Recordings from the early 20th Century with comments.
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Singing Actors Acting Singers
Performers include: Bob Hope, Mae West, Eddie Anderson, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Ken Curtis and Rudolph Valentino. Songs include: Breathless, Falling in Love Again, The Lady's in Love With You, Sweeping the Clouds Away and I Like a Guy What...
A.P. Carter
A special podcast marking the 50th anniversary of the death of A.P. Carter, the founder and leader of the Carter Family. Songs include: Wildwood Flower, Lonsome Valley, Worried Man Blues and Heaven's Radio.
Command Performance
Highlights from the Command Performance radio show of the 1940s. Performers include: Bob Hope, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Count Basie, Bing Crosby,James Cagney and Frank Sinatra. Songs include: Embraceable You, I'll Be Back, Just One of Those...
Witches' Sabbath
A special, short podcast featuring the Witches' Sabbath movement from the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz played by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Arthur Rodinsky.
Halloween 2010
Songs include: Haunted Heart, Mr. Ghost Goes to Town, Haunted By the Blues and My Old Flame. Also, the host reads Eldorado by Edgar Allen Poe. Performers include: Maxine Sullivan, Jo Stafford, Spike Jones, Vaughn Monroe and Victoria Spivey.
Million Selling Records 1948-1949
Million-sellers from the last two years of the 1940s, including: With My Eyes Wide Open, Nature Boy, Buttons and Bows, Mule Train and Whispering Hope. Performers include: Fats Domino, Diana Shore, Frankie Laine, Patty Page and Nat King Cole.
Million Selling Records 1946-1947
Songs include: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, Here Comes Santa Claus, The Anniversary Song, Confess and Move On Up a Little Higher. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Mahalia Jackson, Doris Day, Gene Autry and Spike Jones.
Hour Music
Songs with hour in the title, including: If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight, Now is the Hour, One Hour and Every minute of Every Hour. Performers include: Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Joe Sullivan and Spike Jones.
Male Radio Singers
Performances by male singers from radio broadcasts of the 1930s and 40s. Singers include: Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Gene Autry and Frank Sinatra. Songs include: You'll Never Walk Alone, I Wish I Were Single Again, Slow Boat to...
Polkas of the 1940s
Artists include: The Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller, Spade Cooley, Frankie Yankovich, Martha Tilton and Will Glahe. Polkas include: Pennsylvania Polka, The Four Fiddle Polka, Texas Polka, Page Boy and The Beer Barrel Polka.