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Frank Zappa teaches Steve Allen to play The Bicycle
Aired March 3, 1963
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How one of America’s last piano manufacturers stays alive
Piano-building was once one of the country’s largest industries. Today, only two companies remain in business.
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The Beatles: The Strange History of Sexy Sadie
John Lennon could turn a bad mood into great song. He worked out some instant karma for a giggling guru for The Beatles' White Album.
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How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s music
Over the past few years a general nostalgia for the 1980s has infiltrated music, film, and television. I deeply love those gated reverb drums of the '80s - you know that punchy percussive sound popularized by Phil Collins and Prince? So for my second episode of Vox Pop’s Earworm I spoke with two Berklee College of Music professors, Susan Rogers and Prince Charles Alexander, to figure out just how that sound came to be, what makes it so damn punchy, and why it’s back.