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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Mystery of Raymond Scott
Erwin Chuzid was a DJ for a small community radio station in New Jersey. A friend of his had put him onto a musician named Raymond Scott, one of the most famous musicians of the early 20th century. By then Scott was in his 80s and couldn't speak; he would rest in the back of a dingy old ranch house. There were old rusted tape decks, wires, reels of tape, 78 RPM disks,. Some of them dating back to the 1940s and 50s.
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