Music From 100 Years Ago

Nobody and No One

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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. M...

Hits of 1924

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Leftovers #33

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Records left off of previous podcasts, along with a tribute to musics whom we lost this year. Performers include: Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Artie S...

Beethoven's Birthday 2023

16 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

A Christmas Christmas Part 2

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: A Christmas Festival, Christmas Island, Christmas In Killarney, The Twelve Days of Christmas, All Around the Christmas Tree, I Want a H...

A Christmas Christmas Part 1

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Someone and Somebody

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

No

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Time Changes Everything

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Songs about the passing of time, including: Time Changes Everything, Every Night About This Time, Time After Time, Moonlight Savings Time, As Time Goe...

National Recording Registry 2023

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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: Cua...

Halloween 2023

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Hal...

Black Is the Color Of My True Love's Podcast

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, Bl...

Oscar Nominated Songs 1940-1955

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 an...

Ballads 1947

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Mozart Overtures

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Overtures to The Impresario, The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, The Clemency of Titus, Don Giovanni and more.  Conductors include: Arturo Toscan...

A Kiss To Build a Show On

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Train Wrecks

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, B...

Big Band Small Groups Part 2

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Hollywood Musicals 1936

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Lady

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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/ Musici...

Veggies

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Music Of Chopin

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Strange Music

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Leftovers #32

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Independence Day 2023

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Unusual Pairings

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Broadway 1947

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Summer love Songs 2023

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

Black Music Month 2023

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Performers include: Charlie Patton, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, Louis Armstrong and Big Joe Turner. Songs include: After You're Gone...

Hits of 1928

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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.  Performe...

Night Music

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Chamber Music Month

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Sing

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 N...

Forgotten Delta Blues Singers

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Eyes Have It

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Fo...

Bebop 1950

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Trail Songs

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Sh...

A Capella Singers 1943-1944

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

17th Anniversary Show

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The 800th Show

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Bad Songs

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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:...

African-American Soundies

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Soundies were music videos produced from 1940  to 1947, and played on portable video jukeboxes. Today, we sample the audio from soundies featuring Af...

Centennials 2023 Part 2

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

More musicians born in 1923.  Performers include: Bert Kaempfert, Jim Reeves, Dexter Gordan, Slim Whitman, Victoria de los Angeles, Barney Kessel, Fa...

Many Happy Returns

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Mozart's Birthday 2023

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

#1 Hits 1940

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Centennials 2023 Part 1

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Polka Month

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

1923

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Leftovers #31

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Records left of earlier podcasts, plus a tribute to musicians who died in 2022.  Performers include: Julie London, Bing Crosby, Spike Jones, Harry Ja...

Beethoven's Birthday 2022

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 discu...

More Foolish Songs

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 inclu...

Christmas 2022

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Number 1 Hits of 1938

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Lazy

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 Mi...

The Songs of Warren and Gordon

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrating the songwriting partnership of Harry Warren and Mack Gordon.  Songs include: At Last, I Gotta Gal In Kalamazoo , I Had the Craziest Dream...

More 1928 Blues

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Artists include: Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Willie MeTell, Blind Willie Johnson, Victoria Spivey, the Memphis Jug Band and Mississippi ...

Where Songs

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Where Or When? , Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day, I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight,  Bess, Where's My Bess, Whe...

Halloween 2022 Part 2 Werewolves and Witches

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The werewolf skit from the 1957 Stan Freberg radio show.  Also; the Witches' Sabbath movement from the Symphonie Fantastique and a holliday poem by C...

Halloween 2022 Part 1

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Spooky Spook, The Halloween Dance, Spider Web Blues, I Want To Be Evil, The Spell of the Blues, Haunted Nights, The Nightmare and Every...

Mountain Songs

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Music includes: When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain, Mountain Dew, The Old Man of the Mountain, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Mountain Top Blues and In ...

Number 1 Hits of 1937

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Remember Me, September In the Rain, Goodnight My Love, You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming and Whispers In the Dark. Musicians Include: Bin...

Crying In the Fifties

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Cry, Crying In the Chapel, I Cried, Must I Cry Again, Mama, Don't Cry At My Wedding, My Heart Cries For You & I Won't Cry Anymore. Perf...

Autumn Songs 2022

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Autumn Leaves, Autumn In New York, Early Autumn, The Autumn Waltz, Tis Autumn & Autumn Nocturne. Performers include: Harry James, Jo St...

Why Songs

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Why Was I Born? , I Know Why, and So Do You, Why Don't You Do Right?, Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me, Why Don't You Love Me Like Yo...

National Piano Month 2022

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pianists include: Floyd Cramer, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Sviatoslav Richter, Hazel Scott, Nat King Cole, Albert Ammons,, Pete Johnson, Art Tatum, Pinetop...

Easy Listening 1950s

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Musicians include: Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Ferrante & Teicher, Charlie Parker, Henry Mancini, Mantovani, Roger Williams and Jackie Gleason. Music in...

Musicians With Something In Common

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Musicians include: Peggy Lee, Stan Kenton, Oscar Levant, Margaret Whiting, Stan Freberg, Buddy Rich, Dean Martin and Ray Conniff. Songs include: Stard...

Classical Recordings 1938

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Music By Bach, Mendelsshon, Beethoven, Hindemith, Strauss and Debussy. Performers include William Primrose, Jesus Maria Sanroma, Bruno Walter, Toscha ...

Warren and Dubin

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Movie Songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. Songs include: 42nd Street, I Only Have Eyes For You, We're In the Money, September In the Rain, Shadow Walt...

