Songs include: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, On the Battlefield, God's Got a Crown and God Shall Wipe All Tears Away.

Performers include: The Fisk Jubilee Quartet, The Rev. J.M. Gates, The Rev. Gary Davis, Arizonia Dranes and Mahalia Jackson.

Million selling records from the late 1930s.  Songs include: Little Brown Jug, Lili Marlene, Body and Soul, Three Little Fishes and Moonlight Serenade.  Performers include: Kay Kayser. Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, the Phildelphia Orchestra and Artie Shaw.

Source for this weeks show: Million Selling Recods, An Illustrated directory by Joseph Murrells.

Songs include: Heartaches, I Want To Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart, Tiger Rag, The Beer Barrel Polka and Jalousie.

Artists include: The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Patsy Montana, The Boston Pops Orchestra, Ted Weems and The Mills Brothers. 

Glenn Miller hits performed by rival bands. Musicians include: Count Basie, The Andrews Sisters, Benny Goodman and John Kirby.

Songs include: Moonlight Serenade, In The Mood, Tuxedo Junction and I've Got a Gal In Kalamazoo.

Music for Halloween, plus a tribute to Edgar Allen Poe.  Songs include: The House Is Haunted, Mr Ghost Goes to Town, Danse Macabre, The Ghost of Smokey Joe and Them's Graveyard words. 

Performers include: Cab Calloway, Gracie Fields, Lonnie Johnson, Tommy Dorsey and the Cleveland Orchestra.

Early 20th Century harmonica greats, including: Sonny Terry, Larry Adler, Sonny Boy Williamson #1, DeFord Bailey and Gwen Foster.

Songs include: Sloppy Drunk Blues, I Love My Baby, No More Good Water and I Got Rhythm.

A special, short podcast celebrating the 100th anniversary of jazz pianist, Art Tatum's birth.  Songs include: Tiger Rag, Wee Baby Blues and It Had to Be You.

Classic female blues singers from the 1920s & 1930s, including, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Victoria Spivey and Ethyl Waters.

Songs include: Coffee Grindin Blues, Empty Bed Blues, Moaning the Blues and Crazy Blues.

The songs of lyricist, Johnny Burke.  Songs include: Swinging on a Star, I've Got a Pocketfull of Dreams. What's New and Pennies From Heaven.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, Billy Eckstein and Guy Lombardo.

Songs for the Fall season, including: Shine on Harvtest Moon, School Days, Autumn Serenade, September Song and October Twilight.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Andy Kirk, The Edison Concert Band and Louis Jordan.

Musicians from New York state, including: Jimmy Durante, Cab Calloway, Fanny Brice, Willie the Lion Smith and Annette Handshaw.

Songs include: I Can Do Without Broadway, Whose Honey Are You?, Walking My Baby and Riverboat Shuffle.

Celebrating classical music month and the bicentennial of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn.  Works include: Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, Spinning Song, Wedding March and the 1st movement of the Italian Symphony. Other works include: Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March # 1 and the final movement of Beethoven's Symphony #4.

Performers include: Rachamanioff, Elgar, Mengelberg, Furtwangler and Rodinski.

 

Songs include: Special Delivery Stomp, Cotton Club Stomp, Frog Tongue Stomp and Osage Stomp.

Performers include: Lovie Austin, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Bob Wills Jimmy Yancy and Thomas Waller.

Performers include: Jimmie Rodgers, Gene Autry, Patsy Montana, Bill Monroe, Bob Wills and the Carter Family.

Songs include: Great Speckled Bird, Old Love Letters, San Antonio Rose, Back in the Saddle Again and I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart.

The songs of Thomas Waller, including: Ain't Misbehavin, The Joint is Jumpin, Honysuckle Rose and A Handfull of Keys.

Performers include: James P Johnson, Benny Goodman, Ruth Etting and Fats Waller.

Brother and sister acts, including: The Andrews Sisters, The Mills Brothers, The Brox Sisters and The Dorsey Brothers.

Songs include: My Old Flame, Lazy, Beer Barrel Polka and Frisco Blues.

A special podcast in tribute to the late guitarist and recording pioneer, Les Paul.  The podcast contains a complete transcription of an episode from the Les Paul Radio Show from 1950.

Songs include: Love Walked In, Heart and Soul, I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me, These Foolish Things and Your Eyes Have Told Me What I Did Not Know.

Singers include: Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Enrico Caurso, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday and Fred Astaire.

Songs about wind, including: Ill Wind, Trade Winds, The Breeze and I and Gone With the Wind.  Performers include: The Six jumping Jacks, Art Tatum, Xavier Cugat, Connie Boswell and Benny Goodman.

