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This was an email I just received, and the message is clear that the whole a-infos archive at http://www.radio4all.net/ is about to disappear owing to a loss of server space. RADIOLA! is only one of many worthy programs archived on the site. If this is a service you use, please consider helping whatever way you can.

Dear radio4all producer,

This is a nasty and sad email to send out, but I have no choice. Lyn and Shawn, the other founders of radio4all have no time to continue with the project, we're being booted from our free rack space and power arrangement, and I'm out of cash. I am sending this note to the 250 most recent uploaders (that's pretty much everyone who has contributed a program in the last year). If you want the service to continue, we need some organization, some fundraising, and an expert php/SQL programmer to take over from the excellent foundation that Shawn built -- the servers run without problems for months at a time. I am happy to continue maintaining the hardware and doing the network stuff but I can't do it all. I am hoping that among you all there is a group of people who can form a new radio4all organization, if it is of value to you.

Radio4all at the moment is throttled at 10 megabits per second in order to keep our bandwidth costs to the level that's matched by monthly contributions. If opened wide, even now it immediately consumes about 5 times that. The hardware and software are quite capable of this rate. The real cost of doing this in a data center here is in the range of $1,200 a month, and we need to rebuild the server boxes which have done more than anyone should expect over the past many years.

Here is a summary I sent to the Prometheus radio mailing list a little while ago:

Hello Prometheus friends,

This is a question of interest and an appeal for help. More than 17 years ago, Lyn Gerry and Shawn Ewald from KPFK had the idea for radio4all (www.radio4all.net) to distribute radio programs from independent producers. They had no way to make it happen from a hosting and server hardware point of view, and I volunteered to do it. We met for an afternoon in Berkeley and figured out how to make it happen. It started with a couple of boxes on a shelf in my workshop in San Jose, now it's serious servers on serious bandwidth at a data center in Santa Clara. I have built the servers from surplus parts and gotten sweetheart deals for bandwidth when I could, and the service is running today with about a hundred programs being uploaded every week and thousands of downloads worldwide. There is about 2 TB of program material in the archive.

Lyn quit the effort several years ago, her organizing job was finished and the vision she had of a free, unregulated mechanism for uploading and downloading radio programs remains today. Shawn did a super job writing the software that runs the site, and migrating it from ColdFusion to a more generic open source implementation. Now he's swamped with his work in New York and has no time to maintain the software. Then there is the little problem of money. No one wants to pay for the service; I have contributed about $3,500 of my own money keeping it running, paying for bandwidth and server parts, and wheedling rack space and power at a colocation facility in Santa Clara. There is a trickle of contributions coming in so that amount is not growing, but it will all end soon.

Our deal for rack space and power has ended, I have two weeks to get the servers out of the rack. The archive server is down, the main server is running on one disk drive, the other drive in the array has failed. This has cost $150 a month, to replace it will be about $350, and the lower-tier discount data center plans I'm being offered will not be as reliable. To replace what we have with equivalent quality will cost around $1,200 a month, and that does not include the cost of the hardware maintenance that is badly overdue. We have had essentially zero downtime in four or five years.

Shawn's suggestion at this point is to migrate the archived programs to archive.org and shut off the radio4all service. There are probably plenty of other ways that people can use now (that weren't available 17 years ago) to get their programs out for stations to broadcast. Absent a different solution that's what will happen.

I'm happy to continue keeping the hardware and network running if there is still a need, but I can't do it all. I'm not a fundraiser and I'm not a programmer. Anyone in New York who can talk to Lyn (upstate) or Shawn (Manhattan) to see what they would like to see happen, should do that. They haven't talked to each other in years.

Please forward this mail to whoever you think would be interested in forming a new posse to keep this running. Any questions please write to me at dljradio@josephson.com

Cheers

David Josephson

"All Over the Map" February 28, 2014

(Week 382)

This RADIOLA! is drifting over its own boundaries.

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Victor Light Opera Co - Gems from “Floradora” (Stuart) (1914) - Victor 35451 A

Claude Hopkins and his Orch (Orlando Roberson v) - Do You Ever Think of Me (1934) - Decca 353 B

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders (Franklyn Baur v) - I Haven't Told Her She Hasn't Told Me (1927) - Victor 20823 B

Synco Jazzers - Two Red Lips (1929) - Madison 5063 B

The Charleston Chasers - My Melancholy Baby (1927) - Timeless CBC 1-040

Lotte Lenya w/The Three Admirals - Alabama Song (Weill-Brecht) (1930) - Mack The Knife (Naxos 8.120831)

Utica Institute Jubilee Singers - Chicken (1929) - Victor 21925 A

Jabbo Smith and his Rhythm Aces - Sweet 'N' Low Blues (1929) - Retrieval RTR 79013

Prince's Band (G. Hepburn Wilson dir) - Tackin' 'Em Down (Intro: 1.Wondrous Eyes of Araby 2.When We Meet in the Sweet Bye and Bye) (1918) - Columbia A6058

Paul Whiteman and his Ambassador Orch - Best Ever Medley (“Dance of the Hours” and “Love in Idleness”) (1920) - Victor 35701 B

Nora Bayes - Jack Norworth - Turn Off Your Light, Mr. Moon Man (1911) - Victor 70038

Henry Burr - You Know You Belong to Somebody Else (1923) - Victor 19026 A

Tampa Blue Jazz Band (Samuels) (Billy Jones v) - Uncle Bud (1921) - Okeh 4522 B

The Fat Babies - Stardust (2013) - 18th and Racine (Delmark DE 255)

Ragtime Jazz Band - Ragtime'owy Chlopiec - The Ragtime Boy (Dymitr Markiewicz) (1966) - Ragtime Jazz Band (PNCD 1007)

Bibor Olga Ciganyzenekara - Betyar Gyerek Talpig Vasban - Columbia E4231 (Jack Theakston collection)

Royale Trio (Glantz) - Little Girl (1921) - Actuelle 020737 B

Yerkes' S. S. Flotilla Orch - HMS Pinafore (1922) - Vocalion B 14415

Al Winters and his Orch (Jerry Baker v) - Wait'll I Get You in My Dreams (1932) - Crown 3437 B

Harold Stern and the Biltmore Orch (Bill Smith v) - I Wake Up Smiling (1933) - Bluebird B 5019 A

Richard Himber and His Orchestra (Joey Nash v) - It's Psychological (1934) - Complete Vol.2 (Renovation 7007)

Little Jack Little - Hold Me (1933) - Bluebird B 5014 B

Cleo Brown - When (1935) - Decca 632 A

Red McKenzie and his Rhythm Kings - When Love Has Gone (1936) - Decca 734 A

Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orch (Bob Goday v) - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (1936) - Bluebird B 6641 B

Mal Hallett and his Orch (Buddy Welcome v) - Big Boy Blue (1937) - Decca 1163 A

Johnny Claes and his Claepigeons (Benny Lee v) (Gerry Wilmot ann) - Stompin' at the Savoy (1941) - Columbia FB 2688

Bertholt Brecht (w Theo Mackeben's Jazz Band) - Die Ballade von der Unzulanglichkeit (Weill-Brecht) (1929) - Mack The Knife (Naxos 8.120831)

Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians - Chloe (Song of the Swamp) (1944) - Decca 29220 A

Snooks and his Paramount Hotel Orch (Walter Ashby v) - Goodnight, Sweetheart (1931) - Melotone 12245

WRONG AGAIN!

Just over three years ago I went way out on a limb with a theory about the identity of Tempo King. I extrapolated that he was actually a vocalist by the name of John Arcesi (1917-1983), who at that time (1936) had recorded with Louis "King" Garcia. My basis came from the Tempo King and Louis Garcia groups having Joe Marsala in common. Joe Marsala lived in the same apartment building as Joe Venuti, who employed Arcesi (then working under the name Don Darcy) as his band vocalist. Venuti was also known to enjoy a good practical joke.

