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Roger Smith's previous playlists
Apr 12, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
Special: Interracial Jazz with Steve Provizer
An interview (with added music) with the author of the book As Long As They Can Blow: Interracial Jazz Recordings and Other Jive Before 1935. An edited excerpt of this interview appears in the April 2024 issue of The Syncopated Times and at https://syncopatedtimes.com/as-long-as-they-can-bl...
Apr 5, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"Catchin' Rhythm (On the Road to Mandalay)"
Mar 29, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"You've Made a Chicken of Your Mother" (a women's history special)
Mar 22, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"Clear Bright Day In My Country"
Mar 15, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"Tiptoe Thru the Tulips"
Mar 8, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"The Arrival of Spring"
Mar 1, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure"
Feb 16, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"Dancing in the Blue"
Feb 9, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"Livery Stable Rhapsody"
... in commemoration of Paul Whiteman's "Experiment in Modern Music," at which George Gershwin premiered his Rhapsody in Blue, on February 12, 1924, at Aeolian Hall in New York.
Feb 2, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"One Sweet Letter From You"
Jan 26, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"Feeling For Life: Indonesian Music Special with Marty Hatch"
Cornell Emeritus Professor of Music and Asian Studies Martin F. Hatch is the featured guest on this special. Gamelan and other Indonesian music styles (in recorded examples mostly from the 1920 and 1930s) are interwoven with extended interview segments.
Jan 5, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
Lasses of Donnibrook
Dec 22, 2023 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"At the Christmas Ball"
Dec 15, 2023 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith
"Leben Zol Palestina" (Long Live Palestine)
Dec 1, 2023 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Music
With Roger Smith