Show 88, “Runaway Jukebox,” features 20 songs that would have been heard on jukeboxes in the mid and late 1950s. Performers include Sam Cooke, Dodie Stevens, Ivan, Elvis Presley, Jerry Wallace, Brenda Lee, and Brooke Benton.

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Show 87, “Music of 1948,” includes every Billboard #1 hit from 1948 plus several other popular songs from that year. Performers include Dinah Shore, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Margaret Whiting, The Ink Spots, Al Jolson, and Les Brown.

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Show 86, “The Age of Jazz,” presents 16 vocal and instrumental jazz recordings, most from the 1940s. Performers include well-known names like Mildred Bailey, Dave Brubeck, and Jo Stafford as well as lesser-known talents like Annie Ross, The Tango Mafia, Joe Williams, and Ginnie Powell.

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Show 85, “The Ink Spots,” traces the story and music of one of the most influential singing groups of the 1940s. Songs include “We Three,” “I’m Beginning to See the Light,” “The Gypsy,” “Java Jive,” “Your Feet’s Too Big,” and “My Prayer.”

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Show 84, “Train Songs,” explores railroad lore through musical performances by Peggy Lee, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Cash, Roy Acuff, The Four Preps, Jo Anne Kurman, Bing Crosby, and The Andrews Sisters, among others.  

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Show 83, “Margie’s Mom,” traces the wide-ranging musical tastes of a woman who grew up in Panama in the 1940s and 50s. Performers include Chubby Checker, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Georgia Gibbs, Elvis Presley, The Ventures, and Bill Haley and the Comets.

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Show 82, “Behind the Microphone,” reveals the reasons for choosing the first song in a radio show. Performers include Barry Mann, The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, the band of Les and Larry Elgart, Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley.

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Show 81, “Canadian Sweethearts,” features recordings by two popular radio and TV stars of the 40s and 50s: Gisele MacKenzie and Dorothy Collins. Songs include “Seven Lonely Days,” “It’s a Magnet,” “A Cock Eyed Optimist,” and “Oh What a Night for Love.”

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Show 80, “Music of 1956,” features 20 of the most popular songs and some little-known bits of news from 1956. Performers include Kay Starr, Elvis Presley, The Platters, Carl Perkins, Dean Martin, Cathy Carr, Jim Lowe, and Sanford Clark.

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Show 79, “Romance!,” features 16 love songs sung by Mel Torme, 12 of them from a single studio album. Included are “The Nearness of You,” “The Folks Who Live on the Hill,” “My Romance,” “That’s All,” and “Every Day’s a Holiday.”

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