| Show name | History of American Music |
| Show DJs | David Gowler,WMUA |
| Show info | History of American Music is an overview of, primarily, American Music starting just after 1900 and reaching the present day w/a core focus from 1919-1969. The show has a strong jazz and African-American music focus, touching on 'Field Recordings', Blues, Gospel, Religious and early R and B, but also surveying white popular and jazz and swing influenced music, primarily before 1950. Other ethnic and cultural recordings, esoteric recordings, instrumental recordings, vaudeville, dialect comedy and other recorded artifacts from the early years of recorded music also find their way into the show. The recordings themselves are primarily from original source material, primarily 78rpm discs, but also 33rpm discs and, also analog and digital transcriptions of original recordings. The show educates as it entertains and unfolds historic and social themes as related to the music. I try, each show, to, besides informing listeners of the specific dates of the recordings and the musical personnel featured, mention other related information of historical settings or background. However, the program is primarily music presented in a chronological format, which hopefully progresses in a way which leads the listener to their own conclusions. Though I put hours of thought and preparation into each show, with specific musical, and other intentions, it is mostly up to the listener to interpret what they hear. The show begins, proceeds and ends and hopefully, however much of the show a listener might hear on a given day, from part of one song to the whole show, they are enlightened in some way. Because of the historic and sometimes, rare nature of the recordings presented, it is most likely, that, despite the fact that these are older recordings, the listener will be hearing some, or perhaps, most of this music for the first time. Certainly, much of this music is very rarely heard on the airwaves, anywhere. |
| Show link | http://wmua.radioactivity.fm/show.html?showoid=6980 |
| Playlist RSS | http://wmua.radioactivity.fm/feeds/playlistrss.html?showoid=6980&date=04-13-2014 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 08:07 pm | Song of India | Paul Whiteman Orch. | 18777 | Victor | Jazz |
| 08:08 pm | Keep Movin' | All Star Trio | 18643 | Victor | Jazz |
| 08:10 pm | What'll I Do | Lucky Strike Dance Orch. (Nathan Glantz) | 9657 | Regal | Jazz |
| 08:13 pm | That LIttle Somebody of Mine | Cliff Edwards | 32073 | Pathe Actuelle | Jazz |
| 08:21 pm | Happy Children Blues | McKenzie's Candy Kids | 15088 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 08:23 pm | When The Curtain Comes Down | Ted Lewis Band | 1709-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:26 pm | When The Organ Played At Twilight | Lee Morse and Her Blue Grass Boys | 2808-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:29 pm | Guilty | Russ Columbo | 22801 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:38 pm | My Honey's Lovin' Arms | Bing Crosby with The Mills Brothers and The Dorsey Brothers Orch. | 6525 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 08:38 pm | Smoke Rings | The Mills Brothers | 6525 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 08:41 pm | Sweet Violets | Putney Dandridge and Orch. | 3190 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 08:49 pm | Rock It For Me | Jimmie Lunceford Orch. | 35860 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:49 pm | Barefoot Blues | Jimmie Lunceford Orch | 35860 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:56 pm | Back Door Stuff (Parts 1 and 2) | Jimmie Lunceford Orch. | 18594 | Decca | Jazz |
| 09:04 pm | Chittlin' Switch | Lucky Millinder Orch. vcl/Bull Moose Jackson | 18835 | Decca | Jazz |
| 09:06 pm | Calling Doctor Gillespie | Gene Krupa Orch. | 38382 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 09:09 pm | Up And Atom | Gene Krupa Orch. | 38382 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 09:20 pm | It's Diff'rent (When It Happens To You) | Anita O' Day w/Will Bradley Orch. | 15217 | Signature | Jazz |
| 09:21 pm | Memphis Blues | Erskine Hawkins Orch. | 20-3667 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 09:21 pm | Aunt Hagar's Children | Erskine Hawkins Orch. | 20-3667 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 09:24 pm | I've Got The World On A String | Ella Fitzgerald w/Sy Oliver Orch. | 27120 | Decca | Jazz |
| 09:32 pm | Main Stem | Oliver Nelson withJoe Newman | Main Stem-Oliver Nelson with Joe Newman | Prestige LP | Jazz |
| 09:33 pm | Elegy For A Duck | Oliver Nelson | Oliver Nelson-Sound Pieces | Impulse LP | Jazz |
| 09:37 pm | Strozier's Mode | Harold Mabern | Workin' & Wailin'-Harold Mabern | Prestige LP | Jazz |
| 09:47 pm | Om Supreme | Alice Coltrane | Eternity by Alice Coltrane | Warner Bros. LP | Jazz |
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