Music From 100 Years Ago

Records left off of previous podcasts, including: Yodeling Ranger, Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?, Riders In the Sky, Texas Polka and Preachin Blues. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Martha Tilton, Larry Clinton, Arturo Toscanini, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Robert Johnson.

The music of songwriter, Harry Ruby. Songs include: Who's Sorry Now?, Three Little Words, Give Me The Simple Life, Nevertheless and Hooray For Captain Spaluding. Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Marion Harris, The Mills Brothers, Helen Kane, Benny Goodman, Ehtyl Waters and Groucho Marx.

Celebrating the 241st birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven.  Performers include: George Szell, Bruno Walter, the Budapest String Quartet, Arthur Schnabel and Pablo Casals. Works include highlights from the Symphony #4, the Six Bagatelles Op 126, the String Quartet #10 and the Celo Sonata #5.

Male-female duets, including: Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell, Nelson Eddy & Jannette McDonald and Anita O'Day & Roy Eldrige. Songs include: It Had To Be You, An Apple For the Teacher, Let Me Off Uptown and Indian Love Call.

Classic Christmas songs from the 1940s, including: The Christmas Song, Winter Wonderland, Here Comes Santa Claus, Sleigh Ride and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Performers include: Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, The Boston Pops, Gene Autry and Doris Day.

Music about America's favorite morning beverage . Songs include: Java Jive, I'd Like to Dunk You In My Coffee, Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee, Coffee Grindin Blues and You're the Cream In My Coffee. Performers include: Una Mae Carlisle, the Ink Spots, Ted Weems, the Boswell Sisters, Wingy Manone and Mike Douglas.

Performers include: Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Bo Carter, Skip James and Sonny Boy Williamson #1. Songs include: Canned heat Blues, Traveling Riverside Blues, Shake Em On Down, 4 O' Clock Blues and Dry Well Blues.

Songs with lists, including: My Baby Just Cares For Me, Route 66, A, You're Adorable, It Might As Well Be Spring. I Wish That I Were Twins and These Foolish Things. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Nat King Cole, Fats Waller and Jo Stafford.

Classical music gets the swing treatment. Songs include; My Reverie, Prelude and Fugue, Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Beethoven riffs. Performers include: John Kirby, Larry Adler, Larry Clinton, Pat Flowers and Hazel Scott.

Songs include: Fifth Avenue, Lost Highway, Sixth Avenue Express, On the Sunny Side of the Street and Summit Ridge Drive. Performers include: Jo Stafford, Connie Boswell, Hank Williams, Ted Weems, Bill Monroe and Glenn Miller.

Songs include; Ghost Walkin Blues, Haunted Heart, Riders In the Sky, Funeral March of a Marionette and Satan Takes a Holiday. Performers include: Burl Ives, Billie Holiday, Perry Como, Tommy Dorsey, The Casa Loma Orchestra and The Royal Albert Hall Orchestra.

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Franz Liszt.  Works include: Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Liebestraum #3, Totentanze and the Piano Concerto #1.  Performers include: Eileen Joyce, Artur Rubenstein, Louis Ketner, Jesus Sanroma and Eugene Ormandy.

Songs include: A Sailboat in the Moonlight, Ferryboat Sernade, Gospel Ship, Someone's rockin My dreamboat and I'll Sail My Ship Alone. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Andrews Sisters, Carter Family, Ink Spots, Moon Mullican and Louis Armstrong.

More music from the final year of World War II. Songs include: It's Been So Long Darlin, Angilena, The Syncopated Clock, The New Spanish Two-Step, Brahms Symphony #1, I Wish and Till the End of Time. Performers include: Perry Como, Bob Wills, Judy Garland . Leopold Stokowski, Charlie Parker and Ernest Tubb.

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Monroe, The Father of Bluegrass.  Songs include: Blue Moon of Kentucky, Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms, Criple Creek, Foggy Monutian Breakdown and Footprints In The Snow.  Performers include: Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, the Monroe Brothers, The Skillet Lickers, The Stanley Brothers and Flatt and Scruggs.

Music about being cool.  Songs include: Cold Cold Heart, Be Cool Fool, Out In the Cold Again, In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening and Baby, It's Cold Outside.  Performers include: Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Williams, Kokomo Arnold, Jo Stafford and Jimmie Dickens.

Hush!  Songs about whispering.  Songs include: Whispering, Whispering Hope, Whisper in the Night and Moonlight Whispers.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, Connee Boswell, The Ink Spots, Tex Beneke , Valaida Snow & Jo Stafford.

Celebrating Classical Music Month with historical recordings from the 1930s & 1940s, including: Albinez: Spanish Seranade, Bach: Little Fugue in g minor, Grofe: On the Trail & Shostakovich: Symphony #6.  Performers include; Ricardo Vines, Arturo Toscanini, Abert Schweitzer & Paul Whiteman.

Lesser-known blues singers from the 1920s and 1930s.  Performers include: Josie Miles, Mary Johnson, Kathrine Henderson, Hattie McDaniel, Maggie Jones, Chippie Hill  and Edith Wilson. Songs inclue: West End Blues, Death Letter Blues, Boxcar Blues, I Thought I'd Do It & Home Town Blues.

The first in a series dedicated to the music of 1945; the last year of World War II, Songs include: It Might As Well Be Spring, Lover Man, Ebony Concerto, Laura and Cocktails For Two. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Erskine Caldwell, Billie Holiday, Spike Jones and Igor Stravinsky.

Music left off of earlier podcasts.  Songs include: Bewitched, Fish Fry, The Stars & Stripes Forever, Martha and Please Be Kind.  Performers include: Lary Clinton, Jimmy Dorsey, The Phildelphia Orchestra, Marie Greene and  Sarah Vaughn.

Yodeling in early 20th Century pop music.  Songs include: Yodeling Jive, The Harlem Yodel, Blue Yodel #5, I Miss My Swiss and The Yodeling Polka.  Artists include: Jimmie Rodgers, The Andrews Sisters, Bessie Smith, Bill Monroe, Gene Krupa and The Dandridge Sisters.

Early jazz guitarists from the 1920s through the 1940s, including: Eddie Lang, Nick Lucas, Charlie Christian, Les Paul and Django Reinhardt.

Songs about heat, including Heat Wave, Too Darn Hot, Cool Water, Hotter Than that and Go Down Old Hannah. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Ethyl Waters, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie.

The life and work of songwriter, Sammy Fain. Songs include: Love is a Many Splendored Thing, I'll Be Seeing You, That Old Feeling, By a Waterfall and Secret Love.  Performers include: Dorris Day, Shep Fields, Billie Holliday, The Four Aces, Dick Powell and Maurice Chevalier.