Music From 100 Years Ago
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The Big Apple Part 2
More songs about New York, including: Broadway Rose, Let Me Off Uptown, Brooklyn Bridge, Slaughter on 10th Avenue and Manhattan Minuet. Performers include: Raymond Scott, Ted Lewis, Dolly Dawn, Billy Muray and Lenny Hayton.
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Wagner Bicentennial
The music of opera composer, Richard Wagner on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Works include: The Flying Dutchman Overture, The Magic Fire Music, The Bridal Chorus and The Ride of the Valkeries. Peformers include: Thomas Beecham, Arturo Toscanini, Karl Bohm, Tiana Lemniz and Arthur Rodniski.
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Hotel Songs
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.
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Train Songs Part 2
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.
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Train Songs Part 1
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.
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Centennials 2013 Part 3
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.
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V-Disc Military Bands
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
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The Big Apple part 1
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.
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Bach's Birthday
A special podcast for J.S. Bach's 328th birthday featuring a 1946 recording of the Concerto for Two Violins by Jascha Heifetz.
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Irving Caesar
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.
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Roots of Bluegrass
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.
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Seventh Anniversary Show
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.
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Schubert
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.
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Ellingtonians
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.
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Singing Cowboys
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.
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Valentines Day 2013
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.
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In Memorium Patty Andrews
A special, short podcast in tribute to Patty Andrews, of the Andrews Sisters, who passed away January 30th, 2013 at 94.
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Cotton Club
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.
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British Dance Bands 1930s
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.
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Centennials 2013 Part 2
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.
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Centennials 2013 part 1
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.
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1913
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.
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Leftovers #14
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.
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Obituaries 1977 part 2
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.
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Obituaries 1977
A tribute to musicians who passed away in 1977, including: Elvis Presely, Bing Crosby, Ethel Waters, Leopold Stokowski,, Sleepy John Estes and Errol Garner.
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Christmas 2012
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.
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In Memorium: Dave Brubeck
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.
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Forgotten Pianists
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.
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Harry von Tilzer
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.
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Novelty Songs of the 1920s
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.
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Handel
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.
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Western Swing 1940s
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.
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Waltz Anyone?
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.
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Halloween 2012
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.
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V-Disc Jazz
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.
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Chuck Wagon Gang
Repost of We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder, plus, The Church in the Wildwood by the Chuck Wagon Gang.
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Country Gospel
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.
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Banana Music
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.
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Tenors 1910-1920
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.
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Piano Month
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.
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Harry Woods
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.
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Hammon Organ
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.
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Milky Music
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.
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Gennett Jazz
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.
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Debussy Sesquicentennial
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.
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Jealousy
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.
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Blues Harmonica
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.
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National Recording Registry Part 4
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.
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Starry Music
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.
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London Songs
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.
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Independence Day 2012
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.
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Strange Records
Shirley Temple singing in Japanese, Nazi Jazz, a musical saw, the worst opera singer, a creepy Christmas poem and other strange records.
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In Memorium : Ray Bradbury
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.
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Leftovers # 13
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.
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Western Swing 1930s
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.
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Sam Lewis
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.
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Classical V-Discs Part 2
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.
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Female Crooners
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.
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Cheer Up
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.
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Jazz Piano 1920s-1940s
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.
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Mail Call
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.
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Tangos
Tangos from the 1910s through the 1940s. Performers include: Carlos Gardel, Roberto Firpo, Carlos di Sarli, Anibal Troilo and Juan Canaro. Tangos include: La Cumparsita, La Brisa, Paloma Blanca, El Amanecer and Caminito.
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Titanic
A special program marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Songs include: When That Great Ship Went Down, The Sinking of the Titanic, Nearer My God to Thee, God Moves On the Water , plus interviews with two Titanic survivors. Performers include: Leadbelly, the Knickerbocker Quartet, Ernest Stoneman, Blind Willie Johnson, Charles Lightoller and Edith Rosenbaum Russel. More interviews with Titanic survivors can be heard at: bbc.co.uk/archive/titanic.
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Episode 300, Number Songs
To celebrate the 300th episode of Music From 100 Years Ago, songs with numbers in the title, including: Tea For Two, I'm a Hundred Percent For You, I See a Million People and Infinity Promanade. Performers include: Uma Mae Carlisle, Thomas Waller, Bing Crosby, Thelonious Monk and Shorty Rodgers.
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Delius Brigg Fair
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Fredrick Delius, a special podcast featuring Brigg Fair performed by Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic.
