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American Grooves Radio Hour, hosted by filmmaker and collector Joe Lauro, takes you on a deep dive into the music of pre-World War II America. It focuses on the Jazz, pioneering Blues, early Country, Gospel, Vaudeville and World Music which was being performed on the streets and in the taverns and nightclubs of pre-1935 America. ONLY original 78 rpm records from Joe’s world-renowned archive and the libraries of other notable collectors will be played. There will also be stories from the firs ...
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Besides Love and Mothers, all things trains, railroads and engineers have crept in and out of folk, jazz, blues and country music for over 100 years! - This and next weeks episode, will feature and explore songs about railroads, railroad disaters, railroad folk lore and so much more - Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Carter Family, Carter Brothers &…
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The early phonograph industry cashed in on recordings they made of many of the Vaudeville performers who were then trouping around the country. Comedy teams, "Coon" Shouters, Ragtime piano players, and every type of novelty you can imagine - on this episode you will hear some of Vaudevilles greats ! From the Howard Brothers ,Georgia Price to the "F…
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The Bristol Sessions were a series of recording sessions held in 1927 in BRISTOL, TENNESSEE considered by some as the "Big Bang" of Country Music The recordings were made by Victor Records producer Ralph Peer . Bristol was one of the stops on a two-month, $60,000 trip that took Peer through several major southern cities and yielded important record…
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The Cotton Club was THEE night club in New York City's HARLEM . It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then briefly in the midtown Theater District until 1940. The club operated during prohibition. Black people initially could not patronize the Cotton Club as guests , but the venue featured many of the most popular black…
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While most fans of early jazz know the names and legends of Louis Armstrong and King Oliver there were many other brilliant and important trumpet/cornet plays working in the Cresent City during the early decades of the last century - this episode, the first of two, explores the music of some of them! - "KING" FREDDIE KEPPARD, "KID" PUNCH MILLER, OS…
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From the 1880's through the 1930s the Yiddish Theater flourished on New York's lower east side. By 1910 over a million new Jewish immigrants had settling on the lower east side with 1000s still arriving annually. From the Bowery and Houston Street all along 2nd Avenue to 14th Street many theaters exclusively presented new Yiddish plays; original mu…
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Each week American Grooves taps into a collection of 20,000 vintage 78 rpm recordings to select the 15 or so Joe chooses to present- this episode is the first of a series of "MIXED BAG" episodes- new things, old favorites and brave shellac experiments! - tune in for some pre-1940 Country, Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Ethnic and Pop musical surprises !…
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From Fletcher Henderson to Jelly Roll Morton, this lovely, sentimental ballad written by Paul Dreiser in 1905 was recorded by a scad of artists across the genres - from Charles Harrisons straight head 1905 version to Perry Bechtela swinging version in 1935 - this episode show how some great songs last and last!…
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During the 1880s-1930's Immigrants from all over Europe flocked to the New Land - most with nothing more than the shirts on their backs and what ever they could salvage of the cultures they left behind..music being a cartable, free commodity and New York City was the center of most of the "Ethnic" recordings made in the new land Italian, Greek, Iri…
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The late Rich Contay was the voice behind the Big Broadcast radio program for near thirty years. An old friend and inspiration - we will present a series of episodes dedicated to Rich and focused on the sort of thing he played on his BIG BROADCAST - Boswells, Mills Bros, Cab, Whiteman's, Hendersons, Armstrongs, Aaronsons and plenty of BING!…
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Immigrants from all over Europe flocked to the New Land - most with nothing more than the shirts on their backs and what ever they could salvage of the cultures they left behind..music being a cartable, free commodity and New York City was the center of most of the "Ethnic" recordings made in the new land - this episode explores the patchwork of mu…
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Salvadore Massaro was born in Philadelphia in 1902 -picking up the banjo in the early 1920s by the early 1930s' he became the most sought after recording guitarist - both for jazz and offering accompaniments to a slew of pop and blues singers alike - it all ended to fast- by 1933 he was gone, the victim of a botched tonsillectomy! But he left behin…
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