| 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=10-27-2013 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:09 pm | Pan Americana | Rudy Wiedoeft's Saxophone Sextette | A-14504 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:10 pm | You Took Advantage of Me | Paul Whiteman Orch. vcl. Bing Crosby | 21398 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:11 pm | Do I Hear You Saying ( I Love You) | Paul Whiteman Orch. | 21398 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:13 pm | Baby, Oh Where Can You Be? | Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees | 22034 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:16 pm | He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday | Sophie Tucker w/Ted Shapiro Orch. | 5064 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:26 pm | Concentratin' (On You) | Roy Fox and His Band | F.2839 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:26 pm | Corrine, Corrina | Roy Fox and His Band | F.2839 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:30 pm | Sweet L'il and Ain't She Sweet | Bing Crosby and Whiteman's Original Rhythm Boys | 24240 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:36 pm | Reminiscing In Tempo parts 1&2 | Duke Ellington Orch. | 7546 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:37 pm | Reminiscing In Tempo parts 3&4 | Duke Ellington Orch. | 7547 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:46 pm | Love, You're Just A Laugh | Chick Webb Orch. vcl. Ella Fitzgerald | 1114 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:50 pm | Up A Tree | Chick Webb Orch. vcl. Ella Fitzgerald | 2468 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:54 pm | Swing 39 | Quintet of The Hot Club of France | F.7207 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:57 pm | Jeepers Creepers | Quintet of The Hot Club of France | F.2707 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:02 pm | Isn't This A Lovely Day | Putney Dandridge Orch. | 3006 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 08:05 pm | As Long As I Live | Bud Freeman and The Summa Cum Laude Orch. | 2849 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:07 pm | Sunday | Bud Freeman and The Summa Cum Laude Orch. | 2849 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:11 pm | Stompy Jones | Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers | B.9329 | HMV | Jazz |
| 08:14 pm | When It's Sleepy Time Down South | Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers | B.9329 | HMV | Jazz |
| 08:17 pm | If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon | The KIng Cole Trio | 15418 | Capitol | Jazz |
| 08:31 pm | Lil' Sonny | Arnett Cobb Orch. | 6928 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 08:33 pm | Linger Awhile | Arnett Cobb Orch. | 6928 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 08:38 pm | The Tattooed Bride | Duke Ellington Orch. | Masterpieces By Ellington | Columbia LP | Jazz |
| 08:45 pm | Propulsion | Jimmy Giuffre 3 | Jimmy Giuffre-Free Fall | Columbia Legacy CD | Jazz |
| 08:50 pm | Three We | Jimmy Giuffre 3 | Jimmy Giuffre-Free Fall | Columbia Legacy CD | Jazz |
| 08:52 pm | Around Again | Paul Bley Quintete | Paul Bley Quintet-Barrage | ESP LP | Jazz |
| 08:55 pm | Caroline Says II | Lou Reed | Lou Reed-Berlin | RCA Victor LP | Jazz |
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