Show 19, “Doris Day and Pat Boone,” focuses on two popular 1950s singers and movie stars. The show includes excerpts from a telephone interview with Pat Boone. Included are comparisons of three songs they each recorded: “Secret Love,” “Two Hearts ,Two Kisses,” and “I’ll See You in My Dreams.”

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Show 18, “World War Two Love Songs” contains 15 recordings of songs about love, loneliness, separation and homesickness. Performers include Dinah Shore, Kay Kyser, Frank Sinatra, Kate Smith, Alice Faye, The Jesters, and The Andrews Sisters.

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Show 17, “Songs about cities,” features songs with city names in their titles. It’s a 33,000-mile journey to 15 cities in four countries on three continents, with performances by The Four Lads, Pearl Bailey, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Kate Smith, Gene Autry, and Tony Bennett.

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Show 16, “Top Hits of 1949” tracks, in order, every Billboard #1 hit from that year, then adds half a dozen other popular songs from 1949. Performers include Perry Como, Frankie Laine, Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby, Vaughn Monroe and a pair of “cheating song” duets by Jimmy Wakely and Margaret Whiting.  

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Show 01, “Pilot,” is an introduction to the program that provides an overview of music in the 1940s and 1950s, from the Big Bands through Rock & Roll. Performances by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Lena Horne, Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller, and Sheb Wolley. 

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Show 14, “1950s Rock&Roll,” contains 16 recordings by iconic rock stars of the ‘50s. Performers include Little Richard, Johnny Cash, The El Dorados, Frankie Avalon, Tommy Sands, Brenda Lee, Buddy Knox, Bill Haley, and Fats Domino.

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Show 13, “Pure Fun,” is an hour of nonsense songs about a variety of topics including genealogy, local politics, residential architecture, sports, and drag racing. Included are “the worst song Frank Sinatra ever recorded” plus performances by The Ink Spots, Peggy Lee, The Andrews Sisters, Ethel Merman, and Andy Griffith.  

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Show 12, “Top Hits of 1945,” tracks every No. 1 Billboard hit of that year and adds a few more interesting recordings. Performers include Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, Les Brown, Vaughn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and the Ink Spots teamed with Ella Fitzgerald.

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Show 11, “Music of Hoagy Carmichael,” includes 14 songs he wrote, from everlasting hits like “Stardust” to obscure-but-fun items like “When Love Goes Wrong.” Performers include Mildred Bailey, The Fleetwoods, The Four Preps, Julie London, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, and Hoagy Carmichael himself.

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Show 10, “Hello, I Love You, Goodbye,” categorizes 16 love songs as “Hello” or “I love you” or “Goodbye,” with the latter category extended in a couple of cases to “Goodbye and good riddance!” Performers include Robert Goulet, Connie Francis, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Barbara Cook, Eddie Fisher, and Guy Lombardo.

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