Announcing The Syncopated Times Radio Network

RADIOLA! is now a featured program on The Syncopated Times Radio Network.

The Syncopated Times Radio Network is a new internet radio station founded by the editors of The Syncopated Times, and 35-year broadcast veteran Jeff Bressler.

The Syncopated Times Radio Network explores the world of hot jazz, big bands, ragtime, and swing through daily broadcasts of music, interviews with the journalists from The Syncopated Times, and a roster of over 25 radio programs and podcasts featuring amazing and knowledgeable hosts. 

The Network will also provide programs of live jam sessions, concerts, and new releases from bands and record producers. Our first live concert broadcast is scheduled for April. As well as the expected classics, our library includes the music of some of today’s most highly respected artists and bands.

You can listen in from any page on Syncopatedtimes.com.

A Special Rebroadcast for New Year's 2021

 I have been hectically busy editing and laying out The Syncopated Times this month and dealing with all the business appertaining thereto, so I'm remiss in not creating a new program for this New Year's Eve. It's a commonplace to say that this year, 2020, is one that we should be particularly happy to be rid of. In order to fill the void of silence, I'm refreshing an old show I did in December 2008, "London Calling," that features three hours of delightful British dance band music from the 1920s and 1930s. Here is the playlist. I produced the program in observance of the sad fact that BBC Radio 2 had stopped including this enchanting music in their lineup. These tunes will provide a suitable accompaniment to the celebration of chasing that mean old man, 2020, out the door.

New Link for Directions in Music

Listen to classic RADIOLA! programs Friday nights at 7 PM ET on Directions in Music. The website is temporarily down, so use this link to hear the show.

RADIOLA! Saturday Mornings 9 AM CT on WXDR Dolphin Radio

Dolphin Radio (WXDR-FM) Delgado Community College in New Orleans, has been broadcasting RADIOLA! for ages. Listen Saturdays at 9 AM Central Time (10 AM Eastern). I am deeply grateful to Station Coordinator Bob Dunn and the rest of the staff at Dolphin Radio for keeping the shows playing!

Classic RADIOLA! programs on Directions in Music Fridays 7-9 PM ET

Though publishing and editing The Syncopated Times has occupied the host's time (at the expense of new RADIOLA! programs), classic episodes are now available on Directions in Music each Friday night at 7 PM. They're worth hearing again--or for the first time.

2020 New Year's Celebration

(Week 456)

This is my first new RADIOLA! program since April 2017. I hope the music I've shared here makes your New Year measurably happier.

Willard Robison - There's Religion in Rhythm (1929) - Victor 22446 A

Victor Arden Phil Ohman and their Orch (Frank Luther v) - I Got Rhythm (1930) - Victor 22558 B

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

Duke Yellman and his Orch (Walter Scanlon v) - Under the Moon (A)(1927) - Edison 52078 L

William F Wirges and his Orch (IK v) - Laugh Clown, Laugh (1928) - Brunswick 3910 A

Miff Mole's Little Molers - After You've Gone (1929) - Parlophone R 1063

The Whispering Pianist (Art Gillham) - Cecilia (1925) - Columbia 425 D

Annette Hanshaw (as Gay Ellis) - High Up On a Hilltop (1928) - Diva 2734 G

Gene Austin - Muddy Water (1927) - Victor 20569 A

Majestic Dance Orch (Katzman) - Lost (A Wonderful Girl) (1922) - Grey Gull 1137 A

Oriole Orchestra - Where the Lazy Daisies Grow (1924) - Brunswick 2580 A

The Arkansaw Travelers - Those Panama Mammas (1924) - Okeh 40236 A

Arthur Fields - Stay Down Here Where You Belong (1914) - Little Wonder 46

Leonard Graham (Nobel Sissle) - Royal Garden Blues (1921) - Regal 945

Sophie Tucker (w Rega Orch) - Aggravatin' Papa (1923) - Okeh 4817 A

Frank Braidwood (The Cowboy Baritone) (Marion Healy p) - Mine All Mine (B) (1927) - Edison 52152 R

