High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song

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  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 26
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 25 The Listeners Edition.
    In the final episode of a century of recorded song the listeners get to pick the music; the songs and the singers. Weve been asking our listeners to let us know via facebook, twitter and gmail what songs and artists they love and which ones we have left out. So episode 26 is the listeners playlist with songs like Rave On from Buddy Holly who somehow did not get played during the rest of the series! Artists include Nick Drake, John Martyn, Elton John, the Blind Boys of Alabama and Barbra Streisand.
    30 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 25
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 25 Generation Mp3.
    Music goes digital, the birth of Mp3, iTunes and music downloads changes sound recording and the music industry. Jack and Julie explores how digital and the Internet as a platform has revolutionised music and looks at how bands like Radiohead and artists like Damon Albarn have met the challenge. Hand in hand with digital downloads is the resurgence of live performance
    41 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 24
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 24 From ORiada to Riverdance.
    From Sean O Riadas epic Mise Eire to Bill Whelan ground-breaking composition for Riverdance this weeks episode traces the story of Irish composition in the age of recording and the legacy of people like O Riada to contemporary artists and performers like Crash Ensemble. Some of the voices you will hear include Sinead O Connor, Enya and Iarla O Lionaird.
    31 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 23
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 23 World Beat.
    Jack and Julie take the story of sound recording and song global and explore the power of world music from South African townships and Miriam Makeba to Cuba and the Buena Vista Social Club.
    30 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 22
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 22 The Art of writing a song.
    Jack and Julie celebrate the art of the songs told by singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Paul Simon, David Bowie, Carole King and Neil Diamond. The show explores songs which have become more famous as cover versions like Cohens Hallelujah sung by Jeff Buckley.
    32 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 21
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 21 Stadium Sounds.
    Stadium Sounds resonates with the sounds from the 70s to today when gig venues got bigger and bigger and the songs became crown anthems from Bruce Springsteens Born to Run, Polices Roxanne to Queen, Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody. Jack and Julie trace sound from the Sony Walkman in 1979 to the birth of the CD in 1982 and the songs, bands, albums and gigs which made history. The show features the epic Live Aid gig in 1985 starring an emerging female artist called Madonna and with Irishman, Bob Geldof, of the Boomtown Rats behind it.
    38 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 20
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 20 Jack and Julies Mixtape.
    Everyone remembers making their favourite mixtape, a cassette tape of your favourite tracks which you could share and swap with friends. This week presenters Jack L and Julie Feeney select and swap their personal favourite songs and artists of the century of recorded song. Expect some surprises as Jack picks Beethovens ode to Joy (sung by Paul Robeson) and Julie opts for Eels.
    30 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 19
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 19 I heard it through the Grapevine.
    The sounds of Motown, soul and rich voices like Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and The Supremes as well as Dusty Springfield, Smokey Robinson, Amy Winehouse and the Commitments. High Fidelitys time machine lands in the seventies and plays the records from the Motown era 1959 to 2005.
    39 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 18
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 18 Abbey Road.
    Perhaps the most influential band and song-writing duo in the 20th century. The Beatles story, songbook and the legacy of Paul McCarthy and John Lennon. The story of Abbey Road Recording Studios and the bands who have made history there including Pink Floyd and the Shadows.
    33 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 17
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 17 Your Cheatin Heart.
    High Fidelity goes a little big country, exploring the roots and legacy of country music from folk to Nashville and gets behind the stories and songs of some of the great country performers from Hank Williams to Patsy Cline, Emmylou Harris to Neil Young and finds out why Leonard Cohen says Williams is one of the biggest influences on his songwriting. .
    37 min

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A 26 part radio series presented by Jack L and Julie Feeney - a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X-Factor.