Friday, September 18, 2015

"We Can Doom It!" September 18, 2015

(Week 439)

This RADIOLA! contemplates feckless hubris and the romance of (self?) destruction.

RADIOLA! streams continuously from my Live365 station. Fatal overconfidence-cast here. Each RADIOLA! program is sent to subscribers on my mailing list (email here).

On this program I mention that I am writing for The American Rag, a monthly publication dedicated to ragtime and early jazz. (Subscribe here to read it--it's print-only.)

J. W. Myers - Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1904) - Columbia A320
Gene Kardos and his Orch (Chick Bullock v) - Ooooh Boom (1938) - orig ARC 8-05-01 (Healey)
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Essex Club Orch (Ray Miller) - Dreaming of a Castle In The Air (1926) - Vocalion A 15224
International Novelty Orch - Tango Fate (Valentino) (1926) - Victor 20454 B
Varsity Eight (Irving Kaufman v) - Glorianna (1928) - Cameo 9007
Kitty O'Connor - I'm Walkin' On Air (1927) - Columbia 1174 D
Ethel and Dorothea Ponce - I Faw Down and Go Boom (1929) - Columbia 1698 D
Elder J. H. Burch - Life and Death (1927) - Victor 21476 A
Harold Leonard and his Red Jackets - Fate (1922) - Gennett 5024 A
Varsity Eight - T.N.T. (1925) - orig Cameo 870 (Healey)
The Night Club Orch (Reser) (Tom Stacks v) - I'll Fly To Hawaii (1926) - Harmony 266 H
John Steel - While Others Are Building Castles in the Air (1919) - Victor 18635 B
Billy Murray - I Was Married Up in the Air (1922) - Victor 18991 B
The Melody Man (Joe Davis) - After My Laughter Came Tears (1928) - Harmony 597 H
Ted Shafer's Jelly Roll Jazz Band - Wabash Blues (1997) - Toe-Tapping Dixieland Jazz (Merry Makers  MMRC-CD-13)
The Hot Jazz Alliance - Clarinet Marmalade (2014) - Bandstand Diplomacy (HJA 2015)
The Synco Jazz Band - Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me) (1919) - Columbia A2783
Six Black Diamonds (Samuels) - Bang! (On Your Tambourine) (1923) - Banner 1206 B
WMCA Broadcasters (Charles Hart v) - When Day Is Done (1927) - Diva 2460 G
Coon-Sanders Orch (JLS v) - Ready For The River (1928) - Victor 21501 A
Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Rhythm Boys v) - There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears (1928) - Victor 21464 A
The Washingtonians - Move Over (1928) - Romeo 829
Chester Gaylord - My Troubles Are Over (1929) - Brunswick 4269
Gene Austin - I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling (1929) - Victor 22033 B
Libby Holman - I'm One Of God's Children Who Hasn't Got Wings (1931) - Moanin' Low (Take Two TT415CD)
Julia Sanderson-Frank Crumit - Would You Like to Take a Walk? (1932) - Victor 22630 A
Don Bestor and his Orch (Neil Buckley v) - The Last Round-Up (1933) - Victor 24391 A
Clyde McCoy and his Orch - Tear It Down (1933) - Melotone M 13409 B
Harry Wilson and his Orch (Jacques Renard) (Paul Small v) - Close Your Eyes (1933) - Edison Bell Winner W64 A
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (trio v) - Boom! (1939) - orig Decca 2449 (Healey)
Kitty O'Connor (The Girl Baritone) - Mister Aeroplane Man (1928) - Columbia 1140 D

Friday, September 11, 2015

Forget it

I've decided I can't possibly do a show today. I'm feeling iconoclastic and rude and it's not the day for it. So, carry on without me.

Friday, September 04, 2015

"Seasonally Dimmer" September 4, 2015

(Week 438)

This RADIOLA! is moving away from the light.

