Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU
161 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!
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He's an evolutionary dead end. from May 31, 2022
June 01, 2022 00:50 - 78.9 MBDodo 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"...
An insatiable vulture snacking on the carcasses of the musical dead. from May 24, 2022
May 25, 2022 00:14 - 63 MBRube 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 Jeff...
"God knows what I've done. Let's just move on." from May 17, 2022
May 18, 2022 00:24 - 63.1 MBJess 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 - ...
He fishes on his side. You fish on your side. And no one fishes in the middle. from May 10, 2022
May 11, 2022 00:52 - 63.1 MBHoward 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" - O...
Has the curiosity of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from May 3, 2022
May 04, 2022 00:14 - 63 MBWillie "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" [0:23:3...
Suggests you go find your own wormhole. from Apr 26, 2022
April 27, 2022 00:11 - 63.1 MBFats Waller - "The London Suite, Pt. 6: Whitechapel" Pete Johnson - "Death Ray Boogie" [0:03:20] Gus Bodenheim - "OCNN+ (The Expanded Old Codger News Network)" [0:09:02] Bo Carter - "Same Thing the Cats Fight About" [0:12:00] Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Whirl in a Whirl" [0:15:27] Helen Kane - "He's So Unusual" [0:18:04] Dave Bartholomew - "Frantic Chick" [0:20:58] Lucky Millinder Orchestra - "Shorty's Gotta Go" [0:23:29] Ruth Etting - "Glad Rag Doll" [0:29:24] Sister Rosetta Tharpe - "S...
Radio needs him as nature needs mosquitoes. from Apr 19, 2022
April 20, 2022 00:13 - 63 MBFats Waller - "London Suite Pt. 4: Bond Street" Fats Waller - "London Suite Pt. 5: Limehouse" [0:03:40] Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons - "Boogie Woogie Man" [0:08:51] Gus Bodenheim - "Apologia for This Week's Absence" [0:12:29] Dave Bartholomew - "Ay Cubanos" [0:13:43] Jazz Gillum & His Boys - "Windy Blues" [0:16:16] Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five - "You're My Meat" [0:18:46] Lucky Thompson Quartet - "Dodo's Bounce" [0:21:43] The Brox Sisters - "Do I?" [0:25:48] Bob & Ray - "Reuni...
If he had two ice creams, you can go to Hell. from Apr 12, 2022
April 13, 2022 00:18 - 57.9 MBFats Waller - "London Suite - Pt. 1 Piccadilly" [0:00:00] Fats Waller - "London Suite - Pt. 2 Chelsea" [0:02:23] Mississippi Sheiks - "Sales Tax" [0:09:42] Sophie Tucker - "Max from the Income Tax" [0:12:48] Blind Willie Johnson (with Willie B. Harris) - "Lord I Just Can't Keep from Crying" [0:15:20] Pigmeat Pete (Wesley Wilson) and Catjuice Charlie (Harry McDaniels) - "Our Family Doctor" [0:18:02] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Farms Head Cheese" [0:24:42] Django Reinhardt - "Nuages" [0...
Smoked metaphors and pickled syntax. from Apr 5, 2022
April 06, 2022 00:39 - 63 MBDodo Marmarosa Trio - "Mellow Mood" Robert Wilkins - "Rolling Stone" [0:02:59] Gus Bodenheim - "An Open Letter to the Ladies" [0:10:57] Barney Kessel's All-Stars - "Slick Chick" [0:13:30] George Formby - "Springtime's Here Again" [0:16:18] Jim & Bob (The Genial Hawaiians) - "The Song of the Range" [0:19:16] Noël Coward - "Any Little Fish" [0:21:50] Riley Puckett - "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again" [0:24:15] Blind Willie McTell & Ruby Glaze - "Mama, Let Me Scoop for You" [0:30:55]...
Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 29, 2022
March 30, 2022 01:41 - 63 MBJames 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 Caly...
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
March 30, 2022 00:29 - 63.2 MBFletcher 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 Daugh...
Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 15, 2022
March 30, 2022 00:28 - 63.5 MBRuth 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 La...
