Classical music released as part of the U.S. military's V-Disc program. Works include: Verdi: La Forza del Destino Overture, Gershwin: I Got Rhythm Variations, Schubert: Impromptu, Saint Saens: The Swan and Glinka: Russlan and Ludmila Overture. Performers include: Arturo Toscanini, Arthur Rubenstein, Earl Wild, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett and Arthur Rodinski.
Highlights form radio comedies of the 1940s. Performers include: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Fanny Brice, Minnie Pearl, Groucho Marx, Jimmie Durante and Eddie Anderson.
Performers include: Lightnin Hopkins, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Victoria Spivey, Leadbelly, Henry Thomas, Texas Alexander and T-Bone Walker. Songs include: West Texas Blues, Let Your Light Shine, The Boll Weevil. T-Bone Blues and One Dime Blues.
The life and work of songwriter, Andy Razaf. Songs include: Ain't Misbehavin, Honeysuckle Rose, Black and Blue, My Fate Is In Your Hands and In the Mood. Performers include: Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Ethyl Waters, Bing Crosby and The Ink Spots.
Songs include: I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair, Silver Haired Daddy of Mine, The Girl With the Flaxen Hair and Little Curly Hair. Performers include: Maxine Sullivan, Sleepy John Estes, Bob Crosby, Walter Giesiking, Lightnin Hopkins and Billy Murray.
Radio broadcasts of female big band singers. Performers include: Anita O'Day, Helen Forrest, June Christy, Ella Fitzgerald, Ivy Anderson, Fran Warren and Martha Tilton. Songs include: Any Old Time, I'd Do It All Over Again, It's a Blue World, Mama, That Moon Is Here and I Don't Want to be Loved.
Songs include: I'm Sorry Me Met, When I Lost You, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down, Heartbreaker, Why Should I Cry and One For My Baby. Performers include: Ma Rainey, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, The Happiness Boys, Frank Sinatra, Ted Lewis and the Andrews Sisters.
Performers from the Keystone State, including: Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Ethyl Waters, Les Brown, Marion Anderson, Perry Como & Earl Hines. Songs include: Song of India, Goin' Places, Long Ago and Far Away, Heat Wave and Leap Frog.
Love songs for the summer, including: Things We did last Summer, Summer Souvenirs, Wait till You See My Cheri and When You Were Sweet Sixteen. Performers include: The Mills Brothers, Bea Wain, Enrico Caruso, Tommy Dorsey, Fats Waller, Helen kane, Ethyl Waters and Bing Crosby.
Lesser-known tunes from the v-disc program of the 1940s. Songs include: Just Because, Black Is the Color, Get On Board, Sing, sing Sing, Pearl Harbor Blues and Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Performers include: Dr. Clayton, Frankie Yankovich, The Deep River Boys, Susan Reed, Vincente Gomez and the Army Air Force Band.
Classical Music from the WPA Federal Music Project of the 1930s. Works include: Dvorak : Carnival Overture, Mozart: Magic Flute Overture, Quincy Porter: Ukrainian Suite and Percy Grainger: Molly On the Shore. Performers include: Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles, Knickerbocker Little Symphony, Federal Music Project Chamber Orchestra & the Manhattan Concert Band.
Musicians from the tar heel state. Performers include: Charlie Poole, Kathryn Grayson, Earl Scruggs, Kay Kyser, Blind Boy Fuller & Lena Wilson. Songs include: On a Slow Boat to China, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Time After Time, Goodbye Sweet Liza Jane, In Walked Bud & On the Sentimatal Side.
Records left off of previous podcasts,including: Tom Cat Blues, Mazurka #7, Tumbling Tumbleweeds and Strip Polka. Artists include:Michael Colman, Gene Autry, Jelly Roll Morton, Beverly Kenney and Kay Kyser.
Songs include: The Pussy Cat Song, I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat, The Waltzing Cat, The Pussy Cat Rag and Kitten On the Keys. Performers include: Paul Whiteman, Patty Andrews, Leroy Anderson, Ada Jones, Mel Blanc and Erroll Garner.
