Martin Beck built the Orpheum Circuit into a vaudeville empire in the West. Through their love/hate relationship with the Kieth/Abee Circuit in the East, vaudeville took the nation by storm. This week, Mika and Nick look a the history of the Orpheum Circuit and how Martin Beck may have saved Harry Houdini's career.
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Episode 21: The Carter Family
Episode 20: Folk Music
Episode 19: Rudy Vallee
Episode 18: Crooners
BONUS: Al Jolson
Episode 17: Swing Kings
Episode 16: Swing
Episode 15: Ella Fitzgerald
Episode 14: Louis Armstrong
Episode 13: The Jazz Age
Episode 12: Early Jazz
Bonus Episode: John Philip Sousa
Episode 11: Robert Johnson
Episode 10: Blues
Episode 9: Ragtime's Big Three
Episode 8: Ragtime
Episode 7: End of the 1800s
Episode 6: Laura Keene
Episode 5: Broadway
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