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Tonight on the Front Porch, we'll hear first-person recollections from folks who knew Orville and Wilbur Wright, the grandfathers of modern aviation. We'll look at the real lives of the men who've become legends in American history. This piece comes to us by way of the Public Radio Exchange. Click here to go directly to the story and share your thoughts on it.
And later in the show, we talk with Bob Parks, author of Makers: All Kinds of People Making Amazing Things In Their Backyard, Basement or Garage. It profiles the scientific-minded folks who are using everyday materials to try to build a better mousetrap. Makers is published by the people at Make Magazine.
***This interview originally aired December 29, 2005***
Music Used in the Wilbur and Orville PRX piece
Aeroplane Dip- Piano by Jon Kalbfleisch
From: “There’s Music in the Air: Selections from the Smithsonian Institution
Library’s Air & Space Museum Branch Bella Landauer Aeronautical Music
Sheet Music Collection†c2003
*This CD accompanies the Air & Space Museum’s exhibition: The Wright
Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age
Airborne Symphony- reading by Orson Welles
From: Bernstein Century: American Masters 2
SONY Classical, 2000
Performed by Choral Arts Society conducted by Leonard Bernstein with
Orson Welles as narrator
Wright Brothers Rag- Wynton Marsalis and Ellis Marsalis
From: Joe Cool’s Blues
SONY, 1995
French Flying Song- (early cylinder recording/no further information known)
Song of the Wright Boys- Sung by Byron Jones, piano by Jon Kalbfleisch
Written by Mary Knostman, 1909
From: “There’s Music in the Air: Selections from the Smithsonian Institution
Library’s Air & Space Museum Branch Bella Landauer Aeronautical Music
Sheet Music Collection†c2003
*This CD accompanies the Air & Space Museum’s exhibition: The Wright
Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age
Come Josephine in My Flying Machine-
Performed by Ada Jones and Billy Murray (1911)
Written by Alfred Bryan and Fred Fisher
Published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co
Me and Jane in a Plane-
Performed by Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
Written by Leslie & Gilbert, 1927
Come Take a Trip in My Airship
Performed by Billy Murray
Edison Records, 1905
Wait ‘til You Get ‘Em Up in the Air
Performed by Billy Murray, 1919
Jesus is My Aeroplane
Performed by Mother McCollum, 1930
The Cowboy’s Airplane Ride
Performed by Wilf Carter
The Airplane Ride
Performed by Nell Hampton
Lucky Lindy
Lyrics: L. Wolfe gilbert
Music: Abel Baer
1927
