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Episode 68 (White Heat, White Lights)

Episode 3 of the Summer Season. Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * The opening loop is from Mr. Knight from Coltrane Plays the Blues, which you should own. * The violin piece is Occam II for Violin, a piece by Silvia Tarozzi, played by Pauline Oliveros. * Next up is Mikuro's Blues from the mighty David S. Ware' mighty Go See the World. * The amazing orchestral pieces is Triumph by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Nino from Fill the Heart- Shaped Cup * Finally, there's 13 Ghosts II by Nine Inch Nails from Ghosts I-IV Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jul 6, 20159 min

Episode 67 (Every Night Ever)

Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * Then, we have the most obvious crickets/summer night song ever: the fantastic, perpetually delightful Green Arrow from Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, which has soundtracked many crickety summer nights for me over the years. * The cops roll in to a loop of the very beginning of the epic Ptah, the El Daoud, the title track to Alice Coltrane's album from 1970. * Then we have a mix of two improvisations from Charles Cohen's Brother I Prove You Wrong: Cloud Hands and The Boy and the Snake Dance. * There's a brief dip into Dorian, by Fang Island. * The jaunty accordion, typewriter thing is Biking is Better on Wintergatan's eponymous album. Notes I researched this one primarily through old newspapers. The easiest place to find a number of them is to read the excellent site, The Museum of Hoaxes' page on this event. Also: if you're in the Atlanta area and ever want to have yourself a day, you can see the actual monkey. It's preserved in a jar at the Georgia Bureau of Investigations museum in Decatur Georgia. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jun 29, 201511 min

Episode 66 (The Pirate Queen)

The music: *Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's great, ridiculous Modesty Blaise score. *The recurring piano theme is Les Marionettes by Zbigniew Preisner from his score to La Double Vie de Veronique (And, have you seen The Double Life of Veronique? Man, that's good) *Eugenia's dreamy little theme is Just Saying by Jamie XX off of In Colour *That organ track is called Organ Track by Nicolai Dunger from The Cloud is Learning *Al Davis' dance theme is Watusi Bounce from Bo Diddly's Ride On/The Chess Masters *Helen watches Eugenia on the lawn at the Grand Hotel to the tune of To a Wild Rose by Patricia Rossborough from the collection Dainty Debutantes: Female Novelty Pianists of the 1930's (And, ugh. Dismissive much?) *The Judge drones over one of Scott Watson's Six Solos for the Beginning Tuba Player from his 2008 album, Stepping Stones for Tuba, vol. 1 (like I need to tell you that) *The ending piece is Mike Andrews lovely Library Chant from his score to Miranda July's lovely Me and You and Everyone we Know Notes: I first stumbled across this story in my torn up copy of New York: Confidential! Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer's truly mucky, muck-raking guide to the city's underbelly from 1951. I read a ton of old news paper articles about the case (the New York Times covered it extensively, if you want to go back and read those). The two most useful books I came across in the process were Joshua Zeitz' Flapper and Lewis Erenberg's Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jun 21, 201519 min

HIgh Above Lake Michigan: Special Platinum Edition

Something to listen to while you wait for the new season of The Memory Palace, launching June 21st with weekly episodes through the whole summer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 27, 20157 min

Forgotten Things: A Failed Pilot

Did a pilot for Fox Digital Studios some time ago. Didn't actually go anywhere (except for a film festival or two). Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 7, 20152 min

Itty Bitty Bombs: Special Platinum Edition

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Apr 16, 20156 min

The Brothers Booth Schmancy Platinum Remaster Edition

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Apr 9, 20158 min

Episode 65 (Two-Dimensional Projectile Motion Problems)

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Mar 16, 201513 min

Episode 64 (The 7th Story)

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Jan 15, 201512 min

Episode 63 (Other Bodies)

