Episode 178, “Rain Wind Summer,” features 18 weather-related songs from the 1950s. Performers include Jim Reeves, Jane Morgan, Pat Boone, The Kingston Trio, Perry Como, Patsy Cline, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, The Everly Brothers and nine more.

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Episode 177, “Favorite 50s,” features 21 of Sam Waldron’s favorite music from the 1950s. Performers include Pat Boone, The Four Preps, Skeeter Davis, Marty Robbins, Tommy Sands, Buddy Holly, Betty Ann Blake, The Kingston Trio, and Ricky Nelson.

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Episode 176, “Margaret Whiting,” features one of the most popular singers from the 1940s and follows her career into the ‘60s and beyond. Songs include The Wheel of Hurt, Pretend, Old Devil Moon, That Old Black Magic, I’m So Lonesome, A Kind of Hush, Let’s Go to Church Next Sunday, Long Ago and Far Away, Mansion on the Hill, and more.

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Episode 175, “Great Gentlemen of Jazz,” presents 14 outstanding jazz vocalists including Louis Armstrong, Mose Allison, Mark Murphy, Billy Eckstine, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Cab Calloway, Al Hibbler,  and Chet Baker.

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Episode 174, “Favorite Country,” allows Sam Waldron to share 18 of his country favorites from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Performers include Chet Atkins, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, Patsy Cline, Ernest Tubb, Buck Owens, Tex Williams, and 10 more.

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Episode 173, “September Babies,” features 18 performers who were born in September, including Buddy Holly, Julie London, Jimmy Clanton, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dick Haymes, Mel Torme, Johnny Mathis, Eddy Howard, and Joni James.

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Episode 172, “Perry Como,” focuses on one of the most popular TV hosts of the 1940s and includes the first recording he ever made, the theme song from his weekly television show, and his last Top-Ten hit as well as all 10 of his #1 Billboard hit recordings.

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Episode 171, “Easy Listening 1957-1959,” features 17 popular recordings from the late 1950s performed by Dean Martin, Jane Morgan, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Brook Benton, Della Reese, Paul Anka, Nat King Cole, The Platters and eight more.

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Episode 170, “Duets,” features 15 pairs of performers including Nino Tempo and April Stevens, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, The Everly Brothers, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra, and nine more.

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Episode 169, “50s Females,” focuses on 14 female singers who fell short of being megastars but deserve remembering. Performers include Betty Ann Blake, Giselle McKenzie, Gogi Grant, Bonnie Guitar, Jane Morgan, Dodie Stevens, Lavern Baker, Annette Funicello and six others.

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