Western swing records from the peak years of its popularity. Songs include: New San Antonio Rose, Big Ball's In Cowtown, Pistol Packin Mama, Never Trust a Woman and Brain Cloudy Blues. Performers include: Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, Al Dexter, Tex Williams , Hoyle Nix and the Light Crust Doughboys.
Songs include: Waltz Me Around Again, Willie, Waltzing the Blues, Kentucky Waltz and the Minute Waltz. Performers include: Rudy Vallee, John Kirby, Helen Clark, Guy Lombardo and Moritz Rosenthal.
Songs include; Mr Ghost Goes To Town, The Halloween Dance, At the Devil's Ball. I'm Scared and Devil Got My Woman. Performers include: Bessie Smith, The Peerless Quartet, Peggy Lee, Skip James, Maxine Sullivan, Judy Garland and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band. The host also reads Edgar Allen Poe's poem, The Conqueror Worm.
Jazz tunes especially recorded for the V-Disc program in the 1940s. Songs include: Don't Explain, Indiana, Undercurrent Blues, I Can't Get Started and That Ain't Right. Performers include: Billie Holliday, Benny Goodman, Art Tatum, Roy Eldridge, Count Basie and Fats Waller.
Repost of We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder, plus, The Church in the Wildwood by the Chuck Wagon Gang.
Southern Gospel from the 1920s - 1940s. Songs include: Jesus Hold My Hand, Gospel Ship, I Am Climbing Jacob's Ladder, Leaning On the Everlasting Arms and Never Grow Old. Performers include: Ernest Phipps, Alfred Karnes, the Carter Family, the Sons of the Pioneers, the Chuck Wagon Gang and Wade Mainer.
Songs about America's favorite fruit, Iincluding; Yes, We Have No Bananas, Banana Oil, Banana In Your Fruit Basket and I Like Bananas. Performers include: Billy Jones, Vaughn de Leuth, Louis Prima, Bo Carter and Xavier Cugat.
Tenors from the second decade of the 20th Century, including: Al Jolson, Billy Murray, Enrico Caruso, Henry Burr, Bob Roberts and Will Oakland. Songs include; O Solo Mio, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, Avalon, I've got Rings on My Fingers and It's a Long Way to Tipperary.
Music for National Piano Month. Pianists include: Art Tatum, Artur Rubinstein, Moon Mullican, Pinetop Smith, Thelonius Monk, Erroll Garner, Liberace and Edwin Fischer. Works include: Jump steady Blues, Turkish Rondo, September Song, Mazurka #10, Perdidio and April in Paris.
The life and music of songwriter, Harry M. Woods. Songs include: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover, Try a Little Tenderness, Side By Side, Just An Echo In the Valley and When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain. Performers include: Al Jolson, Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Ruth Etting, the Ames Brothers, Cliff Edwards and Billie Holiday.
Recordings from the 1930s and 1940s of the Hammond electric organ and novachord. Performers include: Thomas"Fats" Waller, Ethyl Smith, Milt Herth, Ken Griffin, Vera Lynn and Glenn Hardman. Songs include: Apple Blossom, We'll Meet Again, Mamacita, Tico Tico and You Can't Be True Dear.
Songs include: Malted Milk, Milkshake Stand, My Very Good Friend the Milkman, Milkcow Blues and Ole Buttermilk Sky. Performers include: Robert Johnson, Hoagy Carmichael, The King Sisters, Fats Waller, Elton Britt and Sleepy John Estes.
Early jazz records from the Gennett label, including: Cakewalking Babies From Home, Riverboat Shuffle, Dippermouth Blues and Stardust. Performers include: King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Caroline Johnson, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbeck, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Jelly Roll Morton.
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of composer claude Debussy. Works include: Reverie, Clair de Lune, The Girl With the Flaxen Hair, Fetes, String Quartet and The Play of the Waves. Performers include: Alfred Cortot, Arturo Toscanini, Artur Rodzinski, The Virtuoso String Quartet, Walter Gieseking and Claude Debussy.
Songs include: Jalousie, I'll Be Around, Where Did You Sleep, All the World Will Be Jealous and All or Nuttin. Performers include: Arthur Fiedler, Cab Calloway, Henry Burr, the Andrews Sisters and Celeste Holm.