However, here (from vintage sheet music) is a photograph of Tempo King (many thanks to Randy Skretvedt):

And here is a publicity still of Don Darcy (John Arcesi) borrowed gratefully from eBay:

They are obviously not the same person. In further scouring my available reference sources, I find a date of death cited for Tempo King of June 25, 1939. I find no further reference to that other than the entry in Roger Kinkle's The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz 1900-1950.

King's putative birth year was 1915, and I saw another reference to "intestinal complications" as the cause of death. None of the above stated may be quite accurate, of course. I sincerely apologize to all those who followed me down this bumpy dead-end lane of speculation, but at least we had some good tunes along the way.

So, now what?

"Better Than Expected" February 7, 2014

(Week 381)

This RADIOLA! is a distinct improvement over itself.

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David Bispham - Pirate Song (1906) - Marconi 30026

Raymond Scott Quintet - The Girl With the Light Blue Hair (1939) - Columbia 35247

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Ace Brigode and his Fourteen Virginians - Alone At Last (1925) - Columbia 426 D

The Caroliners (Bob Haring) (Scrappy Lambert v) - Why? (1928) - Cameo 8316

Colonial Club Orch (Haring) - March of the Old Guard (1930) - Brunswick 4690

Frank Munn - Let Me Spend the Jouney's End With You (1926) - Brunswick 3250 B

The Tune Peddlers - Blue Shadows (1928) - Vocalion 15745

Willard Robison and his Piano - Clap Yo' Hands (1926) - Perfect 12311

Utica Institute Jubilee Singers - Peter on the Sea (1929) - Victor 21925 B

Yerkes Jazarimba Orch - My Mammy (Intro Um-Pah-Pah) (1921) - Columbia A 3372

Original Memphis Five - Lonesome Mama Blues (1922) - Paramount 20131 A

The Columbians - Limehouse Blues (1924) - Columbia 88 D

Irene Young and Al Weston - Those Country Days Surely Were It (1916) - Columbia A 1995

Isabella Patricola - Lovin' Sam (The Sheik of Alabam') (1922) - Victor 18976 A

Sam Lanin and his Orch (Arthur Hall v) - I'm Sitting On Top Of The World (1925) - Perfect 14523

Eddie South - Blues in the Night (1944) - The Dark Angel of the Fiddle (Soundies SCD 4120)

Banu Gibson - Why Do I Lie To Myself About You? (1990) - You Don't Know My Mind

Elsie Carlisle - 'Leven Pounds of Heaven (1932) - Decca F 3038 A

Walter O'Keefe - The Man on the Flying Trapeze Pt 1 (1932) - Victor 24172 A

Walter O'Keefe - The Man on the Flying Trapeze Pt 2 (1932) - Victor 24172 B

Ambrose and his Orch (Sam Browne v) - Me (1931) - HMV B 6068 B

Clyde McCoy and his Orch - Sugar Blues (1931) - Columbia 2389 D

Rudy Vallee and his CT Yankees - Nagasaki (1933) - Bluebird B 7358 B

Ray Noble and his Orch (Al Bowlly v) - What More Can I Ask? (1932) - Victor 24314 A

Al Winters and his Orch (Gus Fetterer v) - Moon Song (1932) - Crown 3437 A

Benny Goodman and his Orch (Jack Teagarden v) - As Long As I Live (1934) - Parlophone R2695

Ray Nichols and his Four Towers Orch (Billie Hibberd v) - And Then Some (1935) - Bluebird B 6012 A

Henry King and his Orch (Joseph Sudy v) - Love is Never Out of Season (1937) - Decca 1333 B

Matty Malneck and his Orch - Hearts and Flowers (1938) - Decca 2060 B

Leslie Hutchinson - Watching the Stars (1936) - Parlophone F 752

Joe Marsala and his Orch - Lower Register (1941) - Decca 3764 B

Lotte Lenya - Lost in the Stars (1943) - Mack The Knife (Naxos 8.120831)

"Calling In Well" January 31, 2014

(Week 380)

This RADIOLA! is just fine, thank you.

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Frank Crumit (Frank Banta p) - Knock at the Door (1924) - Victor 19437 B

Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees - Savage Serenade (1933) - Bluebird B 7358 A

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Don Voorhees and his Orch (Lewis James v) - My Blue Heaven (1927) - Columbia 1129 D

Broadway Broadcasters (Lanin) - When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along (1926) - Cameo 954

Harry Reser's Syncopators (Tom Stacks v) - What A Night For Spooning (1928) - orig Columbia 1524 D

Don Roberts - The Whole World Knows I Love You (1928) - Columbia 1602 D

Jimmie Rodgers - Those Gambler's Blues (1930) - orig Victor 22554

The Charleston Chasers (Eva Taylor v) - What Wouldn't I Do For That Man! (1929) - Timeless CBC 1-040

Ray Miller and his Black and White Melody Boys - Weep No More (My Mammy) (1921) - Columbia A 3519

Paul Ash and his Granada Orch - Meditation from Thais (Massenet) (1924) - Brunswick 2783 A

George Olsen and his Music - My Best Girl (1924) - Victor 19518 A

Marion Harris - Who'll Take My Place? (1922) - Columbia A 3630

Frank Crumit - Say It With a Ukulele (1923) - Columbia 26 D

Jack Chapman and his Hotel Drake Orch (Raymond Davis v) - Let Me Be the First to Kiss You Good Morning (1924) - Victor 19519 B

Maurice Peress Orch - Mama Loves Papa (1987) - The Birth of Rhapsody in Blue (MHS 287531Y)

Maurice Peress Orch - Yes! We Have No Bananas/So This is Venice (1987) - The Birth of Rhapsody in Blue (MHS 827531Y)

Victor Arden and Phil Ohman - Dance of the Demon (Holst) (1922) - Victor 19041 B

Original Memphis Five - Those Longing For You Blues (1922) - Paramount 20131 B

Broadway Bell-Hops (Irving Kaufman v) - It All Depends On You (1927) - Harmony 355 H

Bernie Cummins and his New Yorker Hotel Orch (Walter Cummins v) - F'r Instance (1930) - Victor 22494 B

Snooks and his Paramount Hotel Orch (Walter Ashby v) - Guilty (1931) - Melotone 12245

Jack Denny and his Orch - Oh! What a Thrill to Hear It From You (1932) - Victor 22907 B

Adrian Schubert and his Orch (Marty Golden v) - One Hour With You (1932) - Crown 3282 A

Chick Bullock - Stormy Weather (1933) - Melotone M 12680

Eddy Duchin and his Orch (Lew Sherwood v) - Riptide (1934) - Victor 24613 A

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals - Limehouse Blues (1936) - Decca 1090 A

Bob Skyles and his Skyrockets - Blue Accordion Blues (1938) - Bluebird B 7218 A

Matty Malneck and his Orch - Sing You Sinners (1938) - Decca 2060 A

John Kirby and his Orch - Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes (1939) - Vocalion 4890

Bunny Berigan and his Orch (Ford Leary v) - The First Time I Saw You (1937) - Victor 25593 A

Dorsey Bros Orch (Bob Crosby v) - Lullaby of Broadway (1935) - Decca 370 A

90th Anniversary Celebration of "Rhapsody in Blue" in NYC

Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks with Conductor Maurice Peress present the 90th Anniversary Celebration of Rhapsody in Blue, 8 PM Wednesday, February 12th at The Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street, NYC

Paul Whiteman’s historic Aeolian Hall Concert will be recreated on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at The Town Hall, NYC, on the same day and same block as the original concert 90 years ago.

Program features solo pianists Ted Rosenthal, Jeb Patton, and the 22-piece Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks Orchestra, conducted by Maurice Peress; Jazz Age concert will feature music of George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern and Zez Confrey.

