"Extremities" August 10, 2007

(Week 88)

Here I felt like going to extremes--but only those at hand (and foot). Tune in tonight at 8 PM EDT on WHCL for these finger foods and tootsie rolls:

Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Orpheans – From the Top of Your Head (1935) – Avid AVC539
Fletcher Henderson and his Orch. – Sugar Foot Stomp (1925) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5110
Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orch. – Wake Up, Chill’un, Wake Up (1929) – JSPCD926B
Charles Creath’s Jazz-O-Maniacs – Butter Finger Blues (1927) – Yazoo 2025
New Orleans Bootblacks – Flat Foot (1926) – Disky DO999872
The Georgia Jumpers – The Big Feet Rag (1931) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8011
Nick Lucas – Tiptoe Through the Tulips (1929) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 483
Whispering Jack Smith – Clap Yo’ Hands (1926) – RCA Victor 09026-63294-2
Cab Calloway and his Orch. – Happy Feet (1930) – Masters of Jazz MJCD 105
The Red Heads – Fallen Arches (1925) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8043
Sam Lanin and his Orch. – Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley! (1925) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8043
Fred Hall and his Sugar Babies – I Lift Up My Finger and I Say “Tweet Tweet” (1929) – TOM mb106
Ethel Waters – Weary Feet (1927) – Classics 688
Ray Noble and his Orch. (Al Bowlly, vo.) – Hold My Hand (1934) – PAST CD 7075
Fats Waller and his Rhythm – Hold My Hand (1938) – Buddha 74465996032
Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang – Hot Fingers (1929) – Columbia CK 47060
Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang – A Handful of Riffs (1929) – Columbia CK 47060
Helen Morgan – I’ve Got Sand in My Shoes (1934) – Columbia C2K 52943
Cliff Edwards – I Got Shoes–You Got Shoesies (1935) – Rivermont BSW 1144
Henry Allen-Coleman Hawkins and their Orch. – Swingin’ Along on a Shoe String (1933) – Classics 540
Louis Armstrong and his Orch. – Kickin’ the Gong Around (1932) – JSPCD 3404
George Formby – With My Little Ukulele in My Hand (1933) – Hallmark 300282
Bessie Smith – Gimme a Pigfoot (1933) – Charly CDCD1030
Bing Crosby – I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (1929) – Sony Special Products W2K 75003
The Boswell Sisters – Hand Me Down My Walking Cane (1932) – Collectables COL-CD-6462
Slim and Slam – The Flat Foot Floogie (1938) – Classics 705
Bill Haid’s Cubs – Slue Foot (1928) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8039
Fletcher Henderson and his Orch. – Fidgety Feet (1927) – Quadromania 222440-444
Joseph Robichaux and his N.O. Rhythm Boys – Foot Scuffle (1933) – Document DOCD 1016
Fats Waller and his Rhythm – Fractious Fingering (1936) – RCA Victor 07863 66747-2
Fats Waller – Your Feets too Big (1943) – Archives of Jazz 3801072
Fats Waller – A Handful of Keys (1943) – Archives of Jazz 3801072
Bing Crosby – Sweet Sue-Just You (1932) – Sony Special Products W2K 75003