Thursday, June 28, 2012

"Bells and Whistles" June 29, 2012

(Week 318)

This RADIOLA! has almost everything.

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Frank Bessinger - Radio Lady O' Mine (1924) - Perfect 12164 B
Hal Kemp and his Orch - Whistles (1931) - The Hot Sides 1926-1931 (Retrieval RTR 79025)
Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779-D
Paul Whiteman and his Orch - Bell Hoppin' Blues (1926) - Victor 20092 A
The Ambassadors (Katzman) (Irving Kaufman v) - Tenderly (1926) - Vocalion A 15371
Sam Lanin and his Orch (Scrappy Lambert v) - Bless Her Little Heart (1927) - Perfect 14841
Gene Austin - Melancholy Baby (1927) - Victor 21015 B
Art Gillham - Angry (1925) - Columbia 411 D
Ernest Hare and Billy Jones - I Never See Maggie Alone (1927) - Regal 8250 B
Canadian Club Orch (Specht) (Johnny Morris v) - Keep Your Skirts Down, Mary Ann (1925) - Perfect 14548 B
Joe Candullo and his Everglades Orch (John Ryan v) - All Alone Monday (1926) - Perfect 14720
Barth's Mississippians (IK v) - That's Living (1929) - Velvet Tone 1908 V
The Melody Man (Joe Davis) - Now I Won't Be Blue (1928) - Harmony 597 H
Miss Lee Morse and her Blue Grass Boys - Yes, Sir, That's My Baby (1925) - Perfect 11580
Ernie Golden and his Orch (Arthur Fields v) - Neapolitan Nights (1928) - Diva 2737 G
Vince Giordano's Nighthawks - Hurricane (1992) - Quality Shout! (Stomp Off CD1260)
Dan Levinson and his Swing Wing (Molly Ryan v) - The Milkman's Matinee (2008) - At The Codfish Ball
Frank Banta and Harry Akst - Ding Toes (1920) - Columbia A 2953
Golden Gate Orch (Arthur Hall v) - Down By the Winegar Woiks (1926) - Perfect 14548
Carl Fenton's Orch - Lady, Be Good (1924) - Brunswick 2790 A
Nathan Glantz and his Orch (Leroy Montesano v) - Life Means Nothing To Me (1928) - Banner 7186 B
Franklin Ferris (Emil Velazco organ) (Paul Small v) - Congratulations (1930) - Velvet Tone 2108 V
The Rounders (Reser) (Scrappy Lambert v) - That's You, Baby (1929) - Regal 8795 B
Fain and Dunn - And Then You Came Along (1928) - Perfect 12423
Rudy Vallee and his CT Yankees - I'll Be Reminded of You (1929) - Victor 22193 B
Charles W. Hamp - Heigh Ho! Ev'rybody, Heigh-Ho! (1929) - Columbia 1792 D
Abe Lyman and his California Orch (Ella Logan v) - Doin' the Uptown Lowdown (1933) -  Columbia Special Products P 14846
Mildred Bailey and her Swing Band - Someday Sweetheart (1935) - Teddy Wilson Statements and Improvisations (Smithsonian R005)
A Jam Session at Victor - Honeysuckle Rose (1937) - Swing Vol 1 (Victor LPV-578)
Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm (Hal Derwin v) - A Vous Tout De Vey, A Vous (1940) - Bluebird B 10688 B
Una Mae Carlisle - You Mean So Much To Me (1941) - Bluebird A 11159 B
Joe Wilbur (acc. by California Ramblers) - Auf Wiederseh'n (1928) - Perfect 12420 B

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Kickstarter Project: Molly Ryan's New Album!


A worthy project I heartily endorse: Molly Ryan's New Swing Album. Molly Ryan is on a par with any pop vocalist of the past century. A $20 contribution gets you an autographed CD. How can you lose? Just kick in. I already did!

"Silly Season" June 22, 2012

 (Week 317)

This RADIOLA! is lolling in much-needed levity.

