Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/OC WFMU presents WFMU presents dusty 78s played by a grumpy old man.. en Copyright (C) 2013 WFMU Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:34:15 EDT Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:34:15 EDT Courtney T. Edison and WFMU http://wfmu.org/podcast_images/oc_rss.jpg Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/OC 144 142 WFMU, 78, phonograph, cylinder, ragtime, codger, vaudeville, standard, music, flapper, tinpanalley, radio no He doesn't need to prove he's God's gift to women. The facts speak for themselves. from Apr 16, 2013 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50275 Truett and George - "Ghost Dance"
Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer - "Goose Pimples"
Florence Brady - "Sunshine"
Lydia Mendoza - "Los Besos de mi Negra"
George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life"
Bessie Jackson - "Barbecue Bess"
Wynonie Harris - "I Like My Baby's Pudding"
Alphonso et Son Orchestre Typique Antillais - "Chain' la Lou"
Polly Walker - "Where Were You? Where Was I?"
The Savoy Havana Band (vocal: Ramon Newton) - "Masculine Women and Feminine Men"
Vladimir Selinski - "Professor Visits Harlem"
The Raymond Scott Quintet - "Street Corner in Paris"
Billie Holiday with the Teddy Wilson Orchestra - "He Ain't Got Rhythm"
Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - "What Does the Pussy Cat Mean When She Says Meow?"
Sophie Tucker - "You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50275 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50275 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:34:15 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU He's not old enough to have known the baby Jesus, but he recalls as a youth reading the obit. from Dec 25, 2012 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/48466 Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra with Henry Glover - "Who Said Shorty Wasn't Coming Back?"
Jimmie Rodgers - "What's It!"
Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds - "Don't Care Blues"
George Formby - "Easy-Going Chap"
Edith Wilson - "Rules & Regulations "Signed Razor Jim""
Helen Kane - "I'd Go Barefoot All Winter Long"
Cliff Carlisle - "Shanghai Rooster Yodel"
Haitian Orchestra with Sidney Bechet - "Sous les Palmiers"
Sophie Tucker - "He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday"
Reginald Foresythe Orchestra - "Dodging a Divorcee"
Irving Kaufman - "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!"
Eddie Cantor - "Hungry Women"
Mildred Bailey - "Junk Man"
Fats Waller - "A Little Bit Independent"
Kurt Weill - "Very Very Very Wooden Wedding"
Ruth Etting - "Crying for the Carolines" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/48466 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/48466 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:14:41 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU An hour of brutish entertainment from Dec 4, 2012 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/48434 George Formby - "Swimmin' With the Wimmin" - Decca 3666
Kitty Gray & Her Wampus Cats with Oscar "Buddy" Woods - "Baton Rouge Rag" - Vocalion SA-2846
Spivy - "The Alley Cat" - Exclusive S-101B
Paul Whiteman's Sax Soctette - "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" - Decca 2467
Noel Coward - "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" - Codgerphone B-666
Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - "Mr. Hoover & Mr. Smith" - Edison 52367
Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra - "Golden Showers" - Edison 51950
Fats Waller - "Martinique" - Columbia 12998
Sophie Tucker - "The Man I Love" - Odeon O-4096
William H. Reitz - "Turkish Patrol" - Victor 16562
Karl Davis & Harty Taylor - "A Sweet Mama Put Him in Low" - Conqueror 9842
Dick Robertson - "Now's the Time To Fall In Love" - Perfect 12762
The Revelers - "My Ohio Home" - Columbia 1257-D
Gadjos (Slovak bagpipe player) - "Adamku Nas" - Codgerplatten 1219
Kate Smith - "Maybe It's Love" - Velvet Tone 2216-V http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/48434 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/48434 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:59:28 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU A quasi-life force fueled by steamed cabbage, cigar stubs plucked from the gutter, and petty grievances. from Oct 23, 2012 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47847 Nick Lucas - "Teasin' the Frets"
Tampa Red - "Let Me Play with Your Poodle"
Sophie Tucker - "I Never Can Think of the Words"
Bo Carter - "Beans"
Marion Harris - "We Love It"
Larry Adler - "Smoking Reefers"
Jack Hodges - "Everything Is Fresh Today"
Blind Boy Fuller - "Jivin' Woman Blues"
Wilmoth Houdini - "He Had It Coming"
Butterbeans & Susie - "I Can't Use You"
Cleo Gibson - "I've Got Ford Movements in My Hips"
Lecuona Cuban Boys - "Taboo"
Billy Jones - "When It's Night Time in Italy"
