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Songs include: Wedding Bells by the Four Aces, The Bells of Saint Mary by Bing Crosby, The Blue Bells of Scotland by Ella Logan, Serenade of the Bells by Jo Stafford and The Liberty Bell by The Band of the Grenadier Gaurds. 

Direct download: Bells.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 3:20pm CST

Songs include: Lazy River by Hoagy Carmichael, River Stay Away From My Door by kate Smith, Ol Man River by The Ravens, Cry Me a River by Julie London, Down By the Riverside by Louis Armstrong and Walkin By the River by Una Mae Carlise. 

Direct download: Rivers.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 3:14pm CST

Songs include: It's a Blue World by The Four Freshmen, Three Coins In the Fountain by The Four Aces, It's Love, Love, Love by The Four King Sisters, I Get So Lonely by The Four Knights and Soldier Boy by The Four Fellows. 

Direct download: The_Fours.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 9:56am CST

Songs include: Dinner With Drac by John Zacherly, Ding Dong the witch Is Dead by Glenn Miller, Undertaker Blues by Buddy Moss, Danse Macrabe by the Royal Philharmonic and and Halloween poem by Louise Gluck. 

Direct download: Halloween_2025.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 11:27am CST

Music includes: Now's The Time by Charlie Parker, Body and Soul by Coleman Hawkins, East of the Sun by Lester Young, My Old Flame by Stan Getz, Cotton Tail by Ben Webster and Warm Valley by Johnny Hodges.

Direct download: 1940s_Jazz_Saxophonists.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 3:00pm CST

Songs include: Faith Can Move Mountains by Nat King Cole, When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain by Kate Smith, Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Flatt and Scruggs, Blueberry Hill by Louis Armstrong, I'd Climb the Highest Mountain by the Ink Spots and The Old Man of the Mountain by Cab Calloway. 

Direct download: Mountains_and_Hills.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 12:20pm CST

Songs include: All the Things You Are by Artie Shaw, The Last Time I Saw Paris by Kate Smith, Pick Yourself Up by Fred Astaire, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Jo Staffored and Look For the Silver Lining by Chet Baker. 

Direct download: Jerome_Kern_Part_1.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 12:53pm CST

Music includes: Let Em Jump by Pete Johnson, I'll See You In My Dreams by Teddy Wilson, Hungarian Rhapsody #10 by Arthur Rubinstein, Caravan by Ferante & Teicher and Night Wind by Roger Williams. 

Direct download: National_Piano_Month_2025.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:22pm CST

A special, short podcast honoring guitarists, Charlie Byrd and B B King on the 100th anniversary of their births. 

Direct download: Charlie_Byrd_and_BB_King_.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 8:40am CST

Music includes: Pomp and Circumstance March #4 by Edward Elgar, Ruins of Athens march by Beethoven, March from the English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughn Williams, the Nutcracker March by Tchaikovsky and the Guadalcanal March by Richard Rodgers and Richard Russel Bennett.

Conducors include: Arturo Toscanini, Arthur Fiedler, Thomas Beecham and Henry Wood. 

 

Direct download: Symphonic_marches.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 3:28pm CST

Musicians include: Ester Phillips, Hank Thompson, Jack Teagarden. Arizonia Dranes, Lefty Frizzel, Consuelo Silva and Henry Thomas.

Songs include: I Love You a Thousand Ways, He Is My Story, Whoa Sailor, Cuando Tu Te Alejes and Double Crossing Blues. 

Direct download: Lone_Star_Musicians_Part_2.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 4:44pm CST

Musicians include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mary Martin, Lydia Mendoza, Bob Wills Ernest Tubb, Teddy Wilson, Charlie Christian and Hoyle Nix.

Songs include: Easy Rider Blues, Spanish Two Step, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Let Your Light Shine On me and Lamento Borincano. 

Direct download: Lone_Star_Musicians_Part_1.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 2:41pm CST

Songs include: Tico Tico by Ethel Smith, Jitterbug Waltz by Fats Waller, St Louis Blues by Bessie Smith, Twilight Time by The Three Suns, TV Is the Thing by Dinah Washington and Fuzzy Wuzzy by the Milt Hearth Trio. 

Direct download: Pop_Goes_the_Organ.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 9:18am CST

Musicians include: Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Mahalia Jackson, Lonnie Johnson, Louis Prima, Sidney Bechet and Blanche Thomas. 

Direct download: Born_In_New_Orleans.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 2:29pm CST

Songs include: Ole Buttermilk Sky by Kay kyser, Cabin In the Sky by Ella Fitzgerald, Blue Skies by Count Basie, Riders In the Sky by Bing Crosby and Orange Colored Sky by Nat King Cole. 

