| 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=06-15-2014 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:07 pm | The Lost Pocket-Book | Edgar A. Guest | 45320 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:10 pm | The cat | Isham Jones Orch. | 3461 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:10 pm | Get Out And Get Under The Moon | Paul Whiteman Orch. vcl. Bing Crosby | 1402-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:13 pm | Blue Prelude | Bing Crosby w/Jimmy Grier Orch. | DO-1085 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:21 pm | Chinatown, Chinatown | Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals | 301 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:28 pm | The Tobacco Auctioneer | Raymond Scott Quintet | 8452 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:29 pm | Siberian Sleighride | Raymond Scott Quintet | 8452 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:30 pm | Flying Home | Ella Fitzgerald w/Vic Schoen Orch. | 23956 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:35 pm | Oh, Lady Be Good! | Ella Fitzgerald w/Bob Haggart Orch. | 23956 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:40 pm | Aries | Mary Lou Williams | Mary Lou Williams-Zodiac Suite | Smithsonian Folkways CD | Jazz |
| 07:40 pm | Pisces | Mary Lou Williams | Mary Lou Williams-Zodiac Suite | Smithsonian Folkways CD | Jazz |
| 07:45 pm | Born To Be Blue | Mildred Bailey w/Ellis Larkins Trio | 1190 | Majestic | Jazz |
| 07:46 pm | Oh, Lady Be Good! | JATP Ensemble | The Complete Jazz At The Philharmonic 1944-1949 | Verve/Polygram 10 CD | Jazz |
| 08:04 pm | I'm A Fool To Want You | Dinah Washington w/Ike Carpenter Orch. | 5665 | Mercury | Jazz |
| 08:05 pm | Make Believe Dreams | Dinah Washington w/Walter Rodell Orch. | 5906 | Mercury | Jazz |
| 08:11 pm | Passion | Johnny Hodges Orch. | Creamy featuring Johnny Hodges | Verve LP | Jazz |
| 08:11 pm | No Use Kicking | Johnny Hodges Orch. | Creamy featuring Johnny Hodges | Verve LP | Jazz |
| 08:17 pm | I've Got The World On A String | Art Tatum | The Genius of Art Tatum #4 | Clef LP | Jazz |
| 08:18 pm | You Took Advantage of Me | Art Tatum | The Genius of Art Tatum #4 | Clef LP | Jazz |
| 08:34 pm | Rosetta | Earl Hines Trio | Earl Hines Live At The Village Vanguard | Columbia Jazz Masterpieces LP | Jazz |
| 08:34 pm | Moten Swing | Earl Hines Quartet | Earl Hines Live At The Village Vanguard | Columbia Jazz Masterpieces LP | Jazz |
| 08:47 pm | Summertime | Art Blakey Quartet | A Jazz Message-Art Blakey Quartet | Impulse CD | Jazz |
| 08:54 pm | Holy Spirit | Alber Ayler Quartet | Albert Ayler and Don Cherry-Vibrations | Freedom CD | Jazz |
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