[1] It offers lists of the original versions of thousands of songs and musical compositions and adds every cover and sample made of it since.
[1] Visitors can use a search engine to type in the name of a musical work or artist and find the corresponding article.
[1] The emissions sparked interest from listeners who were often surprised and intrigued how old certain songs were and how they sounded in their earliest embryonic versions.
As such the show kept running and spawned a special book named The Originals - Prequel of the Hits (1987)[3] by Arnold Rypens.
[1] Rypens travelled the entire world, researched various libraries, audio collection, museums, archives of country, blues and soul and interviewed collectors and archivists like Joel Whitburn and Alan Lomax.