"Everything that's wrong with a human stuffed into one man." — Eli Vardens from Mar 22, 2022
March 23, 2022 01:10 - 62.9 MBKing Nawahi's Hawaiians - "Tickling the Strings" Dixie Rhythm Kings - "The Chant" [0:03:00] Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month II - Music" [0:09:53] Gerald Wiggins - "Wiggin' with Wig" [0:12:43] The Ticklers - "Healing in the Balm Yard" [0:16:04] Florence Brady - "Sunshine" [0:18:56] Jack Pettis and His Pets - "Spanish Dream" [0:22:02] Noël Coward - "Something to Do With Spring" [0:28:53] Cole Porter - "You're the Top" [0:31:09] Pinetop Smith - "Jump Steady Blues" [0:34:25] ...
Everybody deserves a 22nd chance! from Mar 1, 2022
March 02, 2022 02:01 - 63.5 MBRube Bloom - "Soliloquy" Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio - "Clawin' the Frets" [0:02:38] Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month, ep. 1" [0:09:04] Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "The Duke Insists" [0:11:48] Henry Thomas - "Bull Doze Blues" [0:14:36] Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Dodo's Blues" [0:18:02] Lonnie Johnson and Blind Willie Dunn (Eddie Lang) - "Two Tone Stomp" [0:21:14] King Radio - "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" [0:24:12] Slim Gaillard Trio - "Cement Mixer (Put-ti-Put-ti)" ...
Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart." from Feb 22, 2022
February 23, 2022 02:56 - 63.4 MBLittle 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 Tamp...
An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 15, 2022
February 23, 2022 02:56 - 63 MBGus 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...
There are forms of bowel cancer that have higher approval ratings than the Codger. from Feb 8, 2022
February 09, 2022 01:51 - 63.1 MBEarl "Fatha" Hines - "Glad Rag Doll" Mississippi Sheiks - "Stop and Listen Blues" [0:02:50] Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel Medi-Spirits™" [0:10:43] Ruth Etting - "So Is Your Old Lady" [0:12:46] Wilmoth Houdini with the Lionel Belasco Orchestra - "Caroline" [0:15:49] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Small Town Boy" [0:18:52] Mary Lou Williams - "Sagittarius" [0:21:35] Riley Puckett - "Ma (He's Making Eyes at Me)" [0:27:58] Teddy Brown - "Canadian Capers" [0:30:32] Baby Dodds - "Dru...
A distended gasbag of terribleness. from Feb 1, 2022
February 02, 2022 01:23 - 63.1 MBGeorge Gershwin - "Preludes for Piano: 1. (Allegro ben ritmato e deciso); 2. (Andante con moto e poco rubato); 3. (Agitato)" - Gershwin: Preludes for Piano [0:00:00] Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel — It's Codgerlicious!" - Sly Weasel Hit-of-the-Week [0:08:43] Nick Lucas - "Teasing the Frets" - Brunswick 6508 [0:10:29] Mississippi Sheiks - "He Calls That Religion" - Paramount 13142 [0:12:49] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Pan Pan" - Decca 12793 [0:16:22] Wynonie Harris - "I Like My Ba...
He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 11, 2022
January 26, 2022 01:52 - 64.8 MBRomeo 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] Re...
Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 18, 2022
January 26, 2022 01:52 - 63.1 MBBix 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 Tymp...
So old his blood type was discontinued. from Jan 25, 2022
January 26, 2022 01:50 - 63.1 MBRegal 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'...
A stormy petrel of unbalanced mental potentialities. from Jan 4, 2022
January 05, 2022 04:05 - 63.1 MBGene Rodgers - "Jukebox Boogie" Don Redman - "Chant of the Weed" [0:02:04] Gus Bodenheim - "EschewTube™" [0:10:17] Roger Etlens et son Ensemble - "Swing Guitare" [0:12:10] Mamie Smith - "Don't You Advertise Your Man" [0:14:41] Mary Lou Williams - "Easy Blues" [0:18:06] Eddie Cole & The Three Peppers - "I Like My Gravy" [0:21:50] Lucille Bogan - "Stew Meat Blues" [0:24:18] Adrian Rollini - "Small Fry (Take 1)" [0:31:47] Ruth Etting - "Now I'm in Love" [0:34:18] The Brox Sisters - "...
