| 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=05-18-2014 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:07 pm | Song of India | Paul Whiteman Orch. | 18777 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:09 pm | Guido Deiro | Zampa Rag | A-2969 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:10 pm | I Must Have An Italian Gal | Van and Schenck | 176-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:12 pm | Hot Stuff | Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orch. | 2781 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:18 pm | Eniale Blues | Boyd Senter | 41059 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:24 pm | Somebody's Wrong | Boyd Senter and His Senterpedes | 41059 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:24 pm | Original Dixieland One Step | Miff Mole and His Little Molers | 40932 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:26 pm | Baby Doll | Bessie Smith | 14147-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:37 pm | Showboat Shuffle | King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators | 3998 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:37 pm | Every Tub | King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators | 3998 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:39 pm | Blue Blood Blues | Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers | 22681 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:43 pm | Way Down Home | Clarence Williams Orch. | 2778 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:45 pm | Yama Yama Blues | Clarence Williams Orch. | 2991 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:50 pm | There's Frost On The Moon | Chick webb Orch. | 1119 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:56 pm | Strictly Jive | Chick Webb Orch. | 1586 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:59 pm | Rock It For Me | Chick Webb Orch. vcl. Ella Fitzgerald | 1586 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:03 pm | Cocktails For Two | Art Tatum | 156 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:13 pm | Pigeon Walk | Jimmie Lunceford Orch. | 1659 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:13 pm | Sugar | Teddy Wilson Orch. vcl. Billie Holiday | 36117 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:16 pm | Let Me Off Uptown | Gene Krupa Orch. vcl. Anita O'Day | 6210 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 08:19 pm | Slow Down | Gene Krupa Orch. vcl. Anita O'Day | 6154 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 08:30 pm | Zodiac Suite-Pisces | Mary Lou Williams | 620-6 | Asch | Jazz |
| 08:31 pm | Harlem Nocturne | Willis Jackson Orch. | 946 | Atlantic | Jazz |
| 08:33 pm | Swinging The Blues | Paul Quinichette Quintet | 29056 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:33 pm | I Remember Harlem | Paul Quinichette Quintet | 29056 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:37 pm | Rhythm-A-Ning | Art Pepper | Art Pepper-Gettin' Together | Contemporary LP | Jazz |
| 08:42 pm | Diane | Art Pepper | Art Pepper-Gettin' Together | Contemporary LP | Jazz |
| 08:48 pm | Dirge Blues | Mary Lou Williams | Mary Lou Williams-"My mama pinned a rose on me" | Pablo LP | Jazz |
| 08:54 pm | El Is The Sound of Joy | Sun Ra & His Arkestra | Sun Ra & His Arkestra-Live at Montrreux | Inner City 2LP | Jazz |
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