"Springtime Ragtime, Big Time" April 7, 2017

(Week 455)

This RADIOLA! returns from Carnegie Hall with glad tidings.

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Discographical information for certain selections below (particularly those on the Victor and Columbia labels) may be found using this excellent site: Discography of American Historical Recordings.

Mike Bernard - Fantasy On Mendelssohn's Spring Song and Rubenstein's Melody in F (1912) - Columbia A1276
Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers - Maple Leaf Rag (1932) - HMV B 9408
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Paul Whiteman and his Orch - Manhattan (1925) - Victor 19769 B
Coon Sanders Orch (C. A. Coon v) - Too Busy (1928) - Victor 21546 A
Dixie Jazz Band (Original Indiana Five) - Moten Stomp (1928) - Oriole 1172 [ToNY]
Harold Yates Cooper Lawley - Highways Are Happy Ways (1927) - Victor 20907 A
Charles Dickson (Irving Kaufman) - Skies of Gray (1927) - Jewel 5135 B
Annette Hanshaw and her Sizzling Syncopaters - I Just Roll Along (1928) - Perfect 12419 B
Frank Westphal and his Orch - Railroad Man (1923) - Oh! Sister, Ain't That Hot! (Rivermont BSW 1158)
Ted Weems and his Orch - Traveling Blues (1924) - Victor 19496 A
Johnny Sylvester Orch - King Porter Stomp (1925) - Perfect 14392 [ToNY]
Billy Murray - I Love to Stay at Home (1915) - Victor 17855A
Criterion Quartet - Life's Railway To Heaven (1925) - Brunswick 2931 B
Carolina Club Orch (Arthur Fields v) - Dream Train (1929) - Diva 2844 G
Richard Dowling - Wall Street Rag (2015) - Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin (Rivermont BSW 2240)
Richard Dowling - Gladiolus Rag (2015) - Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin (Rivermont BSW 2240)
Frosini - New York Blues (Rag Classical) (1918) - Edison 50454
Wm Eckstein - Coaxing The Piano (1923) - Silvertone 1250 B (orig Pathe)
Earl Rickard - I'm a Homesick Rolling Stone (1924) - Okeh 40305 B
George Olsen and his Music (Fran Frey v) - Big City Blues (1929) - Victor 21961 B
Tiny Parham and his Musicians - Subway Sobs (1929) - Victor V 38041 A
Hal Kemp and his Orch (Skinny Ennis v) - Whistles (1931) - The Hot Sides 1926-1931 (Retrieval RTR 79025)
Mildred Hunt - Ho Hum (1931) - Romeo 78 (courtesy Rich Conaty)
Gerry Fitz-Gerald - It's Home (1934) - Regal Zono MR 1553
Sophie Tucker - Stay At Home Papa (1934) - Superbatone 733 - Disc 4 (orig Parlophone R-1851)
Jack Denny and his Waldorf-Astoria Orch (June Pursell v) - Sharing (1932) - Victor 24012 A
Ramona with the Park Avenue Boys - The House is Haunted (1934) - Victor 24597 A
Henry King Hotel Pierre Orch (Joe Sudy v) -You've Got Everything (1933) - Voc 2562 A
Jazz Gillum - I'm Still Walking the Highway (1941) - Bluebird B 8778 A
Jelly Roll Morton Seven - Good Old New York (1940) - General 1704 A
Richard Dowling - Bethena (2015) - Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin (BSW 2240)

"Original Sync" March 3, 2017

(Week 454)

This RADIOLA! reflects on a century of (mostly) innocent fun.

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Ponce Sisters (Ethel & Dorothea) - My Sweetie Turned Me Down (1926) - Edison Diamond Disc mx 10633-B

Singin' Sam - 'Cause My Baby Says It's So (1939) - Refreshment Time B 643 (World tx)

The Art Hinett Threesome - Apache Dance (1939) - Bluebird B 11174 A

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

Phil Ohman and Victor Arden and their Orch - At Sundown (1927) - Brunswick 3481 A

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Save It Pretty Mamma For Me (1928) - Parlophone R 558

George Olsen and his Music (Fran Frey v) - Mona (1929) - Victor 22259 A

Lee Morse - Where The Wild, Wild Flowers Grow (1927) - Columbia 1011 D

Frank Crumit - Abdul Abulbul Amir (1927) - Victor 20715 B

The Revelers - Breezin' Along (1926) - Victor 20140 A

Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Mournin’ Blues (1918) - Victor 18513 A

Original Memphis Five - Tin Roof Blues (1923) - Victor 19170 B

Original Indiana Five - Deep Henderson (1926) - Harmony 217 H

Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan - Down in Jungle Land (1918) - Emerson 959

George Beaver (Irving Kaufman) - Indianola (1918) - Emerson 959

Original Memphis Five (Joe Griffith v) - The Grass is Always Greener in the Other Fellow’s Yard (1924) - Columbia 186 D

Tuba Skinny - Blue Chime Stomp (2015) - That New Old Sound

Original Cornell Syncopators - Livery Stable Blues (2017) - rec. Feb 26, 2017 Barnes Hall Cornell University Ithaca NY

Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Darktown Strutters’ Ball (1917) - Sound of New Orleans I (Columbia CL 2102)

Jimmie's Joys - St Louis Blues (1923) - Jimmie’s Joys (Jazz Oracle BDW 8067)

The Knickerbockers - The Original Charleston (1925) - Columbia 355 D

George Olsen and his Music (Fran Frey v) - Breakaway (1929) - Victor 21961 A

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Rockin’ Chair (1929) - Columbia M667 (Japan)

Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch - The Count (1930) - Bluebird B-6719-A

Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees - My Bluebird Was Caught in the Rain (1930) - Victor 22506 B

Ambrose and his Orch (Sam Browne v) - Till Tomorrow (1932) - Regal Zonophone MR 769

Ruth Etting - Tomorrow Who Cares? (1934) - Columbia 2954-D

Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orch (Bob Goday v) - There's a Lull in My Life (1937) - Bluebird B-6933-A

Jerry Cooper - Timber (1936) - Victor 25485 A

Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys - Old Joe’s Hittin’ The Jug (1936) - Vocalion S 72 B (UK)

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orch - A Study in Brown (1937) - Decca 1159 B

Dorothy Lamour (Cy Feuer Orch) - Swing High, Swing Low (1937) - Brunswick 7838

Donald Novis - When Day is Done (c 1940) - Donald Novis Sings 15 (mx 09520-1)

"Unreality Check" January 27, 2017

(Week 453)

This RADIOLA! doesn't believe its own eyes--by decree.

