Music From 100 Years Ago

Highlights from the World War II era radio show, Jubilee. Jubilee was an Armed Forces Radio request show targeting African-American servicemen and women.  Songs include: Paper Doll, Straighten Up and Fly Right, Buzz Me, One O'Clock Jump and Please Don't Cry.  Performers include: Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Ella Mae Morse, Count Basie, The Golden Gate Quartet, Andy Kirk  and Dinah Washington.

Love songs by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, The Boswell Sisters, Jo Stafford, Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers.  Songs include: Stairway to the Stars, I Only Have Eyes For You, Sweetheart Waltz, Thing Are Looking Up and Sweet Sue.

A special, short podcast in honor of the 258th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Works include: the Symphony #1, Dove Sono and The overture to Cosi  Fan Tutte.  Artists include the New York Philharmonic, Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, Peter Colombo and Burno Walter.

Artists include: Thomas A. Dorsey, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, The Rev. Gary Davis, The Golden Gate Quartet and the Heavenly Gospel Singers. Music includes: Gospel Train, Percious Lord, This Train, Have a Little More Faith In Jesus, Oh My Lord and Rock My Soul.

Songs include: Pennies From Heaven, Dime a Dozen, Betcha Nickel, Penny Seranade and Brother, Can You Spae a Dime?  Performers include: Rudy Vallee, Ruth Etting, The Pied Pepers, Bing Crosby and Louis Prima.

Musicians born 100 years ago this year, including: Ernest Tubb, Dorothy Lamour, Sonny Boy Williamson, Larry Adler, Erskine Hawkins, Rafael Kubelik, Billy Eckstine and Hank Snow.  Songs include: The Man I Love, I'm Moving On, Waiting For a Train, Legends, Tuxedo Junction and My Cabin in Caroline.

The hit records of 1914, including: Trusting Eyes, Aba Daba Honeymoon, The Memphis Blues,  The Good Ship Mary Ann, Cohen on the Telephone and It's a Long Way to Tipperary.  Performers include: Enrico Caruso, Nora Bayes, The American Quartet, Joe Hayman and Prince's Orchestra.

Records left off of previous shows.  Songs include: Oh What a Beautiful Morning, Ko Ko, No Wedding Bells For Me, La Traviata Prelude, Trouble in Mind and Down Home Rag.  Performers include: The Yerba Buena Jazz Band, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Bing Crosby, Shep Fields, Billy Murray and Arturo Toscanini.

The life and music of song writer, Haven Gillespie.  Songs include: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, You Go to My Head, Whose Honey Are You?, Right Or Wrong, Kiss, Beautiful Love and That Lucky Old Sun.  Performers include:  Bing Crosby, Billy Holliday, Harry Resser, Sarah Vaughn, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Marylin Monroe and Henry "Red" Allen.

Celebrating Beethoven's birthday with three historic recordings.  Works include: Fur Elise, Violin Sonata #7 and The Concecration of the House Overture.  Performers include: Artur Schnabel, Yehudi Menuhin and Arturo Toscanini.

Music about being cold.  Works include: Baby It's Cold Outside, Cold, Cold Heart, Massas In the Cold, Cold Ground, It's Getting Chilly, Out In the Cold Again and The Winter's Passed.  Performers include: Doris Day, Hal Kemp, Helen Kane, Louis Armstrong, Slim and Sam and the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet.

More highlights from the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.  Music includes: 12th Street Rag, In a Mellotone, Can't Help Lovin That Man, The Adventures of Robin Hood and Honky Tonk Blues.  Perfromers include: Louis Armstrong, Helen Morgan. Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Erich Korngold and Iry Lejeune.

Songs include: Winter Wonderland, Santa Claus Got Stuck In the Chimney, Let It Snow, Don't Wait Until Christmas Night and Canon in D.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Perry Como, Arthur Fiedler, Ella Fitzgerald and Kay Kyser.

Pioneering women in country music from the 1930s and 1940s, including: Patsy Montana, The Girls of the Golden West, Moonshine Kate, Shirley Thoms, Lulu Belle and Scotty  and Kitty Wells.  Songs include: Worried Man Blues, My Man's a Jolly Railroad Man, That's Where the West Begins and I'll Be All Smiles Tonight.

The host recites the Gettysburg Address on the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's famous speech.

Songs about being thankful, including: Thanks For the Memory, I Want To Thank You Folks, Thanks a Million, Thank Your Father and Thank You Mr. Moon.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, The Boswell Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Perry Como and Helen Kane.

Sidemen of the Duke Ellinbgton Orchestra from the 1930s and 1940s.  Performers include: Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster, Herb Jeffries, Al Hibbler, Ray Nance and Juan Tizol.  Songs include: Empty Ballroom Blues, I've Got It Bad, Bakiff, Cotton Tail, Nine O' Clock Beer and Halfway to Dawn.

Blues singers of the Mississippi Delta, including: Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Son House, Bukka White, Memphis Minnie and Skip James.  Songs include: Banty Rooster Blues, I'm a Bad Luck Woman, Traveling Riverside Blues, Cherry Ball Blues and Your Biscuits Are Big Enough.

Songs include: Sunrise Serenade, Manhatthan Serenade, Serenade For a Wealthy Widow, Sleepy Serenade and Shepard's Serenade.  Performers include: The Casa Loma Orchestra, Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Jelly Roll Morton, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Artie Shaw, Fritz  Kreisler and Harry James.

The annual Halloween show.  Songs include: My Friend the Ghost, The Halloween Dance, Ghost Riders In the Sky, I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried and Here Comes the Boogie Man.  Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Henry Hall, Peggy Lee and Eugene Ormandy