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Songs about dreams and dreaming by Frank Sinatra, Patti Page, Woody Herman, Glenn Miller, Perry Como and Harry James. 

Direct download: Dream_Show.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:44am CST

Songs include: Here Comes Santa Claus by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, Jingle Bells by Les Paul, Oh Come All Ye Faithful by Kate Smith, Boogie Woogie Santa Claus by Patti Smith, the Russian Dance from the Nutcracker by Herbert von Karajan and the 12 Days of Christmas by Fred Waring.

Direct download: Christmas_2024.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:25am CST

Songs include: They Call The Wind Maria by Vaughn Monroe, Trade Winds by Bing Crosby, With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair by Bob Crosby, Whispering winds by Patti Page, Night Wind by Thomas "Fats" Waller and The Wind by June Christy. 

Direct download: More_Windy_Music.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:39pm CST

Songs include: Sunrise Serenade by Glenn Miller, Twilight Time by Less Brown, The World Is Waiting For the Sunrise by Les Paul and Mary Ford, Dusk by Duke Ellington and Morning Mood by the Bamberg Symphony. 

Direct download: Sunrise_To_Sunset.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:26am CST

Music from suites, including Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite, Grieg's Peer Gynt, Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances and Prokofiev's Love For Three Oranges. 

Direct download: How_Suite_it_Is.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:20am CST

Songs include: Tuxedo Junction by the Andrews Sisters, Our Love Affair by Judy Garland, Looking At You by Lee Wiley, I'll Get By by the King Sisters, Starlit Hour by Ella Fitzgerald and Body and Soul by Billie Holiday. 

Direct download: Female_Singers_of_1940.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:51am CST

Songs include : Worried Man Blues by the Carter Family. Don't Worry Bout That Mule by Louis Jordan, Worried Blues by Gladys Bentley, Worried Over You by Red Norvo and Do I Worry by the Ink Spots. 

Direct download: Worried.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:42am CST

Songs include: Dead by the Poets, The Little Man Who Wasn't There by Glenn Miller, The Monster Hop by Bert Convey, The Ghost Song by Salty Holmes and Yodeling Ghost by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters. 

Direct download: Halloween_2024.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:50pm CST

Songs include: By the Light of the Silvery Moon by Billy Murray, Blue Moon by Mel Torme, How High the Moon by Helen Forest, No Moon at All by the Ames Brothers and Moonlight Sonata by Solomon.

Direct download: Moon.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:18pm CST

Songs include: Shame On You by Spade Cooley, At the Mail Call Today by Gene Autry, Stay a Little Longer by Bob Wills, It Don't Matter To Me Now by Ernest Tubb and Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain by Roy Acuff. 

Direct download: Country_Music_1945.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:32am CST

Songs include: June In January by Bing Crosby, April In Paris by Charlie Parker, June Is Bustin Out All Over by Hildegarde, Sleigh Ride In July by Dinah Shore and Roses In December by Ozzie Nelson. 

Direct download: Time_of_the_Month.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:57am CST

Musicians include: Perry Como, Lightnin Hopkins, Lydia Mendoza, Peggy Lee, Bo Diddley, Slim Whitman, Charley Parker, Dinah Washington and Horace Silver. 

Music includes: Mal Hombre, Solo Flight, Bandera Waltz, Hank's Tune, Bloomdido, Riders In the Sky and You don't Know What Love Is. 

Direct download: Musicians__With_Something_In_Common_Part_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:27pm CST

Music includes: Death Ray Boogie by Pete Johnson, When You're Smiling by Errol Garner, Drag Em by Mary Lou Williams, Taboo by Art Tatum, Bach's WTC Book I, No. 19 in A Major by Edwin Fischer and Almost Paradise by Roger Williams. 

Direct download: National_Piano_Month_2024.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:57pm CST

Songs include: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke by Tex Williams, Smoke Dreams by Jo Stafford, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Artie Shaw and While a Cigarette Was Burning by Paul Whiteman. 

Direct download: Cigarettes_and_Smoke.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:35pm CST

Songs include: South Sea Island Magic by Bing Crosby, Christmas Island by the Andrews Sisters, Island In the Sun by Harry Belafonte, Rock Island Line by the Weavers, Poor Little Rhode Island by Guy Lombardo and Isle of Capri by the Gaylords. 