He's the answer to your prayers. And the answer is, "NO!" from Dec 14, 2021
December 29, 2021 02:39 - 63.1 MBFats Waller - "Ain't Misbehavin' / Two Sleepy People (V-Disc)" Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Gamma Gourmet™ by Delbarton Nuclear" [0:08:44] Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Handsome Harry the Hipster" [0:11:07] Lizzie Miles - "My Man O'War" [0:13:49] Noël Coward - "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" [0:17:15] Tom Crowley Orchestra - "Doc O'Ligy" [0:20:29] Gus Bodenheim - "Radio Announcer of the Year Award Victory Speech Pt. 2" [0:28:00] Old South Quartette - "Pussy Cat Rag" [0:30:24] Ar...
Blink and you're passé! from Dec 21, 2021
December 29, 2021 02:38 - 63.1 MBJoe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "The Wolf Wobble" Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Opus 12 Eee" [0:02:46] Gus Bodenheim - "N.E.B.U.C.H.A.D.N.E.Z.Z.A.R. (Part 1)" [0:09:10] Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me)" [0:11:00] Beans Hambone & El Morrow - "Beans" [0:14:08] Gene Krupa & His Orchestra with Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge - "Let Me Off Uptown" [0:16:42] Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - "Blue Blazes" [0:19:44] Martha Copeland - "The Pawn Shop ...
Codger: "You throw one piece of equipment at the station manager and suddenly you're branded 'difficult to work with'." from Dec 28, 2021
December 29, 2021 02:37 - 63 MBJabbo Smith - "Michigander Blues" Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Come on Coot, Do That Thing" [0:02:55] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Whimsy While You Work" [0:08:54] Victoria Spivey - "He Wants Too Much" [0:10:01] Benny Goodman Trio (with Gene Krupa & Teddy Wilson) - "Avalon" [0:13:23] Georgia Tom Dorsey & Kansas City Kitty - "How Can You Have the Blues?" [0:16:37] Lil Johnson - "New Shave 'Em Dry" [0:19:49] Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel Medi-Spirits™" [0:25:33] Mary Lou Williams - "D.D.T." [0:...
You keep forgetting he's still alive. from Dec 7, 2021
December 15, 2021 01:29 - 59 minutes - 68 MBVaughn de Leath - "I Just Roll Along" [0:00:00] Red Norvo - "Tomboy" [0:02:50] Gus Bodenheim - "Radio Announcer of the Year Victory Speech" [0:08:13] Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "Have a Little Dream on Me" [0:10:55] Issie Ringold - "Be on Your Merry Way" [0:13:53] Django Reinhardt - "Serenade for a Wealthy Widow" [0:17:13] Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "No Sale" [0:20:26] Rege Cordic and Company - "Omicron Visits Earth" [0:27:45] Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Don't You Wor...
He'll steal anything that isn't nailed down. And anything he can pry loose isn't nailed down. from Nov 23, 2021
December 01, 2021 02:40 - 118 MBGus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Updated Terms of Service" Dodo Marmarosa - "Dodo's Bounce" [0:01:38] The Georgia Browns - "Decatur Street 81" [0:03:22] Red Norvo - "Blues in E Flat" [0:11:06] Slim Gaillard - "Travelin' Blues" [0:14:13] Lecuona Cuban Boys - "Ay Si, Ay No" [0:16:48] Memphis Minnie - "Keep on Eatin'" [0:18:55] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Cheese and Crackers" [0:21:54] Gus Bodenheim - "The Maxwell Bodenheim Diaries, Part 1" [0:28:40] Wilmoth Houdini - "Rum and Coca-Cola - P...
"The Codger's brain is a sepulcher furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones." - Joseph Glanvill from Nov 30, 2021
December 01, 2021 01:14 - 63 MBJames P. Johnson - "Jersey Sweet" Cliff Edwards - "Hang On to Me" [0:02:30] Gus Bodenheim - "Rediscover Radium!" [0:08:25] Ruth Etting - "Lazy Day" [0:11:13] Fats Waller - "Sweet Sue, Just You" [0:14:21] Red Norvo - "Decca Stomp" [0:17:18] Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Texas and Pacific" [0:20:18] Julius Edison (The Older Codger) - "Diddy Wah Diddy" [0:27:19] Helen Kane - "That's Why I'm Happy" [0:30:20] Robert and Raymond - "Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons" [0:32:43] Sli...
