Music From 100 Years Ago

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**Music From 100 Years Ago**

Recordings from the early 20th Century with comments.

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600th Show Jun 10, 2018

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To mark the 600th show, highlights from the last 12 years of podcasts. Thanks for all the support over the years.

Hitler Songs Jun 01, 2018

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Songs include: Der Fuhrer's Face, Stalin Wasn't Stalin, Hitler Lives, Berlin Or Bust, Mr. Hitler, Hot Time In the Town of Berlin, Hitler and Hell and Hitler Blues.

Performers include: Spike Jones, Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, Rev. J.M. Gates, Rosalie Allen, Bing Crosby, Leadbelly and the Florida Kid.

Country Music 1950 May 27, 2018

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Country Hits from the beginning of the Nashville Era.

Songs include: I'm Movin On, I Love You Because, Ain't Nobody's Business, You Don't Have To Be a Baby To Cry, Take Me In Your Arms, Long Gone Lonesome Blues and If You've Got the Money.

Performers include: Hank Snow, Kay Starr, Lefty Frizzell, Gene Autry, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb and Red Foley.

Memories May 19, 2018

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Songs with memory in the title. Songs include: Thanks For the Memory, Memories of You, I can't Put My Arms Around a Memory, You're My Favorite Memory and Blue Memories.

Artists include: Louis Armstrong, Kate Smith, Bob Hope, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Billy Ecksteine Woody Herman, Andy Iona and Sarah Vaughan.

Orchestral Tanscriptions May 06, 2018

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Orchestra versions of famous keyboard works. Music includes: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d Minor, Chopin's Funeral March, Brahms' Hungarian Dance #5 and Beethoven's Piano Sonata #29.

Performers include: Harry Horlick, Leopold Stokowski, Felix Weingartner & Artur Rodzinski.

Obituaries 1969 Apr 29, 2018

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A tribute to musicians who died in 1969, including: Judy Garland, Pee Wee Russel. Skip James, Ella Logan, Wilhelm Backhaus, Wynonie Harris, Spade Cooley and Coleman Hawkins.

Music includes: The Trolley Song, Chopin's Etude #3 Op 10, Body and Soul, Devil Got My Woman, Somebody Changed the Lock On My Door, Detour and Come to the Fair.

Bounce Apr 23, 2018

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Songs include: Bounce the Ball, Bouncing With Bud, Jersey Bounce, Salt Lake City Bounce, Battery Bounce & Billie's Bounce.

Musicians include: Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Bud Powell, Anita O'Day, Errol Gardner, Art Tatum and Lionel Hampton.

Guitar Music 1940s Apr 15, 2018

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Guitarists include: Charlie Christian, T-Bone Walker, Billy Bauer, Leadbelly, Django Reinhardt, Tony Motola, Les Paul, Oscar Moore and Joaquin Murphey.

Song include: Solo Flight, Call It Stormy Monday, Supersonic, Lover, House of the Rising Sun and To Wild Rose.

Window Music Apr 09, 2018

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Songs include: Bluebird On Your Windowsill, Stars Are the Windows of Heaven, My Window Faces the South, Out the Window, The Sun Is At My Window and Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down.

Performers include: Bessie Smith, the Andrews Sisters, Leo Reisman, Count Basie, Doris Day, Billy Eckstine and Thomas "Fats" Waller.

National Recording Registry #10 Apr 01, 2018

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More highlights from the National Recording Registry. Records by: Merle Travis, Clara Ward, Benny Goodman, The Mississippi Sheiks, Will Rogers, Victor Herbert, The Ink Spots and the ivory-billed woodpecker.

Records include: How I Got Over, Sitting On Top of the World, The Man I Love, If I Didn't Care, Luck Be A Lady, the Moonlight Sonata, Sixteen Tons and The Dream Medley.

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