"Some Call It Indolence" January 24, 2014

(Week 379)

This RADIOLA! overcomes its own formidable inertia to launch into low orbit.

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Billy Watkins - Who Paid the Rent for Mrs Rip Van Winkle? (1914) - Columbia A 1532

Benny Goodman and his Orch (Jack Teagarden v) - I Ain't Lazy I'm Just Dreamin' (1934) - Parlophone R2695

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

The Plantation Orch - Silver Rose (1926) - Columbia 4185 (UK)

Dixie Daisies (Bob Haring) (Tom Stacks v) - Imagination (1928) - Cameo 8316

Boyd Senter and his Senterpedes - Beale Street Blues (1929) - Bluebird B 6050 B

Art Gillham and his Southland Syncopators - I Crave You (1927) - Columbia 1007 D

The Tune Peddlers - Darling (1928) - Vocalion 15745

Tom Cline and his Music Featuring Jack Carney - Ev'ry Day Away From You (1929) - Brunswick 4497

Ray Miller and his Black and White Melody Boys - The Sheik (1921) - Columbia A 3519

George Olsen and his Music - Put Away a Little Ray of Golden Sunshine For a Rainy Day (1924) - Victor 19518 B

Paul Ash and his Granada Orch - Caprice Viennois (Kreisler) (1924) - Brunswick 2783 B

Billy Jones and Ernest Hare - Ko-Ko-Mo (1923) - Columbia 26 D

Marion Harris - Fickle Flo (From Kokomo) (1922) - Columbia A 3630

Frank Crumit (Phil Ohman p) - How Come You Do Me, Like You Do? (1924) - Victor 19437 A

Molly Ryan - I Was Lucky (2007) - Songbird In The Moonlight

Polish-Swedish Connection (Dymitr Markiewitz, leader) (Pawel Tartanus, v) - Angry (2008) - Recorded Ilawa, Poland

Victor Arden Phil Ohman - Salut a Pesth (Kowalski) (1922) - Victor 19041 A

Irene Young and Al Weston - Laugh and You'll Never Feel Blue (1916) - Columbia A 1995

The Happy Six - Do You Ever Think of Me (Intro Coral Sea) (1921) - Columbia A 3372

Colonial Club Orch (Haring) (Scrappy Lambert v) - Charming (1930) - Brunswick 4690

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians - Be Careful With Those Eyes (1930) - Columbia 2205 D

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Body and Soul (1930) - Parlophone R 1355

Elsie Carlisle - Making Conversation (1933) - Decca F 3737 B

Chick Bullock - Have You Ever Been Lonely? (1933) - Melotone M 12680

Mills Brothers - Loveless Love (1932) - Melotone M 13180 B

Harold White and his Orch (ARC band) (Will Osborne v) - Strange Interlude (1932) - Perfect 15665 B

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals - Moonglow (1934) - Decca 174 B

Dolly Dawn and her Dawn Patrol - Robins and Roses (1936) - Bluebird B 6381 A

Ambrose and his Orch (Bert Barnes p) - Rhapsody in Blue (1935) - Decca F 5454

Bob Crosby and his Orch (Frank Tennille v) - East of the Sun (1935) - Decca 502 A

"New Year's Dance Party 2014" December 30, 2013

(Week 378)

This RADIOLA! happily bids "Good Riddance" to the old year and heartily welcomes the new one.

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Gertrude Niesen - Jamboree (1937) - Brunswick 02429 B

Mal Hallett and his Orch (Frankie Carle p) - Ridin' High (1937) - Decca 1163 B

Raymond Scott Quintet - New Year's Eve in a Haunted House (1939) - Columbia 35247

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Horace Heidt and his Californians - Turn On the Heat (1929) - Victor 22195 A

The Plantation Orch - Smiling Joe (1926) - Columbia 4185 (UK)

Boyd Senter and his Senterpedes - Copenhagen (1929) - Bluebird B 6050 A

Tom Cline and his Music Featuring Jack Carney - I'm Disappointed in You (1929) - Brunswick 4497

The Revelers - Blue Again (1931) - Victor 22622 B

Harold White and his Orch (ARC band) (Will Osborne v) - I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan (1932) - Perfect 15665 A

Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orch - Fantasy on St Louis Blues (arr by W. G. Still) (1927) - Columbia 1078 D

Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orch (Johnny Marvin v) - Georgia Pines (1929) - Victor 22195 B

Bob Crosby and his Orch - I'm In the Mood For Love (1935) - Decca 508 A

Isham Jones' Orch (Ed Stone v) - You're OK (1934) - Decca 220 A

Horace Henderson and his Orch (Henry Allen v) - Ol' Man River (1933) - Parlophone R 1766

Jack Hylton and his Orch - Talkie Hits Medley Pt 1 (Happy Days Are Here Again/ My Baby Just Cares For Me/ Let's Go Native/ Happy Feet) (1930) - HMV B 5926

Jack Hylton and his Orch - Talkie Hits Medley Pt 2 (I'm In the Market For You/You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me/It Happened in Monterey/ I'm a Dreamer Aren't We All?) (1930) - HMV B 5926

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals - Daybreak Express (1934) - Decca 174 A

Garland Wilson - Mood Indigo (1933) - Brunswick 01692 A (UK)

Earl Hines and his Orch - Fat Babes (Jimmy Mundy) (1934) - Decca 218 A

Little Jack Little - The Grass is Getting Greener All the Time (1933) - Bluebird B 5014 A

Elsie Carlisle - Come Up and See Me Sometime (1933) - Decca F 3737 A

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians - Pu-leeze! Mister Hemingway! (1932) - Brunswick 6390

Clyde McCoy and his Orch - Readin', Ritin', Rhythm (1931) - Columbia 2389 D

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - You Can Depend On Me (1931) - Parlophone R 1355

Ray Noble and his Orch (Al Bowlly v) - Living in Clover (1932) - Victor 24064 B

The Revelers - Lady, Play Your Mandolin (1931) - Victor 22622 A

Cleo Brown - When Hollywood Goes Black and Tan (1935) - Decca 632 B

Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orch (Bob Goday v) - She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific (1937) - Bluebird B 7180 B

Joe Reichman and his Orch (Paul Small v) - The Object of My Affection (1934) - Banner 33270 B

Rhythm Kings Orch (Ken McComber) - Love Is Just Around the Corner (1934) - Bluebird B 5767 A

Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orch - Suite of Serenades Pt 1 (Spanish, Chinese) (Victor Herbert) (1928) - Victor 35926 A 

Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orch - Suite of Serenades Pt 2 (Cuban, Oriental) (Victor Herbert) (1928) -

Victor 35926 B

Mills Brothers - I Heard (1932) - Melotone M 13180 A

Allan Small and his Orch - Pink Elephants (1932) - Crown 3378 A

Ray Noble and his Orch (Al Bowlly v) - Brighter Than the Sun (1932) - Victor 24314 B

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (CL v) - Don't Blame Me (1933) - Melotone M 13124 B

Harold Stern and the Biltmore Orch (Bill Smith v) - Remember Me (1933) - Bluebird B 5019 B

Harry Woods and his NJ Orch (Joe Haymes) (Audrey Blaine v) - I Wish I Were Twins (1934) - Decca F 5159 A

Bob Crosby and his Orch - Two Together (1935) - Decca 508 B

Isham Jones and his Orch - Rock Your Blues Away (1934) - Decca 662 B

Earl Hines and his Orch - Maple Leaf Rag (1934) - Decca 218 B

Eddy Duchin and his Orch (Lew Sherwood v) - I've Had My Moments (1934) - Victor 24613 B

