Music From 100 Years Ago

A special podcast marking the death of scifi writer, Ray Bradburry.  The show includes a radio performance of Bradbury's story, The Veldt from 1951.

Records left off of earlier podcasts.  Sarah Vaughn sings Just Friends.  The Norwalk Symphony plays Elegy by Sibleius. Western swing by Jimmie Revard.  Woody Guthrie sings a Titaniac song. Plus Blind Boy Fuller plays Step it Up And Go.

The early history of western swing music.  Performers include: The Light Crust Doughboys, Milton Brown, Bob  Wills, Cliff Bruner,  Adolph Hofner, The Tune Wranglers and the Swift Jewel Cowboys.  Songs include: Pass the Biscuits Pappy, Beautiful Texas, Get A Long Home Cindy, Taking Off and My Untrue Cowgirl.

The life and music of songwriter Sam Lewis.  Songs include: For All We Know, Just Friends, I'm Sitting On Top Of The World, Dinah, Five foot Two and Hello Central.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Nora Bayes, Ted Lewis, Gene Austin and Isham Jones.

More classical music from the V-Disc program of the 1940s.  Works include: Bizet's Habanera, Rossinini's Dance of the Soldiers, Purcell's Trumpet Tune and Air, Scott's From the Sacred Harp and Ginastara's Panambi Suite.  Artists include: Marian Anderson, Arturo Toscanini, Virgil Fox, Erich Kleiber, The Norwalk Symphony and Morley and Gearhart.

Singers include: Vaughn DeLeath, Kitty Kallen, Jo Stafford, Helen Ward, Evelyn Dall and Annette Handshaw.  Songs include: Are You Lonesome Tonight, Ain't He Sweet, Paper Moon, Skylark, It's Been A Long Long Time and Some Enchanted Evening.

Cheerful songs from the Great Depression.  Songs include: Happy Days Are Here Again, When You're Smiling, Pennies From Heaven, Don't Let It Bother You and Dawn of a New Day.  Performers include; Alice Faye, Leo Reisman, Louis Armstrong, Horace Heidt, Lee Morse and Bing Crosby.

Pianists include; Jelly Roll Morton, James P Johnson, Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Bud Powell and Lenny Tristano.  Songs include: Original Rags, Chimes in Blues, It had to be You, I Can't Get Started and Rosetta.

Highlights from the Armed Forces Radio show, Mail Call from the 1940s. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Diana Shore, June Allison, Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers and Robert Benchley.  Songs include: Don't Fence Me In, Till Then, Oh What a Beautiful Morning, Begin the Beguine and Speak Low.

T angos from the 1910s through the 1940s.  Performers include: Carlos Gardel, Roberto Firpo, Carlos di Sarli, Anibal Troilo and Juan Canaro.  Tangos include: La Cumparsita, La Brisa, Paloma Blanca, El Amanecer and Caminito.

A special program marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.  Songs include: When That Great Ship Went Down, The Sinking of the Titanic, Nearer My God to Thee, God Moves On the Water , plus interviews with two Titanic survivors.   Performers include:  Leadbelly, the Knickerbocker Quartet, Ernest Stoneman, Blind Willie Johnson, Charles Lightoller and Edith Rosenbaum Russel. More i...

To celebrate the 300th episode of Music From 100 Years Ago, songs with numbers in the title, including:  Tea For Two, I'm a Hundred Percent For You, I See a Million People and Infinity Promanade.  Performers include: Uma Mae Carlisle, Thomas Waller, Bing Crosby, Thelonious Monk and Shorty Rodgers.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Fredrick Delius, a special podcast featuring Brigg Fair performed by Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic.

Music By Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, John Ireland, Arthur Sullivan, Fredrick Delius and William Walton.  Works include: Nimrod, Spitfire, Sea Fever, The Wasps Overture and The Wand Of Youth.

Irish music including: My Wild Irish Rose, Londerry bAir, Did Your Mother Come From Ireland and traditional Irish Reels.  Performers include: John McCormack, Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoren, Bing Crosby, Tom Ennis and William Butler Yeats.

Highlights from 6 years of Music From 100 Years Ago.  Performers include: Doris Day, Meade Lux Lewis, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Eugene Ormandy.

Songs about Monday, including: A Monday Date, Every Day Is Monday, Blue Monday Blues, Monday Again and Sunday, Monday and Always. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Jeanne Taylor, Albert Ammons, Frankie Laine and Count Basie.

Country fiddlers from the 1920s and 1930s, including Eck Robertson, John Carson, G.B. Grayson, Alfred Reed and Bob Wills. Songs include: Goin Down This Road Feeling Bad, Tom Dooley, Old Joe Clark, Maiden's Prayer and Pass Around the Bottle.

Highlights from the first eight V-Discs, from October 1943. Songs include: Blue Skies. Sing Sing Sing. Home On the Range, Che Li and Okalahoma.  Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Diana Shore, the Fort Slocum Band and Vaughn Monroe.

Blind b lues singers of the 1920s and 1030s, including: Lemon Jefferson, Willie McTell, Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Blind Willie Johnson, Teddy Darb and Blind Boy Fuller. Songs include: Log Cabin Blues, Southern Rag, Bad Luck Blues, Southern Can Is Mine and Have a Little More Faith In Jesus.

Music of George Gershwin as perfored on radio broadcasts in the 1930s and 1940s.  Music includes: Lady Be Good, I Got Rhythm Variations, Summertime, Piano Prelude #1 and They Can't take that Away From Me.  Musicians include: George Gershwin, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Lewis Armstrong.

A special podcast to honor Mozart on his 256th birthday. Performers include: Thomas Beecham, The Budapest String Quartet, Wanda Landowsky and Hamilton Harty.

Songs about eyes, including: I Only Have Eyes For You, Green Eyes, Them There Eyes, Angel Eyes and Dark Eyes.  Performers include: Billie Holiday. Jame Froman, Herb Jeffries, Bing Crosby, Gene Austin and Helen Forest.

A tribute to performers born 100 years ago this year, including: Perry Como, Lightnin Hopkins, Woody Guthrie, Georg Solti, Don Byas & Marta Eggerth.  Music Includes: Some Enchanted Evening, Short Haired Woman, Tis Autumn, Summertime & Brahms Violin Sonata #3.

Hit songs from 1912, including: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Oh You Beautiful Doll, Love Is Mine, Come Down My Evening Star and Waiting For the Robert E Lee.  Performers include: Al Jolson, Lilian Russel, Fisk University Jubilee Singers, Enrico Caruso and Collins & Harlin.