Tangos
Tangos from the 1910s through the 1940s. Performers include: Carlos Gardel, Roberto Firpo, Carlos di Sarli, Anibal Troilo and Juan Canaro. Tangos include: La Cumparsita, La Brisa, Paloma Blanca, El Amanecer and Caminito.
Apr 21, 2012•38 min
Music From 100 Years Ago
Recordings from the early 20th Century with comments.
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Episodes
Titanic
A special program marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Songs include: When That Great Ship Went Down, The Sinking of the Titanic, Nearer My God to Thee, God Moves On the Water , plus interviews with two Titanic survivors. Performers include: Leadbelly, the Knickerbocker Quartet, Ernest Stoneman, Blind Willie Johnson, Charles Lightoller and Edith Rosenbaum Russel. More interviews with Titanic survivors can be heard at: bbc.co.uk/archive/titanic.
Apr 07, 2012•49 min
Episode 300, Number Songs
To celebrate the 300th episode of Music From 100 Years Ago, songs with numbers in the title, including: Tea For Two, I'm a Hundred Percent For You, I See a Million People and Infinity Promanade. Performers include: Uma Mae Carlisle, Thomas Waller, Bing Crosby, Thelonious Monk and Shorty Rodgers.
Mar 31, 2012•39 min
Delius Brigg Fair
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Fredrick Delius, a special podcast featuring Brigg Fair performed by Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic.
Mar 25, 2012•18 min
British Composers
Music By Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, John Ireland, Arthur Sullivan, Fredrick Delius and William Walton. Works include: Nimrod, Spitfire, Sea Fever, The Wasps Overture and The Wand Of Youth.
Mar 24, 2012•59 min
St Patrick's Day 2012
Irish music including: My Wild Irish Rose, Londerry bAir, Did Your Mother Come From Ireland and traditional Irish Reels. Performers include: John McCormack, Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoren, Bing Crosby, Tom Ennis and William Butler Yeats.
Mar 16, 2012•35 min
6th Anniversary Show
Highlights from 6 years of Music From 100 Years Ago. Performers include: Doris Day, Meade Lux Lewis, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Eugene Ormandy.
Mar 11, 2012•47 min
Monday Music
Songs about Monday, including: A Monday Date, Every Day Is Monday, Blue Monday Blues, Monday Again and Sunday, Monday and Always. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Jeanne Taylor, Albert Ammons, Frankie Laine and Count Basie.
Mar 03, 2012•35 min
Early Country Fiddlers
Country fiddlers from the 1920s and 1930s, including Eck Robertson, John Carson, G.B. Grayson, Alfred Reed and Bob Wills. Songs include: Goin Down This Road Feeling Bad, Tom Dooley, Old Joe Clark, Maiden's Prayer and Pass Around the Bottle.
Feb 26, 2012•41 min
The First V-Discs
Highlights from the first eight V-Discs, from October 1943. Songs include: Blue Skies. Sing Sing Sing. Home On the Range, Che Li and Okalahoma. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Diana Shore, the Fort Slocum Band and Vaughn Monroe.
Feb 18, 2012•43 min
Blind Blues Musicians
Blind blues singers of the 1920s and 1030s, including: Lemon Jefferson, Willie McTell, Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Blind Willie Johnson, Teddy Darb and Blind Boy Fuller. Songs include: Log Cabin Blues, Southern Rag, Bad Luck Blues, Southern Can Is Mine and Have a Little More Faith In Jesus.
Feb 04, 2012•39 min
Gershwin on the Radio
Music of George Gershwin as perfored on radio broadcasts in the 1930s and 1940s. Music includes: Lady Be Good, I Got Rhythm Variations, Summertime, Piano Prelude #1 and They Can't take that Away From Me. Musicians include: George Gershwin, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Lewis Armstrong.
Jan 29, 2012•47 min
Mozart's Birthday 2012
A special podcast to honor Mozart on his 256th birthday. Performers include: Thomas Beecham, The Budapest String Quartet, Wanda Landowsky and Hamilton Harty.
Jan 28, 2012•31 min
The Eyes Have It
Songs about eyes, including: I Only Have Eyes For You, Green Eyes, Them There Eyes, Angel Eyes and Dark Eyes. Performers include: Billie Holiday. Jame Froman, Herb Jeffries, Bing Crosby, Gene Austin and Helen Forest.
Jan 21, 2012•40 min
2012 Centennials
A tribute to performers born 100 years ago this year, including: Perry Como, Lightnin Hopkins, Woody Guthrie, Georg Solti, Don Byas & Marta Eggerth. Music Includes: Some Enchanted Evening, Short Haired Woman, Tis Autumn, Summertime & Brahms Violin Sonata #3.
