the memory palace

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Music

A couple from Quincy Jones' score to The Mirage: Turtle's Last Leap and Boobie Baby.

The Jeweler from Bernard Hermann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still. 

Topsy from the might Chico Hamilton Quintet. 

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This episode was originally released in April of 2018.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. 
Music

We hear Ferris Wheel by Gabor Szabo from one of his better late sixties records.

Herman's Malt from Jeff Russo's score to Fargo Season 2.

David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs.

Double Portrait by Double Edge from the album, U.S. Choice.

A snippet of Idea of Order at Kyson Point from an album Brian Eno did with Tom Rogerson.

Bicycles and Flasks by Dan Romer.

A bit of Il Tamoure dei Bambini from Piero Umiliani's score to Le Isole Dell'amore

A Naga Swaram-Snake Charmers Melody from Folk Music of India

Finishes out on Completely Gone from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything Everything.

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. 
Music

Why, Buzzardman, Why? by the great Alabastar DePlume.

Plantwood (Day) by Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice

Shut Up World (Extended) from Ben Sollee's gorgeous score to a movie called Maidentrip.

Notes

I really enjoyed reading Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville.

If you're ever researching old baseball stuff, you want to head over to the site maintained by the fine folks at the Society for Baseball Research. There, you can read about Frank Howard, for instance. 

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Music

Yes/And plays In My Heaven, All My Faucets are Fountains

Two from Andrew Hewitt's score to Submarine: Jill Tate and Pamphlet

Plantasia by Mort Gerson

Steve Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood as performed by Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble

Library Chant from Michael Andrews' wonderful score to Me and You and Everyone We Know

Takahiro Kido's 3-Sized PF

Notes
If you want to dive super deep into this topic, there's a fantastic history done by Patrick Feaster for the National Park Service. 

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Music

Migratory Birds by Western Skies Motel

Artifact 3 by Ryan Teague

Barcelona by Alex Kozobolis

Feel First Life by Jon Hopkins

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