"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