Music From 100 Years Ago

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1940 Part 3 Dec 06, 2015

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More recordings from 1940 including: In The Mood, Playmates, Java Jive, How High the Moon, I Concentrate On You, Mozart's Symphony #38, I Ain't Got No Home and Frenesi.

Performers include: Glenn Miller, Woody Guthrie, Benny Goodman, the Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, Sir Thomas Beecham and Art Tatum.

Questions? Nov 29, 2015

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Songs with questions in the title. Songs include: Whose Honey Are You? How Deep is the Ocean? Why Was I Born? Why Don't You Do Right? Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? and Who's Sorry Now?

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Louis Jordan, Artie Shaw, Marion Harris, Billie Holiday, Ethyl Merman and Thomas "Fats" Waller.

Ted Koehler Nov 23, 2015

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The life and music of song lyricist, Ted Koehler. Songs include: Stormy Weather, Animal Crackers, I've Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, Get Happy, Love For Love and Let's Fall In Love.

Artists include: Cab Calloway, Eddie Duchin, Pearl Bailey, Ethyl Waters, Shirley Temple, Thomas "Fats" Waller and Louis Armstrong.

Songs of the Great War Part 1 Repost Nov 17, 2015

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This is a repost of a show from 2006 that was accidentally deleted from the archives.

Songs from the first two years of World War I.

Green Nov 15, 2015

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Songs include: Mountain Greenery, On Green Dolphin Street, The Green Grass Grows All Around, If The Moon Turns Green and Garbo Green.

Performers include: Thomas "Fats" Waller, Jimmy Dorsey, Roger Wolfe Khan, Louis Jordan, Fletcher Henderson and Xavier Cugat.

1940 Part Two Nov 08, 2015

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More hits form 1940. Songs include: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Flying Home, Sweet Loraine, Jailhouse Blues, Barbara Allen, Meeting In The Air and When You Wish Upon a Star.

Performers include: Lionel Hampton, Maxine Sullivan, the Chuck Wagon Gang, the Ink Spots, Guy Lombardo, Sleepy John Estes and Harry James

1940 Part One Nov 01, 2015

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Hit records from 1940, including: Summit Ridge Drive, Tuxedo Junction, Stardust, Falling In Love Again, New San Antonio Rose, I'll Get Along Somehow and A Nightingale Sang in Barkley Square.

Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Pete Johnson, Billie Holiday, Ernest Tubb, Leopold Stokowski, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller.

Feamle Band Leaders Oct 26, 2015

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Jazz bands led by women from the 1920s to the 1940s. Performers include: Lovie Austin, Ina May Hutton, Mary Lou Williams, Blanche Calloway, Valida Snow, Ivy Benson and Ana Mae Winburn.

Songs include; Tuxedo Junction, I Gotta Swing, Some of These Days, Doing the Suzie Q, Lover and Scratching the Gravel.

Halloween 2015 Oct 18, 2015

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The annual Halloween show featuring Ghost Walkin Blues, Mr. Ghost Goes to Town, Witch Doctor, The Halloween Dance, Bloody Razor Blues, Chopin's Funeral March and I'm Scared.

Performers include: Ina Rae Hutton, Sarah Vaughn, Fred Astaire, The 5 Jones Boys, Adrian Boult, Helen Gross and the American Symphony Orchestra.

Country Music Month Oct 11, 2015

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Celebrating Country Music Month with classic records from the 1920s through the 1940s. Songs include: Alabama Jubilee, I Am Thinking Tonight Of My Blue eyes, Blue Yodel #3, South of the Border, Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms, Jole Blon, Milk Cow Blues and Little Liza Jane. Performers include: Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, The Monroe Brothers, Darby and Tarlton, The Maddox Brothers and Rose, Bob Wills and Moon Mullican.

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