Music From 100 Years Ago
Episodes
Leftovers #12
31 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Records left off of previous podcasts, including: Yodeling Ranger, Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?, Riders In the Sky, Texas Polka and ...
Harry Ruby
26 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The music of songwriter, Harry Ruby. Songs include: Who's Sorry Now?, Three Little Words, Give Me The Simple Life, Nevertheless and Hooray For Captain...
Beethoven's Birthday 2011
17 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating the 241st birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. Performers include: George Szell, Bruno Walter, the Budapest String Quartet, Arthur Schnabel...
Boy Meets Girl
10 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Male-female duets, including: Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell, Nelson Eddy & Jannette McD...
Christmas 1940s
04 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Classic Christmas songs from the 1940s, including: The Christmas Song, Winter Wonderland, Here Comes Santa Claus, Sleigh Ride and Santa Claus Is Comin...
Coffee Time
26 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Music about America's favorite morning beverage. Songs include: Java Jive, I'd Like to Dunk You In My Coffee, Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee, Coffee...
Mississippi Blues Singers 1920s-1930s
21 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Performers include: Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Bo Carter, Skip James and Sonny Boy Williamson #1. Songs include...
List Songs
14 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs with lists, including: My Baby Just Cares For Me, Route 66, A, You're Adorable, It Might As Well Be Spring. I Wish That I Were Twins and These F...
Swinging the Classics
05 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Classical music gets the swing treatment. Songs include; My Reverie, Prelude and Fugue, Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Beethoven riffs. Performers...
Streets and Highways
29 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: Fifth Avenue, Lost Highway, Sixth Avenue Express, On the Sunny Side of the Street and Summit Ridge Drive. Performers include: Jo Staffo...
Halloween 2011
23 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include; Ghost Walkin Blues, Haunted Heart, Riders In the Sky, Funeral March of a Marionette and Satan Takes a Holiday. Performers include: Burl...
Liszt Bicentenial
15 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Franz Liszt. Works include: Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Liebestraum #3, Totentanze and the Pia...
Ships and Boats
12 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: A Sailboat in the Moonlight, Ferryboat Sernade, Gospel Ship, Someone's rockin My dreamboat and I'll Sail My Ship Alone. Performers incl...
1945 Part 2
02 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
More music from the final year of World War II. Songs include: It's Been So Long Darlin, Angilena, The Syncopated Clock, The New Spanish Two-Step, Bra...
Bill Monroe Centennial
24 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Monroe, The Father of Bluegrass. Songs include: Blue Moon of Kentucky, Roll In My Sweet Baby'...
Cool Music
18 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Music about being cool. Songs include: Cold Cold Heart, Be Cool Fool, Out In the Cold Again, In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening and Baby, It's Col...
Whisper
10 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Hush! Songs about whispering. Songs include: Whispering, Whispering Hope, Whisper in the Night and Moonlight Whispers. Performers include: Bing ...
Classical Music month 2011
03 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating Classical Music Month with historical recordings from the 1930s & 1940s, including: Albinez: Spanish Seranade, Bach: Little Fugue in g min...
Forgotten Blues Singers
27 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Lesser-known blues singers from the 1920s and 1930s. Performers include: Josie Miles, Mary Johnson, Kathrine Henderson, Hattie McDaniel, Maggie Jone...
1945 part One
20 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The first in a series dedicated to the music of 1945; the last year of World War II, Songs include: It Might As Well Be Spring, Lover Man, Ebony Conce...
Leftovers #11
13 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Music left off of earlier podcasts. Songs include: Bewitched, Fish Fry, The Stars & Stripes Forever, Martha and Please Be Kind. Performers include...
Yodeling
06 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Yodeling in early 20th Century pop music. Songs include: Yodeling Jive, The Harlem Yodel, Blue Yodel #5, I Miss My Swiss and The Yodeling Polka. ...
Jazz Guitarists
29 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Early jazz guitarists from the 1920s through the 1940s, including: Eddie Lang, Nick Lucas, Charlie Christian, Les Paul and Django Reinhardt.
Hot Tunes
22 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs about heat, including Heat Wave, Too Darn Hot, Cool Water, Hotter Than that and Go Down Old Hannah. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Fred Astair...
Sammy Fain
17 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The life and work of songwriter, Sammy Fain. Songs include: Love is a Many Splendored Thing, I'll Be Seeing You, That Old Feeling, By a Waterfall and ...
