Location:
TX
Description:
Recordings from the early 20th Century with comments.
Language:
English
Website:
http://bfuqua.libsyn.com
Email:
bfuqua1960s@hotmail.com
Episodes
Jazz 1947
2/24/2025
Music includes: Scrapple From the Apple by Charlie Parker, Lover by Stan Kenton, Easy Living by Billie Holiday, Shake That Thing by Turk Murphy, I Want To Be Loved by Benny Goodman and Boogie Woogie Stomp by Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson.
Duration:00:48:17
African American Band Singers
2/17/2025
Songs include; It Don't Mean a Thing by Ivie Anderson, Do Nothing Till You Hear From me by Al Hibbler, Blue Skies by Jimmy Rushing, Blues In the Night by Cab Calloway, It Ain't Necessarily So by Maxine Sullivan and Night In Tunisia by Sarah Vaughn.
Duration:00:40:47
Songs For Valentine's Day
2/10/2025
Songs include: When I Fall In Love by Jeri Southern, My Foolish heart by Billy Ecksteine, Moon and Sand by Xavier Cugat, Some Enchanted Evening by Jo Stafford and Goodbye Sue by Perry Como.
Duration:00:47:52
Know Part 2
2/3/2025
Songs include: You Don't Know What Love Is by Dinah Washington, You Don't Have To Know the Language by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, It's Too Soon To Know by the Orioles, Ask Anyone Who Knows by the Ink Spots and I'll Know by Georgia Gibbs.
Duration:00:39:58
Mozart's Birthday 2025
1/27/2025
Celebrating Mozart's 269th birthday with historical recordings including: Rondo In D Major by Walter Gieseking, Sring Quartet 21 by the Budapest String Quartet, Der Schauspieldirektor Overture by Eric Leinsdorf and Piano Concerto 19 by Clara Haskil.
Duration:00:35:52
Centennials 2025 Part 1
1/20/2025
A salute to musicians born in 1925, including: Sammy Davis Jr, Art Pepper, Marty Robbins, Celia Cruz, Oscar Peterson, Johnny Horton, Bill Haley and Charlie Byrd.
Duration:00:39:44
Know Part 1
1/14/2025
Songs include: Don't You Know I Love you by The Clovers, You'll Never Know by Frank Sinatra, Now I Know by Dinah Shore, You Know I Love You by BB King, I Don't Know Enough by The Mills Brothers and I Really Don't Want To Know by Less Paul and Mary Ford.
Duration:00:40:31
1925
1/6/2025
Some of the most popular records of 1925, including: The Charleston by Paul Whiteman, St. Louis Blues by Bessie Smith, Gut Bucket Blues by Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives, Tea For Two by Marian Harris, Sweet Georgia Brown by Isham Jones and All Alone by Al Jolson.
The host also describes some of the major events of 1925.
Duration:00:46:08
Leftovers #35
12/23/2024
Records left off of earlier episodes and a tribute to musicians who passed away in 2024.
Performers include: Kate Smith, the Andrews Sisters, Jo Stafford, Bert Convey, Ezio Pinza, the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Hazel Scott.
Duration:00:37:51
Beethoven's Birthday 2025
12/15/2024
Celebrating Beethoven's 254th birthday with historic recordings of three, lesser-known works: Symphony #8, Piano Sonata #25 and The Creatures of Prometheus overture. Performers include Bruno Walter and Fredrich Gulda.
Duration:00:28:35
Dream
12/10/2024
Songs about dreams and dreaming by Frank Sinatra, Patti Page, Woody Herman, Glenn Miller, Perry Como and Harry James.
Duration:00:42:00
Christmas 2024
12/2/2024
Songs include: Here Comes Santa Claus by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, Jingle Bells by Les Paul, Oh Come All Ye Faithful by Kate Smith, Boogie Woogie Santa Claus by Patti Smith, the Russian Dance from the Nutcracker by Herbert von Karajan and the 12 Days of Christmas by Fred Waring.
Duration:00:32:34
More Windy Music
11/26/2024
Songs include: They Call The Wind Maria by Vaughn Monroe, Trade Winds by Bing Crosby, With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair by Bob Crosby, Whispering winds by Patti Page, Night Wind by Thomas "Fats" Waller and The Wind by June Christy.
Duration:00:39:04
Sunrise To Sunset
11/18/2024
Songs include: Sunrise Serenade by Glenn Miller, Twilight Time by Less Brown, The World Is Waiting For the Sunrise by Les Paul and Mary Ford, Dusk by Duke Ellington and Morning Mood by the Bamberg Symphony.
Duration:00:47:28
How Suite It Is
11/11/2024
Music from suites, including Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite, Grieg's Peer Gynt, Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances and Prokofiev's Love For Three Oranges.
Duration:00:51:02
Female Singers of 1940
10/29/2024
Songs include: Tuxedo Junction by the Andrews Sisters, Our Love Affair by Judy Garland, Looking At You by Lee Wiley, I'll Get By by the King Sisters, Starlit Hour by Ella Fitzgerald and Body and Soul by Billie Holiday.
Duration:00:40:17
Worried
10/22/2024
Songs include : Worried Man Blues by the Carter Family. Don't Worry Bout That Mule by Louis Jordan, Worried Blues by Gladys Bentley, Worried Over You by Red Norvo and Do I Worry by the Ink Spots.
Duration:00:29:49
Halloween 2024
10/14/2024
Songs include: Dead by the Poets, The Little Man Who Wasn't There by Glenn Miller, The Monster Hop by Bert Convey, The Ghost Song by Salty Holmes and Yodeling Ghost by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters.
Duration:00:34:36
Moon
10/7/2024
Songs include: By the Light of the Silvery Moon by Billy Murray, Blue Moon by Mel Torme, How High the Moon by Helen Forest, No Moon at All by the Ames Brothers and Moonlight Sonata by Solomon.
Duration:00:42:54
Country Music 1945
10/1/2024
Songs include: Shame On You by Spade Cooley, At the Mail Call Today by Gene Autry, Stay a Little Longer by Bob Wills, It Don't Matter To Me Now by Ernest Tubb and Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain by Roy Acuff.
Duration:00:40:01