The Watson Sisters - "Lend Me Jim" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47847 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47847 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:36:35 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Nothing from the Codger's efforts grows stronger, better, or more beautiful; all is despoiled by mocking flecks of dung. from Jul 3, 2012 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/46314 Oluf Carlsson - "Plenty Off Center"
Wilmoth Houdini - "Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat"
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Beware"
Marion Harris - "Afraid of You"
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "China Boy"
Bruz Fletcher - "Nympho-Dipso-Ego Maniac"
Ruth Etting - "Back in Your Own Backyard"
Ernest Butcher - "Peaceful Street"
Trio Lescano - "La Gelosia Non È Più Di Moda"
Andy Iona - "Naughty Hula Eyes"
Noel Coward - "Useless Useful Phrases"
Martha Tilton - "All Of Me"
Sunnyland Slim and His Pals - "No Whiskey Blues"
Ruby Keeler - "Have A Good Old Fashioned Cocktail"
Henry Burr - "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/46314 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/46314 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:36:24 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU 61:05 He's gone from crazy to foolish. Progress! from May 8, 2012 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45026 Ruth Etting - "Cigarettes, Cigars!"
Tommy McClennan - "I'm a Guitar King"
James P. Johnson - "You've Got to Be Modernistic"
Carl Martin - "Joe Lewis Blues"
Sophie Tucker - "When a Lady Meets A Gentleman Down South"
The Four Clefs - "I Like Pie, I Like Cake"
Bessie Smith - "Kitchen Man"
Mississippi Bracey - "You Scolded Me and Drove Me"
Bruz Fletcher - "My Doctor"
Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines - "Sugar Foot Strut"
Aileen Stanley - "I'll Never Ask for More"
Marion Harris - "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes"
Blind Willie McTell - "Three Women Blues"
Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - "How Can You Have The Blues" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45026 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45026 Tue, 08 May 2012 21:32:25 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Columnist Ty Muckton on the Codger (1944): "a surly curmudgeon whose behavioral spectrum consists of finely calibrated degrees of spitefulness." from Aug 30, 2011 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/41700 Charles Lavere & His Chicagoans - "Ubangi Man"
King Radio - "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"
The Happiness Boys - "The Coat and Pants Do All the Work"
Willie Eckstein - "Where the Niagara Flows"
Bruz Fletcher - "Drunk With Love"
The Brox Sisters - "Lay Me Down to Sleep in Carolina"
Clarence Williams and Eddie Lang - "What Ya Want Me To Do?"
Fats Waller - "Bouncin' on a V-Disc"
Muriel Gaines - "Ugly Woman"
Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians - "Wave That Frame"
Jelly Roll Morton - "Dead Man Blues"
Emmett Miller - "The Pickaninnies' Paradise"
Wayne King and His Orchestra (voc: Burke Bivens) - "Swamp Ghosts" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/41700 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/41700 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:13:13 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU He neither strives for achievement nor risks failure, focusing instead on solid, sustained mediocrity. from Jul 19, 2011 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/41100 Frank Trumbauer Orchestra - "There'll Come a Time"
Wendell Hall - "There's a Trick in Pickin' a Chick Chick Chicken These Days"
Vaughn De Leath - "Tin Pan Parade"
Harry Reser - "Ukulele Lady"
Victoria Spivey - "One Hour Mama"
Sophie Tucker - "Oh! You Have No Idea"
The Trix Sisters - "I'm Crazy Over You"
Bruz Fletcher - "The Hellish Mrs. Haskell"
Los Cuatro Huasos - "Veinticinco Limones"
Clara Smith - "My John Blues"
Larry Adler - "Solitude"
Eddie Cantor - "My Wife Is On a Diet"
Clarence Senna - "How to Write a Popular Song"
Bo Carter - "Ram Rod Daddy"
Lillian Morton - "Evening Star" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/41100 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/41100 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:25:09 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Stay out of his yard! Damn birds. from Jan 18, 2011 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38886 Jesse Stone and His Blue Sereneders - "Starvation Blues"
Ernest Rogers - "Willie the Chimney Sweeper"
Johnny Marvin - "Oh How She Could Play A Ukulele"
The Plantation Players (vocal: Tom Stacks) - "You Never Get Nowhere Holding Hands"
Victor Roberts - "Sahara Rose"
The Brox Sisters - "School House Blues"
Sophie Tucker - "Stay At Home Papa"
Sophie Tucker - "Aren't Women Wonderful"
Sophie Tucker - "The Lady Is A Tramp"
Aileen Stanley and Billy Murray - "Keep Your Skirts Down, Mary Ann"
Bruz Fletcher - "Hello Darling!"
Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) - "You're So Cute (Mama O' Mine)"
Jim Davidson & His New Royal Palais Orchestra - "Pink Elephants"
Blind Willie Dunn & Lonnie Johnson - "Deep Minor Rhythm"
Ethel Waters - "Birmingham Bertha" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38886 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38886 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:12:23 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU He's been "file-sharing" music since the 1930s. Only then it was called "shoplifting." from Dec 7, 2010 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38358 Claude Hopkins - "The Traffic Was Terrific" - Delbarton 110-A
Sophie Tucker - "Sophie Tucker for President" - Mercury 5839
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "In a Mist" - Brunswick 14850
The Okeh Kut Ups (Jerry Macy & Ed Smalle) - "And Then I Forget" - Okeh 40682
Vaughn De Leath - "What Do We Do on a Dew-Dew-Dewy Day?" - Okeh 40844
The Brox Sisters - "Who" - Victor 19631
Nearsighted Jay Palmer and Justin von Bieber - "Do You Really Want to Make Me Cry?" - Jodry 9842
Sonia Meroff - "There Ain't No Land Like Dixieland to Me" - Okeh 40899
Benny Goodman - "Ballad in Blue" - Victor 25081
Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Toot It, Brother Armstrong" - Decca 63875
Marion Harris - "Singin' the Blues" - Decca F-5160
Harry Reser - "Etiquette Blues" - Perfect 108271
Harry E. Humphrey - "Santa Claus Hides in Your Phonograph" - Edison Diamond Disc 50999-R http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38358 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38358 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:29:10 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU His third set of dentures are older than you! from Jul 27, 2010 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36624 Fats Waller - "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby"
Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys - "Old Joe's Hittin' the Jug"
Percival Mackey and His Band - "On Her Doorstep Last Nite"
Eddie Lang - "Perfect"
James P. Johnson - "Crying for the Carolines"
Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Come On Coot Do That Thing"
Bud Billings - "How To Make Love"
Ruth Etting - "Whose Honey Are You?"
Larry Adler - "Clair de Lune"
Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton and His Orchestra - "Jollity Farm"
Irving Kaufman - "Nobody Knows What A Red-Head Mama Can Do"
The Grey Gull Studio Band with Glory Clark (a.k.a. Vaughn de Leath) - "It's Tight Like That"
Reginald Foresythe - "Revolt of the Yes-Men"
The Ponce Sisters - "I'd Rather Cry Over You"
Casper Reardon (harpist) with the Saturday Night Swing Club Orchestra - "Ain't Misbehavin'" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36624 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36624 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:42:53 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU If he ever forges his crankiness into a bullet, duck! from Jun 15, 2010 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36045 Harry Jacobson - "You're the Top/I Get a Kick Out of You"
Marion Harris - "Everybody But Me"
Fats Waller - "We, The People"
Pigmeat Pete (Wesley Wilson) and Catjuice Charlie (Harry McDaniels) - "Old Age Is Creeping Up On You"
Gorni Kramer - "China Boy"
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra w/Bix Beiderbecke - "Trumbology"
Sophie Tucker - "Aggravatin' Papa"
Joe Haymes Orchestra (vocal: Roy Wager) - "Lazybones"
Sophie Tucker - "I Ain't Takin' Orders From No One"
Margaret Young - "Big Bad Bill"
Clarence Williams Blue Five - "Cake Walking Babies from Home"
Kate Smith and the Harmonians - "Moanin' Low"
Frances King - "Gee Jenny, It's You"
