"Yet Another Round" September 26, 2014

(Week 400)

This RADIOLA! raises a glass to another supposed milestone.

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Charles W. Hamp - Heigh Ho! Ev'rybody, Heigh-Ho! (1929) - Columbia 1792 D

Edgar Hayes and his Orch - In The Mood (1938) - Decca 1882 B

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

George Olsen and his Music - Save Your Sorrow (1925) - Victor 19715 A

Waring's Pennsylvanians - Collegiate (1925) - Victor 19648 A

Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orch (Billy Murray v) - Barcelona (1926) - Victor 20113 A

Jack Smith - Then I'll Be Happy (1925) - Victor 19856 A

Irene Williams (Eva Taylor) (Clarence Williams p) - My Different Kind Of Man (1928) - Okeh 41104

Four Aristocrats - She's Still My Baby (1926) - Victor 20314 B

Morrison's Jazz Orch - I Know Why (1920) - Columbia A2945

The Great White Way Orch - Where the Ganges Flows (Intro Just a Pretty Little Home) (1923) - Victor 19106 A

Frankie Quartell and his Melody Boys - Prince of Wails (1924) - Retrieval RTR 79050

Bert Williams - It's Nobody's Business But My Own (1918) - Columbia A2750

Margaret Young - Oh! By Jingo! (1920) - Victor 18666 A

Carl Fenton's Orch (Billy Jones Ernest Hare v) - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' (1924) - Brunswick 2568 B

The Singapore Slingers - Rain (2014) - The Frank Skinner Project (buy a full download here)

West End Jazz Band - Burnin' The Iceberg (2010) - Recorded May 15, 2010 (Huntington, WV)

George MacFarlane - That's an Irish Lullaby (1914) - Victor 45185 B

Frankie Quartell and his Melody Boys - Heart-Broken Strain (1924) - Retrieval RTR 79050

Ted Weems and his Orch - Traveling Blues (1924) - Victor 19496 A

Oscar Papa Celestin - Papa's Got The Jim-Jams (1927) - Jazz Oracle BDW8002

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch - She's No Trouble (1928) - Victor 24893 B

Joe Robichaux and his New Orleans Rhythm Boys - Stormy Weather (1933) - Jazz Oracle BDW8057

Walter Cummins - Huggable Kissable You (1929) - Velvet Tone 1979-V

Boswell Sisters - Shout Sister, Shout (1931) - Brunswick Vol 1 (Collectables CD 6461)

Mills Brothers - Dirt Dishin' Daisy (1932) - Melotone M 13222-A

Wilmoth Houdini - Poor but Ambitious (1940) - Arhoolie Folklyric CD 7010

King Radio - Sedition Law (1940) - Calypsos From Trinidad (Arhoolie CD 7004)

The Caresser - Exploiting (1938) - Fall of Man (Rounder CD 1141)

Red McKenzie - What's the Use of Getting Used to You? (1934) - Decca 243 B

The Four Musketeers - Young and Healthy (1933) - Columbia DB 1076 (UK)

Franklyn Baur - When Day is Done (1927) - Victor 20719 B

"Inside the Box" September 19, 2014

(Week 399)

This RADIOLA! looks into one particular case, for the most part.

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Arthur Fields and Fred Hall - Song of the Condemned (1929) - Velvet Tone 2079-V

Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven (Edythe Wright v) - He's a Gypsy From Poughkeepsie (1937) - Victor 25577 B

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

George Olsen and his Music - Someone to Watch Over Me (1926) - Victor 20392 B

Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Franklyn Baur v) - Valencia (1926) - Victor 20007 A

Jesse Crawford with Goldkette's Book-Cadillac Orch - I'd Love to Call You My Sweetheart (1926) - Victor 20257 A

Frank Crumit (Frank Banta p) - My Sweetie Turned Me Down (1925) - Victor 19701 B

The Revelers - All Alone Monday (1926) - Victor 20417A

Waring's Pennsylvanians - Who's Blue Now? (1928) - Victor 21258 A

Joseph C. Smith's Orch - 'N' Everything (Intro Cleopatra) (1918) - Victor 18507 B

Hilo Hawaiian Orch (Vernon Dalhart v) - Beautiful Gown (1925) - Victor 19713 B

International Novelty Orch (Arthur Hall v) - Titina (from Puzzles of 1925) (tk 3) (1925) - Victor 19586 B

