Music

The Eddie Cantor Show

The Eddie Cantor Show features comedian and singer Eddie Cantor in a variety-radio setting. Cantor’s lively personality and musical performa…

Music We Love

Music We Love is a radio music program featuring tenor Richard Crooks. This recording offers a chance to hear Crooks in a program centered o…

One Night Stand

One Night Stand presents a live big-band performance by Buddy Rich at the Hollywood Palladium. The recording offers a chance to hear Rich in…

Listen to a Love Song

“Listen to a Love Song” is presented as a radio program featuring Woody Herman. The title suggests a musical listening experience centered o…

Hildegarde's Radio Room

Hildegarde's Radio Room is a radio program associated with singer and entertainer Hildegarde. The title “Sing Everybody Sing” suggests a mus…

Gene Autry's Melody Ranch

Gene Autry's Melody Ranch brings the singing cowboy to the radio in a Western variety program built around Gene Autry and his music. Autry’s…

Your Symphony Scrapbook

Your Symphony Scrapbook is a radio program centered on classical music and its performers. This installment, dated January 24, 1953, feature…

Light Crust Doughboys

The Light Crust Doughboys were a Texas-based Western swing band whose radio performances brought lively country music to listeners. Their so…

Camel Caravan

Camel Caravan was a radio variety program sponsored by Camel cigarettes, featuring music and entertainment for a general audience. This reco…

Duke Ellington

This recording features Duke Ellington in a performance from the New Zanzibar in New York City. Ellington’s music brings together the distin…

Rudy Vallee

Rudy Vallée’s radio program centers on the singer and bandleader, whose relaxed vocal style and genial presence made him a familiar v…

Your Hit Parade

Your Hit Parade brings the popular songs of the day to radio, presenting the week’s leading tunes through performances by singers and the pr…

The Frank Sinatra Program

The Frank Sinatra Program features Frank Sinatra in a radio variety setting built around his singing. The music is the central attraction, w…

Rudy Vallee

Rudy Vallee’s radio program centers on singer and bandleader Rudy Vallée, whose smooth vocal style and relaxed delivery helped make h…

Camel Caravan

Camel Caravan was a radio variety program built around music and comedy. Its broadcasts offered listeners a mix of popular songs and light e…

Plantation Echoes

Plantation Echoes is a radio program centered on African American spirituals and songs associated with plantation life. The title “I Couldn'…

The Enchantment of Music

The Enchantment of Music presents a program centered on music, with this installment featuring an overture to Jacques Offenbach’s operetta L…

The Standard Hour

The Standard Hour was a classical music radio program sponsored by Standard Oil of California. Its broadcasts featured performances by the S…

The Danny Kaye Show

The Danny Kaye Show brings Danny Kaye’s comic performance to radio, drawing on the quick wit, character voices, and musical versatility that…

Great Moments in Music

Great Moments in Music presents selections from the world of classical music in a radio program built around listening to notable works and …