Direct download: Island_Songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:37am CST

Songs include: Buttons and Bows by Dinah Shore, If I Steal a Kiss by Frank Sinatra, This Is the Moment by Jo Stafford, Melody Time by Vaughn Monroe, It's Magic by Sarah Vaughn and Blue Shadows On the Trail by Roy Rogers. 

Direct download: Movie_Songs_of_1948.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:39am CST

Songs include: Istanbul by The Four Lads, All Right Louie, Drop the Gun by Cass Daley, I've Got You Under My Skin by Stan Freberg, The William Tell Overture by Spike Jones and It's Magic by Jonathan and Darlene Edwards. 

Direct download: Novelty_Songs_of_the_1940s_and_50s.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:00pm CST

Music includes: Painted Rhythm - Stan Kenton, Rhythm and Romance - Chick Webb, I Got Rhythm - Glenn Miller, Rhythm Is Our Business - Jimmie Lunceford, Rhythm In Blues - McGuire Sisters and Lullaby In Rhythm - Benny Goodman. 

Direct download: Rhythm_Tumes.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:18pm CST

Featuring songs from: South Pacific, Texas Lil Darlin, Lost In the Stars, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Along Fifth Avenue and Miss Liberty.

Direct download: Broadway_Musicals_1949.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:16am CST

Duet partners include: Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes, Carmen Miranda, Les Paul, Dan Dailey, Burl Ives and Danny Kaye. 

Songs include: Take Me Out to the Ball Game, The Woody Woodpecker Song, Rumors Are Flying, Smile, Smile, Smile and There's No Business Like Show Business. 

Direct download: Andrews_Sisters_Duets.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:02pm CST

Works include: Nocturne in E flat, Fantaisie Impromptu, minute Waltz, Grand Valse Brilliante and Etude Op 10 No. 3.

Pianists include: Arthur Rubinstein. Alfred Cortot, Claudio Arrau, Margarete Long, Sergi Rachmanioff and William Kapell. 

Direct download: Chopin_Piano_Music.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:02pm CST

Music includes: Oklahoma Highlights, On the Mall, Route 66, Bugle Call Rag, Happy Go Lucky Local and Salute to Our Fighting Men.

Performers include: the Boston Pops, the Andrews Sisters, the Mills Brothers, Duke Ellington, Ralph Flanagan and the Goldman Band. 

Direct download: Independence_Day_2024.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:46am CST

Records left off of previous shows, including: It's a Sin to Tell a Lie by the Ink Spots, When Winter Comes by Mary Healy, Swing Them Jingle Bells by Fats Waller, Worried Blues by Gladys Bentley and Prison Cell Blues by Blind Lemon Jefferson. 

Direct download: Leftovers_34.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:00pm CST

Here is the actual playlist:

It's a Sin To Tell a Lie (Fats Waller 1936)

Who Told You That Lie? (Vaughn Monroe 1946)

My Bonnie Lie Over The Ocean (Ella Logan 1938)

Darling, You Lied (Wayne King, Buddy Clark 1941)

How Could You Believe Me ect. (Bing Crosby Judy Garland 1951)

Little White Lies (Dick Haymes 1948)

Why Do I Lie To Myself About You (Johnny Johnson 1936)

Lovely Lies (Manhattan Brothers & Miriam Makeba 1956)

How It Lies (Connie Haines 1949)

Direct download: Lies_and_Liars.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:14pm CST

Artists include: Bert Williams, Helen Gross, Bubber Miley, Cats and Fiddle, Elmo Hope, DeFord Bailey and Hazel Scott.

Songs include: Pan-American Blues, Ten Little Bottles, Nevertheless, East St. Louis Toodle-oo, Nuts To You & I Gotta Swing.

Direct download: Forgotten_African_American_Musicians.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:54am CST

Songs include: On a Slow Boat to China, Song of the Volga Boatmen, Don't Give Up the Ship, Ferry Boat Serenade and Shrimp Boats. 

Musicians include: Jo Stafford, Glenn Miller, Dick Powell, Benny Goodman, John McCormack and Moon Mullican. 

