Ready-made programs
Each program is a full hour, already planned. Pick a theme and follow the run of show — music, games, questions and conversation, in order.
Ready to run
- Program 1
Songs About Dance
The crazes, the ballrooms, and the songs that got everyone up
Dance crazes, first dances, movie musicals, a cockatoo with rhythm, and the sayings dancers still use backstage.
About 58 minutes · 20 segments
- Program 2
TV Shows About Music
The variety hours we watched together
Sullivan and the Beatles, Bandstand and the Twist, Welk's bubbles, the Opry, the Hee Haw cornfield, the Soul Train line — and the first video ever played on MTV.
About 60 minutes · 30 segments
- Program 3
Slot Spins & Jukebox Grins
Coin-operated memories, lucky charms and bright lights
A nickel in the jukebox, the penny arcade, cherries on the reels, lucky charms, and card games at the kitchen table.
About 57 minutes · 21 segments
- Program 4
Music Meets Art
Pictures worth singing about
Monet and Debussy, van Gogh and Don McLean, the Mona Lisa and Nat King Cole — one picture on the screen, one piece of music underneath it, and time to look.
About 60 minutes · 28 segments
- Program 5
Make 'em Laugh
When music and comedy collide
Chaplin's 'Smile', Jack Benny's violin, Lucy and Desi, novelty records, comedy themes and the catchphrases everybody can still finish.
About 58 minutes · 21 segments
- Program 6
Office Life of Yesteryear
Typewriters, coffee breaks and the boss down the hall
Clacking typewriters, the switchboard, carbon paper, the coffee break, and the songs about punching a clock.
About 57 minutes · 20 segments
- Program 7
What a Way to Make a Living!
Fascinating jobs, forgotten jobs, uniforms and unusual ways people earn a living
Milkmen and pin boys, snake milkers and golf-ball divers, uniforms to identify, and the songs that open every door.
About 60 minutes · 30 segments
- Program 8
Travel in Song
The sights, sounds and surprises of America
Edition one: The Musical South — Memphis, Nashville and New Orleans. Armchair travel with music woven throughout. More destinations to come.
About 60 minutes · 30 segments
- Program 9
Animals You've Met Before
Pets, farms, zoos, and familiar feathered friends
Backyard birds, barnyard friends, TV animal stars and animal sayings.
About 55 minutes · 21 segments
Coming soon
- Program 10
Future Topics
New hour-long programs are added regularly. Tell us the themes your group would love and we will build them next.
Coming soon