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British Composers
Music By Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, John Ireland, Arthur Sullivan, Fredrick Delius and William Walton. Works include: Nimrod, Spitfire, Sea Fever, The Wasps Overture and The Wand Of Youth.
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St Patrick's Day 2012
Irish music including: My Wild Irish Rose, Londerry bAir, Did Your Mother Come From Ireland and traditional Irish Reels. Performers include: John McCormack, Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoren, Bing Crosby, Tom Ennis and William Butler Yeats.
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6th Anniversary Show
Highlights from 6 years of Music From 100 Years Ago. Performers include: Doris Day, Meade Lux Lewis, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Eugene Ormandy.
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Monday Music
Songs about Monday, including: A Monday Date, Every Day Is Monday, Blue Monday Blues, Monday Again and Sunday, Monday and Always. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Jeanne Taylor, Albert Ammons, Frankie Laine and Count Basie.
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Early Country Fiddlers
Country fiddlers from the 1920s and 1930s, including Eck Robertson, John Carson, G.B. Grayson, Alfred Reed and Bob Wills. Songs include: Goin Down This Road Feeling Bad, Tom Dooley, Old Joe Clark, Maiden's Prayer and Pass Around the Bottle.
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The First V-Discs
Highlights from the first eight V-Discs, from October 1943. Songs include: Blue Skies. Sing Sing Sing. Home On the Range, Che Li and Okalahoma. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Diana Shore, the Fort Slocum Band and Vaughn Monroe.
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Blind Blues Musicians
Blind blues singers of the 1920s and 1030s, including: Lemon Jefferson, Willie McTell, Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Blind Willie Johnson, Teddy Darb and Blind Boy Fuller. Songs include: Log Cabin Blues, Southern Rag, Bad Luck Blues, Southern Can Is Mine and Have a Little More Faith In Jesus.
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Gershwin on the Radio
Music of George Gershwin as perfored on radio broadcasts in the 1930s and 1940s. Music includes: Lady Be Good, I Got Rhythm Variations, Summertime, Piano Prelude #1 and They Can't take that Away From Me. Musicians include: George Gershwin, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Lewis Armstrong.
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Mozart's Birthday 2012
A special podcast to honor Mozart on his 256th birthday. Performers include: Thomas Beecham, The Budapest String Quartet, Wanda Landowsky and Hamilton Harty.
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The Eyes Have It
Songs about eyes, including: I Only Have Eyes For You, Green Eyes, Them There Eyes, Angel Eyes and Dark Eyes. Performers include: Billie Holiday. Jame Froman, Herb Jeffries, Bing Crosby, Gene Austin and Helen Forest.
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2012 Centennials
A tribute to performers born 100 years ago this year, including: Perry Como, Lightnin Hopkins, Woody Guthrie, Georg Solti, Don Byas & Marta Eggerth. Music Includes: Some Enchanted Evening, Short Haired Woman, Tis Autumn, Summertime & Brahms Violin Sonata #3.
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1912
Hit songs from 1912, including: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Oh You Beautiful Doll, Love Is Mine, Come Down My Evening Star and Waiting For the Robert E Lee. Performers include: Al Jolson, Lilian Russel, Fisk University Jubilee Singers, Enrico Caruso and Collins & Harlin.
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Leftovers #12
Records left off of previous podcasts, including: Yodeling Ranger, Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?, Riders In the Sky, Texas Polka and Preachin Blues. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Martha Tilton, Larry Clinton, Arturo Toscanini, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Robert Johnson.
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Harry Ruby
The music of songwriter, Harry Ruby. Songs include: Who's Sorry Now?, Three Little Words, Give Me The Simple Life, Nevertheless and Hooray For Captain Spaluding. Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Marion Harris, The Mills Brothers, Helen Kane, Benny Goodman, Ehtyl Waters and Groucho Marx.
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Beethoven's Birthday 2011
Celebrating the 241st birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. Performers include: George Szell, Bruno Walter, the Budapest String Quartet, Arthur Schnabel and Pablo Casals. Works include highlights from the Symphony #4, the Six Bagatelles Op 126, the String Quartet #10 and the Celo Sonata #5.
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Boy Meets Girl
Male-female duets, including: Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell, Nelson Eddy & Jannette McDonald and Anita O'Day & Roy Eldrige. Songs include: It Had To Be You, An Apple For the Teacher, Let Me Off Uptown and Indian Love Call.
