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Podcast Book and Music Information and Purchase

Billie Holiday, Lady Day (Book and Music Information)

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There are several excellent biographies about Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday, by Stuart Nicholson[easyazon_link identifier=”1555533035″ locale=”US” tag=”someveryfamou-20″]Billie Holiday (Music)[/easyazon_link]

Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon, by Donald Clarke[easyazon_link identifier=”0306811367″ locale=”US” tag=”someveryfamou-20″]Billie Holiday: Wishing On The Moon[/easyazon_link]

Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John Szwed[easyazon_link identifier=”0670014729″ locale=”US” tag=”someveryfamou-20″]Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth[/easyazon_link]

Columbia records has reissued Billie Holiday’s output in several versions.  This is probably the best compilation[easyazon_link identifier=”B00005Q47M” locale=”US” tag=”someveryfamou-20″]Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944)[/easyazon_link]

Excerpts of several Billie Holiday songs were used during this podcast according to the doctrine of fair use.  These songs were “I Can’t Get Started”, “All Of Me”, “Strange Fruit”, “God Bless the Child”,  “You Go To My Head” and “You Better Go Now.”

 

 

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Edgar Allan Poe, Utterly Mysterious (Book and Music Information)

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The Definitive Biography of Edgar Allan Poe is: Edgar Allan Poe, A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn.

A more recent effort is: Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy by Jeffrey Myers.

A brief but comprehensive overview is contained in Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living by Paul Collins.

The intro and outro music was the Introduction and Rondo Cappriccioso, Op. 28 by Camille Saint-Saens.  This version is in the public domain.

Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28

 

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Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Myth of the “Guerrillero Heroico” (Book and Music Information)

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The most extensive biography of Che Guevara is Jon Lee Anderson’s “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life”

A wonderful book about Che and the Korda image is “Che’s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image.

An interesting compendium of pieces on Che is Che: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of a Revolutionary, edited by John Hart.

Opening and closing music was the song “Who”, second track from the album “Spin Day and the Emotional Godfather”

Spin Day

This music used by virtue of the following Creative Commons License

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Both Man and Dynamite (Book and Music Information)

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Books used for the Friedrich Nietzsche podcast included:

Walter Kaufmann’s biography, which is considered one of the best

Curtis Cate’s effort is an updated perspective with new material,

“Forgotten Fatherland”, is an amazing tale of the bizarre colony of “Nueva Germania,”

Portions of Elgar’s “Nimrod”, number 9 from the “Enigma Variations”, Opus. 36 used are in the public domain.

Elgar: “Nimrod”, #9, “Enigma” Variations

 

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Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra (Book and Music Information)

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There are several books that discuss the Mildred Harnack incident and the Red Orchestra.  An extremely thorough, lengthy biography of Mildred is contained in Shareen Blair Brysac’s “Resisting Hitler.”

Anne Nelson’s “The Red Orchestra” focuses on all of the members of this resistance movement and the tumultuous period in Berlin in the thirties and forties.

Eric Larson’s “In the Garden of Beasts” is a general description of the diplomatic intrigue between the German and American governments, Berlin society in the thirties and the life during this period of Martha Dodd.  Mildred Harnack is only mentioned peripherally but any reader with an interest in this topic will undoubtedly find this book fascinating.

For more information on the controversy over Nazi anatomist Hermann Stieve and the disposition of the cadavers of those executed by the Nazis with specific information about Mildred Harnack, see this article in Slate:

What happened to the Remains of Nazi Resister Mildred Harnack? Now We Know.

 

Both pieces of music heard in this podcast are in the public domain.  For more information see:

Erik Satie, Gymnopedie No. 1 (Harp arr.) and

Erik Satie, Gnossienes, No. 1 (piano)

 

 

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SS Catalpa Music and Publication Information

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The Music used during the podcast episode “George Smith Anthony and the Voyage of the Catalpa” came from the Group “Slainte” from their album of the same name.

Slainte

The tracks used were “Kesh Jig, Leitrim Fancy”, “Star of the County Down”, and “Gander in the Pratie Hole”, permissible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

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Peter F. Stevens book “The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels Escape to Freedom” is one of the few books available on this topic.

Smithsonian Magazine’s Article on the Catalpa can be accessed here: The Most Audacious Australian Prison Break of 1876

The PBS Secrets of the Dead episode is here:

Irish Escape: The Freemantle Six

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John Paul Jones, Book and Music Information

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Much of the information for this podcast came from the Pulitzer Prize winning “John Paul Jones: A Sailors Biography” by Samuel Eliot Morison.

Scott Martelle’s,  “The Admiral and the Ambassador” focuses on the quest to find and return the remains of John Paul Jones to a suitable place of honor.

The US Naval Institute’s (February, 2012) “The Resurrection of John Paul Jones”, by Captain Patrick Grant can be found here:

The Resurrection of John Paul Jones

The music played at the beginning and end of the podcast is “La Reine de la Mer, by John Philip Sousa.  It is in the public domain, more information below.

La Reine de la Mer, by John Philip Sousa

 

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