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Monday February 19, 2001

President's Day

Whatever Became of Washington's Birthday?

February 19, 2001 • Jason Bezis, a law student at the University of California at Berkeley, has always harbored a special appreciation for our first president. He wants the nation to refer to our annual Februrary federal holiday by its given name: Washington's Birthday.

Whatever Became of Washington's Birthday?

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Friday October 20, 2000

Music News

Persuading the Dead

October 20, 2000 • The a cappella group The Persuasions decided to do an album of Grateful Dead songs. As "The Dead" have been icons of sub-culture since the mid 60's, and have inspired more than one generation of devotees (Deadheads), they knew that covering the harmonies would not suffice. They would have to rediscover AND reinvent the music - both for themselves, and the audience.

Persuading the Dead

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Friday September 8, 2000

Lost & Found Sound

Lost and Found Sound: Galveston Storm

September 8, 2000 • One hundred years ago today, a hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing at least 6,000 people on the island, and another 4 to 6,000 on the mainland.

Lost and Found Sound: Galveston Storm

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Friday June 30, 2000

Lost & Found Sound

Lost And Found Sound: The Mother Ship

June 30, 2000 • In today's installment of "Lost and Found Sound," we hear a story from writer Tracy Johnston about a sound she collected years ago while traveling in Africa.

Lost And Found Sound: The Mother Ship

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Friday April 28, 2000

Lost & Found Sound

French Manicure

April 28, 2000 • Arriving in this country, Vietnamese immigrants have looked for a place to make their own economic niche. Many found one as manicurists. They not only acquire a new set of professional skills, but a new identity as well. Lost and Found Sound looks at how these immigrants adjust to a new life.

French Manicure

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Lost & Found Sound

Lost and Found Sound: Manicurists

April 28, 2000 • The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, with Laura Folger present a sonic montage that allows Vietnamese immigrant women to tell about their experiences in coming to the United States.

Lost and Found Sound: Manicurists

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Friday April 21, 2000

Lost & Found Sound

'Lost & Found Sound': The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Cpl. Michael A. Baronowski

April 21, 2000 • In 1966, Michael A. Baronowski of Norristown, Penn., took a tape recorder with him into combat in Vietnam. Lance Cpl. Baronowski was in the demilitarized zone when he captured sounds of jokes, songs, bombs, and bullets. He died later that year in an ambush in a village — but not before sending these recordings home. (Produced by Christina Egloff with Jay Allison.)

'Lost & Found Sound': The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Cpl. Michael A. Baronowski

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Friday November 19, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Obsessed With TV Sound

November 19, 1999 • Our year-long series visits a man obsessed with the sound of TV. Phil Gries started recording audio from his television set in the 1950s. He still has over 10-thousand items, and has turned his hobby into a business -- supplying audio from old TV shows to other collectors and museums. He says he was motivated by the ethereal nature of live TV to preserve broadcasts of all sorts.

Obsessed With TV Sound

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Friday November 12, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

'Mental Hygiene' Films

November 12, 1999 • As many as 3,000 "mental hygiene" films were shown in schools in the years after the Second World War. They provide lessons about dating, manners and delinquency, all wrapped up in a tidy 10-minute package. Lost and Found Sound got a tour through these films from author Ken Smith.

'Mental Hygiene' Films

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Friday August 27, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

CKLW: The Hits Just Keep on Coming

August 27, 1999 • In this latest installment of our Lost and Found Sound series, NPR's Don Gonyea remembers the heyday of powerhouse AM radio. Gonyea grew up in Detroit, where the big station in the 60's and 70's was CKLW. It broadcast from across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario. It was a loud, glitzy noise-making enterprise. Everything was shouted -- even the news. The 50,000-watt giant spewed rock and roll and hyped-news across 28 states and mid-Canada. Gonyea describes the formula that made CKLW and its imitators successful.

CKLW: The Hits Just Keep on Coming

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Friday July 9, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Lost and Found Sound: Studio Nine

July 9, 1999 • As part of our year-long collaboration with independent producers, Lost and Found Sound today turns to veteran broadcaster Robert Trout for a look back at CBS Studio Nine. The New York newsroom was the source of much of the century's news for millions of Americans. During the studio's operation from 1938 to 1964, Trout was one of the men who spent the most time there. He recently discovered some of his tapes.

Lost and Found Sound: Studio Nine

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Friday July 2, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Independence Day 1963

July 2, 1999 • As a 13-year-old, NPR's Art Silverman took his first crack at radio. The coordinating producer of Lost and Found Sound anchored and reported the July 4th celebrations in his hometown, Livingston, NJ.

Independence Day 1963

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Friday June 18, 1999

Father's Day

Lost & Found Sound: Her Father's Voice

June 18, 1999 • Susan Stamberg marks Fathers Day by dusting off 78 rpm home recordings made in 1940 and later by her father. He's been dead three decades. She never had the heart to listen before, feeling his loss was still too near to deal with.

Lost & Found Sound: Her Father's Voice

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Friday April 9, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Lost And Found Sound: The Art Of The Carnival Talker

April 9, 1999 • As part of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED's year-long Friday series, we travel to the world of the Carnival Talker. Many call them "Barkers," but they dislike that term.

Lost And Found Sound: The Art Of The Carnival Talker

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Friday April 2, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Extinct Tongues

April 2, 1999 • A linguist in Flagstaff, Arizona, Bonny Sands, told us about her colleague from South Africa, Tony Traill. Traill took some old wax cylinders and documented a lot of the now extinct languages of South Africa. He has now put out a CD copy of the original, which was recorded in 1936. We hear excerpts.

Extinct Tongues

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