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Arthur Fields - Oh What a Pal Was Whoozis! (1927) - Bell 515 A
Tempo King and his Kings of Tempo - You're Giving Me a Song and a Dance (1936) - Bluebird B-6575-B
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
The Bostonians (Ernie Golden) - Lonely Acres (1926) - Vocalion A 15490
Eddie Harkness and his Orch (Harold Dana v) - Trees (1928) - Victor 21313 A
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch - Tough Breaks (1928) - Bluebird B-6638-B
Bessie Smith - Money Blues (1926) - Columbia 14137 D
Art Gillham - I'm Waiting For Ships That Never Come In (1927) - Columbia 1051 D
Annette Hanshaw and her Sizzling Syncopaters - There Must Be a Silver Lining (1928) - Perfect 12419
Jazz-Bo's Carolina Serenaders - Hot Lips (1922) - Cameo 257
Majestic Dance Orch (Katzman) - Lost (A Wonderful Girl) (1922) - Grey Gull 1137 A
Ray Miller and his Orch - Me Neenyah (1925) - Brunswick 2814 B
Eddie Nelson - After You've Gone (1918) - Emerson 971
Bostonian Syncopators (OM5) - Stop Your Kidding (1922) - Grey Gull 1137 B
Original Indiana Five (Tom Morton v) - Someday Sweetheart (1927) - Harmony 501 H
The Royal Klobasneks - San Antonio Rose (2015) - Here We Go!
Glenn Crytzer's Savoy Seven - Uptown Jump (2015) - That New Old Sound
Arnold Johnson and his Paramount Hotel Orch (Roy Strom v) - Me and The Man in The Moon (1928) - Brunswick 4125
William F. Wirges and his Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - Laugh Clown, Laugh (1928) - Brunswick 3910 A
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch - Mary Lee (1929) - Bluebird B-6638-A
Gus Arnheim and his Cocoanut Grove Orch (Bing Crosby v) - I'm Gonna Get You (1931) - Victor 22691 B
Helen Morgan (Victor Young Orch, Louis Alter piano) - Bill (1932) - Columbia 55005
Johnny Marvin - To Whom it May Concern (1931) - Victor 22604 B
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (1933) - Bluebird B 6771 A
Bumble Bee Slim and his Riffers - I'se Gonna Break Em Down (1936) - Decca 7343 A
Les Brown and his Duke University Blue Devils - Swamp Fire (1937) - Decca 1231 A
Jan Garber and his Orch (Russ Brown v) - I'm Just Beginning to Care (1936) - Decca 859 B
Ambrose and his Orch - Cotton Picker’s Congregation (1937) - Decca 1526 B
Tommy Ladnier and his Orch - Weary Blues (1938) - Bluebird B-10086-A
Art Hinett Threesome - March Slave (Tchaikovsky) (1939) - Bluebird B-10863-A
Singin' Sam - Melancholy Mood (1939) - Refreshment Time B 709
Claude Thornhill and his Orch - Snowfall (1941) - Columbia 36268

"New Year's Record Party 2017" December 31, 2016

(Week 452)

This long-overdue RADIOLA! observes the yearly changing of the calendar with the requisite gaggle of shellac recordings. May your New Year be better than expected!

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Just before recording this program I was shocked and saddened to hear that my friend Rich Conaty, host of The Big Broadcast, died on December 30. RADIOLA! would never have come to be without Rich's inspiration and encouragement. Therefore, this program is dedicated to his memory.

