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Black & Blues: Episode 248, gospel, blues and R&B on the Apollo label of Harlem, NY
Black & Blues: Episode 247, Part 2 of Apollo Records of Harlem, NY
Black & Blues: Episode 246, final part of Hi Records plus part 1 of a look at Apollo Records of Harlem, NY
Black & Blues: Episode 245, a look at Hi Records of Memphis
Black & Blues: Episode 244, final part of Chief Records of Chicago and a look at the Annie and Henry story in 1954/5.
Black & Blues: Episode 243, final part of doo wop ballads plus a look at Club 51 & Chief labels of Chicago
Black & Blues: Episode 242, Part 2 of doo wop ballads from the 1950s
Black & Blues: Episode 241, Part 1 of doo wop ballads from the 50s
Black & Blues: Episode 240, Part 2 of blues harmonica
Black & Blues: Episode 239, blues harmonica from the post World War II years.
Black & Blues: Episode 238, blues from Chicago's westside
Black & Blues: Episode 237, the final part of a look at the Jewel, Ronn & Paula record labels.
Black & Blues: Episode 236, final part of bottleneck guitar plus Part 1 of Jewel record story
Black & Blues: Episode 235, bottleneck guitar
Black & Blues: Episode 234, last part of songs about old age and/or dying plus Part 1 of bottleneck guitar from the 1920s & 1930s.
Black & Blues: Episode 233,songs about getting old and/or dying
Black & Blues: Episode 232, the final part of soulful gospel vocal groups
Black & Blues: Episode 231, final part about songs about money plus Part 1 of soulful gospel groups
Black & Blues: Episode 230, blues and R&B songs about money or lack of it
Black & Blues: Episode 229, final part of blues and R&B duets plus songs about money
Black & Blues: Episode 228, Part 2 of the Spark label plus Part 1 of blues and R&B duets
Black & Blues: Episode 227, Part 2 of songs about school plus Part 1 of a look at Spark records of L.A.
Black & Blues: Episode 226, Part 2 of songs about letters and Part 1 of songs about school
Black & Blues: Episode 225, blues, R&B and doo wop songs about letters & telegrams
Black & Blues: Episode 224 ,a look at Chicago's Bea & Baby label
Black & Blues: Episode 223, early, obscure soul
Black & Blues: Episode 222, Part 5 of Stomping
Black & Blues: Episode 221, Part 4 of Stomping
Black & Blues: Episode 220, Part 3 of Stomping
Black & Blues: Episode 219, Part 2 of Stomping
Black & Blues: Episode 218, Part 1 of Stomping
Black & Blues: Episode 217, music and history of Ebb Records
Black & Blues: Episode 216, a look at the AFO label in New Orleans.
Black & Blues: Episode 215, Part 2 of Class Records (1950s L.A.) plus blues and R&B songs about Cadillacs
Black & Blues: Episode 214, Part 2 of Texas blues piano plus a look at Class Records of L.A.
Black & Blues: Episode 213, Texas blues piano from the 1920s & 1930s
Black & Blues: Episode 212, Part 2 of rock n roll by Black artists
Black & Blues: Episode 211, Rock n Roll by Black artists in the 1950s & 1960s
Black & Blues: Episode 210, gospel groups from the West Coast or on West Coast labels
Black & Blues: Episode 209, blues, R&B and doo wop on the Mercury label, 1945-1958
Black & Blues: Episode 208, blues and R&B on the Mercury label from 1945 through 1955
Black & Blues: Episode 207, R&B and blues on the Mercury label from 1945-1955
Black & Blues: Episode 206, Part 4 of New Artists of the 2000s
Black & Blues: Episode 205, Conclusion of a look at Richard Berry plus Part 3 of New Artists of the 2000s
Black & Blues: Episode 204, a look at Richard Berry's career (the writer of Louie, Louie)
Black & Blues: Episode 203, Part 2 of new artists of the 2000s
Black & Blues: Episode 202, a look at blues, soul, R&B and gospel artists of the 2000s
Black & Blues: Episode 201, Blues and R&B instrumentals from the 50s and 60s
Black & Blues: Episode 200, blues and R&B instrumentals from the 1940s and 1950s
Black & Blues: Episode 199, Part 1, songs about the boxer Joe Louis and Part 2, blues and R&B instrumentals from the mid-1950s.
Black & Blues: Episode 198, 20 versions of Stagger Lee from 1925 to 2019
Black & Blues: Episode 197, a look at Chicago blues artists who performed live at the Maxwell Street market in the 1960s
Black & Blues: Episode 196, final segment on doo wop groups named after birds & 1964 Chicago blues recorded in the Maxwell Street market
Black & Blues: Episode 195, Part 3 of doo wop groups named after birds
Black & Blues: Episode 194, Part 2 of doo wop groups named after birds.
Black & Blues: Episode 193, doo wop groups with bird names
Black & Blues: Episode 192, the conclusion of Color Me Black and field recordings of blues, gospel, toasts and work songs from the American South and the Mississippi and Texas prison systems from 1940s to 1960s.
Black & Blues: Episode 191, Part 5 of Color Me Brown
Black & Blues: Episode 190, Part 4of Color Me Brown, a look at artists whose last name is Brown.