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace. Thank you kindly. The music in this one: "An Ending, A Beginning" by Dustin O'Halloran. "I am Piano" by Peter Broderick. Two songs from the soundtrack to "With a Song in my Heart": American Medley, and That Old Feeling. The one at the end is "I'll Never be the Same." My version's on a collection called "Can't get out of this Mood." There are also a couple of other Jane things that I found on You Tube. The plane crash stuff is scored by a piece of Claudia Serne and Leopold Ross' soundtrack for "Broken City," called "Missing Pieces." Then there's a song by The Caretaker called "Stairway to the Stars." I read a lot about Jane for this but nothing was as useful as Ilene Stone's lovely book,"Jane Froman: Missouri's First Lady of Song." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 16, 201414 min

Episode 62 (We've Forgotten James Powell)

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Jul 17, 20145 min

Episode 61 (The Glowing Orbs)

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Jun 8, 20148 min

Episode 60 (400,000 Stars)

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Mar 23, 201410 min

Episode 59 (Harriet Quimby)

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Jan 31, 20146 min

Episode 58 (Shadowboxing)

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Dec 17, 201310 min

Episode 57 (I'm Still Alive)

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Oct 31, 20139 min

Episode 56 (The Rush of the River and the Roar of the Falls)

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace. Thank you kindly. There are two pieces of music in this: one is a tweaked loop from "To Here Knows When" by MBV. The other is "Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Bucla Music Box 100, HP Model 236 Oscillator, Electric Guitars, and Computer - Part One" by Keith Fullerton Whitman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 20, 20136 min

Episode 55 (O, How We Danced)

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Jul 30, 20137 min

Episode 54 (Origin Stories)

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Jun 29, 201313 min

Episode 53 (Guinea Pigs)

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May 8, 20136 min

Episode 52 (Six Stories)

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Apr 1, 201313 min

Episode 51 (Giants in Those Days)

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Mar 7, 201312 min

Episode 50 (Fifty Words Written After Learning That the Arctic Bowhead Whale Can Live up to 200 Years)

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Jan 29, 20133 min

Episode 49 (Dreamland)

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Dec 14, 20126 min

Episode 48 (Picture a Box)

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Nov 20, 201214 min

Episode 47 (The Rise and Fall of Rising and Falling) *NOTE: semi-adult language in this one.

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Oct 15, 201210 min

Episode 46 (After Party)

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Sep 14, 201214 min

Episode 45 (Heard, Once)

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Jul 26, 201210 min

Episode 44 (Distance)

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Mar 25, 20125 min

Episode 43 (Far Below Lake Michigan)

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Dec 6, 20113 min

Episode 42 (What They Saw)

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Nov 8, 20118 min

Episode 41 (Mary, Mary, and Mercy)

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Oct 28, 20117 min

Episode 40 (Crazy Bet)

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Sep 29, 201110 min

Episode 39 (Road Trip)

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Aug 23, 20117 min

Episode 38 (A Stretch)

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Jul 6, 20119 min

Episode 37 (Natural Curiosity)

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Jan 27, 20119 min

Episode 36 (Six Scenes in the Life of William J. Sidis, Wonderful Boy)

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Jan 7, 201116 min

Episode 35 (A Brief Eulogy for a Consumer Electronics Product)

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Oct 27, 20104 min

Episode 34 (Soldier Frum)

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Sep 20, 201010 min

Episode 33 (Lost Lobsters)

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Aug 25, 20108 min

Episode 32 (Gigantic)

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Jul 3, 20109 min

Episode 31 (Looking Up)

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Jun 15, 20107 min

Episode 30 (Nee Weinberg)

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May 11, 201011 min

Episode 29 (OMG!!! JKP!!!)

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Apr 14, 20104 min

Episode 28 (Babysitting)

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Apr 1, 20107 min

Episode 27 (The Sisters Fox)

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Mar 13, 201012 min

Episode 26 (Citius, Altius, Fortius, Horrendius)

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Feb 25, 20109 min

Episode 25 (I Have Not Yet Begun to Rot)

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Feb 1, 20109 min

Episode 24 (The Moon in the Sun)

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Jan 15, 20107 min

Episode 23 (400 Words for 79th Street)

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Dec 11, 20098 min