Courtney T. Edison and WFMU

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU

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The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!

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Courtney T. Edison and WFMU

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Leading the fight to raise the wages of sin to $18/hr. from Feb 11, 2021 12.02.2021

Ambrose & His Orchestra - "Deep Henderson" [0:00:00] Barney Kessel - "Bernardo" [0:03:24] Ruth Etting - "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" [0:09:46] Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy - "Mary's Idea" [0:12:25] Hilo Hattie - "Becky I Ain't Comin' Back No More (Yiddish Hula Boy)" [0:15:29] Hadda Brooks - "I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town" [0:18:10] The Three Keys - "Somebody Loses, Somebody Wins"...

For decades scholars of karmic justice have been debating how he's managed to evade the gallows. from Jan 21, 2021 05.02.2021

Romeo Nelson - "Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing" - Where Are Thou? [0:00:00] Blind Blake - "I Was Afraid of That (Part 2)" - The Blind of Best Blake [0:03:05] Desi Arnaz y Su Orchesta - "I Come from New York" - Artist Unknown [0:09:23] George Formby - "Under the Blasted Oak" - Formby's Finery [0:12:25] Mildred Bailey - "The Little Man Who Wasn't There" - The Album That Wasn't There [0:15:39]...

He has that certain je ne sais what? from Jan 28, 2021 05.02.2021

Billy Murray - "He's a Devil in His Own Home Town" [0:00:00] Helen Kane - "I Have to Have You" [0:02:57] Gus Bodenheim - "Gross, But … Bars™" [0:08:57] Blind Blake - "Too Tight Blues No. 2" [0:10:32] Billie Holiday - "Miss Brown to You" [0:13:32] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra ft. Bix Beiderbecke - "Three Blind Mice" [0:16:30] Desi Arnaz y Su Orchesta - "Impromptu" [0:19:32] Ruth Etting - "Me!"...

Gus Bodenheim services the Old Codger's listenership this week. from Feb 4, 2021 05.02.2021

Tommy Todd Trio - "Chloe" [0:00:00] Minnie Wallace - "The Old Folks Started It" [0:02:40] Mildred Bailey - "Where Are You?" [0:06:50] Foy Willing & the Riders of the Purple Sage - "Twilight on the Trail" [0:10:07] Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Morning Air" [0:13:07] Marais & Miranda - "Animal Cries" [0:17:48] Jimmie Rodgers - "Mississippi Delta Blues" [0:20:35] Paint Your Wagon (original cast) - "The...

Keep your beard out of his soup. from Jan 14, 2021 15.01.2021

Mary Lou Williams - "Boogie Misterioso" - Mary Lou Williams 78 Hadda Brooks - "Swingin' the Boogie" - Hadda Brooks 78 rpm disc [0:02:58] Gus Bodenheim - "Hardly Hamster™" - Another Fine Delbarton Product [0:09:23] Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers - "Smoke House Blues" - Jelly Roll Morton stack o' shellac [0:10:51] Bo Carter - "I Keep on Spending My Change" - Bo Carter 78 rpm disc [0:14:19]...

In a new poll, his approval rating has edged up to 5% (with a margin of error of 6%). from Jan 7, 2021 15.01.2021

Ruth Etting - "Let's Talk About My Sweetie" [0:00:00] Red Norvo & Mae Questel - "The Broken Record" [0:02:44] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Solutions™" [0:09:08] Desi Arnaz y Su Orquesta - "Tico Tico (No Fuba)" [0:11:07] Trix Sisters - "I'm Crazy Over You" [0:14:04] Helen Kane - "Do Something" [0:17:17] Alan Holmes and the New Tones - "Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus" [0:19:57] Whispering Jack Smit...

Old enough to remember the Dead Sea when it was just sick. from Nov 19, 2020 15.01.2021

James P. Johnson - "Liza" Nick and His Creole Serenaders - "Salee Dame #2" Frankie Newton & His Uptown Serenaders - "Cause My Baby Says So" Clarence Williams - "A Pane in the Glass" Ruth Etting - "I'm Nobody's Baby" Cole Porter - "A Picture of Me Without You" Fats Waller - "Valentine Stomp" Flip the Frog - "The Village Specialist (1931)" Hartman's Heartbreakers - "My Southern Movements" Lil Johnso...

