Records left off of previous shows.  Songs include: Oh What a Beautiful Morning, Ko Ko, No Wedding Bells For Me, La Traviata Prelude, Trouble in Mind and Down Home Rag.  Performers include: The Yerba Buena Jazz Band, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Bing Crosby, Shep Fields, Billy Murray and Arturo Toscanini.

The life and music of song writer, Haven Gillespie.  Songs include: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, You Go to My Head, Whose Honey Are You?, Right Or Wrong, Kiss, Beautiful Love and That Lucky Old Sun.  Performers include:  Bing Crosby, Billy Holliday, Harry Resser, Sarah Vaughn, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Marylin Monroe and Henry "Red" Allen.

Celebrating Beethoven's birthday with three historic recordings.  Works include: Fur Elise, Violin Sonata #7 and The Concecration of the House Overture.  Performers include: Artur Schnabel, Yehudi Menuhin and Arturo Toscanini.

Music about being cold.  Works include: Baby It's Cold Outside, Cold, Cold Heart, Massas In the Cold, Cold Ground, It's Getting Chilly, Out In the Cold Again and The Winter's Passed.  Performers include: Doris Day, Hal Kemp, Helen Kane, Louis Armstrong, Slim and Sam and the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet.

More highlights from the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.  Music includes: 12th Street Rag, In a Mellotone, Can't Help Lovin That Man, The Adventures of Robin Hood and Honky Tonk Blues.  Perfromers include: Louis Armstrong, Helen Morgan. Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Erich Korngold and Iry Lejeune.

Songs include: Winter Wonderland, Santa Claus Got Stuck In the Chimney, Let It Snow, Don't Wait Until Christmas Night and Canon in D.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Perry Como, Arthur Fiedler, Ella Fitzgerald and Kay Kyser.

Pioneering women in country music from the 1930s and 1940s, including: Patsy Montana, The Girls of the Golden West, Moonshine Kate, Shirley Thoms, Lulu Belle and Scotty  and Kitty Wells.  Songs include: Worried Man Blues, My Man's a Jolly Railroad Man, That's Where the West Begins and I'll Be All Smiles Tonight.

The host recites the Gettysburg Address on the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's famous speech.

Songs about being thankful, including: Thanks For the Memory, I Want To Thank You Folks, Thanks a Million, Thank Your Father and Thank You Mr. Moon.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, The Boswell Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Perry Como and Helen Kane.

Sidemen of the Duke Ellinbgton Orchestra from the 1930s and 1940s.  Performers include: Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster, Herb Jeffries, Al Hibbler, Ray Nance and Juan Tizol.  Songs include: Empty Ballroom Blues, I've Got It Bad, Bakiff, Cotton Tail, Nine O' Clock Beer and Halfway to Dawn.

Blues singers of the Mississippi Delta, including: Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Son House, Bukka White, Memphis Minnie and Skip James.  Songs include: Banty Rooster Blues, I'm a Bad Luck Woman, Traveling Riverside Blues, Cherry Ball Blues and Your Biscuits Are Big Enough.

Songs include: Sunrise Serenade, Manhatthan Serenade, Serenade For a Wealthy Widow, Sleepy Serenade and Shepard's Serenade.  Performers include: The Casa Loma Orchestra, Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Jelly Roll Morton, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Artie Shaw, Fritz  Kreisler and Harry James.

The annual Halloween show.  Songs include: My Friend the Ghost, The Halloween Dance, Ghost Riders In the Sky, I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried and Here Comes the Boogie Man.  Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Henry Hall, Peggy Lee and Eugene Ormandy

Female singers featured on V-Discs from the 1940s.  Performers include: Billie Holiday, Ginny Simms, Kay Starr, Dinah Shore, Marian Anderson and the Andrews Sisters.  Songs include: Bell Bottom Trousers, Moonlight in Vermont, He's Funny That Way and Let Us Break Bread Together.

Celebrating the 200th birthday of Italian opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi.  Works include: The Force of Destiny Overture, La Donna e Mobile, Requiem Mass, Triumphal March and Libiamo Ne' Lieti Calici.  Performers include: Arturo Toscanini, Jan Pierce, Licia Albanese, Jussi Bjorling and Herbert von Karajan.

Theme songs from these bands: Cab Calloway, Hal Kemp, Benny Goodman, Eddie Duchin, Count Basie, Louis Prima, Bob Zurke and Glenn Miller.

Songs include: The Anniversary Song, Clancey's Wooden Wedding, The Golden Wedding, I'll Dance At Your Wedding, The Wedding March and Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine.  Performers include: Woddy Herman, Al Jolson, Peggy Lee, The Andrews Sisters, The Cleveland Orchestra and Frankie Trambauer.

Early banjo masters, including: Vess Ossman, Fred Van Epps, Harry Reser, Molly O Day, Uncle Dave Macon, Gus Cannon and Earl Scruggs. Songs include: I'm Going Home On the Morning Train, Doin My Time, Maple Leaf Rag and Can You Blame a Colored Man?.

