Music From 100 Years Ago

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.