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Title: Fresh Air, Remembering Sam Phillips with Peter Guralnick, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

On this edition, Fresh Air pays tribute to Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records who died Wednesday at the age of 80. Terry Gross speaks with music writer Peter Guralnick and songwriter and singers Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. Peter Guralnick is the author of a two volume biography of Elvis Presley: Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love. Carl Perkins was one of the performers Sam Phillips discovered and recorded in the 1950s. Perkins wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," the hit song sung by Elvis Presley, which became the first Sun label record to sell over a million copies. He also wrote the songs, "Matchbox," "Honey Don't," and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" which have been recorded by the Beatles. Perkins is the pioneer of a style of music called Rockabilly, which is described as "a country man's song with a black man's rhythm." Johnny Cash is one of the performers Phillips discovered and recorded in the 1950s. Cash has been recording albums and performing since the 1950's. He has been inducted into the Songwriters, Country Music, and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame. (Original Broadcast Dates: October 4, 1994, October 29, 1996 and November 4, 1997)

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Title: Fresh Air, Laura Hillenbrand and Jonathan Karp

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-29-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Writer Laura Hillenbrand and Random House editor Jonathan Karp on this edition of Fresh Air. Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the best selling book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, about the horse who became a racetrack sensation in the 1930s. Her book is the basis of the new film starring Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, and Chris Cooper. Hillenbrand has chronic fatugue syndrome and during the writing of Seabiscuit, she almost never left her home. She has been writing about Thoroughbred racing for 15 years. Jonathan Karp was Laura Hillenbrand's editor at Random House for Seabiscuit. He'll talk about working with Hillenbrand, who has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and had the illness while she was writing the best-selling book. Karp was also the editor of The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean. (Broadcast Date: July 29, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, David Fromkin

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Middle East historian David Fromkin on this edition of Fresh Air. David Fromkin is a professor of International Relations, International Law, and Middle Eastern Politics at Boston University. He's also the author of the best selling book, A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922. The book details how the geography and the politics of the Middle East were shaped by decisions by the Allies during and after World War I. Host Terry Gross first talked with Fromkin in 1991 after the publication of his book. We'll hear a portion of that interview here then we go to an interview recorded recently with Fromkin. (Original Broadcast Dates: January 14, 1991 and April 14, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Quincy Jones

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Musician, producer, arranger, composer Quincy Jones on this 70th birthday rebroadcast edition of Fresh Air. In his fifty year career he's worked with just about anyone who is anybody in the music business. As a teenager he played backup for Billie Holiday, along with his 16 year old friend, Ray Charles. At 18 he began playing the trumpet in Lionel Hampton's band beside Clifford Brown. He went on to work with Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Lesley Gore and many others. He wrote the theme songs for the TV shows Sanford & Sons, and Ironside, and music for the films In Cold Blood, For the Love of Ivy, and The Pawnbroker. His biggest commercial success was producing and arranging Michael Jackson's 1982 hit album Thriller. (Original Broadcast Date: November 5, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Neil Baldwin and Lucy Grealy

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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Writer Neil Baldwin and remembering poet Lucy Grealy on this edition of Fresh Air. Baldwin is executive director of the National Book Foundation and author of the book, Henry Ford and the Jews, in which he details Ford's early obsession with moralistic writings condemning Jews for not accepting Christ. Grealy died in December 2002 at the age of 39. As a child, she spent five years being treated for cancer, which left her face disfigured. She had over thirty reconstructive procedures and years of living with a distorted self-image. She wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994, her memoir about coming to terms with looking less than perfect in a society that values female beauty. (Broadcast Dates: January 14, 2002 and January 3, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Charles Kupchan and Ruby Wax

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Professor Charles Kupchan and TV host and writer Ruby Wax on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Kupchan's new book, "The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century, Kupchan argues that the era of American dominance may be coming to an end; this demise will not be brought on by the Islamic world or China but from an integrated Europe. He says that as Europe's political and strategic goals continue to divert from those of the US, Europe will rise as a new rival. Kupchan served on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. He is a professor of international relations at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ruby Wax was born and raised outside Chicago. She moved to England during her 20s, and found success as a performer, writer, and TV personality. Wax scripted the British TV comedy Absolutely Fabulous and has had many other hit TV series on the BBC. Her new memoir is called How Do You Want Me? (Broadcast Date: November 12, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Patsy Rodenburg and Dave Fitzpatrick

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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Voice and acting coach Patsy Rodenburg and New York City Police Detective Dave Fitzpatrick on this edition of Fresh Air. Patsy Rodenburg's worked with some of the world's leading English-speaking actors, including Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Maggie Smith and Nicole Kidman. Rodenburg is the Director of Voice at London's National Theatre and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She's the author of the new book, Speaking Shakespeare and the previous book The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer. Dave Fitzpatrick took thousands of photographs on September 11th, many of them from a police helicopter high above the city. He started taking pictures shortly after the second plane hit. He also spent two months at Ground Zero photographing the rescue efforts. Many of his photographs and that of other police officers are featured in the book, Above Hallowed Ground: A Photographic Record of September 11, 2001. (Broadcast Date: September 9, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Title: Fresh Air, Christopher Walken, Reverend Louis Sheldon, and Winnie Stachelberg

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 06-29-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

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Actor Christopher Walken, Reverend Louis Sheldon and Winnie Stachelberg, political director of the Human Rights Campaign on this edition of Fresh Air. Christopher Walken got his start in the business as a tap-dancing kid and went on to play some of the most menacingly evil characters around. His films include At Close Range, The Comfort of Strangers, King of New York, The Dead Zone, and Annie Hall (in which he played Annie's creepy brother who had an impulse to drive his car into oncoming traffic.) His new film is The Opportunists. In light of the news that Republican V.P. candidate Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian, Fresh Air speaks to two people close to the issue. First: Reverend Louis Sheldon, chairman and founder of the Coalition for Traditional Values. The Coalition for Traditional Values is the largest non-denominational grassroots church lobby in America, founded in 1980. Then, Terry Gross talks with Winnie Stachelberg, political director of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian and gay political organization in the United States. Founded in 1980, it is a bi-partisan lobbying group. (Original Broadcast Date: August 3, 2000)

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Title: Fresh Air, Sudhir Venkatesh

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh on this edition of Fresh Air. Sudhir Venkatesh's an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of African American Studies at Columbia University in New York. His newest book, American Project: The Rise and Fall of the Modern Ghetto, was awarded the 2000 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers. His research interests are based in investigating the social organization of poor urban neighborhoods. He lives in New York City. (Broadcast Date: January 31, 2001)

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