Libby Holman - Who's That Knockin' at My Door (1927) - Brunswick 3667-A
The Art Hinett Threesome - Entry of the Gladiators (1939) - Bluebird B 11174 B
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans - Nobody's Sweetheart (1928) - UHCA 11
Bennie Moten's KC Orch - It's Hard to Laugh or Smile (1928) - Bluebird B-6431-A
Eddie Lang's Orch - March of the Hoodlums (1929) - Parlophone R644
Art Gillham - Pretty Little Thing (1926) - Columbia 1051 D
Paul Oliver (Frank Munn) - Yo Te Amo Means I Love You (1929) - Victor 21878 A
Irene Beasley - Go 'Long, Lasses (1928) - Victor 21266 B
Guyon's Paradise Orch - Louisville Lou (1923) - Okeh 4862 B
Ray Miller and his Orch - You and I (1924) - Brunswick 2814 A
Original Indiana Five - I'm Coming Virginia (1927) - Harmony 501 H-cr-nr
William F. Wirges and his Orch (Frank Munn v) - Afraid of You (1928) - Brunswick 3910 B
Herman Kenin's Multnomah Hotel Orch (Van Fleming v) - Persian Rug (1928) - Victor 21313 B
Henry Allen Jr. and his Orch - Swing Out (1929) - HMV B 4970
Thomas “Fats” Waller - Valentine Stomp (1929) -  HMV JF4
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang's Blue Five - Raggin' the Scale (1933) - Columbia CB 612
Libby Holman - Carefree (1927) - Brunswick 3667-B
The Troubadours (Harold Yates Cooper Lawley v) - Dream Kisses (1927) - Victor 21000 B
Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orch - Hot Town (1929) - Bluebird B-6431-B
Ben Pollack and his Park Central Orch (Scrappy Lambert v) - Song of the Blues (1929) - Victor 22147 B
Frank Trumbauer and his Orch (Smith Ballew v) - Love Ain't Nothin' But the Blues (1929) - Parlophone R644
Victor Arden Phil Ohman and their Orch (Frank Luther v) - Embraceable You (1930) - Victor 22558 A
Freddie Rose - Somebody and Me (1927) - Brunswick 3616 A
Helen Morgan - More Than You Know (1929) - Victor 22149 B
Johnny Marvin - Yours and Mine (1931) - Victor 22604 A
Thomas “Fats” Waller - Gladyse (1929) -  HMV JF4
Larry Rich and his Friends (Sam Lanin) (Scrappy Lambert v) - Pagan Love Song (1929) - Perfect 15168
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (CL v) - Rollin' Down the River (1930) - Columbia 2188 D
The Chocolate Dandies - Star Dust (1928) - Parlophone R 558
Bennie Moten's KC Orch - Sweetheart of Yesterday (1929) - Bluebird B-6851-A
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang's Blue Five - Hey! Young Fella! (1933) - Columbia CB 601
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang's Blue Five - Jig Saw Puzzle Blues (1933) - Columbia CB 612
La Palina Broadcasters (Fred Rich) (Irving Kaufman v) - When My Dreams Come True (1929) - Perfect 15178
George Olsen and his Music (Fran Frey v) - The Moon is Low (1930) - Victor 22392 A
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - I'm in the Market for You (1930) - Columbia M667 (Japan)
Gene Austin - Peace of Mind (1929) - Victor 22068 B
Helen Morgan - What Wouldn't I Do for That Man (1929) - Victor 22149 A
Jack Denny and his Waldorf-Astoria Orch (June Pursell v) - Lazy Day (1932) - Victor 24012 B
Teddy Wilson - It Never Dawned on Me (1935) - Brunswick 02110 B
Frank Tanner and his Rhythm Kings (Thomas Bailey v) - Death in B Flat (1936) - Bluebird B-6719-B
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (trio v) - I Won't Dance (1935) - Decca 404 A
Frances Langford - You Hit the Spot (1935) - Decca 663 A
Ken Drake and his Orch (Jimmy Ray v) - You'll Never Go to Heaven (1937) - Bluebird B-7025-A
Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orch (Bob Goday v) - Foolish Feeling (1936) - Bluebird B-6665-A
Ambrose and his Orch - Deep Henderson (1937) - Decca 1526 A
Tommy Ladnier and his Orch - Ja Da (1938) - Bluebird B-10086-B
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang's Blue Five - Pink Elephants (1933) - Columbia CB 601
Teddy Wilson - Every Now and Then (1935) - Brunswick 02110 A
McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans - Liza (1928) - UHCA 12
George Olsen and his Music (Orch v) - Montana Call (1930) - Victor 22392 B
Victor Arden Phil Ohman and their Orch (Frank Luther v) - I Got Rhythm (1930) - Victor 22558 B
Henry Allen Jr. and his Orch - Feeling Drowsy (1929) - HMV B 4970
Bennie Moten's KC Orch - Prince of Wales (1932) - Bluebird B-6851
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - High Society (1933) - B 6771 B
Frances Langford - Will I Ever Know? (1935) - Decca 663 B
Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orch (Bob Goday v) - Where Are You? (1936) - Bluebird B-6665-B
Tempo King and his Kings of Tempo - A High Hat, a Piccolo, and a Cane (1936) - Bluebird B-6575-A
Jan Garber and his Orch (Russ Brown v) - Did I Remember? (1936) - Decca 859 A
Ramona with the Park Avenue Boys - The Beat of My Heart (1934) - Victor 24597 B
New Dixie Demons - Looking at the World Through Rose-Colored Glasses (1936) - Decca 5362 B
Freddie Rose - Bye-Bye, Pretty Baby (1927) - Brunswick 3616 B
Johnny Marvin - Bye Bye Blues (1930) - 22534 B
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (1931) - Columbia 37808

"No Hoax Radio" April 1, 2016

(Week 451)

This RADIOLA! intentionally steps on its own banana peel.

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Cal Stewart - First Day of April at Pumpkin Center (1909) - United A649

Eddie Lang (Arthur Schutt p) - April Kisses (1927) - Parlophone R 3338

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

Jean Goldkette and his Orch (Frank Bessinger v) - Cover Me Up With Sunshine (1927) - Victor 20588 B

Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orch (Johnny Marvin) - You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You? (1929) - Victor 21859 A

Junie C. Cobb and his Grains of Corn (JC v) - Once or Twice (1929) - Timeless CBC 1-050

The Merrymakers (Revelers) - How Dy Do Mis' Springtime (1926) - Brunswick 3154 A

Pete Woolery - Like a Breath of Springtime (1929) - Columbia 2004 D

Snooks and the Memphis Ramblers (Wally Ashby v) - Dip Your Brush in the Sunshine (1931) - Victor 22720 A

Elite Dance Orch (Glantz) - Hymn to the Sun (1922) - Perfect 14036 A

Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orch - He's Just a Horn Tootin' Fool (1925) - Brunswick 2916 B

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

Vaughn De Leath - I'm a Dog Gone Struttin' Fool (1921) - Okeh 4577 A

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

The Record Boys (Al Bernard, Frank Kamplain, and Sam Stept) - When Spring Comes Peeping Through (1926) - Vocalion A 15265

Randi Cee - Bei Mir Bistu Shein (2015) - Any Kind of Man

Dave Stuckey and The Hot House Gang - I Never Knew (2015) - How'm I Doin? (Peanut Whistle 5132)

Margaret McKee - Spring Song (Mendelssohn) (1920) - Pathe 22477

Dolly Kay - No One's Fool (1921) - Columbia A3502

Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Hotel Biltmore Orch - Bam Bam Bammy Shore (1925) - Victor 19808 A

