Devon Strolovitch appears in the following:
Sly and the Family Stone Want You to Stand Up
Thursday, January 05, 2017
In 1969, Sly and The Family Stone provided a funky soundtrack to the fight for freedom and equality. It’s just as relevant now as it was then.
"I Will Survive:" The Best Song to Grace a B-Side
Thursday, November 03, 2016
When Gloria Gaynor recorded the B-side to her 1978 single, she knew it was a hidden hit.
Steve Martin’s “A Wild and Crazy Guy”
Thursday, January 14, 2016
America’s most cerebral goofball made us fall in love with absurd comedy.
“The Boys of the Lough”
Thursday, January 07, 2016
In the 1920s, you had to know an Irish person to hear Irish music. Michael Coleman’s “The Boys of the Lough” came along, and we’re still hearing the reverberations.
"Sorry, Wrong Number"
Thursday, November 26, 2015
“Sorry, Wrong Number” broke all the rules of radio drama by killing off its main character — a harmless, if unpleasant, bedridden woman.
Sly and the Family Stone Want You to Stand Up
Thursday, November 19, 2015
In 1969, Sly and The Family Stone provided a funky soundtrack to the fight for freedom and equality. It’s just as relevant now as it was then.
Celia & Johnny: They Invented Salsa
Thursday, December 04, 2014
As Latin music was fading from popular culture, a blend of Caribbean rhythms going by the name salsa got a new generation dancing.
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.
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.
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...
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
Thursday, December 23, 2010
This hit country song was written in 1970 by Loretta Lynn. With her plaintive, but proud voice, Lynn tells the story of growing up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. Lyn...
The Sounds of American Culture
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Every year the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress selects 25 recordings to be preserved for all time. We highlight four of the selections: Howlin' Wolf's "Smokesta...
R.E.M.: Radio Free Europe
Thursday, December 23, 2010
"Radio Free Europe" was R.E.M.'s first single. It represents a breakthrough moment, when indie rock was splitting away from punk music to become its own sound. Engineer Mitch Easte...
