High Fidelity - A Century Of Recorded Song

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 4 Radio Days By the late 1920s radio rivals gramophones as a means of hearing music. Jack L gets the story on the birth of radio Marconis Irish roots and the sounds of Irish tenor John Feeney singing Moonlight in Mayo at the Vintage Radio Museum in Howth Co Dublin while Julie Feeney shares the story and music of the McNulty Family who became Irish American radio stars in the US from the 1930s. We hear opera singer Marion Anderson from a live radio broadcast in 1939 the music of Mick Moloney and the sound of live radio shows featuring Bob Hope Bing Crosby Al Jolson and Doris Day from the 1940s and 50s.

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 5 Grassroot Recordings By the 1933s John Lomax is in the Mississippi Delta recording blues singers like Lead Belly and across the next decades folk and traditional music is captured and preserved. From Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan we trace the legacy of songs and tunes handed down the ages like Where Did You Sleep Last Night a Lead Belly song recorded by Nirvana. The story of how sound recording captured the voice songs and stories of grassroots singers in Ireland and across Europe and the US. Featuring the story of Guthries anthem This Land is Your Land.

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 6 La Vie En Rose Europe and the music of Edith Piaf Maurice Chevalier Charles Trenet Georges Brassens Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill. Jack and Julie trace the story of Mack the Knife from Brecht to Louis Armstrong and explore the allure of the sound of the Weimar Republic.

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a soundmap of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X-Factor. Episode 1 Edisons Talking Machine The birth of sound from Thomas Edisons phonograph and Emile Berliners gramophone featuring musics first recording stars Enrico Caruso John McCormack Alessandro Moreschi and Dame Nellie Melba. Featuring the story behind Swing Low Sweet Chariot first recorded in 1909 and Jack L sings a McCormack classic.

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a soundmap of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X-Factor. Episode 2 You Aint Heard Nothing Yet Al Jolson Bing Crosby the Paul Whiteman Orchestra Duke Ellington Mamie Smith and Hoagey Carmichael on the sound of the 20s. Our feature is the story of George Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue.

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X-Factor. Episode 3 Broadway and The Cotton Club. Musicals from Show Boat to Porgy and Bess and the story of the Harlem Renaissance with the voices of Paul Robeson Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Featuring the story of Ol Man River across the century.

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod, from Tin Pan Alley to X-Factor. This is a promo on the series.