AMERICAN GROOVES RADIO HOUR hosted by JOE LAURO

A Century Of Progress

Fats Waller with Benny Goodman in 1931, Wheeler & Wolsey, tunes from the 1933 "CENTURY OF PROGRESS" ( Chicago World's Fair), Uncle Dave Macon, Monroe Brothers, Isham Jone

Good Old Summertime

Bascom Lamar Lunceford, Ernest Phipps Holiness Singers, Carter Family, Kay Thompson, Fats Waller & His Rhythm , McKinney's Cotton Pickers and more!

Singin' In The Bathtub

Joe presents his guest, 13 year old "Talkies" expert Jack Murphy . Jack's amazing knowledge of early talking film musicals is on display as well as some favorite tracks i

YANKEE DOODLE BOY

George M. Cohan was the toast of Broadway from 1904 until his death in 1943. He was the man portrayed by James Cagney in the classic Academy Award winning Warner Brothers

BEND DOWN SISTER!

More gems form Joe's 78 archive - Visiting us this week will be PACKIE DOLAN & HIS BOYS, THE EMERALD TRIO, DAVEY MILLER, SISTER ROSETTA THARPE, SOPHIE TUCKER, BEN SELVIN'

IMPOSTERS!

For every Bing Crosby. Al Jolson, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington there were performers and bands trying to jump on their band wagon..IMPOSTERS if you will - this fun

Broadway in the 1930's Part 2

The Gershwins, Cole Porter, and Jerome Kern were BUSY offering new musical shows to the Great White Way. Tune in for our part TWO of Broadway in the 1930s - all of of the

RAREST OF THE RARE Je to K

Continuing our series of "the rarest of the rare" pre-war Blues, Jazz, Country and Gospel recordings, this following Pete Whelan's legendary "78 QUARTERLY" magazine bring

Black Broadway 1904-1933

Beginning in 1904 with Williams & Walkers groundbreaking musical play IN DAHOMEY and peaking in 1928 with BLACKBIRDS OF 1928 Broadway has been no stranger to vibrant and

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO!

This episode dedicated to records made in 1926- From Jelly Roll Morton, Peg Leg Howell, Dixieland Jug Blowers, Frank Hutchison to Irving Kaufman!! Bobbed hair and bootleg

HOBO YOU CAN'T RIDE THIS TRAIN

from the late 1920s-mid 1930s country and blues singers often sang about riding the rails - Hoboing if you will From Jimmie Rodgers to Louis Armstrong we will play some

RAREST OF THE RARE H-Ja

Continuing our series of "the rarest of the rare" pre-war Blues, Jazz, Country and Gospel recordings, this following Pete Whelan's legendary "78 QUARTERLY" magazine bring

FRISCO TOWN

some tunes about San Francisco : Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe, LITTLE BROTHE MONTGOMERY, THE GEORGIANS, CLARA SMITH, Al Jolson and more!

Seven Foot Dilly & Pals

A mix of genre bending fun with Seven Foot Dilly , the forgotten 1933 hot tune YEAH MAN written by Noble Sissle and J. Russell Robinson is featured by Fletcher Henderson

The Great Titanic

In memory of that fateful night of April 14, 1912 we play several topical songs recorded in the 1920's remembering that night. Rabbit Brown, Dixon Brothers, Ernest Stonem

FARM RELIEF BLUES

The Great Depression did not begin on Black Friday October 1929 - it began in the rural farm areas a few years before - the price of raising cotton and beef was beginning

TWELVE STRINGS

Blues, jazz and country guitarists generally played traditional six sting models. The twelve string version was rarely used but a handful of players championed it - This

Little Bessie

Several versions of this classic folk tune are played - Dixon Brothers and Buell Kazie as well as some fantastic original pre-ww2 Jazz blues and country 78s

My Best Gal!

A nice shellac stack featuring Bennie Moten and his Kansas City Orchestra, the Carter Family , Robert Johnson, Annette Hanshaw, Louis Hot 5, Frankie Half -Pint Jaxon, Bos

RAREST OF THE RARE E-G

Part 3 of our continuing monthly series! - The infamous rare 78 collector magazine Pete Whelan's "78 QUARTERLY" published a beloved column in each of it's 12 issues title