Direct download: Ships_and_Boats_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:52pm CST

Performers include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Victoria Spivey, T-Bone Walker, Ida Mae Mack, Lightnin Hopkins, Blind Willie Johnson and Harmonica Slim.

Songs include: Don't Trust Nobody, God Don't Never Change, Big Mama Jump, Howlin Wolf Blue and You Better Believe It. 

 

Direct download: Texas_Blues_Musicians.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:37pm CST

A special, short podcast honoring Thomas "Fats" Waller on his 120th birthday.  Songs include: Honeysuckle Rose, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Whose Honey Are You.

Direct download: Fats_Waller_120th_Birthday.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:39pm CST

Songs include: Sweet Georgia Brown, Little Brown Jug, Brown Eyes, Why Are you Blue?, Fine Brown Frame and The Little Brown Gal.

Musicians include: Brother Bones, Rosemary Clooney, Glen Miller, Joe Turner, Bob Wills, Nick Lucas and Nellie Lutcher. 

Direct download: Brown_Color_Show.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:49pm CST

Musician include: Hank Thompson, Kitty Wells, Slim Whitman, Hank Williams, Red Foley and Ernest Tubb. 

Songs include: The Wild side of Life, Salty Dog Rag, Jambalya, It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels  and Too Old to Cut the Mustard.

Direct download: Country_Music_1952.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:40pm CST

Songs include: Born to Lose, Lost and Found, I'd Hate to Lose You, What Have We Got to lose?, Lost April and She Had to Go and Lose It At the Astor. 

Performers include: Benny Carter, the Andrews Sisters, Ted Daffran, the Ink Spots, Richard Himbler, Thomas "Fats" Waller and Nat King Cole.

Direct download: Lose.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:38pm CST

Songs include: It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing, Swing It Sister, Waltz In Swing Time, Rug Cutter's Swing, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and Swinging On a Star.

Performers include: Duke Ellington, Les Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Glenn Miller, the Mills Brothers and the Fisk Jubilee Quartet. 

Direct download: it_Dont_Mean_a_Thing_If_It_Aint_Got_That_Swing.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:40pm CST

Songs include: Apple Blossom Time, Apple Honey, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, Scrapple From the Apple, The Big Apple and Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White.

Performers include: Glenn Miller, Jo Stafford, Tommy Dorsey, the Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Charley Parker and Woody Herman. 

Direct download: Apples.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:22pm CST

Singers include: Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Louise Tobin, Vera Lynn, Ella Fitzgerald, Helen Forest, the Andrews Sisters, Carmen Miranda, and Kate Smith. 

Songs include: We'll Meet Again, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Beer Barrel Polka, Undecided, What's New, Strange Fruit and God Bless America.

Direct download: Female_Singers_of_1939.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:35pm CST

To mark Bach's 339th birthday, historical recordings of the Brandenburg Concerto 3 and the B Minor Prelude and Fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier. 

Direct download: J_S_Bach_Birthday_2024.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:21pm CST

Songs include: Wild Horses, His Rocking Horse Ran Away, Black Horse Blues, Empty Saddles, Riders In the Sky, Horses Don't Bet On People and The Ride of the Valkeries. 

Performers include: Betty Hutton, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Kay Kyser and Perry Como. 

Direct download: Horse_Music.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:56pm CST

Songs include: I Love You Because You're You, Because of Once Upon a Time, Just Because, Because Of You and Because it's Love.

Performers include: Thomas "Fats" Waller, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Leon Payne and Johnny Mercer. 

Direct download: Because.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:29pm CST

Celebrating 18 years of the podcast. Music includes: Confirmation, Go Where I Send Thee, Alabama Song, I'm Beginning to See the Light, Caravan, The Great Gate At Kiev, Worried Man Blues and Truckin' My Blues Away.

Performers include: The Golden Gate Quartet, The Carter Family, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Arturo Toscanini, Duke Ellington and Lotte Lenya. 

Direct download: 18th_Anniversary_Show.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:41pm CST

Songs from Gershwin's Hollywood period,  including: They Can't Take That Away From Me, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off, Love Walked  In, Nice Work If You Can Get It, They All Laughed and Love Is Here To Stay.

Performers include: Fred Astaire, The Andrews Sisters, Bea Wain, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Kenny Baker and Ozzie Nelson. 

