Sat, 29 December 2012
Records left off of previous podcasts. Songs include: I Found a New Baby, Roadside Rag, Don't Grieve After Me, Nola and Puck's Dance. Performers include: Sonny Boy Williamson #1, Count Basie, Ernest Phipps, Roy Eldrige, Alfred Cortoit and Cliff Bruner. |
Sat, 22 December 2012
Celebrating the lives of musicains who passed away in 1977, including: Paul Desmond, Mary Ford, E. Power Biggs, Bukka White, Maria Callas and Guy Lombardo. Works include: Auld lang Syne, Shake Em On Down, I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Organ Concerto #10. |
Sun, 16 December 2012
A special, short podcast for Beethoven's birthday featuring the Eroica Variations played by Claudio Arrau. |
Sun, 16 December 2012
A tribute to musicians who passed away in 1977, including: Elvis Presely, Bing Crosby, Ethel Waters, Leopold Stokowski,, Sleepy John Estes and Errol Garner. |
Sat, 8 December 2012
Songs include: Frosty the Snowman, The Christmas Song, Joy to the World, Christmas Island, Santa Claus is Coming to Town and White Christmas. Performers include: Jo Stafford, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, the Andrews Sisters, Bob Wills and Doris Day. |
Fri, 7 December 2012
A special, short podcast in honor of jazz pianist and composer, Dave Brubeck. Works include: Fugue on a Bop Theme, Laura, Tea For Two and Stardust. |
Sat, 1 December 2012
Pianists forgotten by time; including: Pat Flowers, Jimmy Blythe, Hazel Scott, Donald Lambert, Rosita Renard, Zez Confrey and Jess Stacy. Works include: But Not For Me, Pork and Beans, Blues in B Flat, Sing, Sing Sing and Mozart's Rondo in D. |
Sat, 24 November 2012
The life and music of song writer, Harry von Tilzer. Songs include: Wait Till The Sun Shines Nelly, I Love My Wife, The Green Grass Grew All Around and I Want A Girl. Performers include: Ada Jones, Bing Crosby, Ted Lewis, Bob Roberts and Ella Retford. |
Sat, 17 November 2012
Songs include: I Faw Down, My One and Only, I Want to Be Bad, Diga Diga Do, Old McDonald and Tip Toe Through the Tulips. Performers include: Cliff Edwards, Helen kane , the Clicquot Club Eskimos, Jones & Hare and Jack Payne. |
Sun, 11 November 2012
Music of composer, George Fredrick Handel. Works include; Hallelujah Chorus , Zadock the Priest, Water Music , Chaconne in G and Concerto Grosso #9. Performers include: Malcom Sargent, Boyd Neel, Westminster Abby Choir , Shefeld Choir Edwin Fischer and the Phildelphia Orchestra. |
Sat, 3 November 2012
Western swing records from the peak years of its popularity. Songs include: New San Antonio Rose, Big Ball's In Cowtown, Pistol Packin Mama, Never Trust a Woman and Brain Cloudy Blues. Performers include: Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, Al Dexter, Tex Williams , Hoyle Nix and the Light Crust Doughboys. |
Sun, 28 October 2012
Songs include: Waltz Me Around Again, Willie, Waltzing the Blues, Kentucky Waltz and the Minute Waltz. Performers include: Rudy Vallee, John Kirby, Helen Clark, Guy Lombardo and Moritz Rosenthal. |
Sat, 20 October 2012
Songs include; Mr Ghost Goes To Town, The Halloween Dance, At the Devil's Ball. I'm Scared and Devil Got My Woman. Performers include: Bessie Smith, The Peerless Quartet, Peggy Lee, Skip James, Maxine Sullivan, Judy Garland and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band. The host also reads Edgar Allen Poe's poem, The Conqueror Worm. |
Sat, 13 October 2012
Jazz tunes especially recorded for the V-Disc program in the 1940s. Songs include: Don't Explain, Indiana, Undercurrent Blues, I Can't Get Started and That Ain't Right. Performers include: Billie Holliday, Benny Goodman, Art Tatum, Roy Eldridge, Count Basie and Fats Waller. |
Mon, 8 October 2012
Repost of We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder, plus, The Church in the Wildwood by the Chuck Wagon Gang. |
Sat, 6 October 2012
