| 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=06-08-2014 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:12 pm | You're A Dangerous Girl | Al Jolson | A=2041 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:12 pm | Old Man Jazz | All Star Trio | 18699 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:13 pm | Jail House Blues | Thomas 'Fats' Waller Piano Roll | Thomas (Fats) Waller 1924-1931 Parlor Piano Solos From Rare Piano Rolls | Biograph LP | Jazz |
| 07:16 pm | If It Wasn't For You | Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orch. vcl. Frank Sylvano | 2781 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:18 pm | I'm Taking My Own Sweet Time | Boyd Senter | 14532 | Perfect | Jazz |
| 07:30 pm | 'Taint So, Honey, 'Taint So | Willard Robison | 21651 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:32 pm | Goofus | Slim Larmar's Southerners | 21710 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:34 pm | Mississippi Basin | Clarence Williams Orch. vcl. Eva Taylor | 03350 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:37 pm | To To Blues | Joe Venuti's Blue Four | R-1115 | Parlophone | Jazz |
| 07:40 pm | Magic Carpet | Eddie Durham and His Band | 8529 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:49 pm | Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well | Eddie Durham and His Band | 8529 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:50 pm | She's Funny That Way | Billie Holiday and The Eddie Heywood Trio | 569 | Commodore | Jazz |
| 08:00 pm | Good Morning Heartache | Billie Holiday | 23676 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:01 pm | Hallelujah! | Art Tatum | 4501 | ARA | Jazz |
| 08:06 pm | Second Balcony Jump | Earl Hines Orch. | 20-2636 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 08:09 pm | Bright Blues | Flip Phillips Orch. | 8938 | Mercury | Jazz |
| 08:12 pm | Street Scene (Sentimental Rhapsody) | Willis Jackson Orch. | 946 | Atlantic | Jazz |
| 08:14 pm | The Heat's Off | Paul Quinichette Quartet | 28921 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:24 pm | Baby Did You Hear | Dinah Washington | 5736 | Mercury | Jazz |
| 08:24 pm | Cherokee | Quincy Jones Orch. | The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones | Mercury LP | Jazz |
| 08:27 pm | What's That? | Sun Ra | Sun Ra-We Are In The Future (The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra) | Savoy Jazz LP | Jazz |
| 08:28 pm | Where is Tomorrow? | Sun Ra | Sun Ra-We Are In The Future (The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra) | Savoy Jazz LP | Jazz |
| 08:29 pm | The Beginning | Sun Ra | Sun Ra-We Are In The Future (The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra) | Savoy Jazz LP | Jazz |
| 08:33 pm | So Long Eric | Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop | Charles Mingus-Portrait | Prestige 2LP | Jazz |
| 08:40 pm | Trouble With The World | Mahalia Jackson with The Falls-Jones Ensemble | Mahalia Jackson-Bless This House | Columbia LP | Jazz |
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