Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).
For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic , an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.
| Composer | Performer | Title | Genre | Label | Notes |
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Duke Ellington |
I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues |
Jazz, Big Band |
RCA/Bluebird, 1946 |
All recorded sometime between 1944 and 1946 (no liner notes to provide detailed recording data) | |
Every Hour On The Hour (I Fall In Love With You) |
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Lover Man |
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Mood Indigo |
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Irving Berlin |
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra -w- Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers |
Be Careful, It's My Heart |
Buddah, 1999 |
Recorded between 1940 and 1942 | |
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Glenn Miller |
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar |
Bluebird, 1940 |
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Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) |
Bluebird, 1940 |
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Song of the Volga Boatmen |
Bluebird, 1941 |
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Bob Dylan |
Its Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) |
Folk |
Columbia, 2004 |
From the Concert at Philharmonic Hall release, recorded live in 1964 | |
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met) |
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Mr. Tambourine Man |
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A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall |
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The Mamas and the Papas |
California Dreamin' |
Pop/Rock, '60s |
MCA, 1966 |
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Dedicated to the One I Love |
MCA, 1967 |
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I Saw Her Again |
MCA, 1966 |
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Monday Monday |
MCA, 1966 |
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Buddy Holly |
Oh Boy! |
Rock, '50s |
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True Love Ways |
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Peggy Sue |
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Jerry Lee Lewis |
Great Balls of Fire |
Sun, 1957 |
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Bill Haley |
Rock Around The Clock |
Decca, 1954 |
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Danny and the Juniors |
At The Hop |
Rhino, 1957 |
Original label unknown | ||
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The Chords |
Life Could Be A Dream |
1954 |
The original version of this song, more R&B style. A subsequent version by the Crew Cuts, with more of a big band sound, topped the charts shortly thereafter | ||
| The Everly Brothers |
All I Have To Do Is Dream |
Cadence, 1957 |
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Richard Strauss |
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, cond. |
Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) |
Classical, late Romantic era, symphonic tone poem |
CBS, 1957 |
Begun in 1888, completed in 1889, when Strauss was 25 years old. First performed 6/21/1890 at Eisenach, Germany, conducted by Strauss himself. |
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