| 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=11-24-2013 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:12 pm | Mail Man Blues | Lee Morse | 12165 | Perfect | Jazz |
| 07:13 pm | Got To Cool My Doggies Now | Original Memphis Five | 5022 | DaVega | Jazz |
| 07:14 pm | Prince of Wails | Tennessee Tooters | 14952 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:16 pm | Oh Peter! | Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orch. | 2627 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:16 pm | Tiger Rag | Tom Dorsey | R-462 | Parlophone | Jazz |
| 07:22 pm | Bugle Call Rag | Eddie Lang Orch. | R-510 | Parlophone | Jazz |
| 07:27 pm | Fifty-Seven Varieties | Earl Hines | R-510 | Parlophone | Jazz |
| 07:28 pm | Caution Blues | Earl Hines | R-878 | Parlophone | Jazz |
| 07:31 pm | Big House Blues | The Harlem Feetwarmers | R-1044 | Parlophone | Jazz |
| 07:32 pm | Panama | Luis Russell Orch. | R-963 | Parlophone | Jazz |
| 07:39 pm | Them There Eyes | Louis Armstrong Orch. | 41501 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:43 pm | Stardust | Irving Mills and His Hotsy Totsy Gang | 4587 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:46 pm | North of The Mohawk Trail | Cab Calloway Orch. | 5911 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:52 pm | The Trylon Swing | Cab Calloway Orch. | v5005 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:55 pm | (Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive | Cab Calloway Orch. | v5005 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 08:01 pm | Comin' Back | John Kirby Orch. | 27890 | Victor | Jazz |
| 08:01 pm | Keep Smilin' | John Kirby Orch. | 27890 | Victor | Jazz |
| 08:16 pm | Hollywood Jump | Count Basie Orch. | 35338 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:16 pm | Someday Sweetheart | Count Basie Orch. w/vcl Helen Humes | 35338 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:17 pm | Taps Miller | Count Basie Orch. | 36831 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:18 pm | Jimmy's Blues | Count Basie Orch. w/vcl Jimmy Rushing | 36831 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:25 pm | Hard Notch Boogie Beat | Big Three Trio | 30156 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:25 pm | Feel Like Steppin' Out | Big Three Trio | 30156 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:35 pm | Dizzy Boogie | Slim Gaillard Orch. | 9002 | Majestic | Jazz |
| 08:36 pm | Winter Time Blues | Roosevelt Sykes | 3306 | Regal | Jazz |
| 08:46 pm | On The Blue Side | Sun Ra and His Arkestra | Mr. Sun Ra and His Arkestra-'bad and beautiful' | Saturn LP | Jazz |
| 08:47 pm | And This Is My Beloved | Sun Ra and His Arkestra | Mr. Sun Ra and His Arkestra-'bad and beautiful' | Saturn LP | Jazz |
| 08:53 pm | Ritual | Art Blakey with The Jazz Messengers | Drums on Fire! | World Pacific LP | Jazz |
| 08:54 pm | Main Stem | Oliver Nelson Sextet | Main Stem-Oliver Nelson with Joe Newman | Prestige LP | Jazz |
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