RADIOLA! streams continuously through my Live365 station. Spring ahead, Fall on your face-cast here. Each RADIOLA! program is sent to subscribers on my mailing list (email here).

On this program I mention that I am writing for The American Rag, a monthly publication dedicated to ragtime and early jazz. (Subscribe here to read it--it's print-only.)

Lou Gold and his Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - When Summer is Gone (1928) - Diva 2768 G
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys - White Heat (1937) - 50 Years of Jazz Guitar (Columbia CG33566)
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Sam Lanin and his Famous Players (Les Reis v) - Summertime Sweethearts (1927) - Okeh 40913
Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orch - When Day is Done (1927) - Victor 20456 B
Charlie Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orch (Lewis James v) - Happy Days and Lonely Nights (1928) - Victor 21610 A
Cliff Edwards - Give Me a Night in June (1927) - Perfect 11649 B
Jack Smith - When Autumn Leaves Are Falling (1926) - Victor 19959 B
National Cavaliers - Dear On a Night Like This (1927) - Victor 21112 B
Guyon's Paradise Orch - I'm Through (Shedding Tears Over You) (1922) - Okeh 4737 B
Lyman's California Ambassador Orch (Charles Kaley v) - Midnight Rose (1923) - Brunswick 2478 A
NML Dance Orch (Joseph Samuels) (Billy Jones v) - When It's Night Time in Italy (1923) - National Music Lovers 1051 B
Quartette - It's Going to Be a Cold Cold Winter (1914) - Little Wonder 84
Collins and Harlan - When The Midnight Choo Choo Leaves For Alabam' (1912) - Victor 17246 B
Aileen Stanley and Billy Murray - I'll Stand Beneath Your Window To-night and Whistle (1922) - Victor 18943 B
Lucille Hegamin and The Dixie Daisies - Cold Cold Winter Blues (1923) - Cameo 415
Paolo Alderighi and Stephanie Trick - East St. Louis Toddle-O (2014) - Sentimental Journey (ATCD002)
The Hot Jazz Alliance - Oh Baby (2014) - Bandstand Diplomacy (HJA 2015)
Lee Sims - Falling In Love With You (1927) - Brunswick 3551 A
Arthur Fields - The Song is Ended (1927) - Grey Gull 2367 A
Hollywood Dance Orch (A. Schubert) (Irving Kaufman v) - One Summer Night (1927) - Domino 3911 B
All Star Orch (Melody Three v) - Waiting at the End of the Road (1929) - Victor 22073 A
Casino Dance Orch (Lanin) (William Robyn v) - I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling (1929) - Perfect 15164 B
Horace Heidt and his Californians (trio v) - Turn On the Heat (1929) - Victor 22195 A
Bing Crosby - Dancing in the Dark (1931) - Brunswick 80056 B
Gertrude Lawrence - You're My Decline and Fall (1931) - Decca F 2577 B
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long (1932) - Parlophone R 1207
Meyer Davis' Hotel Astor Orch (Joe Moss dir) (Scrappy Lambert v) - Blue is the Night (1930) - Brunswick 4748
Ben Bernie and his Orch (Pat Kennedy v) - A Faded Summer Love (1931) - Brunswick 6193
Layton and Johnstone - Night and Day (1933) - Columbia FB 1218
The Sophisticates (Malneck) - Dark Eyes (1938) - Decca 1883 A
Billy Kyle - Finishing Up a Date (1939) - Decca 2740 A
Anne Jamison w Victor Young Orch - Summertime (1939) - Decca 2876 A

Wednesday, September 02, 2015

"Beyond the Blue Horizon": a new video by Molly Ryan


Molly Ryan has produced a marvelously clever and delightful video in connection with the release of her new album, Let's Fly Away. (I just find it difficult to imagine Molly in any line of work that doesn't involve a rhythm section!)



At the 3:18 mark on the video there's a cameo appearance of Molly's father, Richard Ryan, reading the May 2015 issue of The American Rag. We're famous!