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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Nonmarch Marching Bands May 13, 2007

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Military brass bands playing music other than marches.

Music includes: Blue Danube, Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Ramshackle Rag and Nearer My God to Thee.

Bands include: Sousa's Band, The Arthur Pryor Band and the New York Military Band.

Piedmont Blues May 06, 2007

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Guitarists from the Piedmont school of the blues.

Artists include: Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James.

Songs include: Devil Got My Woman, Dry Bone Shuffle, Louis Collins and I Belong to the Band.

Fiddles and Violins Apr 29, 2007

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Early violin recordings. Artists include: Joe Venuti, Jascha Heifetz, Eck Robertson and Charles D'Almaine.

Songs include, Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia, Caprice Number 20, Beating the Dog, Air For the G String and Kitty O'Neil.

Hymns and Gospel Music Apr 22, 2007

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Religious music from the teens and twenties.

Performers include: The Calvary Choir, Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Edison Mixed Quartet, the Tuskegee Institute Singers and the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers.

Songs include: Rock of Ages, Go Down Moses, Nearer my God to Thee and Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed.

Tenors Apr 14, 2007

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Great tenors of the acoustic era. Singers include: Enrico Caruso, Billy Murray, John McCormack, Cliff Edwards and Florencio Constantino.

Songs include: When You and I Were Young, Santa Lucia, Give My Regards to Broadway and Keep the Home Fires Burning.

Country Music From the 1920s Apr 06, 2007

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Country music pioneers including : Eck Robertson, Fiddlin John Carson,Ernest Stoneman and the Carter Family.Songs include: Cripple Creek, The Little Old Log Cabin and Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow.

Primary Colors Mar 31, 2007

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Songs with red, green and blue in the title.

Songs include: The Red Pepper Rag, The Green Isle of Erin and I'd Rather Be Blue.

Performers include: The Peerless Quartet, Ma Rainey, Sophie Tucker and John McCormack.

Duets Mar 24, 2007

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Performers include: Collins & Harlin, Bessie Smith & Clara Smith, Ada Jones & Billy Murray and Jack Norworth & Nora Bayes.

Songs include: Come Josephine In My Flying Machine, Waiting For the Robert E. Lee, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles and I'm Going Back to My Used to Be.

Early Jewish Stars Mar 18, 2007

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Artists Include; Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Irving Kaufman, Nora Bayes and Arthur Fields.Songs include: Second Hand Rose, Toot Toot Tootsie, Oh How I Hate to Get Up In the Morning and Hail Hail, the Gang's All Here.

One Year Anniversary Show Mar 11, 2007

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Looking back at the first year of podcasts.

Performers include: Billy Murrary, Irving Kaufmann, Bert Williams, Blind Blake and George Hamilton Green.

Songs include: You're a Grand Old Rag, Police Dog Blues, Triplets and Home Call.