Dolly Dawn and her Dawn Patrol - The Mood That I'm In (1937) - Bluebird B 6861 B

Henry King and his Orch (Joseph Sudy v) - Our Penthouse on Third Avenue (1937) - Decca 1333 A

Bob Skyles and his Skyrockets - She's Stopped Giving Everything Away (1938) - Bluebird B 7218 B

John Ryan with Orch - My Love's a Country Gal (1940) - Varsity 8198

Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orch - Three Shades of Blue Pt 1 (Indigo) (Ferde Grofe) (1928) - Victor 35952 A

Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orch - Three Shades of Blue Pt 2 (Alice Blue, Heliotrope) (Ferde Grofe) (1928) - Victor 35952 B

Roy Fox and his Orch (Barry Gray v) - Harbor Lights (1937) - Victor 25593 B

Gertrude Niesen - Where Are You? (1937) - Brunswick 02429 A

Bee Sharp and Orch (Dick Robertson v) - Not For All the Rice in China (1933) - Bluebird B 5219 B

Jack Denny and his Orch - Just Friends (1932) - Victor 22907 A

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orch (Kenneth Sargent v) - How Can You Face Me? (1934) - Brunswick 6983

Coleman Hawkins and his Orch - Heart-break Blues (1933) - Parlophone R 1766

Joe Marsala and his Orch - I Know That You Know (1941) - Decca 3764 A

John Kirby and his Orch - Anitra's Dance (Grieg) (1939) - Vocalion 4890

Milt Herth Trio (O'Neil Spencer v) - Lambeth Walk (1938) - Decca 2046 A

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals - Caprice Viennois (Fritz Kreisler) (intro The Blue Danube) (1936) - Decca 1090 B

Ray Noble and his Orch (Al Bowlly v) - Goodnight, Vienna (1932) - Victor 24064 A

Richard Tauber (Idris Lewis orch) - Vienna, City of My Dreams (1935) - Parlophone RO 20286

Ambrose and his Orch (Sam Browne v) - For You (1931) - HMV B 6068 A

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (CL v) - Singing a Song to the Stars (1930) - Columbia 2205 D

Bert Lown and his Hotel Biltmore Orch (Elmer Feldkamp v) - The Hour of Parting (1931) - Victor 22738 A

Prohibition Hijinks and NPR's Memory Hole

When I came downstairs today my wife had on the Diane Rehm Show which incredibly featured a rebroadcast of the program with Bill Bryson from Sepember 30, 2013 talking about his book One Summer: America. 1927. It was near the end of the show and I said, "Listen--you've got to hear this. This is where he talks about the government poisoning people during Prohibition." What I discovered was that they had re-edited the show to remove the last part of the interview (including the mention of Wayne B. Wheeler and the poisoning of the alcohol supply) entirely.

The original show archive seems to not have been edited (yet) and is available for download at this link. Here is the end portion of the transcript of the original:

REHM 11:54:35

Indeed. I've got to ask you about one more thing, and that's prohibition and the role the U.S. government played in, in fact, apparently poisoning some people.

BRYSON 11:54:50

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, if there was a single thing that just totally astonished me, it was the discovery that the American government was randomly but intensely poisoning its own citizens in prohibition -- during prohibition as a way of trying to make everybody behave.

REHM 11:55:05

How?

BRYSON 11:55:05

Well, it was -- they would put strychnine or mercury or some other serious toxic substance in industrial alcohol. Because what was happening was they hadn't really thought this through at the beginning but when they made prohibition, they forgot that you still need a lot of industrial alcohol for making things like paint thinners and nail varnish and all that stuff. So millions and millions of gallons of alcohol was still being legally produced and it wasn't very hard to divert that and kind of doctor it up and make into sort of bootleg gin or whatever.

BRYSON 11:55:34

So as a way of discouraging people from doing that, the government in its wisdom would pour in all of these things that would actually blind or maim or even kill people. And that was still -- some of it was still getting diverted.

REHM 11:55:47

Who had charge of doing that? Who made that decision?

BRYSON 11:55:49

Well, if there was one human being who was responsible for this it was a guy named Wayne B. Wheeler who was a mousy little man who ran the anti-saloon league. And he was so vehemently against drinking. I mean, he really believed that it was at the root of all evil, that he and his followers insisted that instead of just putting detergents or soap or something else that would make industrial alcohol unpalatable but wouldn't actually kill you, they insisted, no no. These people should be killed. It's against the law. It's the law of the land. And if they decide to drink alcohol and they don't know what the source of it is, they're committing suicide.

REHM 11:56:25

How many people died?

BRYSON 11:56:27

Well, they don't know. The numbers are all over the place. It could be...

REHM 11:56:29

Thirteen thousand or thirty thousand, whatever.

BRYSON 11:56:32

Yeah, I mean, some sources will say, you know -- because it just wasn't always -- a lot of it was kept secret, you know, or the people -- it was caused -- some other cause. So -- but what is certain is that that the government was, you know, poisoning people. And what's really interesting is the people like Al Capone -- the reason -- part of the reason -- big part of the reason that they thrived was because their drink was safe. You know, you could count on stuff you were getting from Al Capone.

REHM 11:56:57

And on that note we'll end our discussion sadly because there's lots more in this book. Bill Bryson, so good to see you.

Thank You!!

Today I received a generous gift (via gift certificate) toward the operating expenses of my Live365 station. Since I have no way to sending a personal note to the giver, I'll express my sincere appreciation here. Thank you, Matthew!  

In other news, I've begun to transfer a crate of newly-acquired records in anticipation of my four-hour New Year's program. It will definitely be worth the wait!

"Tight Connections" November 22, 2013

(Week 377)

This RADIOLA! feels the need to loosen some ties--and its belt.

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Tampa Red and Georgia Tom - It's Tight Like That No. 2 - (1929) Vocalion 1244

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Lyin' To Myself (1936) - The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (Mosaic 243-2)

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Windsor Hotel Orch (Harold Leonard) - You Need Someone To Love (1926) - Vocalion A 15386

Van and his Hotel Half Moon Orch (Scrappy Lambert v) - Without You Sweetheart (1927) - Perfect 14918

The Charleston Chasers - Feelin' No Pain (1927) - Columbia 1229 D

Arthur Fields - Me and My Shadow (1927) - Grey Gull 2344a

Happiness Boys (Jones & Hare w/Dave Kaplan p) - I Love the College Girls (1927) - Okeh 40785 A

Jane Green - You Went Away Too Far (and Stayed Away Too Long) (1927) - Victor 20509 A

Palace Trio (Wiedoeft) - Unlucky Blues (1920) - Aeolian Vocalion A14053

Harry Raderman's Jazz Orch - Oh Joy (1921) - Okeh 4404 A

Joe Candullo and his Orch - Fashionette (1929) Harmony 888-H

Vaughn De Leath - I Wonder Who (1921) - Okeh 4455 B

Tampa Blue Jazz Band (Samuels) (Billy Jones v) - Atta Baby (1921) - Okeh 4522 A

Emmett Miller (Walt Rothrock p) - Anytime (1924) - Okeh 40239 B

Vanessa Tagliabue Yorke (Dalton Ridenhour p) - Loveless Love (2012) - Racine Connection (Rivermont BSW-2225)

Dymitr Markiewicz and his Jazz Band - I Must Have That Man (2010) - Polish-Swedish Connection (Live Augustow - Ilawa - Poland)

Willie Eckstein - Broken Hearted Melody (1923) - Okeh 40041 B

Martha Pryor - Lovey Came Back (1923) - Cameo 448

The Jazz Pilots (Reser) (Tom Stacks v) - She Knows Her Onions (1926) - Okeh 40688 B

Jabbo Smith and his Rhythm Aces - Till Times Get Better (1929) - Retrieval RTR 79013

Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers - Low Gravy (1930) - JSP CD 323

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch (Jimmy Rushing v) - Now That I Need You (1930) - Band Box Shuffle (Hep CD 1070)

Ruth Etting - I'm Falling In Love (1931) - Columbia 2505 D

Jim Miller and Charlie Farrell - I'm Needin' You (1930) - Victor 22509 B

Donald Peers - Don't Blame Me (1932) - HMV B 8047

Dick Himber and his Essex House Orch (Joey Nash v) - Smoke Rings (1933) - Renovation 7002

Will Osborne and his Orch - Inka Dinka Doo (1933) - Perfect 15867 A

Eddy Duchin and his Orch (Lew Sherwood v) - Moonburn (1935) - Victor 25231 A

Shelton Bros (Bob and Joe) - If You Don't Like My Peaches (1939) - Decca 5787A

Danny Polo and his Swing Stars - China Boy (1939) - The Old Masters TOM 41 (LP)

Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five - Tight Like This (1928) - JSP CD 314

"Greasy Spooning" November 15, 2013

(Week 376)

This RADIOLA! considers that one might do better to eat at home.