Prewar blues harp greats, including: Sonny Terry, Daddy Stovepipe, Noah Taylor, Sonny Boy Williamson 1, Eddie Mapp and Jaybird Coleman. Songs include: Harmonica Blues, Dixie Flyer Blues, Boarding House Blues and Sundown Blues.
Highlights from the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. Performers include: John Lee Hooker, The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Sol Hoopii, Fiorello La Guardia and Vladimir Horowitz. Recordings include: Tudexo Junction, Facinating Rhythm, Reading Dick Tracy, I Can Hear it Now, Boogie Chillin and Artistry in Rhythm.
Songs include: Stardust, Stella By Starlight. Stars Fell On Alabama, A Handful of Stars and Come Down My Evening Star. Performers include: Hoagy Carmichael, Benny Goodman, Lilian Russel, Artie Shaw, Vera Lynn and Johnny Mercer.
Songs include: Maybe It's Because I'm An Londoner, Chelsea Bridge, A Foggy Day In London, The London Bridge March, London Pride and A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. Performers include: Billy Cotton, Vera Lynn, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Noel Coward and Fred Astaire.
Works include: The Star Spangled Banner, The Stars and Stripes Forever, On the Mall and the 1812 Overture. Performers include: John Philip Sousa, Edwin Franco Goldman, Deanna Durbin, The Boston Pops and Vladimir Horowitz.
Shirley Temple singing in Japanese, Nazi Jazz, a musical saw, the worst opera singer, a creepy Christmas poem and other strange records.
A special podcast marking the death of scifi writer, Ray Bradburry. The show includes a radio performance of Bradbury's story, The Veldt from 1951.
Records left off of earlier podcasts. Sarah Vaughn sings Just Friends. The Norwalk Symphony plays Elegy by Sibleius. Western swing by Jimmie Revard. Woody Guthrie sings a Titaniac song. Plus Blind Boy Fuller plays Step it Up And Go.
The early history of western swing music. Performers include: The Light Crust Doughboys, Milton Brown, Bob Wills, Cliff Bruner, Adolph Hofner, The Tune Wranglers and the Swift Jewel Cowboys. Songs include: Pass the Biscuits Pappy, Beautiful Texas, Get A Long Home Cindy, Taking Off and My Untrue Cowgirl.
The life and music of songwriter Sam Lewis. Songs include: For All We Know, Just Friends, I'm Sitting On Top Of The World, Dinah, Five foot Two and Hello Central. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Nora Bayes, Ted Lewis, Gene Austin and Isham Jones.
More classical music from the V-Disc program of the 1940s. Works include: Bizet's Habanera, Rossinini's Dance of the Soldiers, Purcell's Trumpet Tune and Air, Scott's From the Sacred Harp and Ginastara's Panambi Suite. Artists include: Marian Anderson, Arturo Toscanini, Virgil Fox, Erich Kleiber, The Norwalk Symphony and Morley and Gearhart.
Singers include: Vaughn DeLeath, Kitty Kallen, Jo Stafford, Helen Ward, Evelyn Dall and Annette Handshaw. Songs include: Are You Lonesome Tonight, Ain't He Sweet, Paper Moon, Skylark, It's Been A Long Long Time and Some Enchanted Evening.
Cheerful songs from the Great Depression. Songs include: Happy Days Are Here Again, When You're Smiling, Pennies From Heaven, Don't Let It Bother You and Dawn of a New Day. Performers include; Alice Faye, Leo Reisman, Louis Armstrong, Horace Heidt, Lee Morse and Bing Crosby.
Pianists include; Jelly Roll Morton, James P Johnson, Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Bud Powell and Lenny Tristano. Songs include: Original Rags, Chimes in Blues, It had to be You, I Can't Get Started and Rosetta.
Highlights from the Armed Forces Radio show, Mail Call from the 1940s. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Diana Shore, June Allison, Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers and Robert Benchley. Songs include: Don't Fence Me In, Till Then, Oh What a Beautiful Morning, Begin the Beguine and Speak Low.
