...the bearding community.
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Jun213 weeks agoThose young drifters; Seems they’d use anything to get a fair maiden to their bed.
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Jun203 weeks agoYou’re listening to Anchors Aweigh by the United States Naval Academy Band, and… You’re on the Sound Beat. Spelling seldom makes for great radio, but “Aweigh” in this case is spelled “A-W-E-I-G-H”,...
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Jun19
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Jun164 weeks agoHave you heard the siren’s call today? You might have, and not even known it.
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Jun151 month agoFor listeners of a certain age, a song about King Tutankhamen immediately brings Steve Martin to the mind’s theater. His “King Tut” mock-reprimanded the commercialization of the Treasures of Tuta...
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Jun141 month agoCharlie Chaplin would become the world’s biggest star, but the first emergence of the Little Tramp played second fiddle to…go-karts.
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Jun121 month agoJimmie 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?
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Jun091 month agoArthur Godfrey was a 50’s tv and radio icon, an aviator, equestrian…but not such a great tour leader. You’re on the Sound Beat You’re listening to The 1000 Islands Song, a Columbia 78 recorded in 1...
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Jun061 month agoWhere did you go in the 1930s when you wanted some of ground-breaking music that would become rock and roll? Sometimes…you just went to church.