Hope to see a few there!

"High and Dry" September 28, 2007

(Week 95)

In honor of our area's first-ever hosepipe ban, I musically implore the Rainmaker to fill our reservoir. (We'd been diverting the drinking water all summer into the canal for the delectation of the recreational boaters, and our dessicated chickens are coming home to roost.) Tune to WHCL in at 9 PM ET for these weather-related gems (and the usual new shellac finds):

Cliff Edwards – Singin’ in the Rain (1929) – ABC 838 215-2
Irving Mills and his Hotsy-Totsy Gang – High and Dry (1929) – JSP918B
Ipana Troubadors – Wake Up! Chill’un, Wake Up! (1929) – Columbia 1779-D
California Ramblers – It Was Only a Sun Shower (1927) – Timeless CBC 1-053
Bix Beiderbecke and his Orch. – I Don’t Mind Walking in the Rain (1930) – RCA 66540-2
Don Redman and his Orch – Hot and Anxious (1931) – Hep CD 1001
Gene Austin – Someday, Sweetheart (1927) – Victor 20561-B (78)
Wendell Hall – Meadowlark (1926) – Brunswick 3331-A (78)
Bob Haring and his Orch. (Eddy Thomas, vo.) – Huggable Kissable You (1929) – Brunswick 4395 (78)
Fred Rich and his Orch. (IK) – I Get the Blues When it Rains (1929) – Rivermont BSW 1144
Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines – Weather Bird (1928) – Columbia C4K 57176
Jones & Collins Astoria Hot Eight – Damp Weather (1929) – Frog DGF 5
Duncan Sisters – Happy-Go-Lucky Days (1925) – Victor 19987-B (78)
Margaret Young – Big Bad Bill (1924) – Brunswick 2736-A
Bostonian Syncopators – Stop Your Kidding (1922) – Grey Gull 1137b (78)
Andy Senior (piano solo) – Maybe (2007) – April 2, 2007 home recording
Al Gallodoro Quartet – The Continental (2007) – Audio from Hi8 video made Sept. 22, 2007
Hal Kemp and his Orch. (IK) – Before the Rain (1929) – Sunbeam BXCD 13
Guy Lombardo R.C.’ans with Al Jolson – April Showers (1932) – Columbia CK 57712
Ethel Waters – Heat Wave (1933) – Columbia CK 57711
Edith Wilson (w/Johnny Dunn) – He Used to Be Your Man (1922) – Columbia A3787 (78)
Jones and Hare – Oh, Say, Can I See You Tonight? (1925) – Harmony 9-H (78)
Zonophone Concert Band – Slippery Day (1907) – Zonophone 655 (78)
Scrappy Lambert – Ready For the River (1928) – Brunswick 3926 (78)
Fred Elizalde and his Anglo-American Band – Misery Farm (1928) – Retrieval RTR 79011
Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon – You Got To Wet It (1929) – Herwin 108 (LP)
Goofus Five – I Left My Sugar Standing In The Rain (1927) – Timeless
Bessie Smith – Standing In The Rain (1928) – Excelsior EXL-2-5317
Art Tatum – Stormy Weather (1937) – Charly CDCD 1065
Quintet of the Hot Club of France – Clouds (1935) – JSPCD341
Henry Allen - Coleman Hawkins and their Orch. – Dark Clouds (1933) – Hep CD 1028
California Ramblers – Show Me The Way To Go Home (1925) – Timeless CBC 1-053

PIANO JAZZ AT CAFE DOMENICO IN UTICA OCT. 3

I'm scheduled to play piano at Cafe Domenico, 2011 Genesee St, Utica, NY (phone 315-798-8077) on Wednesday, October 3, at 7 PM. Domenico's is directly across from the Uptown Theatre. You'll hear pop standards played in stride and swing, with a respectful nod to Waller and Tatum.

And yes, this is my first engagement in about five years--I'm back!

RECEPTION TIPS FOR WHCL

WKHR, a radio station in Ohio, has posted these reception tips. WHCL is another notoriously weak station, and these suggestions work just as well here--better, perhaps, since WHCL does not broadcast in stereo. (In essence--buy a good radio, run up an aerial, and keep that switch on "mono.")

(WKHR also hosts a vintage music program that is well worth checking out--Monday nights at 6 PM ET.)