Southern Gospel from the 1920s - 1940s. Songs include: Jesus Hold My Hand, Gospel Ship, I Am Climbing Jacob's Ladder, Leaning On the Everlasting Arms and Never Grow Old. Performers include: Ernest Phipps, Alfred Karnes, the Carter Family, the Sons of the Pioneers, the Chuck Wagon Gang and Wade Mainer. |
Sat, 29 September 2012
Songs about America's favorite fruit, Iincluding; Yes, We Have No Bananas, Banana Oil, Banana In Your Fruit Basket and I Like Bananas. Performers include: Billy Jones, Vaughn de Leuth, Louis Prima, Bo Carter and Xavier Cugat. |
Sat, 22 September 2012
Tenors from the second decade of the 20th Century, including: Al Jolson, Billy Murray, Enrico Caruso, Henry Burr, Bob Roberts and Will Oakland. Songs include; O Solo Mio, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, Avalon, I've got Rings on My Fingers and It's a Long Way to Tipperary. |
Sat, 15 September 2012
Music for National Piano Month. Pianists include: Art Tatum, Artur Rubinstein, Moon Mullican, Pinetop Smith, Thelonius Monk, Erroll Garner, Liberace and Edwin Fischer. Works include: Jump steady Blues, Turkish Rondo, September Song, Mazurka #10, Perdidio and April in Paris. |
Sat, 8 September 2012
The life and music of songwriter, Harry M. Woods. Songs include: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover, Try a Little Tenderness, Side By Side, Just An Echo In the Valley and When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain. Performers include: Al Jolson, Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Ruth Etting, the Ames Brothers, Cliff Edwards and Billie Holiday. |
Sat, 1 September 2012
Recordings from the 1930s and 1940s of the Hammond electric organ and novachord. Performers include: Thomas"Fats" Waller, Ethyl Smith, Milt Herth, Ken Griffin, Vera Lynn and Glenn Hardman. Songs include: Apple Blossom, We'll Meet Again, Mamacita, Tico Tico and You Can't Be True Dear. |
Sat, 25 August 2012
Songs include: Malted Milk, Milkshake Stand, My Very Good Friend the Milkman, Milkcow Blues and Ole Buttermilk Sky. Performers include: Robert Johnson, Hoagy Carmichael, The King Sisters, Fats Waller, Elton Britt and Sleepy John Estes. |
Sun, 19 August 2012
Early jazz records from the Gennett label, including: Cakewalking Babies From Home, Riverboat Shuffle, Dippermouth Blues and Stardust. Performers include: King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Caroline Johnson, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbeck, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Jelly Roll Morton. |
Fri, 10 August 2012
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of composer claude Debussy. Works include: Reverie, Clair de Lune, The Girl With the Flaxen Hair, Fetes, String Quartet and The Play of the Waves. Performers include: Alfred Cortot, Arturo Toscanini, Artur Rodzinski, The Virtuoso String Quartet, Walter Gieseking and Claude Debussy. |
Sat, 4 August 2012
Songs include: Jalousie, I'll Be Around, Where Did You Sleep, All the World Will Be Jealous and All or Nuttin. Performers include: Arthur Fiedler, Cab Calloway, Henry Burr, the Andrews Sisters and Celeste Holm. |
Sat, 28 July 2012
Prewar blues harp greats, including: Sonny Terry, Daddy Stovepipe, Noah Taylor, Sonny Boy Williamson 1, Eddie Mapp and Jaybird Coleman. Songs include: Harmonica Blues, Dixie Flyer Blues, Boarding House Blues and Sundown Blues. |
Sat, 21 July 2012
Highlights from the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. Performers include: John Lee Hooker, The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Sol Hoopii, Fiorello La Guardia and Vladimir Horowitz. Recordings include: Tudexo Junction, Facinating Rhythm, Reading Dick Tracy, I Can Hear it Now, Boogie Chillin and Artistry in Rhythm. |
Fri, 13 July 2012
Songs include: Stardust, Stella By Starlight. Stars Fell On Alabama, A Handful of Stars and Come Down My Evening Star. Performers include: Hoagy Carmichael, Benny Goodman, Lilian Russel, Artie Shaw, Vera Lynn and Johnny Mercer. |