Radio Broadasts of big band music featuring the bands of: Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Count Basie, Glenn Miller and Gene Krupa. Songs include: Too Much in Love, Love Me or Leave Me, Caravan, The Lady's in Love With You and Night and Day.
The songs of lyricist, Jack Yellen, including: Happy Days Are Here Again, Ain't She Sweet, Are You From Dixie, Happy Feet and I Wonder What's Become Of Sally. Performers include: Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Paul Whitman, Kaufman & Murray and Alice Faye.
Songs include: One Sweet Letter From You, Love Letters In The Sand, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write My Self a Letter and Red Kiss On a Blue Letter. Performers incude:Dorris Day, Jimmie Rodgers, Sophie Tucker, Charlie Poole, Lee Morse and the Boswell Sisters.
Highlights from country music radio shows of the 1940s. Shows include:The National Barn Dance, The Grand Ole Opry, Western Stars and Plantation Jubilee. Performers include: Lulu Belle & Scotty, Hank Williams, Red Foley, Sally Foster, Grandpa Jones and Little Jimmie Dickens.
Tunes about rivers,including:Old Man River, One More River To Cross, Deep River and River Stay Away From My Door. Performers incude: Al Jolson , The Sons of the Pioneers, Bessie Smith, Marian Anderson and Hoagy Charmichael.
Musicians from the Bluegrass State, including: Bill Monroe, Rosemary Clooney, Jimmie Blythe, Cliff Carilse and Lionel Hampton. Songs include: Blue Moon of Kentucky, Flying Home, Grieving For You and Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
A selection of V-discs released after World War II. Songs include: Summertime, No Moon At All, Lost In the Stars, Laura and Scarecrow. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, Errol Garner, Artie Shaw and Spike Jones.
Songs about the Big Easy. Tunes include: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?, Way Down Younder In New Orleans, New Orleans Joys and Basin Street Blues. Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Al Jolson, Mamie Smith and Jimmie Rodgers.
A special podcast to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of jazz singer Beverly Kenney. Songs include: If I Were a Bell, Tis Autumn, For All We Know and More Than You know.
Small jazz groups derived from big bands. Bands include: The Benny Goodman Quartet, Artie Shaw and the Gramarcy 5, Tommy Dorsey and the Clambake 7 and The Kansas City 5. Tunes include: Nice Work if You Can Get it, A Handfull of Keys, Woo Woo, Yardbird Shuffle and AC DC Current.
Early recordings of sacred harp and sanctified hymn singing. Hymns include: Present Joys, Journey Home, Jesus Walk With Me, Rocky Road and Rejoicing on the Way. Performers include: Allison's Sacred Harp Singers, Fa Sol La Singers, Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Bessie Johnson's Sanctified Singers and Louisville Sanctified Singers.
The 200th show includes highlights from past programs plus records not heard before. Performes include: Deford Bailey, Billy Murray, The Kansas City 6, Artie Shaw, Louis Armstrong and Sophie Tucker.
Performers include: The American Quartet, The Boswell Sisters, The Rhythm Boys, The Mills Brothers, The Andrews Sisters and The Pied Pipers. Songs include: Casey Jones, Oh Johnny Oh, By the Sea, Marizy Doats, I Don't Know Why and Sweet Georgia Brown.
Irish music for Saint Patrick's Day. Performers include: Michael Coleman, Delia Murphey, Paddy Killoran, John McCormack, William Butler Yeats and Leo Rowsome. Songs include: Three Lovely Lassies, Down by the Salley Gardens, Jerry Donovan's Favorite and That's How the Shannon Flows.
Million-selling records from the last two years of the Second World War. Songs include: Caldonia, Opus 1, Rum and Coca Cola, Sentimental Journey, April Showers and Guitar Boogie. Performers include: The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Louis Jordan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dorris Day, Al Jolson and Arthur Smith.
A special podcast for the 200th birthday of Fredric Chopin. Works include the Minute Waltz, the Scherzo #3, the B Minor Sonata, The Etude #3 Op. 3 and the Heroic Polonaise. Pianists include: Ignatz Paderewski, Artur Rubenstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Eileen Joyce, Josef Hofmann and Louis Kentner.
