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Back Where I Come From: The Roots of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

12 min readMay 8, 2017

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Back Where I Come From: The Roots of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour

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Fred Bals

Theme Time Radio Hour: The Annotated “Nothing” Episode

28 min readNov 25, 2023

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Theme Time Radio Hour: The Annotated “Nothing” Episode

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Fred Bals

The Girl Can’t Help It: The Jayne Mansfield Story

With Bob Dylan, JFK, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Ginger and Mary Ann too

14 min readAug 8, 2023

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The Girl Can’t Help It: The Jayne Mansfield Story

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Fred Bals

Theme Time Radio Hour: The Annotated “Death & Taxes” Episode

23 min readJun 19, 2023

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Theme Time Radio Hour: The Annotated “Death & Taxes” Episode

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Fred Bals

Theme Time Radio Hour: The Annotated “New York” Episode

Season 1, Episode 48: “New York”

20 min readJun 15, 2023

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Theme Time Radio Hour: The Annotated “New York” Episode

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Fred Bals

Theme Time Radio Hour: The Annotated “Days of the Week” Episode

A Compleat Transcript with Commentary on Episode #53 of Theme Time Radio Hour, “Days of the Week”

23 min readMay 31, 2023

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Theme Time Radio Hour: The Annotated “Days of the Week” Episode

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Fred Bals

On the Off-Ramp to Weirdness City with “The Philosophy of Modern Song”

This one is for Sonny Webster, Ben Rollins, Nina Fitzgerald-Washington, Lester Hawkins, and all the gang at Elmo’s.

18 min readDec 11, 2022

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On the Off-Ramp to Weirdness City with “The Philosophy of Modern Song”

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Fred Bals

Theme Time Radio Hour — The Annotated “Flowers” Episode

Being a Compleat Transcript with Commentary on Episode #11 of Theme Time Radio Hour, “Flowers”

23 min readDec 1, 2022

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Theme Time Radio Hour — The Annotated “Flowers” Episode

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Theme Time Radio Hour — The Annotated “Kiss” Show Transcript

“Kiss” — Episode 101

26 min readOct 17, 2022

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Theme Time Radio Hour — The Annotated “Kiss” Show Transcript

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Themes from Bob Dylan’s Philosophy of Modern Song

Part 2 — On the Road Again with a Natural-Born Eastman

9 min readSep 18, 2022

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Themes from Bob Dylan’s Philosophy of Modern Song

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Fred Bals

Fred Bals

Corporate Storyteller. Tech enthusiast. Mini Cooper fanboy. One-time chronicler of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour. Husband of Peggy. Human of Lily Rose.

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