Hokum Trio (Ikey Robinson v) - I'm Having My Fun (1930) - Timeless CBC 1-050

Buck Wilson and his Rangers (Arthur Fields v) - When It's Springtime In the Rockies (1930) - Velvet Tone 2129 V

Jimmy Wornell's Hot Blue Bottles - Stomping (1931) - Timeless CBC 1-005

Johnny Marvin - I'm a Dreamer (Aren't We All?) (1929) - Victor 22148 A

Leo Reisman and his Orch (Frank Luther v) - Sing Something Simple (1930) - Victor 22538 A

Jim Davidson and his Palais Royal Orch - Fair and Warmer (1934) - Regal Zono C22154

Arthur Young and his Strict Tempo Dance Orch - I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' (1935) - Decca F 5792

Robert Ashley - These Foolish Things (1936) - HMV B D 344

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Sun Showers (1937) - Decca 1369 B

Lonnie Johnson - I'm Just Dumb (1940) - orig Bluebird B 8564

Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Lady Day v) - Trav'lin' Light (1943) - Capitol 116

Freddy Martin Orch (Lois Elliman v) - April in Paris (1933) - Liberty Music Shop L 155

"No More Train Wrecks!" March 4, 2016

(Week 450)

This RADIOLA! is determined to maintain a perfect track record.

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George Holden (John McGhee) - The Wreck of the Virginian Train No 1 (1927) - Challenge 389 B
Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orch - Always (1937) - Decca 1473 B
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
The Rhythmic Eight (Maurice Elwin v) - I'm Crazy Over You (1929) - Retrieval 79059
Billy Hays and his Orch (Lanin) (Irving Kaufman v) - I'm Always Smiling (1928) - Okeh 40996
Slim Lamar and his Southerners (SL v) - That's A Plenty (1929) - Retrieval 79006
Okeh Kut Ups (Jerry Macy Ed Smalle) - If I Didn't Know Your Husband and You Didn't Know My Wife (1927) - Okeh 40770 A
Vernon Dalhart - Casey Jones (1927) - Victor 20502 B
California Humming Birds - It Goes Like This (1928) - Victor 21766 A
Rega Dance Orch (Jack Kaufman v) - The Vamp (1919) - Okeh 4000 A
The Cotton Pickers - My Sweetie Went Away (1923) - Brunswick 2461 A
Okeh Syncopators (Raderman) - Black Bottom (1926) - Okeh 40641 B
Arthur Fields - Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning (1918) - Columbia A2617
Vaughn DeLeath - Maybe You Think You're Fooling Baby (1922) - Okeh 4597 B
The Southland Jubilee Singers - Southbound Passenger Train (1928) - Champion 15543 B
Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys - Delta Bound - Whoopee! Hey! Hey!
Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys - Music Makes Me - It's the Girl!
George O'Connor - Everybody Rag With Me (1915) - Columbia A1706
Sam Moore (octacorda) - Chain Gang Blues (1921) - Okeh 4412 A
Charles Dornberger and his Orch - Glad Eyes (1924) - Victor 19542 A
Sam Lanin and his Orch (Scrappy Lambert v) - You Took Advantage Of Me (1928) - orig Pathe Actuelle 36828 (Healey)
The Rhythmic Eight (Maurice Elwin v) - I'm Doing What I'm Doing For Love (1929) - Retrieval 79059
Junie C. Cobb and his Grains of Corn - Shake That Jelly Roll (1929) - Timeless CBC 1-050
Cliff Edwards - It's Only A Paper Moon (1933) - Art Deco: The Crooners (Disc 2) (Columbia/Legacy)
Wendell Hall - In The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1928) - Brunswick 4174
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train (1932) - HMV B 6315
Bessie Jackson (Lucille Bogan) - I Hate That Train Called The M and O (1934) - Melotone 6 02 64
Adrian Rollini and his Orch - Riverboat Shuffle (1934) - Decca 265 B
Dorsey Bros' Orch - St Louis Blues (1934) - Decca 119 B
Cab Calloway and his Orch - Error in the News (1937) - orig Vocalion 3912 (Classics)
Johnny Hodges and his Orch - Dance of the Goon (1939) - Vocalion v4941
Milt Herth Trio - Honky Tonk Train Blues (1940) - Decca 25064 B
Andre Kostelanetz Conducts - Casey Jones (1938) - Brunswick 8233

"Off the Dial" January 29, 2016

(Week 449)

This RADIOLA! cannot but celebrate, despite a particular setback.

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The very first issue of The Syncopated Times is off the press, and it's beautiful. Charter subscriber Glenn Robison dedicated much of his Rapidly Rotating Records for January 24, 2016 to the happy event. I am most grateful!

