The first musical instrument was most probably a flute, made from an animal bone. The oldest of these flutes is from 43,000 years ago. But music itself – chants, songs, incantations – is much, much older. Our stories look at music in its many forms, ancient and modern, and from many cultures.
Author John Cech Air Date 6/22/2001 “All Wound Up” Transcript When I heard this, I thought I was a kid again, back in Chicago, on a Sunday morning in the 1950s, with the Polka Hour on the radio. This transporting, toe-tapping version of the old lullaby is from the Grammy Award winning singing – song-writing […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brian-Wilson-and-The-Beach-Boys.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/20/2001 Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys Transcript “Their hearts were full of spring.” So begins chapter one of Back to the Beach, A Brian Wilson and Beach Boys Reader. It would be difficult to describe the appeal of the early Beach Boys recordings […]
Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/14/2001 Burl Ives Transcript If Burl Ives were alive today, he would be celebrating his ninety-second birthday – but the thing about Burl Ives, is that he possessed an ageless quality – he was a sort of perpetual jolly uncle; timeless, and forever fun-loving. Though his career was widely varied […]
It’s Peter Yarrow’s birthday, and here’s Kevin Shortsleeve with the story of the singer-songwriter’s most famous creation, Puff the Magic Dragon.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bob-Dylan.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 5/24/2001 Bob Dylan Transcript When people talk about Bob Dylan, Mother Goose does not usually enter the conversation. But it could be that there is an important connection between Dylan’s lyrics and the songs and stories of childhood. In 1991 he recorded This Old […]
That;s the Washington, D.C. – based a capella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock, with the opening of the title song from their new CD for children.
That’s the chorus from Nana Animalera, written and sung by Maricela Verena, a Cuban composer and musician, living in Puerto Rico, from a new CD called Cuban Lullaby, from Ellipsis Arts.
You’re listening to Pete Seeger, one of America’s authentic minstrels, whose birthday it is today.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/I-love-ya-tomorrow-Annies-Anniversary.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Heather Tomasello) Air Date 4/20/2001 Tomorrow and Tomorrow Transcript Today marks the anniversary of the Broadway debut of the musical Annie. As a kid, I was introduced to this scrappy orphan not through the play but the 1982 movie version, with the unforgettable Carol […]
That’s John McCutcheon with a little of “April Fool,” from his splendid recording, “SpringSongs,” from Rounder Records.