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4/17 Episode #2116Winners and Losers Songs range from ecstasy to despair. The characters inside the lyrics bet everything they’ve got on love and win.…
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This special focuses on songs from the home front to the foxholes of World War II by some of America's greatest composers and lyricists -- songs that…
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4/10 Episode #2115 And The World Goes Round Most love songs about "you" and "me," the only two people who matter. But sometimes, even though they're only…
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4/3 Episode # 2114The New Woman During World War 1, women drove ambulances and served as nurses in France. They had already been agitating for the vote…
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Episode #21133/27 If Swing Goes It’s hard to imagine our popular music without the influence of jazz. It needs whatever jazz gives it. Part of the answer…
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Episode #21123/20 You Hypnotize Me So This show isn’t about hypnosis, spells, or incantations. But the songs are hypnotic--passionate, overheated, and…
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Episode #21113/13 You Irritate Me So These love songs don’t come from Never Never Land. They’re about the way lovers really get along, at least some of…
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Episode #21103/6 Beginning with “Body and Soul” Johnny Green and Edward Heyman wrote this great song in 1930, as the Depression was first deepening. This…
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2/27 Episode # 2109Two Kinds of Musicals. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at RKO helped us escape the Depression with the elegant dances they did on fairy…
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2/20 Episode # 2108George and Ira in 1937. Irving Berlin said that nobody ever wrote better songs in a single year than the Gershwins in 1937. The irony…