London Symphonies
08 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Historical recordings by symphony orchestras based in London, including: The London Symphony, The London Philharmonic, The Boyd Neel Orchestra, The Ph...
A V-Disc Fourth
03 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
For July 4th, rare, marching band recordings from the V-Disc label, including: American Patrol, The Marines Hymn, King Cotton & The St. Louis Blues Ma...
Fort Valley Gospel
25 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1940s and 1950s, Fort Valley State College in Fort Valley, Georgia hosted a folk music festival. In 1941 & 1943 professors from Fisk University...
Fishing Music
17 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Tunes about fish and fishing, including: Saturday Night Fish Fry, Fishing Blues, Gone Fishing, Fisherman's Luck and Poissons d'or. Performers includ...
Love Songs For Summer
12 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: That's the Way it Is, Things Are Looking Up, Goodnight Sweetheart, Ain't He Sweet and Let's Take the Long Way Home. Artists include: Pe...
Stride Part 2
04 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
More stride jazz piano music, including: Carolina Shout, Solitude, African Ripples, Nevertheless and Euphonic Sounds. Performers include: James P. Jo...
Smoking
28 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs about lighting up, including: Smoke, Smoke Smoke, Smoke Rings, If I Only Had a Match, Two Cigarettes In The Dark and Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. P...
Water Music
22 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs about dihydrogen monoxide, including:Cool Water, Rising High Water Blues, the Raindrop Prelude, By a Waterfall and Water Faucet; plus an excerpt...
Country Music : World War II
14 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Country Hits from the war years. Songs include: There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, Roses in the Snow, Born to Lose, Banjo Pickin Girl an...
Louis Alter
08 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The music of songwriter,, Louis Alter, including:Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?, Manhattan Seranade, Dolores and Blue Shadows. Perform...
1930 Part 2
01 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
More songs from the first year of the Great Depression. Songs include: Cotton Club Stomp, Let Me Sing, Price of Cotton Blues and Beyond the Blue Hor...
The Lomax Recordings.
22 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In the spring and summer of 1939, John and Ruby Lomax traveled through nine southern states making field recordings of folk music. Today's show feat...
Marches For Orchestra
16 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Famous orchestral marches including: Bizet's March of the Toreadors, Chopin's Funeral March, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance #1 and Mendelsshon's Weddin...
Salty Songs
10 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs with salt in the title, including: Let Me Be Your Salty Dog, Salt Water Blues, Salt Peanuts and I'm Gonna Salt Away Some Sugar. Performers inclu...
National Recording Registry part 3
02 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
More highlights from the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. Records include: Canal Street Blues, Your the Top, Bury Me Under the Weeping...
Moonlight Music
26 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: Moonlight Seranade, Moonlight Becomes You, Moonlight Bay, A Sailboat in the Moonlight and Moonlight Mood. Performers include: Billie Ho...
Death Blues
18 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Blues singers opine on the Grim Reaper. Songs include: See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, Lonesome Graveyard Blues, Jesus, Make Up My Dying Bed and Ston...
St. Patrick's Day 2011
13 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Irish music for Saint Patrick's Day! Performers include: Michael Coleman, Joseph Locke, Delia Murphy, Tom Enis and Joh McCormack. Songs include: Hello...
5th Anniversary Show
06 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating five years of podcasting, the host plays some of his favorite recordings from the first half of the 20th Century. Performers include: Loui...
Ned Washington
27 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The Songs of lyricist, Ned Washington. Songs include: The High and the Mighty, When You Wish Upon a Star, The Nearness of You, Baby Mine and Rawhide...
Classics Into Jazz
19 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Famous classical melodies given the jazz treatment. Works include: Moonlight Sonata, Bolero, Arab Dance, Ritual Fire Dance and Two-Part Invention #1...
In Memoriam George Shearing
15 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A special, short podcast in memory of jazz pianist, George Shearing. Songs include: September In the Rain, I Only Have Eyes For You, Fly Me to the M...
Valentine's 2011
13 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Love songs for Valentine's Day. Songs include: Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?, Am I Blue?, You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To and When I Grow...
Big Band Boogie Woogie
05 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Band arrangments of boogie woogie tunes. Songs include: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, Boogie woogie Bugle Boy, Honky Tonk Train Blues and Yancy Special. ...
Jubilee Part 2
29 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Jubilee was a program that aired on Armed Forces Radio during the 1940s. Aimed at an African-American audience, it featured some of the most popular...