Musicians from the Show-Me state, including, Big Joe Turner, Josephine Baker, Charlie Parker, Scott Joplin and The Four Vagabonds.

Songs include: California, Here I Come, I've Got You Under My Skin, Now's The Time and the Maple Leaf Rag.

Records left off of previous podcasts. Songs include: Old Fashioned Love, Autumn Leaves, Sophisticated Lady and Exactly Like You.

Performers include: Dinah Shore, John McCormack, James P. Johnson and Edith Piaf.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Billie Holiday, a special, short podcast featuring three classic Holiday recordings.

Early western swing bands.  Bands and performers include:  The Light Crust Doughboys, Milton Brown, Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, The Hillbilly Boys, Cliff Bruner and the Swift Jewel Cowboys.

Songs include: Ida Red, Won't you Ride in My Little Red Wagon, Right or Wrong and Chuck Wagon Swing.

Clarinetists include: Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Artie Shaw, Barney Bigard, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Jimmie Noone and Pee Wee Russel.

Music includes: Concerto for Clarinet, Sheik of Araby, Clarinet Lament, Running Wild and Whistle Stop.

Songs include: You're a Grand Old Flag, We'll Meet Again, God Bless America and Song of Freedom.

Performers include: NBC Symphony, Bing Crosby, U.S. Marine Band, Kate Smith, Kay Kayser and the Carter Family.

Songs about dear old dad. Songs include: That Silver-haired Daddy of Mine, My Old Man, Daddy and Home and When Daddy Sings the Little Ones to Sleep.  Performers include: Al Jolson, Helen Kane, the Edison Male Quartet, Gene Autry and Frank Miller.

Songs about shadows, including: Shadows on the Wall, Me and My Shadow, Dancing Shadows and the Shadow Waltz. 

Performers include: Louis Prima. Bing Crosby, Eddie Duchin, Lee Morse and the Carter Family.

Early 20th Century recordings of Bach's music, including movements from Brandenburg Concertos 2 & 4, Cello Suite #3, Orchestral Suite # 3 and the Prelude & Fugue in E Minor.

Performers include: The Busch Chamber Players, Edwin Fischer, Pablo Casals, Andre Segovia and Louis Verine.

Cover versions of Duke Ellington tunes.  Songs include: Mood Indigo, It Don't Mean a Thing, Take the A Train, All Too Soon and Caravan.

Performers include: Benny Goodman, the Mills Brothers, Harry James, Valaida Snow and Mildred Bailey.

Pianists include: James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Art Tatum,  Dorothy Donegan , Joe Sullivan and Jimmy Yancey.

Songs include: Carolina Shout, Handful of Keys, Deep Purple and If I Had You.

Songs with who, what, where, when, why and how in the title.  Songs include: Where Are You? ,Who's Sorry Now?, When Did You Leave Heaven? and How Can You Face Me?

Performers include: Guy Lombardo, Mildred Bailey, Billie Holliday, Bing Crosby and the Casa Loma Orchestra.

The story of Mother's Day in words and music.  Songs include: Mother of Mine, I Still Have You, You Will Never Miss Your Mother Until She's Gone, My Mother's Eyes and M-O-T-H-E-R.

Performers include: Al Jolson, John Carson, Sophie Tucker, The Carter Family and John McCormack.

Songs include: Ain't Misbehavin, Ain't She Sweet, I Ain't Got Nobody and You Ain't Heard Nothin Yet.

Performers include: Fats Waller, Ruth Etting, Mississippi John Hurt, Louis Jordan , The Skillet Lickers and Cab Calloway.

 Musical Pairs.  Musicians include: Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer, Tom Darby and Jimmy Tarleton, Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson and Hoagy Carmichael and Ella Logan.

Songs include: Two Sleepy People, Big Noise From Winnetka, Barrelhouse Boogie and Till We Meet Again.

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the births of Benny Goodman, Carmen Miranda, Burl Ives, Lester Young ,Maybell Carter, Victor Borge and Gene Krupa.

Songs include: Drum Boogie, Bugle Call Rag, Tico Tico, Blue Tail Fly and Blue Lester.

The life and work of songwriter, Jimmy McHugh, including: I'm In the Mood For Love, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Coming In On a Wing And a Prayer and Where Are You.

Artists include: The Mills Brothers, Duke Ellington, Francis Langford, Mildred Bailey, Gene Austin and Guy Lombardo.

Songs include: Were the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day, Tonight's the Night With Baby, I'll See You In My Dreams and Night on the Water.

Performers include: Ma Rainey, Whispering Jack Smith, Marion Harris and Guy Lombardo.

Musicians from the Volunteer State including: Bessie Smith, Roy Acuff, Uncle Dave Macon, Sleepy John Estes, Lovie Austin and the Memphis Jug Band.  Songs include: Wabash Cannonball, Rockin Chair Blues, Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line and House Carpenter.

