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Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music was the acoustic bible of the 1960s folk revival. This vinyl whiz-bang offered a musical tour of the South, all except for one track. Britt Aamodt traces its origins to a small café bar on St. Paul's University Avenue in the 1920s. [Read Transcript...]
Since the 1960s, Beatlemania has evoked images of swarming crowds and screaming girls. The hysteria erupted at every stop on the Beatles' 1964-65 American tour. However, Britt Aamodt uncovered one journalist's account that singled out Minneapolis as the capital of Beatlemania.
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“Well, everybody’s heard about the bird. Well, uh, bird, bird, bird, bird is the word.” Britt Aamodt traces the origins of the 1963 surf rock hit, “Surfin’ Bird”, to Minneapolis. [Read Transcript...]
Growing up in Minnesota, Herbert Gager learned to play many instruments and loved playing in bands. When he began his military service in the Marines, he played in a military band. But Gager had to give up playing music when he was assigned to be a stretcher-bearer in battles in the Pacific theater. He was … [Read Transcript...]