This program may be shut down pending an internal review of repeated violations of established protocols which led to a most unfortunate incident. from Nov 16, 2021
November 17, 2021 02:03 - 63 MBJoe Venuti & His Blue Four - "Really Blue" - B-4866 Duke Ellington & His Harlem Footwarmers - "Rockin' in Rhythm" - R-924 [0:02:14] Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Smart Shanty™" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams [0:10:37] Brew Moore - "Blue Brew" - Brew Blows Blues [0:13:10] Bill Broonzy - "Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down" - B-6230 [0:16:03] Red Norvo & His All Stars - "Hole in the Wall" - Dial Records 78 [0:18:29] P. Iwanyshyn (Vocal: L. Ischuk) - "Divchyno Molodenka (My Darling)" -...
"Latin never seemed to be about anything. They were all kinda bughouse—Caesar, and Cicero, and what's-his-name." — Fred Whitmarsh from Nov 9, 2021
November 10, 2021 02:47 - 78.8 MBPaul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra - "Gershwin's Piano Concerto In F: III. Allegro con brio (Allegro agitato)" - Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Doin' Things" - 21561 Gus Bodenheim - "Maxwell Bodenheim's Classic Poetry" - Gus Bodenheim's Faulty Reminiscences Fats Waller - "Alligator Crawl" - B.8784 Nora Bayes - "I Work Eight Hours, Sleep Eight Hours, That Leaves Eight Hours for Love" - Bayes 78 Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra - "China Stomp (Chi...
Knew Gatsby when he was just "pretty good." from Nov 2, 2021
November 03, 2021 00:49 - 63.3 MBPaul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra - "Grand Canyon Suite: V. Cloudburst" [0:00:00] Gus Bodenheim - "A Tour Through My Library" [0:12:56] Ruth Etting & the Victor Young Orchestra - "Whose Honey Are You?" [0:15:27] Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Who's Goin' Steady with Who" [0:17:18] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Pretty Trix" [0:20:15] Victoria Spivey - "One Hour Mama" [0:23:37] Gorni Kramer - "China Boy" [0:28:58] Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - "Tidal Wave" [0:31:35] Blind Bla...
All he asks is a fair trial before they hang him. from Oct 26, 2021
October 27, 2021 00:59 - 63.3 MBMilt Herth - "Hell's Bells" [0:00:00] The Boswell Sisters - "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" [0:02:20] Dinah Washington - "Evil Gal Blues" [0:08:45] Jaybird Coleman & the Birmingham Jug Band - "Giving It Away" [0:11:21] Eddie Lang - "April Kisses" [0:14:31] Mildred Bailey - "Hold On" [0:17:32] Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra - "Till Tom Special" [0:20:22] Gus Bodenheim - "Ginger Psake™" [0:26:11] Mezzrow-Bechet Quintet ft. Coot Grant - "Evil Gal Blues" [0:28:16] The Chicago Loop...
Empathied out since 1931. from Oct 5, 2021
October 20, 2021 00:32 - 63.2 MBGeorge Gershwin - "Clap Yo' Hands" Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "Breakin' in a New Pair of Shoes" [0:02:22] Wilmoth Houdini - "The Calypso Way" [0:09:22] Lil Johnson - "My Stove's in Good Condition" [0:11:52] Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Burlesque" [0:14:47] Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Clown Car™" [0:18:01] Polly Walker - "Where Were You? Where Was I?" [0:19:41] Palmer McAbee - "McAbee's Railroad" [0:22:35] Milt Herth - "Swamp Fire" [0:25:49] Betty Boop - "Bi...
