Entertaining and informative, SOUND BEAT highlights the holdings of the Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University, one of the largest sound archives in the United States.  Each episode focuses on one particular recording from the archive and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history.

Hosted by Brett Barry (Associate Producer of Pulse of the Planet's Kids' Science Challenge) as well as Special notable Guest Hosts.  Featured recordings come from a wide range of periods and genres.

Artists include Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, and the Father of the Blues, WC Handy.

SOUND BEAT also features recordings from some of the great thinkers, political figures, and luminaries from the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries. People like Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, and Theodore Roosevelt.

If you've got a 90 second spot available, your listeners will love a quick trip through the history of recorded sound!

Sound Beat gives stations a unique and valuable distinction by offering music that listeners cannot hear anywhere else - not on the radio, and not on iTunes. That's because, according to this NPR statistic:

"Only an estimated 14 percent of pre-1965 commercial recordings are currently available"

SOUND BEAT is proud to help preserve our nation's sound.  Please join us in keeping this important part of our history alive.