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Welcome to “Three Tune Tuesday,” where vintage sound meets timeless music in a weekly exploration of acoustically recorded gems.
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- Sep 22, 2026
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The Press (opens the original)
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This week on Three Tune Tuesday, we’re spending an episode with the press itself — inspired by a week that saw the White House bar three credentialed news outlets and the RNC pull CBC’s press pass — and we let three records from a hundred years ago do the arguing for us. First, “The Washington Post March,” which John Philip Sousa wrote on commission in 1889 for a newspaper’s own self-promotional essay contest, back when a paper could be proud enough of itself to order up a national anthem; then
Memories (opens the original)
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This week on Three Tune Tuesday, we’re spending an episode with memory itself — twenty-five years on from September 11th, right at the point where a shared national memory starts becoming history for the people who never lived through it, even as it stays close and present for everyone who did — and we let three of the earliest recorded sound era’s own records do the talking: “Ben Bolt,” a mid-19th-century parlor ballad that’s really just a list of everyone the narrator has outlived, still popul
Lakes (opens the original)
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This week’s Great Lake headline sent us hunting for a fitting protest song — turns out nobody in the 1910s was singing about who gets to name a body of water. So instead, Three Tune Tuesday goes looking for what people actually did put on record about lakes: three love songs, recorded across 35 years, all built around the same setting — a lake, a couple, and moonlight — put to three completely different uses. We start with “Moonlight on the Lake,” a genteel 1878 parlor ballad recorded by the Pee
Food Glorious Food (opens the original)
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A hundred years before “supply chain” became a household word, people were already singing about it. This week we dig into three records — 1918 to 1926 — that capture the same anxieties making headlines today: a real worldwide banana shortage that became the biggest novelty hit of 1923 (“Yes! We Have No Bananas”), a folk song about the boll weevil that devastated Southern cotton farming, recorded by none other than poet Carl Sandburg, and an early piece of regional food pride dressed up as a lov
The Beach (opens the original)
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Grab your bathing suit—we’re heading to the beach as Americans heard it more than a century ago. Through “By the Beautiful Sea,” “On the Beach at Waikiki,” and “In the Beautiful Seaside Air,” we’ll explore how the shoreline became a destination for recreation, romance, tropical fantasy, and good old-fashioned people-watching. Along the way, we’ll meet Billy Murray, hear the sound of Hawaiian steel guitar, and discover how the modern beach vacation was already taking shape by the 1910s.
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