Disc 1. Broadway, blues, and truth : By the light of the silvery moon / Ada Jones --
Some of these days / Sophie Tucker --
Carry me back to old Virginny / Alma Gluck --
She's good enough to be your baby's mother and she's good enough to vote with you / Anna Chandler --
Crazy blues / Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds --
I'm a jazz vampire / Marion Harris --
My man (Mon homme) / Fanny Brice --
Devilish Mary / Roba Stanley --
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen / Marian Anderson --
See see rider blues / Ma Rainey --
Beale Street blues / Alberta Hunter --
Single girl, married girl / The Carter Family --
I wanna be loved by you / Helen Kane --
Gotta feelin' for you / Joan Crawford & The MGM Studio Chorus --
Love me or leave me / Ruth Etting --
Nobody knows you when you're down and out / Bessie Smith --
Am I blue? / Ethel Waters --
Calamity Jane (from the West) / Adelyne Hood & Vernon Dalhart --
Kentucky miner's wife (Ragged hungry blues) (parts 1 & 2) / Aunt Molly Jackson --
Bucking broncho (My love is a rider) / The Girls of the Golden West --
When the moon comes over the mountain / Kate Smith --
I like a guy what takes his time / Mae West --
You're the top / Ethel Merman. With bonus sound bites: Margaret Mitchell ; Gloria Swanson ; Amelia Earhart.
Disc 2. Torch, twang and swing : I wanna be a cowboy's sweetheart / Patsy Montana with Prairie Ramblers --
Pretty Polly / Coon Creek Girls --
Over the rainbow / Judy Garland --
A-tisket a-tasket / Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra --
Strange fruit / Billie Holiday --
Me and my chauffeur blues / Memphis Minnie --
Boogie woogie bugle boy / Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen & His Orchestra --
Let me off uptown / Gene Krupa & His Orchestra with Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge --
Stormy weather / Lena Horne with Lou Bring & His Orchestra --
Sentimental journey / Les Brown & His Orchestra with Doris Day --
Move on up a little higher / Mahalia Jackson --
Cuanto le gusta / Carmen Miranda --
Buttons and bows / Dinah Shore & Her Happy Valley Boys --
Philadelphia lawyer / The Maddox Brothers & Rose --
Black coffee / Sarah Vaughan --
Satisfied / Martha Carson --
The Tennessee waltz / Patti Page with Jack Rael & Orchestra --
Come on-a my house / Rosemary Clooney --
It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels / Kitty Wells --
(Mama) he treats your daughter mean / Ruth Brown --
Richochet (rick-o-shay) / Teresa Brewer --
Tammy / Debbie Reynolds with orchestra directed by Joseph Gershenson --
Big long slidin' thing / Dinah Washington --
Tweedlee dee / LaVern Baker --
The wallflower / Etta James & "The Peaches" --
My boy Elvis / Janis Martin --
Walkin' after midnight / Patsy Cline. Plus, bonus sound bites: Margaret Mitchell, Margaret Sanger, Eleanor Roosevelt, Grandma Moses.
Disc 3. Shoop-shoop, motown, get down, sister : Maybe / The Chantels --
Fever / Peggy Lee with Jack Marshall's Music --
Funnel of love / Wanda Jackson --
Will you love me tomorrow / The Shirelles --
Sweet nothin's / Brenda Lee --
Heat wave / Martha & The Vandellas --
Hello stranger / Barbara Lewis --
You don't own me / Lesley Gore --
The universal soldier / Buffy Sainte-Marie --
Remember (walkin' in the sand) / The Shangri-Las --
Too many fish in the sea / The Marvelettes --
Respect / Aretha Franklin --
Son of a preacher man / Dusty Springfield --
Love child / Diana Ross & The Supremes --
Somebody to love / Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick) --
Stoned soul picnic / Laura Nyro --
Both sides now / Judy Collins --
To be young, gifted and black / Nina Simone --
Bold soul sister / Ike & Tina Turner --
Clean up woman / Betty Wright --
I'll take you there / The Staple Singers --
You're so vain / Carly Simon --
So far away / Carole King --
I will always love you / Dolly Parton. Plus bonus sound bites: Marilyn Monroe, Rachel Carson, Margaret Mead, Shirley Chisolm.
Disc 4. Rock to electric shock : Move over / Janis Joplin --
You're no good / Linda Ronstadt --
I've got to use my imagination / Gladys Knight & The Pips --
Boulder to Birmingham / Emmylou Harris --
Diamonds & rust / Joan Baez --
I love playin' with fire / Runaways --
You make loving fun / Fleetwood Mac --
Got to be real / Cheryl Lynn --
She works hard for the money / Donna Summer --
We belong together / Rickie Lee Jones --
Show some emotion / Joan Armatrading --
It tango / Laurie Anderson --
Walking on thin ice / Yoko Ono --
Our lips are sealed / Go-Go's --
Precious / Pretenders. Plus: Bonus sound bites: Billie Jean King, Gloria Steinem, Deborah Harry.
Disc 5. Hip-hop, pop and passion : Hero takes a fall / Bangles --
Running up that hill / Kate Bush --
She bop / Cyndi Lauper --
Roxanne's revenge / Roxanne Shante --
Ladies first / Queen Latifah --
People have the power / Patti Smith --
Thing called love / Bonnie Raitt --
Passionate kisses / Lucinda Williams --
Emperor's new clothes / Sinead O'Connor --
Silent all these years / Tori Amos --
Constant craving / k.d. lang --
Possession / Sarah McLachlan --
Flavors / Ani DiFranco --
Where have all the cowboys gone / Paula Cole --
Polyester bride / Liz Phair. Plus, bonus sound bites: Maya Angelou ; Anita Hill ; Madeline K. Albright ; Liz Phair.