Pianists who double as singers, including: Thomas "Fats" Waller, Pat Flowers, Hadda Brooks, Cleo Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Fats Domino and Whispering Jack Smith.  Songs include: Me And My Wonderful One, Sposin, Stardust, Out of the Blue and The Fat Man.

The music of 1943, including, Song of India, Paper Doll, Night Train to Memphis, I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No and Cherokee.  Performers include: Frank Sinatra, the Mills Brothers, Celeste Holm, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Noel Coward and Roy Acuff.

Songs  include: That Old Black Magic, It's Magic, Grandpa's Spells, South Sea Island Magic and My Name Is John Wellington Welles.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, Eddie Durham, Dorris Day, Margret Whiting, Raymond Scott and Django Reinhardt.

Songs include: Beer Barrel Polka, More Beer, Gimmie a Pigfoot, Beer Bottle Woman & The Bartender's Just Like a Mother.  Performers include: Will Glahe, the Andrews Sisters, Bessie Smith, Bob Wills, Barney Bigard and the 101 Ranch Boys.

Highlights from the music of composer Robert Schumann, including excerpts from the piano concerto, Kinderszenen, the Piano Quintet, the Symphony #3 and Arabeske.  Performers include: Arthur Rubinstein , Arturo Toscanini, Albert Cortot and Myra Hess.

Songs include: Let's Fall In Love, Summertime, I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me, Armful of Sweetness and Pretty Baby.  Performers include: Les Paul & Mary Ford, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Frankie Laine.

Bands that revived New Orleans style jazz in the 1930s and 40s. Performers include: Lu Watters, Bunk Johnson, Turk Murphy, Muggsy Spainer, Eddie Condon and the Bob Cats.  Tunes include: Riverboat Shuffle, Ace in the Hole, Maple Leaf Rag, 12th Street Rag and Trouble In Mind.

Themes include: Take the A Train, Cherokee, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Blue Prelude, Nightmare and Bubbles In the Wine.  Performers include: Duke Ellington, Bob Crosby, Lawrence Welk, Tommy Dorsey, Fletcher Henderson and Artie Shaw.

Mack Gordon's movie songs from the 1940s, including: I Had the Craziest Dream, Chattanooga Choo Choo, You'll Never Know, Down Argentine Way, At Last and You Make Me Feel So Young. Performers include: Glenn Miller, Harry James, Sammy Kaye, Frank Sinatra and Dick Haymes.

The 1930s songs of lyricist, Mack Gordon, including: Paris In the Spring, Goodnight My Love, Don't Let It Bother You, Help Youself to Happiness and I've Got a Date With a Dream.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, Billie Holliday, the Casa Loma Orchestra, Alice Faye, Thomas "Fats" Waller and Ella Fitzgerald.

Music for U.S. Independence Day, including: Star Spangled Banner, Here Comes the Navy, El Capitan and God Bless America. Performers include: Ernest Tubb, Arturio Toscanini, the Andrews Sisters, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Phil Hanna and Leopold Stokowski.

Jazz times two.  Performers include: Duke Ellington & Jimmy Blanton, Django Reinhart & Eddie South, Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis and Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines.  Songs include: I Got Rhythm, Eddie's Blues, Weather Bird and Big Noise From Winnetka.

Two versions of these songs: Stardust, Caravan, Steel Guitar Rag, You Are My Sunshine and Matchbox Blues.  Artists include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Valaida Snow, Gene Autry, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, Harry James and Billy Eckstine.

Songs include: Stop Pretending, I Can't Stop Loving You, Stop, The Red Light's On, You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming & Nonstop Flight.  Performers include: Artie Shaw, The Boswell Sisters, Frank Sinatra, King Oliver, Una May Carlisle, Thomas Waller and Sleepy John Estes.

A repost of the Wagner bicentennial podcast with improved sound.

Records left off of previous podcasts.  Music inclues: I'm a Happy Go Lucky Cowboy, K.C. Moan, Schubert's Impromptu #2, We've Got a Parrot At Our House, Whoop Em Up, Cindy and Harlem Nocturne.  Performers include: Ray Noble, Eilene Joyce, Collins & Harlin, Smokey Dawson, Ben Webster and Uncle Dave Macon.

Performers include: Blind Blake, Buddy Moss, Scrapper Blackwell, Peg Leg Howell, Josh White and Reverend Gary Davis.  Songs include: Lord, I Want to Die Easy, Ain't No Tellin, Peg Leg Stomp, He's In the Jailhouse, If I Call You Mama and The Great Change In Me.

More songs about New York, including: Broadway Rose, Let Me Off Uptown, Brooklyn Bridge, Slaughter on 10th Avenue and Manhattan Minuet.  Performers include: Raymond Scott, Ted Lewis, Dolly Dawn, Billy Muray and Lenny Hayton.

Songs include: Honeymoon Hotel, Putin' On the Ritz, There's a Small Hotel, Rose Room and Lounging at the Waldorf.  Performers include: Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, The Nite Owls and Thomas "Fats" Waller.

