Skip to main content

You are here

Home
 MENU
American Hit Network Logo

How Music Changed

How Music Changed

250 different artists and topics that changed music history forever. Most of them analyzed in great detail, with historical information, opinions, and various bits of trivia.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Anthology of American Folk Music

American Anthology of Folk Music: Ballads - Part A

Episode 1

“The Anthology of American Folk Music” may not be one of the most popular albums of all time, but it certainly is one of the most important albums ever made, if not the single most important album, period.

read

Play / pause
    0:00
    0:00
    volume
    Sort: Currently viewing by order of most recent episodes, click to toggle. Currently viewing by order of release date, click to toggle.
    Hello, Young Lovers – Jimmy Durante

    The Great American Songbook: Rodgers and Hammerstein

    Episode 26

    listen read

    Play / pause
      0:00
      0:00
      volume
      Too Darn Hot- Ella Fitzgerald

      The Great American Songbook: 1946-47

      Episode 25

      listen read

      Play / pause
        0:00
        0:00
        volume
        The Trolly Song - Judy Garland

        The Great American Songbook: The War Ends...

        Episode 24

        listen read

        Play / pause
          0:00
          0:00
          volume
          Long Ago and Far Away – Charlie Watts

          The Great American Songbook: The End of the War Years

          Episode 23

          listen read

          Play / pause
            0:00
            0:00
            volume
            Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition – Kay Kyser & his Orchestra

            The Great American Songbook: 1943-44

            Episode 22

            listen read

            Play / pause
              0:00
              0:00
              volume
              Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – The Andrews Sisters

              The Great American Songbook: The War Years

              Episode 21

              listen read

              Play / pause
                0:00
                0:00
                volume
                Don’t Get Around Much Anymore – B.B. King

                The Great American Songbook: A New Decade            

                Episode 20

                listen read

                Play / pause
                  0:00
                  0:00
                  volume
                  I Didn’t Know What Time It Was – Charlie Parker

                  The Great American Songbook: 1938-39

                  Episode 19

                  listen read

                  Play / pause
                    0:00
                    0:00
                    volume
                    Skeeter Davis & NRBQ

                    The Great American Songbook: 1938

                    Episode 18

                    listen read

                    Play / pause
                      0:00
                      0:00
                      volume
                      In the Still of the Night – Charlie Parker

                      The Great American Songbook:1937

                      Episode 17

                      listen read

                      Play / pause
                        0:00
                        0:00
                        volume
                        A Fine Romance – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

                        The Great American Songbook: 1935-1936

                        Episode 16

                        listen read

                        Play / pause
                          0:00
                          0:00
                          volume
                          Begin the Beguine – Artie Shaw

                          The Great American Songbook: 1935, The Classic Era

                          Episode 15

                          listen read

                          Play / pause
                            0:00
                            0:00
                            volume