Trumpet, cornet and bugle music, including: sounds of King Tut's trumpet, Dippermouth Blues, Weather Bird, Flight of the Bumblebee and the Last Post.  Musicans include: Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Herbert Clarke, Bix Beiderbeck and Harry James.

For St. Patrick's Day, a program of Irish music. Songs include: By the Lakes of Killarney, When Irish Eyes are Smiling, From Galway to Dublin, Paddy Doyle , Molly-O and a number of Irish reels.

Artists include: John McCormack, Frank Quinn, Chauncey Olcott, Dan Sullivan and the Kincora Ceili Band.

For the third annivarsary of the podcast, some of the host's favorite records.  Songs include: Rose Room, The Whistler and His Dog, I Got Rhythm, Fishing Blues and I Shall Wear a Crown.  Performers include: Django Reinhardt, Louis Armstrong, Valaida Snow, The Skillet Lickers and Andre Segovia.

Songs include: Got a Date With an Angel, Angel Child, And the Angels Sing and I'm No Angel.

Performers include: Count Basie, May West, Hal Kemp, Wingy Manone and Cab Calloway.

Songs include: You Set Me On Fire, Fire Department Blues, I'm Playing With Fire and Baltimore Fire.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Cal Stewart, Hazel Scott, and Andy Kirk.

Songs by lyricist, Gus Kahn, including: Carolina in the Morning, Toot Toot Tootsie, Love me or Leave Me and It Had to be You.  Singers include: Al Jolson, Ruth Etting, Cliff Edwards and Manuel Romain.

Love songs for Valentine's Day, including: How My Sweetie Loves Me, Love Walked In, We're Back Togetheer and Will You Love Me in December.  Artists include: Helen Kane, Louis Armstrong, Cliff Edwards and Ruth Etting.

Music of the Harlem Renaissance.  Performers include: Paul Robeson, Bill Robinson, Ethyl Waters, Duke Ellington and the Reverend Gary Davis.  Songs include: Old Man River, Jungle Jamboree, Have a Little More Faith in Jesus and Harlem Camp Meeting.

 

Music for Mozart's birthday. Music includes: Jupiter Symphony, Clarinet Quintet, Queen of the Night Aria and Piano Concerto 21.

Performers include: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Lily Pons, Bruno Walter and Wilhelm Furtwaengler.

Songs of home including: Let's Spend the Evening at Home, Goin Home, Baby Won't You Please Come Home and No Place Like Home.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, Bert Williams, the Boswell Sisters, Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith.

Torch Singers of the 1920s and 1930s, including: Libby Holman, Josephine Baker, Helen Morgan, Marion Harris and Frances Langford.

Songs include: Love For Sale, Can't Help Lovin That Man, Les Mots DAmour and I'm In the Mood For Love.

The hits from 100 years ago, including: I've Got Rings on My Fingers, Let's Go Into a Picture Show, The National Emblem and I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid.

Performers include: Ada Jones, Steve Porter, Byron G. Harlin and the Arthur Pyror Band.

Records left off of previous podcasts. Music includes: God's Got a Crown, Grinder Man Blues, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Horses and Tea For Two.  Performers include: Memphis Slim, Arizona Dranes, Red Norvo, the Berlin Philharmonic and Blanche Calloway.

Songs from the Great Depression, including: Brother Can You Spare a Dime?, Wrap Up Your Troubles in Dreams, Hobo Jungle Blues and When You Wish Upon a Star.

Performers include: Mildred Bailey, Bing Crosby, Ted Lewis, Cliff Edwards and Sleepy John Estes.

For Beethoven's birthday, a special, short podcast featuring the final movment of the symphony #6 by the BBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini from 1937.

Christmas records from the teens through the 30s.  Songs include:  I Want You For Christmas, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, The Nutcracker and Auld Lang Syne.

Artists include: The Carol Singers, Tommy Dorsey, Rev. J.M. Gates and Guy Lombardo.

Songs include: Blue Drag, Varsity Drag, Saratoga Drag and Five O'Clock Drag.  Performers include: Cab Calloway, George Olson, Jelly Roll Morton and Cow Cow Davenport.

More number songs including: Dinner at Eight, Five Foot Two, You Are the One and Three O' Clock in the Morning.

Artist include: Gene Austin, Hazel Scott, Bing Crosby and Bem Selvin.

Songs with numbers in the titles; plus pointless trivia about numbers.  Songs include: Tea For Two, The Fives, I'm In Seventh Heaven and Three Little Words.
Artists include: Ethyl Waters, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Marion Harris and Wingy Manone.

