Music History Podcast Transcripts
Transcripts from Music History podcasts, every one with the speakers named.
Episodes
- "Ghana Freedom" - E. T. Mensah (Ghana, 1957)
- "Zombie" - Fela Kuti (Nigeria, 1976)
- "Sodade" - Cesária Évora (Kap Verde, 1992)
- "1er Gaou" - Magic System (Côte d'Ivoire, 1999)
- The Art of Adult Friendship: Why Quality Matters More Than Quantity
- Summer Explained: The Science, History, and Traditions of the Warmest Season
- Sir Patrick Stewart: From Shakespeare to Star Trek, the Life and Legacy of a Legend
- Supertramp - School
- Larry David: The Genius of Social Awkwardness, Seinfeld, and Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Why Australian Shepherds Aren't From Australia
- Feu Chatterton ! Mille vagues
- Labrador Retriever: From Newfoundland Fishing Dogs to Modern-Day Heroes
- Discovering Ireland: A Journey Through History, Culture, and the Wild Atlantic Way
- Willie Hutch: An Overnight I'll Be There Lyric and The Mack's Soundtrack
- Songs in the Key of Life: Stevie Wonder's Ghana Plan and a $13 Million Deal
- Super Freak's Afterlife: Alonzo Miller's Edit, Beat Freaks and Nicki Minaj
- What's Going On: Obie Benson's Berkeley Bus Ride and a Smuggled 1971 Single
- Dreamgirls 2006: Whitney's Lost Deal, 783 Effie Auditions and an Oscar Snub
- Eddie Holland: A Top 30 Hit With Jamie, Then the Pen Behind 143 Hits
- Detroit 1967 Riot: Willie Horton's Plea, Guard Panic and Phantom Snipers
- For Once in My Life: Billie Jean Brown's Fight to Free Stevie Wonder's Take
- Wanda Young: From Nursing Student to Marvelettes Lead and a 1989 Comeback
- Raynoma Gordy Singleton: Miss Ray's 5,000 Bootleg Copies of My Guy
- Yvonne Fair: The Singer Whose I Found You Became James Brown's I Feel Good
- DeBarge: Rhythm of the Night, a Motown Split and the Siblings' Hidden Pain
- I Wish It Would Rain: Roger Penzabene's Real Heartbreak Behind the Hit
- Bobby Brown: A $500 VCR Payout, New Jack Swing and a $400,000 Ransom
- The Marvelettes: A Fourth-Place Finish and an All-Night Postman Rewrite
- Meet the Supremes: Shrill Early Takes, Buttered Popcorn and a UK Reshuffle
- Three Times a Lady: An Anniversary Toast and a Waltz Meant for Sinatra
- Stevie Wonder's Innervisions: A Log Truck Crash, a Coma and Higher Ground
- Nowhere to Run: Ivy Jo Hunter's Snow Chains, Panic Lyrics and John Wick
- The Andantes: 20,000 Tracks, Four Tops Sopranos and the Darnells Ruse
- Uriel Jones: The Laid-Back Drummer on Grapevine and Ain't No Mountain
- Hurricane Katrina: Leaning I-Walls, the Loop Current and FEMA's Pull System
- 1992 Los Angeles Riots: The LAPD Pullback From Florence and Normandy
- Bay of Pigs 1961: Coral Reefs Read as Seaweed and the Groupthink Behind It
- Black Tom Explosion 1916: German Cigar Bombs and Liberty's Sealed Torch
- Operation Eagle Claw: The Desert One Collision and the Road to SOCOM
- Jacob Leisler: New York's Rebel for William and Mary Hanged for Treason
- Challenger 1986: Frozen O-Rings, Thiokol's Management Hat and 73 Seconds
- Gettysburg Campaign: Jeb Stuart's Wagon Detour Leaves Lee Fighting Blind
- Iraq War 2003 to 2011: Rumsfeld's How Start Note, the Surge and Iran's Gain
- Little Rock Nine: Faubus's Phantom Mob, the 101st Airborne, the Lost Year
- Detroit 1967: A 12th Street Blind Pig Raid, Algiers Motel and STRESS
- Tea Act of 1773: Lord North's Cheap Tea Bailout and Hutchinson's Sons