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Julius Tannen - The Human Chatterbox Plays Golf (1927) - Victor 21115 A
Freddie “Schnickelfritz” Fisher and his Orch - Wilberforce, Get Off That Horse! (1943) - Decca 4424 A
Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779-D
Paul Whiteman and his Orch - St Louis Blues (1926) - Victor 20092 B
Frivolity Club Orch (Jack Denny) - I Never Knew What the Moonlight Could Do (1926) - Vocalion A 15489
George Olsen and his Music - Somebody Else (1927) - Victor 20472 A
Harry Weil - There's a New Star in Heaven Tonight, Rudolph Valentino (1926) - Cameo 992
Gene Austin (Abel Baer p) - I've Got the Girl (1926) - Victor 20397 A
Jim Miller Charlie Farrell - Let's Give Three Cheers (1928) - Victor 21357 B
Hackel-Berge Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - Yoo-Hoo (1921) - Victor 18802 B
Vincent Lopez and his Hotel Pennsylvania Orch - I Love You (1923) - Okeh 4959 B
Sam Lanin and his Orch (Charles Kaley v) - Half a Moon (1926) - Perfect 14703
Robert Judson (Ernest Hare) - Down by the River (1923) - Perfect 12049 B
Arthur Fields - My Dream of the Big Parade (1926) - Perfect 12265
Earl Oliver's Jazz Babies (Reser) (Tom Stacks v) - Cows (1926) - Edison 51877 L
Dan Levinson's Palomar Quartet - Otolaryngology (Dan Levinson) (2008) - Four on the Floor
Molly Ryan - These Foolish Things (2007) - Songbird in the Moonlight
Billy Williams - It's Mine When You've Done With It (1913) - Columbia A 1761
Emil Coleman and his Club Trocadero Orch - Only You (From “I'll Say She Is”) (1924) - Vocalion A 14833
Ben Selvin and his Orch - Red Hot Mamma (1924) - Vocalion B 14853
Wabash Dance Orch (Eddy Thomas v) - She's A Great, Great Girl (1928) - Jazz Oracle BDW 8062
George Olsen and his Music (Fran Frey v) - Big City Blues (1929) - Victor 21961 B
New Mayfair Dance Orch (Carroll Gibbons) - That Monte Carlo Song (1929) - HMV B 5676
Fleming and Townsend - Just One Little Kiss (1930) - Victor V 40297 B
National Cavaliers - Lonesome That's All (1930) - Victor 22347 A
Anona Winn and Bob Mackworth - You're My Everything (1932) - Regal MR 728 (UK)
Jack Hulbert - You're Sweeter Than I Thought You Were (1936) - HMV B D 334
Bing Crosby - Remember Me (1937) - Decca 1451 A
Music In The Russ Morgan Manner - Will You Remember Tonight, Tomorrow (1938) - Brunswick 8119
Adrian Schubert and his Orch (Charlie Lawman v) - Starlight (1932) - Crown 3257 A
Casa Loma Orch - Four Indian Love Lyrics (1932) - Brunswick 20108
Ben Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orch - I'll See You In My Dreams (1924) - Vocalion A 14957

Thursday, June 14, 2012

"We Never Sleep" June 15, 2012

(Week 316)

This RADIOLA! is unnaturally wakeful.

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Beatrice Lillie (Sam Walsh p) - I'm a Campfire Girl (1934) - Gramophone Shop Varieties 1003
Charlie Barnet and his Orch (Judy Ellington v) - The All Night Record Man (1939) - Bluebird B 10373 B
Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779-D
The Ambassadors (Katzman) (Irving Kaufman v) - That's Annabelle (1926) - Vocalion A 15411
Marsh McCurdy - Did You Mean It? (1927) - Columbia 1305 D
Harry Lewis and his Orch (Lou Gold) (Jimmy Kern v) - One Sweet Letter From You (1927) - Lincoln 2642
Gene Austin - There's a Cradle in Carolina (1927) - Victor 21015 A
Joe Wilbur - Four Walls (1927) - Perfect 12410 B
Fleming and Townsend - She's Just That Kind (1930) - Victor V 40297 A
Bennie Krueger's Orch - 31st Street Blues (1924) - Brunswick 2571 B
Ben Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orch - Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me? (1925) - Vocalion B 14957
Ben Selvin and his Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - Sonya (1925) - Vocalion A 15081
Billy Williams - Wait Till I'm As Old As Father (1913) - Columbia A 1761
Hare and Jones - Too Tired (1924) - Cameo 623
University Dance Orch (Arthur Hall v) - Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya Huh (1926) - Grey Gull 1353 A
Dan Levinson's Palomar Quartet (Molly Ryan v) - My Ideal (2008) - Four on the Floor
Dan Levinson and his Swing Wing (Molly Ryan v) - Ten Cents a Dance (2008) - At The Codfish Ball
Vess L. Ossman - Old Folks at Home (1909) - Victor 17417 A
Frank Banta and Harry Akst - Typhoon (1920) - Columbia A 2953
Carl Fenton's Orch - Fascinating Rhythm (1924) - Brunswick 2790 B
Lou Gold and his Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - Weary River (1929) - Regal 8720 A
Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees - A Little Kiss Each Morning (1929) - Victor 22193 A
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long (1932) - Parlophone R 1207
Derickson and Brown - Paradise (1932) - HMV B 4204
Kitty Masters and Val Rosing - June in January (1935) - Regal Zonophone MR 1601
Beatrice Lillie (Sam Walsh p) - He Was a Gentleman (1934) - Gramophone Shop Varieties 1003
Rex Allan (Neo Bechstein p) - Look What You've Done (1933) - HMV B 4432
Adrian Schubert and his Orch (Charlie Lawman v) - Oh! What a Thrill (1932) - Crown 3257 B
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians - Pink Elephants (1932) - Brunswick 6399
Tommy Dorsey and his Orch - Tin Roof Blues (1938) - HMV B 8854
Fats Waller, his Rhythm and Orch - The Sheik of Araby (1938) - Victor 25847 B
Ray Noble and his New Mayfair Dance Orch (Al Bowlly v) - I'll Do My Best To Make You Happy (1932) - Victor 24333 B

