"Crime and Punishment" (April 7, 2006)

(Week 33)

This program is dedicated to all the usual suspects (which could include any of us these days), merely caught in the act of being themselves. The following line-up can be apprehended at 8 PM Friday on WHCL-FM.

Paul Whiteman and his Orch. – Ah-Ha! (1925) – Victor 78 RPM
Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang – March of the Hoodlums (1929) – Sensation 769 748 025-2
Anonymous Ocarina Player – William Tell Overture (1910) – Columbia 78 RPM
Ruth Etting – Guilty (1931) – Take Two TT403CD
Annette Hanshaw – I Want to Be Bad (1929) – Sensation Annette Hanshaw Vol. 6
Hotchkiss Dance Orch. – Love For Sale (1931) – Columbia/Legacy CK 52855
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians – I’m Playing With Fire (1933) – Columbia CK 44407
Bing Crosby – I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song (1933) – Columbia CK 44306
The Lion – Ba Boo La La (1938) – Rounder CD 1077
Bing Crosby (w/ Gus Arnheim’s Orch.) – Just a Gigolo (1931) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 432
Bertha Idaho – Down on Pennsylvania Avenue (1929) – Frog DGF 17
Lonnie Johnson – Racketeer’s Blues (1932) – Columbia CK 46221
Fats Waller – Where Were You On the Night of June the Third? (1935) – Stash ST-CD-539
Red McKenzie and his Rhythm Kings – Murder in the Moonlight (1935) – Timeless CBC 1-019
Squirrel Nut Zippers – Bad Businessman (1996) – Mammoth MR0137-2
Bert Williams – The Moon Shines on the Moonshine (1919) – Archeophone ARCH5002
Billy Williams – Don’t Send My Boy to Prison – Empress RAJCD834
Vernon Dalhart – The Prisoner’s Song – History of Pop Radio 205598-202
Frank Crumit – Frankie and Johnny (1927) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 3407
Henry “Red” Allen and his N. Y. Orch. – Patrol Wagon Blues (1930) – Classics 540
West End Jazz Band – Here Comes My Ball and Chain (2004) – Legacy 2K 104
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch. – Jones Law Blues (1929) – Classics 578
Thomas Morris’ Hot Babies – Please Take Me Out of Jail (1927) – Bluebird 61005-2
Jimmie Lunceford and his Orch. (Sy Oliver, vo.) – Miss Otis Regrets (1935) – Hallmark 300422
Blind Willie McTell – Death Cell Blues (1933) – Going for a Song GFS458
Bessie Smith – Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair (1927) – Excelsior EXL-2-5317
Memphis Jug Band – He’s In the Jailhouse Now (1930) – EPM Blues Collection 159622
Jelly Roll Morton and his Orch. – Courthouse Bump (1929) – JSP CD322
Vincent Lopez and his Orch. – My Fate is In Your Hands (1930) – Archeophone ARCH 3002
Bing Crosby – Just One More Chance (1931) – Sony Music Special Products A2 23671
Ray Noble and his Orch. (Al Bowlly, vo.) – Time on My Hands (1931) – Charly CDCD 1136
Gene Austin – Ain’t Misbehavin (1929) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5026
Dicky Wells and his Orch. – Sweet Sue, Just You (1937) – Topaz Jazz TPZ 1023
King Radio – Sedition Law (1939) – Arhoolie Folklyric CD 7004