Music From 100 Years Ago

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**Music From 100 Years Ago**

Recordings from the early 20th Century with comments.

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Kissing Music Dec 04, 2010

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Songs include: I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?, Knock Me a Kiss, Kissing is a Crime and Kiss Me With Your Eyes.

Performers include: Frankie Laine, Billie Holliday, Whispering Jack Smith, Fats Waller and the Carter Family.

Christmas on the Radio Nov 28, 2010

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Christmas music featured on radio programs from the 1940s and 1950s. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Spike Jones, The NBC Symphony and Gene Autry.

Songs include: Jingle Bells, Here Comes Santa Claus,Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Sleighride.

1930 Nov 20, 2010

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Music from the first full year of the Great Depression. Songs include: Embraceable You, Mood Indigo, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Blude Yodel #9 and My Love parade.

Performers include: Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, the Phildelphia Orchestra, Jimmie Rodgers and Red Nichols.

Singing Actors Acting Singers Nov 14, 2010

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Performers include: Bob Hope, Mae West, Eddie Anderson, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Ken Curtis and Rudolph Valentino.

Songs include: Breathless, Falling in Love Again, The Lady's in Love With You, Sweeping the Clouds Away and I Like a Guy What Takes His Time.

A.P. Carter Nov 07, 2010

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A special podcast marking the 50th anniversary of the death of A.P. Carter, the founder and leader of the Carter Family. Songs include: Wildwood Flower, Lonsome Valley, Worried Man Blues and Heaven's Radio.

Command Performance Nov 06, 2010

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Highlights from the Command Performance radio show of the 1940s. Performers include: Bob Hope, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Count Basie, Bing Crosby,James Cagney and Frank Sinatra.

Songs include: Embraceable You, I'll Be Back, Just One of Those Things and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.

Witches' Sabbath Oct 31, 2010

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A special, short podcast featuring the Witches' Sabbath movement from the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz played by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Arthur Rodinsky.

Halloween 2010 Oct 30, 2010

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Songs include: Haunted Heart, Mr. Ghost Goes to Town, Haunted By the Blues and My Old Flame. Also, the host reads Eldorado by Edgar Allen Poe.

Performers include: Maxine Sullivan, Jo Stafford, Spike Jones, Vaughn Monroe and Victoria Spivey.

Million Selling Records 1948-1949 Oct 23, 2010

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Million-sellers from the last two years of the 1940s, including: With My Eyes Wide Open, Nature Boy, Buttons and Bows, Mule Train and Whispering Hope.

Performers include: Fats Domino, Diana Shore, Frankie Laine, Patty Page and Nat King Cole.

Million Selling Records 1946-1947 Oct 16, 2010

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Songs include: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, Here Comes Santa Claus, The Anniversary Song, Confess and Move On Up a Little Higher.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Mahalia Jackson, Doris Day, Gene Autry and Spike Jones.

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