Johnny Marvin - "Same Old Moon, Same Old June" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36045 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36045 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:56:27 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU "His irascibility amounts almost to disease. He is a sad mortal to carry a wonder to." — Flossie Thrale from Jan 12, 2010 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34338 Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - "Washboard Blues"
Willie "The Lion" Smith and His Cubs - "Harlem Joys"
Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Meat Cuttin' Blues"
The Ponce Sisters - "A Million Dreams"
Don Redman - "Chant of the Weed"
Vaughn De Leath - "Sing Me a Baby Song"
Harry McClintock - "Big Rock Candy Mountain"
The Boswell Sisters - "If It Ain't Love"
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - "South"
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli - "Melody Man's Dream"
Mamie Smith - "Jenny's Ball"
Sammy Williams Trio with Mary McHugh - "All Alone"
Slatz Randall & His Orchestra - "Skirts"
Sophie Tucker - "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas"
Ruth Etting - "There's Something In The Air" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34338 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34338 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:57:39 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Once described by his own lawyer as "a man of nugatory intelligence and much unpleasantness" from Feb 3, 2009 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/29912 Frances King - "He's Got It"
Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow"
Len Hughes - "Twilight in Turkey"
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Wild Cat"
Ella Johnson with the Buddy Johnson Orchestra - "When My Man Comes Home"
Jane Green - "Hard to Get Gertie"
Jack Pettis and His Pets - "Spanish Dream"
Bert Williams - "Twenty Years"
Delta Rhythm Boys - "St. Louis Blues"
Fletcher Henderson Orchestra - "Sweet Music"
Al Bernard - "In 1999"
Vaughn De Leath - "Vo Do-Do-De-O Blues"
Ambrose and His Orchestra - "Caramba"
Red Norvo - "In a Mist" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/29912 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/29912 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:20:12 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Loves the planet. Just hates all the people on it. from Dec 22, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/29385 The Happiness Boys - "That's a Lot of Bunk"
John Kirby Orchestra - "Dawn on the Desert"
Johnny Marvin - "Magnolia"
Alphonso et Son Orchestre Typique Antillais - "Mettezi I Dero"
Sophie Tucker - "Conversational Man"
Adrian Rollini - "Minuet in Jazz"
Victoria Spivey - "How Do They Do It That Way?"
Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "I Like That"
The Mills Brothers - "Swing Is The Thing"
The Original Dixieland Jass Band - "Bow Wow Blues"
Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys - "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket"
Ambrose and His Orchestra - "Deep Henderson"
Ambrose and His Orchestra - "Medley of Hebrew Dances"
Roy Smeck - "Shuffle Off to Buffalo"
Rosa Henderson - "I'm a Good Gal"
Irving Aaronson and His Commanders - "You Ain't Done Right By Nell"
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird"
Fred Rich - "He's So Unusual"
Vaughn De Leath - "Banana Oil"
Tom Crowley Orchestra - "Doc O'ligy"
Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends - "Decent Woman Blues"
Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Walter Gross - "Improvisation in Several Keys"
Jimmy Liggins - "I Ain't Drunk"
Lionel Belasco and His Orchestra - "Juliana"
The Bonzo & Delbarton Doo-Dah Cricketeers and Marching Band - "Jollity Farm"
Horrie Dargie and His Rocking Reeds - "Twilight in Turkey"
Ruth Etting - "Ten Cents a Dance"
Raymond Hitchcock - "Mr. Hitchcock's Curtain Call"
Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Take Your Hand Off My Mojo"
Cozy Cole - "The Beat"
Milt Herth Trio - "Scatter-Brain"
Red Norvo - "Hole in the Wall"
Jimmie Rodgers - "Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues"
