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HV086- WHER-Memphis
Hearing Voices from NPR®
086 WHER-Memphis: All Girl Radio
Host: Susan Stamberg of NPR
Airs week of: 2010-03-10
“WHER-Memphis” (52:00 mp3):
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The first all-girl radio station in the nation, WHER-Memphis, went on-air in 1955. It was the brainchild of sound legend Sam Phillips, who created the groundbreaking format with money he raised from selling Elvis Presley’s Sun Studios contract. Women almost exclusively ran the station. They read the news, interviewed local celebrities, and spun popular records. They sold and produced commercials, directed and engineered programming, and sat at the station’s control boards.
NPR’s Susan Stamberg hosts this one hour special on WHER, produced for the Kitchen Sisters’ series Lost and Found Sound. Mixed by Jim McKee of Earwax.
NPR links for WHER: music | part 1 & 2 | press | transcript | WHER reunion.
More info: PRX | Country Music Showcase.
Kitchen Sister Girl Secrets
The Kitchen Sisters Want You: this email today…
Dear Friends,
The Kitchen Sisters are looking for stories and images and videos and writings.
We’re launching a new multimedia series on NPR this January, a listener collaboration in the tradition of Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound, and The Sonic Memorial Project. This one’s about girls. Girls and the women they become. Stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secret identities. Of women who crossed a line, broke a trail, changed the tide.
Small everyday stories, dramatic life and death stories. Stories from the middle of the city, to the middle of nowhere.
What women should we know about? What girl’s story should we tell? The famous, the infamous, the unknown, the untold. Women with public lives. Women with secret lives.
Call our NPR Storyline at 202-408-9576 and tell us your story, or the story of someone we need to chronicle. Or email us at kitchen@kitchensisters.org
And here’s The Contest. We want you to help us name this new NPR series. We’ve called it The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, The Scheherazade Project, 1001 Stories, all names we like but can’t go with for one reason or another. So, we turn to you to join our brainstorming sessions. You can call or email us with your suggestions. Whoever picks the title will be featured on our website, get the full line of Kitchen Sisters products and productions, a wild boar dinner with forager, Angelo Garro, and the deep satisfaction of hearing the title you came up with on NPR throughout the year.
This soon-to-be-titled project will be full of richly layered sound and striking images, created by people around the world who help capture these stories of eccentric, trailblazing women and ground-breaking girls.
Join The Kitchen Sisterhood and help launch this new multimedia collaboration.
Many thanks,
Davia & Nikki
HV054- Food Fight
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Clothesline Revival · Todd Colby · Kitchen Sisters · Larry Massett · Radio Rookies · Rocky Tayeh
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
054 Food Fight— The Dark Side of the Muffin
Host— Larry Massett of Hearing Voices
Airs week of— 2009-03-25
“Food Fight” (52:00 mp3):
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Serving a savory mix of these Ingredients (photo © Hildie Golding):
“Eat the damn cheese,” sez Carolyn Hopewell in the web series Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love.
A Chinese student, Mr. Yen Ching, shares with host Larry Massett his recipe for cooking “Carp” and escaping communism.
Young Palestinian-American Rocky Tayeh, from WNYC Radio Rookies, fights food in “My Struggle with Obesity.”
Then, Rocky is surgically “Saying Goodye To Food,” also from Radio Rookies, produced by Kaari Pitkin, edited by Marianne McCune and Karen Michel.
Clothesline Revival musically cooks up “Shornin’ Bread,” with a 1940s tape of Ora Dell Graham and grammar school girls, recorded by John Lomax (CD: Long Gone
Poet (and fmr Drunken Boat singer) Told Colby really wants some “Cake,” form the CD compiltation Word Up
A Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate prepare “King’s Candy: A Prison Kitchen Vision,” part of Hidden Kitchens, a Kitchen Sisters series. (Music: .)
Another Hidden Kitchens is the concession-stand for “Broncos and Boudin: The Angola Prison Rodeo.” (Music: “Born on the Bayou” Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country, “What is Success” Allen Toussaint The Allen Toussaint Collection, “Tipitina and Me” Allen Toussaint Our New Orleans, “I’m Lonesome Blues” Robert Pete Williams Angola Prisoners’ Blues, “Back Water Blues,” Irma Thomas Our New Orleans, “Come on in My Kitchen” Cassandra Wilson Blue Light ‘Til Dawn.)
HV050- Love’s Labors
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Scott Carrier · Amy Dickinson · David Greenberger · Kitchen Sisters · Kevin Kling · UbuWeb · Nancy Updike
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
050 Love’s Labors— For Valentine’s Day
Host— Amy Dickinson of Chicago Tribune “Ask Amy”
Airs week of— 2009-02-11
Love’s Labors (52:00 mp3):
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Affairs of the heart, and the intricacies of intimacy:
Lovelorn letters to an advice columnist, our Host, “Ask Amy“.
A “Valentine” from Kevin Kling (from his Stories from the Shallow End CD).
The Girls Glee Club of New Palestine High School, Indiana singing the theme from “Midnight Cowboy” (off the out-of-print Poly High – School Bands Play The Classics).
Women’s tales of true but tainted love, what Nancy Updike calls “Cringe Love”, from This American Life.
One of the “6 terrific teen-age tunes sung by Barbie and Ken (and you can sing along, too!),” a 45-rpm record from Mattel Toymakers (mp3 at UBU.com’s 365 Days Project- May 31).
HV005- Backroads
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Jeff Arntsen · Scott Carrier · Kitchen Sisters · Larry Massett · John Rieger
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
005 Backroads — For Station Pledge Drives
Hosts— The Kicthen Sisters, Scott Carrier, John Rieger, Larry Massett
Airdates— 2008.04.02-09
Backroads (54:00 mp3):
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Audio excursions from the early eighties; four traveling stories from public radio’s past, hosted by the independent producers who made them:
Scott Carrier attends a native service of “Navajo Pentacostalists.”
The Kitchen Sisters ride with the “Road Ranger,” an American auto-mechanic hero.
John Rieger samples small-town life “Fifty Miles Out of Gerlach.”
And Larry Massett takes a nitrous-oxide fueled “Trip To the Dentist.”
Music from Jeff Arntsen of Racket Ship.
HV003- Her Stories
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Meryn Cadell · Kitchen Sisters · Dmae Roberts · Sonia Sanchez · Susan Stone · Jake Warga · ZBS
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
002 Her Stories— For Women’s History Month
Host— Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org
Airdates— 2008.03.19-26
Her Stories (54:00 mp3):
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The Kitchen Sisters go to “Tupperware®” parties.
A supermarket checker checks out her life, in ZBS’s radio soap Saratoga Springs.
Jenifir returns “Home From Africa” with all 13 Symptoms of Chronic Peace Corps Withdrawal, produced by Jake Warga.
Host Dmae Roberts has a collage of and about “Sisters.”
In a new syntax of whispers and words Susan Stone tells the story of “Ruby” and her husbands.
And Sonia Sanchez, Tracie Morris, Jill Battson and Meryn Cadell perform short poems.
Music from Tara Key’s Ear & Echo.
