"Nine" (April 21, 2006)

(Week 36)

Twenty-seven of the selections in this playlist were chosen at random out of my vast midden of recorded media--the ninth track on every ninth disc in the four crates of CDs in my living room. This is in commemoration of my ninth wedding anniversary, on April 25. Also in tonight's program are a track from the amazing Big Broadcast CD assembled by Rich Conaty (donate to WFUV and get one as a membership premium), and three Annette Hanshaw recordings used by Nina Paley in her animated feature-in-progress, Sita Sings the Blues. (And there's of course the ocarina and "Sweet Sue" and "Wake Up Chill'un.")

Here is my (mostly) accidental playlist:

Paul Whiteman and his Orch. – Look What I’ve Got (1933) – Rivermont BSW 1141
Boswell Sisters – Shuffle Off to Buffalo (1933) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 550
Anonymouns Ocarina Player – William Tell Overture (ca. 1910) – Columbia 78 RPM
Red Nichols and his Five Pennies – I May Be Wrong But I Think You’re Wonderful (1929) – Quadromania Membran 222464-444
Dick Robertson – I Faw Down and Go Boom (1928) Take Two TT 503 CD
Red Nichols’ Stompers – Sugar (1927) – The Old Masters mb107
Jones-Smith Inc. – Lady Be Good (1936) – Columbia/Legacy CK 64855
Michel Warlop and his Orch. – Avalon (1935) – Swing CDSW 8403
Joseph Robichaux and his New Orleans Rhythm Boys – The Riff (1933) – Document DOCD 1016
Gene Austin – Everything I Have is Yours (1933) – Columbia/Legacy CK 57712
Lew Stone and his Band (Al Bowlly, vo.) – What is There to Take its Place? (1934) – Pulse PBXCD 422/1
Fred Astaire – Louisiana (1929) – Deja Vu 5022-1
Clarence Williams Jazz Kings – Dreaming the Hours Away (1928) – Frog DGF 14
King Oliver and his Orch. – Sweet Like This (1929) – JSP CD 3404
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch. – Moten Stomp (1927) – Disky DO 999872
Annette Hanshaw – Here We Are (1929) – Sensation Vol. 6
Annette Hanshaw – What Wouldn’t I Do For That Man? (1929) – Sensation Vol. 6
Annette Hanshaw – Mean to Me (1929) – Sensation Vol. 6
Lord Beginner – Fed-A-Ray (1953) – Putumayo 205-2
Cliff Jackson – Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1962) – Black Lion BLCD 760194
R. Crumb’s Cheap Suit Serenaders – She Lived Down By The Firehouse (1977) – Shanachie 6002
Ruth Etting – Body and Soul (1930) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5008
Ethel Waters – Heat Wave (1933) – Sony Music Special Products WK 75018
Boswell Sisters – Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding Day (1933) – Columbia/Legacy CK 57111
Charles Fulcher and his Orch. – Atlanta Gal (1929) – Timeless CBC 1-038 JAZZ
California Ramblers – Wishing and Waiting for Love (1929) – Diamond Cut DCP 301-D
Vincent Lopez and his Orch. – Everything’s Made For Love (1927) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5002
Fats Waller – Halleleujah (1939) – Buddha 7446599603-2
Fats Waller and his Rhythm – Serenade to a Wealthy Widow (1935) – Bluebird 07863 66618-2
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch. – Lafayette (1932) – Bluebird 9683-2-RB
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians – Swingin’ in a Hammock (1930) – Collectors’ Choice CCM-229-2
Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five – Muggles (1928) – Columbia/Legacy C4K 57176
Quintet of the Hot Club of France (Jerry Mengo, vo.) – Sweet Sue, Just You (1935) – Everest LP
Ray Starita and his Ambassadors’ Club Orch. – Wake Up, Chill’un, Wake Up (1929) – Avid AVC539