This week’s show featured special guests, local historian Mark Ellinger of the blog “Up From The Deep” and Mara Maccabee of Radio Valencia’s “Tenants Rights Radio“, talking about San Francisco, and listening to a few San Francisco-themed and other vintage recordings from 1911-1950.

PLAYLIST:

• “Tate Siser (Sweet Father)” by Yiddisher Orchestra from “Abe Schwartz – Master Of Klezmer Music – Volume One -The First Recordings 1917” 
• “To Toust” by Piperakis Harilaos from “Mortika – Rare vintage recordings from a Greek underworld”
• “(J.S.Bach’s) Violin Sonata No. 3 in C major for solo violin, BWV 1005: II. Fuga” by Yehudi Menuhin from “Enescu, Pizzetti, Bach – Sonatas -1929-1938”
• “Introduction” by Deems Taylor and “Entrance Of The Carriers (From ‘La Guibalesse’)” by San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Grant Still from “Carousel of American Music – The Fabled 24 September 1940 San Francisco Concerts”
• “La Traviata (Prelude to Act 3)” by Guido Deiro from “Complete Recorded Works, Volume 1”
• “Introduction” by Gene Buck and “All The Things You Are/All The Things You Are – Reprise” by Tony Martin with Jerome Kern (piano) & San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from “Carousel of American Music – The Fabled 24 September 1940 San Francisco Concerts”
• “Mammy Jinny’s Jubilee” by Guido Deiro from “Complete Recorded Works, Volume 2”
• “G Minor Symphony ‘Song Of A New Race’: 3rd Movement” by San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Grant Still from “Carousel of American Music – The Fabled 24 September 1940 San Francisco Concerts”
• “Introduction” by Gene Buck and “Singin’ In The Rain” by Arthur Freed & San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from “Carousel of American Music – The Fabled 24 September 1940 San Francisco Concerts”
• “Introduction” by Gene Buck and “Over The Rainbow” by Judy Garland with Harold Arlen (piano) & San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from “Carousel of American Music – The Fabled 24 September 1940 San Francisco Concerts”
• “California, Here I Come” by Al Jolson from “The Best of…”
• “Kama Kalinyana” by Elias Nelushi from “Opika Pende – Africa at 78 RPM”