"Taking the Chill Off" September 27, 2013

(Week 369)

This RADIOLA! warmly welcomes some welcome warmth.

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The Happiness Boys (Harry Reser uke) - Oh-My-Yes! (1924) - Okeh 40174 B

Les Brown and his Duke Blue Devils - Swamp Fire (1937) - Decca 1231 A

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Ipana Troubadours - Paddlin' Madelin' Home (1925) - Columbia 503 D

Jack Pettis and his Band - St Louis Shuffle (1926) - Domino 3884 B

George Olsen and his Music - Hot Aire (1925) - 19761 B

Art Gillham - So That's The Kind of a Girl You Are (1925) - Columbia 442 D

Nick Lucas - Sleepy Time Gal (1925) - Brunswick 2990 A

Ethel Waters (James P. Johnson p) - My Handy Man (1928) - Columbia 14353 D

Emil Coleman and his Montmartre Orch - Deedle Deedle Bum (1922) - Vocalion A14356

Paul Whiteman and his Orch - Learn to Do the Strut (1924) - Victor 19252 B

Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orch (Clyde Lucas v) - Ev'rything is Hotsy-Totsy Now (1925) - Brunswick 2916 A

Earl Rickard (Harry Reser guitar) - Dumb Dora (1924) - Okeh 40174 A

Edith Wilson and her Jazz Band - Daddy Change Your Mind (1924) - Columbia 14008 D

McKenzie's Candy Kids - Hot Honey (1925) - Vocalion A 15166

'Cile Turner - Down By The Riverside (1952) - Makin' Glory (Rivermont BSW 3135-2)

Martin Spitznagel - The Newbie Eubie (2011) - Handful of Keys (Rivermont BSW 2217)

Fiddlin' John Carson - Dixie Boll Weevil (1924) - Okeh 40095 B

Carl Fenton's Orch (Billy Jones Ernest Hare v) - Oh You Can't Fool an Old Hoss Fly (1924) - Brunswick 2757 A

Harry Reser - Ukulele Lady (1925) - Columbia 409 D

Paul Tremaine and his Orch - I Wanna Sing About You (1931) - Columbia 2462 D (Jeff Healey col)

The Savanna Players (Ambrose) (Sam Browne v) - Laughing at Life (1931) - Decca F 2260 A

Cab Calloway and his Orch - Hot Water (1932) - Oriole 2626 B

Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) - The Moon Is Low (1930) - Columbia 2169 D

Layton and Johnstone - I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You (1933) - Columbia FB 1218

Jim Miller and Charlie Farrell - Cheer Up (Good Times Are Comin') (1930) - Victor 22442 A

Harry Roy and his Orch (Harry Roy v) - Lazybones (1933) - Parlophone R 1611

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Will You, Won't You Be My Baby? (1934) - Vox 16059 B

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys (Jesse Ashlock v) - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (1938) - Vocalion 04439

George Olsen and his Music (Ethel Shutta v) - Underneath The Arches (1933) - Victor 24229 A

Eddy Duchin and his Orch (Stanley Worth v) - My Reverie (1938) - Brunswick 8224

Billy Merrin and his Commanders (Sam Browne v) - No More Heartaches No More Tears (1933) - Regal Zono MR 1262

"Cross Currents" September 20, 2013

(Week 368)

This RADIOLA! drifts out beyond the three-mile limit and back again.

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Lillian Morton - Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky (1928) - Okeh 41072

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (Carmen Lombardo v) - Riptide (1934) - Melotone M 13117 A

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Harry Raderman's Red Hotters - Sunday (1926) - Okeh 40736 B

Harold Leonard and his Waldorf-Astoria Orch (Franklyn Baur v) - Roses For Remembrance (1927) - Columbia 947 D

Paul Whiteman and his Orch - It All Depends On You (1927) - Victor 20513 A

Ethel Waters (James P. Johnson p) - Guess Who's In Town (1928) - Columbia 14353 D

Johnny Marvin - Is She My Girl Friend? (1927) - Victor 21153 B

The Palm Beach Boys - Under The Moon (1927) - Okeh 40878

Blue Diamond Dance Orch (Virginia Burt guitar imitation) - Ka-Lu-A (1921) - Okeh 4497 B

