Dreams of Personal Freedom

We read from private diaries and journals about the yearning for personal autonomy and freedom, which starts to assert itself at a young age, is seen throughout the animal kingdom during adolescence and continues into adulthood. Living life on one’s own terms, being free to make changes for the better, and getting out from under the domineering bullies of life.

1 - Free Wheeling - Leo Watson with Artie Shaw and his Orchestra - 1937

2 - You're Going to Leave the Old Home, Jim - Ethel Waters – 1934

3 - Free a Little Bird As I Can Be - Clayton McMichen's Georgia Wildcats - 1939

4 - Free and Easy - Don Byas's Swing Shifters – 1944

5 - The Freedom Train - Buddy Clark with the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra – 1947

6 - A Debutante's Diary - Alec Wilder Octet - 1939

7 - I'm Free From You - Art Gibson - 1946

8 - I'm Free At Last - Ernest Tubb – 1946

9 - I'm Free - Bob Crosby and his Orchestra with Billy Butterfield on Trumpet – 1938

10 - I'm Gonna Ask the Judge to Set Me Free - Chuck Harding and his Colorado Cowhands – 1947

11 - Hallelujah I`m Gonna Be Free Again - The Shelton Brothers – 1939

12 - Just Can't Get Free - Little Esther with the Johnny Otis Orchestra and the Beltones – 1950

13 - Two More Years - Elton Britt - 1939

14 - Free Man's Blues - Graeme Bell and his Australian Jazz Band - 1948

15 - Free - The Hal Kemp Orchestra – 1933

16 - Sunshine - Kentucky Freebooters

17 - Tales of the Texas Rangers (085) 1952-07-06 - The Boomerang – 1952 (Radio Drama)

18 – Fibber Finds Gildersleeve’s Locked Diary – Fibber McGee and Molly – 1940 (Radio Comedy)

19 - Free and Easy - Frank Luther with The High Hatters led by Leonard Joy – 1930