"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