The Happiness Boys - Twisting the Dials (1928) - How Do You Do? (ASV CD AJA 5628) orig Victor 35953
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Fred Elizalde and his Cambridge Undergraduates - Stomp Your Feet (1927) - Timeless CBC 1-005
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch - She's No Trouble (1928) - Victor 24893 B
Slim Lamar and his Southerners - Happy (1928) - Retrieval 79006
Frank Munn - Let the End of the World Come Tomorrow (1926) - Brunswick 3250 A
Roy Evans - My Old Lady Blues (1929) - Columbia 1697 D
Sophie Tucker - Aren't Women Wonderful? (1928)- Columbia 5064 (UK)
Original Dixieland Jazz Band (Al Bernard v) - St. Louis Blues (1921) - Victor 18772 A
The Benson Orch of Chicago - Pickin' 'em Up and Layin' 'em Down (1924) - Victor 19386 A
California Ramblers - On Such a Night (1924) - Columbia 91 D
Arthur Fields - Stay Down Here Where You Belong (1914) - Little Wonder 46
Alma Gluck - From the Land of the Sky Blue Water (Eberhart-Cadman) (1911) - Victrola 64190
The Norfolk Jazz Quartette - When I Walked Up I Was Sharp As a Tack (1921) - Okeh 8019 A
The Carpal Tunnel Kid - Impending Doom (Internet Radio Edition) (2007)
Paolo Alderighi and Stephanie Trick - Grandpa's Spells (2014) - Sentimental Journey (ATCD002)
Jimmy Wade and his Dixielanders - Mississippi Wobble (1928) - Timeless CBC 1-050
Mart Britt and his Orchestra (MB v) - Sadness Will Be Gladness (1928) - Retrieval 79006
Piccadilly Revels Band  - Buffalo Rhythm (1927) - Timeless CBC 1-005
Alex Hill and his Orch - Toogaloo Shout (1929) - Timeless CBC 1-050
The Rhythmic Eight (Maurice Elwin v) - Rhythm King (1929) - Retrieval 79059
Jabbo Smith and his Rhythm Aces - Ready Hokum (1929) - Retrieval 79013
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - Some Of These Days (1929) - Vocalion 3202
Billy Cotton and his Band (Nat Gonella and trio v) - Bessie Couldn't Help It (1930) - Timeless CBC 1-005
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch (James Rushing v) - Ya Got Love (1931) - Victor 22680 B
Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Irene Taylor v) - So At Last It's Come To This (1932) - Victor 24187 B
Red McKenzie and his Rhythm Kings - Georgia Rockin' Chair (1935) - Brunswick 02105 A
Hal Kemp and his Orch (Skinnay Ennis v) - Stop! You're Breaking My Heart (1937) - Victor 25589 B
Red Norvo and his Orch (Mildred Bailey v) - Please Be Kind (1938) - Brunswick 8088
Billie Holiday - Night and Day (1939) - Vocalion 5377
Jack Smith - The Song is Ended (1927) - Victor 21028 A

"New Year's Revolutions" January 22, 2016

(Week 448)

This RADIOLA! is feeling the "heave" in "upheaval."

RADIOLA! streams continuously (until January 31) from my Moribund365 station. Escape podcast here. Each RADIOLA! program is sent to subscribers on my mailing list (email here).

My new venture is The Syncopated Times. (When one door slams in your face, another is blown clean off its hinges.) Please consider subscribing. And speaking of journalism, here's my cover story from the Syracuse New Times a few weeks ago.

Adrian Rollini and his Orch (Clay Bryson v) - Got The Jitters (1934) - orig Banner 32950 (Healey)
Clyde McCoy and his Orch - Tear It Down (1936) - Associated 60660
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Johnny Johnson and his Statler Pennsylvanians (trio v) - Thou Swell (1928) - Victor 21113 A
Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang - Ol' Man River (1928) - Columbia 35666
New Orleans Wanderers - Papa Dip (1926) - Columbia DB 2920
Lewis James - Forever (1928) - Victor 21733 B
Ted Brownagle and his Orch (trio v) - Helen (1928) - orig Columbia 1741-D (Healey)
Pawel Faut - Zlamane zycie (Broken Life) (1928) - Victor V 16166 B
Columbia Band - Les Copeland's Rag (1914) - Little Wonder 293
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Jazz Me Blues (1921) - Victor 18772 B
Isham Jones and his Orch - Sweet Georgia Brown (1925) - Brunswick 2913 B
Victor Opera Co - Gems from Bohemian Girl Pt 1 (Balfe) (1916) - Victor 35603 A
Victor Opera Co - Gems from Bohemian Girl Pt 2 (Balfe) (1916) - Victor 35603 B
Vincent Lopez and his Orch (Bruce Wallace v) - That Certain Feeling (1926) - orig Okeh 40574 (Healey col)
The Carpal Tunnel Kid - You Can't Legally Sing This Song (2007)
Paolo Alderighi and Stephanie Trick - After You've Gone (2012) - Two For One (ATCD001)
The DeReszke Singers - The Long Day Closes (Chorley-Sullivan) (1925) - Victor 45517 B
New Orleans Wanderers - Too Tight (1926) - Columbia DB 2920
Alexander Dobrohotoff - Kamarinskaja (1928) - Okeh 15078
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians - St Louis Blues (1930) - Columbia 50256 D
Casino Jazzers (Irving Kaufman v) - Heads Up (1930) - Van Dyke 81855 B
Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers - Each Day (1930) - JSP CD 323 (orig Victor 23351)
Hotel Pennsylvania Music (Spitalny) (Bill Coty v) - A Cottage for Sale (1930) - Velvet Tone 2141 V
Morton Downey -  Save The Last Dance For Me (1932) - Perfect 12783 B
The Growler - Calypso Behind the Wall (1938) - Fall of Man (Rounder CD 1141)
Eddie DeLange and his Orch (Elisse Cooper v) - What This Country Needs Is Foo (1938) - orig Bluebird B 10074 (Healey)
Edgar Hayes and his Orch - Fugitive From a Harem (1938) - Decca 1748 B
Teddy Wilson and his Orch (Billie Holiday v) - Nice Work If You Can Get It (1937) - Brunswick 8015
Geechee Wiley - Last Kind Word Blues (1930) - orig Paramount 12951 A
Helen Morgan (Leonard Joy Orch) - Something To Remember You By (1930) - Victor 22532 B
Woody Guthrie - Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh) (1940) - Poor Man's Heaven (RCA Victor 82876-50958-2)

Introducing The Syncopated Times!

Over the past two weeks I have prepared the first ever issue of The Syncopated Times. This was no doubt the hardest work I've ever done in my life. Added to that, it was necessary for me to teach myself newspaper layout from the ground up as I was assembling my first issue. Luckily, I'm fairly resourceful, and a quick study—but I've also had to struggle against my own profound inertia to scale a learning curve that has been more of a right angle. But the first issue is done! In finishing it I've managed to amaze myself.

