Music Through The Mists of Time

This podcast makes a return with 3 simple songs from Kay Kyser and Orchestra, Frankie Trumbauer (and orchestra) and Larry Clinton (and well, you get the idea). Just simple feel good songs of yesteryear.

Today's episode is all about bringing a bit of good sounding music to the drab reality of today. I feature the likes of Ben Selvin (as Lloyd Keating), Ina Hutton and Libby Holman.

In honor of International Women's Day, I'm looking at three songs recorded by women.

This episode looks at three songs from the mid-1930s. While many were feeling the Depression's sting, music could be relied upon to provide an easy escape.

Work. Leisure. Whichever you prefer, they're both represented here on today's episode.

This episode we look at that 1920s behemoth, the Charleston. Its ability to make people dance, write derivative pieces of music, and carry on should be applauded.

Profiling three men who made an impact on recorded music

With the start of the new Roaring Twenties, I examine one trend that it's safe to say is not in demand to make a comeback: Prohibition. Grab a glass of whatever as you listen.

It's all weekday themed songs on this episode. We take you through Saturday, Sunday and even manage to make Monday relaxing.

We touch on three water based songs in this episode, from the slightly zany, to the relaxing and the romantic, water has meant something different to us all.

With the forced clock maneuvering of Daylight Savings Time, what could be better than three songs with "time" in the title. We have the sublime "As Time Goes By" with Smith Ballew on vocals, There'll Come a Time (Wait and See) from Frankie Trumbauer and Orchestra, and "A Guy What Takes His Time" by the High Hatters with Peggy English on vocals.

One of the places that people could go to enjoy live jazz and dance music was in hotels. We examine three such groups that entertained those dancing crowds. Song 1: You're Blase-Savoy Hotel Orpheans Song 2: Under the Moon It's You-Biltmore Hotel Orchestra Song 3: Who Loves You: George Hall and Taft Hotel Orchestra.

This episode looks at three tracks from 1928, when everything seemed to be going well for the nation. Even while the illusion of perpetual success would be shattered, there's something bitersweet in the earnest happiness of today's three songs.

Episode 2 examines three tracks from Peg LaCentra, a vocalist active during the 1930s.

The very first episode of Music Through the Mists of Time. Examines tracks from 1907.