Posted a collection of Cracker Barrel Albums that include all the covers and material respective to each album. All are ripped to the 320 kbps quality. All tracks have the ID tags. Ready to add to mp3 player or smart phone for some great listening. Y
Before motion pictures, before radio, before television, the traveling Medicine Shows brought entertainment to America! Flamboyant pitch doctors roamed the land, hawking their tonics, elixirs, and miracle cures, and with them came a host of singers,
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The pipe organ isn't just used in churches. Once upon a time every theatre and cinema had its resident organist.
Fortunately for us, there are still lots of organs and people who want to play them. The Wurlitzer and the Hammond organ, in particular,
A 30 minute radio short of film/documentary 'The Jazz Baroness' previously broadcast on BBC4. In the film, Helen Mirren is the Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter; associate, inspiration and patron d'arts to Bird (Charlie Pa
The fishermen of Leigh on Sea are famous for their heroic attempts to rescue British soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. A memorial in St Clements churchyard stands as a reminder of their bravery and sacrifice. A small but active fleet of
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This, in brief, is the story of English fairs, through songs, readings, and interviews with fairground people. The musicians are Jeff Giddings, Mike Studd and Colin Cater. The voices you'll hear are those of Dennis Rookard, Annie Harding, Peter Bil
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Colchester in Essex is Britain's oldest recorded town. Here the Emperor Claudius was proclaimed a god. It was the city of King Cunobelinos - Shakespeare's Cymbeline - whose daughter Helena, according to legend, was the mother of Constantine the Gre
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"The bells gave tongue; Gaude, Sabaoth, John, Jericho, Jubilee, Dimity, Batty Thomas and Tailor Paul, rioting and exulting high up in the dark tower, wide mouths rising and falling, brazen tongues clamouring, huge wheels turning to the dance of the
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For your entertainment and edification, ladies and gentlemen, an eclectic, not to say incongruous, company of artistes, under the benign chairmanship of Mr Les B Fair, presents the story of the British Music Hall, from its origins in street song an
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I picked up these tracks on a cd some years ago in the city of Bath in the UK.
some of these acetates were made by the film companys for singers to lip sync during filming.
These three were recorded in New York with Rudy Valle and his orchestra in
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Guest Star, Pgm 17 : Treasury Department
Up next on the blog is an early episode of the long-running Treasury Department public service series, “Guest Star” that promoted the sale of US savings bonds.
In this show, Kenny Delmar plays host to Hildega
