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4:30am

Thu September 20, 2012
Record Bin Roulette

Winning Elections With Music

Here's the sparkling new VIDEO version of Record Bin Roulette:

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4:30am

Thu September 13, 2012
Record Bin Roulette

Singin' about the country life

Here's the shiny video version of Record Bin Roulette:

Although 8 out of 10 Americans live in cities, we still idealize a life in the country, and there are plenty of songs to prove it. And if you are considering a move to the boonies, there is actually free land available. The only catch is you’d have to live in Plainville, Kansas.

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4:30am

Thu September 6, 2012
Record Bin Roulette

A Sugar Rush of Pop Songs

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the new video version of Record Bin Roulette!

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4:30am

Thu August 23, 2012
Record Bin Roulette

Product placement in Pop Songs

Companies like Coca Cola spend billions of dollars on advertising each year, much of it for product placement in movies, TV and books. But sometimes it happens the other way around—products find themselves written into pop songs. From Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome” to Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz”, brand names have inspired some big hits…and the advertising is free.

Here’s the spiffy new video version of Record Bin Roulette:

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4:30am

Thu August 16, 2012
Record Bin Roulette

Singing the praises of the 1 percent

We could shock you with startling statistics about how the richest 1 percent own about 50 percent of the wealth, and how it’s been getting worse for the rest of us for a few decades now. But that’s depressing! And we’d much rather watch cartoons.

Like this 1933 Merrie Melodies gem “We’re in the Money”:

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4:30am

Thu August 9, 2012
Record Bin Roulette

A Nice Hawaiian Punch of Songs

Watch the episode in glorious video here:

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4:30am

Thu August 2, 2012
Record Bin Roulette

Dialing up our favorite telephone songs

 Somehow we got along fine before there were cell phones. You couldn’t call as your plane was taxiing to the gate, couldn’t call for help when the car broke down, and couldn’t call ahead when visiting friends. We were often late, had to ask strangers for help, and dropped in on folks without warning. It was kinda nice, actually.

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