"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