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Christmas 1940s
Classic Christmas songs from the 1940s, including: The Christmas Song, Winter Wonderland, Here Comes Santa Claus, Sleigh Ride and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Performers include: Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, The Boston Pops, Gene Autry and Doris Day.
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Coffee Time
Music about America's favorite morning beverage. Songs include: Java Jive, I'd Like to Dunk You In My Coffee, Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee, Coffee Grindin Blues and You're the Cream In My Coffee. Performers include: Una Mae Carlisle, the Ink Spots, Ted Weems, the Boswell Sisters, Wingy Manone and Mike Douglas.
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Mississippi Blues Singers 1920s-1930s
Performers include: Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Bo Carter, Skip James and Sonny Boy Williamson #1. Songs include: Canned heat Blues, Traveling Riverside Blues, Shake Em On Down, 4 O' Clock Blues and Dry Well Blues.
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List Songs
Songs with lists, including: My Baby Just Cares For Me, Route 66, A, You're Adorable, It Might As Well Be Spring. I Wish That I Were Twins and These Foolish Things. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Nat King Cole, Fats Waller and Jo Stafford.
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Swinging the Classics
Classical music gets the swing treatment. Songs include; My Reverie, Prelude and Fugue, Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Beethoven riffs. Performers include: John Kirby, Larry Adler, Larry Clinton, Pat Flowers and Hazel Scott.
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Streets and Highways
Songs include: Fifth Avenue, Lost Highway, Sixth Avenue Express, On the Sunny Side of the Street and Summit Ridge Drive. Performers include: Jo Stafford, Connie Boswell, Hank Williams, Ted Weems, Bill Monroe and Glenn Miller.
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Halloween 2011
Songs include; Ghost Walkin Blues, Haunted Heart, Riders In the Sky, Funeral March of a Marionette and Satan Takes a Holiday. Performers include: Burl Ives, Billie Holiday, Perry Como, Tommy Dorsey, The Casa Loma Orchestra and The Royal Albert Hall Orchestra.
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Liszt Bicentenial
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Franz Liszt. Works include: Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Liebestraum #3, Totentanze and the Piano Concerto #1. Performers include: Eileen Joyce, Artur Rubenstein, Louis Ketner, Jesus Sanroma and Eugene Ormandy.
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Ships and Boats
Songs include: A Sailboat in the Moonlight, Ferryboat Sernade, Gospel Ship, Someone's rockin My dreamboat and I'll Sail My Ship Alone. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Andrews Sisters, Carter Family, Ink Spots, Moon Mullican and Louis Armstrong.
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1945 Part 2
More music from the final year of World War II. Songs include: It's Been So Long Darlin, Angilena, The Syncopated Clock, The New Spanish Two-Step, Brahms Symphony #1, I Wish and Till the End of Time. Performers include: Perry Como, Bob Wills, Judy Garland . Leopold Stokowski, Charlie Parker and Ernest Tubb.
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Bill Monroe Centennial
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Monroe, The Father of Bluegrass. Songs include: Blue Moon of Kentucky, Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms, Criple Creek, Foggy Monutian Breakdown and Footprints In The Snow. Performers include: Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, the Monroe Brothers, The Skillet Lickers, The Stanley Brothers and Flatt and Scruggs.
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Cool Music
Music about being cool. Songs include: Cold Cold Heart, Be Cool Fool, Out In the Cold Again, In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening and Baby, It's Cold Outside. Performers include: Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Williams, Kokomo Arnold, Jo Stafford and Jimmie Dickens.
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Whisper
Hush! Songs about whispering. Songs include: Whispering, Whispering Hope, Whisper in the Night and Moonlight Whispers. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Connee Boswell, The Ink Spots, Tex Beneke , Valaida Snow & Jo Stafford.
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Classical Music month 2011
Celebrating Classical Music Month with historical recordings from the 1930s & 1940s, including: Albinez: Spanish Seranade, Bach: Little Fugue in g minor, Grofe: On the Trail & Shostakovich: Symphony #6. Performers include; Ricardo Vines, Arturo Toscanini, Abert Schweitzer & Paul Whiteman.
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Forgotten Blues Singers
Lesser-known blues singers from the 1920s and 1930s. Performers include: Josie Miles, Mary Johnson, Kathrine Henderson, Hattie McDaniel, Maggie Jones, Chippie Hill and Edith Wilson. Songs inclue: West End Blues, Death Letter Blues, Boxcar Blues, I Thought I'd Do It & Home Town Blues.
