"A Foggy Day" MONDAY February 20, 2006

(Week 30)

This Monday (Feb. 20) at 8 PM ET I will be presenting a special all-British edition of RADIOLA! on WHCL-FM 88.7 in Clinton, NY. (Jonathan Mead, host of the world music program ANYWHERE BUT HERE usually scheduled at that time, will be away.) The selections will be by British artists, Americans recording in Britain, and/or refer to Britain. Here's the playlist:

Fred Astaire (w/ Ray Noble’s Orch.) – A Foggy Day in London Town (1937) – Charly CDCD 1075
The Quintet of the Hot Club of France – Lambeth Walk (1938) – London 820 591-2
Anonymous Ocarina Player – William Tell Overture (c. 1910) – Columbia 78 RPM
Ambrose and his Orch. (Sam Browne, v.) – Dancing in the Dark (1932) – Music & Memories MMD1007
Jack Jackson and his Band (Fred Latham, v.) – Roll Along, Prairie Moon (1934) – Avid AVC539
Harry Roy and his Orch. – The Roy Rag (1934) – ASV Living Era CD AJA5225
Billy Merson – The Spaniard That Blighted My Life (1911) – ASV Living Era CDAJA5363
Ella Shields – Burlington Bertie from Bow (1916) – Empress RAJCD 834
Charles Coborn – The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1929) – ASV Living Era CDAJA5363
Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orch. (Les Allen, v.) – April in Paris (1933) – Music & Memories MMD 1007
Van Straten & his Music (Julie Dawn, v.) – The Lady’s in Love With You (1939) – Music & Memories MMD 1007
Gaumont British Dance Orchestra (Jimmy Campbell, v.) –What a Little Moonlight Can Do (1934) Music & Memories MMD1007
Fred Elizalde and his Orch. (Al Bowlly, v.) – Misery Farm (1928) – Retrieval RTR 79011
Al Bowlly (w/ Ray Noble’s Orch.) – Love is the Sweetest Thing – Charly CDCD 1136
Al Bowlly (w/ Ray Noble’s Orch.) – It’s Great to be in Love (1932) – Rathbone 0351
Jack Hylton and his Orch. – The Best Things in Life are Free (1928) – Flapper Past CD 7845
The Savoy Orpheans – The Blue Room (1927) – Conifer CDHD 160
Noel Coward (w/ Carroll Gibbons’ Orch.) – Dance, Little Lady (1928) – Flapper Past CD 7845
George Formby, Sr. – Grandfather’s Clock (1916) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5363
George Formby, Jr. – Chinese Laundry Blues (1932) – Hallmark 300282
George Formby, Jr. – With My Little Ukulele in My Hand (1933) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5030
Fred Elizalde and his Anglo-American Orch. – Under the Moon (1928) – RTR 79011
The Savoy Orpheans – Fascinating Rhythm (1924) – Conifer CDHD 160
Fred Elizalde and his Anglo-American Orch. – Sugar (1928) – Retrieval RTR 79011
Fats Waller – London Suite–Piccadilly (6-13-1939) – QED 015
Fats Waller – London Suite–Chelsea
Fats Waller – London Suite–Soho
Fats Waller – London Suite–Bond Street
Fats Waller – London Suite–Limehouse
Fats Waller – London Suite–Whitechapel
Lily Morris – Only a Working Man (1927) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5363
Will Fyffe – I Belong to Glasgow (1929) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5363
Harry Champion – I’m Henery the Eighth, I Am (1931) – ASV Living ERA CD AJA 5363
Ray Noble and his Orch. (Al Bowlly, v.) – Good Night, Sweetheart – Charly CDCD 1136
Ray Starita and his Ambassador’s Club Orch. – Wake Up, Chill’un, Wake Up (1929) – Avid AVC539

"Black and Blue" (February 17, 2006)

(Week 29)

This RADIOLA! goes out in honor of Black History Month, with my playlist below featuring 33 African American and Caribbean artists and bands on a "black" and/or "blue" theme. (I admit the Missourians also backed Cab Calloway, but they're really worth hearing sans Cab. Also Fats Waller is on about four of these records--soloing extensively on "Beale Street Blues.") The show airs on WHCL-FM 88.7 in Clinton, NY this Friday at 8 PM ET.

