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Memorial Day with the 2022 National Heritage Fellows Memorial Day with the 2022 National Heritage Fellows May 24th, 2023 (Hour 1)
Memorial Day with the 2022 National Heritage Fellows

For Memorial Day, we’re celebrating the 2022 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows. Great musicians, storytellers, artisans and advocates, who have received our nation’s highest honor in traditional arts with these new honorees: Richmond gospel family, The Legendary Ingramettes; Navajo Diné weaver and sheep rancher, TahNibaa Naataanii; Washington DC step choreographer, C. Brian Williams; Excelsior Brass Band of Mobile, Alabama; master Hawaiian Hale builder Francis “Palani” Sinenci; Tibetan Opera singer and dancer Tsering Wangmo Satho; Flamenco dancer Eva Encinias; Bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland; St. Croix Quelbe flute player and bandleader, Stanley Jacobs; and New Orleans Black-masking craftsman, stilt dancer and musician, Shaka Zulu. Plus music from former fellows Doc Watson, Cedric Burnside, Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jiménez, Andy Statman, Dr. Michael White and Wanda Jackson, among others.

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BACK TO SCHOOL

September 9th, 1998

Back-to-School with music from across the American landscape meant to provoke memories of early grades, high school and college. Also a visit to the football locker room and band practice. Nick is kicked out of the Public Radio Honor Society for playing music from class cut-ups and non-conformists like Tom Lehrer, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Thelonius Monk, as well as straight-arrows Doris Day, Ralph Stanley, and the Coasters—all in one show!

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: School Days Chuck Berry
    The Chess Box, MCA/Chess
  • Hey Schoolgirl/Black Slacks Simon & Garfunkel
    Old Friends, Columbia/Legacy
  • Good Morning, Little School Girl Muddy Waters
    His Best 1956 to 1964, MCA/Chess
  • Teacher, Teacher Johnny Mathis
    16 Most Requested Songs, Columbia/Legacy
  • Teacher Teacher Rockpile
    Seconds of Pleasure, Columbia
  • You've Been Taking Lessons in Love Fats Waller
    A Portrait of Fats Waller, Gallerie
  • Wonderful World Sam Cooke
    Greatest Hits, RCA
  • Instrumental: Tres Palabras Dave Samuels
    Dave Samuels Presents Tjaderized: A Cal Tjader Tribute, Verve
  • High School Madness Firesign Theatre
    Shoes for Industry! The Best of the Firesign Theatre, Columbia/Legacy
  • High School Confidential Jerry Lee Lewis
    Sun Classics, Charly
  • Rock & Roll High School The Ramones
    Ramones Mania, Sire
  • Eyes of Texas Bill Boyd
    Western Swing, Old Timey
  • Texas Tornados Judy Garland
    Star Spangled Rhythm, Smithsonian Collection
  • Fight Fiercely Harvard Tom Lehrer
    Songs & More Songs By Tom Lehrer, Rhino
  • Ivy League Roy Brown
    The Complete Imperial Recordings, Capitol
  • Collegiana The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    The Best of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, EMI
  • Stay in School Otis Redding
    Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino/Atlantic
  • Still in School NRBQ
    Peek-A-Boo, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Soul Finger Bar-Kays
    Rock Instrumental Classics Vol. 4: Soul, Rhino
  • Going to School Buddy Guy
    The Complete Chess Recordings, Chess
  • School Days Dizzy Gillespie
    Birks Works - The Verve Big-Band Sessions, Verve
  • School Days Aretha Franklin
    Aretha, Arista

HOUR two

  • The Last Race Jack Nitzsche
    Big Boss Instrumentals, Vol. 3, The Right Stuff
  • Shop Bill Cosby
    Why Is There Air?, Warner Brothers
  • Charlie Brown Coasters
    50 Coastin' Classics, Atlantic/Rhino
  • Teacher's Pet Doris Day
    16 Most Requested Songs, Encore!, Columbia/Legacy
  • You Don't Learn That in School Louis Armstrong & his orchestra
    From the Big Band to the All Stars, 1946-1956, RCA
  • Don't Stand So Close To Me The Police
    The Very Best of Sting & The Police, A &M
  • No School Bus in Heaven Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
    Classic Bluegrass, Rebel
  • Kiss Me On the Bus The Replacments
    Tim, Sire
  • Instrumental: Django's Tiger Django Reinhardt
    The Best Of Django Reinhardt, Blue Note
  • Don't Be A Dropout James Brown
    James Brown Sings Raw Soul, Polydor
  • Be True to Your School Beach Boys
    Good Vibrations - Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, Capitol
  • You're Just An Old Antidisestablish-mentarianismist Duke Ellington
    Stars of the Apollo, Columbia/Legacy
  • Conjunction Junction Better Than Ezra
    Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!, Atlantic
  • ABC Jackson Five
    The Ultimate Collection, Motown
  • Instrumental: Just Another Sucker On The Vine Tom Waits
    Swordfishtrombones, Island
  • The Last Rose of Summer Tom Waits
    The Black Rider, Island
  • Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams Abbey Lincoln w/Stan Getz
    You Gotta Pay the Band, Verve
  • To Sir With Love Lulu
    Stand By Your Man, Nick at Night
  • Rumble Link Wray & His Ray Men
    Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar - Rock: The '50s, Vol. 1, Rhino
  • End Bed: Schoolhouse Rocky Bob Dorough & Friends
    Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!, Atlantic

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