Music From 100 Years Ago

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Banana Music Sep 29, 2012

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Songs about America's favorite fruit, Iincluding; Yes, We Have No Bananas, Banana Oil, Banana In Your Fruit Basket and I Like Bananas. Performers include: Billy Jones, Vaughn de Leuth, Louis Prima, Bo Carter and Xavier Cugat.

Tenors 1910-1920 Sep 23, 2012

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Tenors from the second decade of the 20th Century, including: Al Jolson, Billy Murray, Enrico Caruso, Henry Burr, Bob Roberts and Will Oakland. Songs include; O Solo Mio, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, Avalon, I've got Rings on My Fingers and It's a Long Way to Tipperary.

Piano Month Sep 16, 2012

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Music for National Piano Month. Pianists include: Art Tatum, Artur Rubinstein, Moon Mullican, Pinetop Smith, Thelonius Monk, Erroll Garner, Liberace and Edwin Fischer. Works include: Jump steady Blues, Turkish Rondo, September Song, Mazurka #10, Perdidio and April in Paris.

Harry Woods Sep 08, 2012

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The life and music of songwriter, Harry M. Woods. Songs include: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover, Try a Little Tenderness, Side By Side, Just An Echo In the Valley and When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain. Performers include: Al Jolson, Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Ruth Etting, the Ames Brothers, Cliff Edwards and Billie Holiday.

Hammon Organ Sep 01, 2012

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Recordings from the 1930s and 1940s of the Hammond electric organ and novachord. Performers include: Thomas"Fats" Waller, Ethyl Smith, Milt Herth, Ken Griffin, Vera Lynn and Glenn Hardman. Songs include: Apple Blossom, We'll Meet Again, Mamacita, Tico Tico and You Can't Be True Dear.

Milky Music Aug 25, 2012

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Songs include: Malted Milk, Milkshake Stand, My Very Good Friend the Milkman, Milkcow Blues and Ole Buttermilk Sky. Performers include: Robert Johnson, Hoagy Carmichael, The King Sisters, Fats Waller, Elton Britt and Sleepy John Estes.

Gennett Jazz Aug 19, 2012

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Early jazz records from the Gennett label, including: Cakewalking Babies From Home, Riverboat Shuffle, Dippermouth Blues and Stardust. Performers include: King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Caroline Johnson, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbeck, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Jelly Roll Morton.

Debussy Sesquicentennial Aug 10, 2012

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Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of composer claude Debussy. Works include: Reverie, Clair de Lune, The Girl With the Flaxen Hair, Fetes, String Quartet and The Play of the Waves. Performers include: Alfred Cortot, Arturo Toscanini, Artur Rodzinski, The Virtuoso String Quartet, Walter Gieseking and Claude Debussy.

Jealousy Aug 04, 2012

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Songs include: Jalousie, I'll Be Around, Where Did You Sleep, All the World Will Be Jealous and All or Nuttin. Performers include: Arthur Fiedler, Cab Calloway, Henry Burr, the Andrews Sisters and Celeste Holm.

Blues Harmonica Jul 28, 2012

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Prewar blues harp greats, including: Sonny Terry, Daddy Stovepipe, Noah Taylor, Sonny Boy Williamson 1, Eddie Mapp and Jaybird Coleman. Songs include: Harmonica Blues, Dixie Flyer Blues, Boarding House Blues and Sundown Blues.

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