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1945 part One
The first in a series dedicated to the music of 1945; the last year of World War II, Songs include: It Might As Well Be Spring, Lover Man, Ebony Concerto, Laura and Cocktails For Two. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Erskine Caldwell, Billie Holiday, Spike Jones and Igor Stravinsky.
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Leftovers #11
Music left off of earlier podcasts. Songs include: Bewitched, Fish Fry, The Stars & Stripes Forever, Martha and Please Be Kind. Performers include: Lary Clinton, Jimmy Dorsey, The Phildelphia Orchestra, Marie Greene and Sarah Vaughn.
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Yodeling
Yodeling in early 20th Century pop music. Songs include: Yodeling Jive, The Harlem Yodel, Blue Yodel #5, I Miss My Swiss and The Yodeling Polka. Artists include: Jimmie Rodgers, The Andrews Sisters, Bessie Smith, Bill Monroe, Gene Krupa and The Dandridge Sisters.
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Jazz Guitarists
Early jazz guitarists from the 1920s through the 1940s, including: Eddie Lang, Nick Lucas, Charlie Christian, Les Paul and Django Reinhardt.
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Hot Tunes
Songs about heat, including Heat Wave, Too Darn Hot, Cool Water, Hotter Than that and Go Down Old Hannah. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Ethyl Waters, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie.
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Sammy Fain
The life and work of songwriter, Sammy Fain. Songs include: Love is a Many Splendored Thing, I'll Be Seeing You, That Old Feeling, By a Waterfall and Secret Love. Performers include: Dorris Day, Shep Fields, Billie Holliday, The Four Aces, Dick Powell and Maurice Chevalier.
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London Symphonies
Historical recordings by symphony orchestras based in London, including: The London Symphony, The London Philharmonic, The Boyd Neel Orchestra, The Philharmonia, The Royal Philharmonic and The Queen's Hall Orchestra. Conductors include: Thomas Beecham, Adrian Boult, Henry Wood and Herbert von Karajan. Music includes excerpts from Mozart's Prague Symphony, Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra, Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance marches, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #1 and Vaughn Williams'...
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A V-Disc Fourth
For July 4th, rare, marching band recordings from the V-Disc label, including: American Patrol, The Marines Hymn, King Cotton & The St. Louis Blues March. st.
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Fort Valley Gospel
In the 1940s and 1950s, Fort Valley State College in Fort Valley, Georgia hosted a folk music festival. In 1941 & 1943 professors from Fisk University recorded performances from this festival for the Libray of Congress. Today, we feature gospel highlights from this, the first African-American-sponsored folk festival. Songs include: If I Had My Way, I Got a Long White Robe, Over In Zion, I'm on the Battlefield & I'll Fly Away.
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Fishing Music
Tunes about fish and fishing, including: Saturday Night Fish Fry, Fishing Blues, Gone Fishing, Fisherman's Luck and Poissons d'or. Performers include: Henry Thomas, Woody Guthrie, the Dixon Brothers, Kay Kayser, Al Cooper and Carlo Zecchi.
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Love Songs For Summer
Songs include: That's the Way it Is, Things Are Looking Up, Goodnight Sweetheart, Ain't He Sweet and Let's Take the Long Way Home. Artists include: Pearl Bailey, Bing Crosby, Ada Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Russ Columbo and Jo Stafford.
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Stride Part 2
More stride jazz piano music, including: Carolina Shout, Solitude, African Ripples, Nevertheless and Euphonic Sounds. Performers include: James P. Johnson, Luckey Roberts, Fats Waller, Donald Lambert, Willie the Lion Smith, Joe Sullivan, Duke Ellington and Art Tatum.
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Smoking
Songs about lighting up, including: Smoke, Smoke Smoke, Smoke Rings, If I Only Had a Match, Two Cigarettes In The Dark and Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Ruth Etting, Al Jolson, Jo Stafford, the Mills Brothers and Phil Harris.
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Water Music
Songs about dihydrogen monoxide, including:Cool Water, Rising High Water Blues, the Raindrop Prelude, By a Waterfall and Water Faucet; plus an excerpt from Handel's Water Music. Performers include Sons of the Pioneers, Bessie Smith, Eugene Ormandy, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Stan Getz.
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Country Music : World War II
Country Hits from the war years. Songs include: There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, Roses in the Snow, Born to Lose, Banjo Pickin Girl and Night Train to Memphis. Performers include: Roy Acuff, Cindy Walker, Bill Monroe, Bob Wills, Cowboy Copas and the Coon Creek Girls.
