"Better Than Expected" February 7, 2014

(Week 381)

This RADIOLA! is a distinct improvement over itself.

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David Bispham - Pirate Song (1906) - Marconi 30026

Raymond Scott Quintet - The Girl With the Light Blue Hair (1939) - Columbia 35247

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

Ace Brigode and his Fourteen Virginians - Alone At Last (1925) - Columbia 426 D

The Caroliners (Bob Haring) (Scrappy Lambert v) - Why? (1928) - Cameo 8316

Colonial Club Orch (Haring) - March of the Old Guard (1930) - Brunswick 4690

Frank Munn - Let Me Spend the Jouney's End With You (1926) - Brunswick 3250 B

The Tune Peddlers - Blue Shadows (1928) - Vocalion 15745

Willard Robison and his Piano - Clap Yo' Hands (1926) - Perfect 12311

Utica Institute Jubilee Singers - Peter on the Sea (1929) - Victor 21925 B

Yerkes Jazarimba Orch - My Mammy (Intro Um-Pah-Pah) (1921) - Columbia A 3372

Original Memphis Five - Lonesome Mama Blues (1922) - Paramount 20131 A

The Columbians - Limehouse Blues (1924) - Columbia 88 D

Irene Young and Al Weston - Those Country Days Surely Were It (1916) - Columbia A 1995

Isabella Patricola - Lovin' Sam (The Sheik of Alabam') (1922) - Victor 18976 A

Sam Lanin and his Orch (Arthur Hall v) - I'm Sitting On Top Of The World (1925) - Perfect 14523

Eddie South - Blues in the Night (1944) - The Dark Angel of the Fiddle (Soundies SCD 4120)

Banu Gibson - Why Do I Lie To Myself About You? (1990) - You Don't Know My Mind

Elsie Carlisle - 'Leven Pounds of Heaven (1932) - Decca F 3038 A

Walter O'Keefe - The Man on the Flying Trapeze Pt 1 (1932) - Victor 24172 A

Walter O'Keefe - The Man on the Flying Trapeze Pt 2 (1932) - Victor 24172 B

Ambrose and his Orch (Sam Browne v) - Me (1931) - HMV B 6068 B

Clyde McCoy and his Orch - Sugar Blues (1931) - Columbia 2389 D

Rudy Vallee and his CT Yankees - Nagasaki (1933) - Bluebird B 7358 B

Ray Noble and his Orch (Al Bowlly v) - What More Can I Ask? (1932) - Victor 24314 A

Al Winters and his Orch (Gus Fetterer v) - Moon Song (1932) - Crown 3437 A

Benny Goodman and his Orch (Jack Teagarden v) - As Long As I Live (1934) - Parlophone R2695

Ray Nichols and his Four Towers Orch (Billie Hibberd v) - And Then Some (1935) - Bluebird B 6012 A

Henry King and his Orch (Joseph Sudy v) - Love is Never Out of Season (1937) - Decca 1333 B

Matty Malneck and his Orch - Hearts and Flowers (1938) - Decca 2060 B

Leslie Hutchinson - Watching the Stars (1936) - Parlophone F 752

Joe Marsala and his Orch - Lower Register (1941) - Decca 3764 B

Lotte Lenya - Lost in the Stars (1943) - Mack The Knife (Naxos 8.120831)