Gospel vocal groups from 1914 to 1951. Artists include: The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, Ernest Phipps Holiness Singers, The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, The Chuck Wagon Gang, the Rev. J. M. Gates and Smith's Sacred Singers. Songs include: Go Down Moses, Rock My Soul, I'm a Soldier In The Army Of My Lord, Antioch, Our Father and Gospel Train.
Irish Music for St. Patrick's Day. Artists include: Dennis Day, John McCormack, Paddy Kiloran, Michael Coleman, Morton Downey Sr. and Pakie Dolan.
Celebrating 10 years of Music From 100 Years Ago; some of the host's favorite records from the first half of the 20th Century. Music selections include: Old Dan Tucker, Lover Man, French Suite #5, Stairway to the Stars, Shout For Joy, Searching the Desert For the Blues and Rose Room. Performers include: Thomas "Fats" Waller, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, the Swift Jewel Cowboys, Albert Ammons, Louis Jordan, Bix Beiderbeck, Blind Willie McTell and Rudolf Serkin.
Songs include: Time Changes Everything, You Are My Sunshine, My Home Among the Hills, Worried Mind, Will the Circle Be unbroken and The Precious Jewel. Performers include: Bob Wills, Ernest Tubb, the Carter Family, Ted Daffan, Elton Britt, Gene Autry and Jimmie Davis.
Musicians include: Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Benny Moten, Count Basie, Lucky Millinder, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong. Songs include: Cotton Tail, Jumping At the Woodside, Moten Swing, Sweethearts On Parade, King Porter Stomp, Apollo Jump and Flying Home.
Songs include: I Love You, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, Somebody Loves Me, Watching the Clouds Roll By and My Fate Is In Your Hands. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Josephine Baker, Cliff Edwards, The Boswell Sisters, Nat King Cole, Jo Stafford, Anita O'Day, Bing Crosby, Teddy Wilson and Ruth Etting.
Songs include: Baby Mine, So In Love, That Old Black Magic, White Christmas, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Swinging On a Star and the Woody Woodpecker Song. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Johnny Mercer, Kay Kayser, Glenn Miller, Sarah Vaughn and Gordon MacRae.
In honor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 260th birthday, a 1940 recording of the Symphony #39 by the London Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
Songs include: I Got a Gal In Kalamazoo, Blues In the Night, It Might As Well Be Spring, Zip a Dee Do Dah, You Keep Coming Back Like a Song and When You Wish Upon a Star. Performers include: Billy Ecksteine, Dinah Shore, Jo Stafford, Tony Martin, Cliff Edwards and Johnny Mercer.
A tribute to musicians born in 1916; one hundred years ago this year. Musicians include: Harry James, Dinah Shore, Lydia Mendoza, Charlie Christian, Jackie Gleason, Ken Curtis and Yehudi Menuhin.
The music and events of 1916. Songs include: Keep the Home Fires Burning, Pretty Baby, M O T H E R, The Missouri Waltz , Hello Hawaii and America, I Love You. Performers include: Al Jolson, Nora Bayes, Henry Burr, The American Quartet and Enrico Caruso.
Songs left over from earlier podcasts. Songs include: What Is This Thing Called Love?, Harlem Heat, Blue Prelude, As Long As I Live, No More Sweet Potatoes, They Can't Take That Away From Me and Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina. Performers include: Anita O'Day, Woody Herman, Fred Astaire, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Blue Ridge Highballers, Conway's Band and the Big Three Trio.
Songs include: Jeepers Creepers, Over the Rainbow, Cheek to Cheek, The Way You Look Tonight, I've Got You Under My Skin, The Continental and Lullaby of Broadway. Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, Hal Kemp, Bea Wain, Peggy Lee, Leo Reisman and Fred Astaire.
Celebrating the 245th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven with three recordings from 1947. Works include movements from the Symphony #9, the Piano Concerto #4 and The Consecration of the House Overture. Performers include: Herbert von Karajan, Arturo Toscanini, Eugene Ormandy and Arthur Rubinstein.
Songs include: Christmas Swing, Silent Night, Christmas Out On the Prairie, What Will Santa Claus Say? , Santa Claus Blues and Winter Wonderland. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, The Hill Billies, Dick Robertson, Louis Prima, Thomas "Fats" Waller and Django Reinhardt.
A special, short podcast in honor of Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday. Songs include: Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week, All Or Nothing At All, How About You? and Time After Time.