Black & Blues: Episode 189, Part 3 of Color Me Brown, a look at artists whose last name is Brown
Black & Blues: Episode 188, Part 2 of Color Me Black, artists whose last name is Black
Black & Blues: Episode 187, the last part of male gospel groups plus Part 1 of Color Me Brown, featuring artists whose last name is Brown
Black & Blues: Episode 186, Part 5 of male gospel groups
Black & Blues: Episode 185, Part 4 of male gospel groups from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Black & Blues: Episode 184, Part 3 of a look at male gospel groups from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Black & Blues: Episode 183, male gospel groups from D to G
Black & Blues: Episode 182, a look at male gospel groups from B to D
Black & Blues: Episode 181, Part 2 of Mississippi blues from the 1920s to W.W. II
Black & Blues: Episode 180, Pre-war Mississippi blues as performed by 5 artists
Black & Blues: Episode 179, a look at record labels and artists from Nashville, TN from 1945 to the present.
Black & Blues: Episode 178, a look at Nashville artists and record companies from 1945 to the present
Black & Blues: Episode 177, a look at Nashville's Bullet label from 1946 to the mid-1960s
Black & Blues: Episode 176, 2nd & final episode featuring songs about cars & automobiles.
Black & Blues: Episode 175, blues, doo wop and R&B songs about cars and automobiles
Black & Blues: Episode 174, the 3rd and final episode dedicated to Newark's Savoy Records
Black & Blues: Episode 173, More doo wop, R&B and gospel on the Savoy label.
Black & Blues: Episode 172, songs about old men and old age; Savoy doo wop
Black & Blues: Episode 171, a look at Savoy records' major artists and Savoy doo wop
Black & Blues: Episode 170, Part 2 of a look at the Acorn & Regent record labels
Black & Blues: Episode 169, Part 1 of a look at the Acorn & Regent labels
Black & Blues: Episode 168, Part4 of songs about money
Black & Blues: Episode 167. Part 3 of songs about money
Black & Blues: Episode 166, Blues, doo wop, R&B and soul about money
Black & Blues: Episode 165, blues, R&B and calypso songs about money
Black & Blues: Episode 164, R&B and doo wop on the Atlas & Angletone labels
Black & Blues: Episode 163, post WWII R&B, gospel and soul issued by RCA Victor
Black & Blues: Episode 162, jump blues on RCA Victor from 1945-1955.
Black & Blues: Episode 161, downhome blues on RCA Victor from 1945-1956
Black & Blues: Episode 160, Part 2 of songs about food
Black & Blues: Episode 159, blues, doo wop, R&B and calypso songs about food
Black & Blues: Episode 158, Part 2 of songs about the war in Viet Nam
Black & Blues: Episode 157, Songs about Jody & Viet Nam War
Black & Blues: Episode 156, the 2nd & final episode to look at doo wop recorded by labels owned by the Bihari Bros. in the 1950s & 1960s in Los Angeles.
Black & Blues: Episode 155, a look at doo wop on labels owned by the Bihari Bros. (Modern, RPM, Flair, Crown & Kent)
Black & Blues: Episode 154, the 2nd & final episode dedicated to the Checker record label of Chicago.
Black & Blues: Episode 153, a look at Chicago's Checker record label from 1952-1964.
Black & Blues: Episode 152, a look at Memphis' soul label, Goldwax
Black & Blues: Episode 151, a tribute to steel and slide guitars
Black & Blues: Episode 150, 2nd & final episode devoted to Combo Records of Los Angeles from 1951 to 1961.
Black & Blues: Episode 149, Part 1 of a look at Jake Porter's Combo label in L.A. from 1951 to 1961
Black & Blues: Episode 148, The Violin in the Blues
Black & Blues: Episode 147, the second & final part of a look at record labels owned by Johnny Otis (Ultra, Dig & Eldo)
Black & Blues: Episode 146, an exploration of labels owned by Johnny Otis in the late 1950s.
Black & Blues: Episode 145, Part 2 of obscure West Coast labels from the 40s & 50s featuring blues, R&B and gospel.
Black & Blues: Episode 144, obscure West Coast labels from the late 1940s through the mid 1950s.
Black & Blues: Episode 143, a look at West Coast blues and R&B labels owned by J.M. Fullbright from the late 1940's thru the late 1950's.
Black & Blues: Episode 142, gospel groups from the 1940s and 1950s.
Black & Blues: Episode 141, Gospel singers who transitioned to pop, R&B and soul.
Black & Blues: Episode 140, Gospel singers who became blues, pop or soul singers.
Black & Blues: Episode 139, a look at Decca blues and R&B from the late 40's to the early 50's plus some Decca soul from the 1960's
Black & Blues: Episode 138, Tribute to MLK and Part 2 of postwar blues piano.
Black & Blues: Episode 137, Post-War Blues Piano
Black & Blues: Episode 136, a look at the Rama label from 1953-1958
Black & Blues: Episode 135, black artists copied by white, primarily rock artists.
Black & Blues: Episode 134, blues songs originally recorded by black artists but later copied by white artists, especially rock groups.
Black & Blues: Episode 133, The 2nd and final episode devoted to Willie Dixon, songwriter, featured artist, session musician and A&R man
Black & Blues: Episode 132, Tribute to Willie Dixon as featured artist, sideman, song writer and A&R man, Part 1 of 2.
Black & Blues: Episode 131, 3rd and final show highlighting songs about money
Black & Blues: Episode 130, Songs about Money, Part 2
Black & Blues: Episode 129, Songs about Money
Black & Blues: Episode 128, Part 2 featuring songs by artists named Jimmy
Black & Blues: Episode 127, Songs by Artists Named Jimmy, Part 1
Black & Blues: Episode 126, Songs about Rain, Part 2
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