The Original Memphis Five - Stop Your Kidding (1922) - Vocalion A 14461

Emil Coleman and his Montmarte Orch - In a Little Rendezvous (1924) - Vocalion A14879

Palmetto Jazz Quartette - My Jazz Gal (1921) - Okeh 8011 B

Ernest Hare and Billy Jones - Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (1921) - Vocalion B14247

Esther Bigeou (acc by Ricketts' Stars) - Aggravatin' Papa (1923) - Okeh 8053 A

Bryan Wright - Country Club (Scott Joplin) (2004) - Syncopated Musings (Rivermont BSW 2204)

The Morganville Four (Bria Skonberg v) - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (2011) - Alone With My Dream (Jazz Rules JR 1001)

Michael Casey - Casey as a Doctor (1915) - Columbia A1886

The Bar Harbor Society Orch (Charles Hart v) - Marcheta (1923) - Vocalion A14539

Vincent Lopez and his Hotel PA Orch - Maybe (She'll Write Me) (1924) - Okeh 40051A

Majestic Dance Orch (Harry Salter) (Bob Merwin v) - I'm Just a Vagabond Lover (1929) - Perfect 15159

Johnny Hamp and his Orch (Carl Graub v) - Falling in Love Again (1931) - Victor 22638 A

Al Gold and his Band (Charlie Kunz) (Harry Bentley v) - Learn to Croon (1933) - Homochord HN 2

Ruth Etting - Happy Days and Lonely Nights (1928) - Columbia 1454 D

The Melody Three (Frank Luther, Jack Parker, and Phil Dewey) - Pals Forever (1929) - Victor 22028 B

Edward Malloy - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1932) - Sterno 1548

Sir Hamilton Harty and Halle Orch - Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms) (1929) - Columbia 2020 D

Reginald Foort - Finlandia Pt. 1 (Sibelius) (1938) - Victor 26225 A

Reginald Foort - Finlandia Pt. 2 (Sibelius) (1938) - Victor 26225 B

Gene Kardos and his Orch (Lee Russell v) - Sweet As a Song (1938) - Perfect 8-03-01

Mary Martin (w Eddy Duchin's Orch) - Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love (1938) - Brunswick 8282

Stanley Lupino and Elsie Carlisle - Just One More (1932) - Decca F 3319

"Nursing a Grouch" September 13, 2013

(Week 367)

This RADIOLA! is getting better but it will never get well.

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Nita Mitchell (Rube Bloom p) - Because My Baby Don't Mean “Maybe” Now (1928) - Okeh 41084

Jack Shilkret and his Orch (Chick Bullock v) - I Love You From Coast to Coast (1936) - Melotone 7 02 14

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Frivolity Club Orch (Jack Denny) (Bonnie Laddies v) - Hello Bluebird (1926) - Vocalion B 15480

The Vanderbilt Orch (Harry Archer) (Ernie Cutting dir) - A Little Bungalow (1926) - Vocalion A 15233

Jan Garber and his Orch (Harry Goldfield v) - Sweetie Pie (1926) - Victor 20360 A

Louise Groody and Charles King - Sometimes I'm Happy (1927) - Victor 20609 A

Johnny Marvin - Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon (1927) - Victor 21153 A

Sonia Meroff - There Ain't No Land Like Dixieland To Me (1927) - Okeh 40899

Emil Coleman and his Montmarte Orch - Blue Eyed Blues (1922) - Vocalion B14356

Albert E. Short and his Tivoli Syncopators - Love (My heart is calling you) (1923) - Vocalion B14657

Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Ed Smalle v) - So This is Venice! (1924) - Victor 19252 A

Irving Kaufman - Dapper Dan (1921) - Vocalion A14247

Tim Brymn's Black Devil Four - Aunt Hagar's Children Blues (1921) - Okeh 8011 A

Carl Fenton's Orch (Billy Jones Ernest Hare v) - Oh! How I Love My Darling (1924) - Brunswick 2757 B

Mona's Hot Four (Tamar Korn v) - Moonglow (2009) - Live at Mona's

The Morganville Four (Bria Skonberg v) - Que Sera, Sera (2011) - Alone With My Dream (Jazz Rules JR 1001)

Henry Burr - Love Me and the World is Mine (1906) - Zon-O-Phone 622

Oriole Orch - Chansonette (1923) - Brunswick 2505 A

Vincent Lopez and his Hotel Pennsylvania Orch - The One I Love (1924) - Okeh 40051B