Four Prominent So-And-Sos - Quartet for Prosperous Love Children, Part 1 (Ogden Nash-Robert Armbruster) (1933) - Victor mx 77654

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Hotter Than That (1927) - Parlophone R 2704

King Oliver and his Orch - Call of the Freaks (1929) - Bluebird B 7705 A

Fletcher Henderson and his Orch - The Wang Wang Blues (1929) - Columbia 1913 D

Art Gillham (The Whispering Pianist) - To Whom it May Concern (1930) - Columbia 2349 D

Johnny Marvin - Yours and Mine (1931) - Victor 22604 A

Mills Bros - Bugle Call Rag (1932) - Perfect 13061

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

BBC Dance Orch (Flanagan and Allen v) - Dreaming (1932) - Columbia CB 530

Smith Ballew and his Orch - I'm Dancing With the Girl of My Dreams (1934) - Perfect 15934 B

Frank Crumit - A Gay Caballero (1934) - Decca 114 B

Teddy Wilson - It Never Dawned on Me (1935) - Brunswick 02110 B

Sterling Young and his Orch (Donna Lee v) - Stop! You're Breakin' My Heart (1937) - Perfect 7-08-09

Bob Crosby and his Orch - Dogtown Blues (1937) - Decca 15038 B

Bunny Berigan and his Orch - The Prisoner's Song (1937) - Victor 36209 B

Layton and Johnstone - Dreaming of a Castle in the Air (1926) - Columbia 4003 (UK)

Layton and Johnstone - Headin' for Louisville (1926) - Columbia 4003 (UK)

Charles Kaley - I've Got the Girl! (1926) - Columbia 845 D

Lee Morse - Side By Side (1927) - Columbia 974 D

Gene Austin - Ya Gotta Know How to Love (1926) - Victor 20044 A

Fletcher Henderson and his Orch - Blazin' (1929) - Columbia 1913 D

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Rockin' Chair (1929) - Columbia M667 (Japan)

Joe Venuti's Blue Four - Tempo di Barrel (aka Tempo di Modernage) (1931) - Parlophone R 1063

Ruth Etting - Lonely Little Bluebird (1928) - Columbia 1454 D

Regent Club Orch (Dick Robertson v) - Mistakes (1929) - Brunswick 4473

Victor Arden Phil Ohman and their Orch (Frank Luther v) - Embraceable You (1930) - Victor 22558 A

Sterling Young and his Orch (Donna Lee v) - Whispers in the Dark (1937) - Perfect 7-08-09

Guy Lombardo and his RC'ns - A Blues Serenade (1939) - Decca 2521 B

Bob Crosby and his Orch - South Rampart Street Parade (1937) - Decca 15038 A

Frank Crumit - Abdul Abulbul Amir (1934) - Decca 114 A

Dick Robertson and his Orch (DR and Men About Town v) - Hi-Yo Silver! (1938) - Decca 1914 A

Bunny Berigan and his Orch - I Can't Get Started (1937) - Victor 36209 A

Reinald Werrenrath - A Brown Bird Singing (1924) - Victor 984 A

Leonard Graham (Nobel Sissle) - The Boll Weevil Blues (1921) - Regal 945

Oriole Orchestra - Don't Mind the Rain (1924) - Brunswick 2580 B

Frank Braidwood (The Cowboy Baritone) (Marion Healy p) - It All Belongs to Me (C) (1927) - Edison 52152 L

Gene Austin - Bye Bye Blackbird (1926) - Victor 20044 B

Johnny Marvin - Bye Bye Blues (1930) - Victor 22534 B

Frank Luther and his Orch (Joe Green Orch) - Little Man You've Had a Busy Day (1934) - Perfect 15934 A

Alma Rotter (Henderson) (Lonnie Johnson g) - Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away (1927) - Okeh 40823

The Three Boswell Sisters - Heebie Jeebies (1930) - Parlophone R 821

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Stardust (1931) - Columbia 37808