"Rare Birds" September 21, 2007

(Week 94)

The "rare birds" herein referred to are odd Grey Gull and Oriole 78s--although I did manage to work in (subconsciously, perhaps) Walter Davison's Louisville Loons. Not a bad show, and now it's up on Live365:

Emmett Miller – Right or Wrong (1929) – Columbia CK 66999
Grey Gull Studio Orch. (Arthur Fields, vo.) – I’m Lost Without You (1928) – Grey Gull 1594 (78)
Ipana Troubadors – Wake Up! Chill’un, Wake Up! (1929) – Columbia 1779-D
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators – Willie the Weeper (1927) – Frog DGF 34
Metropolitan Dance Players (Leroy Smith) – Harlem’s Araby (1924) – Grey Gull 1283b (78)
Clifford Hayes’ Louisville Stompers – Barefoot Stomp (1928) – Frog DGF10
Wright and Bessinger (Radio Franks) – I’m Sittin’ on Top of the World (1925) – Perfect 12224B (78)
Arthur Fields – Dear Old Southland (1922) – Grey Gull 2091b (78)
Vaughn De Leath – When I’m Walking With My Sweetness (1929) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5468
Parenti’s Liberty Syncopators – Weary Blues (1926) –Frog DGF4
Bob Green’s Dance Orch. (Adrian Schubert) – You and Me and You (1926) – Oriole 801b (78)
California Ramblers – Changes (1928) – Timeless CBC 1-053
Ada Jones and Billy Murray – When Priscilla Tries to Hit High C (1916) – Victor 18100-B (78)
Collins and Harlan – The Cannibal King (1917) – Columbia A-2441 (78)
Metropolitan Dance Players – Wake Up, Little Girl, You’re Dreaming (1922) – Grey Gull 1114b (78)
Baker-Baldwin Radiogram Washboards – Wake Up! Chill’un, Wake Up! (1992) – Stomp Off CD1243
Alfred Gallodoro – Oodles of Noodles (1948) – “The Many Sides of Alfred Gallodoro” Golden Rooster CD
Paul Whiteman’s Sax Soctette – Blue Skies (1939) – Hep CD 1082
Benny Goodman’s “Rhythmakers” – King Porter Stomp (1935) – Jasmine JASCD 409
Horace Henderson and his Orch. – Happy Feet (1933) – Hep CD 1028
Sam Ash – Who’ll Take My Place (1922) – Grey Gull 2093b (78)
Sim Harris – Hand Me Down My Walking Cane (1927) – Oriole 916a (78)
Grey Gull Studio Orch. (Irving Kaufman, vo.) – If I Had You (1929) – Grey Gull 1594 (78)
Louis Dumaine’s Jazzola Eight – Red Onion Drag (1927) – Frog DGF5
Dick Holmes (Jack Kaufman) – Let’s Play House (1928) – Oriole 1465b (78)
Walter Davison’s Louisville Loons – South Wind (1927) – Rivermont BSW 1141
West and Thomas (Jones and Hare) – All By Yourself in the Moonlight – Oriole 1465a (78)
Annette Hanshaw – The Right Kind of Man (1929) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5220
Mamie Smith – Golfing Papa (1931) – Timeless CBC 1-068
Carl T. Sprague – Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1926) – Montgomery Ward M-4060-B (78)
Fisk U. Jubilee Singers – I Ain’t Goin’ to Study War No More (1920) – Columbia A-3596 (78)
Django Reinhardt and his Quintet – Songe D’automne (1947) – DRG 8473

AL GALLODORO IS BACK THIS SATURDAY!

KEEPING THE BEAT! THE AL GALLODORO QUARTET with JoAnn Chmielowski, piano; Ryan Cyrbus, Bass; and Lou Colone, drums; at SEGO CAFE, ONEONTA, NY, Saturday September 22, 8-11PM.

Here's the incomparable Al with his talented student Erin Johnston at the Sego this April at a show we attended:



Dr. Alfred J. Gallodoro (born June 20, 1913) is still keeping the beat with his new state of the art Pacemaker implant! At over 94 years young, Gallodoro continues to thrill his listeners with his impeccable musicianship and incredible mastery of his instruments. His admirers include more than just saxophone aficionados--he recently appeared twice at Cornell University's Weill Medical College for concerts and as the subject of an extensive interview on longevity and vitality.

Al is one of only 13 artists who recorded before 1940 that is still active and recording, During a professional career spanning an amazing nine decades, Gallodoro has played his saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet in all forms and venues of music.

Al was called upon in April 2006 to perform George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the NYC Harmonie Ensemble, a piece for which he holds the distinction of a world’s record--over 10,000 performances throughout his association of nearly four decades with the “King of Jazz” Paul Whiteman.

For more information, please visit the Official Al Gallodoro Website.

SEGO CAFE, Main St, Oneonta, New York. Reservations 607-432-0228

"I Believe In Miracles" September 14, 2007

(Week 93)

Tune in tonight at 8 PM ET to WHCL 88.7 for a show that materialized miraculously when a nice bundle of new CDs arrived in today's mail. The rest of the program delves into the theme in typical RADIOLA! fashion.