Mozart's Birthday 2011
27 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A special, short podcast for Mozart's 255th birthday. Music includes: the finale from the Linz Symphony, the slow movement from the Hunt Quartet and t...
Rhapsody In Blue
22 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A special, short podcast featuring a 1945 recording of Rhapsody in Blue in its rarely-heard choral version. The recording is conducted by Paul White...
Blue Music
22 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Songs with blue in the title, including Blue Moon, Little Girl Blue, Blue Yodel #3, Blue Tango and Once In a Blue Moon. Performers include: Margaret...
National Recording Registry Part 2
16 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
More highlights from the National Recording Registry, including: Black Bottom Stomp, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon, New San Antonio Rose, Perpetual Motion and...
Centennials 2011
09 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating the 100th birthdays of: Roy Eldridge, Robert Johnson, Mahalia Jackson, Stan Kenton, Maxine Sullivan, Spike Jones, Roy Rogers and others. ...
1911
01 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The hits from 1911, including: Alexander's Ragtime Band, Some of These Days, I Want a Girl, Let Me Call You Sweetheart and Romin In the Glomin. Perfor...
Leftovers #10
26 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Records left off of previous podcasts. Songs include: Lazy River, On Revival Day, Pound Your Table Polka and Religion is a Fortune. Performers incl...
Miscellaneous Million Sellers
18 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Million-selling records from the first half of the 20th Century. Records include: It's Magic, Don't Fence Me In, American Patrol, Cohen on the Telep...
Beethoven's Birthday 2010
16 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating the 240th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Works include: the finale of the Symphony #8, the slow movement of the Piano Sonata #8 and...
National Recording Registry 1
11 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Highlights from the National Recording Registry. Records include: West End Blues, T For Texas, The Poem of Fire and the Stars and Stripes Forever. ...
Kissing Music
04 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?, Knock Me a Kiss, Kissing is a Crime and Kiss Me With Your Eyes. Performers include: Frankie Laine, Bi...
Christmas on the Radio
28 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas music featured on radio programs from the 1940s and 1950s. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Spike Jones, The NBC Symphony and Gene Autry. S...
1930
20 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Music from the first full year of the Great Depression. Songs include: Embraceable You, Mood Indigo, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Blude Yodel #9...
Singing Actors Acting Singers
14 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Performers include: Bob Hope, Mae West, Eddie Anderson, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Ken Curtis and Rudolph Valentino. Songs include: Breathless, ...
A.P. Carter
07 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A special podcast marking the 50th anniversary of the death of A.P. Carter, the founder and leader of the Carter Family. Songs include: Wildwood Flo...
Command Performance
06 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Highlights from the Command Performance radio show of the 1940s. Performers include: Bob Hope, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Count Basie, Bing Crosby,Ja...
Witches' Sabbath
31 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A special, short podcast featuring the Witches' Sabbath movement from the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz played by the Cleveland Orchestra ...
Halloween 2010
30 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: Haunted Heart, Mr. Ghost Goes to Town, Haunted By the Blues and My Old Flame. Also, the host reads Eldorado by Edgar Allen Poe. Perfor...
Million Selling Records 1948-1949
23 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Million-sellers from the last two years of the 1940s, including: With My Eyes Wide Open, Nature Boy, Buttons and Bows, Mule Train and Whispering Hope....
Million Selling Records 1946-1947
16 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, Here Comes Santa Claus, The Anniversary Song, Confess and Move On Up a Little Higher. Performers include: Bing Cr...
Hour Music
10 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Songs with hour in the title, including: If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight, Now is the Hour, One Hour and Every minute of Every Hour. Performer...
Male Radio Singers
03 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Performances by male singers from radio broadcasts of the 1930s and 40s. Singers include: Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Gene Autry and Fran...
Polkas of the 1940s
26 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Artists include: The Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller, Spade Cooley, Frankie Yankovich, Martha Tilton and Will Glahe. Polkas include: Pennsylvania Polka...
New Jersey
18 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Musicians from the Garden State, including: Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie, James P. Johnson and Carl Kress. Songs include: All or Nothing ...
Classical V-Discs
11 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Classical music released as part of the U.S. military's V-Disc program. Works include: Verdi: La Forza del Destino Overture, Gershwin: I Got Rhythm ...
Radio Comedy
06 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Highlights form radio comedies of the 1940s. Performers include: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Fanny Brice, Minnie Pearl, Groucho Marx, Jimmie Durante and Ed...
