1940-1949

All Let It Roll Episodes covering the music of the 1940s.

Let It Roll Originals

• The Great Brill Building Songwriting Teams: Lieber & Stoller, Goffin & King, Pomus & Shuman, Bacharach & David, Sedaka & Greenfield, Mann & Weill and Barry & Greenwich

• The Holy Trinity of Texas Gospel and a Devilish Businessman

• The History of American Pop Music Writing Tells a Story

• New Orleans Music from Fats Domino thru the Meters to No Limit and Cash Money

• From Louis Armstrong to the White Stripes, 'St James Infirmary’ Connects Folk Traditions to Jazz and Rock

• Rhythm and Blues Exploded Out of 1940s Los Angeles Led by Nat “King” Cole & Big Jay McNeely

• How Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin' Wolf, & Col. Tom Parker Helped Peter Guralnick Get Lost

• Young Frank Sinatra Polarized Wartime America

• Bing Crosby Ruled The 1940s

• Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Big Joe Turner: How Kansas City Vice Birthed Kansas City Jazz

• Frank Sinatra, Mitch Miller and the Great American Song

• Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and the Swing Era

• Muddy Waters: The Life and Times

3 Kings of American Pop

• Frank Sinatra, the Chicago Outfit and the President of the USA

• Frank Sinatra Made the Bobby Soxers Swoon and Made the GI’s Boiling Mad

• Bing Crosby's Incredible Influence

• The Young Bing Crosby Reinvented Singing for the Microphone Age

CountryRoll

• Countryroll 3: Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold, Lefty Frizzell and Kitty Wells Lead a Post-War Country Music Boom

• Countryroll 2: Roy Acuff, Bob Wills, Gene Autry & Woody Guthrie Lead Country Music Through Hard Times According to Ken Burns

Ed Ward’s “History of Rock and Roll”

• Rhythm & Blues from Bessie Smith to Louis Jordan

• 1945-1950 The Post-War Years