Music From 100 Years Ago

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The Big Apple Part 3 Oct 05, 2015

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Songs of New York, including: Night Game in Brooklyn, Lullaby of Broadway, Fifth Avenue, The Man From Harlem, New York City Blues and Slumming On Park Avenue.

Performers include: The Swift Jewel Cowboys, Alice Faye, Tony Pastor, Glenn Miller, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday.

Songs of the South Sep 28, 2015

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Songs include: My Window Faces the South, Swanee, Mint Julep, Down South Camp Meeting, Alabama Jubilee and Georgia On My Mind.

Performers include: Phil Harris, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Mildred Bailey, Glenn Miller, Bill Monroe, Al Jolson and Jelly Roll Morton.

Haydn Sep 21, 2015

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Highlights from the music of Austrian composer, Franz Joseph Haydn. Works include movements from the Surprise Smphony, the String Quartet #50, the Hen Symphony, the Piano Sonata #62 and the Oxford Symphony.

Performers include: Vladimir Horowitz, George Szell, the Pro Arte Quartet, Wilhelm Furtwangler and John Barbiroli.

Cylinder Recordings Sep 14, 2015

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Records made on cylinders from 1902 to 1919, including: The Thunderer, In the Garden, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, Shine On Harvest Moon, The Carmen March and The Stars and Stripes Forever.

Performers include: The Sousa Band, Ada Jones, Billy Murray, The Apollo Quartet of Boston, The Edison Symphony Orchestra and Victor Herbert.

Leftovers #19 Sep 07, 2015

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Songs include: Stardust, Hebbie Jeebies, Born to Swing, The Yam, A Sailboat In the Moonlight and Songs of Native Birds.

Performers include: James Reese Europe, The Boswell Sisters, David Rose, Charles Kellogg, Billie Holiday, Earl Hines, Geroge Van Eps and the Mills Brothers.

Murder Ballads Aug 30, 2015

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Songs include: Frankie and Johnny, Down on the Banks of the Ohio, White House Blues, Louis Collins, Pretty Polly, Tom Dooley and Stack O Lee Blues.

Performers include: Jimmie Rodgers, The Coon Creek Girls, Mississippi John Hurt, Charlie Poole, Woody Guthrie, Grayson & Whitter and Leadbelly.

Potato Songs Jul 20, 2015

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Records featuring the potato & the sweet potato. Songs include: Potato Head Blues, Solid Potato Salad, The Yam, Sweet Potato Piper, All That Meat and No Potatoes, Sweet Potato Swing & Hot Potato.

Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Ella Mae Morse, Glenn Miller, The Foursome, Johnny Dodds and Thomas "Fats" Waller.

1937 Part 2 Jul 13, 2015

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Songs include: I Can't Get Started, Bei Mir Bist du Shoen, Nobodys Darlin But Mine, Why Was I Born, The Dipsy Doodle, The Merry Go Round Broke Down and Dinner Music For a Pack of Hungry Cannibals.

Performers include: Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Davis, Billie Holiday, Raymond Scott, The Andrews Sisters, The Boston Pops Orchestra and Sonny Boy Williamson I.

Independence Day 2015 Jul 04, 2015

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Songs include: God Bless America, The Stars and Stripes Forever, Belle, Belle, My Liberty Belle, Victory Stride, America and Song of Freedom.

Performers include: Sousa's Band, The Goldman Band, Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller, Guy Mitchell and Bob Crosby.

1937 Part One Jun 29, 2015

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Part one of a series on great records recorded in 1937. Records include: One O'Clock Jump, Sing,Sing,Sing, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off, Hellhound On My Trail, Loch Lomand, In The Shade of The Old Apple Tree & Mozart's 40th Symphony.

Performers include: Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Maxine Sullivan, the Mills Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Robert Johnson, Thomas "Fats" Waller and Arturo Toscanini.

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