Records left off of previous podcasts. Songs include: Sabre Dance, Nightmare, Come Rain Or Come Shine and Blue Shadows On the Trail.  Performers include: Artie Shaw, Margaret Whiting, the Andrews Sisters, and Frank Sinatra.

Special records made for the military during the World War II era.  Songs include: Pistol Packin Mama, Song of India, Baby Won't You Please Come Home  and You Tell Your Dream.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Louis Armstrong, The Mills Brothers, The Andrews Sisters and Ezio Pinza.

A special, short podcast celebrating the 239th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven.  The show includes Artur Schnabel performing the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata and Willem Mengelberg conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the second movement of the Symphony # 7.

The annual Christmas show. Songs include: Oh Come All Ye Faithful, Winter Wonderland, The Nutcracker, Jingle Bells and Silent Night.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Les Paul, Eddie Duchin, Guy Lombardo and The Phildelphia Orchestra.

More songs from lyricist, Johnny Mercer. Songs include: Blues in the Night, Tangerine, Laura, Autumn Leaves and Dream.

Performers include; Vaughn Monroe, Dinah Shore, The Pied Pipers and Frank Sinatra.

Celebrating the 100th birthday of songwriter, Johnny Mercer.  Songs include: Lazy Bones, Too Marvelous For Words, I Thought About You and Day In Day Out.

Performers include: The Mills Brothers, Mildred Bailey, Louis Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey.

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.