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The musicians who brought boogie woogie into mainstream popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.  Pianists include: Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Hazel Scott and Jimmy Yancey.

Tunes include: Boogie Woogie Prayer, Bass Goin Crazy, Hazel's Boogie and Movin the Boogie.

Early boogie woogie pianists including: Jimmy Blythe, Cow Cow Davenport, Pinetop Smith and Romeo Nelson.

Tunes include: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, Chicago Stomp, Cow Cow Blues and Head Rag Hop.

Music for Halloween, including: Haunted House Blues, The Skeleton in the Closet, Mr Ghost Goes to Town and Graveyard Blues.

Performers include: Helen Gross, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Davis and Woody Herman.

Songs with happy in the title.  Songs include: Happy Days Are Here Again, Is Everybody Happy?, Let Me Sing and I'm Happy and There's Always a Happy Ending.

Performers include: Ted Lewis, Helen Kane, Lee Morse, Bing Crosby and Al Jolson.

Early Mississippi Delta Blues Singers, including: Charley Patton, Son House, Bo Carter, Robert Johnson and Blind Willie McTell.

Songs include: Screamin and Hollerin the Blues, Spike Driver Blues, I Believe I'll Dust My Broom and Sitting on Top of the World.

Songs about birds, including: Bye Bye Blackbird, Turkey in the Straw, Bluebird Blues and The Bird on Nelly's Hat.

Artists include: Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Helen Trix, Cab Calloway and Sonny Boy Williamson.

Piano music of all types.  Pianists include: Teddy Wilson, Ignaz Paderewski, George Gershwin, Art Tatum and Arizona Dranes.

Music Includes: Honky Tonk Train Blues, Rhapsody in Blue, Polonaise #1 and Tea For Two.

Music by bandleader and songwriter Isham Jones. Songs include: I'll See You in My Dreams, Wabash Blues, There is No Greater Love and Stardust.

Other musicians include: Al Jolson, Woody Herman and Cliff Edwards.

Songs involving cars, trains, planes and boats. Songs include: In My Merry Oldsmobile, The Wreck of the Old 97, Come Josephine in My Flying Machine and Sailing Down Chesapeake Bay.

Artists include: Billy Murray, Ada Jones, Vernon Dalhart and the Memphis Jug Band.

This week, musicians from Mississippi, including: Jimmie Rodgers, Mississippi John Hurt, The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Sonny Boy Williamson and Lester Young.

Songs include: Lady Be Good, Blue Bird, Mississippi Moon, Ol Miss Rag and Dream Daddy Blues.

Songs about fruit, including: Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries, I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time, On a Coconut Island and Black Raspberry Jam.

Performers include: Cliff Edwards, Andy Iona, Rudy Valley, Fats Waller and the Memphis Jug Band.

Xylophone, marimba and vibraphone recordings.  Songs include: Triplets, Who's Sorry Now?, Memories of You and Avelon.

Artists include: Lionel Hampton, Red Norvo, George Hamilton Green and Adrian Rollini.

Music by songwriter, Walter Donaldson.  Songs include: Carolina in the Morning, My Blue Heaven, Love Me or Leave Me and You're Driving Me Crazy.

Performers include: Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Josephine Baker and Nora Bayes.

Songs include: Happy Days, I Faw Down, When You're Smiling, Train Whistle Blues and Sweetheart of Yesterday.

Artists include: The Casa Loma Orchestra, Bessie Smith, Jimmie Rodgers, Bennie Moten, Annette Hanshaw and Louis Armstrong.

Music includes: Liszt's Hungarian Rhaposdy 2, Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Smetana's Bartered Bride Overture.

Conductors include: Leopold Stokowski, Hamilton Harty and Wilhelm Furtwangler.

Songs about money, including: We're in the Money, Broke and Hungry, Don't Let Your Deal Go Down and Brother Can You Spare a Dime?

Musicians include: Ted Lewis, Bing Crosby, Blind Lemon Jeffferson, Fletcher Henderson and Bert Williams.

Love songs for summer. Artists include: Sir Harry Lauder, Josephine Baker, Enrico Caurso, Lee Morse and Maurice Chevalier.

Songs include: Old Fashioned Love, She's the Lass For Me, Love is Mine and Stardust.

Records that topped one million in sales.  Songs include; Dardenella, The Prisoner's Song, Sonny Boy and Down Hearted Blues.

Performers include: Al Jolson, Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, Ted Weems  and Gene Austin.

Patriotic songs for July 4th.  Songs include: National Emblem, America, Any Place the Old Flag Flies and Keep the Home Fires Burning.

Performers include: The Marine Band, Cal Stewart, Victor Herbert and Louis Armstrong.

Songs about Georgia and musicians from the peach state.  Songs include: Sweet Georgia Brown, Savannah Mama, Georgia Bound and Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia.

Musicans include: Blind Willie McTell, The Skillet Lickers, Ma Rainey, Fiddlin John Carson and the American Quartet.

A tribute to our equine friends.  Songs include: The Horse Trot, Empty Saddles, Racehorse Blues and My Old Saddle Horse Is Missing.

Performers include: Cliff Carlise, Bing Crosby, Helen Humes and Sonny Scott.

Songs include: Tears, Ain't It a Crying Shame, Why Should I Cry Over You and Dancing With Tears in My Eyes.

Performers include: The Tuxedo Dance Orchestra, Ruth Etting, Blind Boy Fuller, Bix Biederbeck and Bing Crosby. 

The story of the father of the blues, W.C. Handy.  Songs include: Saint Louis Blues, Memphis Blues, Steal Away to Jesus and Way Down South Where the Blues Began.