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Louis Alter
The music of songwriter,, Louis Alter, including:Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?, Manhattan Seranade, Dolores and Blue Shadows. Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Jo Stafford, Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
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1930 Part 2
More songs from the first year of the Great Depression. Songs include: Cotton Club Stomp, Let Me Sing, Price of Cotton Blues and Beyond the Blue Horizon. Performers include: Bessie Smith, the Allen Brothers, Ruth Etting. Al Jolson, Louis Armstrong and Thomas Waller.
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The Lomax Recordings.
In the spring and summer of 1939, John and Ruby Lomax traveled through nine southern states making field recordings of folk music. Today's show features highlights from the Lomax's recordings. Songs include: Rock Island Line, La Rancherita, Barbara Allen, Ain't No heaven On The County Road and What a Morning That Will Be. Most of the Lomax field recordings are available at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html
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Marches For Orchestra
Famous orchestral marches including: Bizet's March of the Toreadors, Chopin's Funeral March, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance #1 and Mendelsshon's Wedding March. Conductors include: Thomas Beecham, George Szell, Adrian Boult, Arthur Rodinski, Henry Wood and Leopold Stokowski.
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Salty Songs
Songs with salt in the title, including: Let Me Be Your Salty Dog, Salt Water Blues, Salt Peanuts and I'm Gonna Salt Away Some Sugar. Performers include: Bessie Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, Diana Washington, Tony Pastor, Rosetta Crawford and Fats Waller.
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National Recording Registry part 3
More highlights from the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. Records include: Canal Street Blues, Your the Top, Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow, The Rite of Spring The Lous/Schmeling Fight and Jole Blon. Performers include: Harry Choates, Bob Hope, The Carter Family, Igor Stravinsky and Clem McCarthy.
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Moonlight Music
Songs include: Moonlight Seranade, Moonlight Becomes You, Moonlight Bay, A Sailboat in the Moonlight and Moonlight Mood. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller, Cab Calloway, Connee Boswell and the American Quartet.
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Death Blues
Blues singers opine on the Grim Reaper. Songs include: See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, Lonesome Graveyard Blues, Jesus, Make Up My Dying Bed and Stones in My Passway. Performers include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, Skip James, Victoria Spivey, Rev. J.M. Gates and Robert Johnson.
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St. Patrick's Day 2011
Irish music for Saint Patrick's Day! Performers include: Michael Coleman, Joseph Locke, Delia Murphy, Tom Enis and Joh McCormack. Songs include: Hello Patsy Fagan, Three Lovely Lassies, I'll Walk Beside You, The Sunny Banks and I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen.
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5th Anniversary Show
Celebrating five years of podcasting, the host plays some of his favorite recordings from the first half of the 20th Century. Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, The Carter Family, Jo Stafford, Duke Ellington and Ignatz Friedman. Music includes: 12 Street Rag, The Things We Did Last Summer, Night And Day and La Campanella.
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Ned Washington
The Songs of lyricist, Ned Washington. Songs include: The High and the Mighty, When You Wish Upon a Star, The Nearness of You, Baby Mine and Rawhide. Performers include: Frankie Lane, Frank Sinatra, Connie Boswell, Tex Ritter, Glenn Miller and The Ink Spots.
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Classics Into Jazz
Famous classical melodies given the jazz treatment. Works include: Moonlight Sonata, Bolero, Arab Dance, Ritual Fire Dance and Two-Part Invention #12. Musicians include: Benny Goodman, Larry Clinton, Hazel Scott, Spike Jones, Harry James and Glenn Miller.
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In Memoriam George Shearing
A special, short podcast in memory of jazz pianist, George Shearing. Songs include: September In the Rain, I Only Have Eyes For You, Fly Me to the Moon and Lulabye of Birdland.
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Valentine's 2011
Love songs for Valentine's Day. Songs include: Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?, Am I Blue?, You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To and When I Grow Too Old To Dream. Artists include: Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Dinah Shore, Nelson Eddy, Cliff Edwards, Louis Armstrong and Helen Kane.
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Big Band Boogie Woogie
Band arrangments of boogie woogie tunes. Songs include: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, Boogie woogie Bugle Boy, Honky Tonk Train Blues and Yancy Special. Perfromers include: The Andrews Sisters, Bob Crosby Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, Harry James, Cab Calloway and Ted Heath.
