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Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU Courtney T. Edison and WFMU
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4.6 • 27 Ratings
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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]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138536 -
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
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
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 -
He fishes on his side. You fish on your side. And no one fishes in the middle. from May 10, 2022
Howard McGhee Sextet - "Up in Dodo's Room" - Dial 1010 [0:00:00]
Horace Henderson & His Orchestra - "Kitty on Toast" - Vocation 5433 [0:03:16]
Gus Bodenheim - "OCNN+ Extends Bodenheim History Month" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams [0:10:01]
Bud Powell's Modernists - "Wail" - Blue Note 1567-B [0:11:55]
Andrew Aiona & His Novelty Four - "That Lovin' Hula" - Columbia 1788 D [0:14:51]
Fats Waller - "Lonesome Road (Pipe Organ)" - Victor 78 [0:18:13]
Swan & Lee - "Fishy Little Thing" - Okeh 8732 [0:20:59]
Tiny Grimes Quartet - "Groovin' with Grimes" - Savoy SJL 2208 [0:31:33]
Clarence Williams & James P. Johnson - "I've Found a New Baby" - Columbia 14502 [0:34:12]
Thore Jederby's Septet - "Bix Idé" - Scala 395 [0:37:03]
The Sunshine Boys - "Do Something" - Columbia 5524 [0:40:07]
Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight - "Didn't It Rain" - Decca 48054-A [0:46:31]
Mills' Ten Black Berries (Duke Ellington & His Orch.) - "Black and Tan Fantasy" - Columbia Records UK Test Pressing [0:48:36]
Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Bodenheim's Literary Finessence" - Gustatory Indulgences [0:51:50]
Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie - "You'se My Friend" - Columbia 14640 [0:55:24]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/115292 -
Has the curiosity of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from May 3, 2022
Willie "The Lion" Smith & His Cubs - "Harlem Joys"
Kitty Gray & Her Wampus Cats with Oscar "Buddy" Woods - "Baton Rouge Rag" [0:02:33]
Bob & Ray - "Members of the Audience Write a Song" [0:08:08]
Lani McIntyre & His Orchestra ft. Hal Aloma - "Holo Holo Kaa" [0:11:01]
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Put and Take" [0:14:10]
Sophie Tucker - "No One Man is Ever Going to Worry Me" [0:17:26]
James P. Johnson - "You've Got to Be Modernistic" [0:20:28]
Victoria Spivey - "Dirty T.B. Blues" [0:23:39]
Van and Schenck - "Pastafazoola" [0:30:29]
The Brox Sisters - "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again" [0:32:44]
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra - "South" [0:35:59]
Sir Galba - "Bajan Diplomat" [0:38:46]
Gus Bodenheim - "OCNN+ (The Expanded Old Codger News Network)" [0:47:37]
Frances King - "He's Got It" [0:50:19]
Gerald Wiggins - "The Wig" [0:53:12]
Vaughn De Leath - "Looking at the World Thru Rose-Coloured Glasses" [0:55:48]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/115097
Customer Reviews
I miss you!
I still find myself listening to old episodes. I wish Courtney would return!
Huge Fan
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!
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!!!