Music From 100 Years Ago

Guitarists from the Piedmont school of the blues. Artists include: Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James.  Songs include: Devil Got My Woman, Dry Bone Shuffle, Louis Collins and I Belong to the Band.  

Early violin recordings.  Artists include: Joe Venuti, Jascha Heifetz, Eck Robertson and Charles D'Almaine. Songs include, Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia, Caprice Number 20, Beating the Dog, Air For the G String and Kitty O'Neil.

Religious music from the teens and twenties.  Performers include: The Calvary Choir, Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Edison Mixed Quartet, the Tuskegee Institute Singers and the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers. Songs include: Rock of Ages, Go Down Moses, Nearer my God to Thee and Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed.

Great tenors of the acoustic era.  Singers include: Enrico Caruso, Billy Murray, John McCormack, Cliff  Edwards and Florencio Constantino. Songs include: When You and I Were Young, Santa Lucia, Give My Regards to Broadway and Keep the Home Fires Burning.

Country music pioneers including : Eck Robertson, Fiddlin John Carson, Ernest Stoneman and the Carter Family. Songs include: Cripple Creek, The Little Old Log Cabin and Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow.

Songs with red, green and blue in the title. Songs include: The Red Pepper Rag, The Green Isle of Erin and I'd Rather Be Blue. Performers include: The Peerless Quartet, Ma Rainey, Sophie Tucker and John McCormack.

Performers include: Collins & Harlin, Bessie Smith & Clara Smith, Ada Jones & Billy Murray and Jack Norworth & Nora Bayes. Songs include:  Come Josephine In My Flying Machine, Waiting For the Robert E. Lee, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles and I'm Going Back to My Used to Be.

Artists Include; Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Irving Kaufman, Nora Bayes and Arthur Fields. Songs include: Second Hand Rose, Toot Toot Tootsie, Oh How I Hate to Get Up In the Morning and Hail Hail, the Gang's All Here.

Looking back at the first year of podcasts. Performers include:  Billy Murrary, Irving Kaufmann, Bert Williams, Blind Blake and George Hamilton Green. Songs include: You're a Grand Old Rag, Police Dog Blues, Triplets and Home Call.

A salute to the Emerald Isle. Songs include: There's a Little Bit of Irish in Us All, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Too-Ra-Loo-Ra and My Wild Irish Rose. Performers include: Chauncey Olcott, John MacCormack, Aileen Stanley, Steve Porter and the Brunswick Quartet.

Songs about dreaming and dreamers.  Songs include: I'll See You in My Dreams, I Must Be Dreaming, The Ragtime Dream and I'm a Dreamer. Singers include: Collins and Harlin, Cliff Edwards, Annette Hanshaw, Smith Ballew and Jon Finnegan.

Nautical tunes for landlubbers.  Songs include: I Love to be a Sailor, Barnacle Bill, By the Sea and My Bonnie. Performers include: Alma Gluck, Cal Stewart, the Knickerbocker Quartet and Billy Murray.

Songs for Valentine's Day.  Songs include: I'm Falling in Love With Someone, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Pretty Baby and For You Alone. Performers include: John McCormack, Cliff Edwards, Ethyl Waters and Enrico Caruso.

An appendix to episode #41.  Two versions of Button Up Your Overcoat by Helen Kane and Annette Hanshaw.

Songs about Texas and songs by Texans.   Artists include: Jimmie Davis, Lydia Mendoza, The Red Onion Jazz Babies, Jimmie Rodgers and Gene Autry. Songs include: Beautiful Texas, Texas Moaner Blues, Chinatown, My Chianatown and Mal Hombre.

Songs about real-life disasters.  Songs include: The Baltimore Fire, The Titanic Blues, The Death of Floyd Collins and Ben Dewberry's Final Run.  Artists include: Jimmie Rogers, Vernon Dalhart,Virginia Liston and Bessie Smith.

Female singers of the 1920s.  Performers include: Helen Kane, Josephine Baker, Annette Handshaw, Sophie Tucker and Marion Harris. Songs include: Button Up Your Overcoat, 50 Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, Bye Bye Blackbird and Loveable and Sweet.

Early piano recordings. Performers include: Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, Pinetop Smith and Jelly Roll Morton.

Records released in 1907.  Artists include: Enrico Caruso, Billy Murrary, Ada Jones, the Arthur Pryor Band, Bob Roberts and Steve Porter. Songs include: Vesti La Giubba, I'm Gettin Ready for My Mother-In-Law, And a Little Child Will Lead Them and the International Martch.

Artists include: Al Jolson, Ada Jones, Bert Williams, the Original Dixiland Jazz Band, the Sousa Band and the Peerless Quartet. Songs include: Tiger Rag, Nobody, California, Here I Come and Christmas Eve.

Early blues recordings including: Crazy Blues, Saint Louis Blues,Bearcat Blues and Bad Luck Blues.  Performers include: Mamie Smith, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey and Charley Patton.

Christmas records from the early 20th Century.  Including: Ring Out the Bells at Christmas, Silent Night, The Christmas Man Blues and  We Three Kings.

Early 20th Century recordings of Christmas music.  Songs include: The Santa Claus Song, Joy to the World, Christmas Morning at Clancy's and The March of the Toys.

Whistling recordings including: Whistle It, The Whistler and His Dog, Listen to the Mockingbird and Pucker Up And Whistle. Whistlers include: Joe Belmont, Al Jolson, Sibyl Sanderson Fagan and Billy Murray.

Featuring banjoist, Eddie Peabody, jazz guitarist, Eddie Lang and ukulele player Cliff Edwards. Songs include: Baby Face, Hot Fingers and Will You Remember Me.