Music From 100 Years Ago

Christmas records from 1917 to 1936.Songs include: Silent Night, Jingle Bells, We Three Kings and Christmas Morning Blues.Performers include: Fats Waller, Victoria Spivey, Louis Prima, Eddie Cantor and Bing Crosby.

More records from 1929. Performers include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Pinetop Smith and Ethyl Waters. Songs include: Am I Blue, Freakish, Guitar Blues, Waiting at the End of the Road and Soldier's Joy.

Recordings released in the pivotal year of 1929. Artists include: Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jimmie Rodgers, Sophie Tucker and Helen Kane. Songs include: Ain't Misbehavin, My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Numb Fumblin, Pony Blues and In the Fall of 29.

Songs about prison and prison life. Songs include : The Prisoner's Song, Birmingham Jail, Chain Gang Blues and No Room in the Jailhouse. Artists include: Jimmie Rodgers, Ma Rainey, Darby & Tarleton , Blind Willie McTell and the Rev. J.M. Gates

Songs from World War I in honor of Veteran's Day. Songs include:  Over There, Pack Up Your Troubles, Tell That to the Marines and My Dream of the Big Parade. Performers include: Al Jolson, The Peerless Quartet, Nora Bayes and The Hotel Taft Orchestra.

Songs with shuffle in the title. Songs include: Band Box Shuffle, Dry Bone Shuffle, Lennox Avenue Shuffle and Riverboat Shuffle. Artists include :  Blind Blake,  Bennie Moten, Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson and Bix Biederbeck.

Spooky songs for Halloween.  Songs include:  Ghost Walking Blues, Haunted House Blues, Halloween Dance, The Ragtime Goblin  Man and Mr. Ghost Goes to Town.Artists include: Bessie Smith, Louis Prima, Collins and Harlin and Helen Gross.

Records featuring the kazoo.  Artists include: Ma Rainey, The Allen Brothers, The Five Harmaniacs and Tampa Red.

Men and women complaining about each other. Songs include: Mother-in-law Blues, I'm Sorry We Met, Aint Gonna Marry No More and Let the Doorknob Hit You In the Back. Artists include: Ethyl Waters, Jimmie Rogers, Darby and Tarlton, Annette Handshaw and the Allen Brothers.

A tribute to blues singer and guitarist, Memphis Minnie.Songs Include: In My Girlish Days, When the Levee Breaks, Bumble Bee and Memphis Yo Yo Blues.Artists include: Memphis Minnie, Kansas Joe, Furry Lewis and the Memphis Jug Band.

Novelty songs from the teens and 20s.  Songs include:  Yes. We Have No Bananas, I Faw Down and Go Boom and I  Want to Yodel. Performers include: Ada Jones, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Billy Jones and Helen Kane.

 Songs about farm life, including:  Old McDonald, The Farmer Is the Man, Farm Relief and How You Gonna Keep Em Down On the Farm.Artists include: Fiddlin John Carson, Byron Harlin, The Skillet Lickers and Vernon Dalhart.

Three pioneering jazz women: Lovie Austin, Lil Hardin Armstrong and Valaida Snow. Songs include: Just For a Thrill, Traveling Blues, Some of These Days and Georgia Grind.

Songs for the end of summer.Artists include: Charley Patton, the Edison Quartet, Bing Crosby, Walter van Brunt and Elizabeth Wheeler.Songs include: The Last Rose of Summer, Any Girl Looks Good in Summer, In the Good Old Summertime and A Faded Summer Love.

 Artists include: Caruso & Melba, Darby & Tarlton, Butterbeans & Susie and Venuti & Lang.Songs include: Captain Won't You Let Me Go Home, Aba Daba Honeymoon, Adam and Eve and It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.

Songs include: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover, Lady Luck, Rabbit Foot Blues, Beginner's Luck and Last Chance Blues.Performers include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Smith Ballew, Fred Astaire and Cannon's Jug Stompers.

More songs about dogs.  Songs include: Poor Old Rover, That Doggone Dog, Yellow Dog Blues and Fido Is a Hot Dog Now. Performers include: Dick Justice, Bing Crosby, the New Orleans Bootblacks and Bessie Smith.

 Songs about food, including: Mixed Salad, Tattie Soup, Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries and Cornfed.Performers include: Nick Lucas, Ted Lewis, Rudy Vallee and Lil Hardin Armstrong.

Vintage recordings of early Irving Berlin hits.Songs include: Follow the Crowd, When I Lost You, Sadie Salome and Alexander's Ragtime Band.Performers include: Helen Clark, Bessie Smith, Arthur Fields and Irving Berlin.

Records left off of previous podcasts. Artists include: The Memphis Jug Band, Eddie Cantor, The Sousa Band, Helen Kane and Washington Phillips. Songs include: Get Out and Get Under the Moon, Peaches in the Springtime, Denomination Blues, The Liberty Loan March and The first of May.