If you have any passion for historic American music at all, the Library of Congress’ new National Jukebox site is where your time will soon go to die. Apparently this is just the tip of the iceberg, but there are thousands of songs and speeches available now to stream, from 30’s era blues to an entire category of songs featuring whistling. It’s amazing stuff that you won’t likely find anywhere else.
This article appears in May 5-11, 2011.
You just made my day Dan!
My grandfather sings a ton of old songs and I always try to find them and never can for he can’t remember who sang them just the song. On my very first search I found one of them – an old waltz called “after the ball” and they have the same version he remembers too 🙂