Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU

Courtney T. Edison and WFMU

4.6 (29)
MUSIC

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

APR 18

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
03/30/2022

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
03/30/2022

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
03/30/2022

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
02/23/2022

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
02/23/2022

An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 15, 2022

Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Non-Discrimination Policy" [0:00:00] Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Bopmatism" [0:01:36] Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang - "Handful of Riffs" [0:08:32] Beryl Booker (p), Mary Osborne (g), and June Rotenberg (b) - "Low Ceiling" [0:11:22] Jack McVea - "Groove Juice" [0:14:37] Eddie Walters - "Makin' Whoopee" [0:17:28] Dusty Fletcher - "Open the Door Richard" [0:21:09] Gus Bodenheim - "The 2022 Rummy Awards" [0:29:01] George Gershwin - "When Do We Dance? (from "Tip Toes")" [0:31:17] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Mop! Mop!" [0:34:06] Johnny Marvin - "Half a Moon (Is Better Than No Moon)" [0:37:00] Gertrude Lawrence - "The Physician" [0:43:44] Ruth Etting - "Wherever You Go, Whatever You Do" [0:46:32] Dick McDonough - "Chasing a Buck" [0:49:21] Whispering Jack Smith - "Then I'll Be Happy (I Wanna Go Where You Go, Do What You Do)" [0:51:40] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112549
01/26/2022

He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 11, 2022

Romeo Nelson - "Head Rag Hop" [0:00:00] Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Get Off with Me" [0:04:47] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Bodenheim's Literary Finessence" [0:11:02] Robert Lee McCoy - "Next-Door Neighbor" [0:14:01] Fats Waller & His Buddies - "Harlem Fuss" [0:16:57] Ruth Etting - "There Ain't No Maybe in My Baby's Eyes" [0:20:10] Trio Matamoros - "Son de la Loma" [0:22:54] The Three Stripped Gears - "1931 Depression Blues" [0:29:51] Billy Taylor Trio - "All Too Soon" [0:32:39] Reuben Reeves & Omer Simeon - "Smoke House Blues" [0:35:26] James McCrary - "Shove It Up in There" [0:38:01] Zelma O'Neal - "The Varsity Drag" [0:46:23] Noël Coward - "I'm Old Fashioned" [0:48:31] Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Ashley Street Blues" [0:51:01] Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Smart Shanty™" [0:54:15] Adrian Rollini - "Small Fry (Take 2)" [0:56:43] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111437
01/26/2022

Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 18, 2022

Bix Beiderbecke - "In a Mist" Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Rasslin' 'Til the Wagon Comes" [0:02:41] Gus Bodenheim - "Codgertopia™" [0:09:28] Earl Hines - "Child of a Disordered Brain" [0:11:47] Lonnie Johnson - "I'm Just Dumb" [0:14:37] Sidney Bechet - "Blue Horizon" [0:17:34] Ruth Etting - "Together We Two" [0:22:03] Dick McDonough - "Dick Bernstein Ramble" [0:28:17] Ham Gravy (Washboard Sam with Black Bob) - "Who Pumped the Wind in My Doughnut" [0:30:23] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "How 'Bout That" [0:33:47] Noel Coward - "What's Going to Happen to the Tots?" [0:36:16] Nick Lucas - "Picking the Guitar" [0:40:12] Coleman Hawkins Orchestra - "Jamaica Shout" [0:45:36] Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) - "Magnolia" [0:48:09] Spivy - "The Alley Cat" [0:50:57] Gus Bodenheim - "Ginger Psake" [0:52:36] Whispering Jack Smith - "The Song is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)" [0:54:55] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111661

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29 Ratings

The recent podcast was such a teaser

Apr 22

Marvin H.

Edison sat in for another show after being gone for two years a few days ago and it was just like he never left. Come back to us Old Codger. To answer your question, yes we miss you.
I miss you!

Feb 24

Avocadolove1030

I still find myself listening to old episodes. I wish Courtney would return!
Huge Fan

01/23/2018

Thomas Mangieri

I’ve been a huge fan of Courtney T. Edison since first discovering him on the radio when I lived in NYC. I’m very happy that I can now get his shows as podcasts too. The only thing that I ask is: please WFMU let him do more shows! He’s a national treasure!
The one! The only!

01/01/2016

tvbarn

I am an unapologetic fan of Courtney T. Edison, America’s greatest (and oldest) fill-in radio host. In between the 78s that he insists on playing “like they’re going out of style,” the Old Codger unwinds monologues about (a) how old he is, (b) how terrible culture has been since Sophie Tucker died, (c) how incredible awesome Sophie Tucker was! Now there was a dame!! Here’s hoping more WFMU deejays find some vacation days so I can get my codge on more often!!!

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

Creator

Courtney T. Edison and WFMU
Years Active

2006 - 2024
Episodes

89
Rating

Clean
Show Website

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU

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

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

Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 15, 2022

Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart." from Feb 22, 2022

An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 15, 2022

He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 11, 2022

Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 18, 2022

The recent podcast was such a teaser

I miss you!

Huge Fan

The one! The only!

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Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU

Episodes

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

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

Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 15, 2022

Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart." from Feb 22, 2022

An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 15, 2022

He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 11, 2022

Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 18, 2022

Ratings & Reviews

The recent podcast was such a teaser

I miss you!

Huge Fan

The one! The only!

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