Texas Blues
29 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Performers include: Lightnin Hopkins, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Victoria Spivey, Leadbelly, Henry Thomas, Texas Alexander and T-Bone Walker. Songs inclu...
Andy Razaf
22 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The life and work of songwriter, Andy Razaf. Songs include: Ain't Misbehavin, Honeysuckle Rose, Black and Blue, My Fate Is In Your Hands and In the Mo...
Hair Songs
14 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair, Silver Haired Daddy of Mine, The Girl With the Flaxen Hair and Little Curly Hair. Perfor...
"Girl" Singers
07 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Radio broadcasts of female big band singers. Performers include: Anita O'Day, Helen Forrest, June Christy, Ella Fitzgerald, Ivy Anderson, Fran Warren...
Break Up Songs
31 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: I'm Sorry Me Met, When I Lost You, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down, Heartbreaker, Why Should I Cry and One For My Baby. Performers include: M...
Pennsylvania
24 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Performers from the Keystone State, including: Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Ethyl Waters, Les Brown, Marion Anderson, Perry Como & Earl Hines. Songs include...
More Summer Love Songs
17 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Love songs for the summer, including: Things We did last Summer, Summer Souvenirs, Wait till You See My Cheri and When You Were Sweet Sixteen. Perfo...
V-disc Rarities
09 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Lesser-known tunes from the v-disc program of the 1940s. Songs include: Just Because, Black Is the Color, Get On Board, Sing, sing Sing, Pearl Harbo...
WPA Federal Music Project
03 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Classical Music from the WPA Federal Music Project of the 1930s. Works include: Dvorak : Carnival Overture, Mozart: Magic Flute Overture, Quincy Porte...
North Carolina
26 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Musicians from the tar heel state. Performers include: Charlie Poole, Kathryn Grayson, Earl Scruggs, Kay Kyser, Blind Boy Fuller & Lena Wilson. So...
Leftovers #9
19 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Records left off of previous podcasts,including: Tom Cat Blues, Mazurka #7, Tumbling Tumbleweeds and Strip Polka. Artists include:Michael Colman, Gen...
Cat Songs
12 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: The Pussy Cat Song, I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat, The Waltzing Cat, The Pussy Cat Rag and Kitten On the Keys. Performers include: Paul Whi...
Big Band Remotes
05 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Radio Broadasts of big band music featuring the bands of: Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Count Basie, Glenn Miller and Gene Krupa. Songs...
Jack Yellen
30 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The songs of lyricist, Jack Yellen, including: Happy Days Are Here Again, Ain't She Sweet, Are You From Dixie, Happy Feet and I Wonder What's Become O...
Letter Songs
23 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Songs include: One Sweet Letter From You, Love Letters In The Sand, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write My Self a Letter and Red Kiss On a Blue Letter....
Country Music On the Radio
16 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Highlights from country music radio shows of the 1940s. Shows include:The National Barn Dance, The Grand Ole Opry, Western Stars and Plantation Ju...
River Songs
09 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Tunes about rivers,including:Old Man River, One More River To Cross, Deep River and River Stay Away From My Door. Performers incude: Al Jolson , The ...
Kentucky
02 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Musicians from the Bluegrass State, including: Bill Monroe, Rosemary Clooney, Jimmie Blythe, Cliff Carilse and Lionel Hampton. Songs include: Blue ...
Postwar V-Discs
24 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A selection of V-discs released after World War II. Songs include: Summertime, No Moon At All, Lost In the Stars, Laura and Scarecrow. Performers i...
New Orleans
18 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Songs about the Big Easy. Tunes include: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?, Way Down Younder In New Orleans, New Orleans Joys and Basin S...
Beverly Kenney
13 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A special podcast to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of jazz singer Beverly Kenney. Songs include: If I Were a Bell, Tis Autumn, For All We Kno...
Big Band Small Groups
11 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Small jazz groups derived from big bands. Bands include: The Benny Goodman Quartet, Artie Shaw and the Gramarcy 5, Tommy Dorsey and the Clambake 7 and...
Sacred Harp & Sanctified Singing
03 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Early recordings of sacred harp and sanctified hymn singing. Hymns include: Present Joys, Journey Home, Jesus Walk With Me, Rocky Road and Rejoicing o...
200th Episode
28 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The 200th show includes highlights from past programs plus records not heard before. Performes include: Deford Bailey, Billy Murray, The Kansas City 6...