Music From 100 Years Ago

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6th Anniversary Show Mar 11, 2012

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Highlights from 6 years of Music From 100 Years Ago. Performers include: Doris Day, Meade Lux Lewis, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Eugene Ormandy.

Monday Music Mar 03, 2012

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Songs about Monday, including: A Monday Date, Every Day Is Monday, Blue Monday Blues, Monday Again and Sunday, Monday and Always.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Jeanne Taylor, Albert Ammons, Frankie Laine and Count Basie.

Early Country Fiddlers Feb 26, 2012

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Country fiddlers from the 1920s and 1930s, including Eck Robertson, John Carson, G.B. Grayson, Alfred Reed and Bob Wills. Songs include: Goin Down This Road Feeling Bad, Tom Dooley, Old Joe Clark, Maiden's Prayer and Pass Around the Bottle.

The First V-Discs Feb 18, 2012

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Highlights from the first eight V-Discs, from October 1943. Songs include: Blue Skies. Sing Sing Sing. Home On the Range, Che Li and Okalahoma. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Diana Shore, the Fort Slocum Band and Vaughn Monroe.

Blind Blues Musicians Feb 04, 2012

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Blind blues singers of the 1920s and 1030s, including: Lemon Jefferson, Willie McTell, Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Blind Willie Johnson, Teddy Darb and Blind Boy Fuller.

Songs include: Log Cabin Blues, Southern Rag, Bad Luck Blues, Southern Can Is Mine and Have a Little More Faith In Jesus.

Gershwin on the Radio Jan 29, 2012

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Music of George Gershwin as perfored on radio broadcasts in the 1930s and 1940s. Music includes: Lady Be Good, I Got Rhythm Variations, Summertime, Piano Prelude #1 and They Can't take that Away From Me. Musicians include: George Gershwin, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Lewis Armstrong.

Mozart's Birthday 2012 Jan 28, 2012

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A special podcast to honor Mozart on his 256th birthday. Performers include: Thomas Beecham, The Budapest String Quartet, Wanda Landowsky and Hamilton Harty.

The Eyes Have It Jan 21, 2012

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Songs about eyes, including: I Only Have Eyes For You, Green Eyes, Them There Eyes, Angel Eyes and Dark Eyes. Performers include: Billie Holiday. Jame Froman, Herb Jeffries, Bing Crosby, Gene Austin and Helen Forest.

2012 Centennials Jan 15, 2012

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A tribute to performers born 100 years ago this year, including: Perry Como, Lightnin Hopkins, Woody Guthrie, Georg Solti, Don Byas & Marta Eggerth. Music Includes: Some Enchanted Evening, Short Haired Woman, Tis Autumn, Summertime & Brahms Violin Sonata #3.

1912 Jan 07, 2012

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Hit songs from 1912, including: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Oh You Beautiful Doll, Love Is Mine, Come Down My Evening Star and Waiting For the Robert E Lee. Performers include: Al Jolson, Lilian Russel, Fisk University Jubilee Singers, Enrico Caruso and Collins & Harlin.

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