Here Comes Trouble

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Trouble In Mind, Women's Trouble Blues, Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen, Keep Smiling At Trouble and Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams. P...

Flowers

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: A Bouquet of Roses, Sunflower, Wildflower Rag, Apple Blossom Wedding, Flowers of Dawn and Dance of the Flowers. Musicians include: Larr...

Movie Stars Sing

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Actors who took a crack at singing. "Singers" include: Joan Crawford, Mel Blanc, Robert Mitchum, Betty Hutton, Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Jane Russell, D...

Bebop Jazz

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Music includes: Salt Peanuts, Skippy, Bird's Nest, Boplicity, Dexter Digs In, Lady Bird & A Night In Tunisia. Musicians include: Dizzy Gillespie, Char...

Country Music 1949

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Musicians include: Hank Thompson, Hank Williams, Hank Locklin, Ernest Tubb, Little Jimmy Dickens, Eddie Arnold and Flatt & Scruggs. Music includes: Se...

How Songs

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tunes include: How High the Moon? , How About You?, How Deep Is the Ocean?, How Lucky You Are & How Much Is That Doggie In the Window? Performers incl...

Leftovers #30

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Records left of previous podcasts. Music by Jimmie Rodgers, Marlene Dietrich, June Christy, Dinah Shore, The Roth String Quartet, Belle Baker and Mile...

Female Big Band Singers

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Singers include: Doris Day, Helen Forrest, Bea Wain, Ivy Anderson, Diana Washington, Anita O'Day & Louise Tobin. Songs include: It Don't Mean a Thing ...

Summer Love Songs 2022

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: I Love You, Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On, Beautiful Love, I Concentrate On You, Crazy He Calls Me and I've Got a Crush On You. ...

Slow

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tunes include: On a Slow Boat to China, Sweet and Slow, Sunflower Slow Drag, Slow Motion Blues, Slow and Easy Man, Slow Dance, Slow Poke & Slow Down. ...

Cities

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Give Me the Moon Over Brooklyn, San Francisco, San Antonio Rose, St. Louis Blues, Moon Over Miami , Seattle Hunch, Chicago and Do You K...

Boats

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include:Row,Row. Row, Riverboat Shuffle, On a Slow Boat to China, Ferryboat Serenade, On the Good Ship Lollypop, Sloop John B. and Sit Down, You...

Go For Baroque

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Historical recordings of music by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Scarlatti, Telemann & Pachelbel.

Jazz Appreciation Month 2022

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Artists include: Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Anita O'Day, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, The Quintet ...

Movie Songs

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening, Boogie Woogie Bugle Bay, Buttons and Bows, I'll Always Love You, Concerto For Clarinet and It Mig...

Sweet 16: The Anniversary Show

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrating 16 years with music by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Marcelle Meyer, Bob Wills, Blind Boy Fuller, Art Tatum, Charlie Parker and The Gold...

Country Music Train Songs

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Wabash Cannonball, Lonesome Whistle,The Wreck of the Old 97, Waiting For a Train, Eastbound Freight Train, The Devil's Train & Ben Dube...

Falling

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Let's Fall In Love, Into Each Life, Some Rain Must Fall, I Believe I'll Fall In Love, I Faw Down and Go Boom, I've Got a Feeling I'm Fa...

Gotta Have Heart

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: My Foolish Heart, Heart and Soul, I'm Gonna Lock My Heart, Cold, Cold Heart, Deep In the Heart of Texas & My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Pe...

Centennials 2022

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrating musicians born 100 years ago this year. Musicians include: Judy Garland, Doris Day, Lord Kitchner, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Charles Mingus, Kay...

1922

17 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Toot Toot Tootsie, My Buddy, Kitten On the Keys, Who Cares, Downhearted Blues & The World Is Waiting For the Sunrise. Performers includ...

Leftovers #29

01 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Honky Tonk Train, To a Wild Rose, Turkish Rondo, Just a Baby's Prayer, Bongo Bop, Mr Ghost Takes the Air & The Pearls. Musicians includ...

Beethoven's Birtday 2021

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

To mark the 251st birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, here is a 1947 recording of the Piano Sonata #24 played by Rudolf Serkin.

Christmas 2021

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Holiday hits and misses from the 1940s and early 1950s.  Songs include: Silver Bells, Jingle Bells,  Silent Night, The Birthday of a King, Socko the...

Guns and Roses

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: You Can't Get a Man With a Gun, Rose Room, Shotgun Boogie, Moonlight and Roses, Pistol Packin Mama, Rose Marie and San Antonio Rose. Pe...

Lost

28 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Let's Get Lost, Lost In the Stars. I'm Lost, Little Jack Frost Get Lost, Baby, Get Lost & Lost Love. Musicians Include: Todd Duncan, Bi...

Walking

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: I Don't Want To Walk Without You, Walking My Baby Back Home, The Mule Walk, Would You Like To Take a Walk?, Just a Closer Walk With The...

On the Boogie Woogie Train

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Honky Tonk Train Blues, Barrelhouse Boogie, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat, Roots of the Blues and Woo Woo. ...

Gems and Precious Metals

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Songs include: Jack O Diamond Blues, A String of Pearls, Lover's Gold, Sapphire. Ruby My Dear and The Moon Is a Silver Dollar. Performers include: Law...

The Five

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bands include: Clarence Williams Blue Five, Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Artie Shaw and the Gramercy Five, Kay Starr and the Lamplighter Five, Th...