Louis Armstrong and his Orch. – Black and Blue (1929) – Columbia CK 46148
Thomas “Fats” Waller – Blue Black Bottom (1927) – Bluebird 2482-2-RB
Anonymous Ocarina Player – William Tell Overture (c. 1910) – Columbia 78 RPM
Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orch. – Apex Blues (1928) – King Jazz KJ 152 FS
Walter Page’s Blue Devils – Blue Devil Blues (1929) – Columbia/Legacy CK 64855
Mills Blue Rhythm Band – Blue Rhythm (1931) – Hep CD 1008
Cab Calloway and his Orch. – Black Rhythm (1931) – Masters of Jazz MJCD 182
Charlie Johnson’s Original Paradise Ten – Birmingham Black Bottom (1927) – Frog DGF8
Alphonso Trent and his Orch. – Black and Blue Rhapsody (1928) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8008
Jabbo Smith and his Rhythm Aces – Sweet ‘N Low Blues (1929) – Retrieval RTR 79013
Johnny Dodds’ Washboard Band – Bull Fiddle Blues (1928) – RCA Victor 74321-39802-2
The Missourians – Ozark Mountain Blues (1929) – Masters of Jazz MJCD 105
Bessie Smith – St. Louis Blues (1925) – Columbia/Legacy C4K 57176
The Mills Brothers – St. Louis Blues (1932) – Legacy/Columbia 57713
Joseph Robichaux and his New Orleans Rhythm Boys – St. Louis Blues (1933) – Document DOCD1016
The Executor – Hold Up Black Bird Hold Up (1937) – Rounder CD 1141
Wilmoth Houdini – Black But Sweet (1931) – Arhoolie Folklyric CD 7010
Sam Manning – Jamaica Blues (1926) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8028
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band – Chimes Blues (1923) – Jazz Heritage 513282W
Celestin’s Original Tuxedo Jazz Orch. – Black Rag (1925) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8002
Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers – Black Bottom Stomp (1926) – JSP CD 321
Benny Carter and his Orch. – Blues in My Heart (1937) – Jazz Portaits CD 14583
Coleman Hawkins – Blue Moon (1935) – Disques Swing CDSW 8403
Art Tatum – I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues (1939) – Jazz Life CD 2673752
Alberta Hunter – Beale Street Blues (1927) – Bluebird 0786366065-2
Ethel Waters – True Blue Lou (1929) – Classics 721
Josephine Baker – Bye Bye Blackbird (1926) – Legacy/Columbia CK 57740
Duke Ellington – Black Beauty (1928) – Columbia C2K 46177
Clarence Williams “Blue Five” Orch. – Take Your Black Bottom Outside (1927) – Frog DGF37
Jimmy Johnson and his Orch. – Chicago Blues (1928) – Frog DGF38
Earl Hines and his Orch. – Blue Nights (1929) – Hermes HRM 6004
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch. – Small Black (1929) – Classics 578
Fletcher Henderson and his Orch. – Rocky Mountain Blues (1927) – Columbia/Legacy C3K 57596
Don Redman and his Orch. – Sweet Sue–Just You (1937) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5110

This Friday on RADIOLA! "Black and Blue!"

In honor of Black History Month, on February 17 I'm playing vintage selections by over 30 African-American and Caribbean artists of renown, each title either "black," "blue," or both. I should have the playlist formulated by tomorrow morning. The broadcast will start at 8 PM on WHCL.

"The Curse of an Aching Heart" (Feb. 10, 2006)

(Week 28)

In honor of Valentine's Day, I've decided to give solace to the unattached and those in lousy relationships. Radio listening tends to be a solitary activity--internet radio listening is decidedly so. The playlist below goes out with heartfelt sympathy to the singletons and the unhappily-in-love. We've all been there!

Fats Waller and his Rhythm – The Curse of an Aching Heart (1936) – RCA Victor 07863-66747-2
Rudy Vallee – The Thrill Is Gone (1931) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5026
Anonymous Ocarina Player – William Tell Overture (c. 1910) – Columbia 78 RPM
Gloria Swanson – I Love You So Much I Hate You (1932) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 509
Marlene Dietrich – Falling in Love Again (1930) – ASV Living Era 5195
Ted Lewis and his Band – One More Time (1931) – Retrieval RTR 79014
Bert Lown and his Orch. – The Penalty of Love (1930) – The Old Masters mb105
Halfway House Orch. – I Hate Myself for Loving You (1928) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8001
Ted Weems & his Orch. – She’ll Never Find Another Fellow Like Me (1928) – Memphis Archives 7013
Walter Pidgeon – What’ll I Do? (1924) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 509
Sophie Tucker – The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else (1924) – Take Two TT404CD
Fannie Brice – My Man (1920) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 483
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians – Sweetheart on Parade (1928) – Sensation 769 748 026-2
Lionel Hampton and his Orch. – Sweethearts on Parade (1939) – RCA Camden LP
West End Jazz Band – Singin’ the Blues (2002) – Legacy 2K 101
Wilmoth Houdini – Johnnie Take Me Wife – Rounder CD 1054
Sam Manning – Woman’s Sweeter than Man (1928) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8029
Antobal’s Cubans – The Night the Lady Said “No” (1937) – Harlequin HQ CD 123
Bing Crosby – I’ve Got to Pass Your House to Get to My House (1933) – Columbia CK 44305
Bing Crosby – Can’t We Be Friends (1929) – Sony Music Special Products CD WK 75005
Bing Crosby – Some of These Days (1932) – Charly CDCD 2020
Red McKenzie and his Rhythm Kings – I Can’t Get Started (1936) – Timeless CBC 1-019 JAZZ
Dorsey Brothers’ Orch. – Mean to Me (1929) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8005
Julia Gerity and her Boys – Sittin’ on a Rubbish Can (1931) – Bluebird 82876-50958-2
Jimmie Noone’s Orch. w/Mildred Bailey – He’s Not Worth Your Tears (1931) – The Old Masters mb103
Ambrose and his Orch. (Sam Browne, vo.) – Here Lies Love (1932) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5026
Bob Hope and Shirley Ross – Thanks For the Memory (1938) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 509
Henry King and his Orch. (Jos. Sudy, vo.) – Gloomy Sunday (1936) – Decca 78 RPM
Frank Crumit – My Sweetie Turned Me Down (1925) – Victor 78 RPM
Alex Bartha & his Hotel Traymore Orch. – It Must Be Swell (1932) – Bluebird 82876-50958-2
Ethel Waters – Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (1931) – Classics 721
Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang – Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down (1927) – Columbia CK 46175
Frankie Franko and his Louisianans – Somebody Stole My Gal (1930) – Yazoo 2024
George Metaxa – Sweet Sue, Just You (1928) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5026