Gus Bodenheim sits in Courtney's chair, fills his shoes, and depletes his whiskey. from Oct 12, 2021
October 20, 2021 00:32 - 63.3 MBSister O.M. Terrell - "God's Little Birds" [0:00:00] Will Glahe Orchestra - "Krazy Kat" [0:02:32] Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 1" [0:05:25] Erroll Garner - "Skylark" [0:07:23] Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - "Hop-Scotch Polka (Scotch Hot)" [0:10:35] Eva Taylor - "My Man is on the Make" [0:13:17] Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 2" [0:16:00] Buddy Weed - "Whoops a Doodle" [0:17:55] Cliff Edwards - "A Great Big Bunch of You" [0:20:07] Vaughn Monroe - "Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant)" ...
His cynicism is not cheap! from Oct 19, 2021
October 20, 2021 00:32 - 63.3 MBPercy Grainger - "Pagodes (Debussy, from "Estampes")" Hadda Brooks - "Boogie Celeste" [0:04:15] Gus Bodenheim - "Reads the Mailbag" [0:11:09] Blind Willie Dunn & Lonnie Johnson - "Deep Minor Rhythm" [0:13:50] Sammy Price - "Just Jivin' Around" [0:17:06] The Mills Brothers - "Bugle Call Rag" [0:19:59] Maxine Sullivan - "Molly Malone" [0:21:59] Cyril Scott - "Rainbow Trout" [0:28:33] Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "What's His Story" [0:31:17] Vaughn De Leath - "Looking at the World Thr...
His very existence affirms Faulkner's observation that "The past is never dead. It's not even past." from Sep 28, 2021
September 29, 2021 00:24 - 63.3 MBGeorge Gershwin - "Someone to Watch Over Me" [0:00:00] Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra - "The Mooche" [0:02:42] Mississippi John Hurt - "Ain't No Tellin'" [0:09:56] Milt Herth Quartet - "Egyptian Ella" [0:12:57] Clarence "Pinetop" Smith - "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" [0:15:36] Nan Blakstone - "You Can't Find a Place to Do It" [0:19:10] Four Southern Singers - "Be Ready" [0:21:45] Gus Bodenheim - "EschewTube™" [0:29:48] Hank Williams - "Everything's Okay" [0:31:23] Walter Gr...
"The Codger never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see bad ones. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, blind to light, always mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game." — H.W. Beecher from Aug 10, 2021
September 22, 2021 00:32 - 63.6 MBJoe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Doing Things" - Victor 21561 Ruth Etting - "I Want to Meander in the Meadow" - Columbia 1883-D [0:03:01] George Formby - "Swimmin' with the Wimmin" - Decca F-3666 [0:10:10] Jimmie Rodgers - "Pistol Packin' Papa" - Victor 22554 [0:12:57] Noël Coward - "Poor Little Rich Girl" - The Old Codger's Secret Stash of Noel Coward demos [0:15:43] Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang - "Louisiana" - Okeh 41173 [0:18:55] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Delivers an Apology but Refuses to Resi...
Claims the 21st is the worst century he's ever lived in. from Aug 17, 2021
September 22, 2021 00:32 - 63.4 MBFred Elizalde - "Pianotrope" Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Runnin' Ragged (Bamboozlin' the Bassoon)" [0:02:38] Nadia, Ken & the Old Codger - "On the Fuzzy Glove Hour Aug 11, 2021" [0:07:58] The Brox Sisters - "Sweetest Little Rose in Tennessee" [0:15:56] Butterbeans & Susie - "I Got Your Bath Water On" [0:18:55] Ruth Etting - "Cigarettes, Cigars" [0:21:36] The Trix Sisters - "Ready for the River" [0:24:24] Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Non-Discrimination Policy" [0:30:49] Lord Kitchener ...
"The Codger is a dark little archaic personage—hard, compact, unscrupulous, imitative, and neatly vulgar." — H.G. Wells from Aug 24, 2021
September 22, 2021 00:31 - 63.2 MBFred Elizalde - "Brandy and Soda" Joséphine Baker - "I'm Feelin' Like a Million" [0:02:33] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Følelslange™" [0:08:33] Bo Carter - "Your Biscuits Are Big Enough for Me" [0:10:37] Prince Partridge - "Choosing a Career" [0:12:47] Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra - "Goin' Out the Back Way" [0:15:38] Sophie Tucker - "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas" [0:18:30] Roy Smeck - "Ukulele Bounce" [0:24:26] Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra - "Boyd Meets Stravinsky" [0:...