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

Teddy Wilson - Every Now and Then (1935) - Brunswick 02110 A

Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy (Harry Mills v) - Fifty-Second Street (1936) - Decca 1146 B

Richard Tauber - Night and Day (1933) - Parlophone RO 20230

Ray Noble and his Orch (Al Bowlly v) - Let's Face the Music and Dance (1936) - Victor 25241

Willard Robison - Don't Ever Be 'Fraid to Wade Those Troubled Waters (1929) - Victor 22446 B

New Year's Record Party 2019: Taking a Mulligan on 2013

(Week 344)

I apologize for not posting any new shows for a while. I guarantee you that I've had lovely records stacking up (vertically) over the past few years--and I've even had time to play a few of them. With the best of intentions, I've promised myself (and others) that I would dig in and restore a slew of them for everyone's enjoyment via my RADIOLA! program. What has intervened in that plan is The Syncopated Times, which has monopolized my time and energy for the past three years. It turns out to be my life's work. But RADIOLA! is fun, and I miss doing it terribly.

For New Year's this year, I offer the show produced for the start of 2013. That was such an awful year in almost every way that I thought it deserved a do-over. The fun began on New Year's Eve, when I got a severe chest cold that lasted two months. Coming out of the Valley of the Lung Bunnies, the year only got worse. I won't elaborate. But I wanted to hear and enjoy this program again with the knowledge that we saw the light at the end of the tunnel, got run over by the express train, got up, dusted ourselves off, and came out of the experience not much worse for the wear.

I hope to play some new (old) records again for you again soon. Podcast here. Browse through some old shows here. You should definitely check out The Syncopated Times.

Happy New Year!

Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward - Scene from Shadow Play Pt. 1 (1936) - Victor 36191 A

Ed Loyd and his Orch (Freddy Martin) (Russ Morgan v) - Music Makes Me (1934) - Perfect 15875 B

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

Ross Gorman and his Earl Carroll Orch - Rhythm of the Day (1925) - Columbia 498 D

The Rangers (Lanin) (Scrappy Lambert v) - Someday Sweetheart (1927) - Lincoln 2677

Eddie Lang's Orch - Bugle Call Rag (1929) - Parlophone R 510

Little Jack Little - One More Night (1928) - Columbia 1324 D

Radio Jacks - Gid-ap Garibaldi (1927) - Perfect 12363 B

Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees - Baby, Oh! Where Can You Be? (1929) - Victor 22034 A

Duke Ellington and his Orch - The Mooche (1928) - Victor 24486 B

Earl Hines - Fifty Seven Varieties (1928) - Parlophone R 510

Jean Goldkette and his Orch - Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya Huh (1926) - Victor 20031 A

Don Roberts - Revenge (1928) - Columbia 1535 D

Thelma Tuson - By the Waters of Minnetonka (1928) - Brunswick 152 A (UK)

Ted Lewis and his Band - Lewisada Blues (1929) - Columbia 1916 D

Ian Whitcomb - Montpellier (A Tango of Southern France) (1982) - Songs Without Words (Rivermont BSW 3136)

Paul Asaro and the Fat Babies - Abdullah (2012) - What a Heavenly Dream (Rivermont BSW 2222)

Charles Bourne & Phil Ellis - If You Knew Susie (1925) - Two Grands Four Hands (Rivermont BSW 1152)

Fletcher Henderson and his Orch - Sugar Foot Stomp (1925) - Columbia 395 D

Coon Sanders Original Nighthawk Orch - I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston (1925) - Victor 19727 B

Joe Howard - Hello My Baby and Goodbye My Lady Love (1936) - Vocalion 3357

Frances Day - Excuse Me (1933) - HMV B 8096

Eddie Pola - I Want to Be a Nudist (1934) - Regal Zonophone MR 1279

Jan Garber and his Orch (Lee Bennett v) - I Can't Go On Like This (1934) - Victor 24560 B

Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans (Harry Bentley v) - So Help Me (1934) - Columbia CD 773

Ted Fio Rito and his Orch (Bill Carey v) - Look What I've Got (1933) - Brunswick 6556

