| 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=07-06-2014 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 06:57 pm | Star Spangled Banner | Jimi Hendrix Experience | Woodstock | Cotillion 3LP | Jazz |
| 07:08 pm | American Quartet | America, I Love You! | 17902 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:10 pm | National Emblem March | United States Marine Band | 17577 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:11 pm | America | Victor Band | 20635 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:15 pm | Dance-O-Mania | Selvin's Novelty Orch. | 18699 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:15 pm | Erica | Rudy Wiedoeft | 2019 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:26 pm | The Moan | The All American Five | 4198 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:28 pm | Oh Lovey, Be Mine | Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) and His Hot Combination | 11593 | Perfect | Jazz |
| 07:30 pm | Crying Myself To Sleep | Gene Austin | 22601 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:36 pm | Concentratin' (On You) | Roy Fox and His Band, dir. Lew Stone, vcl. Al Bowlly | F.2839 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:43 pm | You're A Heavenly Thing | Putney Dandridge and His Orch. | 2935 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:45 pm | Bugle Call Rag | Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals | 301 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:46 pm | High Society | Clarence Williams and His Orch. | 25010 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:48 pm | Lady Luck Blues | Clarence Williams and His Orch. | 2991 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:52 pm | Never Too Tired For Love | Cleo Brown | 512 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:55 pm | Love Me | Art Tatum | Art Tatum-Classic Early Solos (1934-1937) | Decca Jazz CD | Jazz |
| 08:04 pm | All On Account Of You | Rosetta Howard with The Harlem Hamfats | 7531 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:09 pm | Buffy Boy | Charlie Barnet Orch. | B-11093 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 08:15 pm | Haunted Town | Charlie Barnet Orch. vcl. Lena Horne | B-11093 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 08:18 pm | Once In A While | Don Byas All Star Quartet | 904 | Jamboree | Jazz |
| 08:26 pm | My Love Is Draggin' | Preston Love and His Orch. vcl. Frank Ervin | 12145 | Federal | Jazz |
| 08:27 pm | This Is My Beloved | Jimmy Giuffre Four | Tangents In Jazz-Jimmy Giuffre | Capitol LP | Jazz |
| 08:28 pm | The Leprechaun | Jimmy Giuffre Four | Tangents In Jazz-Jimmy Giuffre | Capitol LP | Jazz |
| 08:32 pm | Flirtibird | Duke Ellington Orch. | Duke Ellington-Anatomy of A Murder | Columbia Legacy CD | Jazz |
| 08:32 pm | Way Early Subtone | Duke Ellington Orch. | Duke Ellington-Anatomy of A Murder | Columbia Legacy CD | Jazz |
| 08:32 pm | Hero To Zero | Duke Ellington Orch. | Duke Ellington-Anatomy of A Murder | Columbia Legacy CD | Jazz |
| 08:33 pm | Happy Anatomy | Duke Ellington Orch. | Duke Ellington-Anatomy of A Murder | Columbia Legacy CD | Jazz |
| 08:38 pm | Moonlight In Vermont | Betty Carter | Betty Carter-Social Carter | Columbia LP | Jazz |
| 08:50 pm | Lights On A Satellite | Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra | Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra playing Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow | Saturn LP | Jazz |
| 08:50 pm | Kosmos In Blue | Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra | Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra playing Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow | Saturn LP | Jazz |
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