Music From 100 Years Ago

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 and My Love parade. Performers include: Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, the Phildelphia Orchestra, Jimmie Rodgers and Red Nichols.

Performers include: Bob Hope, Mae West, Eddie Anderson, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Ken Curtis and Rudolph Valentino. Songs include: Breathless, Falling in Love Again, The Lady's in Love With You, Sweeping the Clouds Away and I Like a Guy What Takes His Time. 

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 Flower, Lonsome Valley, Worried Man Blues and Heaven's Radio.

Highlights from the Command Performance radio show of the 1940s.  Performers include: Bob Hope, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Count Basie, Bing Crosby,James Cagney and Frank Sinatra. Songs include: Embraceable You, I'll Be Back, Just One of Those Things and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.

A special, short podcast featuring the Witches' Sabbath movement from the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz played by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Arthur Rodinsky.

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. Performers include: Maxine Sullivan, Jo Stafford, Spike Jones, Vaughn Monroe and Victoria Spivey.

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. Performers include: Fats Domino, Diana Shore, Frankie Laine, Patty Page and Nat King Cole.

Songs include: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, Here Comes Santa Claus, The Anniversary Song, Confess and Move On Up a Little Higher. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Mahalia Jackson, Doris Day, Gene Autry and Spike Jones.

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. Performers include: Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Joe Sullivan and Spike Jones.

Performances by male singers from radio broadcasts of the 1930s and 40s.  Singers include: Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Gene Autry and Frank Sinatra. Songs include: You'll Never Walk Alone, I Wish I Were Single Again, Slow Boat to China and Paper Moon.

Artists include: The Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller, Spade Cooley, Frankie Yankovich, Martha Tilton and Will Glahe. Polkas include: Pennsylvania Polka, The Four Fiddle Polka, Texas Polka, Page Boy and The Beer Barrel Polka.

Musicians from the Garden State, including: Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie, James P. Johnson and Carl Kress. Songs include: All or Nothing At All, Heat Wave, September Song and Jive at Five.

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 Variations, Schubert: Impromptu, Saint Saens: The Swan and Glinka: Russlan and Ludmila Overture. Performers include: Arturo Toscanini, Arthur Rubenstein, Earl Wild, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett and Arthur Rodinski.    

Highlights form radio comedies of the 1940s. Performers include: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Fanny Brice, Minnie Pearl, Groucho Marx, Jimmie Durante and Eddie Anderson.

Performers include: Lightnin Hopkins, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Victoria Spivey, Leadbelly, Henry Thomas, Texas Alexander and T-Bone Walker. Songs include: West Texas Blues, Let Your Light Shine, The Boll Weevil. T-Bone Blues and One Dime Blues.

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 Mood. Performers include: Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Ethyl Waters, Bing Crosby and The Ink Spots.  

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. Performers include: Maxine Sullivan, Sleepy John Estes, Bob Crosby, Walter Giesiking, Lightnin Hopkins and Billy Murray.

Radio broadcasts of female big band singers. Performers include: Anita O'Day, Helen Forrest, June Christy, Ella Fitzgerald, Ivy Anderson, Fran Warren and Martha Tilton. Songs include: Any Old Time, I'd Do It All Over Again, It's a Blue World, Mama, That Moon Is Here and I Don't Want to be Loved.

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: Ma Rainey, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, The Happiness Boys, Frank Sinatra, Ted Lewis and the Andrews Sisters.

Performers from the Keystone State, including: Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Ethyl Waters, Les Brown, Marion Anderson, Perry Como & Earl Hines. Songs include: Song of India, Goin' Places, Long Ago and Far Away, Heat Wave and Leap Frog.