Songs about stars.  Songs include: Dancing Under the Stars, Come Down My Evening Star, I Saw Stars and Stardust.  Performers include: Lillian Russel, Willie the Lion Smith, Bing Crosby and Cab Calloway.

The musicians who brought boogie woogie into mainstream popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.  Pianists include: Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Hazel Scott and Jimmy Yancey.

Tunes include: Boogie Woogie Prayer, Bass Goin Crazy, Hazel's Boogie and Movin the Boogie.

Early boogie woogie pianists including: Jimmy Blythe, Cow Cow Davenport, Pinetop Smith and Romeo Nelson.

Tunes include: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, Chicago Stomp, Cow Cow Blues and Head Rag Hop.

Music for Halloween, including: Haunted House Blues, The Skeleton in the Closet, Mr Ghost Goes to Town and Graveyard Blues.

Performers include: Helen Gross, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Davis and Woody Herman.

Songs with happy in the title.  Songs include: Happy Days Are Here Again, Is Everybody Happy?, Let Me Sing and I'm Happy and There's Always a Happy Ending.

Performers include: Ted Lewis, Helen Kane, Lee Morse, Bing Crosby and Al Jolson.

Early Mississippi Delta Blues Singers, including: Charley Patton, Son House, Bo Carter, Robert Johnson and Blind Willie McTell.

Songs include: Screamin and Hollerin the Blues, Spike Driver Blues, I Believe I'll Dust My Broom and Sitting on Top of the World.

Songs about birds, including: Bye Bye Blackbird, Turkey in the Straw, Bluebird Blues and The Bird on Nelly's Hat.

Artists include: Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Helen Trix, Cab Calloway and Sonny Boy Williamson.

 

Piano music of all types.  Pianists include: Teddy Wilson, Ignaz Paderewski, George Gershwin, Art Tatum and Arizona Dranes.

Music Includes: Honky Tonk Train Blues, Rhapsody in Blue, Polonaise #1 and Tea For Two.

Music by bandleader and songwriter Isham Jones. Songs include: I'll See You in My Dreams, Wabash Blues, There is No Greater Love and Stardust.

Other musicians include: Al Jolson, Woody Herman and Cliff Edwards.

Songs involving cars, trains, planes and boats. Songs include: In My Merry Oldsmobile, The Wreck of the Old 97, Come Josephine in My Flying Machine and Sailing Down Chesapeake Bay.

Artists include: Billy Murray, Ada Jones, Vernon Dalhart and the Memphis Jug Band.

This week, musicians from Mississippi, including: Jimmie Rodgers, Mississippi John Hurt, The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Sonny Boy Williamson and Lester Young.

Songs include: Lady Be Good, Blue Bird, Mississippi Moon, Ol Miss Rag and Dream Daddy Blues.

Songs about fruit, including: Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries, I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time, On a Coconut Island and Black Raspberry Jam.

Performers include: Cliff Edwards, Andy Iona, Rudy Valley, Fats Waller and the Memphis Jug Band.

Xylophone, marimba and vibraphone recordings.  Songs include: Triplets, Who's Sorry Now?, Memories of You and Avelon.

Artists include: Lionel Hampton, Red Norvo, George Hamilton Green and Adrian Rollini.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 Records left off previous shows.  Songs include: Lord McDonald, The Little Old Ford, Some Sunny Day, Sweetie Pie and I'm In Seventh Heaven.
Performers include: Paul Whiteman, Michael Coleman, Bing Crosby, Vernon Dalhart and Al Jolson.

Early comedy records.  Performers include: Bert Williams, Cal Stewart, Miss Ray Cox, Eddie Cantor and Steve Porter.

Songs include: Tears, Ain't It a Crying Shame, Why Should I Cry Over You and Dancing With Tears in My Eyes.

Performers include: The Tuxedo Dance Orchestra, Ruth Etting, Blind Boy Fuller, Bix Biederbeck and Bing Crosby. 

The story of the father of the blues, W.C. Handy.  Songs include: Saint Louis Blues, Memphis Blues, Steal Away to Jesus and Way Down South Where the Blues Began.

Musicians include: W. C. Handy, Marion Harris, Blanche Calloway and Jellyroll Morton.

Songs include: Trombone Cholly, Teddy Bear's Picnic, Ory's Creole Trombone and Avalon.
Trombonists include: Kid Ory, Arthur Pryor, Jack Teagarden and Charlie Green.

Songs about cake, candy, ice cream and pie. Performers include: Ted Lewis, Harry Resser, Lee Morse and Blind Boy Fuller.

For the 100th episode, it's highlights from past shows.  Performers include: Billy Murray, Blind Lemmon Jefferson, Enrico Caurso and Al Jolson.

