Tag: Music
Burl Ives
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 […]
Puff the Magic Dragon
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.
Bob Dylan
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 […]
Pete Seeger at 82: Still Singing
You’re listening to Pete Seeger, one of America’s authentic minstrels, whose birthday it is today.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Premiere of “Annie”
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 […]
Patty Smith Hill and “Happy Birthday to You”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Happy-Birthday-to-Patty-Smith-Hill.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/27/2001 Patty Smith Hill and “Happy Birthday to You” Transcript We all know the song, and probably can’t remember when we first learned to it’s words. You’ll probably sing it a dozen times this year, at least, over cakes and cupcakes — in dining […]
Blind Tom
You’re hearing a little from a recent and the first recording of a piano composition called the “Oliver Galop” that was written in 1861 by Thomas Wiggins when he was about twelve years old.
Jazz
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jazz.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/15/2001 Jazz Transcript Jazz is in the air this winter — on Ken Burns’ monumental PBS documentary, and in numerous new recordings that introduce this uniquely African-American and quintessentially American art form to children and young people. One place that your budding Ellington or […]
Black History Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Black-History-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/1/2001 Black History Month Transcript That’s Medicine Man Ya-Ya reciting the last part of Maulana Karenga’s Libation Statement that opens the CD, “Teach The Children,” a collection of songs and prose poems, that celebrates famous African American figures in our history. There’s Harriet Tubman, […]
Edgar Allen Poe
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edgar-Allen-Poe.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/31/2001 Edgar Allen Poe Transcript It’s the birthday this month of Edgar Allen Poe, and you’ve been hearing Ted Jacobs’ fine musical interpretation of one of Poe’s poems, “Alone,” from a CD called “The Days Gone By — Songs of the American Poets.” This […]