Jan 15, 2012•42 min
1912
Hit songs from 1912, including: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Oh You Beautiful Doll, Love Is Mine, Come Down My Evening Star and Waiting For the Robert E Lee. Performers include: Al Jolson, Lilian Russel, Fisk University Jubilee Singers, Enrico Caruso and Collins & Harlin.
Jan 07, 2012•46 min
Leftovers #12
Records left off of previous podcasts, including: Yodeling Ranger, Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?, Riders In the Sky, Texas Polka and Preachin Blues. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Martha Tilton, Larry Clinton, Arturo Toscanini, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Robert Johnson.
Dec 31, 2011•46 min
Harry Ruby
The music of songwriter, Harry Ruby. Songs include: Who's Sorry Now?, Three Little Words, Give Me The Simple Life, Nevertheless and Hooray For Captain Spaluding. Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Marion Harris, The Mills Brothers, Helen Kane, Benny Goodman, Ehtyl Waters and Groucho Marx.
Dec 26, 2011•44 min
Beethoven's Birthday 2011
Celebrating the 241st birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. Performers include: George Szell, Bruno Walter, the Budapest String Quartet, Arthur Schnabel and Pablo Casals. Works include highlights from the Symphony #4, the Six Bagatelles Op 126, the String Quartet #10 and the Celo Sonata #5.
Dec 17, 2011•45 min
Boy Meets Girl
Male-female duets, including: Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell, Nelson Eddy & Jannette McDonald and Anita O'Day & Roy Eldrige. Songs include: It Had To Be You, An Apple For the Teacher, Let Me Off Uptown and Indian Love Call.
Dec 10, 2011•44 min
Christmas 1940s
Classic Christmas songs from the 1940s, including: The Christmas Song, Winter Wonderland, Here Comes Santa Claus, Sleigh Ride and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Performers include: Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, The Boston Pops, Gene Autry and Doris Day.
Dec 04, 2011•42 min
Coffee Time
Music about America's favorite morning beverage. Songs include: Java Jive, I'd Like to Dunk You In My Coffee, Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee, Coffee Grindin Blues and You're the Cream In My Coffee. Performers include: Una Mae Carlisle, the Ink Spots, Ted Weems, the Boswell Sisters, Wingy Manone and Mike Douglas.
Nov 26, 2011•38 min
Mississippi Blues Singers 1920s-1930s
Performers include: Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Bo Carter, Skip James and Sonny Boy Williamson #1. Songs include: Canned heat Blues, Traveling Riverside Blues, Shake Em On Down, 4 O' Clock Blues and Dry Well Blues.
Nov 21, 2011•44 min
List Songs
Songs with lists, including: My Baby Just Cares For Me, Route 66, A, You're Adorable, It Might As Well Be Spring. I Wish That I Were Twins and These Foolish Things. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Nat King Cole, Fats Waller and Jo Stafford.
Nov 14, 2011•40 min
Swinging the Classics
Classical music gets the swing treatment. Songs include; My Reverie, Prelude and Fugue, Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Beethoven riffs. Performers include: John Kirby, Larry Adler, Larry Clinton, Pat Flowers and Hazel Scott.
Nov 05, 2011•38 min
Streets and Highways
Songs include: Fifth Avenue, Lost Highway, Sixth Avenue Express, On the Sunny Side of the Street and Summit Ridge Drive. Performers include: Jo Stafford, Connie Boswell, Hank Williams, Ted Weems, Bill Monroe and Glenn Miller.
Oct 29, 2011•37 min
Halloween 2011
Songs include; Ghost Walkin Blues, Haunted Heart, Riders In the Sky, Funeral March of a Marionette and Satan Takes a Holiday. Performers include: Burl Ives, Billie Holiday, Perry Como, Tommy Dorsey, The Casa Loma Orchestra and The Royal Albert Hall Orchestra.
Oct 23, 2011•41 min
Liszt Bicentenial
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Franz Liszt. Works include: Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Liebestraum #3, Totentanze and the Piano Concerto #1. Performers include: Eileen Joyce, Artur Rubenstein, Louis Ketner, Jesus Sanroma and Eugene Ormandy.
Oct 15, 2011•55 min
Ships and Boats
Songs include: A Sailboat in the Moonlight, Ferryboat Sernade, Gospel Ship, Someone's rockin My dreamboat and I'll Sail My Ship Alone. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Andrews Sisters, Carter Family, Ink Spots, Moon Mullican and Louis Armstrong.
Oct 12, 2011•31 min
1945 Part 2
More music from the final year of World War II. Songs include: It's Been So Long Darlin, Angilena, The Syncopated Clock, The New Spanish Two-Step, Brahms Symphony #1, I Wish and Till the End of Time. Performers include: Perry Como, Bob Wills, Judy Garland . Leopold Stokowski, Charlie Parker and Ernest Tubb.
Oct 02, 2011•46 min
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