Direct download: Sky_Songs.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 1:22pm CST

Records include: Who's On First by Abbott & Costello, The Man On The Flying Trapeze by Spike Jones, Guarding the Gasworks by Stanley Holloway, Casey At The 
Bat by Jerry Colona and Bugs Bunny Meets Elmer Fudd by Mel Blanc.

Direct download: Comedy_Records_1940s.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 8:58am CST

Songs include: So In Love by Patti Page, Taking a Chance On Love by Benny Goodman, Dream by the Pied Pipers, For Sentimental Reasons by Nat King Cole and I Wish That I Were Twins by Fats Waller. 

Direct download: Summer_love_Songs_2025.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 8:37am CST

Songs include: That's What You Think by Pinky Tomlin, Thinking of You by Eddie Fischer, I Think I'll Wed In the Summer by Harry Lauder, What Do You Think by Nancy Walker and The Very Thought of you by Art Tatum. 

Direct download: Think.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 9:41am CST

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Songs include: Chattanooga Choo Choo  by Glenn Miller, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by the Andrews Sisters, God Bless The Child by Billie Holiday, Take the A Train by Duke Ellington and Stardust by Artie Shaw. 

Direct download: The_Hits_of_1941.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 7:11am CST

Songs include: Stars and Stripes Forever by John Phillip Sousa, Tail End Charlie by Glenn Miller, Take Me Out To the Ball Game by Frankie Masters, America by the Boston Pops Orchestra, Bugler's Holiday by Leroy Anderson and Mr. Touchdown USA by Hugo Winterhalter. 

Direct download: Independence_Day_2025.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 11:07am CST

Songs include: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree by Glenn Miller, Chiquita Banana by Xavier Cugat, Blueberry Hill by Louis Armstrong, Beans and Cornbread by Louis Jordan and Huckleberry Duck by Raymond Scott. 

Direct download: Fruit_and_Veggies_Month.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 10:29am CST

Records include: Riverboat Shuffle by Isham Jones, A Trumpeter's Lullaby by Leroy Anderson, 3 O' Clock Blues by B.B. King, Tennessee Waltz by Jo Stafford, Mozart's Piano Sonata #12 by Aldo Ciccolini and Our Delight by Tadd Dameron.

Direct download: Leftovers_36.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 8:03am CST

Songs include: Wedding Bells by the Four Aces, I Went to Your Wedding by Patti Page, An Apple Blossom Wedding by Sammy kaye and The Wedding of Mr. Mickey Mouse by Jack Jackson. 

Direct download: June_Wedding.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 11:09am CST

Songs include: Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller, My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Mary Martin, Body and Soul by Coleman Hawkins, Deep Purple by Larry Clinton and God Bless America by Kate Smith. 

Direct download: Number_One_Hits_of_1939.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 4:16pm CST

Historic recordings of classical music dances.  Music by Johannes Brahams, William Gluck, Manuel De Fall, George Bizet, Frederic Chopin and Pytor Tchaikovsky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct download: Classical_Dances.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 6:34am CST

Records selected for the National Recording Registry in 2024 and 25.  Including: Aloha Oe by the Hawaiian Quintette, Clarinet Marmelade by Jim Europe, Rose Room By the Benny Goodman Sextette, Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer by Gene Autry and Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston.

Direct download: National_Recording_Registry_2025.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 2:00pm CST

Songs include: Second Hand Rose by Fannie Brice, Your Feets Too Big by Thomas "Fats" Waller, The Hand of Fate by Eddie Fischer, Sugar Foot Stomp by Benny Goodman, Careless Hands by Mel Torme and Pig Foot Pete by Dolly Dawn. 

Direct download: Hands_and_Feet.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 9:31am CST

Songs include: I'll See You In My Dreams by Django Rheinhardt, Farruca by Ramon Montoya, Strollin With Bone by T-Bone Walker, Step it Up And Go by Blind Boy Fuller and You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To by Billy Baur. 

Direct download: National_Guitar_Month_2025.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 11:23am CST

Songs include: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by the Andrews Sisters, The Girl I left Behind Me by Fats Waller, Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend by Jo Stafford, Nature Boy by Nat King Cole and Beautiful Girl by Bing Crosby. 

Direct download: Boy_and_Girl.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 2:39pm CST

Songs include: Five Guys Named Moe by Louis Jordan, Number Ten Lullabye Lane by Dinah Shore, Pennsylvania 6-5000 by Glenn Miller, One Hundred Years From Today by Ethyl Waters, "T" 99 Blues by Jimmie Nelson and One Hundred Percent For You by Fats Waller. 