Sat, 7 July 2012
Songs include: Maybe It's Because I'm An Londoner, Chelsea Bridge, A Foggy Day In London, The London Bridge March, London Pride and A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. Performers include: Billy Cotton, Vera Lynn, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Noel Coward and Fred Astaire. |
Fri, 29 June 2012
Works include: The Star Spangled Banner, The Stars and Stripes Forever, On the Mall and the 1812 Overture. Performers include: John Philip Sousa, Edwin Franco Goldman, Deanna Durbin, The Boston Pops and Vladimir Horowitz. |
Sat, 23 June 2012
Shirley Temple singing in Japanese, Nazi Jazz, a musical saw, the worst opera singer, a creepy Christmas poem and other strange records. |
Fri, 22 June 2012
A special podcast marking the death of scifi writer, Ray Bradburry. The show includes a radio performance of Bradbury's story, The Veldt from 1951. |
Sat, 16 June 2012
Records left off of earlier podcasts. Sarah Vaughn sings Just Friends. The Norwalk Symphony plays Elegy by Sibleius. Western swing by Jimmie Revard. Woody Guthrie sings a Titaniac song. Plus Blind Boy Fuller plays Step it Up And Go. |
Sun, 10 June 2012
The early history of western swing music. Performers include: The Light Crust Doughboys, Milton Brown, Bob Wills, Cliff Bruner, Adolph Hofner, The Tune Wranglers and the Swift Jewel Cowboys. Songs include: Pass the Biscuits Pappy, Beautiful Texas, Get A Long Home Cindy, Taking Off and My Untrue Cowgirl. |
Sun, 3 June 2012
The life and music of songwriter Sam Lewis. Songs include: For All We Know, Just Friends, I'm Sitting On Top Of The World, Dinah, Five foot Two and Hello Central. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Nora Bayes, Ted Lewis, Gene Austin and Isham Jones. |
Sun, 27 May 2012
More classical music from the V-Disc program of the 1940s. Works include: Bizet's Habanera, Rossinini's Dance of the Soldiers, Purcell's Trumpet Tune and Air, Scott's From the Sacred Harp and Ginastara's Panambi Suite. Artists include: Marian Anderson, Arturo Toscanini, Virgil Fox, Erich Kleiber, The Norwalk Symphony and Morley and Gearhart. |
Sun, 20 May 2012
Singers include: Vaughn DeLeath, Kitty Kallen, Jo Stafford, Helen Ward, Evelyn Dall and Annette Handshaw. Songs include: Are You Lonesome Tonight, Ain't He Sweet, Paper Moon, Skylark, It's Been A Long Long Time and Some Enchanted Evening. |
Sat, 12 May 2012
Cheerful songs from the Great Depression. Songs include: Happy Days Are Here Again, When You're Smiling, Pennies From Heaven, Don't Let It Bother You and Dawn of a New Day. Performers include; Alice Faye, Leo Reisman, Louis Armstrong, Horace Heidt, Lee Morse and Bing Crosby. |
Sat, 5 May 2012
Pianists include; Jelly Roll Morton, James P Johnson, Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Bud Powell and Lenny Tristano. Songs include: Original Rags, Chimes in Blues, It had to be You, I Can't Get Started and Rosetta. |
Sat, 28 April 2012
Highlights from the Armed Forces Radio show, Mail Call from the 1940s. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Diana Shore, June Allison, Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers and Robert Benchley. Songs include: Don't Fence Me In, Till Then, Oh What a Beautiful Morning, Begin the Beguine and Speak Low. |
Sat, 21 April 2012
Tangos from the 1910s through the 1940s. Performers include: Carlos Gardel, Roberto Firpo, Carlos di Sarli, Anibal Troilo and Juan Canaro. Tangos include: La Cumparsita, La Brisa, Paloma Blanca, El Amanecer and Caminito. |
Sat, 7 April 2012
A special program marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Songs include: When That Great Ship Went Down, The Sinking of the Titanic, Nearer My God to Thee, God Moves On the Water , plus interviews with two Titanic survivors. Performers include: Leadbelly, the Knickerbocker Quartet, Ernest Stoneman, Blind Willie Johnson, Charles Lightoller and Edith Rosenbaum Russel. More interviews with Titanic survivors can be heard at: bbc.co.uk/archive/titanic. |
