Contents - Collection One (I)
Disc One, also on tape (divisions indicated below, order of contents is the same on tape and on Compact Disc)
Tape One - Side A
1. "Stars and Stripes Forever" ( Sousa). U.S. Army Band [1896]
2. "Maple Leaf Rag" (Joplin) Joplin on piano roll. [1910]
3. "Mandy" Vaudeville group Van & Schenk [1919]
4. "Maple Leaf Rag" (Joplin) Jelly Roll Morton [c. 1920]
5. "Shaking the Blues Away" (Berlin) Ruth Etting [1927]
6. "Putting on the Ritz" (Berlin) Harry Richman [1930]
7. "Dead Man Blues" (Morton) Jelly Roll Morton & his Red Hot Peppers [ 1926 ]
8. "Dancing Cheek to Cheek (Berlin) [1935]
9. "Now You Has Jazz" (C. Porter) B. Crosby & L. Armstrong
[1934 orig./ 194? film version]
10. Mr. Blake Calls the Cotton Press [rec. 1979]
11. "Rosie" Mississipi State Penitentiary [ rec. 1947 ]
12. " Moses" Georgia Sea Island Singers/G. Davis [rec. 1961]
13. "Drunken Hearted Man" R. Johnson [1936]
14. "Lost Your Head Blues" (Bessie Smith) w/Joe Smith [1926]
15. "Lachez-les" Jules Guidry [rec. 1991]
16. "Great Speckled Bird" Roy Acuff [1936]
Tape One - side B
17. "Can the Circle Be Unbroken" Carter Family [ 1935 ]
18. "Waiting for a Train" Jimmie Rodgers [rec. 1928]
19. "You are my Sunshine" Gene Autry [1941]
20. "Perdido" (Juan Tizol) Duke Ellington [1942]
21. "Bli-Blip" (Ellington) Ray Nance soloist [1941]
22. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" Hank Williams [1949 ]
23. "Shake, Rattle and Roll" Joe Turner [1954]
24. "Shake a Hand" (J. Morris) Faye Adams [1953]
25. "See You Later Alligator" (R. Guidry) Bill Haley [1955]
26. "Have Mercy, Baby" Billy Ward & the Dominos [1953]