Episode 313, Signature Songs, presents the songs most associated with 17 performers including The Everly Brothers, Ricky Nelson, the bands of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller, Connie Francis, Tony Bennett, Brenda Lee, Gene Autry, and…
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Episode 179, “1940s Animal Songs,”
Episode 179, “1940s Animal Songs,” includes nine songs about birds plus others about mules, dogs, cats, rabbits and more. Performers include Tex Ritter, Boxcar Willie, The Ink Spots, Evelyn Knight, Roy Rogers, The Andrews Sisters,…
Show 123, “Hidden Performers,”
Show 123, “Hidden Performers,” introduces eight very accomplished musicians who mostly never made it into the big time of U.S. Top-40 pop music. Performers include Robert Parker, Slim Dusty, Johnny O’Keefe, Wray Downs, and pianist…
Show 122, “1940s Concert,”
Show 122, “1940s Concert,” features diverse performers from Great Britain re-creating 33 million-selling songs from the 1940s. Performances include “Toot Toot Tootsie,” “Paper Doll,” “I Can Dream, Can’t I,” “I Had the Craziest Dream,” “Baby…
Show 121, “Songs of Strength,”
Show 121, “Songs of Strength,” presents 19 songs with lyrics that describe strength, whether it’s muscle power, character, or unshakable belief. Performers include Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Gene Autry, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Georgia…
Show 95, “The Kingston Trio,”
Show 95, “The Kingston Trio,” presents 17 songs by arguably the most successful singing group of the late 1950s. Songs include “Reverend Mister Black,” “Tom Dooley,” “Four Strong Winds,” “Scotch and Soda,” “Sloop John B,”…
Show 93, “It’s Jane!”
Show 93, “It’s Jane!” is a musical biography of a girl who grew up in a small, isolated mountain town in the 1950s. Performers include Gene Autry, Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, Johnny Mathis, Guy Lombardo,…
Show 78, “Sounds of the ‘40s,”
Show 78, “Sounds of the ‘40s,” features 18 recordings that folks in the 1940s were listening to on the radio and their phonographs. Performers include Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby, Les and Larry Elgart, Martha Tilton,…