Ted Wallace and his Campus Boys - Telling It To The Daisies (1930) - Columbia 2151 D

Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Jack Fulton v) - When My Dreams Come True (1929) - Columbia 1822 D

Jack Purvis and his Orch - Poor Richard (1930) - Parlophone R 992

Mildred Hunt (acc by Landt Trio and Leonard Joy orch) - S'posin (1929) - Victor 22102 B

Frank Luther Trio - In a Little Red Barn (1934) - Perfect 13020 A

Isham Jones and his Orch (Eddie Stone v) - Everyone Says “I Love You” (1932) - Victor 24118 A

Paris Washboard - Keep Your Temper (2010) - Live in Monségur

Chick Webb and his Orch (Ella Fitzgerald v) - Rock It For Me (1937) - Decca 1586 A

Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Ramona v) - I Get a Kick Out of You (1934) - Victor 24769 B

Jack Leon and his Band (Les Allen) - For You (1931) - Piccadilly 853

"Inevitability" September 6, 2013

(Week 366)

This RADIOLA! concedes there's no avoiding it.

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Nora Bayes - Why Worry? (1920) - Columbia A3360

Mississippi Jook Band - Dangerous Woman (1935) - Creole 16 A (Melotone 6 12 71)

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Harry Reser's Jazz Pilots (Tom Stacks v) - Pretty Lips (1926) - Okeh 40730 A

The Rhythm Breakers (Sol S. Wagner) - You Don't Like It Not Much (1927) - Parlophone R 3383

Johnny Ringer and his Rosemont Ballroom Orch (Arthur Fields v) - Who's That Knockin' At My Door? (1927) - Gennett 6264 A

Lillian Morton - Evening Star (1928) - Okeh 41072

Frank Crumit - Frankie and Johnnie (1927) - Victor 20715 A

Johnny Marvin - Crazy Rhythm (1928) - Victor 21650 B

The Benson Orch of Chicago - Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (1922) - Victor 18954 A

Original Memphis Five - You Mamma's Gonna Slow You Down (1923) - Banner 1296 B

Mound City Blue Blowers - Red Hot! (1924) - Brunswick 2602 B

Dolly Connolly - Oh Mr Dream Man Please Let Me Dream Some More (1911) - Columbia A1083

Johnny Marvin - Trudy (1926) - Okeh 40683 A

Happy Martin (Jack Kaufman) - It Goes Like This (1928) - Diva 2756 G

Al Duvall - One Fathom Down (2013) – Insomnibus

Al Duvall (with Bree Benton) (Franklin Bruno p) - Taxidermy Hunter (2013) - Insomnibus

Vess L. Ossman - Peter Piper (1909) - Victor 16935 B

The Benson Orch of Chicago - Copenhagen (1924) - Victor 19470 A

The Original Memphis Five - Static Strut (1926) - Victor 20039 A

Jack Berger and his Orch (Chick Bullock v) - Would You Like to Take a Walk? (1931) - Oriole 2211 B

Henri Gendron's Ambassadors - With The Help Of The Moon (1931) - Columbia 2455 D

The High Hatters (Frank Luther v) - Sweet and Hot (1931) - Victor 22607 B

Edith Evans (Ray Mayer p) - My Kinda Love (1929) - Brunswick 4291

Harry Shalson - With My Guitar and You (1930) - HMV B 3628

Anona Winn - She Wore a Little Jacket of Blue (1935) - Rex 8466 A (UK)

Harry Wilson and his Orch (Jacques Renard) (Howard Phillips v) - This Is Romance (1933) - Edison Bell Winner W64 B

Casani Club Orch (Charlie Kunz) (Harry Bentley v) - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1934) - Sterno 1528

Little Jack Little and his Orch - Moonburn (1935) - Columbia FB 1337

Layton and Johnstone - Night and Day (1933) - Columbia FB 1218

Red Norvo and his Orch (Mildred Bailey v) - Please Be Kind (1938) - Brunswick 8088

Jack Phillips' Melodians (Harry Bidgood) (Sam Browne v) - Beyond The Blue Horizon (Intro: Give Me a Moment, Please) (1931) - Broadcast Twelve 3039 A