Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU

Courtney T. Edison and WFMU

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

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 01/26/2022

    So old his blood type was discontinued. from Jan 25, 2022

    Regal Jazz Band - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" - unknown 78 rpm disc Lionel Hampton & His Just Jazz All Stars & Oscar Peterson - "It's a Blue World" - Lionel Hampton & His Just Jazz All Stars & Oscar Peterson 78 [0:02:34] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Old Codger Mailbag" - Missives from Our Saintly Listeners [0:09:50] Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Have Your Chill, I'll Be Here When Your Fever Rises" - Paramount 12317 (with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra) [0:13:12] The Harmonettes - "That's a Plenty" - The Harmonettes 78 rpm disc [0:16:13] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Boogie Woogie Came to Town" - Decca 8581 Sepia Series [0:18:48] John Cali & Tony Guttoso - "A Study in Brown" - Victor 25662 (Guitar Duet) [0:21:36] Ruth Etting - "It Happened in Monterey" - Columbia 2199-D (Vocal with Accompaniment) [0:24:40] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Bunkers™" - Another Fine Delbarton Product [0:31:29] Noël Coward & Cafe De Paris Orchestra - "I Like America" - Noël Coward — He Likes America! (78) [0:33:54] Sophie Tucker - "Aren't Women Wonderful?" - single [0:36:58] Lonnie Johnson - "She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight" - Okeh 8768 -- Vocal with Guitar [0:39:30] Mississippi Sheiks - "Jail Bird Love Song" - Okeh 8834 (for Best Results, Use Okeh needles) [0:42:33] Victoria Spivey with Porter Grainger - "You've Gotta Have What It Takes - Parts 1 & 2" - Victor V-38609 (Singing with Piano & Guitar) [0:49:04] Carl Kress & Dick McDonough - "Stage Fright" - Brunswick 6917 (Shellac) [0:54:35] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111881

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