Louis Jordan and the Tympany 5 - "We Can't Agree"
The Duke of Iron - "Kockeemoonga"
Lloyd Glenn - "Ugh"
Lillian Harvey & Willie Fritsch - "Ich Wollt Ich War Ein Huhn"
Bessie Smith - "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
Harry Reser - "The Cat and the Dog"
Joe Daniels and His Hot Shots - "Mr. Drummer Man Goes to Town"
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - "Daybreak Express"
Count Basie & His Orchestra - "Mama Don't Want No Peas 'N' Rice 'N' Coconut Oil"
Hartman's Heartbreakers with Betty Lou - "Oh Sweet Daddy Oh Pshaw"
Wilmoth Houdini & His Royal Calypso Orchestra - "The Welcome of Their Majesties"
Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys - "I've Got a Heavy Date"
Helen Kane - "Dangerous Nan McGrew"
Brox Sisters - "I'm Lonely"
Bix Beiderbecke - "In a Mist"
Jimmy Forest & His All-Star Combo - "Bolo Blues" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/29385 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/29385 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:59:59 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU 198:19 A fifty-dollar hat on a five-cent head from Jun 10, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27525 The Duncan Sisters - "It Must Be An Old Spanish Custom"
J.B. Wesolowsky (vocal: Sophia Hawryshchuk-Kalba) - "Yak Zayde Sontse (After Sunset)"
Louis Jordan and His Orchestra - "I Can't Dance, I Got Ants in My Pants"
New Orleans Owls - "White Ghost Shivers"
Mary Lou Williams's Girl Stars - "Boogie Mysterioso"
Sl. & Muz. W. Trytiak - "Cyhanske Tango"
Ruth Etting - "Lonesome and Sorry"
Ben Webster - "I Surrender Dear"
Sidney Bechet - "Summertime"
Chin's Calypso Sextet (vocal: E. Bedasse) - "Calypso Pepperpot"
Electric Six - "The Bright Spot in Your Budget"
Louis Jordan and His Orchestra - "Flat Face"
Sophie Tucker - "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27525 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27525 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:18:34 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU AARP considers him beyond his "sell-by" date from May 27, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27359 Charleston Chasers - "Lovable and Sweet"
Cats vs. Chicks - "Cat Meets Chick"
Helen Humes with the Harry James Orchestra - "Song of the Wanderer"
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "I'm Coming Virginia"
Jimmie Rodgers - "My Carolina Sunshine Girl"
The Happiness Boys - "I Scream - You Scream - We All Scream for Ice Cream"
Joe Daniels and His Hotshots - "Crashing Through"
Irving Berlin - "Follow the Crowd"
Louis Jordan and His Orchestra - "Swingin' in the Cocoanut Trees"
Charlie Binger's Six with Count Lasher - "Calabash"
Fanny Watson - "Everybody's Crazy Over Dixie"
Charlie Binger's Six with Count Lasher - "Miss Constance"
Mamie Smith - "I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll"
Beryl Booker, Mary Osborne and June Rotenberg - "Low Ceiling"
Ruth Etting - "Funny Dear, What Love Can Do" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27359 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27359 Tue, 27 May 2008 21:30:55 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Buckets of unrelenting weariness from May 20, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27314 Earl Burtnett and His Los Angeles Biltmore Orchestra - "Low Down Rhythm"
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "Singin' the Blues"
Pauline Alpert - "The Carioca"
Milton Brown - "Taking Off"
Chin's Calypso Sextet (vocal: E. Bedasse) - "Big Boy and Teacher"
Helen Humes - "Central Avenue Boogie"
Jimmie Rodgers - "Away Out On the Mountain"
Blind Blake (with the Hokum Boys) - "I Was Afraid of That (Pt 2)"
Irving Aaronson and Phil Saxe - "Wimmin-Aaah!!"
Louis Jordan - "You Ain't Nowhere"
Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra - "Rumba Matumba"
The Happiness Boys - "She'll Never Find a Fellow Like Me"
Cootie Williams and His Rug Cutters - "Ain't the Gravy Good?"