Direct download: George_Gershwin_Movie_Songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:10pm CST

Day

Songs include: Bizet Has His Day, Day By Day, Day In Day Out, What a Difference a Day Made, Isn't This a Lovely Day, Night and Day and Oh Happy Day. 

Musicians include: Fred Astaire, Jo Stafford, Frank Sinatra, Helen Forest, Don Howard, Les Brown and Ben Selvin.

Direct download: Day.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:13pm CST

Songs include: Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Montana Plains, There's No Hiding Place, Nobody's Darlin, Cattle Call and Beautiful Texas.

Performers include: The Sons of the Pioneers, W. Lee O'Daniel, Red Foley, Patsy Montana, the Carter Family and Milton Brown. 

Direct download: Country_Music_1934.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:52pm CST

Musicians who appeared in Art Kane's iconic 1958 photograph, celebrating the golden age of jazz. 

Musicians include: Oscar Pettiford, Maxine Sullivan, Jimmy Rushing, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rolling, Count Basie and Lester Young. 

Direct download: A_Great_Day_In_Harlem.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:17pm CST

Songs include: Bubbles In the Wine, Pink Champagne, Abercrombie Had a Zombie, Salty Dog Blues, Rum and Coca-Cola, Scotching With the Soda and Cocktails For Two.

Performers include: Lawrence Welk, the King Cole Trio, Glenn Miller, the Andrews Sisters Joe Liggins and Fats Waller. 

Direct download: Champagne_and_Cocktails.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:08am CST

Celebrating the 268th Birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Excerpts from the Symphony #39, Piano Sonata #17, String Quartet #23, Horn Concerto #4 and The Magic Flute.

Performers include: Herbert Von Karajan, Claudio Arrau, The Budapest String Quarter and Dennis Brain. 

Direct download: Mozart_Birthday_2024.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:45pm CST

Celebrating performers born 100 years ago, this year, including, Dinah Washington, Bud Powell, Earl Scruggs, Roger Williams, Ella Mae Morse, Chet Atkins, Sarah Vaughn,Slim Whitman, Max Roach and Henry Mancini.

Songs include: Cow Cow Boogie, Autumn Leaves, April In Paris, Baby, Get Back, Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Black Coffee. 

Direct download: Centenials_2024.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:06am CST

Songs include: Nobody's Sweetheart, Nobody's Darlin But Mine, Time Waits For No One, I Ain't Got Nobody and You're Nobody Till  Somebody Loves You.

Musicians include: Helen Forrest, Thomas "Fats" Waller, the Mills Brothers, Judy Garland, Blind Willie Johnson and Doris Day.

Direct download: Nobody_and_No_One.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:01am CST

Songs include: California Here I come, It Had To Be You, Tea For Two, Jellybean Blues, You Will Never Miss Your Mother Until She's Gone, All Alone and Somebody Loves Me.

Artists include: Al Jolson, Bessie Smith, John McCormack, Jones & Hare, Marion Harris. Fiddlin John Carson and Paul Whiteman. 

Direct download: Hits_of_1924.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:29am CST

Records left off of previous podcasts, along with a tribute to musics whom we lost this year.

Performers include: Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw, Les Paul, Moriz Rosenthal, Dick "Two Ton" Baker, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Fred Astaire. 

Direct download: Leftovers_33.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:49pm CST

Celebrating Beethoven's 253rd birthday.  Movements from the Cello Sonata #3 and the String Quartet #7, along with the Leonore Overture #3.

Performers include: Pablo Casals, Rudolf Serkin, Karl Bohm and the Vienna Comcethouse Quartet. 

Direct download: Beethoven_Birthday_2023.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:44pm CST

Songs include: A Christmas Festival, Christmas Island, Christmas In Killarney, The Twelve Days of Christmas, All Around the Christmas Tree, I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. 

Performers include: Leroy Anderson, Judy Garland, The Andrews Sisters, The DeCastro Sisters, Gayla Peevy, Buddy Clark and Sammy Kaye. 

Direct download: A_Christmas_Christmas_Part_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:44am CST

Songs include: White Christmas, Little Christmas Tree, It's Gonna Be a Lonely Christmas, Christmas Roses, A Christmas Symphony, Christmas Blues and The Christmas Song.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Mantovani, The Orioles, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Jo Stafford and Doris Day. 

