Sound Beat

You’re listening to Bransby Williams with Charles Dickens’ redeemed cheapskate.

It’s that age old tale of love and marriage…and money.

Considered one of the most influential saxophonists in history, Lester “Prez” Young succeeded Coleman Hawkins at the height of the swing era.

Australia's unofficial anthem.

A trip through the history of recorded sound

The Harlem Hamfats...born at the wrong time.

Well you know this one…the first verse anyway.

Get out your Cajun dictionary...you're gonna need it.

Perhaps no man is more qualified to sing a song of impending execution than the "Murderous Minstrel" himself, Huddie Ledbetter.

When you wanted a rare or even obscure 78, Records Revisited on West 33rd in New York was your place. Unless, that is, it was the last copy.

In 1967, WSYR in Syracuse, NY issued the following message, an interruption to their scheduled broadcast.

Beethoven initially considered Napoleon a kindred spirit; indeed, they were more or less the same age, grew up in modest households, and neither had to stoop to pass through doorways.

One of the most famous, and best-selling, marches of all time.

Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann was, perhaps, one of music’s great inventors…and, probably, one of 19th-century Germany’s worst neighbors.

There was only partner who really filled Fred Astaire's dance card.

You’re listening to Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra with Herbie Fields on sax.

Wait, they banned what?

Eddie Durham with Moten Swing.

You’re listening to “I Found A New Baby”, recorded in 1942, and…

Whatever can explain the bikini’s popularity? I mean…It’s not rocket science…or, is it?