Musicians include: W. C. Handy, Marion Harris, Blanche Calloway and Jellyroll Morton.

For the 100th episode, it's highlights from past programs.

Performers include: Billy Murray, Pinetop Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Al Jolson.

Songs include: Chicago Breakdown, Chicago Blues, Chicago Mess Around and Chicago Stomp.

Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Lovie Austin and Fletcher Henderson.

A selection of Irish music, including: Haste to the Wedding, The Girls of Bainbridge, Leaving Dear Old Ireland and The Star of the County Down.

Artists include: John McCormack, Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoran and Chauncey Olcott.

Songs about the Sun including: On the Sunny Side of the Street, Red Sails in the Sunset, Morning Sun Blues and Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie.

Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Harry Richman, Bryon Harlin, the Brox Sisters and John McCormack.

Early works by  Hollywood song writer , Harry Warren.

Songs include, The Lullaby of Broadway, Lulu's Back In Town, You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me, and Shadow Waltz.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Connie Boswell, Hal Kemp and Fats Waller.

Songs about Alabama and musicians from the yellowhammer state.

Songs include: Alabama Jubilee, Go Down Moses, Alabama Strut and the Stars Fell On Alabama.

Musicans include: Cow Cow Davenport, Guy Lombardo, the Tuskeggee Institute Singers and W.C. Handy.

The story of the first African-American owned record label.

Artists include: Ethel Waters, Fletcher henderson, The Four Harmony Kings, Alberta Hunter and Trixie Smith.

Songs include: Oh Daddy, They'll be some Changes Made, Farewell Blues and Trixie's Blues.

Songs about the moon.  Songs include: By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Once In a Blue Moon, Roll Along Kentucky Moon and Moon Country.

Performers include: Ada Jones, Cliff Edwards, Hoagy Carmichael, Helen Kane and Charlie Patton.

Songs with breakdown in the title.  Songs include: Piano Breakdown, Birmington Breakdown, Redell Breakdown and Country Breakdown.

Performers include: Charley Lincoln, The Skillet Lickers, Louis Armstrong, Blind Blake and J.B. Fuselier.

Songs written or recorded in 1908.  Songs include: Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Shine On Harvest Moon, Pineapple Rag and It Looks Like a Big Night Tonight.

Performers include: Billy Murray, the Sousa Band, the Knickerbocker Quartet and Harry Lauder.

Records left off of previous podcasts.  Plus a tribute to Oscar Peterson and Lydia Mendoza.

Artists include: Oscar Peterson, Lydia Mendoza, Mound City Blue Blowers, Floyd Smith, Valaida Snow and John Philip Sousa.

Guitar Music from the 1920s and 1930s.  Guitarists include: Nick Lucas, Eddie Lang, Blind Boy Fuller, Bennie Nawahi, Ramon Montoya, Andre Segovia and Django Reinhardt.

Songs include; Pickin on the Guitar, Dark was the Night, Clouds, El Rosa and Mauna Kea.

More records from 1929.

Performers include: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Pinetop Smith and Ethyl Waters.

Songs include: Am I Blue, Freakish, Guitar Blues, Waiting at the End of the Road and Soldier's Joy.

Recordings released in the pivotal year of 1929.

Artists include: Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jimmie Rodgers, Sophie Tucker and Helen Kane.

Songs include: Ain't Misbehavin, My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Numb Fumblin, Pony Blues and In the Fall of 29.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Featuring banjoist, Eddie Peabody, jazz guitarist, Eddie Lang and ukulele player Cliff Edwards.

Songs include: Baby Face, Hot Fingers and Will You Remember Me.

Mp3s of Cal Stewart's Uncle Josh recordings can be found here: http: //www.archive.org/details/CalStewart_part1

http: //www.archive.org/details/CalStewart_part2

Mp3s of the Avon Comedy Four can be found here:

http://www.archive.org/details/AvonComedyFourwithI rvingKaufman

The official Will Rogers web page is here:

http://www.willrogers.org/

Songs from the 13 years when alcohol was illegal in the U.S.

Performers include: Billy Murrary, Ma Rainey, Bubber Miley and Burt Williams.

Episode 19: California Songs

Songs in praise of California including: California Here I Come and At the Moving Picture Ball. 

Here are some sites with  more information about the First World War.

http:// www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/  This site from the BBC offers a virtual tour inside a trench.

http://firstworldwar.com/ This large site contains biographies of the major players, newsreel footage, diary accounts and video of the battlefields as they look today.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html   This Library of Congress site has World War I issues of Stars and Stripes, the official US Army newspaper.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_re port/1998/10/98/world_war_i/199768.stm A second BBC site with audio interviews of veterans.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/ypsalien t/meningate/lastpost.htm  This page describes the Last Post Ceremony at Ypres, Belgium.  A tribute to fallen soldiers that has been held every day since 1929.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&am p;GRid=9792310 A photograph of the grave of George Lawrence Price, the last soldier killed during the war.

Songs from the middle years of World War I  including

If You Were the Only Girl and We Don't Want the Bacon.

Songs about trains including Casey Jones and The Wreck of the Old 97.

Performers include Vernon Dalhart, Billy Murray and Moonshine Kate.

Episode 11:  Early African-American recording artists.

Performers include: Bert Williams, James Reese Europe, Ma Rainey and the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.

Recordings left off of previous podcasts.

Performers include: Enrico Caruso  Al Jolson   John McCormack  and

Ada Jones

The story of the Indestructible Phonography Company.

Music includes:  Asleep in the Deep

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 Keep Away From the Fellow Who Owns an Automobile

 

This week:   songs by Al Jolson, the Tuskegee Institute Singers and Arthur Collins.  Plus: a classic hymn.