Recordings released in the pivotal year of 1929. Artists include: Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jimmie Rodgers, Sophie Tucker and Helen Kane. Songs include: Ain't Misbehavin, My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Numb Fumblin, Pony Blues and In the Fall of 29.
Nov 24, 2007•37 min
Songs about prison and prison life. Songs include : The Prisoner's Song, Birmingham Jail, Chain Gang Blues and No Room in the Jailhouse. Artists include: Jimmie Rodgers, Ma Rainey, Darby & Tarleton , Blind Willie McTell and the Rev. J.M. Gates
Nov 17, 2007•33 min
Songs from World War I in honor of Veteran's Day. Songs include: Over There, Pack Up Your Troubles, Tell That to the Marines and My Dream of the Big Parade. Performers include: Al Jolson, The Peerless Quartet, Nora Bayes and The Hotel Taft Orchestra.
Nov 11, 2007•31 min
Songs with shuffle in the title. Songs include: Band Box Shuffle, Dry Bone Shuffle, Lennox Avenue Shuffle and Riverboat Shuffle. Artists include : Blind Blake, Bennie Moten, Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson and Bix Biederbeck.
Nov 04, 2007•27 min
Spooky songs for Halloween. Songs include: Ghost Walking Blues, Haunted House Blues, Halloween Dance, The Ragtime Goblin Man and Mr. Ghost Goes to Town.Artists include: Bessie Smith, Louis Prima, Collins and Harlin and Helen Gross.
Oct 27, 2007•25 min
Records featuring the kazoo. Artists include: Ma Rainey, The Allen Brothers, The Five Harmaniacs and Tampa Red.
Oct 23, 2007•30 min
Men and women complaining about each other. Songs include: Mother-in-law Blues, I'm Sorry We Met, Aint Gonna Marry No More and Let the Doorknob Hit You In the Back. Artists include: Ethyl Waters, Jimmie Rogers, Darby and Tarlton, Annette Handshaw and the Allen Brothers.
Oct 13, 2007•29 min
A tribute to blues singer and guitarist, Memphis Minnie.Songs Include: In My Girlish Days, When the Levee Breaks, Bumble Bee and Memphis Yo Yo Blues.Artists include: Memphis Minnie, Kansas Joe, Furry Lewis and the Memphis Jug Band.
Oct 08, 2007•25 min
Novelty songs from the teens and 20s. Songs include: Yes. We Have No Bananas, I Faw Down and Go Boom and I Want to Yodel. Performers include: Ada Jones, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Billy Jones and Helen Kane.
Sep 29, 2007•30 min
Songs about farm life, including: Old McDonald, The Farmer Is the Man, Farm Relief and How You Gonna Keep Em Down On the Farm.Artists include: Fiddlin John Carson, Byron Harlin, The Skillet Lickers and Vernon Dalhart.
Sep 24, 2007•24 min
Three pioneering jazz women: Lovie Austin, Lil Hardin Armstrong and Valaida Snow. Songs include: Just For a Thrill, Traveling Blues, Some of These Days and Georgia Grind.
Sep 15, 2007•37 min
Songs for the end of summer.Artists include: Charley Patton, the Edison Quartet, Bing Crosby, Walter van Brunt and Elizabeth Wheeler.Songs include: The Last Rose of Summer, Any Girl Looks Good in Summer, In the Good Old Summertime and A Faded Summer Love.
Sep 02, 2007•24 min
Artists include: Caruso & Melba, Darby & Tarlton, Butterbeans & Susie and Venuti & Lang.Songs include: Captain Won't You Let Me Go Home, Aba Daba Honeymoon, Adam and Eve and It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
Aug 25, 2007•33 min
Songs include: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover, Lady Luck, Rabbit Foot Blues, Beginner's Luck and Last Chance Blues.Performers include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Smith Ballew, Fred Astaire and Cannon's Jug Stompers.
Aug 20, 2007•23 min
More songs about dogs. Songs include: Poor Old Rover, That Doggone Dog, Yellow Dog Blues and Fido Is a Hot Dog Now. Performers include: Dick Justice, Bing Crosby, the New Orleans Bootblacks and Bessie Smith.
