| 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=08-03-2014 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 06:57 pm | War Bride Blues | All Star Trio | 1085 | Emerson | Jazz |
| 07:04 pm | Dying With The Blues | Ethel Waters and Her Jazz Masters | 2038 | Black Swan | Jazz |
| 07:08 pm | My Gal Sal | Miff Mole and His Little Molers | 40932 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:11 pm | Take What You Want | Ethel Waters | 14162-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:15 pm | I Want A Good Man (And I Want Him Bad) | Viola McCoy | 14395-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:21 pm | Hotter Than That | Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five | R-2704 | Parlophone | Jazz |
| 07:23 pm | Walkin' My Baby Back Home | Louis Armstrong and His Orch. | 3217 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:27 pm | I'm Laughing Up My Sleeve | Jimmy Lunceford Orch. | 1659 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:29 pm | Pigeon Walk | Jimmy Lunceford Orch. | 1659 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:32 pm | Petite | Raymond Scott Orch. | 35940 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:32 pm | When Cootie Left The Duke | Raymond Scott Orch. | 35940 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:43 pm | This Is Romance | Georgie Auld Orch. | 8259 | Varsity | Jazz |
| 07:49 pm | Well Natch! | Erskine Hawkins Orch. vcl. Ace Harris | 20-2383 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 07:52 pm | Texas Hop | Erskine Hawkins Orch. | 20-3408 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 07:53 pm | Bugle Call Rag | Teddy Wilson Quintet | 318 | Musicraft | Jazz |
| 07:59 pm | Memories of You | Teddy Wilson Quintet | 318 | Musicraft | Jazz |
| 08:02 pm | Chimin' Away | Cow Cow Davenport | C2 | Comet | Jazz |
| 08:05 pm | Boogie Woogie St. Louis Blues | Erskine Butterfield and His Blue Boys | 3356 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:11 pm | What Used To Was, Used To Was | Ziggy Elman and His Orch. | B-10563 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 08:12 pm | I'm Falling For You | Earl Hines Orch. vcl. Billy Eckstine | B-11065 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 08:15 pm | My Melancholy Baby | Don Byas All Star Quartet | 904 | Jamboree | Jazz |
| 08:23 pm | Pennies From Heaven | Don Byas All Star Quintet | 901 | Jamboree | Jazz |
| 08:25 pm | Sweet Lorraine | Roy Eldridge Orch. | 8955 | Mercury | Jazz |
| 08:29 pm | Stormy Weather | Dinah Washington | 5906 | Mercury | Jazz |
| 08:32 pm | Desert Sands | Stuff Smith Trio | 353-3 | Asch | Jazz |
| 08:34 pm | John Henry Blues | Erskine Hawkins Orch. | 20-3668 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 08:38 pm | Scufflin' | Johnny Hodges Orch. | Creamy featuring Johnny Hodges | Verve LP | Jazz |
| 08:46 pm | Things Ain't What They Used To Be | Jay McShann Quartet | Jay McShann-the man from muskogee featuring Claude Williams | Sackville LP | Jazz |
| 08:53 pm | Night In Tunisia | The Modern Jazz Quartet | The Modern Jazz Quartet | Atlantic LP | Jazz |
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