Sat, 31 March 2012
To celebrate the 300th episode of Music From 100 Years Ago, songs with numbers in the title, including: Tea For Two, I'm a Hundred Percent For You, I See a Million People and Infinity Promanade. Performers include: Uma Mae Carlisle, Thomas Waller, Bing Crosby, Thelonious Monk and Shorty Rodgers. |
Sun, 25 March 2012
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Fredrick Delius, a special podcast featuring Brigg Fair performed by Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic. |
Sat, 24 March 2012
Music By Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, John Ireland, Arthur Sullivan, Fredrick Delius and William Walton. Works include: Nimrod, Spitfire, Sea Fever, The Wasps Overture and The Wand Of Youth. |
Fri, 16 March 2012
Irish music including: My Wild Irish Rose, Londerry bAir, Did Your Mother Come From Ireland and traditional Irish Reels. Performers include: John McCormack, Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoren, Bing Crosby, Tom Ennis and William Butler Yeats. |
Sun, 11 March 2012
Highlights from 6 years of Music From 100 Years Ago. Performers include: Doris Day, Meade Lux Lewis, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Eugene Ormandy. |
Sat, 3 March 2012
Songs about Monday, including: A Monday Date, Every Day Is Monday, Blue Monday Blues, Monday Again and Sunday, Monday and Always. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Jeanne Taylor, Albert Ammons, Frankie Laine and Count Basie. |
Sat, 25 February 2012
Country fiddlers from the 1920s and 1930s, including Eck Robertson, John Carson, G.B. Grayson, Alfred Reed and Bob Wills. Songs include: Goin Down This Road Feeling Bad, Tom Dooley, Old Joe Clark, Maiden's Prayer and Pass Around the Bottle. |
Sat, 18 February 2012
Highlights from the first eight V-Discs, from October 1943. Songs include: Blue Skies. Sing Sing Sing. Home On the Range, Che Li and Okalahoma. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Diana Shore, the Fort Slocum Band and Vaughn Monroe. |
Sat, 4 February 2012
Blind blues singers of the 1920s and 1030s, including: Lemon Jefferson, Willie McTell, Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Blind Willie Johnson, Teddy Darb and Blind Boy Fuller. Songs include: Log Cabin Blues, Southern Rag, Bad Luck Blues, Southern Can Is Mine and Have a Little More Faith In Jesus. |
Sun, 29 January 2012
Music of George Gershwin as perfored on radio broadcasts in the 1930s and 1940s. Music includes: Lady Be Good, I Got Rhythm Variations, Summertime, Piano Prelude #1 and They Can't take that Away From Me. Musicians include: George Gershwin, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Lewis Armstrong. |
Fri, 27 January 2012
A special podcast to honor Mozart on his 256th birthday. Performers include: Thomas Beecham, The Budapest String Quartet, Wanda Landowsky and Hamilton Harty. |
Sat, 21 January 2012
Songs about eyes, including: I Only Have Eyes For You, Green Eyes, Them There Eyes, Angel Eyes and Dark Eyes. Performers include: Billie Holiday. Jame Froman, Herb Jeffries, Bing Crosby, Gene Austin and Helen Forest. |
Sun, 15 January 2012
A tribute to performers born 100 years ago this year, including: Perry Como, Lightnin Hopkins, Woody Guthrie, Georg Solti, Don Byas & Marta Eggerth. Music Includes: Some Enchanted Evening, Short Haired Woman, Tis Autumn, Summertime & Brahms Violin Sonata #3. |
Sat, 7 January 2012
Hit songs from 1912, including: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Oh You Beautiful Doll, Love Is Mine, Come Down My Evening Star and Waiting For the Robert E Lee. Performers include: Al Jolson, Lilian Russel, Fisk University Jubilee Singers, Enrico Caruso and Collins & Harlin. |