Hubris is his other middle name. from Sep 7, 2021
September 22, 2021 00:31 - 63.3 MBArthur Schutt - "Piano Puzzle" [0:00:00] Fats Waller - "Imagine My Surprise" [0:02:21] Sophie Tucker - "Red Hot Mama" [0:09:03] The Happiness Boys - "Wimmin ... AAAH!" [0:11:13] Reginald Foresythe & Arthur Young - "Tiger Rag" [0:14:23] Ruth Etting - "My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now" [0:16:53] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Money Laundromat™" [0:21:45] Helen Kane - "Me and the Man in the Moon" [0:23:55] Slim & Slam (Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart) - "I Got Rhythm" [0:26:28] Elizabeth We...
Recently spent a week in Arkansas to get his liver drained. from Sep 14, 2021
September 22, 2021 00:30 - 63.2 MBJohn Ouwerx - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow" Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "The Henderson Stomp" [0:02:22] Gus Bodenheim - "The Forgotten Gershwin" [0:08:26] Lil Johnson - "Hottest Gal in Town" [0:11:06] Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Lament for Congo (A Hymn to Darkness No. 2)" [0:13:48] The Brox Sisters - "Bring on the Pepper" [0:16:33] Alma Gluck, The Victor Orchestra & Walter B. Rogers - "Have You Seen But a Whyte Lillie Grow?" [0:19:42] Bo Carter - "My Pencil Won't Write ...
Once spent a week in Arkansas to get his liver drained. from Sep 14, 2021
September 22, 2021 00:30 - 63.2 MBJohn Ouwerx - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow" Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "The Henderson Stomp" Gus Bodenheim - "The Forgotten Gershwin" Lil Johnson - "Hottest Gal in Town" Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Lament for Congo (A Hymn to Darkness No. 2)" The Brox Sisters - "Bring on the Pepper" Alma Gluck, The Victor Orchestra & Walter B. Rogers - "Have You Seen But a Whyte Lillie Grow?" Bo Carter - "My Pencil Won't Write No More" Ruth Etting - "When You're with Somebody Else" Pa...
Once asked what to feed babies, he recommended suntan lotion, dust bunnies, clumps of bread soaked in rubbing alcohol, and pennies. from Sep 21, 2021
September 22, 2021 00:29 - 63.3 MBFred Elizalde - "Melancholy Weeps" Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Volcanic (Eruption for Orchestra)" [0:02:23] Bo Carter - "Ram Rod Daddy" [0:09:40] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Penn Beach Blues" [0:12:23] Lothar Perl - "Crazy Top" [0:15:07] Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon - "Down at Jasper's Bar-B-Que" [0:16:55] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Leftover Takeout™" [0:22:19] Lil Johnson - "Sam, the Hot Dog Man" [0:24:11] Sophie Tucker - "My Pet" [0:26:57] Fats Waller & Ada Brown - "That ...
Proprietress subs for Courtney T. Edison from Aug 31, 2021
September 01, 2021 00:46 - 63.5 MBEubie Blake - "Charleston Rag" Georgia White - "The Stuff Is Here" Ida Cox - "Lonesome Blues" Valaida Snow - "Lonesome Road" Sol Hoopii - "Hana Hana Hawaii" Madame Riviere's Hawaiians - "Fort Street" Sol K. Bright & His Hollywaiians - "Hawaiian Cowboy" Bob Wills with the McKinney Sisters - "Hawaiian War Chant" Lily May Ledford, Rosalie and Bella Allen - "Gypsy Davy" Hoagy Carmichael - "Rogue River Valley" Ernest Tubb - "I Walk Alone" Girls of the Golden West - "That Silver Haired...
Laura Cantrell hosts while Courtney is off being a miscreant-at-large from Aug 31, 2021
September 01, 2021 00:46 - 63.5 MBEubie Blake - "Charleston Rag" [0:00:00] Georgia White - "The Stuff Is Here" [0:05:59] Ida Cox - "Lonesome Blues" [0:06:44] Valaida Snow - "Lonesome Road" [0:11:31] Sol Hoopii - "Hana Hana Hawaii" [0:15:16] Madame Riviere's Hawaiians - "Fort Street" [0:19:08] Sol K. Bright & His Hollywaiians - "Hawaiian Cowboy" [0:21:43] Bob Wills with the McKinney Sisters - "Hawaiian War Chant" [0:33:48] Lily May Ledford, Rosalie and Bella Allen - "Gypsy Davy" [0:34:22] Hoagy Carmichael - "Rogue R...
