AMERICAN GROOVES RADIO HOUR hosted by JOE LAURO

Back when sentimental songs were not taboo in pop music there were 100s of mother songs recorded by top Country, blues, Jazz and pop performers from JIMMIE RODGERS, THE CARTER FAMILY, BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON, RILEY PUCKETT to FRANKIE HALF PINT JAXON, SOPHIE TUCKER, EARL McDONALD'S JUG BAND AND  AL JOLSON!  Quite a variety. Tune in and here a some of the best! --- Support this podcast: https...

Having a show on Sunday makes this episode even more appropriate!. Explore some of the most moving Gospel, Sanctified and Sacred recordings of the pre-war era....If they had music like this in MY church when I was growing up I'd probably be a minister today! From Arizona Draines, Blind Gary (Davis), Sister Callie Fancy and the elusive Elder Harris ( traveling fiddle playing preacher) and Willie Ma...

THE POST WW1 MIGRATION FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH BROUGHT  WITH IT MANY GREAT BLUES AND JAZZ SINGERS. IN THE 1920S CHICAGO BECAME A MECCA OF RECORDING ACTIVITY WHERE YOUNG LOUIS ARMSTRONG ( WITH KING OLIVER), EARL HINES AND MANY OTHERS GOT THEIR START - ON THIS EPISODE HEAR SOME GREAT JAZZ, BLUES AND GOSPEL RECORDINGS ALL WAXED IN THE WINDY CITY CIRCA 1923-34. --- Support this podcast: https...

NO OTHER PERFORMER EVER HAS BEEN THE NUMBER 1 BOX OFFICE ATTRACTION, NUMBER 1 RECORD SELLER AND NUMBER ONE RADIO STAR ALL AT THE SAME TIME!  HERE ARE SOME OF BING CROSBY'S EARLIEST RECORDINGS WHEN HE WAS STILL MAKING HIS WAY TO THE TOP! YOU WILL HEAR HIM WITH THE RHYTHM BOYS, PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA, GUS ARNHEIM ORCHESTRA AND HIS EARLIEST SOLO DISCS FOR BRUNSWICK RECORDS --- Support this podc...

From THE CASTLE WALK in 1914 to "TRUCKIN" in the mid-1930's various dance crases, with varing degrees of popularity were the subject of Jazz and Blues recordings - Hear the original GEORGIA GRIND, BLACK BOTTOM and more - Joe presents Jazz Scholar and fellow collector RUSS SHOR to join in on the program --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support

Rare recordings and information on some of the earliest and most influential country artists to record - from Jimmie Rodgers to The Carter Family and many more --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support

The voices of the African American actors, actresses and performers who where seen in early Hollywood films. Did you know that Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel ( GONE WITH THE WIND) was a Blues Singer ala Bessie Smith before making films? ..and that films were made specifically for Americans' black audiences featuring  some of the top African-American Vaudeville and Jazz performers of the...

An hour of tunes we love from the 1910s-1930s with focus on some totally cool  songs of spring! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support

My birthday was April 7th..in thinking about what that Sunday's show could be  I explored the zillions of songs about a man named JOE! - zillions of them- thus this episode! From Rosetta Crawfords' STOP IT JOE, Louis Armstrong  LITTLE JOE, Butterbeans & Susie's UNCLE JOE and Stuff Smith's OLD JOE's HITTING THE JUG the songs of Joe abound! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters....

The music of American immigrants who arrived on our shores in the 1880s-1920s - Original recordings of Chinese, Cajun, Yiddish, Italian, Irish newly American Immigrants..and also some Creole musicians recorded in Paris in the 1920s - the true ROOTS OF THE ROOTS! all  transferred specifically for this episode and from original 78s in Joe's collection  --- Support this podcast: https://pod...

They came to America and  brought their MUSIC ..the roots of the roots!.... this episode, the first of several,  explores music made in the New Land by Irish, Jewish, Italian, Mexican and , Caribbean immigrants in the 1920s-30s. Spirited,  pure, inspired and heart warming ancient sounds you have never heard! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-...

BIX BEIDERBECKE ( 1903-31) WAS BORN 119 YEARS AGO THIS MARCH 10 AND AMERICAN GROOVES RADIO HOUR CELEBRATES HIS LEGACY OF 1920S RECORDINGS..AND THOSE OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND INFLUENCES! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support

FROM THE DOUBLE ENTENDRE TO THE DOWNRIGHT FILTHY THIS EPISODE PRESENTS SOME THE "SEXIEST" BLUES RECORDINGS OF THE 1920S-30S. YOU WILL HEAR  THE JAUNTY "GET OFF WITH ME" BY BLACK VAUDEVILLE STARS GRANT & WILSON, BESSIE SMITH'S "I NEED A LITTLE SUGAR IN MY BOWL" AND  THE SOPHISTICATED CAFE SOCIETY STAR FRANCIS MADDUX'S "SYN-TAX" AMONG OTHERS.  --- Support this podcast: https://pod...

TODAY WE HAVE "BUILD BACK BETTER" THE 1935 VERSION WAS CALLED "THE NEW DEAL" WHICH BUILT OUR ROADS AND PUT MILLIONS OF DEPRESSION RAVAGED AMERICANS BACK TO WORK..IT EVEN INSPIRED SOME AMAZING TOPICAL BLUES, COUNTRY AND POP TUNES..THIS EDITION OF AMERICAN GROOVES RADIO HOUR PRESENTS SUCH NEW DEAL INSPIRED TUNES AS "NRA BLUES", "LET'S HAVE A NEW DEAL" , "BUY AMERICAN" AND "FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT IS BACK...