More recordings from 1940 including: In The Mood, Playmates, Java Jive, How High the Moon, I Concentrate On You, Mozart's Symphony #38, I Ain't Got No Home and Frenesi. Performers include: Glenn Miller, Woody Guthrie, Benny Goodman, the Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, Sir Thomas Beecham and Art Tatum.
Songs with questions in the title. Songs include: Whose Honey Are You? How Deep is the Ocean? Why Was I Born? Why Don't You Do Right? Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? and Who's Sorry Now? Performers include: Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Louis Jordan, Artie Shaw, Marion Harris, Billie Holiday, Ethyl Merman and Thomas "Fats" Waller.
The life and music of song lyricist, Ted Koehler. Songs include: Stormy Weather, Animal Crackers, I've Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, Get Happy, Love For Love and Let's Fall In Love. Artists include: Cab Calloway, Eddie Duchin, Pearl Bailey, Ethyl Waters, Shirley Temple, Thomas "Fats" Waller and Louis Armstrong.
This is a repost of a show from 2006 that was accidentally deleted from the archives. Songs from the first two years of World War I.
Songs include: Mountain Greenery, On Green Dolphin Street, The Green Grass Grows All Around, If The Moon Turns Green and Garbo Green. Performers include: Thomas "Fats" Waller, Jimmy Dorsey, Roger Wolfe Khan, Louis Jordan, Fletcher Henderson and Xavier Cugat.
More hits form 1940. Songs include: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Flying Home, Sweet Loraine, Jailhouse Blues, Barbara Allen, Meeting In The Air and When You Wish Upon a Star. Performers include: Lionel Hampton, Maxine Sullivan, the Chuck Wagon Gang, the Ink Spots, Guy Lombardo, Sleepy John Estes and Harry James
Hit records from 1940, including: Summit Ridge Drive, Tuxedo Junction, Stardust, Falling In Love Again, New San Antonio Rose, I'll Get Along Somehow and A Nightingale Sang in Barkley Square. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Pete Johnson, Billie Holiday, Ernest Tubb, Leopold Stokowski, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller.
Jazz bands led by women from the 1920s to the 1940s. Performers include: Lovie Austin, Ina May Hutton, Mary Lou Williams, Blanche Calloway, Valida Snow, Ivy Benson and Ana Mae Winburn. Songs include; Tuxedo Junction, I Gotta Swing, Some of These Days, Doing the Suzie Q, Lover and Scratching the Gravel.
The annual Halloween show featuring Ghost Walkin Blues, Mr. Ghost Goes to Town, Witch Doctor, The Halloween Dance, Bloody Razor Blues, Chopin's Funeral March and I'm Scared. Performers include: Ina Rae Hutton, Sarah Vaughn, Fred Astaire, The 5 Jones Boys, Adrian Boult, Helen Gross and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Celebrating Country Music Month with classic records from the 1920s through the 1940s. Songs include: Alabama Jubilee, I Am Thinking Tonight Of My Blue eyes, Blue Yodel #3, South of the Border, Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms, Jole Blon, Milk Cow Blues and Little Liza Jane. Performers include: Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, The Monroe Brothers, Darby and Tarlton, The Maddox Brothers and Rose, Bob Wills and Moon Mullican.
Songs of New York, including: Night Game in Brooklyn, Lullaby of Broadway, Fifth Avenue, The Man From Harlem, New York City Blues and Slumming On Park Avenue. Performers include: The Swift Jewel Cowboys, Alice Faye, Tony Pastor, Glenn Miller, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday.
Songs include: My Window Faces the South, Swanee, Mint Julep, Down South Camp Meeting, Alabama Jubilee and Georgia On My Mind. Performers include: Phil Harris, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Mildred Bailey, Glenn Miller, Bill Monroe, Al Jolson and Jelly Roll Morton.
Highlights from the music of Austrian composer, Franz Joseph Haydn. Works include movements from the Surprise Smphony, the String Quartet #50, the Hen Symphony, the Piano Sonata #62 and the Oxford Symphony. Performers include: Vladimir Horowitz, George Szell, the Pro Arte Quartet, Wilhelm Furtwangler and John Barbiroli.
Records made on cylinders from 1902 to 1919, including: The Thunderer, In the Garden, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, Shine On Harvest Moon, The Carmen March and The Stars and Stripes Forever. Performers include: The Sousa Band, Ada Jones, Billy Murray, The Apollo Quartet of Boston, The Edison Symphony Orchestra and Victor Herbert.
