Saturday, September 27, 2025

Unknown Artist: Smokey the Fire Engine

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  I bought this last month at Portland's legendary Memory Den . It's part mall, part thrift store, part Kowloon Walled City. If you ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Roger Flax: Clyde & Phyllis—A Musical Fantasy About the World's First Guitar Playing Elephant

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  A guitar-playing elephant falls in love with an ant! But they can never marry! He'll crush her! He weighs too much, you see. I wonder ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Harald Walter: Deutscher Humor

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  Q: Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? A: Also dachte ich, hey, vielleicht liegt es an meiner Nadel. Deutscher Humor Aus de Schule ...

Sesame Street: Sesame Street Fever

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  This is (surprise/no surprise) a really good disco album! Speaking as a guy who had the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack gifted to him at ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Unknown Artists: Music of Northern Morocco Vol. 1

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  This, another loan from stalwart DJ pal Rich in Washington , has a somewhat twisted story behind it. When Rich found it, he had to add it ...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Hubert J. Bernhard: The Christmas Star

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  From 1966 comes this classic educational record in which "...we find ourselves enmeshed in a net of historical confusion." We...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Archivist Power Hour: On Capturing Old Photos With Silvering

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  When I digitized my grandmother Esther’s archive this year, I   had maybe 2000 photos to ingest, half of them loose, half in scrapbooks....