Joe plays recordings of some of the 1920s-30's hottest Hawaiian bands and singers - Benny Nawahi, Sol Hopi, Johnny Noble, Kalamas Quartet and the remarkable HOOT GIBSON TROUPE -  Don Ho it ain't!!! It's JAZZ and American Folk Musi c! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support

It is no surprize that the Grateful Dead pulled much of their inspiration from 1920s-30s folk, Jug Band, Country and Blues recordings . This episode presents some of the original performances that no doubt inspired Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir. From Gus Cannon's' MINGLEWOOD BLUES, MISSISSIPPI SHEIK' Sittin' On Top Of The World and Ragtime Henry Thomas' DON'T EASE ME listen and learn about these early...

THE SECOND OF OUR TWO HOLIDAY/CHRISTMAS BROADCASTS FEATURES THE FIRST EVER BING CROSBY CHRISTMAS RECORDING ( 1934 UN-ISSUED!), YULETIDE MEDLEYS FROM THE 1928 PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA AND BLUES RARITIES FROM VICTORIA SPIVEY AND  MORE --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support

SONGS ABOUT CHRISTMAS HAVE BEEN RECORD SINCE THE FIRST DAYS OF CYLINDER RECORDS IN THE 1880S - JOIN US AS WE PRESENT SOME CROSS-GENRE RECORDINGS FROM BLUES SINGERS LIKE BESSIE SMITH TO  JAZZ BANDS LIKE THE RED ONION JAZZ BABIES WITH YOUNG LOUIS ARMSTRONG ALSO SOME PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS AND OLD RADIO SHOWS WITH A YULETIDE SLANT! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p...

From Chitlin Struts, Wang Dang Doodles, Pitchin' Boogies, to Prohibition era Blow Outs - this episode presents some great tunes you have never heard, from the 1920s-early 30s about partying!  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support

FOR MY MONEY, THERE IS NO TIGHTER AND SWEETER HARMONY THEN THAT SUNG BY TWO BROTHERS OR SISTERS. THE TRADITION CONTINUES TODAY. HERE SOME OF THE FIRST BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO MAKE BLUES, COUNTRY AND POP RECORDS - FROM THE GIRLS FROM NEW ORLEANS " THE BOSWELL SISTERS, THE GOSPEL SINGING GRAVES BROTHERS TO SAG HARBOR'S OWN MOYLAN SISTERS! HOW SWEET IT IS! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters...

IN THE 1950S' THE ONLY WAY TO HEAR THE FOLK, COUNTRY AND BLUES MUSIC OF THE 1920S AND 30S WAS TO FIND THE RECORDS IN A JUNK SHOP OR BE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A FRIEND WHO WOULD SHARE THEM WITH YOU....AFTER FINDING THEM IN A JUNK SHOW!  60 YEARS BEFORE APPLE MUSIC, SPOTIFY, YOUTUBE AND THE LIKE THERE WAS ONLY THE HARRY SMITH " ANTHOLOGY OF  AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC" THIS 3 LP SET BROUGHT THE VOI...

THE "BLUES CRAZE BEGAN IN EARNEST IN 1921 WITH MAMIE SMITHS' "CRAZY BLUES" PROVIDING OKEH RECORDS WITH A SURPRISE HIT. BY THE EARLY MID-1920S WE HAD CLARA SMITH, BESSIE SMITH, LAURA SMITH, JOINING OLD MAMIE - AND NONE OF THEM WERE RELATED! BLUES WERE THE POP MUSIC OF THE DAY - TUNE IN AND HEAR THE LIKES OF MA RAINEY,  A FEW OF THE SMITH GIRLS AND THE HAUNTING DELTA BLUES OF KEECHIE WILEY...AN...

RARE ORIGINAL CAST RECORDINGS FROM SOME OF THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT OF THE EARLY BLACK BROADWAY MUSICAL SHOWS. BERT WILLIAMS IN 1906 ( "N DAPHONEY") , SISSLE & BLAKE FROM "SHUFFLE ALONG " IN 1921 TO CLASSIC TUNES FROM SEVERAL EDITIONS OF THE LEW LESLIE "BLACKBIRDS"  - FATS WALLER, ETHEL WATERS, ELIZABETH WELSH AND MANY MORE --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/...

From 1920s-30s Blues, to Country to Pop, the big man downstairs has always been a popular subject. From Miss Lee Morse and her hot band  singing with the sinners to Reverend Gates testifying about about what will be a sure fire path to lead you down to Mr. Satan - Tune in and just try to keep the devil away! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-ho...

THIS EPISODE OF JOE LAURO'S "AMERICAN GROOVES RADIO HOURS" CELEBRATED SOME OF THE HOTTEST PIANO PLAYERS OF THE 1920S AND EARLY 30S. FROM WELL KNOWN NAMES LIKE JELLY-ROLL MORTON AND EARL HINES TO FORGOTTEN MASTERS LIKE "BUCK" WASHINGTON AND BLIND LEROY GARNETT - THE IVORIES WILL BE SHAKING! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support