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Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - Find Me At The Greasy Spoon (tk 2) (1925) - orig Paramount 12337

Fats Waller and his Rhythm and Orch - Fat and Greasy (1935) - mx 98196 unissued

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Charley Straight and his Orch (Williams Sisters v) - Hi-Diddle-Diddle (1926) - That's What I Call Keen (Rivermont BSW 1153)

Art Landry and his Orch - Slippery Elm (1926) - Timeless CBC 1-078

Donald Lindley and his Boys - Slidin' Around (1928) - Columbia 1443 D

Nick Lucas - A Cup Of Coffee, A Sandwich, And You (1926) - Brusnwick 3052 A

Dixieland Jug Blowers (Lockwood Lewis v) - Don't Give All the Lard Away (1926) - Louisville Stomp (Frog DGF 6)

Lou Gold and his Orch (Jerry Macy Ed Smalle v) - You're the Cream in My Coffee (1928) - It's Tight Like That (Rivermont BSW 1147)

Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band - Slide, Kelly, Slide (1919) - Jazz Oracle BDW 8046

Arthur Lange And His Orchestra - Sweet Butter (1923) - orig Lincoln 2119 (Healey col)

Edwin J. McEnelly's Orch (Billy Murray v) - I Like Pie, I Like Cake (1925) - Rivermont BSW1140

Ada Jones - I'm In Love With the Slide Trombone (1907) - Zon-O-Phone 829

Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five (LA and May Alix v) - Big Butter and Egg Man from the West (1926) - JSPCD 312

The Harmonians (BHSO) (Selvin) (Irving Kaufman v) - What A Night For Spooning (1928) - orig Harmony 716 H (Healey col)

Al Duvall - Slippery Elm (2013) - Insomnibus

Eddie South - Snowfall (1944) - The Dark Angel of the Fiddle (Soundies SCD 4120)

Brass Quartet - Sweet and Low (c 1901) - Zon-O-Phone 9724

West End Jazz Band (Leah Bezin v) - Coffee In the Morning and Kisses in the Night (2003) - Louder and Funnier (Legacy 2K 103)

Zon-O-Phone Concert Band - Slippery Day (1907) - Zon-O-Phone 655

Bailey’s Lucky Seven (Lanin) (Ernest Hare v) - Everything Is K.O. In K.Y. (1923) - orig Gennett 5078 (Healey col)

Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five - Skid-Dat-De-Dat (1926) - JSPCD 312

Ikey Robinson and his Band (Jabbo Smith v) - Got Butter On It (1929) - Retrieval RTR 79013

Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers - Oil Well (1930) - JSPCD 323

Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orch - All For Grits and Gravy (1930) - Jazz Oracle BDW8041

Bing Crosby with the Mills Bros - Dinah (1932) - Brunswick 1271 A

Dinah - You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You (1931) - Decca F2593 A

Mills Brothers - Miss Otis Regrets (1934) - Decca 166 B

Ray Nichols and his Four Towers Orch (Billie Hibberd v) - Black Coffee (1935) - orig Bluebird B-6013 (Healey col)

Adrian Rollini and his Orch (Joey Nash v) - Butterfingers (1934) - Jazz Oracle BDW 8050

Mike Riley-Eddie Farley and their Onyx Club Boys - Dinner For One Please, James (1936) - orig Champion 40089 (Healey col)

Original Yellow Jackets - Swinging At The Chat And Chew (1937) - Columbia CK 64855

Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights (Donna and her Don Juans v) - A Knife, A Fork, And A Spoon (1941) - orig Columbia 36053 (Healey col)

Fats Waller and his Rhythm (w Deep River Boys) - By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1942) - orig Bluebird B 11569

"The Newest Math" November 8, 2013

(Week 375)

This RADIOLA! suspects there's a reason it doesn't quite add up.

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Billy Murray - I Can't Do That Sum (1904) - Columbia cylinder (UCSB collection)

Jelly Roll Morton Seven - Good Old New York (1940) - General 1704 A

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Howard Lanin and his Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - Lucky Day (1926) - Columbia 689 D

Frank Trumbauer and his Orch - Riverboat Shuffle (1927) - UHCA 30

All Star Orch - Add a Little Wiggle (1928) - Victor 21423 B

Fess Williams' Royal Flush Orch - Gambler's Blues (1927) - Jazz Oracle BDW 8041

Varsity Eight (Irving Kaufman v) - He Ain't Never Been To College (1928) - Cameo 9003

Chick Endor - Lady Luck (1929) - Victor 22245 B

Yerkes Blue Bird Orch - Kismet (1920) - HMV (Canada) 216195 B

Nathan Glantz and his Orch (Arthur Hall v) - Love Is Just A Gamble (1924) - orig Edison 51355 (Healey col)

Isham Jones' Orch - Get Lucky (1924) - Brunswick 2678 B

Arthur Moss and Ed Frye - How High Is Up? Pt. 2 (1923) - Victor 19081 B

Bert Williams - Unlucky Blues (1920) - Columbia A 2941

Thomas and West (Jones and Hare) - In the Little Red Schoolhouse (1922) - Regal 9327 A

Eddie South - Daybreak (1944) - The Dark Angel of the Fiddle (Soundies SCD 4120)

Dick Hyman and Stan Kurtis - Satan's Holiday (1985) - Runnin' Ragged (Fanfare CDJ 652)

Avon Comedy Four - The New School Teacher (1924) - Victor 35750 (Library of Congress)

Sophie Tucker (w/Milo Rega's Orch) - Seven Or Eleven - My Dixie Pair O' Dice (1923) - Jazz Age Hot Mamma (Take Two TT404)

Palace Trio (Wiedoeft) - I'll See You in C-U-B-A (1920) - Victor 18663 A

The Charleston Chasers (Eva Taylor v) - Turn on the Heat (1929) - Timeless CBC 1-040

Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers - Gambling Jack (1930) - JSP CD323

Isham Jones and his Orch (Rita Smith v) - It Isn't Fair (1933) - Shadows on the Swanee (Rivermont BSW 1159)

Frank Crumit - I'm Bettin' the Roll on Roamer (1930) - Victor 22482 A

Buddy Morgan and his Veterans - Don't Get Collegiate (1929) - Columbia 2011 D

New Dixie Demons - Ace In The Hole (1936) - Decca 5257 B

Casani Club Orch (Charlie Kunz) (Harry Bentley v) - Learning (1934) - Sterno 1528

Jimmy Dorsey and his Orch (Bob Eberle v) - I'm A Gambler (1935) - orig Decca 607 (Healey col)

Archie Bleyer and his Orch (Russ Morgan v) - You Are My Lucky Star (1935) - Melotone 35 10 23 A

Fred Astaire - Pick Yourself Up (1937) - Brunswick 7717

Ted Weems and his Orch - Gambler's Blues (1939) - orig Decca 2408 (Healey col)

Chick Bullock and his Levee Loungers - The Old Apple Tree (1938) - Vocalion 4070

"On Top of It" November 1, 2013

(Week 374)

This RADIOLA! is getting to the summit in its roundabout fashion.