His excuses make the labyrinth seem like the shortest distance between two points. from Aug 3, 2021
August 04, 2021 01:19 - 63.5 MBCyril Scott - "Danse Negre" - HMV B2895 Whistlin' Alex Moore - "Heart Wrecked Blues" - Columbia 14518-D Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang - "Margie" - B71142 Cyril Diaz & His Orchestra - "Shake U-Pam-Pa-Lam Calypso" - Kay R45/500 Helen Kane - "I Wanna Be Loved By You" - Victor 21684 King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators - "Someday Sweetheart" - Vocalion 1059 Reginald Foresythe Orchestra - "Bit" - Columbia DO-1213 Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Updated Terms of Service" - Delbarton Fine Produc...
Guest Host: Matt Fiveash from Jul 27, 2021
July 28, 2021 00:13 - 63.7 MBJelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - "Hyena Stomp" [0:00:00] Maurice Chevalier - "Just a Bum" [0:03:25] Cab Calloway - "I Love to Sing-a" [0:06:17] The Light Crust Doughboys - "Pussy, Pussy, Pussy" [0:09:27] Honolulu Players - "Leilihua" [0:11:53] Robert Hill - "You Gonna Look Like a Monkey When You Get Old" [0:17:14] The Spirits of Rhythm - "My Old Man" [0:20:08] Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Orchestra - "You'se a Viper" [0:23:01] Bezos' Hawaiian Orchestra - "Pame Sti Honoloulou" ...
His state implies a necessary curse: when not himself, he's mad; when most himself, he's worse. from Jul 20, 2021
July 21, 2021 00:14 - 63.2 MBFred Elizalde - "Brandy and Soda" Joe Venuti's Blue Four - "Nothing But Nots" [0:03:00] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Xervac™" [0:09:14] Stuff Smith - "Sam, The Vegetable Man" [0:10:50] Reginald Foresythe Orchestra - "A Hymn to Darkness: Deep Forest" [0:14:06] Ruth Etting - "But I Do, You Know I Do" [0:17:12] The Watson Sisters - "China, We Owe a Lot to You" [0:19:47] Red Norvo - "Knockin' on Wood" [0:27:04] Peppy Prince and Christine Chatman - "Ain't Nothin' Shakin''" [0:29:38] Esmer...
Specializing in locally sourced, free-range, organic, sustainable misery. from Jun 29, 2021
July 14, 2021 22:27 - 63.2 MBStuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys - "I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music" [0:00:00] Bo Carter - "You Better Know Your Business" [0:02:30] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Des Jardins Canderriere™" [0:09:29] Bessie Tucker - "Katy Blues" [0:11:14] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Little Buttercup (I'll Never Be the Same)" [0:14:31] Cole Porter - "Sunday Morning Breakfast Time" [0:17:38] Jack Lumsdaine & Ward Leopold - "Wouldn't It?" [0:19:14] Reddy Kilowatt - "The Reddy Kilowatt song" [0:21:59] Lionel Ham...
Never nominated for a Peabody, but takes first prize for narcissism, peevishness and vulgarity. from Jul 13, 2021
July 14, 2021 22:27 - 63.3 MBGeorge Van Eps - "The Chant" [0:00:00] Betty Roche - "Trouble Trouble" [0:02:10] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton & Bailey Clown Car™" [0:11:04] Adrian Rollini Quintet - "(How to Make Love In) Ten Easy Lessons" [0:12:44] Stuff Smith Trio - "Skip It" [0:15:32] Willie "The Lion" Smith & His Cubs - "Harlem Joys" [0:18:15] Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends - "Mama Don't Allow It" [0:20:56] Willie Whopper - "Hell's Fire (1934)" [0:28:37] Henry Burr - "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" [0:34:47] Edd...