Listening List for December 09, 2025

Here is the listening list, finishing out the origins of Country and returning to Broadway.

ORIGINS OF COUNTRY MUSIC (CONCLUSION)

HONKY TONK

HONKY TONK TRAIN BLUES
performed by Meade Lux Lewis (1927)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDeeK7-GlYg

HONKY TONK MUSIC
performed by Jelly Roll Morton (1938)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgQUDFyBqFw

WALKING THE FLOOR OVER YOU
performed by Ernest Tubb (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IobZdWEc9uM

HANK WILLIAMS

HONKY TONKIN' (1947)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsH3C94b4IU

I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY (1949)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WXYjm74WFI

YOUR CHEATIN' HEART (1952)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4LCoh0VGQ

BACK ON BROADWAY

OKLAHOMA (1943)
by Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II

OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING
performed by Hugh Jackman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNEUtN21cuU

I CAN'T SAY NO
performed by Vicki Simon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmPbMcsNT7g

OKLAHOMA!
performed by Gordon McRae (and ensemble)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmPbMcsNT7g

SOUTH PACIFIC (1949)
by Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II

SOME ENCHANTED EVENING
performed by Ezioo Pinza, Mary Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drHTYCRVoYQ

THERE IS NOTHIN' LIKE A DAME
(ensemble)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGtyYoFUwDk

BALI HA'I
performed by Juanita Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1X_qNMVFZA

YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT
performed by Bill Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPf6ITsjsgk