Thursday, June 07, 2012

"Sunlight and Shadow" June 8, 2012

(Week 315)

This RADIOLA asserts that those of us who are still here might as well play records.

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Joe Wilbur - Sunshine (1928) - Perfect 12420
Milt Herth Trio - The Whistler and his Dog (1939) - Decca 25067 A
Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779-D
Sam Lanin's Dance Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - Old Man Sunshine (1928) - Banner 7186 A
Jelly Roll Morton - Fat Meat and Greens (1926) - Ferd 'Jelly Roll' Morton (Retrieval RTR79002)
Jack Hylton and his Orch - Anybody But You (1927) - HMV B 5358
Brocco Brothers - My Ohio Home (1928) - Cameo 8166
Johnny Marvin - 'Deed I Do (1926) - Victor 20397 B
Jim Miller Charlie Farrell - Hello Bluebird (1926) - Victor 20291 A
Oriole Orch - There's Yes! Yes! in Your Eyes (1924) - Brunswick 2587 A
Coon-Sanders Original Night-Hawk Orch - Moonlight and You (1924) - Victor 19525 A
Fletcher Henderson and his Orch (Donald Redman v) - Then I'll Be Happy (1925) - Banner 1654 A
Blanche Ring - Yip! I Adee! I Aye (1909) - Victor 5692
Campbell and Burr - Hindustan (1918) - Columbia A2661
Frank Richardson - I've Got a Song For Sale (1923) - Cameo 431
Baby Soda Jazz Band - Weary Blues (2010) - Kellish Hill Farm June 2, 2010
Baby Soda Jazz Band - The Sheik of Araby (2012) - Kellish Hill Farm June 1, 2012
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet - Golden Slippers (1909) - Victor 16453 B
George Watts - I Want a Big Red Apple on a Stick (1923) - Cameo 431
Joe Candullo and his Everglades Orch (Arthur Fields v) - I Wish You Were Jealous of Me (1926) - Pathe Actuelle 36461 B
Van and his Hotel Half Moon Orch (Scrappy Lambert v) - Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (1927) - Perfect 14985 B
The Rounders (Reser) (Smith Ballew v) - Rainbow Man (1929) - Regal 8801 A
Wabash Dance Orch (D Robertson E Smalle v) - That's My Weakness Now (1928) - Jazz Oracle BDW 8062
Patricia Rossborough - Selections from The Crooner (1933) - Parlophone R 1437
Jack Buchanan - One Good Tune Deserves Another (1934) - Columbia DB1483
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - That's My Home (1932) - HMV B 6315
Gene Kardos and his Orch (Dick Robertson v) - Alexander's Ragtime Band (1932) - Victor 22920 A
George Hall and his Hotel Taft Orch (Johnny McKeever v) - The Night is Young and You're So Beautiful (1936) - Bluebird B 6702 A
Ray Nichols and his Four Towers Orch (Al Graff v) - What a Little Moonlight Can Do (1935) - Bluebird B 6011 A
Xavier Cugat and his Waldorf Astoria Orch (Carmen Castillo v) - Clavel Del Aire (1937) - Victor 25661 B
Milt Herth Trio - Honky Tonk Train Blues (1940) - Decca 25064 B
Harold Yates Cooper Lawley - In the Evening (1928) - Victor 21273 B