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The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!

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!

    His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from Apr 17, 2024

    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]
    https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138536

    He's an evolutionary dead end. from May 31, 2022

    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

    An insatiable vulture snacking on the carcasses of the musical dead. from May 24, 2022

    An insatiable vulture snacking on the carcasses of the musical dead. from May 24, 2022

    Rube Bloom - "That Futuristic Rag" [0:00:00]

    Dodo Marmarosa - "Tone Paintings I" [0:02:46]

    Gus Bodenheim - "A Bodenheim Birthday Bulletin" [0:08:23]

    Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten - "Hot-Tempered Blues" [0:11:27]

    Sol K. Bright & His Hollywaiians - "Heat Wave" [0:14:49]

    Slim Gaillard Quartet - "Scotchin' with the Soda" [0:17:53]

    Penny Malone - "I Couldn't Say Yes" [0:20:33]

    Chick Endor with Fred Elizalde - "Following You Around" [0:22:40]

    Horace Henderson & His Orch. (voc: Viola Jefferson) - "Oh Boy, I'm in the Groove" [0:29:24]

    Gregor & His Gregorians - "Gregorology" [0:32:08]

    Tau Moe's Hawaiian Jazzites - "U Like, Noa Like" [0:34:44]

    William Bock - "The Civil War" [0:37:57]

    George Formby - "Easy-Going Chap" [0:41:42]

    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra - "The Eel" [0:48:28]

    Miles Davis-Charlie Parker - "Half-Nelson" [0:50:53]

    Gus Bodenheim - "Gross, But … Bars™" [0:53:38]

    Fred Elizalde - "I've Got the World on a String" [0:55:19]
    https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/115850

    "God knows what I've done. Let's just move on." from May 17, 2022

    "God knows what I've done. Let's just move on." from May 17, 2022

    Jess Stacy - "In the Dark — Flashes" - Odeon OR 2233

    Dodo Marmarosa - "Tone Paintings II" - private recording, Hollywood, 1947 [0:02:59]

    Gus Bodenheim - "The Art of the Non Sequitur" - The Art of the Non Sequitur [0:09:18]

    The Milt Herth Trio - "Jersey Bounce" - Odeon 78 286061-A [0:12:16]

    Eric Siday - "Paraphrase (Dinah)" - Columbia test pressing [0:14:58]

    Valaida Snow with Billy Mason & His Orchestra - "You Bring Out the Savage in Me" - Parlophone F-140 [0:18:00]

    Django Reinhardt - "Improvisation #1" - HMV B-8587 [0:21:19]

    Howard Jacobs - "Down in the Forest" - Columbia FB 1260 [0:24:09]

    The Williams Sisters - "Sam, The Old Accordion Man" - Victor 20452 [0:30:19]

    Bob & Ray - "Widen Your Horizons — How to Brush Your Hair" - The Old Codger Show feature spot [0:33:32]

    Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "Choo Choo" - Okeh W404434 [0:37:00]

    Elsie Carlisle with Ambrose and His Orchestra - "Pu-leeze! Mister Hemingway" - Regal Zonophone MR-769 [0:39:57]

    Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Følelslange™" - Euneeda Bodenheim 73 rpm disc [0:46:08]

    Sophie Tucker - "I Know That My Baby Is Cheating on Me" - Columbia 4995 [0:48:27]

    The Savoy Havana Band: Reg Batten, dir. [vocal: Ramon Newton] - "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" - HMV 5027 [0:51:01]

    Vladimir Selinski - "Professor Visits Harlem" - Brunswick 8095 [0:53:38]
    https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/115626

    Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 29, 2022

    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

    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

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