Music From 100 Years Ago

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Moonlight Music Mar 26, 2011

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Songs include: Moonlight Seranade, Moonlight Becomes You, Moonlight Bay, A Sailboat in the Moonlight and Moonlight Mood.

Performers include: Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller, Cab Calloway, Connee Boswell and the American Quartet.

Death Blues Mar 18, 2011

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Blues singers opine on the Grim Reaper. Songs include: See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, Lonesome Graveyard Blues, Jesus, Make Up My Dying Bed and Stones in My Passway.

Performers include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, Skip James, Victoria Spivey, Rev. J.M. Gates and Robert Johnson.

St. Patrick's Day 2011 Mar 13, 2011

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Irish music for Saint Patrick's Day! Performers include: Michael Coleman, Joseph Locke, Delia Murphy, Tom Enis and Joh McCormack.

Songs include: Hello Patsy Fagan, Three Lovely Lassies, I'll Walk Beside You, The Sunny Banks and I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen.

5th Anniversary Show Mar 06, 2011

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Celebrating five years of podcasting, the host plays some of his favorite recordings from the first half of the 20th Century.

Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, The Carter Family, Jo Stafford, Duke Ellington and Ignatz Friedman.

Music includes: 12 Street Rag, The Things We Did Last Summer, Night And Day and La Campanella.

Ned Washington Feb 27, 2011

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The Songs of lyricist, Ned Washington. Songs include: The High and the Mighty, When You Wish Upon a Star, The Nearness of You, Baby Mine and Rawhide.

Performers include: Frankie Lane, Frank Sinatra, Connie Boswell, Tex Ritter, Glenn Miller and The Ink Spots.

Classics Into Jazz Feb 19, 2011

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Famous classical melodies given the jazz treatment. Works include: Moonlight Sonata, Bolero, Arab Dance, Ritual Fire Dance and Two-Part Invention #12.

Musicians include: Benny Goodman, Larry Clinton, Hazel Scott, Spike Jones, Harry James and Glenn Miller.

In Memoriam George Shearing Feb 15, 2011

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A special, short podcast in memory of jazz pianist, George Shearing. Songs include: September In the Rain, I Only Have Eyes For You, Fly Me to the Moon and Lulabye of Birdland.

Valentine's 2011 Feb 13, 2011

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Love songs for Valentine's Day. Songs include: Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?, Am I Blue?, You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To and When I Grow Too Old To Dream.

Artists include: Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Dinah Shore, Nelson Eddy, Cliff Edwards, Louis Armstrong and Helen Kane.

Big Band Boogie Woogie Feb 05, 2011

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Band arrangments of boogie woogie tunes. Songs include: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, Boogie woogie Bugle Boy, Honky Tonk Train Blues and Yancy Special.

Perfromers include: The Andrews Sisters, Bob Crosby Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, Harry James, Cab Calloway and Ted Heath.

Jubilee Part 2 Jan 29, 2011

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Jubilee was a program that aired on Armed Forces Radio during the 1940s. Aimed at an African-American audience, it featured some of the most popular Jazz and R&B acts of the time. This week's show features highlights from broadcasts from 1943-1948. Performers include: Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, The Golden Gate Quartet, Ida James and Josh White.

Songs include: Knock Me a Kiss, Evil Hearted Blues, Exactly Like You and Back Bay Boogie.

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