Music From 100 Years Ago

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Lorenz Hart Part 3 Jul 10, 2016

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Songs from the final years of the Rodgers and Hart partnership. Songs include: It Never Entered My Mind, Have You Met Miss Jones, Bewitched, Spring Is Here, I Didn't know What Time It Was, Wait Till You See Her, This Can't Be Love and I Could Write a Book.

Artists include: Shirley Ross, Leo Reisman, Ella Fitzgerald, Helen Forest, Maxine Sullivan, Blossom Dearie and Margaret Whiting.

Independence Day 2016 Jul 02, 2016

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Music for July 4th and a tribute to composer, Harl McDonald. Music includes: The Stars and Stripes Forever, Strike Up the Band, The Maple Leaf Rag, The Washington Post March, and When the Saints Go Marching In.

Artists include: Louis Armstrong, Frankie Lane, Edwin Franco Goldman, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The New Orleans Feetwarmers and Red Nichols.

Bears Oh My Jun 26, 2016

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Songs about bears, including: The Teddy Bear's Picnic, Jack the Bear, The Preacher and the Bear, Bear Creek Blues and Teddy Bear Blues.

Performers include: Phil Harris, Duke Ellington, the Carter Family, Henry Hall, Erskine Hawkins, Meade Lux Lewis and the Hillbilly Boys.

Jazz Trumpeters 1940s Jun 18, 2016

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Performers include: Ray Nance, Cootie Williams, Harry James, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis.

Music includes: St Louis Blues, Salt Peanuts, Venus de Milo, Night in Tunisia, Trumpet Rhapsody and Ice Freezes Red.

Leftovers #21 Jun 12, 2016

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Records left off of previous shows. Music includes: Walking In My Sleep, Dos Arbolitos, Rainy Day Blues, Mahler's 9th Symphony, How High the Moon?, I Love a Piano and a tribute to Moondog on his 100th birthday.

Performers include: Roy Acuff, Bruno Walter, The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, Art Tatum, Big Joe Turner and Moondog.

Lorenz Hart Part 2 Jun 06, 2016

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Rodgers and Hart songs from the years 1930- 1937. Songs include: There's a Small Hotel, My Romance, My Funny Valentine, Mimi, Spring Is Here, I've Got Five Dollars and The Lady is a Tramp.

Performers include: Ruth Etting, Hal Kemp, Sarah Vaughan, Buddy Clark, Janette McDonald and Ben Selvin.

Lorenz 'Hart Part One May 29, 2016

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Part one of a series featuring the music of Broadway lyricist, Lorenz hart. This week. we look at Rodgers & Hart musicals from the 1920s.

Songs include; Manhattan, With a Song In My Heart, Thou Swell. You Took Advantage of Me, A Ship Without a Sail, The Blue Room and My Heart Stood Still.

Performers include: Lee Wiley, Doris Day, Ben Selvin, Frank Black, Buddy Rodgers and Leslie Hutchinson.

Rain May 23, 2016

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Songs include: Into Each Life, Some Rain Must Fall, Come Rain or Come Shine, Ridin' Around In the Rain, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, Raindrop Prelude, Rainy Weather Blues and September In the Rain.

Performers include: Thomas "Fats" Waller, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Charles Harrison, The Ink Spots, Bing Crosby, George Shearing and Sarah Vaughan.

500th Show May 15, 2016

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Our 500th episode! In celebration, here's highlights from some of the most downloaded shows of the past 10 years, including: sacred harp singing, Dixieland revival. guitar and harmonica music, a Halloween song, western swing and polka music.

Trees Apr 28, 2016

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Songs celebrating trees. Songs include: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, The Magic Tree, Autumn Leaves, The Green Grass Grows All Around, In The Shade of the Old Apple Tree , Willow Weep For Me and Way Over By the Cherry Tree.

Performers include: the Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Stan Getz, Margaret Whiting, Louis Jordan, Glenn Miller and Johnny Moore's Three Blazes.

Also, the host reads, Trees, by Joyce Kilmer.

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