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Jubilee Part 2
Jubilee was a program that aired on Armed Forces Radio during the 1940s. Aimed at an African-American audience, it featured some of the most popular Jazz and R&B acts of the time. This week's show features highlights from broadcasts from 1943-1948. Performers include: Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, The Golden Gate Quartet, Ida James and Josh White. Songs include: Knock Me a Kiss, Evil Hearted Blues, Exactly Like You and Back Bay Boogie.
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Mozart's Birthday 2011
A special, short podcast for Mozart's 255th birthday. Music includes: the finale from the Linz Symphony, the slow movement from the Hunt Quartet and the finale from the Sonata for Two Pianos in D. Performers include: Thomas Beecham, The Lener Quartet and Josef and Rosina Lhevinne.
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Rhapsody In Blue
A special, short podcast featuring a 1945 recording of Rhapsody in Blue in its rarely-heard choral version. The recording is conducted by Paul Whiteman features has Earl Wild on piano.
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Blue Music
Songs with blue in the title, including Blue Moon, Little Girl Blue, Blue Yodel #3, Blue Tango and Once In a Blue Moon. Performers include: Margaret Whiting, Bing Crosby, Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
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National Recording Registry Part 2
More highlights from the National Recording Registry, including: Black Bottom Stomp, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon, New San Antonio Rose, Perpetual Motion and Sweet Lorraine. Performers include: Marian Anderson, Jelly Roll Morton, Bob Wills, Zora Neale Hurston, Nat M. wills and Duke Ellington.
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Centennials 2011
Celebrating the 100th birthdays of: Roy Eldridge, Robert Johnson, Mahalia Jackson, Stan Kenton, Maxine Sullivan, Spike Jones, Roy Rogers and others. Songs include: Muskrat Ramble, Loch Lomond, Tangerine, Laura and Amazing Grace.
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1911
The hits from 1911, including: Alexander's Ragtime Band, Some of These Days, I Want a Girl, Let Me Call You Sweetheart and Romin In the Glomin. Performers include: Harry Lauder, Billy Murray, Sophie Tucker and the Sousa Band.
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Leftovers #10
Records left off of previous podcasts. Songs include: Lazy River, On Revival Day, Pound Your Table Polka and Religion is a Fortune. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Bessie Smith, Mary Martin, Henry Thomas, Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald.
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Miscellaneous Million Sellers
Million-selling records from the first half of the 20th Century. Records include: It's Magic, Don't Fence Me In, American Patrol, Cohen on the Telephone, The Blue Danube and Humpty Dumpty Heart. Artists include: Enrico Caruso, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Leopold Stokowski, Ernest Stoneman and Cab Calloway.
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Beethoven's Birthday 2010
Celebrating the 240th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Works include: the finale of the Symphony #8, the slow movement of the Piano Sonata #8 and the final movement of the String Quartet # 12. Performers include: Felix Weingartner, Arthur Rubinstein and the Busch String Quartet.
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National Recording Registry 1
Highlights from the National Recording Registry. Records include: West End Blues, T For Texas, The Poem of Fire and the Stars and Stripes Forever. Performers include: Bessie Smith, Jimmie rogers, Leopold Stokowski, Benny Goodman and Thomas Edison.
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Kissing Music
Songs include: I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?, Knock Me a Kiss, Kissing is a Crime and Kiss Me With Your Eyes. Performers include: Frankie Laine, Billie Holliday, Whispering Jack Smith, Fats Waller and the Carter Family.
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Christmas on the Radio
Christmas music featured on radio programs from the 1940s and 1950s. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Spike Jones, The NBC Symphony and Gene Autry. Songs include: Jingle Bells, Here Comes Santa Claus,Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Sleighride.
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1930
Music from the first full year of the Great Depression. Songs include: Embraceable You, Mood Indigo, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Blude Yodel #9 and My Love parade. Performers include: Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, the Phildelphia Orchestra, Jimmie Rodgers and Red Nichols.
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Singing Actors Acting Singers
Performers include: Bob Hope, Mae West, Eddie Anderson, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Ken Curtis and Rudolph Valentino. Songs include: Breathless, Falling in Love Again, The Lady's in Love With You, Sweeping the Clouds Away and I Like a Guy What Takes His Time.
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A.P. Carter
A special podcast marking the 50th anniversary of the death of A.P. Carter, the founder and leader of the Carter Family. Songs include: Wildwood Flower, Lonsome Valley, Worried Man Blues and Heaven's Radio.
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Command Performance
Highlights from the Command Performance radio show of the 1940s. Performers include: Bob Hope, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Count Basie, Bing Crosby,James Cagney and Frank Sinatra. Songs include: Embraceable You, I'll Be Back, Just One of Those Things and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.
