Playlist for Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison - November 13, 2007

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November 13, 2007: Thomas Wolfe on the Codger (1926): "a nervous ugly man, swollen with petty tyranny"

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Artist Track
Helen Kane  That's My Weakness Now  
Willie "The Lion" Smith and His Cubs  Honeymoonin' on a Dime  
Art Gentry and His Orchestra  Three Little Fishes  
The Revelers  Dinah  
The Happiness Boys  A Gay Caballero  
Sophie Tucker  It's Human Nature to Complain  
"Tennessee" Ernie Ford  Philadelphia Lawyer  
The Brox Sisters  I'm Lonely Without You  
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra  Papa's in Bed With His Britches On  
Tex Williams  With Men Who Know Tobacco Best, It's Women Two to One  
Alma Gluck  Lo, Here the Gentle Lark  
Geeshie Wiley  Skinny Legs Blues  
Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra  Boyd Meets Stravinsky  
Butterbeans and Susie  If You Can't Bring It, You've Got to Send It  

Listener comments!

Tue. 11/13/07 7:06pm From: paul

yay! old codger rules!!!

Tue. 11/13/07 7:10pm From: Uncle Mert

All this talk about NEW AGE music. It's about time we had some OLD AGE music. Codge may be crazy but he ain't no goddamn fool.

Tue. 11/13/07 7:56pm From: Taylor Jessen

Boyd just burned my barn.

Sat. 11/17/07 6:37am From: Roy S

did Mac get his dollar trolly deposit back?

about time you had your own show

Fri. 11/23/07 11:57am From: Adam

Helen Kane sounds an awful lot like Mae Questel, the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl.

Fri. 11/23/07 3:45pm From: Albert Cheswick Hardley

"The ravishing of the maiden Ophelia"

We once had a lodger, and he was so old
That he was a Codger, or so I am told.
My grandfather Roger to Codger he sold
A rusty old saw and a sack of fool's gold.

When my sister Ophelia the Codger she saw
She pounced on the see-saw, for such was the law.
The law says a see-saw will save from the claw
Of a Codger a maiden who fears ma and pa.

For her bles-sed old ma knows a Codger will dodge
Her entreaties to save her from losing her bra
And its contents. "Ophelia," croaked Codger, come, draw
Near my nonsense. I feel ya, Come soak in my spa."

(ancient folk song collected by E. C. Grobb, Professor of Folklore, Indiana Univ., as sung by Homer Hooch, a rudabaga farmer in Skunksplatt Hollow, W, Va., Jan. 13, 1959. Used by permission.)

N.B. May I suggest singing to the melody of Erin-go-bragh.
sgl

Tue. 12/4/07 8:31pm From: Patrick

The more I listen to WFMU (and I'm in New Orleans!) the more I WANT to listen. First MAC, now the Old Codger. Can there be more?? Hmm. New Jersey. Home of broadcasting and 78edness. What's not to like?

Tue. 12/4/07 8:46pm From: Patrick

By the way, Adam, Helen Kane sounding like Mae Questral resulted in a lawsuit by Kane saying that Questral's voice of Betty Boop was a theft of her singing persona. She lost the suit and never achieved her prior level of success.

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