Direct download: Episode_900_All_About_Numbers.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 2:21pm CST

Music includes: After Yor Gone by the Benny Goodman Quartet, If You Were Mine by Billie Holiday, Harlem Airshaft by Duke Ellington, Manteca by Dizzy Gillespie, Boplicity by Miles Davis and I Love paris by Cecil Taylor. 

Direct download: Jazz_Appreciation_Month_2025.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:18pm CST

Songs include: The Third man Theme by Anton Karas, Ruby by Richard Hayman, The Syncopated Clock by Leroy Anderson, Swedish Rhaposdy by Percy Faith, Dragnet by Ray Anthony and Melancholy Serenade by Jackie Gleeson. 

Direct download: Pop_Instrumentals_1950s.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 9:45am CST

Songs include: After You've Gone by Django Rheinhardt, When Your Lover Has Gone by Billie Holiday, He's a Real Gone Guy by Nellie Lutcher, Long Gone Lonesome Blues by Hank Williams and Gone With the Wind by Julie London. 

Direct download: Gone.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 10:33am CST

Songs include: Chatanooga Choo Choo by Glenn Miller, Beale Street Blues by Jelly Roll Morton, In the Pines by Leadbelly, Louisville Lady by Sophie Tucker and Tenessee Waltz by Patti Page.

Direct download: Kentucky_and_Tennessee.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 7:06am CST

Celebrating 19 years of this podcast with some of the host's favorite records, along with some memories of the show's origin. 

Songs include: Right Or Wrong by Bob Wills, Cherokee by Sarah Vaughn, Devil Got My Woman by Skip James, In a Mist by Frankie Traumbaur, The Half Of It Dearie Blues by Fred Astaire and Once In a While by Louis Armstrong. 

Direct download: 19th_Anniversary_Show.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 10:43am CST

Songs include: Be Kind To Your Web Footed Friends by Peter and Mary, Doggie In the Window by Patti Page, The Flying Saucer by Buchannan and Goodman, I Ain't Got Nobody by Louis Prima and Little Blue Riding Hood by Stan Freberg. 

Direct download: Novelty_Songs_1950s.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 12:50pm CST

Music includes: Scrapple From the Apple by Charlie Parker, Lover by Stan Kenton, Easy Living by Billie Holiday, Shake That Thing by Turk Murphy, I Want To Be Loved by Benny Goodman and Boogie Woogie Stomp by Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson. 

Direct download: Jazz_1947.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:19am CST

Songs include; It Don't Mean a Thing by Ivie Anderson, Do Nothing Till You Hear From me by Al Hibbler, Blue Skies by Jimmy Rushing, Blues In the Night by Cab Calloway, It Ain't Necessarily So by Maxine Sullivan and Night In Tunisia by Sarah Vaughn.

Direct download: African_American_Band_singers.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:44am CST

Songs include: When I Fall In Love by Jeri Southern, My Foolish heart by Billy Ecksteine, Moon and Sand by Xavier Cugat, Some Enchanted Evening by Jo Stafford and Goodbye Sue by Perry Como. 

Direct download: Songs_For_Valentins_Day.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:09am CST

Songs include: You Don't Know What Love Is by Dinah Washington, You Don't Have To Know the Language by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, It's Too Soon To Know by the Orioles, Ask Anyone Who Knows by the Ink Spots and I'll Know by Georgia Gibbs. 

Direct download: Know_Part_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:36pm CST

Celebrating Mozart's 269th birthday with historical recordings including: Rondo In D Major by Walter Gieseking, Sring Quartet 21 by the Budapest String Quartet, Der Schauspieldirektor Overture by Eric Leinsdorf and Piano Concerto 19 by Clara Haskil. 

Direct download: Mozart_Birthday_2025.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:33am CST

A salute to musicians born in 1925, including: Sammy Davis Jr, Art Pepper, Marty Robbins, Celia Cruz, Oscar Peterson, Johnny Horton, Bill Haley and Charlie Byrd.

Direct download: Centennials_2025_part_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:10pm CST

Songs include: Don't You Know I Love you by The Clovers, You'll Never Know by Frank Sinatra, Now I Know by Dinah Shore, You Know I Love You by BB King, I Don't Know Enough by The Mills Brothers and I Really Don't Want To Know by Less Paul and Mary Ford. 

Direct download: Know_Part_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:15am CST

Some of the most popular records of 1925, including: The Charleston by Paul Whiteman, St. Louis Blues by Bessie Smith, Gut Bucket Blues by Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives, Tea For Two by Marian Harris, Sweet Georgia Brown by Isham Jones and All Alone by Al Jolson. 

The host also describes some of the major events of 1925. 

Direct download: 1925.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:36am CST