"Calm Oddities" November 27, 2015

(Week 444)

This RADIOLA! is keeping its hands in its pockets on Slack Friday.

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Frank Richardson - I've Got a Song For Sale (1923) - Cameo 431
Larry Adler - With Plenty of Money and You  (1937) - Columbia FB 1703 (UK)
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
International Novelty Orch (E. J. Daly v) - Medley Fox Trot from “A Sale and a Sailor” (1926) - Victor 19982 B
The Vanderbilt Orch (Harry Archer) (Ernie Cutting dir) - A Little Bungalow (1926) - Vocalion A 15233
Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orch - Down and Out Blues (1925) - Victor 19866 A
Mask and Wig Glee Chorus (U Penn) - Gems from "A Sale and a Sailor" (1926) - Victor 19982 A
Crescent Trio (J. Melton L. James E. Shaw) - Our Bungalow of Dreams (1928) - Victor 21230 A
Genevieve Davis - Haven't Got a Dollar to Pay the House Rent Man (1927) - Victor 20648 A
Benson Orch of Chicago (Bestor) - Easy Melody (1923) - Victor 19147 A
University Six (Arthur Fields v) - Lazy Weather (1927) - Velvet Tone 1433 V
Lou Gold and his Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - Buy, Buy for Baby (1928) - Velvet Tone 1814 V
Marion Harris - Beside a Babbling Brook (1923) - Brunswick 2421 A
WMCA Broadcasters (Irving Kaufman v) - At Peace With The World (1926) - Harmony 175 H
Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (1929) - Columbia 37577
Stephanie Trick - Nothin' (Luckey Roberts) (2010) - Live (TRCD004)
Gary Lawrence and his Sizzling Syncopators (Frank Scafuri v) - Lazy (1980) - Columbia M 35824
Joe Hayman - Cohen Buys a Wireless Set (1922) - Columbia A3832
The Lion - I Am Going To Buy A Bungalow (1938) - Calypso Carnival (Rounder CD 1077)
The Caresser - The More They Try to Do Me Bad (1938) - Calypso Breakway 1927-1941 (Rounder CD 1054)
Al Katz and his Orch (Bill Brookins v) - I May Be Wrong (1929) - Columbia 1971 D
Paul Specht and his Orch (Johnny Morris v) - I Found a Million Dollar Baby (1931) - Columbia 2482 D
Willie Creager and his Orch (Chick Bullock v) - Ten Cents a Dance (1930) - Perfect 15328 B
Gene Austin - Peace of Mind (1929) - Victor 22068 B
Rudy Vallee - Here It Is Monday And I've Still Got A Dollar (1932) - Columbia 2730 D
Frankie Half Pint Jaxon and his Hot Shots - Fifteen Cents (1933) - Sound of Chicago III (Columbia CL 2146)
Sam Lanin and his Orch (Paul Small v) - I've Got Five Dollars (1931) - Velvet Tone 2331 V
Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans (Harry Bentley v) - Easy Come, Easy Go (1934) - Columbia CD 773
Slim Green - It's Easy To Remember (1935) - Decca 7105 B
Willie “The Lion” Smith and his Cubs - Peace Brother Peace (1937) - Timeless CBC 1-012
Hal Kemp and his Orch (Smoothies v) - Love For Sale (1939) - Victor 27285 A
Chick Endor - Let's Call It A Day (1926) - Vocalion A 15382

"Shellac Happens" November 20, 2015

(Week 443)

RADIOLA! is inevitable except when it's not.