 

Direct download: A_Christmas_Christmas_Part_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:04pm CST

Songs include: Everybody Loves Somebody, Somebody Stole My Gal, I'm Falling In Love With Someone, Someone To Watch Over Me, Somebody Loves Me and Like Someone In Love.

Musicians include: George Gershwin, Joni James, Frank Sinatra, Fats Waller, Tommy Dorsey, Jo Stafford, Benny Goodman and Nelson Eddy. 

Direct download: Someone_and_Somebody.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:08am CST

No

Songs include: No Strings, No Arms Can Ever Hold You, No Moon At All, No Other Love, Time Waits For No One and No Can Do.

Performers include: Ella Mae Morse, Perry Como, Fred Astaire, Helen Forrest, Guy Lombardo and Pat Boone. 

Direct download: No.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:33am CST

Songs about the passing of time, including: Time Changes Everything, Every Night About This Time, Time After Time, Moonlight Savings Time, As Time Goes By and Time Waits For No One. 

Performers include: Dooley Wilson the Ink Spots, Helen Merrill, Artie Shaw, Guy Lombardo, Frank Sinatra and Harry James. 

Direct download: Time_Changes_Everything.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:33pm CST

Songs include: Sugar Foot Stomp, Jesus Give Me Water, Walking the Floor Over You, Piano Sonata #13, El Chivo and Jeep's Blues.

Performers include: Cuarteto Coculense, James P. Johnson, Ernest Tubb, Arthur Schnabel, FDR and the Soul Stirrers. 

Direct download: National_Recording_Registry_2023.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:03pm CST

The annual Halloween show, Songs include: At the Devil's Ball, I Got the Jitters, Bloody Razor Blues, You Got Me Voodooed, Punky Punkin and What's Halloween?

Performers include: Rosemary Clooney, The Peerless Quartet, Helen Gross, Don Redman, Mary Ann  McCall and Mel Torme.

Direct download: Halloween_2023.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:45pm CST

Songs include: Black Is the Color Of My True Love's Hair, Black Bottom Stomp, That Old Black Magic, Black and Blue, Black Snake Moan, Black Coffee, Black Eyes and Black and Tan Fantasy.

Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughn, Glenn Miller, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Jo Stafford, Nat King Cole and Spike Jones.

 

Direct download: Black_Is_the_Color_Of_My_True_Loves_Podcast.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:03pm CST

Songs include: Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Lavender Blue, It Might As Well Be Spring, The High and the Mighty, Mona Lisa, Count Your Blessings and I Fall In Love Too Easily. 

Performers include: Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dinah Shore, Fred Astaire,  Bing Crosby, Margaret Whiting and Eddie Fischer.

Direct download: Oscar_Nominated_Songs_1940-1955.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:42pm CST

Songs include: Just One Of Those Things, Midnight Sun, Interlude, Golden Earrings, There Is No Greater Love and Blue Shadows On the Trail.

Performers include: Jo Stafford, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Bing Crosby, Stan Kenton, Lionel Hampton and Al Jolson. 

Direct download: Ballads_1947.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:08pm CST

Overtures to The Impresario, The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, The Clemency of Titus, Don Giovanni and more. 

Conductors include: Arturo Toscanini, Thomas Beecham, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwangler and Karl Bohm. 

Direct download: Mozart_Overtures.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:07pm CST

Songs include: A Kiss To Build a Dream On, We Kiss In a Shadow, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, I Still Love To Kiss You Goodnight and Kiss Of Fire.

Perfomers include: Georgia Gibbs, Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, Louis Armstrong, Freddie Slack and Dinah Shore.

Direct download: A_Kiss_To_Build_a_Show_On.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:16pm CST

Songs include: Casey Jones, Ben Dewberry's Final Run, Wreck of the Old 97 and Wreck of the Royal Palm.

Singers include: Eddie Arnold, Marty Robbins, Blind Alfred Reed, Jimmie Rodgers and Vernon Dalhart.

Direct download: Train_Wrecks.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:17pm CST

Small jazz combos drawn from big bands. Including: Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Count Basie, Woody Herman and Bunny Berigan.

