Ben Manilla appears in the following:
Clifton Chenier’s “Bogalusa Boogie”
Thursday, December 15, 2016
The story behind Zydeco performer Clifton Chenier.
Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Monday, December 12, 2016
If there’s one holiday album everyone can agree on, it’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” by Vince Guaraldi. Here’s how it came to be.
Making Fun of the Kennedys
Thursday, November 17, 2016
The First Family broke new ground for comedy by openly mocking the Kennedys — even though it was recorded during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Thursday, December 18, 2014
If there’s one Christmas album everyone can agree on, it’s “A Charlie Brown Cristmas,” by Vince Guaraldi. Here’s how it came to be.
Linda Ronstadt: “Heart Like a Wheel”
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Linda Ronstadt’s “Heart Like a Wheel” made her a household name. Now it’s in the National Recording Registry.
Making Fun of the Kennedys
Friday, November 21, 2014
The First Family broke new ground for comedy by openly mocking the Kennedys — even though it was recorded during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Buck Owens Goes to Carnegie Hall
Friday, November 14, 2014
Buck Owens didn’t think he could fill Carnegie Hall, but the 1966 show turned out to be one of the highlights of his career.
Leontyne Price’s A Program of Song
Friday, December 13, 2013
Mississippi in the 1910s produced some of our country’s greatest blues artists. It also produced one of our greatest operatic singers, soprano Leontyne Price.
Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come
Friday, December 06, 2013
Saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1959 record, The Shape of Jazz to Come, introduced the world to the art of jazz improvisation.
Will Rogers’ Bacon, Beans, and Limousines
Friday, November 22, 2013
Before there was Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, even before Lennie Bruce, there was Will Rogers, America's first political comic.
Four Neville Brothers + New Orleans Soul = The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Friday, November 15, 2013
The Wild Tchoupitoulas was an all-star band that celebrated the music of a New Orleans institution--the Mardis Gras Indians.
Remembering George Jones
Friday, April 26, 2013
George Jones talked with Studio 360 about his song "He Stopped Loving Her Today." It was chosen for preservation in 2008 in the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry.
Donna Summer: I Feel Love
Friday, December 21, 2012
In 1977 Donna Summer released a single that changed the sound of dance music forever.
Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Friday, December 14, 2012
The soundtrack of the holidays is lousy with annoying songs about sleigh rides and snowmen, and beautiful old carols done up as treacly as possible. One of the saving graces this time...
Love: Forever Changes
Friday, November 30, 2012
The year 1967 saw the release of two psychedelic pop masterpieces — one globally famous (the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper), the other nearly forgotten: Forever Changes, by Love.
Gabby Pahinui: Hula Medley
Friday, November 16, 2012
Gabby Pahinui was a master of the style known as slack-key. His "Hula Medley," from 1947, helped introduce slack-key to the world, and it was chosen for the National Recording Regist...
Sons of the Pioneers: Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The Sons of the Pioneers' 1934 song “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” was written by a Canadian by birth who fell in love with the American West when his family moved to Tucson.
Professor Longhair: Tipitina
Friday, January 20, 2012
The New Orleans piano player Henry Roeland Byrd made a name for himself as Professor Longhair, a former street hustler turned self-taught musician who started recording in his early...
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
Friday, January 13, 2012
Trout Mask Replica (1969) is part free jazz, part blues, part beat poetry. Frank Zappa (who gave singer-songwriter Don van Vliet the name Captain Beefheart) produced the album. “It ...
Phonautogram
Friday, January 06, 2012
Did you know there are audio recordings that predate Thomas Edison's phonograph by almost 20 years? The phonautogram was invented by a Frenchman named Eduoard Leon-Scott and patente...