Songs include: Waiting For a Train,  Fast Mail Rambler, Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train, Take the A Train, Texas and Pacific and It Takes a Long, Long Train.  performers include: Louis Armstrong, The Rev. J.M. Gates, Dinah Shore, Lighting Hopkins, Johnny Mercer , Jimmie Rogers and Duke Ellington.

Songs include: Get On Board, Train Whistle Blues, Waiting For the Train to Come In, My Savior's Train, Rock Island Line and Cannonball Express.  Performers include: Roy Acuff, Lionel Hampton, The Andrews Sisters, Ella May Morse, The Monroe Brothers , Leadbelly and Sonny Terry.

A tribute to musicians born in 1913, including: Sammy Cahn, Helen Humes, Frankie Laine, Cowboy Copas, Licia Albanese, Richard Tucker and Carmen Cavellero.  Songs include: Time After Time The Flower Song, Georgia On My Mind and September Song.

Music produced by military bands and recorded by the V-Disc program in the 1940s.  Songs include: Stairway to the Stars, Swingtime in the Rockies, Go Down Moses, Little Liza and Hungarian Dance #5

Songs celebrating New York City, Including: The Sidewalks of New York, Harlem Holliday, 42nd Street, Give Me the Moon Over Brooklyn and Coney Island Washboard.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, The Mills Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Hal Kemp, Guy Lombardo and Jelly Roll Morton.

A special podcast for J.S. Bach's 328th birthday featuring a 1946 recording of the Concerto for Two Violins by Jascha Heifetz.

The life and music of songwriter Irving Caesar.  Songs include: Tea For Two, Animal Crackers In My Soup, I Want To Be Happy, Swanee, Is It True What They Say About Dixie and Sometimes I'm Happy.  Performers include: Al Jolson, Mildred Bailey, Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Wingy Manone, Mildred Bailey and Jimmy Durrante.

Bands that influenced the development of bluegrass music.  Artists include: Bill Monroe, The Skillet Lickers, Charlie Poole, The Delmore Brothers, Uncle Dave Macon and Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers.  Songs include: Molly and Tenbrooks, Orange Blossom Special, Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line, Bright Tomorrow and Hand Me Down My Walking Cane.

Celebrating seven years of podcasting with: Louis Armstrong, Patti Page, the Memphis Jug Band, Duke Ellington, Thomas "Fats"  Waller, Johnny Mercer, the Rev. J.M. Gates and Blind Lemon Jefferson.  Songs include: Keyhole Blues, the Goldberg Variations, So In Love, Zip A Dee Do Dah, The Girl I Left Behind Me and Lock Step Blues.

The music of composer Franz Schubert, including: Erlkonig, The Trout, Symphony #5, the Death and the Maiden Quartet and the Impromptu in B Flat.  Performers include: Arthur Schnabel, Marian Anderson, Hans Hotter, Bruno Walter and the Roth Quartet.

Musicians who played in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, including: Johnny Hodges, Rex Stewart, Ivy Anderson, Jimmy Blanton, Billy Strayhorn and Jaun Tizol.  Songs include: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, Warm Valley, Plunked Again., Rexations, Mood Indigo and Black and Tan Fantasy.

Singing Cowboys of the 1920s through the 1940s, including: Carl T. Sprague, Harry McClintock, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter.  Songs include: Back in the Saddle, Time Changes Everything, When the Work's All Done This Fall and Moonlight on the Prairie.

Love songs for Valentines Day, including: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, My Heart Stood Still, One Hour Tonight, Let's Fall In Love and I Can't Beleive That You're In Love with Me.  Performers include: Ella Fitzgerald, Harlod Arlen, Annette Handshaw, The Pied Pipers and Louis Armstrong.

A special, short podcast in tribute to Patty Andrews, of the Andrews Sisters, who passed away January 30th, 2013 at 94.

Musicians who played at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem including: Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall. Cab Calloway, Ethyl Waters, Jimmy Lunceford and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band.  Songs include: Creole Love Call, White Lightning, Rhythm Is Our Business and I Must Have That Man.

Music Of British dance bands of the 1930s, including: Bert Ambrose, Jack Jackson, Ray Noble, Billy Cotton and Roy Fox. Songs include: Too Marvelous For Words, Dinah, The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven, The Bouncing Ball and Embassy Stomp.

More musicians born 100 years ago this year, including: Judy Canova, Woody Herman, Bob Crosby, Jimmy Van Heusen, Ella Logan and Muddy Waters.  Songs include: Swinging On a Star, Woodchopper's Ball, Hoochie Coochie Man and Honky Tonk Train.

A tribute to musicians born in 1913, including: Mary Martin, Grandpa Jones, Morton Gould, Charley Barnet, Danny Kaye and Rise Stevens. Songs inclue: My Heart Belongs  to Daddy, Mountain Dew, Simple Symphony, Cherokee and I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.

Hit music from 1913, including: Peg O' My Heart, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, The Rite of Spring, Sweethearts and Because.  Performers include: Caunchey Olcott, Al Jolson, Christie McDonald, Bert williams and Igor Stravinsky.