For the 100th episode, it's highlights from past programs.

Performers include: Billy Murray, Pinetop Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Al Jolson.

More songs from 1929, including: Sweet Fern, Mean to Me, Feeling the Spirit and How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times.
Artists include: Rudy Vallee, The Carter Family, Blind Alfred Reed, Ruth Etting and Al Jolson.

Songs about heaven, including: My Blue Heaven, When I Put On My Long White Robe, Heaven's Radio and In My Little Hula Heaven.
Artists include: Gene Austin, The Carter Family, Rev. J.B. Gates, The Swift Jewel Cowboys and John McCormack.

Songs include: Chicago Breakdown, Chicago Blues, Chicago Mess Around and Chicago Stomp.

Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Lovie Austin and Fletcher Henderson.

A selection of Irish music, including: Haste to the Wedding, The Girls of Bainbridge, Leaving Dear Old Ireland and The Star of the County Down.

Artists include: John McCormack, Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoran and Chauncey Olcott.

Songs about the Sun including: On the Sunny Side of the Street, Red Sails in the Sunset, Morning Sun Blues and Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie.

Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Harry Richman, Bryon Harlin, the Brox Sisters and John McCormack.

Early works by  Hollywood song writer , Harry Warren.

Songs include, The Lullaby of Broadway, Lulu's Back In Town, You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me, and Shadow Waltz.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Connie Boswell, Hal Kemp and Fats Waller.

Songs about Alabama and musicians from the yellowhammer state.

Songs include: Alabama Jubilee, Go Down Moses, Alabama Strut and the Stars Fell On Alabama.

Musicans include: Cow Cow Davenport, Guy Lombardo, the Tuskeggee Institute Singers and W.C. Handy.

 Six songs with rose in the title.  Songs include: My Wild Irish Rose, Second Hand Rose, Rose Room, My Virgina Rose and Roses of Picardy.
Performers include: the Carter Family, Django Rheinhardt, Bing Crosby and Fanny Brice.

The story of the first African-American owned record label.

Artists include: Ethel Waters, Fletcher henderson, The Four Harmony Kings, Alberta Hunter and Trixie Smith.

Songs include: Oh Daddy, They'll be some Changes Made, Farewell Blues and Trixie's Blues.

Songs about the moon.  Songs include: By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Once In a Blue Moon, Roll Along Kentucky Moon and Moon Country.

Performers include: Ada Jones, Cliff Edwards, Hoagy Carmichael, Helen Kane and Charlie Patton.

Songs with breakdown in the title.  Songs include: Piano Breakdown, Birmington Breakdown, Redell Breakdown and Country Breakdown.

Performers include: Charley Lincoln, The Skillet Lickers, Louis Armstrong, Blind Blake and J.B. Fuselier.

Pianists include: Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Pinetop Smith, Earl Hines and Cow Cow Davenport.
Tunes include: Jelly Roll Blues, Black Beauty,Pinetop's Boogie Woogie and Goin About.

Songs written or recorded in 1908.  Songs include: Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Shine On Harvest Moon, Pineapple Rag and It Looks Like a Big Night Tonight.

Performers include: Billy Murray, the Sousa Band, the Knickerbocker Quartet and Harry Lauder.

Records left off of previous podcasts.  Plus a tribute to Oscar Peterson and Lydia Mendoza.

Artists include: Oscar Peterson, Lydia Mendoza, Mound City Blue Blowers, Floyd Smith, Valaida Snow and John Philip Sousa.

Guitar Music from the 1920s and 1930s.  Guitarists include: Nick Lucas, Eddie Lang, Blind Boy Fuller, Bennie Nawahi, Ramon Montoya, Andre Segovia and Django Reinhardt.

Songs include; Pickin on the Guitar, Dark was the Night, Clouds, El Rosa and Mauna Kea.

Christmas records from 1917 to 1936.
Songs include: Silent Night, Jingle Bells, We Three Kings and Christmas Morning Blues.
Performers include: Fats Waller, Victoria Spivey, Louis Prima, Eddie Cantor and Bing Crosby.

More records from 1929.

Performers include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Pinetop Smith and Ethyl Waters.

Songs include: Am I Blue, Freakish, Guitar Blues, Waiting at the End of the Road and Soldier's Joy.

Recordings released in the pivotal year of 1929.

Artists include: Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jimmie Rodgers, Sophie Tucker and Helen Kane.

Songs include: Ain't Misbehavin, My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Numb Fumblin, Pony Blues and In the Fall of 29.

Songs about prison and prison life. Songs include : The Prisoner's Song, Birmingham Jail, Chain Gang Blues and No Room in the Jailhouse.

