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American Archives Month: Science Triumphs Over Death!

To people at the turn of the twentieth century, phonographs must have seemed…magical.

May 8, 2025
Mean Ol’ Twister

Today we’re talking tornadoes and…You’re on the Sound Beat.

May 8, 2025
Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off

Tomato, to-mah-to, potato-po-tah-to…no matter how you say it, you’re on the Sound Beat. Most married couples admit to occasional, let’s say…differences of opinion. Seldom are those…again, just differences of opinion,  as productive as Ira and Lenore Gershwin’s. Their opposing pronunciations of words like “tomato” and “potato” led to the hit song “Let’s Call the Whole Thing ...

May 1, 2025
TR and the Boys

How Theodore Roosevelt gave a young editor a square deal.

April 20, 2025
Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me

This song, Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me, is a response to events surrounding Ford’s newspaper, the Dearborn Independent. One of the largest publications in the US in the 20’s, it printed many anti-semitic articles, “The International Jew” among them. That particular gem proffered that “International financiers are behind all war. They are what is ...

April 10, 2025
Dark Was the Night…

Blues fans and extra-terrestrials alike may recognize this one.

March 25, 2025
Dear Little Shamrock

“There’s a dear little plant that grows in our Isle, ’twas Saint Patrick himself sure that set it.”

March 17, 2025
Laguardia’s Lament

The squeaky landing gear gets the grease

February 5, 2025
Hooray For Captain Spaulding!

From Coast Coast, from every state in the Union…it’s Groucho Marx and…

February 1, 2025
The 1000 Islands Song

Arthur 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 1947. The archipelago lies in the St. Lawrence River, on the US-Canadian border. There are actually about 1800 islands, each passing the ...

January 27, 2025