Radio Drama · Old Time Radio · Variety & music

Basic Music Library

Heard
1943–1950
Episodes
30

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. People Will Say We're in Love

    · 12 min

  2. Guy Lombardo: Speak Low

    · 11 min

  3. Tit for Tat Polka

    · 10 min

  4. Cal Shrum: Old Shep

    · 12 min

  5. Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra

    · 13 min

  6. Sons of the Pioneers: Home Corral

    · 11 min

  7. Joe Reichman: Pagliacci Swing

    · 14 min

  8. Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five

    · 10 min

  9. Shostakovich Symphony No. 8

    · 13 min

  10. Thanks for Your Letter

    · 10 min

  11. Spike Jones: Chloe

    · 12 min

  12. Jerome Kern Medley

    · 11 min

  13. Maxine Sullivan and the Wat Four

    · 9:24

  14. Miff Mole

    · 12 min

  15. Jumpin Jive

    · 9:44

  16. Jim Lewis and His Lone Star Cowboys

    · 9:24

  17. Sentimental Me

    · 12 min

  18. Sam Cooke at the Copacabana

    · 41 min

Where it comes from 22

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Basic Music Library 1944-04-18 Tit for Tat Polka

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  2. Basic Music Library 1946-04-20 Anthropology 1

    Old Time Radio · 2 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  3. Basic Music Library 1946-04-20 Jumpin Jive

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  4. Basic Music Library 1945-07-20 Spike Jones: Chloe

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  5. Basic Music Library 1946-03-15 Boyd Raeburn: Boyd Meets Stravinsky

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  6. Basic Music Library 1945-05-01 Shostakovich Symphony No. 8

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  7. Basic Music Library 1943-12-01 People Will Say We're in Love

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  8. Basic Music Library 1944-09-12 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  9. Basic Music Library 1945-12-10 Jerome Kern Medley

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  10. Basic Music Library 1944-08-20 Cal Shrum: Old Shep

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  11. Basic Music Library 1946-04-20 Miff Mole

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  12. Basic Music Library 1946-04-20 Jim Lewis and His Lone Star Cowboys

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  13. Basic Music Library 1964-07-08 Sam Cooke at the Copacabana

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  14. Basic Music Library 1946-06-10 Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony Op. 58

    Old Time Radio · 2 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  15. Basic Music Library 1945-03-20 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  16. Basic Music Library 1945-06-15 Thanks for Your Letter

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  17. Basic Music Library 1944-11-28 Sons of the Pioneers: Home Corral

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  18. Basic Music Library 1950-03-15 Sentimental Me

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  19. Basic Music Library 1945-01-16 Joe Reichman: Pagliacci Swing

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  20. Basic Music Library 1944-02-10 Guy Lombardo: Speak Low

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  21. Basic Music Library 1946-01-10 Beethoven String Quartet in F Major Op. 135

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  22. Basic Music Library 1946-04-20 Maxine Sullivan and the Wat Four

    Old Time Radio · 7 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

2 more sets hold only episodes played here from a set above.

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