Artists include: Jimmie Rodgers, Ma Rainey, Darby & Tarleton , Blind Willie McTell and the Rev. J.M. Gates

Songs from World War I in honor of Veteran's Day.

Songs include:  Over There, Pack Up Your Troubles, Tell That to the Marines and My Dream of the Big Parade.

Performers include: Al Jolson, The Peerless Quartet, Nora Bayes and The Hotel Taft Orchestra.

Songs with shuffle in the title.

Songs include: Band Box Shuffle, Dry Bone Shuffle, Lennox Avenue Shuffle and Riverboat Shuffle.

Artists include :  Blind Blake,  Bennie Moten, Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson and Bix Biederbeck.

Spooky songs for Halloween.  Songs include:  Ghost Walking Blues, Haunted House Blues, Halloween Dance, The Ragtime Goblin  Man and Mr. Ghost Goes to Town.
Artists include: Bessie Smith, Louis Prima, Collins and Harlin and Helen Gross.

Records featuring the kazoo.  Artists include: Ma Rainey, The Allen Brothers, The Five Harmaniacs and Tampa Red.

Men and women complaining about each other. Songs include: Mother-in-law Blues, I'm Sorry We Met, Aint Gonna Marry No More and Let the Doorknob Hit You In the Back.

Artists include: Ethyl Waters, Jimmie Rogers, Darby and Tarlton, Annette Handshaw and the Allen Brothers.

A tribute to blues singer and guitarist, Memphis Minnie.
Songs Include: In My Girlish Days, When the Levee Breaks, Bumble Bee and Memphis Yo Yo Blues.
Artists include: Memphis Minnie, Kansas Joe, Furry Lewis and the Memphis Jug Band.

Novelty songs from the teens and 20s.  Songs include:  Yes. We Have No Bananas, I Faw Down and Go Boom and I  Want to Yodel.

Performers include: Ada Jones, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Billy Jones and Helen Kane.

 Songs about farm life, including:  Old McDonald, The Farmer Is the Man, Farm Relief and How You Gonna Keep Em Down On the Farm.
Artists include: Fiddlin John Carson, Byron Harlin, The Skillet Lickers and Vernon Dalhart.

Three pioneering jazz women: Lovie Austin, Lil Hardin Armstrong and Valaida Snow.

Songs include: Just For a Thrill, Traveling Blues, Some of These Days and Georgia Grind.

Songs for the end of summer.
Artists include: Charley Patton, the Edison Quartet, Bing Crosby, Walter van Brunt and Elizabeth Wheeler.
Songs include: The Last Rose of Summer, Any Girl Looks Good in Summer, In the Good Old Summertime and A Faded Summer Love.

 Artists include: Caruso & Melba, Darby & Tarlton, Butterbeans & Susie and Venuti & Lang.
Songs include: Captain Won't You Let Me Go Home, Aba Daba Honeymoon, Adam and Eve and It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.

Songs include: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover, Lady Luck, Rabbit Foot Blues, Beginner's Luck and Last Chance Blues.
Performers include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Smith Ballew, Fred Astaire and Cannon's Jug Stompers.

More songs about dogs.  Songs include: Poor Old Rover, That Doggone Dog, Yellow Dog Blues and Fido Is a Hot Dog Now.

Performers include: Dick Justice, Bing Crosby, the New Orleans Bootblacks and Bessie Smith.

 Songs about food, including: Mixed Salad, Tattie Soup, Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries and Cornfed.
Performers include: Nick Lucas, Ted Lewis, Rudy Vallee and Lil Hardin Armstrong.

Vintage recordings of early Irving Berlin hits.
Songs include: Follow the Crowd, When I Lost You, Sadie Salome and Alexander's Ragtime Band.
Performers include: Helen Clark, Bessie Smith, Arthur Fields and Irving Berlin.

Records left off of previous podcasts.

Artists include: The Memphis Jug Band, Eddie Cantor, The Sousa Band, Helen Kane and Washington Phillips.

Songs include: Get Out and Get Under the Moon, Peaches in the Springtime, Denomination Blues, The Liberty Loan March and The first of May.

French Music for Bastille Day.

Performers include: Maurice Chevalier , Josephine Baker, Madame Bolduc, Joe Falcone and Django Reinhardt.

Songs include:  La Marseillaise, Louise, Les Femmes, Avelon and Allons à Lafayette.

Vintage recordings of Sousa marches, including: The Stars and Stripes Forever, Washington Post, The Liberty  Bell and The Thunderer.

Performers include: Sousa's Band, The New York Military Band and the U.S. Marine Band.

Jazz dance tunes from  the 1920s.

Works include: King Porter Stomp, Tar Paper Stomp, Shirt Tail Stomp and Brush Stomp.

