Monthly Archives: February 2013

Yodeling Is Actually Pretty Awesome

Hi WPRB! We wanted to start a blog series about music- and radio-related content.

253536_10150630816925648_7005011_n So let’s talk about yodeling!

Imagine this: You’re an eighty-year-old Swiss man, standing at the top of a mountain next to another eighty year old man (your best friend and fellow chorus member for the last seventy or so years) and a bunch of other people, singing old Swiss yodeling songs in nineteen part harmony. I am not making this up. Switzerland is full of little yodeling groups, known as Jodlerclubs, with members between the ages of thirteen and eighty-five, singing songs that will literally make you cry. Continue reading →

Nominate WPRB for an MTVu Woodie Award

It’s almost time for the 2013 mtvU Woodie Award, where they hand out the “College Radio Woodie” to the best student-run radio station!

If you want to nominate WPRB (and we really hope you do!) go to this page before 4pm on February 7th. We think you’re pretty great, and we hope you like us too!

2/8 at Small World Coffee: Motorfunker DJ’s

I know that it’s hard to go without the Motorfunker program for six days of the week, so if you want to hear their awesome DJing off the air, be sure to check them out on February 8th at Small World Coffee’s “Love Show” opening reception!

The Love Show features community artists — specifically music, visual art and food that expresses the artists’ take on the word “love”. This year, donations to the show will go towards HiTOPS, an organization that works with adolescents to give them resources for their futures.

Come support Motorfunker and enjoy some delicious donated food and art!

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Spring 2013 Schedule

Tune in tomorrow for the new schedule! It’s in a less calendar-like format below, just in case you can’t read my handwriting.

Monday

06:00-0830 Classical with Kevin

0830-1100 Classical with Alison

11:00-13:00 Dan Buskirk

13:00-15:00 Minutes of Funk with Jean Dreaux

15:00-17:00 Teenage Lust with Colin

17:00-18:00 WPRB Sports

18:00-19:00 WPRB News

19:00-19:30 The Week in Review with Readie

19:30-21:00 Belle Jams Re-mastered with Y2G

21:00-23:00 Peter and Wilson

23:00-01:00 DJ Iri

01:00-03:00 DJ ME

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Archive: 1956 One Hundred Hour Marathon

You’re listening to clips from the 100 hour marathon co-hosted by WPRB’s Program Director Paul Dunn ’58 and Head Announcer Dick Morgan ’58 back in 1956.

Dunn says: “We had done many two-man shows and decided that a publicity-creating broadcast was necessary to tell the world that WPRB was back on the air after its then-permitted summer hiatus.”

The broadcast began at noon the Friday, September 14th, and finished, one hundred hours later, on Tuesday at 4.

There are some real gems in here, including some funky Bulgarian jazz and about twenty minutes of ‘echo chamber’ tomfoolery. The piece also features a bunch of clips from Dunn’s ’57 Sunday evening show, “Paul’s Place”.

If you have any old tapes or air checks from way-back-when, get in touch! We’d love to hear them. Email pnp@wprb.com.