Tunes include: I Can't Get Started, Seven Come Eleven, The Lady Is a Tramp. Home James and Hop, Skip and Jump.

Direct download: Big_Band_Small_Groups_part_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:57pm CST

Songs from the movies: Show Boat, Swingtime, Rose Marie, Follow the Fleet, Pennies From Heaven and Gold Diggers of 1937

Performers include: Paul Robeson, Bing Crosby, Helen Forest, Fats Waller, Jeannette McDonald and Fred Astaire.

Direct download: Hollywood_Musicals_1936.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:41pm CST

Songs include: Oh Lady Be Good, Lady of Spain, The Lady In Red, The Lady Is a Tramp. Red Roses For a Blue Lady and The Lady's In Love With You/

Musicians include: Glenn Miller, the Andrews Sisters, Johnny Hodges, Vaughn Monroe, Tommy Dorsey, Xavier Cugat and Cliff Edwards. 

 

Direct download: Lady.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:59pm CST

Songs include: Solid Potato Salad, Mixed Salad, Beans and Cornbread, The Yam, Onions, Dill Pickle Rag and Celery Stalks At Midnight.

Performers include: Louis Jordan, Duke Ellington, Doris Day, Fred Astaire, Cab Calloway and the New Orleans Bootblacks. 

Direct download: Veggies.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:06pm CST

Works include:  Waltzes #3 &6, The Revolutionary Etude, Prelude #17, Scherzo #1, Nocturne #13 and Mazurka # 26.

Pianists include: Alfred Cortot, Arthur Rubinstein, Sviatoslav Richter, Claudio Arrau, Dinu Lipatti and Wilhelm Backhaus. 

Direct download: Music_Of_Chopin.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:29pm CST

Songs include: Strange Enchantment, Strange Things Are Happening, A Strange Fact, Strange As It Seems, Strange Fruit and Strange Blues.

Musicians include: Billie Holiday, Artie Shaw, Red Buttons, June Valli, Nat King Cole, Harlin Lattimore and Coleman Hawkins. 

Direct download: Stange_Music.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:21pm CST

Songs include: Old Devil Moon, Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out, On the Mall, I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night, Beer Barrel Polka and Body and Soul.

Musicians include: The Andrews Sisters, The Goldman Band, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Pinetop Smith, Serge Charlof, Charlie Parker and Gene Krupa. 

Direct download: Leftovers_32.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:43pm CST

Music includes: Anchors Aweigh, Semper Fidelis, The Caissons Go Rolling Along, Promenade, I Got Rhythm Variations, Look Sharp, Be Sharp and God Bless America.

Direct download: Independence_Day_2023.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:43pm CST

Performers include: Mae West & Duke Ellington, Jimmie Rodgers & Louis Armstrong, Perry Como & Betty Hutton, Dick Powell & the Mills Brothers and Carmen Miranda & the Andrews Sisters. 

Songs include: Breezing Along With the Breeze, My Old Flame, Out For No Good, Confess, Too Old To Cut the Mustard and A Bushel and a Peck. 

Direct download: Unusual_Pairings.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:23pm CST

Songs from Brigadoon, Finian's Rainbow, Allegro, High Button Shoes, The Medium and Angel In the Wings.

Songs include: Almost Like Being In Love, Look To the Rainbow, A Fellow Needs a Girl. Civilization and Fron This Day On. 

Direct download: Broadway_1947.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:59pm CST

Songs include: Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Love Is Sweeping the Country, Love Me Tonight, Body and Soul, For Sentimental Reasons and Ain't She Sweet.

Singers include: Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughn, Bull Moose Jackson, Joni James, the 1952 Broadway cast of Of Thee I Sing and Perry Como. 

Direct download: Summer_Love_Songs_2023.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:46pm CST

Performers include: Charlie Patton, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, Louis Armstrong and Big Joe Turner.

Songs include: After You're Gone, He's Funny That Way, Fireworks, House Party, Dedicated To You and Shake, Rattle and Roll. 

Direct download: Black_Music_Month_2023.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:48pm CST

Songs include: Sonny Boy, Ramona, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Old Man River, Black and Tan Fantasy and Struttin With Some Barbecue. 