Last year I began writing for The American Rag, a monthly national paper devoted to the preservation and perpetuation of traditional jazz and ragtime. Though a series of wholly unanticipated circumstances, I purchased the assets of the paper from Don Jones, who published The American Rag over the past twenty years. I am deeply grateful to Don and Cathie Jones for this opportunity, and I am determined to keep their work going in The Syncopated Times far into the future.

Thanks also for the indispensable help of Lew Shaw, Russ Tarby, Gary Price, and Norman Vickers whose work you will find in our first issue.

Since I'm expanding the frequency of issue to twelve per year, at the start of February I'm raising the yearly subscription price to $30 per year in the US (and $55 for two years). I'll maintain the Canadian and Overseas rates at present (as posted on The American Rag website ) but I anticipate expanding to include a digital edition that will make it much more economical for subscribers outside the US to receive content. (And being digital, it will be instantaneous.)

To subscribe, email me at subscribe@syncopatedtimes.com with your name, address, and full nine-digit zip code (and your pledge to subscribe) and I'll add you to the list of subscribers. All current subscribers to The American Rag will automatically receive The Syncopated Times for the duration of their subscription. For new subscriptions, mail yout check for the one or two-year subscription to:

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Thank You!
Andy Senior
Publisher and Editor
The Syncopated Times

"New Year's Dance Party 2016" December 31, 2015

(Week 447)

This RADIOLA! faces the changing of the calendar with an uncharacteristic absence of dread.

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Will Osborne and his Orch (WO v) - I Knew We Two Were One (1929) - Columbia 2044 D
Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins (HR v) - Jazz Me Blues (1936) - Decca 1095 A
Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Jacques Renard and his Orch (Johnny Marvin v) - You Went Away Too Far and Stayed Away Too Long (1927) - Victor 20487 A
Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orch - I'd Climb the Highest Mountain If I Knew I'd Find You (1926) - Victor 20045 B
New Orleans Wanderers - Perdido Street Blues (1926) - Columbia DB 2860 (Holland)
Milton Paisant - It's Tight Like That (1929) - Brunswick 4295
Chester Gaylord - Reaching For Someone (1929) - Brunswick 4427
Slatz Randall and his Orch (Joe Roberts v) - Bessie Couldn't Help It (1929) - Brunswick 4331
Meyer Davis' Swanee Syncopators (Scrappy Lambert v) - The One That I Love Loves Me (1929) - Brunswick 4329
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (CL v) - My Fate Is In Your Hands (1929) - Columbia 2017 D
Napoleon's Emperors - You Can't Cheat a Cheater (1929) - HMV B 4955
Jan Garber and his Orch (Fritz Heilbron v) - Just Once Too Often (1934) - Victor 24731 B
Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Ramona Davies v) - You're an Old Smoothie (1932) - Victor 24202 B
Eddy Duchin and his Orch (Lew Sherwood v) - She Reminds Me Of You (1934) - Victor 24591 B
Carroll Gibbons and his Boy Friends - Sugar Rose (1936) - Columbia 3161 D
Enric Madriguera and his Orch (Tony Sacco v) - Midnight in Paris (1935) - Victor 25154 B
Jan Garber and his Orch (Mull Downey v) - 'Round Evening (1928) - Columbia 1550 D
Blue Steele and his Orch (George Marks v) - Coronado (1929) - Victor V 40140 B
Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orch (Franklyn Baur v) - Lonely Little Bluebird (1928) - Victor 21510 B
Roy Evans - The New St Louis Blues (1929) - Columbia 1697 D
Weary Willie - A Gay Caballero (1928) - Perfect 12497
New Orleans Wanderers - Gatemouth (1926) - Columbia DB 2860 (Holland)
Leo Reisman and his Orch (Lewis Levin v) - Why Was I Born (1929) - Victor 22187 A
Victor Arden Phil Ohman and their Orch (Revelers v) - Got a Rainbow (1928) - Victor 21795 B
King Oliver and his Orch - The Trumpet's Prayer (1929) - Bluebird B 7705 A
Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Ramona Davies v) - Eadie Was a Lady (1932) - Victor 24202 A
Eddy Duchin and his Orch (Lew Sherwood v) - I Won't Dance (1935) - Victor 24871 A
Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orch (Bob Goday v) - It's De-Lovely (1936) - Bluebird B 6639 A
Jan Garber and his Orch (Lee Bennett) - Wild Honey (1934) - Victor 24731 A
Henry Busse and his Orch - Changes (1937) - Decca 1207 B
Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins - Fate (1937) - Decca 1547 B
Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins (HR v) - Cheerful Blues (1936) - Decca 1095 B
Jacques Renard and his Orch - Lonely (J'ai Pas Su y Faire) (1927) - Victor 20487 A
Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orch (Frankie Marvin v ) - You're a Real Sweetheart (1928) - Victor 21510 A
Meyer Davis' Swanee Syncopators (trio v) - Honest (1929) - Brunswick 4329
Milton Paisant - I Want My Rib (1929) - Brunswick 4295
Blue Steele and his Orch (Clyde Davis v) -You're So Different (1929) - Victor V 40140 A
Chester Gaylord - I'm Just a Vagabond Lover (1929) - Brunswick 4427
Slatz Randall and his Orch (Oscar Gross v) - I Get the Blues When It Rains (1929) - Brunswick 4331
Leo Reisman and his Orch (Lewis Levin v) - Here Am I (1929) - Victor 22187 B
Victor Arden Phil Ohman and their Orch (Lewis James v) - Feeling I'm Falling (1928) - Victor 21795 A
Eddy Duchin and his Orch (Lew Sherwood v) - May I (1934) - Victor 24591 A
Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Durelle Alexander v) - There's a Small Hotel (1936) - Victor 25270 B
Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orch (Bob Goday v) - Wintertime Dreams (1936) - Bluebird B 6639 B
Carroll Gibbons and his Boy Friends - Breakin' In a Pair of Shoes (1936) - Columbia 3161 D
Henry Busse and his Orch - Aunt Hagar's Blues (1937) - Decca 1207 A
Vernon Geyer - My Melancholy Baby (1938) - Bluebird B 10147 A
Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins (Ray Ellington and HR v) -Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (1937) - Decca 1547 A
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (CL v) - A Little Kiss Each Morning (1929) - Columbia 2017 D
Will Osborne and his Orch (WO v) - They All Fall In Love (1929) - Columbia 2044 D
Napoleon's Emperors - Anything (1929) - HMV B 4955
Enric Madriguera and his Orch (Tony Sacco v) - Here's to Romance (1935) - Victor 25154 A
Eddy Duchin and his Orch (Jerry Cooper v) - Too Marvelous For Words (1937) - Victor 25517 A
Paul Whiteman and his Orch (Johnny Hauser v) - It's Got To Be Love (1936) - Victor 25270 A
Hal Kemp and his Orch (Bob Allen v) - Whispers in the Dark (1937) - Victor 25589 A
Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orch (Bobby Goday v) - South Wind (1937) - Bluebird B 6953 B
Ted Fio Rito and his Orch (Muzzy Marcellino and The Debutantes v) - Vieni Vieni (1937) - Decca 1450 A
Eddy Duchin and his Orch (Lew Sherwood v) - Lovely To Look At (1935) - Victor 24871 B
Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orch (Pee Wee Hunt v) - Whoa Babe (1937) - Decca 1159 A
Edgar Hayes and his Orch - Sophisticated Swing (1938) - Decca 1748 A
Vernon Geyer - Stardust (1938) - Bluebird B 10108 A
Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orch (Kenneth Sargent v) - The Champagne Waltz (1934) - Brunswick 6858
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (CL v) - Stay As Sweet As You Are (1934) - Decca 274 B

