Mankato Music Notes FY22
Series produced by KMSU
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Mankato Music Notes celebrates noteworthy songs, artists and musical performances with ties to the area.
Mankato Music Notes celebrates noteworthy songs, artists and musical performances with ties to the area. The series consisted of highly produced 90-second segments, exploring fun, moving, and delightful, musical moments in the history of Mankato and Southern Minnesota music, offering listeners a glimpse of the stores behind the music.
10 Pieces
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Oldest First
March 25 1994: Linda and Paul McCartney were international music stars. But they were in Fairmont for something else: Linda’s new line of vegetaria...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
August 24, 1964: Mankato band the Gestures had followed their dreams to Kay Bank Recording Studio in Minneapolis. The Trashman had recorded a natio...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
December 4, 1956: Nudie Cohn, and his Mankato-born wife Bobbie, needed Elvis Presley’s shoe size. And shirt and pant size. These outfitters to the ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
February 12, 1958: Singing duo the Everly Brothers encountered mayhem in Minneapolis when they tried—and failed—to make an appearance at a departme...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
December 10, 1950: Concertgoers filed into a Mankato gymnasium for “Messiah.” The semi-regular tradition of a Christmas performance of Handel’s ora...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
Circa 1946: Mankato opera star Florence Macbeth’s best singing days were behind her when she met hard-boiled detective novelist James M. Cain, whos...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
January 20, 1930: Madge Cowden, fitting the crown on her head, was already the Queen of the Night in her dressing room mirror. Now the Mankato sing...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
January 8, 1918: Hilma Erika Warling was a pianist. And from a Swedish family in St. James. Good thing, because tonight she’d be performing in New ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
August 1, 1917: Walter Backer, New Ulm, had his own way of joining the war in Europe. By enlisting in the Dunwoody Navy Band in Minneapolis. Here’s...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1900: Nettie Snyder had started too late to develop a singing career. But she’d studied with masters and brought that excellence to her vocal stude...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