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Bert Lown and his Orch (Irving Kaufman) - Tomorrow's Violets (1929) - Harmony 863 H
Don Redman and his Orch - Hot and Anxious (1932) - Parlophone R 2955
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Paul Whiteman and his Orch - Hymn to the Sun (1925) - Victor 19862 A
Jack Hylton and his Orch (trio v) - Gonna Get a Girl (1927) - HMV B 5358
William F. Wirges and his Orch (Frank Munn v) - Afraid of You (1928) - Brunswick 3910 B
Art Gillham - Mean Blues (1925) - Columbia 550 D
Williams Sisters (Wayne Allen p) - Sam, The Old Accordion Man (1927) - Victor 20452 A
National Cavaliers - My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now (1928) - Victor 21794 A
Emerson Military Band - The Alcoholic Blues (1919) - Emerson 1025
The Benson Orch of Chicago - Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (1922) - Victor 18954 A
Mike Speciale and his Orch - Mammy Chasing Blues (1925) - Perfect 14526 B
Harry Lauder - Don't Let Us Sing Anymore About War, Just Let Us Sing of Love (1918) - Victor 70122
Helen Clark and Lewis James - Tea For Two (1924) - Victor 19463 A
Carolina Club Orch (Kemp) (Arthur Fields v) - I'm Marching Home to You (1929) - Velvet Tone 1852 V
Ed Clute - Laura (2004) - I Feel a Song Comin' On
Banu Gibson - Let's Begin - Let's Face the Music and Dance (Swing Out CD 112)
Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders - Angry (1925) - Victor 19786 A
William F Wirges and his Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - Laugh Clown, Laugh (1928) - Brunswick 3910 A
Jim Miller and Charlie Farrell - Someday You'll Say OK (1927) - Victor 20919 B
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (CL v) - My Fate is in Your Hands (1929) - Columbia 2017 D
Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Jack Fulton v) - When My Dreams Come True (1929) - Columbia 1822 D
King Oliver and his Orch - Call of the Freaks (1929) - HMV JF 36
Joe Wilbur - Sunshine (1928) - Perfect 12420
Frank Ferera's Hawaiians (Walter Neff v) - Charmaine (1928) - Perfect 11260
Four Rajahs - Too Busy (1928) - Victor 21550 A
Joe Venuti's Blue Four - Put and Take (1930) - Parlophone R 973
Rex Allan (Neo Bechstein p) - Young and Healthy (1933) - HMV B 4432
Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees - Maori (1932) - Columbia 2700 D
Lil Armstrong and her Swing Orch - You Shall Reap What You Sow (1938) - Decca 1788 A
Kay Kyser and his Orch (Ginny Simms v) - St. Louis Blues (1939) - Columbia 35563
The Cavaliers - Trail of Dreams (1926) - Columbia 805 D

Prognostication

I can't concern myself with the present and its discontents. I'm looking 50 years down the road. People will still be making music, listening, and dancing. I won't be here to see them do it, but I am assured that it will be just as I say.

"Listen to the Hot" November 13, 2015

(Week 442)

This RADIOLA! detects some sizzling despite the season.

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This month's Vanity Fair features an excellent article by Will Friedwald, who celebrates some of our favorite young musicians: These Millennials Are Shaking Up the Jazz World.

Cogert and Motto (The Human Jazz Band) (Fred Hall p) - Ev'rything Is Hotsy Totsy Now (1925) - Okeh 40406 B
Monette Moore and her Swing Shop Boys - Rhythm For Sale (1936) - Decca 7161 A
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Ross Gorman and his Earl Carroll Orch - Somebody's Crazy About You (1925) - Columbia 459 D
Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang - At The Jazz Band Ball (1927) - Okeh 3042
Duke Ellington and his Orch - Saratoga Swing (1929) - HMV B 8828
Lowe Stokes and his North Georgians - Take Me To The Land of Jazz (1928) - Columbia 15367 D
Ruth Etting - Happy Days and Lonely Nights (1928) - Columbia 1454 D
Umbrian Glee Club - Swing Along! (1926) - Vocalion A 1012
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Clarinet Marmalade Blues (1918) - Victor 18513 B
Jazzazza Jazz Band (Samuels) - That's Got 'Em (1919) - Operaphone 31117 A
King Oliver's Jazz Band - I Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody (1923) - HJCA shellac test (mx IRSM 2)
Ed Morton - Trolley Car Swing (1912) - United A1147
Tampa Blue Jazz Band (Samuels) (Billy Jones v) - Atta Baby (1921) - Okeh 4522 A
Palmetto Jazz Quartette - My Jazz Gal (1921) - Okeh 8011 B
Eli and The Hot Six (Ted Casher v) - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (2014) - Comtemporary Classic Jazz
Banu Gibson and Harry Shearer - A Fine Romance - Let's Face the Music and Dance (Swing Out CD 112)
Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds - Halleleujah Blues (1923) - Columbia A3839
Harry Raderman's Jazz Orch - Oh Joy (1921) - Okeh 4404 A
Missouri Jazz Band (Lou Gold) - I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston (1925) - Banner 1644 B
White City Jazzers - Talking Picture Lou (1930) - Madison 5058 B
Grey Gull Studio Band (Irving Kaufman v) - Swingin' in a Hammock (1930) - Madison 5081 A
Casa Loma Orch - White Jazz (1931) - Brunswick 6092 B
Joe Venuti and his Blue Six - Jazz Me Blues (1933) - Decca 18168 A
The Delta Four - Swingin' on The Famous Door (1935) - Decca 737 A
Quintette of the Hot Club of France - Swing Guitars (1937) - Victor 25601 B
Joseph Robechaux and his New Orleans Rhythm Boys - Just Like a Falling Star (1933) - Vocalion 2881 A
Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy - Moten Swing (1936) - Decca 3517 B
Vincent Lopez and his Orch (Johnny Morris v) - Swing High Swing Low (1937) - Perfect 7 04 07
Midge Williams and her Jazz Jesters - The Lady Is a Tramp (1937) - Vocalion 3865
Paul Whiteman and his Swing Wing - (Jack Teagarden v) - Jeepers Creepers (1938) - Decca 2222 A
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - New Tiger Rag (1932) - Columbia 2631 D

"Move or Die" November 6, 2015

(Week 441)

This RADIOLA! asserts that motion is better than its alternative.

