A history, now often told
What once, no one could get to hear
Records a hundred years old
For this shortest month of the year
9:00
1. Smith Walter - The Cat's Got the Measles, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough (2:59)
Yeah, OK, that last one was pretty white.
3. Jimmie Lunceford - You Take The East, Take West, Take The North, I'll Take South (2:41)
4. Wilbur C. Sweatman, Accompanied by Emerson Trio - Down Home Rag (1:28)
5. Cousins & DeMoss - Who Broke The Lock (2:16)
6. Tuskegee Institute Singers - Good News (2:25)
7. Europe's Society Orchestra - Down Home Rag (3:33)
8. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bring it with You When You Come (2:45)
9. R. Nathaniel Dett - Barcarolle (2:48)
10. Williams And Walker - My Little Zulu Babe by Williams & Walker (2:49)
11. Carroll Clark - Old Dog Tray (2:51)
12. Unique Quartette - Who Broke The Lock (2:51)
13. Beans Hambone & El Morrow - Beans (2:53)
14. Bert Williams - Nobody (2:55)
15. Chick Webb with Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Down Home Rag (2:56)
16. Eubie Blake Trio - Sarah from Sahara (2:56)
17. Tony Hollins - Crawlin' King Snake (2:59)
18. Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th U. S. Infantry \ldblquote Hell Fighters\rdblquote Band - Darktown Strutters' Ball (3:00)
19. Wilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band - Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues But I'm Happy (3:01)
20. Elder Curry - Memphis Flu (3:03)
21. Len Spencer & George W. Johnson - The Merry Mail Man (3:03)
22. Blind Boy Fuller - I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy (3:08)
Now, here's a guy who does not get played enough. Listen for the parts Gershwin stole.
10:00
24. William Grant Still - Afro-American Symphony (7:26)
25. Roland Hayes - Arioso from "Pagliacci" ("Vesti la giubba") (2:55)
26. Florence Cole\f1\endash Talbert; piano accompaniment by William Leonard King - Villanelle (3:15)
27. Clarence Cameron White - Lament (3:38)
28. Afro American Folk Song Singers - The Rain Song (3:08)
29. Opal Cooper - Beans, Beans, Beans (3:11)
30. Handy's Memphis Blues Band - St. Louis Blues\emdash Medley Fox Trot (Intro: Ole Miss Blues) (3:12)
31. Dallas String Band With Coley Jones - Hokum Blues (3:14)
32. Four Harmony Kings - Goodnight Angeline (3:14)
33. Jelly Roll Morton - Shreveport Stomp (3:18)
34. Blake's Jazzone Orchestra - The Jazz Dance (3:08)
35. Bob Carter - Cigarette Blues (3:19)
36. Right Quintette - The Rain Song (3:21)
37. Walter Davis - That Stuff You Sell Ain't No Good (3:23)
38. Right Quintette - Exhortation (3:24)
39. Afro American Folk Song Singers - Swing Along (3:58)
40. Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra - Bregeiro (Rio Brazilian Maxixe) (4:01)\f0
