
Episode 220: The Zipper
08/15/24 • 13 min
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Music
- Swiming by Explosions in the Sky
- Walking Song by Kevin Volans and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble
- I Walk on Guilded Splinters by Johnny Jenkins
- Seduction by the Balanescu Quartet
- Lunette by Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman
- Running Around by Buddy Ross
- September by Giles Lamb
Notes
- This episode was pieced together from a ton of little fragments but I wanted to steer folks to a couple of resources in particular: this excellent article from a few years back in the Toronto Star by Katie Daubs, and this documentary from filmmaker, Amy Nicholson, that primarily uses the Zipper as a way to talk about changes at Coney Island but has some great details from Harold Chance and his sons.
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 and independent media, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com.
Music
- Swiming by Explosions in the Sky
- Walking Song by Kevin Volans and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble
- I Walk on Guilded Splinters by Johnny Jenkins
- Seduction by the Balanescu Quartet
- Lunette by Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman
- Running Around by Buddy Ross
- September by Giles Lamb
Notes
- This episode was pieced together from a ton of little fragments but I wanted to steer folks to a couple of resources in particular: this excellent article from a few years back in the Toronto Star by Katie Daubs, and this documentary from filmmaker, Amy Nicholson, that primarily uses the Zipper as a way to talk about changes at Coney Island but has some great details from Harold Chance and his sons.
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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 and independent media, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com.
Notes
Music
- Pipeline by H.Takahashi
- Sad Seine by Lambert
- Dance PM by Hiroshi Yoshimura
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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 and independent media, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com.
Music
- Pure (Ride the World) by (the extraordinary) Brendan Eder Ensemble
- Violette... from Philippe Sarde's score to Violette et Francois
- Merry-go-Round and People on Sunday by Domenique Dumont
- Dane by Nils Frahm
- Two different versions of Debussy's Passepied, the piano one is performed by Seong-Jin Cho, the synth one by Isao Tomita
- Love from Matthew Herbert
- Memorial Park from Bernard Herrmann's score to Obsession.
- Phantom Signals by Tvarvargen
Notes
- There's plenty written about Ken Allen, but I particularly appreciated Jason Hribal's book Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance.
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