Chin's Calypso Sextet (vocal: E. Bedasse) - "Red Tomato" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27314 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27314 Tue, 20 May 2008 22:55:43 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Still has full bladder control — and boasts about it often! from Apr 29, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27042 The Chicago Loopers (with Bix & Tram) - "Three Blind Mice"
Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra - "Hodge Podge"
Hank Williams - "Ramblin' Man"
Ted Steele and His Novatones - "Mood Indigo"
Ted Lewis and His Orchestra - "Egyptian Ella"
Sophie Tucker - "After You've Gone"
The Boswell Sisters and the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra - "Was That the Human Thing To Do"
Washboard Rhythm Boys - "Dog and Cat"
The Cook Sisters - "Make My Cot Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows"
Collins H. Driggs (on the Novachord) - "Song of the Islands"
Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra - "Stealin' Apples"
The Andrews Sisters - "Money Is the Root of Evil"
Sippie Wallace - "The Flood Blues"
Sophie Tucker - "No One Man Is Ever Going to Worry Me" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27042 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27042 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:10:24 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU His autobiography grows an ever-thicker crust of hyperbole with each rehash from Apr 15, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26933 Mary Lou Williams's Girl Stars - "Conversation"
Jimmie Davis - "She's a Hum Dum Dinger From Dingersville"
Sonny Boy Williamson - "Welfare Store Blues"
Betty Roche - "Trouble, Trouble"
Wilmoth Houdini - "Poor But Ambitious"
Vivian Garry and Her All-Girl Band - "A Woman's Place is in the Groove"
Big Bill Broonzy - "Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down"
The Brox Sisters - "Learn to Do the Strut"
Sophie Tucker - "Stay At Home Papa"
Blind Alfred Reed - "Money Cravin' Folks"
Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - "When the Levee Breaks"
Jelly Roll Morton - "Doctor Jazz"
Duke of Iron with Gerald Clark and His Calypso Orchestra - "U.S.A." http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26933 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26933 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:14:35 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Pet peeve: YOU! from Apr 1, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26779 Thomas (Fats) Waller with Morris's Hot Babies - "Red Hot Dan"
Gertrude Niesen - "I'm A Big Girl Now"
Joseph Moskowitz - "Hungarian Czardas"
The Dixon Brothers - "The Old Home Brew"
Collins H. Driggs (on the Novachord) - "In a Chinese Temple Garden"
The Dezurik Sisters - "Birmingham Jail"
Scrapper Blackwell - "Trouble Blues Part 1"
Billie Holiday - "I Must Have That Man"
Felix & His Krazy Kats with the Duke of Iron - "Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight)"
Doris Day & the Modernaires - "It's a Quiet Town (in Crossbone County)"
Slim & Slam (Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart) - "African Jive"
Oogie Wawa and His Wife Hazel - "Get My Supper"
Oogie Wawa - "Whistling Tune"
The Buchanan Brothers - "When You See Those Flying Saucers"
The Girls of the Golden West - "Will There Be Any Yodeling in Heaven?" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26779 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26779 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:23:26 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU He wants to stick his chromium stylus in your groove! from Mar 18, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26608 Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "Futuristic Rhythm"
M.J. O'Connell - "Old Bill Baker"
Scrapper Blackwell - "Back Door Blues"
Johnny Marvin - "Magnolia"
Woody "Fishcakes" Clooney - "Eat to Live"
Norton "Clubfoot" Grubbage - "The Stuttering Polkalypso"
Kay Starr - "There's Yes Yes Yes in Your Eyes"
The Milt Herth Trio - "Jersey Bounce"
Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) - "My Dog Loves Your Dog"
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - "Gotta Go Places and Do Things"
Zelma O'Neal - "Varsity Drag"
Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Keep Your Hands Off My Mojo"
Nat Wills - "B.P.O.E."
Paul Robeson - "That's Why Darkies Were Born"
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "Bless You Sister" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26608 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26608 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:21:34 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU His glass is always half-bull (Marathon 2008, with co-host Blossom Moskowitz) from Mar 4, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26468 Rose Murphy - "Pennies from Heaven"
The Ink Spots - "With Plenty of Money and You"
Les Paul & Mary Ford - "The Best Things in Life Are Free"
Julia Lee - "Don't Save It Too Long (The Money Song)"
Van & Schenck - "Ain't We Got Fun"
The Old Codger - "Money"
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - "It's A Good Day"
Marion Abernathy - "You Ain't Got Nothin' For Me"
Sippie Wallace - "Buzz Me"
The Boswell Sisters - "If I Had A Million Dollars" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26468 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26468 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:25:55 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU At his age, it's hard to get parts from Feb 19, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26312 Dolly Kay - "I Loved You Once"
Joe Daniels and His Hotshots - "Drum Boogie"
Albert Ammons - "Sweet Patootie Blues"
Kay Starr - "She's Funny That Way"
Andre Musette Orchestra - "Pretzel Bender Polka"
Beatrice Lillie - "He Was a Gentleman"
Ambrose and His Orchestra - "Deep Henderson"
Vivian Holt & Lillian Rosedale - "When the Shadows Softly Come and Go"
Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Our Family Doctor"
Midge Williams and Her Jazz Jesters - "Rosie the Redskin"
Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - "Workout"
The Brox Sisters - "Cover Me Up With the Sunshine of Virginia"
Furman & Nash - "Ma (He's Makin' Eyes at Me)"
M.J. O'Connell - "How Could Washington Be a Married Man?"