Fats Waller and his Rhythm – I Believe in Miracles (1935) – Bluebird 07863-66618-2
Willie Bryant and his Orch. – The Voice of Old Man River (1935) – Bluebird 9683-2-RB
Ipana Troubadors – Wake Up! Chill’un, Wake Up! (1929) – Columbia 1779-D
Benny Goodman’s Boys – A Jazz Holiday (1928) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5263
Waring’s Pennsylvanians – It Made You Happy When You Made Me Cry (1926) – CCM-175-2
California Ramblers – Everything is Hotsy-Totsy Now (1925) – Timeless CBC 1-053
Al Bernard – Roll Them Roly Boly Eyes (1928) – Archeophone 1006
Vaughn De Leath – Banana Oil (1925) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5468
Bessie Smith – Cake Walking Babies From Home (1925) – Timeless CBC 1-068
Parenti’s Liberty Syncopators – Cabaret Echoes (1925) – Frog DGF 6
Slim Lamar and his Southerners – That's a Plenty (1929) – Retrieval RTR 79006
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators – Wa Wa Wa (1927) – Frog DGF 34
Irene Gibbons – Jeanine, I Dream of Lilac Time (1928) – Frog DGF 14
Emmett Miller – She’s Funny That Way (1929) – Columbia CK 66999
Jean Goldkette and his Orch. – I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (1927) – RCA Jazz Tribune No. 48
Mel Powell and his Orch. – When Did You Leave Heaven? (1942) – Commodore 543 (78 RPM)
Baker-Baldwin Radiogram Washboards – How High the Moon (1992) – Stomp Off CD 1243
Jones-Collins Astoria Hot Eight – Tip Easy Blues (1929) – Frog DGF 5
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers – Wherever There’s a Will, There’s a Way (1929) – Jazz Archive No. 26
Harris Brothers’ Texans – The Pay Off (1928) – Timeless CBC 1-055
Bing Crosby – Love in Bloom (1934) – Columbia CK 57712
The Boswell Sisters – Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding Day (1932) – Collectables COL-CD-6462
Ethel Waters and her Jazz Band – Heebie Jeebies (1926) – Timeless CBC 1-068
Busse’s Buzzards – Deep Elm (You Tell ‘Em I’m Blue) (1925) – Timeless CBC 1-072
Guy Lombardo and his R. C.’ans – Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? (1933) – CCM-299-2
Paul Whiteman and his Orch. – Because My Baby Don’t Mean Maybe Now (1928) – Columbia 1441-D
Leslie Hutchinson – You Go to My Head (1939) – Prism PLATCD 566
Annette Hanshaw – We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye (1932) – ASV Living CD AJA 5220
Isham Jones and his Orch. (Eddie Stone, vo.) – Believe it, Beloved (1934) – Rivermont BSW-1144
Johnny Johnson and his Orch. – In a Little Gypsy Tearoom (1935) – Oriole 3163-B (78)
Coleman Hawkins – Stardust (1935) – Timeless CBC 1-006
California Ramblers – Show Me The Way To Go Home (1925) – CBC 1-053
Ben Bernie and his Orch. – Au Revoir, Pleasant Dreams (1942) – Reader’s Digest LP Box Set

"Back to Shellac" September 7, 2007

(Week 92)

An all-78RPM edition of RADIOLA! to open the new fall season at 8 PM ET tonight on WHCL--with lots of acoustic biscuits for those who love 'em:

Flanagan and Allen – Music Maestro Please (1938) – Columbia (UK) FB 2046
Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orch. – Halleleujah! (1927) – Victor 20599-B
Ipana Troubadors – Wake Up! Chill’un, Wake Up! (1929) – Columbia 1779-D
Paul Whiteman – It Had to Be You (1924) – Victor 19339
Roy Bargy – Knice and Knifty (1922) – Victor 18969-B
The Revelers – Bam Bam Bammy Shore (1925) – Victor 19848-A
The Duncan Sisters – Baby Sister Blues (1923) – Victor 19050-B
Gene Rodemich and his Orch. – Cry Baby Blues (1922) – Brunswick 2159-B
Benson Orch. of Chicago – Sobbin’ Blues (1923) – Victor 19130
Paul Whiteman – Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky (1928) – Columbia 1441-D
George Olsen and his Music – Meadow Lark (1926) – Victor 20599-A
Rudy Vallee – Huggable, Kissable You (1929) – Victor 21983-B
Ted Lewis and his Band – If You See Sally (1926) – Columbia 844-D
The Troubadors – Dream Kisses (1928) – Victor 21000-B
Joe Venuti and his Orch. – Cheese and Crackers (1933) – Melotone M 12831
Giovanni Martinelli – Vesti La Giubba (1928) – Victor Red Seal 6754-A
Herbert L. Clarke – Bride of the Waves (1904) – Victor 16194-B
Tennessee Ten – Gulf Coast Blues-Sugar Blues (1923) – Victor 19094-A
Anglo-Persians – Dancing Tambourine (1928) – Brunswick 3655-A
Paul Whiteman and his Orch. – That’s My Weakness Now (1928) – Columbia 1444-D
Paul Whiteman and his Orch – Tain’t So, Honey, Tain’t So (1928) – Columbia 1444-D
Gene Austin – Dear Old Southland (1937) – Decca 1656-B
Flanagan and Allen – How Do You Do, Mister Right? (1938) – Columbia (UK) FB 2046
Roy Bargy – Pianoflage (1922) – Victor 18969-A
Benson Orch of Chicago – Oklahoma Indian Jazz (1924) – Victor 19257-B
Ted Lewis and his Band – Ah Ha! (1925) – Columbia 311-D
Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orch. – Sweet Thing (1926) – Victor 20599
Joe Venuti and his Orch. – Moonglow (1933) – Melotone M 12831
Johnny Johnson and his Orch. (Vi Mele, vo.) – Every Little Moment (1935) – Oriole 3163-A
Paul Whiteman and his Orch. – Tschaikowskiana (1928) – Columbia 50113-D
Ray Starita and his Ambassadors Band – Wake Up, Chill’un, Wake Up (1929) – Avid AVC539

Cubby Bear in "Croon Crazy" (1933)

Just a little something to tide you over until Friday--dig Red McKenzie on the soundtrack!

"Hello, Bluebird!" August 31, 2007

(Week 91)

Everyone has returned to Hamilton College for the new semester, and this RADIOLA! was the first of the fall season at WHCL. Welcome back! (Be sure to check out the YouTube links to the featured selections.)

Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields – Hello Bluebird! (ca. 1927) – Vitaphone audio
Guy Lombardo and his R. C’ans – Whistling in the Dark (1931) – Collectors’ Choice CCM-299-2
Ipana Troubadors – Wake Up! Chill’un, Wake Up! (1929) – Columbia 1779-D (78 RPM)
Eddie Lang – Perfect (1927) – Retrieval RTR 79015
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers – If I Could Be With You (1930) – Jazz Archives No.26
Seattle Harmony Kings – Breezin’ Along With the Breeze (1926) – Timeless CBC 1-072
Vaughn De Leath – Ukulele Lady (1925) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5468
Bing Crosby – Let’s Try Again (1932) – CK 44305
Mildred Bailey – Georgia On My Mind (1931) – JSPCD918B
Dick Rich and his Synco-Symphonists – Chloe (1928) – Vitaphone audio
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch. – Jones Law Blues (1929) – Classics 578
Irving Mills’ Hotsy Totsy Gang – Strut Miss Lizzie (1929) – Sensation 769748025-2
Ethel Waters – Do I Know What I’m Doing? (1929) – Classics 721
Fred Astaire – Music Makes Me (U.K. Issue) (1933) – Naxos 8.120718
The Boswell Sisters – It Don’t Mean a Thing (1932) – Collectables COL-CD-6462
West End Jazz Band – Tin Ear (2005) – Audio from live performance video
The Wiyos – Everybody Loves My Baby (2007) – Audio from live performance video
Al Gallodoro (w/ the Beau Hunks) – Smoke Rings (1999) – “Out of Nowhere” Basta 30-9092-2
Rudy Vallee and his CT Yankees – Sposin’ (1929) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5002
Eddie South and his Int’l Orch. – Hejre Kati (1931) – Frog DGF 36
Leslie Hutchinson (“Hutch”) – September in the Rain (1937) – Prism PLATCD 566
Annette Hanshaw – Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (1931) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5220
Earl Burtnett and his L.A. Biltmore Orch. – Miss Annabelle Lee (1928) – Vitaphone Audio
Goofus Five – I’ve Got the Girl (1926) – Timeless CBC 1-017
Cab Calloway and his Orch. – Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (1930) – Masters of Jazz MJCD105
Ben Pollack and his P.C. Orch. – She’s One Sweet Show Girl (1928) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8015
Bing Crosby – Please (1932) – Collectables COL-CD-6805
Hoagy Carmichael – Cosmics (1934) – Bluebird ND 88333
Gene Austin with Candy and Coco – China Boy (1937) – Rivermont BSW-1141
Walter Huston – September Song (1938) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 509
Abe Lyman and his Orch. – Varsity Drag (1928) – Vitaphone audio
Ben Bernie and his Orch. – Au Revoir, Pleasant Dreams (1941) – Reader’s Digest LP Box Set