Songs include: Honeymoon Hotel, Putin' On the Ritz, There's a Small Hotel, Rose Room and Lounging at the Waldorf. Performers include: Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, The Nite Owls and Thomas "Fats" Waller.
Songs include: Waiting For a Train, Fast Mail Rambler, Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train, Take the A Train, Texas and Pacific and It Takes a Long, Long Train. performers include: Louis Armstrong, The Rev. J.M. Gates, Dinah Shore, Lighting Hopkins, Johnny Mercer , Jimmie Rogers and Duke Ellington.
Songs include: Get On Board, Train Whistle Blues, Waiting For the Train to Come In, My Savior's Train, Rock Island Line and Cannonball Express. Performers include: Roy Acuff, Lionel Hampton, The Andrews Sisters, Ella May Morse, The Monroe Brothers , Leadbelly and Sonny Terry.
A tribute to musicians born in 1913, including: Sammy Cahn, Helen Humes, Frankie Laine, Cowboy Copas, Licia Albanese, Richard Tucker and Carmen Cavellero. Songs include: Time After Time The Flower Song, Georgia On My Mind and September Song.
Music produced by military bands and recorded by the V-Disc program in the 1940s. Songs include: Stairway to the Stars, Swingtime in the Rockies, Go Down Moses, Little Liza and Hungarian Dance #5
Songs celebrating New York City, Including: The Sidewalks of New York, Harlem Holliday, 42nd Street, Give Me the Moon Over Brooklyn and Coney Island Washboard. Performers include: Bing Crosby, The Mills Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Hal Kemp, Guy Lombardo and Jelly Roll Morton.
A special podcast for J.S. Bach's 328th birthday featuring a 1946 recording of the Concerto for Two Violins by Jascha Heifetz.
The life and music of songwriter Irving Caesar. Songs include: Tea For Two, Animal Crackers In My Soup, I Want To Be Happy, Swanee, Is It True What They Say About Dixie and Sometimes I'm Happy. Performers include: Al Jolson, Mildred Bailey, Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Wingy Manone, Mildred Bailey and Jimmy Durrante.
Bands that influenced the development of bluegrass music. Artists include: Bill Monroe, The Skillet Lickers, Charlie Poole, The Delmore Brothers, Uncle Dave Macon and Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers. Songs include: Molly and Tenbrooks, Orange Blossom Special, Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line, Bright Tomorrow and Hand Me Down My Walking Cane.
Celebrating seven years of podcasting with: Louis Armstrong, Patti Page, the Memphis Jug Band, Duke Ellington, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Johnny Mercer, the Rev. J.M. Gates and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Songs include: Keyhole Blues, the Goldberg Variations, So In Love, Zip A Dee Do Dah, The Girl I Left Behind Me and Lock Step Blues.
The music of composer Franz Schubert, including: Erlkonig, The Trout, Symphony #5, the Death and the Maiden Quartet and the Impromptu in B Flat. Performers include: Arthur Schnabel, Marian Anderson, Hans Hotter, Bruno Walter and the Roth Quartet.
Musicians who played in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, including: Johnny Hodges, Rex Stewart, Ivy Anderson, Jimmy Blanton, Billy Strayhorn and Jaun Tizol. Songs include: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, Warm Valley, Plunked Again., Rexations, Mood Indigo and Black and Tan Fantasy.
Singing Cowboys of the 1920s through the 1940s, including: Carl T. Sprague, Harry McClintock, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter. Songs include: Back in the Saddle, Time Changes Everything, When the Work's All Done This Fall and Moonlight on the Prairie.
Love songs for Valentines Day, including: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, My Heart Stood Still, One Hour Tonight, Let's Fall In Love and I Can't Beleive That You're In Love with Me. Performers include: Ella Fitzgerald, Harlod Arlen, Annette Handshaw, The Pied Pipers and Louis Armstrong.
A special, short podcast in tribute to Patty Andrews, of the Andrews Sisters, who passed away January 30th, 2013 at 94.
Musicians who played at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem including: Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall. Cab Calloway, Ethyl Waters, Jimmy Lunceford and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band. Songs include: Creole Love Call, White Lightning, Rhythm Is Our Business and I Must Have That Man.
Music Of British dance bands of the 1930s, including: Bert Ambrose, Jack Jackson, Ray Noble, Billy Cotton and Roy Fox. Songs include: Too Marvelous For Words, Dinah, The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven, The Bouncing Ball and Embassy Stomp.
More musicians born 100 years ago this year, including: Judy Canova, Woody Herman, Bob Crosby, Jimmy Van Heusen, Ella Logan and Muddy Waters. Songs include: Swinging On a Star, Woodchopper's Ball, Hoochie Coochie Man and Honky Tonk Train.
A tribute to musicians born in 1913, including: Mary Martin, Grandpa Jones, Morton Gould, Charley Barnet, Danny Kaye and Rise Stevens. Songs inclue: My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Mountain Dew, Simple Symphony, Cherokee and I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
Hit music from 1913, including: Peg O' My Heart, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, The Rite of Spring, Sweethearts and Because. Performers include: Caunchey Olcott, Al Jolson, Christie McDonald, Bert williams and Igor Stravinsky.
Records left off of previous podcasts. Songs include: I Found a New Baby, Roadside Rag, Don't Grieve After Me, Nola and Puck's Dance. Performers include: Sonny Boy Williamson #1, Count Basie, Ernest Phipps, Roy Eldrige, Alfred Cortoit and Cliff Bruner.
Celebrating the lives of musicains who passed away in 1977, including: Paul Desmond, Mary Ford, E. Power Biggs, Bukka White, Maria Callas and Guy Lombardo. Works include: Auld lang Syne, Shake Em On Down, I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Organ Concerto #10.
A special, short podcast for Beethoven's birthday featuring the Eroica Variations played by Claudio Arrau.
A tribute to musicians who passed away in 1977, including: Elvis Presely, Bing Crosby, Ethel Waters, Leopold Stokowski,, Sleepy John Estes and Errol Garner.
Songs include: Frosty the Snowman, The Christmas Song, Joy to the World, Christmas Island, Santa Claus is Coming to Town and White Christmas. Performers include: Jo Stafford, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, the Andrews Sisters, Bob Wills and Doris Day.
A special, short podcast in honor of jazz pianist and composer, Dave Brubeck. Works include: Fugue on a Bop Theme, Laura, Tea For Two and Stardust.
Pianists forgotten by time; including: Pat Flowers, Jimmy Blythe, Hazel Scott, Donald Lambert, Rosita Renard, Zez Confrey and Jess Stacy. Works include: But Not For Me, Pork and Beans, Blues in B Flat, Sing, Sing Sing and Mozart's Rondo in D.
The life and music of song writer, Harry von Tilzer. Songs include: Wait Till The Sun Shines Nelly, I Love My Wife, The Green Grass Grew All Around and I Want A Girl. Performers include: Ada Jones, Bing Crosby, Ted Lewis, Bob Roberts and Ella Retford.
Songs include: I Faw Down, My One and Only, I Want to Be Bad, Diga Diga Do, Old McDonald and Tip Toe Through the Tulips. Performers include: Cliff Edwards, Helen kane , the Clicquot Club Eskimos, Jones & Hare and Jack Payne.
Music of composer, George Fredrick Handel. Works include; Hallelujah Chorus , Zadock the Priest, Water Music , Chaconne in G and Concerto Grosso #9. Performers include: Malcom Sargent, Boyd Neel, Westminster Abby Choir , Shefeld Choir Edwin Fischer and the Phildelphia Orchestra.