The Duncan Sisters - "Dawning" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26312 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26312 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:31:49 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU A nasty piece of work made up of many smaller pieces of nastiness from Feb 5, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26143 Midge Williams and Her Jazz Jesters - "Walkin' the Dog"
Palmer McAbee - "McAbee's Railroad"
Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart - "Look Out"
Furman & Nash - "Oh! They're Such Nice People"
Clarence Williams Blues Five - "Uncle Sammy, Here I Am"
Smiley Burnette - "Minnie the Moocher at the Morgue"
Kay Starr - "He's a Good Man to Have Around"
Sophie Tucker - "Mr. Siegel"
James Kok Orchestra - "Jungle Jazz"
Joe Daniels and His Hotshots - "Steppin' Out to Swing"
The Raymond Scott Orchestral Quintette - "The Happy Farmer"
Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "You Dirty Mistreater"
Henry Burr - "There's a Little Spark of Love Still Burning"
Rosco Gordon - "Do the Chicken (Dance With You)" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26143 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26143 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:22:35 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Old enough to know the guy who invented Monday from Jan 22, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26013 Marcia Freer - "When Lights Are Low"
Leona Anderson - "Tambourine"
Dinah Washington - "Don't Come Knocking at My Door"
Clarence Williams Trio - "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)"
Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Mama Didn't Do It and Papa Didn't Do It"
The Raymond Scott Quintette - "Brass Buttons and Epaulets"
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Sophie Tucker - "Hollywood Will Never Be the Same"
Moondog - "Oboe Rounds / Chant / All Is Loneliness"
Blue Lu Barker - "Where's Joe"
Zuzu Bollin - "Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night?"
Bing Crosby - "Teddy Bears' Picnic"
Mamie Smith - "Golfing Papa"
Hobo Jack Turner - "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum"
John Burkhardt - "Light As a Feather" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26013 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26013 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:59:01 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Tucked in his nostalgia blankie, blathering with self-absorbed gusto from Jan 8, 2008 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25851 Dinah Washington - "Big Long Slidin' Thing"
Mamie Smith - "Let's Agree to Disagree"
Jimmie May - "I Love My Baby"
Blue Lu Barker - "That Made Him Mad"
Elizabeth Spencer - "When You Come Over"
Alice Green (Olive Kline) - "Rackety Coo"
Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) - "If You Can't Land 'er on the Old Veranda"
Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Key Hole Blues"
Sophie Tucker - "That's What I Call Sweet Music"
Raymond Hitchcock - "In the Days of Old"
Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra with Myra Johnson - "Silent George"
Wynonie Harris with Todd Rhodes Orchestra - "Keep On Churnin'"
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Calling All Bars" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25851 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25851 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:31:37 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Larger than life? He's larger than DEATH! from Dec 31, 2007 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25713 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Everybody Eats When They Come to My House"
Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Pop Corn Man"
Lovin' Sam Theard - "You Rascal You #2"
Esther Walker - "Sahara"
Clarence Williams Swing Band - "Old Time Religion"
Jimmy Liggins - "I Ain't Drunk"
Sophie Tucker - "I Ain't Taking Orders From No One"
Louis Armstrong - "If We Never Meet Again"
Mamie Smith - "Mama Whip! Mama Spank!"