Performers include: Al Jolson, Duke Ellington, Fred Waring, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Gene Austin and Cliff Edwards. 

Direct download: Hits_of_1928.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:05pm CST

Songs include: Blues In the Night, Saturday Night, Thief In the Night, Night Train, When the Blue Of the Night Meets the Gold Of the Day and Tomorrow Night.

Performers include: Fed Astaire, Ethyl Waters, Johnny Mercer, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, the Ink Spots and Dizzy Gillespie. 

Direct download: Night_Music.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:03pm CST

Works include: Schumann's Violin Sonata #1, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2, Brahms' Horn Trio, Vivaldi's Cello Sonata #1 and Varese's Ionization. 

Direct download: Chamber_Music_Month.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:27pm CST

Songs include: Sing, Sing ,Sing, I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues, Let Me Sing and I'm Happy, Sing, You Sinners, And the Angels Sing and It's a Grand Night For Singing. 

Performers include: Dick Haymes, Billie Holliday, Louis Prima, Tony Bennett, Guy Mitchell and Martha Tilton. 

Direct download: Sing.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:48pm CST

Performers include: Furry Lewis, Bo Weavil Jackson, Louise Johnson, Kid Bailey, King Soloman Hill, Peatie Wheatstraw and Robert Petway. 

Direct download: Forgotten_Delta_Singers.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:54pm CST

Songs include: Them There Eyes, Green Eyes, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Teardrops From My Eyes, Dark Eyes and Why Do You Want to Make Those Eyes At Me For?

Performers include: Vincent Lopez, Bob Crosby, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Dorsey, Betty Hutton, Patti Page, Bing Crosby and Artie Shaw.

Direct download: The_Eyes_Have_It_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:46pm CST

Musicians include: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke, Leo Parker, Gerald Wiggins and Thelonious Monk.

Works include: April In Paris, Coast To Coast, Fluid Drive, Limehouse Blues, Bye Bye and No Figs. 

Direct download: Bebop_1950.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:34pm CST

Songs include: Along the Santa Fe Trail, Down the Trail of Achin Hearts, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, On the Trail, It's a Lonely Trail and Blue Shadows on the Trail.

Musicians include: Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Patti Page, Arthur Godfrey, Paul Whiteman and Larry Clinton. 

Direct download: Trail_Songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:39pm CST

Singers include: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, The King Sisters, Dick Haymes, The Sportsmen Quartet, Perry Como and Dinah Shore. 

Songs include: Coming In On a Wing And a Prayer, People Will Say We're In Love, The Trolley Song, Sunday, Monday Or Always, I'll Walk Alone and Wait For Me, Mary. 

Direct download: A_Capella_Singers_1943_1944.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:52pm CST

Marking 17 years of podcasting. Songs include: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Original Jelly Roll Blues. The Prince of Denmark's March, There Stands the Glass and I Wish That I Were Twins.

Performers include: Fats Waller, Sarah Vaughn, Charley Parker, Webb Pierce, The Golden Gate Quartet and Lu Watters. 

Direct download: 17th_Anniversary_Show.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:23pm CST

Celebrating 800 episodes with a show devoted to number songs. Tunes include: Seven Come Eleven, Two Sleepy People, Twenty-Four Hours a Day, A Thousand Goodnights and I See a Million People. 

Performers include: Billie Holiday, the Mills Brothers, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Jackie Gleason & Joe Marsala. 

Direct download: The_800th_Show.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:57pm CST

Songs include: I've Got It Bad, Bad, Bad, Whisky, Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, Bad Little Girl,  Bad Boy and Bad Motorcycle.

Performers include: Ivy Anderson, Amos Wilburn, The Storey Sisters, Eartha Kitt, the Casa Loma Orchestra and Chuck Willis.

Direct download: Bad_Songs.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:44pm CST

Soundies were music videos produced from 1940  to 1947, and played on portable video jukeboxes. Today, we sample the audio from soundies featuring African-American performers. These include: Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Meade Lux Lewis and Fats Waller.

Direct download: African_American_Soundies.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:35pm CST

More musicians born in 1923.  Performers include: Bert Kaempfert, Jim Reeves, Dexter Gordan, Slim Whitman, Victoria de los Angeles, Barney Kessel, Fats Narvarro and Eddie Kendrick.  With a special shout out to Glynis Johns.