"Here Comes the Sun" (February 3, 2006)

(Week 27)

This week's INTERNET ONLY RADIOLA! is offered as a tribute to Rich Conaty's The Big Broadcast, the vintage music behemoth on WFUV. Over the next two weeks Rich has taken on the Herculean task of playing 100 "moon" songs. I thought I would take a complementary tack and devote this playlist to songs of the sun, the morning, and associated (for me) distasteful imagery. ("Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," the song that best expresses my own feelings on the topic, is omitted. I've tried--oh, how I've tried--to keep a positive view of my subject!)

Here's two hours of sunshine. Can you take it?

Boswell Sisters – Here Comes the Sun (1930) – Retrieval RTR 79009
Paul Whiteman and his Orch. – Hymn to the Sun (1936) – courtesy of Lee Hartsfeld
Anonymous Ocarina Player – William Tell Overture – Columbia 78
Cotton and Morpheus – Wake Up! Chill’un, Wake Up! (1929) – Brunswick 78
Joseph Robichaux and his New Orleans Rhythm Boys (1933) – Lazy Bones – Document DOCD 1016
Mills Brothers – Bugle Call Rag (1932) – Legacy/Columbia CK 57713
Dorsey Brothers’ Orch. – Out of the Dawn (1928) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8004
Philip Spitalny and his Orch. – Up and At ‘Em (1926) – Timeless CBC 1-072 JAZZ
Fred Hall’s Sugar Babies – Plenty of Sunshine (1927) – The Old Masters mb106
Lionel Hampton and his Orch. – The Sun Will Shine Tonight (1938) – Classics 524
Slim Gaillard and his Flat-Foot-Floogie Boys – Early in the Morning (1939) – Classics 724
Benny Goodman Sextet – Breakfast Feud (1940) – Columbia CK45144
Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orch. – Give Me the Sunshine (1928) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8013
Red Nichols and his Five Pennies – Carolina in the Morning (1930) – ASV Living Era CD AJA5263
Ted Lewis and his Band – Dip Your Brush in Sunshine (1931) – Retrieval RTR 79014
Harrod’s Jubilee Singers – Rise and Shine (1922) – Document DOCD 5603
Fulcher’s Dance Trio – Daylight’s Breaking Blues (1925) – Timeless CBC 1-038 JAZZ
King David’s Jug Band – Rising Sun Blues (1930) – Yazoo 2033
Venuti and Lang – Sunshine (1927) – JSP CD3402
Checker Box Boys – My Sunshine (1928) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8049
Vincent Lopez and his Orch. – Sunshine (1928) Pro Arte Digital CDD 484
Al Jolson – When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along (1927) – ABC 838 215-2
Annette Hanshaw – It Was Only a Sun Shower (1927) – Jasmine JASMCD 2542
Johnny Marvin – Old Man Sunshine (1928) – Victor 78
Zez Confrey and his Orch. – Morning Will Come (1923) – Victor 78
James P. Johnson – Snowy Morning Blues (1927) – Classics 658
The Little Ramblers – Tomorrow Mornin’ (1925) – Timeless CBC 1-037 JAZZ
Benny Goodman and his Orch. – Throwin’ Stones at the Sun (1935) – Timeless CBC 1-065
Casa Loma Orch. – On the Sunny Side of the Street (1930) – Hep CD 1010
Duke Ellington and his Orch. – Daybreak Express (1933) – Pro Arte Digital
Luis Russell and his Orch. – New Call of the Freaks (1929) – JSP CD 308
Ben Pollack and his Orch. (Jack Teagarden, vocal) – Son of the Sun (1930) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8026
Frances Day and Bud Flanagan – But in the Morning, No (1940) – Charly CDCD 1165
Bing Crosby – Sweet Sue, Just You (1932) – Sony Music Special Products W2K 75003