"Timely Safari" December 11. 2015

(Week 446)

This RADIOLA! suggests there may be an alternate future in the past.

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Arthur Fields - Just Like a Butterfly (1927) - Bell 529 A
Chicago Rhythm Kings - Stompin' at the Savoy (1936) - Bluebird B-6412
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Jan Garber and his Orch - Steppin' Around (1926) - Victor 20367 B
Fats Waller - Stompin' the Bug (Take 2) (1927) - The Complete Recorded Works Vol.1 (JSP927B) (orig Victor 20655)
Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Steppin' On The Gas (1927) - Breakin'  Out of New Orleans (JSP) (orig Columbia 14258 D)
Ed Smalle and Dick Robertson - Wob-a-ly Walk (1928) - Brunswick 3816 B
Red Nichols and his Five Pennies (Scrappy Lambert v) - Poor Butterfly (take 1) (1928) - Brunswick 20062 A
Paul Whiteman and his Orch (v) - Changes (Take 2) (1927) - Bix Restored Vol. 2 (orig Victor 25370)
Harold Veo's Orch - The Zoo Step (1917) - Victor 18372 B
All Star Trio - Poor Little Butterfly Is a Fly Gal Now (1919) - Victor 18641 A
Louisiana Five - Thunderbolt (1919) - Emerson 1026
Byron G. Harlan - Can't You Take It Back and Change It For a Boy (1911) - Aretino D710
Victor Military Band - Everybody Two Step (1913) - Victor 17271 A
California Ramblers - Take a Little One Step (1924) - Columbia 91 D
Tom McDermott and Connie Jones - King Porter Stomp (2007) - Creole Nocturne (Arbors ARCD 19366)
Rob Fisher and the Coffee Club Orchestra - Stampede (1991) - Shaking The Blues Away (Angel CDC 7 54390)
Bennie Krueger's Orch - Everybody Step (1921) - Brunswick 2151 A
Eddie Elkins and his Orch - Little Butterfly (1923) - Okeh 4976 A
The Arkansas Travellers - Stompin' Fool (1927) - Harmony 459 H
Miff Mole and his Little Molers - Original Dixieland One Step (1927) - Columbia 36010
Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers - Crazy Chords (1930) - JSP CD 323 (orig Victor 23307)
Fred Gardner's Texas University Troubadours - No Trumps (1930) - Jazz in Texas 1924-1930 Timeless CBC 1-033 (orig Okeh 41458)
Rudy Vallee and his CT Yankees - I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan (1932) - Columbia 2700 D
The Boswell Sisters - There'll Be Some Changes Made (1932) - Columbia 36521
Bessie Jackson (Lucille Bogan) - Changed Ways Blues (1934) - Melotone 6 02 64
Dick McDonough and his Orch (Chick Bullock v) - The Scene Changes (1936) - Perfect 6 08 08
Milt Herth Trio - Toy Trumpet (1938) - Decca 25066 B
Boots and his Buddies - Lonely Moments (1938) - Bluebird B-7669 B
Edgar Hayes and his Orch - Edgar Steps Out (1937) - Decca 1338 B
Fats Waller and his Rhythm - Your Feet's Too Big (1939) -  The Complete Works Vol 5 JSP (orig Bluebird B-10500)
The Bostonians (Ernie Golden) - Indian Butterfly (1927) - Vocalion A 15533

"Enumerating Poultry" December 4, 2015

(Week 445)

This RADIOLA! is brooding, but in a good way.

