90 episodes
Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU Courtney T. Edison and WFMU
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The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!
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His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from Apr 17, 2024
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "The Baby and the Pup"
Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers - "Preachin' Blues" [0:02:25]
Bo Carter - "Beans" [0:08:46]
The Whoopee Makers - "Rush Inn Blues" [0:11:24]
Butterbeans & Susie - "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stuff" [0:14:25]
Jabbo Smith - "Till Times Get Better" [0:17:53]
Raymond Scott & The Sophisticators - "Farewell Blues" [0:20:32]
Una Mae Carlisle - "Throw It Out Your Mind" [0:26:46]
Dr. Humphrey Bate and His Possum Hunters - "Ham Beats All Meat" [0:29:04]
Clara Smith - "My Good for Nuthin' Man" [0:31:47]
Gus Bodenheim - "Beyond Mouse" [0:36:52]
Sophie Tucker - "Oh! You Have No Idea" [0:38:51]
Lil McClintock - "Don't Think I'm Santa Claus" [0:41:23]
Willard Robison and His Deep River Orchestra - "Harlem Blues" [0:44:28]
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Look Out" [0:51:19]
Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas - "Fishing Blues" [0:59:19]
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He's an evolutionary dead end. from May 31, 2022
Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Trade Winds"
Don Byas - "I Don't Know Why" [0:02:58]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "Euneeda This" [0:10:13]
Herm "Sonny" Blount - "Old Man River" [0:12:25]
Vaughn De Leath - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" [0:15:23]
Slim Gaillard Quartette - "Jumpin' at the Record Shop" [0:18:59]
Marion Abernathy - "Ja-Hoosey Baby" [0:22:04]
Jack McVea & His Door Openers - "Richard Gets Hitched" [0:24:42]
Gus Bodenheim - "Gus — Betrayed!" [0:32:32]
Vaughn de Leath - "Bridgeport by the Sea" [0:37:12]
George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" [0:39:00]
Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 - "Look Out" [0:45:02]
Viviane Greene - "He's the Man (He's Tall & Cool)" [0:47:33]
The Brox Sisters - "I'm Lonely Without You" [0:50:14]
Henry Burr - "After the Ball" [0:53:13]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/116169 -
Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 29, 2022
James P. Johnson - "Blue Turning Gray Over You" [0:00:00]
Bessie Smith (with Eddie Lang) - "Kitchen Man" [0:08:42]
Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month III - Moe Levy Bodenheim" [0:08:45]
Cannon's Jug Stompers - "Walk Right In" [0:11:15]
Blind Willie Johnson - "God Moves on the Water" [0:14:28]
Walter Page & His Original Blue Devils - "Blue Devil Blues" [0:17:08]
Noël Coward - "Lorelei" [0:19:54]
Lucky Thompson Quartet - "Commercial Eyes" [0:28:54]
Lord Lebby & the Jamaican Calypsonians - "Dr. Kinsey Report" [0:31:30]
Bob & Ray - "Widen Your Horizons: How to Use Dental Floss" [0:34:25]
Robert Wilkins - "That's No Way to Get Along" [0:37:54]
Lonnie Johnson - "Uncle Ned, Don't Use Your Head" [0:40:57]
Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra - "Tonsilectomy" [0:47:46]
Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra - "Flaming Youth" [0:50:37]
Gus Bodenheim - "Codgertopia™" [0:53:50]
Blind Willie & Katie McTell - "God Don't Like It (And I Don't Either)" [0:56:26]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113889 -
Money donated during this hour funds the Codger's "infrastructure" needs (whiskey, cigars, Chinese takeout, rare 78rpm discs). Booker T. Bodenheim co-hosts. from Mar 8, 2022
Fletcher Henderson - "Queer Notions"
Slim Gaillard - "Potato Chips" [0:03:14]
Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - "Jack the Bellboy" [0:11:34]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "Give to the Old Codger Today!" [0:14:06]
Ruth Etting - "Keep Sweeping Cobwebs off the Moon" [0:15:32]
Sheila B - "The Ladies Review Courtney T. Edison" [0:18:34]
Sophie Tucker - "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas" [0:19:39]
George Formby - "Swimmin' With the Wimmin" [0:28:59]
The BBC Dance Orchestra - "Mickey's Son and Daughter" [0:31:39]
Joe McGasko - "Exposes Courtney's Attempt at Extortion" [0:34:38]
Fats Waller - "Your Feet's Too Big" [0:35:49]
Memphis Minnie - "Keep on Eatin'" [0:46:56]
Gus Bodenheim - "Pledge — What's in it for You?" [0:49:16]
King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopaters - "Deep Henderson" [0:50:36]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113291 -
Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 15, 2022
Ruth Etting - "Shine on Harvest Moon"
Van & Schenck - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" [0:02:36]
DJ Fablio - "Please Pledge for the Old Codger" [0:12:58]
Sophie Tucker - "I Ain't Taking Orders from No One" [0:14:02]
Gerald Wiggins - "S'posin'" [0:16:57]
Curly Weaver & Blind Willie McTell - "Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More" [0:20:57]
George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" [0:35:42]
Blue Bird Trio - "When Mickey Mouse and Minnie's in Town" [0:38:41]
Vaughn De Leath - "Ukulele Lady" [0:41:23]
Irving Kaufman - "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" [0:53:20]
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "I'm Coming Virginia" [0:55:59]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113463 -
Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart." from Feb 22, 2022
Little Jack Little - "Three O'Clock in the Morning"
Trio Servando Diaz - "Param Pan Pin" [0:02:43]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Old Codger Mailbag" [0:10:20]
Gertrude Lawrence - "Experiment" [0:12:40]
Howard McGhee Sextet - "Midnight at Minton's" [0:15:20]
Carl Kress & Dick McDonough - "Chicken a La Swing" [0:18:20]
Ruth Etting - "Now I'm in Love" [0:20:34]
Mary Lou Williams and Her Trio - "Roll 'Em" [0:23:12]
Gus Bodenheim - "Let's Build a Drugs Caddy" [0:31:16]
Frankie Jaxon and Tampa Red - "It's Heated" [0:33:43]
Gene Krupa & His Orchestra - "Jungle Madness" [0:37:11]
Bea Foote - "Try and Get It" [0:40:01]
Bruz Fletcher - "She's My Most Intimate Friend" [0:42:48]
Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron - "Jahbero" [0:49:38]
Hackberry Ramblers - "On Top of the World" [0:52:21]
Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - "Workout" [0:54:58]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112899