1891Profile: Joshua Hamilton, barbershop quartet member
1898 Profile: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, child prodigy composer
Recorded popular songs: 1898
1899 Profile: Albert Gustoff, clarinetist in John Philip Sousa's marching band
Development of the clarinet
John Philip Sousa quotations
1899 News feature: the vaudeville theater
1903 Profile: Floyd Morioka, Methodist choirmaster
1905 Profile: Monty Mandell, journeyman piano player
Recorded popular songs, 1905
1909 Profile: Arthur Farwell, composed Native American music
1909 News feature: the world's music after five decades
1913 Profile: Sarah Washington, African-American spiritual singer
Booker T. Washington quotations
1916 Profile: Geraldine Farrar, New York Metropolitan Opera singer
1918 Profile: Alonzo "Zo" Elliott, wrote famous WWI song
Recorded popular songs from WWI era: 1914-1918
1919 News feature: with the allies on the Rhine
1925 Profile: Leo Kunstadt, successfully marketed victrola phonographs
Timeline of the Victor phonograph company
1927 Profile: Florence Mills, jazz singer & dancer
1928 News feature: the debut of Yehudi Menuhin, the musical event of the month
1929 Profile: Dock Boggs, banjo-picker & singer
1931 News feature: the art of singing for the radio
1934 Profile: Russ Columbo, "Romeo of song"
1936 Profile: Mark Strahorn, fiddler with the empty road band
1939 Profile: Mary Lou Williams, pianist, arranger & musical inspiration
Recorded popular songs: 1939
1942 Profile: Charlie Christian, perfected the single-string technique on guitar
1945 Profile: Helen Elizabeth Jones, trombonist in the all-girl traveling band
1945 News feature: the music of the North American Indians
1949 Profile: Martin Block, radio broadcaster turned popular disc jockey
Recorded popular songs: 1949
1951 News feature: the grass roots of opera in America
1957 Profile: Carol Lawrence, Maria in West Side Story
1958 Profile: Gil Evans, jazz arranger
1959 Profile: Johnny Bragg, rock 'n' roll pioneer
Recorded popular songs: 1950s
1964 Profile: Estelle Stewart Axton, premier record producer for black artists
1966 Profile: Artist Reid Miles, created hip look for Blue note records
The history of Blue note records
1968 Profile: Marshall Borowitz, started teenage band "One night stand" at 16
Billboard's top songs: 1968
1968 News feature: Jefferson Airplane, after bathing at Baxter's
1972 Profile: Melissa Goldberg, Grateful Dead deadhead
1973 News feature: The Sherrill sound
1976 Profile: Danny Goldberg, writer; Billboard magazine, promoter
1979 Profile: Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero, "father of Chicano music"
1981 News feature: purveying hard-core funk
1982 Profile: Brad Lawson, sound assistant for Austin City Limits TV show
1983 Profile: George Clinton, "The prince of funk"
1985 Profile: Carleen Cahill, classical music singer
1993 Profile: Anwar X. Holliday, music promoter
1995 Profile: Jim "Soul" Sonefeld, Hootie & the Blowfish member
1996 News feature: new music
1995 Profile: Zachary Alexander, French hornist
2006 Profile: William Bartlett Barret IV, music copyright lawyer
2007 Profile: Ryland Edwards, jazz saxophonist & recording engineer
2011 Profile: Wayne C. Henderson, master guitar builder
2011 News feature: Me and Brian McGee, leaving his roots behind.