Aug 12, 2007•30 min
Songs about food, including: Mixed Salad, Tattie Soup, Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries and Cornfed.Performers include: Nick Lucas, Ted Lewis, Rudy Vallee and Lil Hardin Armstrong.
Aug 05, 2007•28 min
Vintage recordings of early Irving Berlin hits.Songs include: Follow the Crowd, When I Lost You, Sadie Salome and Alexander's Ragtime Band.Performers include: Helen Clark, Bessie Smith, Arthur Fields and Irving Berlin.
Jul 30, 2007•32 min
Records left off of previous podcasts. Artists include: The Memphis Jug Band, Eddie Cantor, The Sousa Band, Helen Kane and Washington Phillips. Songs include: Get Out and Get Under the Moon, Peaches in the Springtime, Denomination Blues, The Liberty Loan March and The first of May.
Jul 13, 2007•31 min
French Music for Bastille Day. Performers include: Maurice Chevalier , Josephine Baker, Madame Bolduc, Joe Falcone and Django Reinhardt. Songs include: La Marseillaise, Louise, Les Femmes, Avelon and Allons à Lafayette.
Jul 08, 2007•26 min
Vintage recordings of Sousa marches, including: The Stars and Stripes Forever, Washington Post, The Liberty Bell and The Thunderer. Performers include: Sousa's Band, The New York Military Band and the U.S. Marine Band.
Jul 01, 2007•33 min
Jazz dance tunes from the 1920s. Works include: King Porter Stomp, Tar Paper Stomp, Shirt Tail Stomp and Brush Stomp. Performers include: Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Goodman, Wingy Manone and Fats Waller.
Jun 23, 2007•32 min
Early recordings of Hawaiian music. Artists include: Kalama's Quartet, Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra, King Bennie Nawahi and Frank Ferreira. Songs include: Ranbow Isle, Hawaiian Capers, Every Does It In Hawaii and Wahine Ui.
Jun 16, 2007•29 min
Songs with north, south east and west in the title. Songs include: North Port, Belle of the East, The Girl Who Comes in From the West and I'm Going South. Artists include: Benny Moten, The Alabama Sacred harp Singers, Duke Ellington and Harry McDonough.
Jun 10, 2007•31 min
Bands include: The Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers, The Seven Gallon Jug Band and The Dixieland Jug Blowers. Songs include: Whitewash Station Blues, Wipe It Off, Sweet Potato Blues and The Jug Band Waltz.
Jun 03, 2007•27 min
Voices of Thomas Edison, Arthur Sullivan, Ernest Shackleton, William Butler Yates, Eugene Debs, Booker T. Washington and Will Rodgers.
May 28, 2007•32 min
Military brass bands playing music other than marches. Music includes: Blue Danube, Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Ramshackle Rag and Nearer My God to Thee. Bands include: Sousa's Band, The Arthur Pryor Band and the New York Military Band.
May 13, 2007•31 min
Guitarists from the Piedmont school of the blues. Artists include: Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James. Songs include: Devil Got My Woman, Dry Bone Shuffle, Louis Collins and I Belong to the Band.
May 06, 2007•30 min
Early violin recordings. Artists include: Joe Venuti, Jascha Heifetz, Eck Robertson and Charles D'Almaine. Songs include, Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia, Caprice Number 20, Beating the Dog, Air For the G String and Kitty O'Neil.
Apr 29, 2007•30 min
Religious music from the teens and twenties. Performers include: The Calvary Choir, Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Edison Mixed Quartet, the Tuskegee Institute Singers and the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers. Songs include: Rock of Ages, Go Down Moses, Nearer my God to Thee and Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed.
Apr 22, 2007•32 min
Great tenors of the acoustic era. Singers include: Enrico Caruso, Billy Murray, John McCormack, Cliff Edwards and Florencio Constantino. Songs include: When You and I Were Young, Santa Lucia, Give My Regards to Broadway and Keep the Home Fires Burning.
Apr 14, 2007•28 min