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Witches' Sabbath
A special, short podcast featuring the Witches' Sabbath movement from the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz played by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Arthur Rodinsky.
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Halloween 2010
Songs include: Haunted Heart, Mr. Ghost Goes to Town, Haunted By the Blues and My Old Flame. Also, the host reads Eldorado by Edgar Allen Poe. Performers include: Maxine Sullivan, Jo Stafford, Spike Jones, Vaughn Monroe and Victoria Spivey.
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Million Selling Records 1948-1949
Million-sellers from the last two years of the 1940s, including: With My Eyes Wide Open, Nature Boy, Buttons and Bows, Mule Train and Whispering Hope. Performers include: Fats Domino, Diana Shore, Frankie Laine, Patty Page and Nat King Cole.
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Million Selling Records 1946-1947
Songs include: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, Here Comes Santa Claus, The Anniversary Song, Confess and Move On Up a Little Higher. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Mahalia Jackson, Doris Day, Gene Autry and Spike Jones.
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Hour Music
Songs with hour in the title, including: If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight, Now is the Hour, One Hour and Every minute of Every Hour. Performers include: Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Joe Sullivan and Spike Jones.
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Male Radio Singers
Performances by male singers from radio broadcasts of the 1930s and 40s. Singers include: Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Gene Autry and Frank Sinatra. Songs include: You'll Never Walk Alone, I Wish I Were Single Again, Slow Boat to China and Paper Moon.
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Polkas of the 1940s
Artists include: The Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller, Spade Cooley, Frankie Yankovich, Martha Tilton and Will Glahe. Polkas include: Pennsylvania Polka, The Four Fiddle Polka, Texas Polka, Page Boy and The Beer Barrel Polka.
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New Jersey
Musicians from the Garden State, including: Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie, James P. Johnson and Carl Kress. Songs include: All or Nothing At All, Heat Wave, September Song and Jive at Five.
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Classical V-Discs
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.
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Radio Comedy
Highlights form radio comedies of the 1940s. Performers include: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Fanny Brice, Minnie Pearl, Groucho Marx, Jimmie Durante and Eddie Anderson.
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Texas Blues
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.
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Andy Razaf
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.
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Hair Songs
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.
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"Girl" Singers
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.
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Break Up Songs
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.
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Pennsylvania
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.
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More Summer Love Songs
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.
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V-disc Rarities
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, TheDeep River Boys, Susan Reed, Vincente Gomez and the Army Air Force Band.
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WPA Federal Music Project
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.
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North Carolina
Musicians from the tar heel state. Performers include: Charlie Poole, Kathryn Grayson, Earl Scruggs, KayKyser, Blind Boy Fuller & Lena Wilson. Songs include: On a Slow Boat to China, FoggyMountain Breakdown, Time After Time, Goodbye Sweet Liza Jane, In Walked Bud & On the Sentimatal Side.
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Leftovers #9
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.
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Cat Songs
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.
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Big Band Remotes
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.
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Jack Yellen
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.
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Letter Songs
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.
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Country Music On the Radio
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.
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River Songs
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.
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Kentucky
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
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Postwar V-Discs
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.
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New Orleans
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.
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Beverly Kenney
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.
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Big Band Small Groups
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.
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Sacred Harp & Sanctified Singing
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.
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200th Episode
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.
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Vocal Groups 1910-1945
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.
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St. Patrick's Day 2010
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.
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Million-selling Records World War 2 Part 2
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.
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Chopin Bicentennial
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.
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Million Sellers of World War 2 Part 1
Million-selling records from the World War 2 era. Songs include: Pistol Packin Mama, Paper Doll, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition and Cow Cow Boogie. Performers include: Glen Miller, Bing Crosby, The Mills Brothers, Ella Mae Morse and Spike Jones.
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Jug Bands 1920s & 1930s
Musicians include: The Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Ma Rainey, Tampa Red and Jimmie Rodgers. Songs Include: Bring It With You When You Come, Memphis Yo Yo Blues, Hear Me Talking To Ya and Sho Is Hot.
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Hollywood Musicals 1930s
Songs from the golden age of Hollywood musicals. Perormers include: Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple and Bob Hope. Song include: On the Good Ship Lollypop, Pick Yourself Up, Pennies From Heaven and Somewhere Over the Rainbow
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Valentine's Day 2010
Love songs from the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Songs include: I'm In the Mood for Love, Till Then, Side By Side and I Wanna Be Loved By You. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Helen Kane, Gene Autry, The Mills Brothers, Frances Langford and Bing Crosby.