RADIOLA! streams continuously from my Live365 station. Syncopate for your life-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.)

Required reading: my recent profile on Eli Newberger (originally published in The American Rag), and an excellent article by Peter Gerler that is most encouraging: What It Means That We Are Lindy Hopping Again.

Unless otherwise noted, the recordings used in this program are from Jeff Healey's American Dance Band collection database, with my own minor audio restoration.

Bailey's Lucky Seven (Jack Kaufman v) - Static (1926) - orig Gennett 3249 (Healey)
Eddie DeLange and his Orch - Muskrat Ramble (1938) - orig Bluebird B-10035 (Healey)
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Willard Robison and his Orch (Deep River Five v) - Five Step (1927) - orig Perfect 14887 (Healey)
Hal Kemp and his Orch - Peg Leg Stomp (1926) - orig Columbia 671-D (Healey)
Joe Candullo and his Everglades Orch - Nervous Charlie Stomp (1926) - orig Banner 1800 (Healey)
Ben Bernie and his Orch (Speed Boys v) - Rhythm King (1928) - orig Brunswick 4085 (Healey)
Missouri Jazz Band (Billy James) (Jack Kaufman v) - Oh! How She Could Shake Her Tambourine (1928) - orig Banner 7199 (Healey)
Tom Gerun and his Orch (Jack Denny v) - The New Step (1929) - orig Brunswick 4519 (Healey)
All Star Trio - Keep Movin' (1919) - orig Victor 18643 (Healey)
Abe Small and his Melody Men - I Wish I Could Shimmie Like My Sister Kate (1923) - orig Strong 10002 (Healey)
Vic Meyers and his Hotel Butler Orch - Shake It and Break It (1923) - orig Brunswick 2501 (Healey)
Original Dixie Rag Pickers (Emerson Studio Orch) - Strut Your Jones (1925) - orig Globe 1296 (Healey)
Varsity Eight - Static Strut (1926) - orig Cameo 975 (Healey)
Abe Lyman's California Orch - Shake That Thing (1926) - orig Brunswick 3069 (Healey)
Baby Soda - Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (2011) - Live at Radegast
Eli and The Hot Six - Tiger Rag (2014) - Comtemporary Classic Jazz
Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orch - Twelfth Street Rag (1917) - orig Columbia A2298 (Healey)
Emerson Xylo-Phiends (Green Bros) - Sensation Rag (1919) - orig Emerson 9165 (Healey)
Gene Rodemich and his Orch - Tenth Interval Rag (1924) - orig Brunswick 2599 (Healey)
Ipana Troubadours (Irving Kaufman v) - Steppin' Along (1929) - orig Columbia 1947-D (Healey)
Hollywood Dance Orch (A Schubert) (Tom Dowd and Roy Carlson v) - Ain't Life A Load Of Happiness? (1930) - orig Banner 0691 (Healey)
Universal Syncopators - Stomp Along (1929) - orig Van Dyke 71749 (Healey)
Ben Bernie and his Orch (Eddy Thomas v) - Glad Rag Doll (1928) - orig Brunswick 4168 (Healey)
The New Yorkers (Carl Fenton) (Joe Reis v) - Shake It Down (1930) - orig QRS Q-1023 (Healey)
Victor Arden and Phil Ohman - Maple Leaf Rag (1930) - orig Victor 22608 (Healey)
Glen Gray and his Orch - Casa Loma Stomp (1933) - orig Victor 24256 (Healey)
Tom Coakley and his Orch (Dudley Nix v) - Rhythm Is Our Business (1935) - orig Victor 25062 (Healey)
Horace Heidt and his Brigadiers - Intoxicating Rhythm (1937) - orig Brunswick 7946 (Healey)
Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye (Jimmy Brown v) - Swing Is Here To Sway (1937) - orig Vocalion 3849 (Healey)
Eddie DeLange and his Orch (Elise Cooper v) - My Kid's Singing Swing Songs (1938) - orig Bluebird B-10003 (Healey)
Ben Pollack and his Orch (Paula Gayle v) - This Is The Life / The International Rag (1938) - orig Decca 1891 (Healey)