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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
In the 1930s, Jeanie Arland met her future husband and fellow musician Willie Peterson at WCCO. Producer Daniel Zamzow describes how, over time, these working musicians would turn their love of music into a family legacy. [Read Transcript...]
Flamingo was the predecessor to The Flamin’ Oh’s, a band whose highest notes came in the early and mid-1980s. But, as Daniel Zamzow describes, Flamingo stands on its own legacy - one based on their live shows in the late ‘70s, surviving today only in memory. [Read Transcript...]
“Daddy Squeeze” Dan Newton and his band Cafe Accordion Orchestra were pleasantly surprised after playing their music for a seemingly absent audience one night in 2001. Producer Daniel Zamzow describes the unpredictable circumstances that took the Minnesota group to a new level. [Read Transcript...]
In the mid-1960s, Minnesota was wrapped up in “Beatle Mania” just like the rest of the nation. As Daniel Zamzow explains, their 1965 show in Bloomington was not the last time The Beatles would make an impact on our state. [Read Transcript...]
