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Saturday Morning Serial: December Songs and Sounds (Audio)
Dec 01, 2012
Produced by Tom Roe. (55:43)
December songs, sounds, and stories are explored.FDR's "Day of Infamy" speech recalls Pearl Harbor Day, and Phil Kline's annual December "Unsilent Night" boombox orchestra is unleashed. Plus, the 52 HZ "loneliest whale in the world" who sings at one frequency, while all the other blue whales sing between 15-20 Hz. Navy sonar in the Pacific hears his lonely cries as he approaches the U.S. coast each December. Tune in for December songs from Franki Valli and the Four Seasons, Julie London, Mazzy Star, Jay-Z, Willie Nelson, The Boxcars, Unwound, Pierre Henry, Teenage Fanclub, John Cale, and Eydie Gorme.