Music From 100 Years Ago

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.

French Music for Bastille Day. Performers include: Maurice Chevalier , Josephine Baker, Madame Bolduc, Joe Falcone and Django Reinhardt. Songs include:  La Marseillaise, Louise, Les Femmes, Avelon and Allons à Lafayette.

Vintage recordings of Sousa marches, including: The Stars and Stripes Forever, Washington Post, The Liberty  Bell and The Thunderer. Performers include: Sousa's Band, The New York Military Band and the U.S. Marine Band.

Jazz dance tunes from  the 1920s. Works include: King Porter Stomp, Tar Paper Stomp, Shirt Tail Stomp and Brush Stomp. Performers include: Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Goodman,  Wingy Manone and Fats Waller.

Early recordings of Hawaiian music. Artists include:  Kalama's Quartet, Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra,   King Bennie Nawahi and Frank Ferreira. Songs include: Ranbow Isle, Hawaiian Capers, Every Does It In Hawaii and Wahine Ui.

Songs with north, south east and west in the title. Songs include: North Port, Belle of the East, The Girl Who Comes in From the West and I'm Going South. Artists include: Benny Moten, The Alabama Sacred harp Singers, Duke Ellington and Harry McDonough.

Bands include: The Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers, The Seven Gallon Jug Band and The Dixieland Jug Blowers. Songs include: Whitewash Station Blues, Wipe It Off, Sweet Potato Blues and The Jug Band Waltz.

Voices of Thomas Edison, Arthur Sullivan, Ernest Shackleton, William Butler Yates, Eugene Debs, Booker T. Washington and Will Rodgers.

Military brass bands playing music other than marches. Music includes: Blue Danube, Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Ramshackle Rag and Nearer My God to Thee. Bands include: Sousa's Band, The Arthur Pryor Band and the New York Military Band.