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Banjo Bill Bowen (Charles Baumshlag p) - I'm Sitting On Top Of The World (1926) - Okeh 40553 A

Clyde McCoy and his Orch - Roseland Stomp (1936) - Decca 833 B

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Lyall Bowen and his Philadelphians (Frank Bessinger v) - Nothin' on My Mind (1928) - Perfect 14965

Arnold Frank and his Roger's Cafe Orch (Swanny Swenumsen c) - Black Maria (1927) - Okeh 40896

Devine's Wisconsin Roof Orch - Tiger Rag (1927) - Broadway 1140 B

Kate Smith (w/The Charleston Chasers) - I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now (1927) - Timeless CBC 1-040

Beth Challis - Gorgeous (1927) - Okeh 40899

La Palina Broadcasters (Fred Rich) (Irving Kaufman v) - Ain't Misbehavin' (1929) - Perfect 15197 B

Eddie Davis Orch - Hot Lips (1922) - Grey Gull 1120

Oriole Orch - Bonnie (1923) - Brunswick 2505 B

Bob Haring and his Orch (Arthur Fields v) - My Sweetie Turned Me Down (1925) - Cameo 795

American Quartet - Strut Miss Lizzie (1921) - Victor 18799 B

Fred Hillebrand - Come On Spark Plug (1923) - Okeh 4998 A

Arthur Fields - Captain Jinks (c 1927) - Radiex 4119

Bryan Wright - Key-Stone Rag (2009) - Breakin' Notes (Rivermont BSW 2212)

Molly Ryan - Say It With a Kiss (2012) - Swing For Your Supper!

Arthur Pryor's Band - Dill Pickles Rag (1909) - Victor 16482 B

The Krulee Novelty Orch - Emaline (1921) - Jewel L 829 B

Southern Trio - Loveless Love Blues (1928) - Madison 1921

Bill Haid's Cubs (J. Allen v) - Crazy Rhythm (1928) - Broadway 1206 B

Goody and his Good Timers (Irving Mills) - Stardust (1928) - Perfect 15084 B

Duke Ellington and his Orch - Doin' the Voom Voom (1929) - Bluebird B 7710 B

Ethel Waters - Trav'lin' All Alone (1929) - Columbia 1933 D

Bob Causer and his Cornelians (Paul Small v) - My Silent Love (1932) - Oriole 2486 A

Paul Robeson (V Young Orch) - Ol' Man River (1932) - Columbia 55004

Frank and Milt Britton's Orch (Scrappy Lambert v) - All Of Me (1931) - Romeo 1767 A

Alfredo Brito and his Siboney Orch - Siboney (1931) - Victor 22685 A

Clyde McCoy and his Orch - Tear It Down (1933) - Columbia 2909 D

Harry Jacobson (Arthur Young piano) - You're The Top (1934) - Decca F 5544 A (UK)

Danny Polo and his Swing Stars - Doing the Gorgonzola (1939) - The Old Masters TOM 41 (LP)

Victor Young and his Brunswick Orch (Dick Robertson v) - The Hour of Parting (1931) - Brunswick 6116

"Near-Life Experience" October 25, 2013

(Week 373)

This RADIOLA! is just happy to be here.

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Conrad Thibault (Ferde Grofe Orch) - The Last Round Up (1933) - Victor 24404 A

Danny Polo and his Swing Stars - Montparnasse Jump (1939) - The Old Masters TOM 41 (LP)

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Jean Goldkette and his Orch (Billy Murray v) - I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (take 4) (1927) - orig Victor 20466 B

Arnold Frank and his Roger's Cafe Orch (Stan Thompson v) - Rain (1927) - Okeh 40896

Willard Robison and his Orch (Murray Johns v) - Just Like a Butterfly (1927) - Supertone 36632

Eddie Lang (Arthur Schutt p) - Eddie's Twister (1927) - Parlophone R 3338

Johnny Marvin - From Midnight Until Dawn (1928) - Victor 21230 B

Sophie Tucker - Virginia (There's a Blue Ridge In My Heart) (1928) - Columbia 4942 (UK)

Rega Dance Orch - Patches (1919) - Okeh 4001 A

Ted Lewis and his Band - St. Louis Blues (1922) - Columbia A3790

Original Memphis Five (Joe Griffith v) - The Grass is Always Greener in the Other Fellow's Yard (1924) - Columbia 186 D

Billy Murray - The Little Ford Rambled Right Along (1915) - Victor 17755 A

Martha Pryor - Louisville Lou (1923) - Cameo 359

The Record Boys (Al Bernard) - Hello! Are You There Hello! (1926) - orig Harmony 154 H (ToNY)

Oscar Levant - Clair de lune (Debussy) (1945) - Columbia 71637 D

Oscar Levant - Tango in D (Albéniz) (1944) - Columbia 71638 D

Oscar Levant - Golliwogg's Cake Walk (Debussy) (1945) - Columbia 71637 D

Olly Oakley (Dave Rothe p) - Poppies and Wheat (1919) - Gennett 4557 B

Clara Smith (w/Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson) - Shipwrecked Blues (1925) - Columbia 14077 D

Vincent Lopez and his Hotel Pennsylvania Orch - Somehow (I'm Always To Blame) (1923) - Okeh 40002 B

Paul Whiteman and his Orch - Evening Star (1928) - Columbia 1401 D

Wabash Dance Orch (Phil Baker v) - Ready For The River (1928) - Duophone D 4008

Waring's Pennsylvanians (Clare Hanlon and 3 Girl Friends v) - Little White Lies (1930) - Victor 22492 A

Will Osborne and his Orch - Heartaches (1931) - Melotone M 12078

Eddy Duchin Orch - La Cumparsita (1933) - Victor 24461 B

Georgia Washboard Stompers (Cal Clement v) - My Pretty Girl (1933) - Bluebird B 5089 B

Greta Keller - I Believe In Miracles (1935) - orig Decca F-5460

Billy Cotton and his Band (Harold “Chips” Chippendall v) - Believe It, Beloved (1935) - Regal Zono MR 1670 (UK)

Sid Phillips and his Rhythm (Jack Cooper v) - Woe is Me! (1936) Rex 8742 B

Tempo King and his Kings of Tempo - Timber (1936) - Bluebird B 6725 A

Danny Polo and his Swing Stars - Polo-Naise (1939) - The Old Masters TOM 41 (LP)

Henry King Orch (Joseph Sudy v) - No Regrets (1936) - Decca 823 A

"Moonlight Harvest" October 18, 2013

(Week 372)

This RADIOLA! opines that what we reap depends on the quality of our seeds.

We also celebrate singer Herb Jeffries, who turned one hundred years old on September 24.