Reinald Werrenrath - "Dear Delightful Women"
Jimmie May - "Sleepy Time Gal"
The Harmony Brothers - "She Said and I Said"
Billie Holiday - "Me, Myself and I"
Dinah Washington and Cootie Williams Orchestra - "Long John Blues"
The Brox Sisters - "How Many Times" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25713 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25713 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:53:50 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU The Codger and his lady friend Blossom present the I'm In The Mood For Love (But NOT for Christmas) Extravaganza from Dec 25, 2007 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25669 Blanche Ring - "I've Got Rings on My Fingers"
Tallulah Bankhead - "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Wingy Manone - "The Broken Record"
Zola Taylor - "Make Love To Me"
Mae Barnes - "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis"
Tempo King - "Through the Courtesy of Love"
Ronald Frankau - "One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven"
Victoria Spivey - "Sweet Pease"
Orquesta Casino de la Playa - "Los Bomberos"
Len Spencer and Vess Ossman - "A Hot Time in the Old Time Town"
Eddie Cantor - "Tips on the Stock Market"
Sam Browne - "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing"
Mae West - "I'm in the Mood for Love"
Nellie Lutcher - "Come and Get It Honey" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25669 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25669 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:34:51 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU He's been skinning local roadkill all day for stew from Dec 11, 2007 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25514 Django Reinhardt - "Exactly Like You"
Henry Burr - "She's Everybody's Sweetheart, But Nobody's Gal"
The Duncan Sisters - "Bull-Frog Patrol"
Jo Ann Lear - "Recipe for Love"
Wingy Manone and His Orchestra - "Black Coffee"
The Roaring Lion - "Rhumba Dance"
Butterbeans and Susie - "I'll Put You Under the Jail"
William K. Henderson - "Hello, World"
Ethel Waters - "Shake That Thing"
Bessie Smith - "Worn Out Papa Blues"
Lolabelle Pancake - "Black Panty Hose"
Louis Armstrong - "Swing That Music"
The Williams Sisters - "Sam, The Old Accordion Man"
Whispering Jack Smith - "Crazy Rhythm" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25514 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25514 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:29:11 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU He just got the results of his blood test. It's RED. And HOT. from Nov 27, 2007 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25313 Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - "Tell Me"
The Revelers - "Oh, Miss Hannah"
The Farber Sisters - "How'd You Like to Be My Daddy"
Elton Britt and Rosa Lee Allen - "Tennessee Yodel Polka"
Louis Prima and His Orchestra - "Let's Swing It"
Sophie Tucker - "Egyptian Ella"
Ethel Waters - "Shake That Thing"
Bessie Smith - "Sinful Blues"
Dizzy Gillespie - "Oop-Bop-Sh'bam"
Dorothy Shay, The Park Avenue Hillbilly - "Say That We're Sweethearts Again"
The Mills Brothers - "Smoke Rings"
Brox Sisters - "Lay Me Down to Sleep in Carolina"
Whispering Jack Smith - "Baby Face" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25313 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25313 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:34:59 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Thomas Wolfe on the Codger (1926): "a nervous ugly man, swollen with petty tyranny" from Nov 13, 2007 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25178 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" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25178 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25178 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:17:51 -0500 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU So old, his social security number's only three digits from Oct 30, 2007 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25041 Tom Crowley Orchestra - "Doc O'ligy"
Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) - "Nobody But You!"
Louis Jordan - "At the Swing Cats' Ball"
Ruth Etting - "But I Do, You Know I Do!"
The Milt Herth Trio (O'Neil Spencer - vocal) - "Josephine"
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Paradiddle"
Betty Boop, Bimbo, and Friends - "Wanna Be A Member?"
Helen Kane - "That's My Weakness Now"
Butterbeans & Susie - "Cold Storage Papa (Mama's a Little Too Warm For You)"
The Ponce Sisters - "So At Last It's Come to This"
Count of Monte Cristo - "Fan Me Saga Boy"
Louis Jordan - "You're My Meat"
Sophie Tucker - "I Ain't Takin' Orders From No One" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25041 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25041 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:54:43 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Mean and stingy are his GOOD qualities from Oct 16, 2007 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/24702 Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends - "Ugly Papa"
Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell - "Barrelhouse Woman No. 2"
Milt Herth Trio - "The Dipsy Doodle"
Wilmoth Houdini - "I Need a Man"
Blind Blake - "Good-Bye Mama Moan"
The Ponce Sisters - "Fit As a Fiddle"
Roy Smeck - "12th Street Rag"
Butterbeans and Susie - "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stuff"
Sophie Tucker - "Ain't Women Wonderful?"
Nat King Cole Trio - "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?"
Black Bottom McPhail with Scrapper Blackwell - "Whiskey Man Blues"
Fanny Watson - "You Can't Get Lovin'"
Blind Blake - "Sweet Papa Low Down"
Duncan Sisters - "Black and Blue Blues" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/24702 ]]> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/24702 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:16:52 -0400 Courtney T. Edison and WFMU