Performers include: Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Goodman,  Wingy Manone and Fats Waller.

Early recordings of Hawaiian music.

Artists include:  Kalama's Quartet, Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra,   King Bennie Nawahi and Frank Ferreira.

Songs include: Ranbow Isle, Hawaiian Capers, Every Does It In Hawaii and Wahine Ui.

Songs with north, south east and west in the title.

Songs include: North Port, Belle of the East, The Girl Who Comes in From the West and I'm Going South.

Artists include: Benny Moten, The Alabama Sacred harp Singers, Duke Ellington and Harry McDonough.

Bands include: The Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers, The Seven Gallon Jug Band and The Dixieland Jug Blowers.

Songs include: Whitewash Station Blues, Wipe It Off, Sweet Potato Blues and The Jug Band Waltz.

Voices of Thomas Edison, Arthur Sullivan, Ernest Shackleton, William Butler Yates, Eugene Debs, Booker T. Washington and Will Rodgers.

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.

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.

 

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A salute to the Emerald Isle.

Songs include: There's a Little Bit of Irish in Us All, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Too-Ra-Loo-Ra and My Wild Irish Rose.

Performers include: Chauncey Olcott, John MacCormack, Aileen Stanley, Steve Porter and the Brunswick Quartet.

Songs about dreaming and dreamers. 

Songs include: I'll See You in My Dreams, I Must Be Dreaming, The Ragtime Dream and I'm a Dreamer.

Singers include: Collins and Harlin, Cliff Edwards, Annette Hanshaw, Smith Ballew and Jon Finnegan.

Nautical tunes for landlubbers.  Songs include: I Love to be a Sailor, Barnacle Bill, By the Sea and My Bonnie.
Performers include: Alma Gluck, Cal Stewart, the Knickerbocker Quartet and Billy Murray.

Songs for Valentine's Day. 

Songs include: I'm Falling in Love With Someone, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Pretty Baby and For You Alone.

Performers include: John McCormack, Cliff Edwards, Ethyl Waters and Enrico Caruso.

An appendix to episode # 41.  Two versions of Button Up Your Overcoat by Helen Kane and Annette Hanshaw.

An appendix to episode #41.  Two versions of Button Up Your Overcoat by Helen Kane and Annette Hanshaw.

Songs about Texas and songs by Texans. 

 Artists include: Jimmie Davis, Lydia Mendoza, The Red Onion Jazz Babies, Jimmie Rodgers and Gene Autry.

Songs include: Beautiful Texas, Texas Moaner Blues, Chinatown, My Chianatown and Mal Hombre.

Songs about real-life disasters.  Songs include: The Baltimore Fire, The Titanic Blues, The Death of Floyd Collins and Ben Dewberry's Final Run.  Artists include: Jimmie Rogers, Vernon Dalhart,Virginia Liston and Bessie Smith.

Female singers of the 1920s.  Performers include: Helen Kane, Josephine Baker, Annette Handshaw, Sophie Tucker and Marion Harris.
Songs include: Button Up Your Overcoat, 50 Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, Bye Bye Blackbird and Loveable and Sweet.

Early piano recordings. Performers include: Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, Pinetop Smith and Jelly Roll Morton.

Records released in 1907. 
Artists include: Enrico Caruso, Billy Murrary, Ada Jones, the Arthur Pryor Band, Bob Roberts and Steve Porter.
Songs include: Vesti La Giubba, I'm Gettin Ready for My Mother-In-Law, And a Little Child Will Lead Them and the International Martch.

Artists include: Al Jolson, Ada Jones, Bert Williams, the Original Dixiland Jazz Band, the Sousa Band and the Peerless Quartet.

Songs include: Tiger Rag, Nobody, California, Here I Come and Christmas Eve.

Early blues recordings including: Crazy Blues, Saint Louis Blues,Bearcat Blues and Bad Luck Blues.  Performers include: Mamie Smith, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey and Charley Patton.

Christmas records from the early 20th Century.  Including: Ring Out the Bells at Christmas, Silent Night, The Christmas Man Blues and  We Three Kings.

Early 20th Century recordings of Christmas music.  Songs include: The Santa Claus Song, Joy to the World, Christmas Morning at Clancy's and The March of the Toys.

Whistling recordings including: Whistle It, The Whistler and His Dog, Listen to the Mockingbird and Pucker Up And Whistle.
Whistlers include: Joe Belmont, Al Jolson, Sibyl Sanderson Fagan and Billy Murray.

Featuring banjoist, Eddie Peabody, jazz guitarist, Eddie Lang and ukulele player Cliff Edwards.

Songs include: Baby Face, Hot Fingers and Will You Remember Me.