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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - Au Clair de la Lune (1860)

Bert Williams - The Moon Shines on the Moonshine (1919) - Columbia A 2849

Duke Ellington and his Orch (Herb Jeffries v) - Jump For Joy - Take 1 (1941) - orig Victor 27517

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Paul Specht's Georgians - Not Too Good - Not Too Bad (1927) - Columbia 1333 D

Miami Bell Boys (Robison) (Murray John v) - At Sundown (1927) - Broadway 1074 B

Ray Miller and his Orch (Harry Maxfield v) - Anything You Say (1928) - Brunswick 4077

Chick Endor - Precious (1926) - Vocalion B 15382

Aileen Stanley and Johnny Marvin - Side By Side (1927) - Victor 20714 B

Ed Smalle and Dick Robertson - Wob-a-ly Walk (1928) - Brunswick 3816 B

Carl Fenton's Orch - I'll Build a Stairway To Paradise (1922) - Brunswick 2316 A

The Georgians - Farewell Blues (1923) - Columbia A3864

Golden Gate Orch (Billy Murray v) - Me and the Man in the Moon (1928) - Diva 2778 G

Elsie Clark - Oogie Oogie Wa Wa (1922) - Okeh 4597 A

Lucille Hegamin and The Dixie Daisies - Cold Cold Winter Blues (1923) - Cameo 415

Edna Brown (Elsie Baker) and Elliott Shaw - Ka-Lu-A (1922) - Victor 18854 B

'Cile Turner - Full o' the Moon (1947) - Makin' Glory (Rivermont BSW 3135)

The Beau Hunks - The Moon and You (1993) - Play the Original Little Rascals Music

Django Reinhardt and his Quintette - Clair De Lune (1947) - Echoes of France (Fremeaux FA 313)

Joe Hayman - Cohen Listens In On The Radio (1922) - Columbia A 3832

The Benson Orch of Chicago - Mean, Mean Mamma (1923) - Victor 19138 B

Bennie Krueger's Orch (Jones and Hare v) - Why Did I Kiss That Girl? (1924) - Brunswick 2576 A

Vincent Lopez (Jack Parker v) - I'm a Dreamer Aren't We All? (1929) - Oriole 1786 a

Jack Miller and the New Englanders - Deep Night (1929) - Velvet Tone 1898 V

Victor Arden Phil Ohman and their Orch (Frank Luther v) - Dancing the Devil Away (1929) - Victor 22383 A

Annette Hanshaw (as Patsy Young) - Don't Be Like That (1929) - Velvet Tone 1829 V

Leslie Hutchinson - You Brought a New Kind of Love To Me (1930) - Parlophone R 738

Chick Bullock and his Levee Loungers - You Rascal You (1931) - Perfect 15506 A

Earl Hines and his Orch (Herb Jeffries v) - Blue (1934) - orig Brunswick 6872

Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orch (Charles Chester v) - I Can't Escape From You (1936) - orig Bluebird B 6475

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys - Moonlight and Roses (1938) - Vocalion 04439

Joe Reichman and his Orch - Moonlight Sonata (1941) - orig Victor 27484

Sidney Bechet with Claude Luter Orch - Au Clair de la Lune (1952) - orig Vogue 5139

Duke Ellington and his Orch (Herb Jeffries v) - There Shall Be No Night (1940) - orig Victor 26748

"What's Not to Like?" October 11, 2013

(Week 371)

This RADIOLA! agrees to be agreeable.

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Sir Henry Lytton - If you give me your attention (1932) - Princess Ida (Conifer 75605 52273 2B)

Hit Of The Week Orch - La Paloma (1931) - Hit Of The Week L3

Cab Calloway and his Orch - Bugle Call Rag (1931) - Brunswick 1339 B (UK)

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Gus C. Edwards and his Orch (Cliff Covert v) - Alabama Stomp (1926) - Victor 20230 B

Red Nichols and his Five Pennies - Hurricane (1926) - Brunswick 6817

Frank Black and his Orch (Frank Munn v) - The Two of Us (1926) - Brunswick 3338 B

Gene Austin (Art Fowler uke) - Everything's Made For Love (1926) - Victor 20478 A

Ed Smalle - Horses (1926) - Brunswick 3147 B

Bessie Smith (Joe Smith cornet Fletcher Henderson piano) - Money Blues (1926) - Columbia 14137 D

Blue Diamond Dance Orch - Blue Danube Blues (1921) - Okeh 4497 A

Carl Fenton's Orch - Rose Marie (1924) - Brunswick 2759 A

Original Indiana Five - Deep Henderson (1926) - Harmony 217 H

Richard B. Gilbert (Taro Patch accomp) - Because of You (1925) - Okeh 40401 A

Gloria Geer (Vaughn De Leath) - Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue? (1925) - Cameo 802

Twin City Dance Orch (Nathan Glantz) (Arthur Fields v) - Say it Again (1926) - Challenge 148 B

Baby Soda - When You Wore a Tulip (2011) - Live at Radegast

Mona's Hot Four (with Dan Levinson) - Osage Stomp (2009) - Live at Mona's

Kitty Brown (acc by Ricketts' Stars) - Mean Eyes (Too Late Blues) (1923) - Okeh 8053 B

Original Memphis Five - How Come You Do Me Like You Do? (1924) - Victor 19480 A

The Harmonians (Bar Harbor Society Orch) (Irving Kaufman v) - I'm Afraid of You (1928) - Diva 2626 G

Golden Gate Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - Glorianna (1928) - Perfect 15084

Leo Reisman and his Orch (Frank Luther v) - Charming (1929) - Victor 22233 A

Jimmy Joy and his Orch - I Got Worry (1928) - Brunswick 3959

Helen Richards - Am I Blue? (1929) - Conqueror 7392 B

Percival Mackey and his Kit Kat Band (Val Rosing v) - My Heart Is Where The Mohawk Flows Tonight (1931) - Regal MR 445

Frank Luther Trio - Buffalo Range (1934) - Perfect 13020 B

Maxwell House Orch (Don Voorhees dir) (Scrappy Lambert v) - Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On (1931) - Hit Of The Week 1155

Jack Hylton and his Orch (Pat O'Malley v) - River, Stay 'Way From My Door (1931) - HMV B 6004

Arthur Lally and the Million Airs (Maurice Elwin and Cavan O'Connor v) - Sing a Little Jingle (1931) - Decca F 2612

Harry Roy and his Orch (Harry Roy and Bill Currie v) - I've Got a Note (1935) - Parlophone F 175

Mississippi Jook Band - Barbecue Bust (1935) - Creole 16 B (Melotone 6 12 71)

George Olsen and his Music - Save Your Sorrow for Tomorrow (1925) - Victor 19715

"Some of the People" October 4, 2013

(Week 370)

Carey Orr cartoon from The Chicago Tribune, January 8, 1927


This RADIOLA! is reeling from the brisk slap of Truth.

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Arthur Moss and Ed Frye - How High Is Up? Pt. 1 (1923) - Victor 19081 A

Vincent Rose and his Orch (Dorothy Brent v) - On The Good Ship Lollypop (1934) - Perfect 16051 A

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Paul Whiteman and his Orch - My Blue Heaven (1927) - Victor 20828 A

The Virginians (Lewis James v) - Did You Mean It? (1927) - Victor 21105 A

Paul Ash and his Orch (Milton Watson v) - Oh! If I Only Had You (1926) - Columbia 707 D

Vaughn De Leath - Banana Oil (1925) - Columbia 361 D

Walter Woolf - Blue Skies (1927) - Gennett 6043 A

Genevieve Davis and Leonard Mitchell - I've Got Something (1927) - Victor 20648 B

Albert E Short and his Tivoli Syncopators - Rose of Sunny Italy (1923) - Vocalion A14657

Carl Fenton's Orch - A Little Bit of This (Intro: My Road) (1924) - Brunswick 2759 B

Tommy Christian and his Orch - How Could Red Riding Hood? (1926) - Velvet Tone 1264 V

Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake - Oriental Blues (1921) - Emerson 10396

Virginia Liston (Clarence Williams) - You Don't Know My Mind Blues (1923) - Okeh 8115 B

The Bar Harbor Society Orch (Charles Hart v) - Just an Old Love Song (1923) - Vocalion B14539

Martin Spitznagel - Maple Leaf Rag at 4 AM (2011) - Handful of Keys (Rivermont BSW 2217)

The Morganville Four - Thanks a Million (2011) - Alone With My Dream (Jazz Rules JR 1001)