- Khe Sanh 1968: Igloo White Sensors, a Nuclear Option and Operation Charlie
- San Juan Hill 1898: Lt. Ord's Charge, Buffalo Soldiers and Parker's Guns
- Bonus Army 1932: MacArthur's Tanks, Adamsite Gas and Joe Angelo's Snub
- Alger Hiss: The Pumpkin Papers, Woodstock N230099 and Venona's Agent ALES
- Whiskey Ring: Orville Babcock's Sylph Telegrams and a Snatched Pen
- Banana Wars 1898 to 1934: Sam Zemurray's Honduran Coup and Smedley Butler
- Olustee 1864: Seymour's Rogue March and the 54th Massachusetts Train Haul
- Paoli 1777: No Flint Grey's Night Raid, Wayne's Campfires and Red Feathers
- The Secret to Life: Show Up and Enjoy Every Sandwhich
- Alexander Pope's dangerous pen and loaded pistols
- Alfred P Sloan Invented Modern Consumerism
- America's Top General Was a Spanish Spy
- Benjamin Disraeli's Impossible Rise to Power
- Black Hawk Beyond the Brand
- Bruce Ismay and the Cost of Survival
- Captain Francis Crozier's Lost Arctic Voyage
- Caterina Sforza From Cannons to Chemistry
- Catherine of Aragon Defied Henry VIII
- Cesare Borgias Rise and Fall
- Charlotte Corday Kills Marat in His Bathtub
- Chief Joseph and the Red Napoleon Myth
- Coco Chanel's Secret Nazi Past
- Denis Diderot and the Banned Encyclopedia
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Secret Political Power
- Emanuel Swedenborg From Scientist to Mystic
- Francis Xavier From Aristocrat to Relic
- From Brawling Courtier to Jesuit Founder
- From British Suffragette to Ethiopian Patriot
- Cesária Evora - Amiga D’nh Amigo
- Debt Snowball vs. Avalanche: Debt Account Aversion and the Kellogg Study
- Learned Helplessness: Seligman's Shuttle Box to the CIA's KUBARK Manual
- Zero-Based Budgeting: Peter Pyhrr, Jimmy Carter and 3G Capital at Kraft
- Active Listening: Carl Rogers, Conversational Narcissism and Gottman
- Zeigarnik Effect: A Forgetful Waiter, the Harden Rule and a 2025 Twist
- Segmented Sleep: Roger Ekirch's First Sleep to Buckminster Fuller's Naps
- Financial Literacy Gap: Annamaria Lusardi, Compound Interest and Fraud
- Fundamental Attribution Error: The Castro Essay Coin Toss and Culture
- Virtue Ethics Revived: Aristotle's Golden Mean to Anscombe's 1958 Essay
- The Pomodoro Technique: Francesco Cirillo's Tomato Timer Versus Apps
- Speed Reading Debunked: Evelyn Wood, JFK's 1,200 Words and a NASA Test
- Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma: Kodak, Floppy Disks and Uber
- Sleep Hygiene's Demotion: Why Sleep Medicine Pulled Support in 2021
- Voluntary Simplicity: Richard Gregg, Thoreau's Pies and Small Is Beautiful
- Frederick Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory: Why a Raise Won't Fix Your Job
- SMART Goals Decoded: George Doran's 1981 Original and Its Fitness Flaw
- Procrastination Science: Pigeons, a Twin Study and Structured Delay
- What Is a Financial Plan? The Term the CFP Board Never Defines
- Retirement's Breaking Point: Bismarck's 1889 Invention to the 4% Rule
- Mind Maps Tested: Porphyry's Trees, Tony Buzan and 20,000 Digital Maps
- #166 - Album des Monats September 2026 Teil 1
- Xuanzang: Fugitive Monk, Nalanda Scholar and 657 Sanskrit Texts to Chang'an
- Woodes Rogers: Rescuing Alexander Selkirk, Then Purging Pirate Nassau
- Zhuge Liang: The Longzhong Plan, Meng Huo and the Wooden Ox Carts
- Mark Antony: Lion Chariots, Caesar's Funeral Speech and Defeat at Actium
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