Songs with flowers in the title.
Songs include: Tiptoe Through the Tulips, When the Daisies Bloom, Second Hand Rose and the Petunia Quadrille.
Featured performers: Anette Handshaw, Vernon Dalhart, Fanny Brice and the New York Military Band.

Songs from the last days of World War I and the aftermath.  Songs include:  How You Gonna Keep Em Down on the Farm, Stony Broke in No Man's Land and I've Got My Captain Working For Me Now.

Songs by Stephen Foster.  Including: Oh Susannah, Old Folks at Home and Beautiful Dreamer.
Note: Some of these old recordings contain racial terms that may be offensive to some people.

Recordings of American presidents from Benjamin Harrison to Franklin Roosevelt.

Early recordings of music from Wagner's operas.  Podcast includes selections from Parsifal, Tannhauser, Lohengrin and the ring cycle.

Early recordings of marches including: The Wedding March, King Cotton, Marche Slav and The Rakoczy March.

Episode 26: Celebrating the beginning of the fall season.  Songs include: Shine on Harvest Moon, The Halloween Dance and I'll Be Home at Harvest Time.

Early 20th Century comedy.  Performers include: The Avon Comedy Four, Cal Stewart, Bert Williams and Will Rogers.

Music by Victor Herbert including The March of the Toys and Gypsy Love Song.

Jazz recordings from 1917-1923.  Artists include:  The Original Dixieland Jass Band, King Oliver, W.C. Handy, Eubie Blake and Kid Ory.

A salute to early Canadan recording artists including: Henry Burr, Eva Gauthier and Henri Lacroix.

Episode 21: Man's Best Friend.  Songs about dogs including: The Whistler and His Dog and My Old Dog Tray.

Songs from the 13 years when alcohol was illegal in the U.S.

Performers include: Billy Murrary, Ma Rainey, Bubber Miley and Burt Williams.

Episode 19: California Songs

Songs in praise of California including: California Here I Come and At the Moving Picture Ball. 

Here are some sites with  more information about the First World War.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/  This site from the BBC offers a virtual tour inside a trench.

http://firstworldwar.com/ This large site contains biographies of the major players, newsreel footage, diary accounts and video of the battlefields as they look today.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html  This Library of Congress site has World War I issues of Stars and Stripes, the official US Army newspaper.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/199768.stm A second BBC site with audio interviews of veterans.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/ypsalient/meningate/lastpost.htm  This page describes the Last Post Ceremony at Ypres, Belgium.  A tribute to fallen soldiers that has been held every day since 1929.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9792310 A photograph of the grave of George Lawrence Price, the last soldier killed during the war.

Songs from the last year of World War I , including Oh How I Hate to Get Up and Is There Still Room For Me Neath the Old Apple Tree?

Songs from the middle years of World War I  including

If You Were the Only Girl and We Don't Want the Bacon.

     Songs recorded during the early days of World War I.  Music includes:  Pack Up Your Troubles and Your King and Country Want You.

Episode 15 : Songs of the Summer season.  Including: In the Good Old Summer Time, The Last Rose of Summer and Summer Days.

Songs about baseball and the first recording of Rhapsody in Blue.

Episode 13.  Sad tales about dying soldiers, unhappy wives and neglected children.  Songs include: Is There Any Room In Heaven For a Little Girl Like Me?

Songs about trains including Casey Jones and The Wreck of the Old 97.

Performers include Vernon Dalhart, Billy Murray and Moonshine Kate.

Episode 11:  Early African-American recording artists.

Performers include: Bert Williams, James Reese Europe, Ma Rainey and the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.

Recordings left off of previous podcasts.

Performers include: Enrico Caruso  Al Jolson   John McCormack  and

Ada Jones

An all waltz show.  Songs include  In the Good Old Summertime, School Days, Waltz Me Around Again Willie and My Wild irish Rose.

The story of the Indestructible Phonography Company.

Music includes:  Asleep in the Deep

                         I'm Fovever Blowing Bubbles

 Keep Away From the Fellow Who Owns an Automobile

 

All march episode featuring the John Phillip Sousa Band.

This week:   songs by Al Jolson, the Tuskegee Institute Singers and Arthur Collins.  Plus: a classic hymn.

 

These sites have information about and photos of the Stroh violin: http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=46 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroh_violin

Unusual instrumentals including: bagpipes, ocarina, a Stroh violin and a lap steel guitar.

A tribute to female singers including Ada Jones, Helen Trix and Sophie Tucker.

This week : a xylophone solo, a barbershop quartet, the 100th anniversery of Anchors Aweigh and a century old Mozart record.

An all Irish episode featuring two songs by John McCormack.

Music played: You're a Grand Old Flag A Bunch of Rags Celese Aida Flying Arrow