Studs interviewing Billy Taylor discussing the creativity of his jazz colleagues and influences such as, Art Tatum, Nat Cole, Lester Young, Bud Freeman, Mil Jackson, Duke Ellington, and Earl Heinz, Nat Cole.

Myers performed in a recording of the musical setting "Pomes Penyeach Settings of Poetry by James Joyce."

*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

The following songs were removed due to copyright restrictions:, "East Virginia", "Sticking With The Union", "Old Blue", "Jesu, Meine Freude", "We Shall Overcome", "The Draft", "Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down", and "Precious Friend" an instrumental song.

Studs Terkel has a conversation with Easley Blackwood, and Ralph Shapey, composers and Paul Fromm philanthropist and patron of the music arts. They discuss contemporary music, composing music, composers and the passion of creating music.

Cole Porter biographer Robert Kimball talks with Studs about his book "Cole" and his subject's life and work as they listen to classic performances of some of his most beloved songs. They marvel at how Porter perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the times in his lyrics, his lyrical influences, his unique method of outside-in composing lyrics and music simultaneously, Bobby Short's masterful interpretations, controversies over some of his works, and how well his material holds up.

Music by Robert Ward and text based on the Arthur Miller play.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations