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National Kazoo Day

You’re hearing one of the most maligned of instruments — the kazoo — being featured in that excerpt from Jim Queskin’s classic “Jug Band Music.”

The Monkees

Does that song strike any familiar chords from your childhood? If you are of a certain age The Monkees were the rock band of your adolescence.

Lullabies for the Holidays

You're hearing a little from “Nia, Nia,” a lullaby sung by Alessandra Belloni — a timeless song that’s been used for centuries to sooth restless infants and calm distressed adult nerves in the region of southern Italy called Puglia.

Musical Gifts

You’re hearing the concluding section of the first movement of Ludwig von Beethoven’s famous Fifth Symphony, played by Robert LaFond and his orchestra on their CD, Snoopy’s Classiks on Toys.

Experience Music Project

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Experience-Music-Project.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 11/3/2000 Experience Music Project Transcript This summer in Seattle, amid rock concerts and much fanfare, a new museum opened to the public. It’s called the Experience Music Project. Located in the shadow of the famous Space Needle, and housed in an amazing, wavy, metallic […]

Halloween Music

It’s Halloween tonight, and if this ancient holiday is just your cup of tea and sack of candy corn, you might be interested to hear that there’s an entire CD of Halloween music waiting for your trick or treaters.

Hunter’s Moon

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hunters-Moon.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/10/2000 Hunter’s Moon Transcript The full moon is on its way this week, and if you’re looking for some music that catches the moon mood, you might try “moonfinder” by the Dreamsisters, Molly Conole and Nancy Waldman, two Orlando, Florida, based, award-winning singers and […]

Sloppy Peter and His Shocking Manners

You’re hearing the English group The Tiger Lillies with part of Fidgety Phil, from their Junk Opera that they based on Heinrich Hoffmann’s hilariously awful Struwwelpeter or Shock-headed Peter.

Leilani Clarke

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Leilani-Clarke.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/20/2000 Leilani Clarke Transcript Earlier this year, Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion radio program held a national contest for Talent from Towns Under Two Thousand. The winner of the competition was 12-year old Leilani Clarke from Welbourne, Florida, an easy morning’s drive through the […]

Back to School Sounds

Here’s how we’re waking up at our house to start the new school year — with the Brazilian singer Nazare Pereira singing “Bonjour Pra Voce” — a good morning song that goes well with corn flakes or scrambled eggs — from a joyful CD called World Playground from Putumayo World Music.