Arthur Fields - Dear Old Southland (1922) - Grey Gull 2091b

Boyd Senter - Mobile Blues (1924) - Puritan 11341 B

Herb Wiedoeft and his Cinderella Roof Orch - Hard Hearted Hannah (1924) - Brunswick 2751 (Healey)

The Knickerbockers (Selvin) - Good For You, Bad For Me (1930) - Columbia 2129 D

Lloyd Keating and his Music (Selvin) (Dick Robertson v) - Hiding in the Shadows of the Moon (1931) - Clarion 5419 C

Snooks' Memphis Stompers - One More Time (1931) - Romeo 1647 A

Geechee Wiley - Last Kind Word Blues (1930) - orig Paramount 12951 A

Robert Gwenn - Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight (1930) - Imperial (UK) 2345

Anona Winn - Gertie, The Girl With The Gong (1935) - Rex 8466 B (UK)

Abe Lyman and his Orch (Grace Barrie v) - I Cover The Waterfront (1933) - Brunswick 6572

Mal Hallett and his Orch (Clark Yocum v) - Sweet Misery of Love (1936) - Vocalion 3278

The New Music of Reginald Foresythe - The Greener the Grass (1935) - Columbia 3060 D

Arthur Young and his Strict Tempo Dance Orch - I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' (1935) - Decca F 5792

Chick Webb and his Orch - Strictly Jive (1937) - Decca 1586 B

Irving Kaufman - Tomorrow Is Another Day (1930) - Columbia 2281 D

"Taking the Chill Off" September 27, 2013

(Week 369)

This RADIOLA! warmly welcomes some welcome warmth.

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The Happiness Boys (Harry Reser uke) - Oh-My-Yes! (1924) - Okeh 40174 B

Les Brown and his Duke Blue Devils - Swamp Fire (1937) - Decca 1231 A

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Ipana Troubadours - Paddlin' Madelin' Home (1925) - Columbia 503 D

Jack Pettis and his Band - St Louis Shuffle (1926) - Domino 3884 B

George Olsen and his Music - Hot Aire (1925) - 19761 B

Art Gillham - So That's The Kind of a Girl You Are (1925) - Columbia 442 D

Nick Lucas - Sleepy Time Gal (1925) - Brunswick 2990 A

Ethel Waters (James P. Johnson p) - My Handy Man (1928) - Columbia 14353 D

Emil Coleman and his Montmartre Orch - Deedle Deedle Bum (1922) - Vocalion A14356

Paul Whiteman and his Orch - Learn to Do the Strut (1924) - Victor 19252 B

Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orch (Clyde Lucas v) - Ev'rything is Hotsy-Totsy Now (1925) - Brunswick 2916 A

Earl Rickard (Harry Reser guitar) - Dumb Dora (1924) - Okeh 40174 A

Edith Wilson and her Jazz Band - Daddy Change Your Mind (1924) - Columbia 14008 D

McKenzie's Candy Kids - Hot Honey (1925) - Vocalion A 15166

'Cile Turner - Down By The Riverside (1952) - Makin' Glory (Rivermont BSW 3135-2)

Martin Spitznagel - The Newbie Eubie (2011) - Handful of Keys (Rivermont BSW 2217)

Fiddlin' John Carson - Dixie Boll Weevil (1924) - Okeh 40095 B

Carl Fenton's Orch (Billy Jones Ernest Hare v) - Oh You Can't Fool an Old Hoss Fly (1924) - Brunswick 2757 A

Harry Reser - Ukulele Lady (1925) - Columbia 409 D

Paul Tremaine and his Orch - I Wanna Sing About You (1931) - Columbia 2462 D (Jeff Healey col)

The Savanna Players (Ambrose) (Sam Browne v) - Laughing at Life (1931) - Decca F 2260 A

Cab Calloway and his Orch - Hot Water (1932) - Oriole 2626 B

Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) - The Moon Is Low (1930) - Columbia 2169 D

Layton and Johnstone - I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You (1933) - Columbia FB 1218

Jim Miller and Charlie Farrell - Cheer Up (Good Times Are Comin') (1930) - Victor 22442 A

Harry Roy and his Orch (Harry Roy v) - Lazybones (1933) - Parlophone R 1611

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Will You, Won't You Be My Baby? (1934) - Vox 16059 B

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys (Jesse Ashlock v) - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (1938) - Vocalion 04439

George Olsen and his Music (Ethel Shutta v) - Underneath The Arches (1933) - Victor 24229 A

Eddy Duchin and his Orch (Stanley Worth v) - My Reverie (1938) - Brunswick 8224

Billy Merrin and his Commanders (Sam Browne v) - No More Heartaches No More Tears (1933) - Regal Zono MR 1262

"Cross Currents" September 20, 2013

(Week 368)

This RADIOLA! drifts out beyond the three-mile limit and back again.

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Lillian Morton - Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky (1928) - Okeh 41072

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (Carmen Lombardo v) - Riptide (1934) - Melotone M 13117 A

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Harry Raderman's Red Hotters - Sunday (1926) - Okeh 40736 B

Harold Leonard and his Waldorf-Astoria Orch (Franklyn Baur v) - Roses For Remembrance (1927) - Columbia 947 D

Paul Whiteman and his Orch - It All Depends On You (1927) - Victor 20513 A

Ethel Waters (James P. Johnson p) - Guess Who's In Town (1928) - Columbia 14353 D

Johnny Marvin - Is She My Girl Friend? (1927) - Victor 21153 B

The Palm Beach Boys - Under The Moon (1927) - Okeh 40878

Blue Diamond Dance Orch (Virginia Burt guitar imitation) - Ka-Lu-A (1921) - Okeh 4497 B

The Original Memphis Five - Stop Your Kidding (1922) - Vocalion A 14461

Emil Coleman and his Montmarte Orch - In a Little Rendezvous (1924) - Vocalion A14879

Palmetto Jazz Quartette - My Jazz Gal (1921) - Okeh 8011 B

Ernest Hare and Billy Jones - Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (1921) - Vocalion B14247

Esther Bigeou (acc by Ricketts' Stars) - Aggravatin' Papa (1923) - Okeh 8053 A

Bryan Wright - Country Club (Scott Joplin) (2004) - Syncopated Musings (Rivermont BSW 2204)

The Morganville Four (Bria Skonberg v) - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (2011) - Alone With My Dream (Jazz Rules JR 1001)

Michael Casey - Casey as a Doctor (1915) - Columbia A1886

The Bar Harbor Society Orch (Charles Hart v) - Marcheta (1923) - Vocalion A14539

Vincent Lopez and his Hotel PA Orch - Maybe (She'll Write Me) (1924) - Okeh 40051A

Majestic Dance Orch (Harry Salter) (Bob Merwin v) - I'm Just a Vagabond Lover (1929) - Perfect 15159

Johnny Hamp and his Orch (Carl Graub v) - Falling in Love Again (1931) - Victor 22638 A

Al Gold and his Band (Charlie Kunz) (Harry Bentley v) - Learn to Croon (1933) - Homochord HN 2

Ruth Etting - Happy Days and Lonely Nights (1928) - Columbia 1454 D

The Melody Three (Frank Luther, Jack Parker, and Phil Dewey) - Pals Forever (1929) - Victor 22028 B

Edward Malloy - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1932) - Sterno 1548

Sir Hamilton Harty and Halle Orch - Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms) (1929) - Columbia 2020 D

Reginald Foort - Finlandia Pt. 1 (Sibelius) (1938) - Victor 26225 A

Reginald Foort - Finlandia Pt. 2 (Sibelius) (1938) - Victor 26225 B

Gene Kardos and his Orch (Lee Russell v) - Sweet As a Song (1938) - Perfect 8-03-01

Mary Martin (w Eddy Duchin's Orch) - Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love (1938) - Brunswick 8282

Stanley Lupino and Elsie Carlisle - Just One More (1932) - Decca F 3319