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Jubilee Highlights
Excerpts from Jubilee, a little-known radio programs produced by Armed Forces Radio during the World War II era and aimed at African-American servicemen. Performers include: Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Ethyl Waters, Louis Jordan and the Inernational Sweethearts of Rhythm. Songs include: Dizzy Atmosphere. Tea For Two, Mad About the Boy and Lady Be Good.
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Happy Birtday Mozart
A special, short podcast honoring Mozart on his 254th birthday. Music includes Der Vogelfnger bin ich ja from the Magic Flute and the first movement of the Piano Sonata 11 in A, K. 331. Performers include Gerhard Husch, Sir Thomas Beecham and Edwin Fischer.
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V-Discs Part 2
Special records made for the military during World War II. Songs include: Anchors Away, Let's Fall In Love, Who's On First, Blues In Berlin, When I Love and Circus Polka. Performers include: Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, The Cactus Cowboys, Igor Stravinsky, Carmen Miranda and Josh White.
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Centenials 2010
Musicians born 100 years ago this year, including: Django Reinhardt, Artie Shaw, Kitty Carlisle , Samuel Barber, Howlin Wolf and Eddie Duchin. Music includes: Shiek of Araby, Adagio for Strings, Of Thee I Sing and Frenesi.
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Rainbows
Songs include: There's a Rainbow Round My Shoulder, Look to the Rainbow, Rainbow Rhapsody and God Gave Noah the Rainbow sign. Performers include: Ella Logan, Al Jolson, Glenn Miller, Lee Morse, Woody Herman and the Carter Family.
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1910
The hits from a century ago. Songs include: By the Light of the Silvery Moon, We parted on the Shore, I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now and Silver Bell. Performers include: Billy Murray, Ada Jones, The Peerless Quartet, Nora Bayes and the Harry Lauder.
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Leftovers #8
Records left off of previous podcasts. Songs include: Sabre Dance, Nightmare, Come Rain Or Come Shine and Blue Shadows On the Trail. Performers include: Artie Shaw, Margaret Whiting, the Andrews Sisters, and Frank Sinatra.
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V-Discs Part 1
Special records made for the military during the World War II era. Songs include: Pistol Packin Mama, Song of India, Baby Won't You Please Come Home and You Tell Your Dream. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Louis Armstrong, The Mills Brothers, The Andrews Sisters and Ezio Pinza.
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Beethoven's Birthday 2009
A special, short podcast celebrating the 239th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. The show includes Artur Schnabel performing the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata and Willem Mengelberg conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the second movement of the Symphony# 7.
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Christmas 2009
The annual Christmas show. Songs include: Oh Come All Ye Faithful, Winter Wonderland, The Nutcracker, Jingle Bells and Silent Night. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Les Paul, Eddie Duchin, Guy Lombardo and The Phildelphia Orchestra.
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Johnny Mercer Part 2
More songs from lyricist, Johnny Mercer. Songs include: Blues in the Night, Tangerine, Laura, Autumn Leaves and Dream. Performers include; Vaughn Monroe, Dinah Shore, The Pied Pipers and Frank Sinatra.
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Johnny Mercer Part 1
Celebrating the 100th birthday of songwriter, Johnny Mercer. Songs include: Lazy Bones, Too Marvelous For Words, I Thought About You and Day In Day Out. Performers include: The Mills Brothers, Mildred Bailey, Louis Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey.
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Gospel
Songs include: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, On the Battlefield, God's Got a Crown and God Shall Wipe All Tears Away. Performers include: The Fisk Jubilee Quartet, The Rev. J.M. Gates, The Rev. Gary Davis, Arizonia Dranes and Mahalia Jackson.
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Million Selling Records 1938-9
Million selling records from the late 1930s. Songs include: Little Brown Jug, Lili Marlene, Body and Soul, Three Little Fishes and Moonlight Serenade. Performers include: Kay Kayser. Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, the Phildelphia Orchestra and Artie Shaw. Source for this weeks show: Million Selling Recods, An Illustrated directory by Joseph Murrells.
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Million Selling Records 1930s Part 1
Songs include: Heartaches, I Want To Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart, Tiger Rag, The Beer Barrel Polka and Jalousie. Artists include: The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Patsy Montana, The Boston Pops Orchestra, Ted Weems and The Mills Brothers.
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