Fresh Air
- Program
- Fresh Air
- Producing Organization
- WHYY Public Media
- Contributing Organization
- WHYY (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/215-52j6qcm7
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- Description
- Description
- HALF: Les Paul (R) TEN: Sam Phillips (R)
- Description
- Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network. Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show," it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR.
- Description
- INT. 1: Guitarist LES PAUL. He's often been called the Thomas Edison of music. PAUL invented the solid body electric guitar, overdubbing, reverb, and multitracking-inventions that helped make rock n roll possible. He himself has stuck to jazz, and a more middle of the road pop. In the 1950's he had several hits with his wife Mary Ford, including How High the Moon, Vaya Con Dios, and Bye Bye Blues. His Capitol recordings, several of his old radio shows from the late 40's and early 50's, and some of his commercial jingles are collected on a 4CD box set, called Les Paul: The Legend and The Legacy. (REBROADCAST from 1/17/92) REV. : Rock historian ED WARD on Sam Phillips and Sun Records. INT. 2: Sun Studios founder SAM PHILLIPS. He is revered as one of the leading catalysts in post WW II American music. As a record producer in the 1950s and 60s his recordings launched the careers of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis and thats just to name a few. Phillips is now in his 70s. (REBROADCAST from 3/16/94)
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 00:59:30
- Credits
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: Les Paul
: Sam Philips
Distributor: NPR
Producing Organization: WHYY Public Media
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WHYY
Identifier: 1999 1018 Les Paul_Sam Phillips.wav (File Name)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Duration: 00:59:30
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WHYY
Identifier: FA19991018_GCD (WHYY)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Fresh Air,” WHYY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 2, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-215-52j6qcm7.
- MLA: “Fresh Air.” WHYY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 2, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-215-52j6qcm7>.
- APA: Fresh Air. Boston, MA: WHYY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-215-52j6qcm7