Sat, 28 May 2011
Songs about lighting up, including: Smoke, Smoke Smoke, Smoke Rings, If I Only Had a Match, Two Cigarettes In The Dark and Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Ruth Etting, Al Jolson, Jo Stafford, the Mills Brothers and Phil Harris. |
Sat, 21 May 2011
Songs about dihydrogen monoxide, including:Cool Water, Rising High Water Blues, the Raindrop Prelude, By a Waterfall and Water Faucet; plus an excerpt from Handel's Water Music. Performers include Sons of the Pioneers, Bessie Smith, Eugene Ormandy, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Stan Getz. |
Sat, 14 May 2011
Country Hits from the war years. Songs include: There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, Roses in the Snow, Born to Lose, Banjo Pickin Girl and Night Train to Memphis. Performers include: Roy Acuff, Cindy Walker, Bill Monroe, Bob Wills, Cowboy Copas and the Coon Creek Girls. |
Sun, 8 May 2011
The music of songwriter,, Louis Alter, including:Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?, Manhattan Seranade, Dolores and Blue Shadows. Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Jo Stafford, Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. |
Sun, 1 May 2011
More songs from the first year of the Great Depression. Songs include: Cotton Club Stomp, Let Me Sing, Price of Cotton Blues and Beyond the Blue Horizon. Performers include: Bessie Smith, the Allen Brothers, Ruth Etting. Al Jolson, Louis Armstrong and Thomas Waller. |