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.