George MacFarlane - Can't You Hear Me Calling, Caroline? (1914) - Victor 45185 A

Enrico Caruso - 'A Vucchella (D'Annunzio-Tosti) (1919) - Victrola 501 B

Eddie Peabody (Arthur Fields v) - Ukulele Lady (1925) - Banner 1572 B

Bria Skonberg and Jim Fryer's Borderline Jazz Band - Big Bear Stomp (Lu Watters) (2007) - Over Easy

Dalton Ridenhour - Charleston Rag (Eubie Blake) (2012) - Eccentricity (Rivermont BSW 2220)

Sousa's Band - Stars and Stripes Forever March (1912) - Victor 16777 A

Peerless Quartette - Follow Up That Big Brass Band (1914) - Columbia A1532

The Lanin Orch (Billy Jones v) - Big Boy (1924) - Okeh 40111 A

Coon-Sanders Orch (CAC and JLS v) - Stay Out of the South! (1927) - Victor 21258 B

Andrew Aiona's Novelty Four - Paahana (1929) - Columbia 1788 D

Paul Whiteman and his Orch - O, Ya Ya (1928) - Victor21304 B

Annette Hanshaw - If I Had a Girl Like You (1930) - Velvet Tone 2178 V

Red McKenzie - Dream Sweetheart (1932) - Columbia 2654 D

Reilly and Comfort - Popular Favorites Medley (I Ain't Got Nobody/Ain't She Sweet?/Dinah) (1933) - Decca F 3668 B (UK)

Dorsey Bros Orch (Kay Weber v) - The Words Are in My Heart (1935) - Decca 370 B

Bob Crosby and his Orch - So This Is Heaven (1936) - Decca 728 A

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Public Melody Number One (1937) - Decca 1347 A

Sandhills Sixteen - What Sort o' Robes Do de Angels Wear? (1927) - Victor 20903 B

Franklyn Baur - Maybe (1926) - Victor 20417 B

The DeReszke Singers - Love's Old Sweet Song (1925) - Victor 45517 A

"Scrap Drive" September 12, 2014

(Week 398)

This RADIOLA! is a thing of shreds and patches but isn't looking for a fight.

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Arthur Collins - Grizzly Bear (1910) - Aretino D681 (orig Columbia A844) Key of F

King Oliver - Struggle Buggy (1930) - Victor 23001 B

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

The Ambassadors (Katzman) - When Autumn Leaves Are Falling (1926) - Vocalion B 15279

Dixieland Jug Blowers - Memphis Shake (1926) - Victor 20415 B

Herbert Spencer and his Orch - Tin Ear (Bob Effros) (1928) - orig Banner 7050 (Healey col.)

Franklyn Baur (Frank Banta p) - The Two of Us (1926) - Victor 20258 B

Evelyn Thompson - Someday Sweetheart (1926) - Vocalion A 1075

Arthur Fields - Muddy Water (1927) - Bell 495 A

Joseph C. Smith 's Orch - Karavan (1920) - Victor 18662 A

The Benson Orch of Chicago - Nobody Knows But My Pillow and Me (1923) - Victor 19102 A

George Olsen and his Music - Sax-o-phun (unissued) (1924) - Everybody Loves My Baby (Renovation 7001)

Victor Light Opera Co - Gems from The Quaker Girl (Ross Greenbank Monckton) (1911) - Victor 35410 B

The Manhattan Merrymakers (Hugo Frey dir) (Billy Murray v) - Bonnie (1923) - Victor 19183 A

The Harmonians (Irving Kaufman v) - A Garden In The Rain (1929) - Velvet Tone 1894 V

Stephanie Trick - Passionette (Smith) (2011) - Something More (Victoria VC4387)

Dan Levinson's Palomar Quartet (Molly Ryan v) (2008) - Silhouetted in the Moonlight - Four on the Floor

Will Rogers - A New Slant on War (1923) - Victor 45347 A

Ukranian Chorus - lak umro, to pohovaite (1925) - Odeon 15521 A

Southampton Society Orch (CA Ramblers) (Arthur Fields v) - I Miss My Swiss (1925) - Perfect 14457

Jack Pettis and his Pets - Doin' the New Low Down (1928) - Victor 21559 A

Ben's Bad Boys - Wang-Wang Blues (1929) - Victor 21971 B

Alexander Dobrohotoff - Kamarinskaja I Svietit Miesiatz (1928) - Okeh 15078

Ethel Waters - Guess Who's In Town? (1928) - Columbia 14353 D

Bing Crosby - You're Still in My Heart (1932) - Columbia DB 2123

Carolina Club Orch (Dick Robertson v) - Why Don't You Get Lost? (1932) - orig Melotone M-12376 (Healey Col.)

