Music From 100 Years Ago

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Smile Jan 29, 2017

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Songs include: When You're Smiling, I'll Never Smile Again, If You Can't Smile and Say Yes, Smile Up At the Sun and Smile.

Performers include: Nat King Cole, Ted Lewis, Louis Armstrong, Sunny Gale, Shirley Temple, The Three Peppers and Thomas "Fats" Waller.

Mozart's Birthday 2017 Jan 27, 2017

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To celebrate Mozart's 261st birthday, a 1934 recording of his Symphony #39 K. 543 by the BBC Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter.

Centennials 2017 Part Two Jan 22, 2017

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More musicians born in 1917, one hundred years ago this year.

Musicians include: Dean Martin, Jo Stafford, Dennis Day, Lena Horne, Buddy Rich, Danielle Darrieux and Vera Lynn.

Songs include: Goodnight Irene, Route 66, I Will Always Love You, Confessin the Blues, A Nightingale Sang in Barkley Square and Day by Day.

Centennials 2017 Part One Jan 16, 2017

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A tribute to musicians born in 1917, including Ella Fitzgerald, Desi Arnaz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bea Wain Tex Williams, Dinu Lipatti, Helen Forrest and Thelonious Monk.

Music includes: My Reverie, Skylark, How High the Moon?, Babalu, In Walked Bud, A Night In Tunisia and Chopin's Waltz #14.

1917 Jan 09, 2017

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Hit songs from 1917, including: Livery Stable Blues, Oh Johnny Oh, Till the Clouds Roll By, Poor Butterfly, Over There and No Place Like Home.

Performers include: the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Bert Williams, Nora Bayes, Irving Kaufman, W.C. Handy and the American Quartet.

Leftovers #22 Dec 31, 2016

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Records left off earlier podcasts, and a tribute to musicians who passed away in 2016 . Songs include: Red Sails In the Sunset, Dizzy Fingers, Pig Foot Pete, Steel Guitar Blues, Caprice #24, Drummin' Man and Stomping At the Savoy.

Performers include: Ella Mae Morse, Roy Acuff, Zez Confrey, Monette More, George Shearing and Glenn Miller.

Rainbow Colors Dec 25, 2016

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Songs include: The Lady in Red, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Orange Colored Sky, Green Eyes, Blue Orchids and Violets For Your Furs.

Performers include: Frank Sinatra, The Andrews Sisters, Louis Prima, Nat King Cole and Helen Forrest.

Beethoven's Birthday 2016 Dec 18, 2016

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Music for Beethoven's 246th birthday, including: Symphony #5, Cello Sonata #1 and Piano Sonata 24.

Performers include: Wilhelm Furtwangler, Walter Gieseking and Pablo Casals.

Unusual Christmas Dec 11, 2016

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The annual Christmas show features some unusual songs and performers this year. Songs include: Boogie Woogie Christmas, My Christmas Song For You, The Night Before Christmas, Winter Wonderland, All I Want For Christmas Is my Two Front Teeth and Caroling Caroling.

Performers include: Mabel Scott, the Andrews Sisters, Homer & Jethro, Tommy Dorsey, Basil Rathbone and Nat King Cole.

Shoe Songs Dec 04, 2016

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Songs about shoes, including: Shoe Shine Shuffle, Vagabond Shoes, Got a Pebble In My Shoe, Take Your Shoes Off and One, Two, button Your Shoes.

Artists include: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Vic Damone, Nat King Cole, Hot Lips Page, Louis Prima and Pat Flowers.

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