Latest Cylinder Podcast Episodes
Arthur Murray…Taught Me Dancing…
Sound Beat - April 22, 2024 09:00 ★★★★★ - 15 ratings...In a hurry!
His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from Apr 17, 2024
Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU - April 18, 2024 02:32 ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsHarry "the Hipster" Gibson - "The Baby and the Pup" Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers - "Preachin' Blues" [0:02:25] Bo Carter - "Beans" [0:08:46] The Whoopee Makers - "Rush Inn Blues" [0:11:24] Butterbeans & Susie - "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stuff" [0:14:25] ...
Cold, Cold Heart
Sound Beat - April 10, 2024 09:18 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsA trip through the history of recorded sound
Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown
Sound Beat - April 04, 2024 09:51 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsA trip through the history of recorded sound
Everything Melba
Sound Beat - March 30, 2024 09:30 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDame Nellie Melba’s Farewell speech, recorded at Covent Garden in 1926. Plus...dessert!
Honey in the Rock
Sound Beat - March 05, 2024 09:55 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Carter Family’s rendition of "Honey in the Rock", a Coral Record from 1949.
In the Still of the Night
Sound Beat - February 28, 2024 10:14 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsNighttime is often the right time for thoughtful reflection..especially when one is on guard duty in the Army.
Whoopin’ the Blues
Sound Beat - February 23, 2024 10:23 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOne of the most distinctive signature sounds in all of recorded music.
Put It There Pal!
Sound Beat - February 20, 2024 09:51 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsA buddy song from two of the best buds in the biz.
Ambassador of Love
Sound Beat - February 14, 2024 13:36 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsYou're listening to Pearl Bailey from 1946 and you're on the Sound Beat. Pearl made her Broadway debut that year, performing "It's a Woman's Prerogative" in St. Louis Woman. Though audiences weren't enamored of the play, her performance marked the beginning of a decades-long love affair between ...
Big Stuff
Sound Beat - January 31, 2024 09:18 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBillie Holiday was known to record with ease, often needing only one take for her best studio recordings. This tune, however, was a whole different story.
Insurance Policy Blues
Sound Beat - January 30, 2024 09:08 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhat happens when the high-gloss worlds of archived sound and auto insurance collide? Hope you’ve got a policy for excitement.
Camp Meeting Jubilee
Sound Beat - January 21, 2024 10:00 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAlan Freed may have been the first to attribute "Rock and Roll" to a musical form, but he wasn't the first to use the words together.
The Walking Blues
Sound Beat - January 13, 2024 10:40 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCensorship has been a big issue in the U.S. since, well, before there was a U.S.
The Awakening of Scrooge
Sound Beat - December 25, 2023 10:27 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsYou’re listening to Bransby Williams with Charles Dickens’ redeemed cheapskate.
Begin The Beguine
Sound Beat - December 12, 2023 09:21 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAs a musician, Art Tatum was a true original – if a recording sounds like Tatum’s…it almost certainly IS Tatum’s.
The Blue Tail Fly
Sound Beat - December 07, 2023 09:23 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsYou’re listening to Burl Ives with “Blue Tail Fly” from 1944 and…
To The North Pole!
Sound Beat - December 04, 2023 09:32 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFinding the North Pole is hard enough. The harsh terrain, subzero temperatures…oh, and the fact that the pole isn’t even located on land.
The Devil and Niccolo Paganini
Sound Beat - November 30, 2023 10:30 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPaganini's talents made him a celebrity, but also inspired "devilish" rumors.
The Okeh Laughing Record
Sound Beat - November 27, 2023 10:57 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis one’s good for a laugh.
Crazy with the Blues
Sound Beat - November 10, 2023 08:02 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHistory’s full of musicians claiming to have made deals with the devil. But only one claimed to have married into one.
25 Minutes to Go
Sound Beat - November 08, 2023 10:00 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJohnny Cash got a little help from a beloved children's book author on this one.
Whatever Lola Wants
Sound Beat - October 27, 2023 09:17 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMen, title, even a new name: whatever she wanted, she got.
The Death of a President
Sound Beat - October 26, 2023 09:13 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCylinders served as much more than simple entertainment. This one aimed to capture, and perhaps ease, a nation’s sorrow.
I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier
Sound Beat - October 23, 2023 23:53 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsA mother’s lament that perfectly encapsulated American anti-war sentiment.
Your Cheatin’ Heart
Sound Beat - October 20, 2023 08:56 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLegend has it this song came to Williams while with fiancé Billie Jean Horton. Just driving around, talking about standard fiancé stuff…like, his ex-wife.
The Little Man Who Wasn’t There
Sound Beat - October 19, 2023 09:00 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIt’s hard to imagine a jazzy Hit Parade favorite having once been a poem…and a super-creepy poem at that.
Der Graf von Luxemburg
Sound Beat - October 12, 2023 09:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIt’s that age old tale of love and marriage…and money.
Lester’s Savoy Jump
Sound Beat - October 11, 2023 11:16 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsConsidered one of the most influential saxophonists in history, Lester “Prez” Young succeeded Coleman Hawkins at the height of the swing era.
Crazy Blues
Sound Beat - October 11, 2023 09:09 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsA milestone recording that came about quite by accident.
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