Music From 100 Years Ago

Irish music for Saint Patrick's Day! Performers include: Michael Coleman, Joseph Locke, Delia Murphy, Tom Enis and Joh McCormack. Songs include: Hello Patsy Fagan, Three Lovely Lassies, I'll Walk Beside You, The Sunny Banks and I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen.

Celebrating five years of podcasting, the host plays some of his favorite recordings from the first half of the 20th Century. Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, The Carter Family, Jo Stafford, Duke Ellington and Ignatz Friedman. Music includes: 12 Street Rag, The Things We Did Last Summer, Night And Day and La Campanella.

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. Performers include: Frankie Lane, Frank Sinatra, Connie Boswell, Tex Ritter, Glenn Miller and The Ink Spots.

Famous classical melodies given the jazz treatment.  Works include: Moonlight Sonata, Bolero, Arab Dance, Ritual Fire Dance and Two-Part Invention #12. Musicians include: Benny Goodman, Larry Clinton, Hazel Scott, Spike Jones, Harry James and Glenn Miller.

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 Moon and Lulabye of Birdland.

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 Too Old To Dream. Artists include: Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Dinah Shore, Nelson Eddy, Cliff Edwards, Louis Armstrong and Helen Kane.

Band arrangments of boogie woogie tunes.  Songs include: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, Boogie woogie Bugle Boy, Honky Tonk Train Blues and Yancy Special. Perfromers include: The Andrews Sisters, Bob Crosby Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, Harry James, Cab Calloway and Ted Heath. 

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 Jazz and R&B acts of the time.  This week's show features highlights from broadcasts from 1943-1948.  Performers include: Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, The Golden Gate Quartet, Ida James and Josh White. Songs include: Knock Me a Kiss, Evil Hearted Blues, Exactly Like You and Back Bay Boogie.

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 the finale from the Sonata for Two Pianos in D. Performers include: Thomas Beecham, The Lener Quartet and Josef and Rosina Lhevinne.

A special, short podcast featuring a 1945 recording of Rhapsody in Blue in its rarely-heard choral version.  The recording is conducted by Paul Whiteman features has Earl Wild on piano.

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 Whiting, Bing Crosby, Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

More highlights from the National Recording Registry, including: Black Bottom Stomp, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon, New San Antonio Rose, Perpetual Motion and Sweet Lorraine.  Performers include: Marian Anderson, Jelly Roll Morton, Bob Wills, Zora Neale Hurston, Nat M. wills and Duke Ellington.

Celebrating the 100th birthdays of: Roy Eldridge, Robert Johnson, Mahalia Jackson, Stan Kenton, Maxine Sullivan, Spike Jones, Roy Rogers and others.  Songs include: Muskrat Ramble, Loch Lomond, Tangerine, Laura and Amazing Grace. 

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. Performers include: Harry Lauder, Billy Murray, Sophie Tucker and the Sousa Band.

Records left off of previous podcasts.  Songs include: Lazy River, On Revival Day, Pound Your Table Polka and Religion is a Fortune. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Bessie Smith, Mary Martin, Henry Thomas, Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald.

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 Telephone, The Blue Danube and Humpty Dumpty Heart. Artists include: Enrico Caruso, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Leopold Stokowski, Ernest Stoneman and Cab Calloway.

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 the final movement of the String Quartet # 12. Performers include: Felix Weingartner , Arthur Rubinstein and the Busch String Quartet.

Highlights from the National Recording Registry. Records include: West End Blues, T For Texas, The Poem of Fire and the Stars and Stripes Forever.  Performers include: Bessie Smith, Jimmie rogers, Leopold Stokowski, Benny Goodman and Thomas Edison.

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, Billie Holliday, Whispering Jack Smith, Fats Waller and the Carter Family.

Christmas music featured on radio programs from the 1940s and 1950s. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Spike Jones, The NBC Symphony and Gene Autry. Songs include: Jingle Bells, Here Comes Santa Claus,Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Sleighride.