Direct download: Centennials_2013_Part_the_Second.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:33pm CST

Songs include: Many Happy Returns of the Day, River of No Return, Return to Paradise, Return Trip, If You Never Return & Lemminkainen's Return.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Marylin Monroe, Buddy Johnson, Eugene Ormandy, Nat King Cole and Arden & Ohman.

Direct download: Many_Happy_Returns.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:42pm CST

In honor of Mozart's 267th birthday, a special podcast featuring three historical recordings of overtures from three of his most popular operas.

Direct download: Mozarts_Birthday_2023.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:54pm CST

Songs include: In the Mood, All The Things You Are, Darn That Dream, Only Forever, Frenesi and Tuxedo Junction.

Performers include: Glen Miller, Benny Goodman, the Andrews Sisters, Artie Shaw, Bing Crosby, Charley Barnet and Tommy Dorsey.

Direct download: Number_1_Hits_1940.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:20pm CST

A tribute to musicians born 100 years ago, this year.  Performers include: Hank Williams, Maria Callas, Wes Montgomery, Albert King, Milt Jackson, Buddy DeFranco and Ida Haendel.

Direct download: Centennials_2023_Part_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:25pm CST

Songs include: Pennsylvania Polka, Charlie Was a Boxer, The Happy Wanderer, Strip Polka, Laughing Trombone Polka, Just Another Polka and Guitar Polka.

Performers include: Al Dexter, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Weir, Bing Crosby, Russ Morgan and Frankie Yankovich.

Direct download: Polka_Month.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:07pm CST

Some of the top hits of 1923.  Songs include: I'll Build a Stairway To Paradise, Yes, We Have No Bananas, The Parade of Wooden Soldiers, Dippermouth Blues, Down Hearted Blues and That Old Gang of Mine.

 

performers include: Bessie Smith, Al Jolson, Jellyroll Morton, Ben Selvin, Isham Jones, Paul Whiteman and King Oliver.

Direct download: 1923.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:41pm CST

Records left of earlier podcasts, plus a tribute to musicians who died in 2022. 

Performers include: Julie London, Bing Crosby, Spike Jones, Harry James, Alexander Boroweski, Henry Thoma and Jackie Gleason.

Direct download: Leftovers_31.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:39pm CST

To mark Beethoven's 252nd birthday, we have a 1951 recording of the Piano Sonata #13 performed by Wilhelm Kempff. Also included is a long-winded discussion of the work by your host.

Direct download: Beethoven_Birthday_2022.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:21pm CST

Songs include: I'm a Fool To Want You, Keep Cool Fool, A Fool Such As I, A Fool Am I, Them Durn Fool Things and These Foolish Things.

Performers include: Frank Sinatra, The Ink Spots, June Foray, Glenn Miller , Billy Eckstein, Stan Getz, Nat King Cole & Benny Carter.

Direct download: more_foolish_songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:24pm CST

Songs include: Silent Night, I Saw Mommy Smoochin Santy Claus, Boogie Woogie Santa Claus, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, The Nutcracker, Christmas and You, Jingle Bells and Here Comes Santa Claus.

Performers include: Joni James, Percy Faith, Perry Como, Doris Day, Mable Scott, The NY Philharmonic, Homer and Jethro, Johnny Mercer and Les Paul and Mary Ford.

Direct download: Christmas_2022.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:41pm CST

Songs include: Don't Be That Way, A-Tisket  A-Tasket, Two Sleepy People, Begin the Beguine, My Reverie, Nice Work If You Can Get It & Bei Mir Bist du Schoen.

Performers include: Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, the Andrews Sisters, Fats Waller, Artie Shaw, Larry Clinton and Fred Astaire.

The show concludes with a tribute to Louise Tobin, who passed away this week at 104.

Direct download: Number_1_Hits_of_1938.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:39pm CST

Songs include: Lazy, Lazy River, I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming, Lazy Mama, Lazy Susan, Lazy Day and I'm Lazy, That's All.

Performers include: the Mills Brothers, Pearl Bailey, Woody Hermann, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Miles Davis, King Oliver, Teddy Wilson and Benny Goodman.

Direct download: Lazy_Songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:34pm CST