Episode 75 (The Ballad of Captain Dwight)

Published: Aug. 28, 2015, 6:05 p.m.

The finale of the 2015 Summer Season.

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Music

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* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.

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* There's Branches, by Keith Kenniff

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* Then The Big Ocean, from Ben Sollee's score to Maidentrip.\xa0

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* Then End of the World from Dan Romer's score to Beasts of the Southern Wild.\xa0

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* There's The Sage, pulling once more from the dope-as-hell self-titled album from the Chico Hamilton Quintet.

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* There's a loop pulled from Worm is Green's song, Brand New Day

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* There's The Light, from my pal Jimmy's wonderful project, The Album Leaf. Go buy their albums.\xa0

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* The piece at the end is the theme to Charlie Countryman from Christophe Beck's score.

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* Oh: stuff gets heavy to Ghosts I from Nine Inch Nails.

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* And finally (though out of order), playing over the fall-out from JFK's death is Now by Goldmund.\xa0

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Notes

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A selected bibliography.

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* We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program, by Richard Paul and Steven Moss

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* Voices of Contemporary and Historical Black Pioneers, Farmer & Shepard-Wynn, editors

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* The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe

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* Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Sciences, by Gulbert, Sawyer, and Fannin

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* <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Boys-Insiders-Space-Program-ebook/dp/B0036ZAHZY/ref