Lena Horne talks about her memories of Paul Robeson and Billie Holiday, how her skin color affected her career, and her relationship with her audience.

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.

Live performance taking place at the Hi-Fi Show at the Morrison Hotel, featuring Marilyn Child, Glenn Yarbrough and Odetta.

Members of the Purple Underground, Ingrid Superstar, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey and Sterling Morrison discuss being apart of Andy Warhol's "Exploding Plastic Inevitable". EPI is a production of films, strobe lights, music and dancing. The group talks about the large audiences going to the shows out of curiosity. They also talk about items being thrown at them while they're on stage and that half of their audiences walk out before the performance is over.

Interviewing German actress and cabaret singer Ute Lemper. Program includes excerpts of a November 9, 1963 interview with Lotte Lenya, and a November 30, 1960 interview with Marlene Dietrich.

Terkel presents musical performance by Stan Getz