AMERICAN GROOVES RADIO HOUR hosted by JOE LAURO

From Joel Shaw and his orchestra on CROWN to Bessie Smiths final session in 1933 we will have a party and play some fun 1920s-early 30s tunes celebrating good times!

100s of gospel recordings were recorded and sold to the "race Records" market- sermons, quartet singing, sanctified singing and preaching AND Sacred quartets, duos, fiddle-vocals you name it! - we play a selected set of some of these masterpieces of Americana

We trace the old groaners' career from his first recording in 1926 with Washington State pal Al Rinker and the PAUL WHITEMAN Rhythm Boys to his early solo years!

Rare recordings of some of the legendary 1900s-30s songwriters performing thier own songs - from Irving Berlin in 1913 to Willard Robison in 1927 and much more

In 1923 Ralph Peer recorded Henry Whitter and Fiddlin John Carson - the record executives released there was shellac gold in them thar hills - this episode explores some of the first Hillbilly recording stars

Joe and his pal Russ Shor present some of the dances that were rage circa 1900-1936 as presented on original 78 rpm recordings! CHARLESTON, BLACK BOTTOM, HEEBIE JEEBIES, LINDY HOP, SUZIE-Q will all be in the house!

LGBTQ themed songs were NOT widely recorded in the pre-ww2 era...Gay performers were also certainly not the norm but there was a vibrant underground movement in the adukt nightclubs of Paris, New York and Los Angeles We will present some of those amazing rare recordings!

One of the few topics that had more songs written about it than HEAVEN likely has been HELL! - Lets' hear some cool 1920s-30s sermons, blues tunes and HOT jazzers about that place you don't want to go!

The 1920s and 30s was not as buttoned up one may think- some of the dirtiest " double entendre " blues tunes made their way to the market by the likes of Bessie Smith ,Ethel Waters, Lucille Bogan and many more - !

The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. Its roots actually go back to the turn of the century- In two episodes we will present some of the recordings of the musical and theatrical movers and shakers of that movement