Cleo Brown - My Gal Mezzanine (1936) - Decca 846 B

Fats Waller and his Rhythm - Georgia Rockin' Chair (1935) - Bluebird B 10288 A

Dorothy Lamour (Cy Feuer Orch) - Swing High, Swing Low (1937) - Brunswick 7838

George Hall and his Hotel Taft Orch (Barry Wells v) - The Moonlight Waltz (1934) - Bluebird B 5398 B

Lou Preager and his Band (Gerry Fitzgerald v) - La Cucuracha (1935) - Champion 40031 B

Benny Goodman and his Orch - One O'Clock Jump (1938) - Victor 25792 B

Billy Kyle - Between Sets (1939) - Decca 2740 B

Lew Davis Trombone Trio - Three's Company (1935) - Decca 1298 A

Sam Lanin and his Orch (Scrappy Lambert v) - I Must Have That Man (1928) - Perfect 15000 B

Billy Mayerl piano (Rudy Starita xyl) - The Match Parade (1931) - Columbia DB 639

Guy Lombardo - Goofus (1932) - Guy Lombardo 16 Most Requested Songs

Leo Reisman and his Orch (Sally Singer v) - Talkin' to Myself (1934) - Brunswick 6980

Clyde McCoy and his Orch - The Goona Goo (1937) - Decca 1109 A

Bert Shefter and his Rhythm Octet - Chopin's Ghost (1937) - Victor 25622 B

Joe Howard - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now and Honeymoon (1936) - Vocalion 3357

Frances Langford (Victor Young Orch) - Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (1936) - Decca 775 B

Fats Waller and his Rhythm - Ain't Misbehavin' (1938) - Bluebird B 10288 B

Dick McDonough and his Orch (Chick Bullock v) - On the Beach at Bali-Bali (1936) - Perfect 6 08 08

Stew Pletcher and his Orch (Norvo) (SP v) - You Never Looked So Beautiful Before (1936) - Bluebird B 6343 B

Vincent Lopez and his Orch (Johnny Morris v) - Knock Knock Who's There? (1936) - Melotone 6 10 05

Johnny Johnson and his Orch (Lee Johnson v) - September in the Rain (1937) - Conqueror 8798

Cleo Brown - Love in the First Degree (1936) - Decca 846 A

The Fat Babies - Please (2012) - Chicago Hot (Delmark DE253)

Paul Asaro and The Fat Babies - Sweet and Slow (2012) - What a Heavenly Dream (Rivermont BSW 2222)

Bunny Berigan and his Orch - Trees (1937) - RCA 20 1601 A

Joe Haymes and his Orch (Barry McKinley v) - No Regrets (1936) - Melotone 6 08 06

Benny Goodman Quartet - Whispering (1936) - Victor 25481 A

Leo Reisman and his Orch (Sally Singer v) - Lost in a Fog (1934) - Brunswick 6980

Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans (Harry Bentley v) - Easy Come, Easy Go (1934) - Columbia CD 773

Ted Fio Rito and his Orch (Muzzy Marcelino v) - In the Park in Paree (1933) - Brunswick 6556

Red McKenzie - I Found You (1931) - Columbia 2587 D

Frances Langford (Victor Young Orch) - A Melody From the Sky (1936) - Decca 775 A

Ozzie Nelson and his Orch - Yes Suh! (1938) - Bluebird B 7726 B

Fats Waller - Keepin' Out of Mischief Now (1937) - Victor 27767 B

Lou Preager and his Band (Gerry Fitzgerald v) - The Continental (1935) - Champion 40031 A

Ed Loyd and his Orch (Freddy Martin) (Russ Morgan v) - The Carioca (1934) - Perfect 15875 A

Jack Smith - The Song is Ended (1927) - Victor 21028 A

George Hall and his Hotel Taft Orch (Barry Wells v) - The Champagne Waltz (1934) - Bluebird B 5398 A

Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward - Scene from Shadow Play Pt. 2 (1936) - Victor 36191 B