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Agnes Lynn - Jazz Baby (1919) - Columbia A2745
Horace Henderson and his Orch - I'm Rhythm Crazy Now (1933) - Decca 18171 B
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Ross Gorman and his Earl Carroll Orch - I'm Sitting On Top of the World (1925) - Columbia 498 D
Frank Trumbauer and his Orch - Ostrich Walk (1927) - UHCA 29
Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orch (Abby Foster v) - Papa's Got The Jim-Jams (1927) - Jazz Oracle BDW8002
Charles Kaley Abe Lyman Orch - Don't Wake Me Up Let Me Dream (1926) - Brunswick 3071 B
Bessie Brown - Chloe (1928) - Brunswick 3817 A
Tampa Red's Hokum Jazz Band (Frankie Jaxon v) - Boot It Boy (1929) - British Rhythm Society 994
The Great White Way Orch - I'm All Alone (1922) - Victor 18992 B
Carl Fenton's Orch - Fascinating Rhythm (1924) - Brunswick 2790 B
Bert Lown and his Loungers - The Jazz Me Blues (1929) - Harmony 974 H
Sterling Trio - Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia (1918) - Columbia A2623
Jane Gray (Peggy English) - There's Everything Nice About You (1927) - Harmony 435 H
Bessie Smith - Cake Walking Babies (1925) - Columbia 35673
Ed Clute and his Dixie Five Plus - Rosetta (2015) - rec Syracuse, NY November 15, 2015
Ed Clute and his Dixie Five Plus - South (2015) - rec Syracuse, NY November 15, 2015
Victor Military Band - Swanee Ripples Rag (1914) - Victor 17585 B
International Novelty Orch (May Singhi Breen uke) - Ukulele Blues (1924) - Victor 19369 B
Harry Reser - Ukulele Lady (1925) - Columbia 409 D
The Rhythmic Eight - Heigh Ho, Ev'rybody (1929) - 48 Of The Best (Retrieval RTR79059)
Louisiana Sugar Babes - Thou Swell (1928) - Victor 21346 B
Jabbo Smith and his Rhythm Aces - Decatur Street Tutti (1929) - (Retrieval RTR79013)
George Olsen and his Music (Ethel Shutta v) - A Precious Little Thing Called Love (1929) - Victor 21832 B
Ben Selvin and his Orch (Eubie Blake ?  v) - Dancing in the Dark (1931) - Columbia 2473 D
Jan Garber and his Orch (Maxwell Covert v) - Puttin' On The Ritz (1930) - Columbia 2115 D
Bessie Smith - Gimme a Pigfoot (1933) - Columbia 37574
Cliff Edwards with The Eton Boys - Love Is Just Around The Corner (1934) - Perfect 13093 A
Frank Trumbauer and his Orch - Troubled (1934) - Victor 24834 A
Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans (Anne Lenner v) - Please Be Kind (1938) - Columbia FB 1958 (UK)
Billie Holiday and her Orch - I Can't Get Started (1938) - Columbia 37494
Joan Edwards - Let's Begin (1940) - Liberty Music Shop L-303a

"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.

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

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)

"Unexcused Presence" October 30, 2015

(Week 440)

This RADIOLA! hasn't got a note.

RADIOLA! streams continuously from my Live365 station. "We're here because we're here"-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.)

Gracie Fields - Looking on the Bright Side (1932) - Naxos Nostalgia 8 120524
Woody Herman and his Orch - Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar (1940) - orig Decca 3454 (Healey)
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orch (Knecht) (SMT v) - Moonbeam! Kiss Her For Me (1927) - Victor 20419 A
Red Nichols and his Five Pennies - Back Beats (1927) - Brunswick 3490 B
Bill Haid's Cubs (J. Allen v) - Crazy Rhythm (1928) - Broadway 1206 B
Frank Crumit - 'Swonderful (1927) - Victor 21029 B
Madeline Beatty -  Who's Blue Now? (1928) - Okeh 41034
Paul Specht and his Orch (Johnny Morris v) - Hittin' The Ceiling (1929) - orig Columbia 1836-D (Healey)
Carl Fenton's Orch - Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil (1922) - orig Brunswick 2353 (Healey)
Garber-Davis Orch - Steamboat Sal (1923) - Victor 19175 A (Bryan Wright collection)
Isham Jones Orch - Foolin' Around (1923) - orig Brunswick 2420 (Healey)
Lee Morse - Bring Back Those Rock-A-Bye Baby Days (1924) - Perfect 12165
George Olsen and his Music (Billy Murray v) - My Papa Doesn't Two-Time No Time (1924) - Victor 19419 A (Bryan Wright collection)
Victor Light Opera Co - Gems from Pinafore Pt 2 (1914) - Victor 35386 B
Ed Clute - The Better to Love You, My Dear (2004) - I Feel a Song Comin' On
Ed Clute - Body and Soul (2004) - I Feel a Song Comin' On
Sousa's Band - Narcissus Intermezzo (Nevin) (1909) - Victor 16525 A
Marcia Freer - Lewis James (w Manhattan Merrymakers) - Linger Awhile (1924) - Victor 19259 A (Bryan Wright collection)
Rev. J. M. Gates - I'm Gonna Die With The Staff In My Hand (1926) - Okeh 8388 A
Billy Artz and his Orch - Hittin' The Bottle (1930) - Philco Program 11
Ambrose and his Orch (Sam Browne v) - My Mother (1932) - HMV B 6191
Hoagy Carmichael and his Orch - Rockin' Chair (1930) - HMV B 4897
Annette Hanshaw - My Sin (1929) - Velvet Tone 1910 V
Derickson and Brown - Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long (1932) - HMV B 4204
Eddy Duchin and his Orchestra (Lew Sherwood v) - Close Your Eyes (1933) - Victor 24376 (Jeff Healey col)
Richard Himber and his Ritz-Carlton Orch (Stuart Allen v) - You Hit The Spot (1935) - orig Victor 25189 (Healey)
King Radio - Old Men Come Back Again (1939) - Calypso Breakway 1927-1941 (Rounder CD 1054)
Ozzie Nelson and his Orch - Beat It Out (1940) - orig Bluebird B 11155 (Healey)
Bob Crosby and his Orch (Kay Weber v) - Whispers in the Dark (1937) - Decca 1346 A
Patricia Norman (w Music by Meakin) - Shadows (1939) - Vocalion 5037
String Symphony - Caprice Viennois (Kreisler) (c 1940) - Donald Novis Sings 16 (mx 09536-1)

My American Rag profile on Eli Newberger

Eli Newberger has posted the text of my recent American Rag profile on his website: Eli Newberger: Tuba Virtuoso. Here's the clip of Eli rejoining his high school band in 1960 on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour:

"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