Music From 100 Years Ago

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Black Women In Jazz Month Mar 25, 2018

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Celebrating Black Women In Jazz Month with: Mary Lou Williams, Lovie Austin, Lil Hardin Armstrong, The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Blanche Calloway, Billie Holiday, Hazel Scott, Terry Pollard & Valaida Snow.

Songs include: I Wish That I Were Twins, Seven Come Eleven, Heebie Jebbies, Doing the Suzie Q, Capricorn, Embraceable You, My Last Dollar and Tuxedo Junction.

St Patrick's Day 2018 Mar 17, 2018

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Irish music for St. Patrick's Day. Musicians include: Michael Coleman, John McCormack, Bing Crosby, Paddy Kiloran, The Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Morton Downey and James Melton.

Songs include: I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen, O'Dowd's Favorite, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Galway Bay and The Girls of Bainbridge.

12th Anniversary Show Mar 11, 2018

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To mark 12 years of the podcast, your host plays some of his favorite records. Music includes: My Blue Heaven, Dr. Jazz, I Cover the Waterfront, I'm Praying Humble, How High the Moon, Bach's B Minor Prelude, All of Me and Tis' Autumn.

Artists include: Frank Sinatra, The Bob Crosby Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Edwin Fischer, Jelly Roll Morton, Nat King Cole, Art Tatum, Artie Shaw and Thelonious Monk.

Vivaldi Birthday Mar 06, 2018

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A special.short podcast marking the 340th birthday of composer, Antonio Vivaldi. Includes a 1949 recording of the Oboe Concerto in D Minor Opus 8 Number 9 by Leon Goossens.

Jazz Classics 1936-1940: Part One Mar 04, 2018

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Iconic jazz records from the late in30s. Songs include: Begin the Beguine, Strange Fruit, Avalon, One O'Clock Jump. Yancey Stomp. Sing Sing Sing and Big Noise From Winnetka.

Performers include: Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Yancey, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald.

African-American Song Writers Feb 19, 2018

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Classic songs by Andy Razaf, James P. Johnson, Duke Ellington, Tony Jackson, Eubie Blake, W.C. Handy and Billy Strayhorn.

Songs include: Memories of You, Memphis Blues, Pretty Baby, In My Solitude, Black and Blue and Lush Life.

Performers include: Ethyl Waters, Nat King Cole, Billy Murray, Etta Jones, Billie Holiday and Kathrine Handy.

Valentines Day 2018 Feb 10, 2018

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Songs include: Button Up Your Overcoat, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, AS Long As I Live, I'm In the Mood For Love, All My Love and You Can't Lose a Broken Heart.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Helen Kane, Vaughn Monroe, Stella Brooks, Billy Ecksteine, Frank Sinatra, Patty Page. Nat King Cole and Anita O'Day.

Broadway 1937 Feb 04, 2018

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Selections from Babes In Arms, Between the Devil, Pins and Needles, The Cradle Will Rock and I'd Rather Be Right.

Performers include: Lena Horne, Mildred Bailey, Sophie Tucker, Vincent Lopez, Millie Weitz & Leo Reisman.

Cowboy Songs Jan 28, 2018

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Songs include: I Want To Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart, Cowboy Swing, The Barstool Cowboy, The Cowboy From Brooklyn, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, The Dying Cowboy's Lament and The Cowboy Serenade.

Performers include: Patsy Montana, Glenn Miller, Hank Penny, The Girls of the Golden West, Jimmy Dorsey and The Calgary Kid.

Centennials 2018 Jan 21, 2018

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A tribute to musicians born in 1918, including: Elmore James, Patty Andrews, Dick Haymes, Leonard Bernstein, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Eugene List, Jimmy Rowles, Eddy Arnold and Joe Williams.

Songs include: A Bouquet of Roses, Rum and Coca Cola, Laura, Christopher Street, Detour Ahead, Topsy and Old Man, You've Been Away Too Long.

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