Music From 100 Years Ago

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Halloween 2011 Oct 23, 2011

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Songs include; Ghost Walkin Blues, Haunted Heart, Riders In the Sky, Funeral March of a Marionette and Satan Takes a Holiday.

Performers include: Burl Ives, Billie Holiday, Perry Como, Tommy Dorsey, The Casa Loma Orchestra and The Royal Albert Hall Orchestra.

Liszt Bicentenial Oct 15, 2011

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Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Franz Liszt. Works include: Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Liebestraum #3, Totentanze and the Piano Concerto #1. Performers include: Eileen Joyce, Artur Rubenstein, Louis Ketner, Jesus Sanroma and Eugene Ormandy.

Ships and Boats Oct 12, 2011

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Songs include: A Sailboat in the Moonlight, Ferryboat Sernade, Gospel Ship, Someone's rockin My dreamboat and I'll Sail My Ship Alone.

Performers include: Billie Holiday, Andrews Sisters, Carter Family, Ink Spots, Moon Mullican and Louis Armstrong.

1945 Part 2 Oct 02, 2011

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More music from the final year of World War II. Songs include: It's Been So Long Darlin, Angilena, The Syncopated Clock, The New Spanish Two-Step, Brahms Symphony #1, I Wish and Till the End of Time.

Performers include: Perry Como, Bob Wills, Judy Garland . Leopold Stokowski, Charlie Parker and Ernest Tubb.

Bill Monroe Centennial Sep 24, 2011

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Monroe, The Father of Bluegrass. Songs include: Blue Moon of Kentucky, Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms, Criple Creek, Foggy Monutian Breakdown and Footprints In The Snow. Performers include: Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, the Monroe Brothers, The Skillet Lickers, The Stanley Brothers and Flatt and Scruggs.

Cool Music Sep 18, 2011

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Music about being cool. Songs include: Cold Cold Heart, Be Cool Fool, Out In the Cold Again, In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening and Baby, It's Cold Outside. Performers include: Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Williams, Kokomo Arnold, Jo Stafford and Jimmie Dickens.

Whisper Sep 10, 2011

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Hush! Songs about whispering. Songs include: Whispering, Whispering Hope, Whisper in the Night and Moonlight Whispers. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Connee Boswell, The Ink Spots, Tex Beneke , Valaida Snow & Jo Stafford.

Classical Music month 2011 Sep 03, 2011

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Celebrating Classical Music Month with historical recordings from the 1930s & 1940s, including: Albinez: Spanish Seranade, Bach: Little Fugue in g minor, Grofe: On the Trail & Shostakovich: Symphony #6. Performers include; Ricardo Vines, Arturo Toscanini, Abert Schweitzer & Paul Whiteman.

Forgotten Blues Singers Aug 27, 2011

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Lesser-known blues singers from the 1920s and 1930s. Performers include: Josie Miles, Mary Johnson, Kathrine Henderson, Hattie McDaniel, Maggie Jones, Chippie Hill and Edith Wilson.

Songs inclue: West End Blues, Death Letter Blues, Boxcar Blues, I Thought I'd Do It & Home Town Blues.

1945 part One Aug 20, 2011

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The first in a series dedicated to the music of 1945; the last year of World War II, Songs include: It Might As Well Be Spring, Lover Man, Ebony Concerto, Laura and Cocktails For Two.

Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Erskine Caldwell, Billie Holiday, Spike Jones and Igor Stravinsky.

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