Louis King Garcia and his Swing Band (Don Darcy v) - Love is Like a Cigarette (1936) - Bluebird B 6302 A

Bert Firman and his Orch (Sam Costa v) - Don't Play With Fire (1937) - Victor 25661 A

Connie Boswell (w Woody Herman Orch) - Deep in a Dream (1939) - Decca 2259 B

Ray Nichols and his Four Towers Orch (Al Graff) - A Sweet Beginning Like This (1935) - Bluebird B 6012 B

The Tiger - Let Them Fight For Ten Thousand Years (1940) - West Indian Rhythm Vol. 9 (Bear Family)

Victor Salon Orch - Serenade (Toselli) (1926) - Victor 21253 B

"Chasing the Equinox" September 5, 2014

(Week 397)

This RADIOLA! considers that it might as well be Fall.

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Sam Ash - Old Fashioned Garden (1920) - Okeh 4083 A

Carl Deacon Moore and his Orch - Nobody Knows Where She's Gone (1938) - Decca 2183 B

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

Art Landry and his Orch - Just Around the Corner (May Be Sunshine For You) (1926) - Victor 19930 A

Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orch (Franklyn Baur v) - Wouldn't You (1926) - Victor 20379 A

Sid Sydney's Orch (International Novelty Orch) - Could I, I Certainly Could (1926) - Victor 20029 B

Freddie Rose - The Voice of the Southland (1927) - Brunswick 3769 B

Lillie Delk Christian - Ain't She Sweet (1927) - Okeh 8475

Waring's Pennsylvanians - I Love the College Girls (1926) - Victor 20378 B

Joseph C Smith's Orch - Hindustan (1918) - Victor 18507 A

Charles Dornberger and his Orch - The Gold Digger (Dig a Little Deeper) (1923) - Victor 19128 A

The Benson Orch of Chicago - I Never Miss the Sunshine (I'm So Used to the Rain) (1923) - Victor 19102 B

Edna Brown (Elsie Baker) and James F Harrison (Frederick Wheeler) - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1913) - Victor 17338 A

Victor Light Opera Co - Gems from Miss Daisy (Bartholomae-Hein) (1914) - Victor 35404 B

Billy Murray and Ed Smalle - Choo Choo (I Gotta Hurry Home) (1924) - Victor 19516 A

Frank DeVol and his Chorus and Orch - Lonely Acres (In the West) (Willard Robison) (1951) - Capitol 1503

Lee Morse and her Blue Grass Boys - Lonesome Darlin' (1950) - Decca 27066

Ada Jones - They Always Pick on Me (1911) - Aretino D710

The Great White Way Orch (Hugo Frey) - Oh Susanna Medley (1923) - Victor 19125 A

Vic Meyers and his Orch (Frank Bessinger v) (Reser bj) - Sad (1924) - Brunswick 2800 A

Victor Salon Orch - The Wedding of the Painted Doll (1929) - Victor 22043 A

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch - The Jones Law Blues (1929) - Band Box Shuffle (Hep CD 1070)

Enric Madriguera and his Orch (Richard Barry v) - Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee (1932) - orig Columbia 2651-D

Annette Hanshaw - I Get the Blues When it Rains (1929) - Velvet Tone 1910 V

Bing Crosby - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (1931) - Bluebird B 7102 A

The Rhythmic Pianists (Ray Heatherton v) - She's Mine (1932) - Melotone M 12413

Dalton Ridenhour - If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) (2012) - Eccentricity (Rivermont BSW 2220)

The Singapore Slingers (Matt Tolentino v) - The Lady in Red (2014) - The Frank Skinner Project (buy a full download here)

Ragtime Jazz Band with Carling's Family - Happy Rhythm (2009) - Coco 51

Richard Himber and his Ritz-Carlton Orch (Joey Nash v) - In a Blue and Pensive Mood (1934) - Lullaby of Broadway (Renovation 7009)

Isham Jones' Orch (Ed Stone v) - When You Climb Those Golden Stairs (1934) - Decca 220 B

B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orch (Knecht) (Silver Masked Tenor v) - Trail of Dreams (1926) - Victor 20238 A