Music From 100 Years Ago

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Walter Donaldson Aug 10, 2008

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Music by songwriter, Walter Donaldson. Songs include: Carolina in the Morning, My Blue Heaven, Love Me or Leave Me and You're Driving Me Crazy.

Performers include: Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Josephine Baker and Nora Bayes.

1929 Part 4 Aug 01, 2008

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Songs include: Happy Days, I Faw Down, When You're Smiling, Train Whistle Blues and Sweetheart of Yesterday.

Artists include: The Casa Loma Orchestra, Bessie Smith, Jimmie Rodgers, Bennie Moten, Annette Hanshaw and Louis Armstrong.

Orchestral Music Jul 25, 2008

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Music includes: Liszt's Hungarian Rhaposdy 2, Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Smetana's Bartered Bride Overture.

Conductors include: Leopold Stokowski, Hamilton Harty and Wilhelm Furtwangler.

Money Songs Jul 19, 2008

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Songs about money, including: We're in the Money, Broke and Hungry, Don't Let Your Deal Go Down and Brother Can You Spare a Dime?

Musicians include: Ted Lewis, Bing Crosby, Blind Lemon Jeffferson, Fletcher Henderson and Bert Williams.

Summer Love Songs Jul 12, 2008

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Love songs for summer. Artists include: Sir Harry Lauder, Josephine Baker, Enrico Caurso, Lee Morse and Maurice Chevalier.

Songs include: Old Fashioned Love, She's the Lass For Me, Love is Mine and Stardust.

Million Selling Records 1920s Jul 05, 2008

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Records that topped one million in sales. Songs include; Dardenella, The Prisoner's Song, Sonny Boy and Down Hearted Blues.

Performers include: Al Jolson, Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, Ted Weems and Gene Austin.

Independence Day Jun 30, 2008

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Patriotic songs for July 4th. Songs include: National Emblem, America, Any Place the Old Flag Flies and Keep the Home Fires Burning.

Performers include: The Marine Band, Cal Stewart, Victor Herbert and Louis Armstrong.

Georgia Songs Jun 21, 2008

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Songs about Georgia and musicians from the peach state. Songs include: Sweet Georgia Brown, Savannah Mama, Georgia Bound and Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia.

Musicans include: Blind Willie McTell, The Skillet Lickers, Ma Rainey, Fiddlin John Carson and the American Quartet.

Rainy Songs Jun 14, 2008

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Songs about Rain. Songs include: Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon, Stormy Weather, Rainy Nights and I'm Dancing on a Rainbow.Musicians include: Bessie Smith, Ada Jones, The Happiness Boys and Duke Ellington.

Horses Jun 08, 2008

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A tribute to our equine friends. Songs include: The Horse Trot, Empty Saddles, Racehorse Blues and My Old Saddle Horse Is Missing.

Performers include: Cliff Carlise, Bing Crosby, Helen Humes and Sonny Scott.