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Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane

Episode Category: entertainment


Philly rock'n'roll pioneer legend Charlie Gracie

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] South Philadelphia native CHARLIE GRACIE came in earlier this spring to discuss what it’s like making a rock and roll record over 50 years after his 1957 hit, “Butterfly.” The first major artist on Philadelphia’s Cameo Parkway label, Gracie went on to record “Wanderin’ Eyes” and “Cool Baby,” touring world-wide and appearing [...]

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Suzzy Roche's debut novel, 'Wayward Saints'

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] SUZZY ROCHE and her sisters, Maggie and Terre, have been touring together and recording for over 30 years. Suzzy, the youngest, has recently written her first novel, "Wayward Saints," about the music industry, family and small-town ghosts of the past. Marty talked to Roche about performing, writing in a different medium for [...]

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Center City Jazz with Ernest Stuart & Rhenda Fearrington

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Hour 1 How do you pull off a music festival with the historically under-performing money making genre that is jazz? “Patience,” says Center City Jazz Festival organizer and South Jersey native ERNEST STUART. The trombonist and music producer kept the promise he made to himself – to showcase the area’s talented musician pool that has [...]

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Fun family getaways in NJ, PA & DE

Friday, April 20th, 2012

Hour 2 With summer approaching and gas prices averaging around $4 a gallon, a lot of families are rethinking the long vacation road trip or one that involves expensive airfare. So how about taking a few smaller trips with the kids closer to home?  Today we’re highlighting some great getaways for families in our region, [...]

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The Practicing Mind

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

As a full-time professional piano tech for over 25 years, our guest THOMAS M. STERNER sat down and repeated a task at least 88 times on a grand piano, and each piano has a potential 34 different adjustments per note. Using this knowledge and other experience from learning musical instruments at an early age, and [...]

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Philly rock'n'roll pioneer legend Charlie Gracie

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Hour 2 South Philadelphia native CHARLIE GRACIE comes in to discuss what it’s like making a rock and roll record over 50 years after his 1957 hit, “Butterfly.” The first major artist on Philadelphia’s Cameo Parkway label, Gracie went on to record “Wanderin’ Eyes” and “Cool Baby,” touring world-wide and appearing on "Dick Clark's American [...]

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Jamming with the Philly Roller Girls

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Hour 2 Roller derby, specifically women’s flat-track roller derby, is a fun and serious sport growing in popularity, especially in U.S. cities and definitely here in Philadelphia, where the Philly Roller Girls is the local league affiliated with the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association. Three local home teams compete against each other in Philadelphia: the [...]

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Rita Moreno's 'Life from Zero to Sixty Plus Twenty'

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Hour 2 Still singing and inspiring, Broadway legend and Latina trailblazer RITA MORENO joins Marty in studio for a retrospective of her much-honored life and career. The artist who originated the role of Anita in the film version of West Side Story, Moreno is also opening ¡Voz! Congreso at the Kimmel Center, a new three-year [...]

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Susan Orlean on dog superstar Rin Tin Tin

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Hour 1 [REBROADCAST] Writer SUSAN ORLEAN's recent book, "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend," tells the fascinating story of the famous German shepherd and his enduring popularity. Rin Tin Tin was discovered as a puppy on a WWI battlefield by American soldier Lee Duncan, who brought him back to the states and helped [...]

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The perils of Farmville: A look into the social gaming phenomenon

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Hour 2 Zynga, a social games company that has created hits like Farmville and Words With Friends, made headlines recently after Facebook released data indicating that Zynga is responsible for about 12 percent of its annual revenue. Social games are played on Facebook or on mobile devices and typically allow users to play with their [...]

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