Music From 100 Years Ago
Music from the early days of the 20th Century with comments.

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

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

Direct download: Banjos_Guitars_and_Ukuleles.mp3
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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.
Direct download: Say_It_With_Flowers.mp3
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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.
Direct download: Armistice_day.mp3
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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.
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Recordings of American presidents from Benjamin Harrison to Franklin Roosevelt.
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Early recordings of music from Wagner's operas.  Podcast includes selections from Parsifal, Tannhauser, Lohengrin and the ring cycle.
Direct download: Richard_Wagner.mp3
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Early recordings of marches including: The Wedding March, King Cotton, Marche Slav and The Rakoczy March.
Direct download: More_Marches.mp3
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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.
Direct download: autumn_songs.mp3
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Mp3s of Cal Stewart's Uncle Josh recordings can be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/CalStewart_part1

http://www.archive.org/details/CalStewart_part2

 

Mp3s of the Avon Comedy Four can be found here:

http://www.archive.org/details/AvonComedyFourwithIrvingKaufman

 

The official Will Rogers web page is here:

http://www.willrogers.org/

 

 

Direct download: comedy_records.mp3
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Early 20th Century comedy.  Performers include: The Avon Comedy Four, Cal Stewart, Bert Williams and Will Rogers.
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Music by Victor Herbert including The March of the Toys and Gypsy Love Song.
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Jazz recordings from 1917-1923.  Artists include:  The Original Dixieland Jass Band, King Oliver, W.C. Handy, Eubie Blake and Kid Ory.
Direct download: Early_Jazz.mp3
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A salute to early Canadan recording artists including: Henry Burr, Eva Gauthier and Henri Lacroix.
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Episode 21: Man's Best Friend.  Songs about dogs including: The Whistler and His Dog and My Old Dog Tray.
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Songs from the 13 years when alcohol was illegal in the U.S.

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

Direct download: prohibition_songs.mp3
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Episode 19: California Songs

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

Direct download: California_Songs.mp3
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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.

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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?
Direct download: songs_of_the_great_war.mp3
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Songs from the middle years of World War I  including

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

Direct download: Songs_of_the_Great_War_Part_2.mp3
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     Songs recorded during the early days of World War I.  Music includes:  Pack Up Your Troubles and Your King and Country Want You.
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Episode 15 : Songs of the Summer season.  Including: In the Good Old Summer Time, The Last Rose of Summer and Summer Days.
Direct download: Summer_Songs.mp3
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Songs about baseball and the first recording of Rhapsody in Blue.
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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?
Direct download: tearjerkers.mp3
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Songs about trains including Casey Jones and The Wreck of the Old 97.

Performers include Vernon Dalhart, Billy Murray and Moonshine Kate.

Direct download: Episode_12_Railroad_Songs.mp3
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Episode 11:  Early African-American recording artists.

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

Direct download: african_american_performers.mp3
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Recordings left off of previous podcasts.

Performers include: Enrico Caruso  Al Jolson   John McCormack  and

Ada Jones

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An all waltz show.  Songs include  In the Good Old Summertime, School Days, Waltz Me Around Again Willie and My Wild irish Rose.
Direct download: Epidode_9__Waltzes.mp3
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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

 

Direct download: Episode_8__Indestructible_Records.mp3
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All march episode featuring the John Phillip Sousa Band.
Direct download: Epidode_7__Marches.mp3
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This week:   songs by Al Jolson, the Tuskegee Institute Singers and Arthur Collins.  Plus: a classic hymn.

 

Direct download: music_from_100_years_ago_al_jolson.mp3
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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
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Unusual instrumentals including: bagpipes, ocarina, a Stroh violin and a lap steel guitar.
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A tribute to female singers including Ada Jones, Helen Trix and Sophie Tucker.
Direct download: Music_100_Years_Ago_Episode_4_Ladies_Edition.mp3
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This week : a xylophone solo, a barbershop quartet, the 100th anniversery of Anchors Aweigh and a century old Mozart record.
Direct download: Epidode_3_--_Music_From_100_Years_Ago--__Anchors_Aweigh.mp3
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An all Irish episode featuring two songs by John McCormack.
Direct download: music_from_100_years_ago_irish_ed1.mp3
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Music played: You're a Grand Old Flag A Bunch of Rags Celese Aida Flying Arrow
Direct download: music_from_100_years_ago.mp3
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