Scratch his breech and he'll claw your elbow. from Nov 26, 2020 15.01.2021

James P. Johnson - "Sweet Lorraine" [0:00:00] Marion Harris - "Singin' The Blues" [0:02:49] Betty Hutton - "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun" [0:08:53] Cats & the Fiddle - "We Cats Will Swing for You" [0:11:55] Victoria Spivey - "One Hour Mama" [0:14:33] Hartman's Heartbreakers - "Give It to Me Daddy" [0:17:13] Bessie Smith - "Take Me for a Buggy Ride" [0:20:03] Flip the Frog - "The Village Smitty (...

Went out to buy arugula and quinoa, came back with bourbon, chewing tobacco and ammo. He really needs to get new glasses. from Dec 3, 2020 15.01.2021

Earl Hines - "Tantalizing a Cuban" [0:00:00] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra ft. Mildred Bailey - "I Like to Do Things for You" [0:03:09] Gus Bodenheim - "Beyond Mouse™" [0:09:11] Eddie Lang & Carl Kress - "Pickin' My Way" [0:10:11] Don Redman & His Orchestra - "Chant of the Weed" [0:13:11] Fats Waller - "The Minor Drag" [0:16:28] Nick and His Creole Serenaders - "Mo Pas Lemme Ca #2" [0:19:07] S...

His testimony before the Mills Commission in 1905 clinched Abner Doubleday's acclaim as the inventor of baseball. from Dec 10, 2020 15.01.2021

Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Child of a Disordered Brain" [0:00:00] Fats Waller - "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" [0:02:40] Gus Bodenheim - "N.E.B.U.C.H.A.D.N.E.Z.Z.A.R. (Part 1)" [0:09:41] Lil Armstrong & Her Orchestra - "It's Murder" [0:11:49] Cab Calloway & His Orchestra ft. Dizzy Gillespie - "Pickin' the Cabbage" [0:14:07] Kenny Dorham Quintet - "Bebop In Pastel" [0:16:55] The Cats & the Fiddle -...

Do you like worms? He's about to open a large can of them. from Dec 24, 2020 15.01.2021

Hearty White - "The Night Before Codger's Christmas" [0:00:00] Milt Herth - "Satan Takes a Holiday" [0:03:19] James P. Johnson - "Jungle Drums" [0:05:53] Marion Harris - "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes" [0:08:22] The Bodenheim Triplets - "Going Going Gone" [0:12:36] Clarence Pinetop Smith - "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" [0:15:56] Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers - "Beale...

His home is a quack's sanitarium for nervous diseases, treated with medicines of high alcoholic content and "doctor"-prescribed, whiskey-based potions. from Nov 12, 2020 13.11.2020

Fats Waller - "African Ripples" [0:00:00] Nick and His Creole Serenaders - "Les Ognons" [0:03:16] Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra - "Small Fry" [0:09:34] Edith Piaf - "Correqu' et reguyer" [0:12:29] Maxine Sullivan - "Molly Malone" [0:15:42] The Georgia Jumpers - "Ukulele Benny" [0:18:30] John Kirby Sextet - "Close Shave" [0:21:20] Gus Bodenheim - "Maxwell Bodenheim's Classic Poetry" [0:26:56] Erne...

Kicking off Lumbago Awareness Month from Nov 5, 2020 06.11.2020

Flip the Frog - "The Flip the Frog Theme Song" [0:00:00] Blind Willie Dunn & Lonnie Johnson - "Deep Minor Rhythm" [0:00:24] Kenny Dorham - "Bebop In Pastel" [0:03:31] The Brox Sisters - "School House Blues" [0:10:52] Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra - "Washboard Blues" [0:13:56] Ruth Etting - "Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do" [0:16:57] Nick and His Creole Serenaders - "Creole Blues" [0:20:05] Gus Bode...

He has a lamp fashioned in the shape of Sophie Tucker's thigh. from Oct 29, 2020 29.10.2020

Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "The Wild Dog" [0:00:00] Django Reinhardt & Beryl Davis - "Undecided" [0:02:52] Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon - "Hannah Fell in Love with My Piano" [0:08:56] Blind Willie Dunn (Eddie Lang) & Lonnie Johnson - "Deep Minor Rhythm" [0:11:59] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Rancho Malariettes™ cigars for ladies" [0:15:03] Sophie Tucker - "Sophie Tucker for President" [0:16:28] Fats Navarro -...

A talkative footnote. from Oct 22, 2020 22.10.2020

Arthur Fields - "I Love to Stay at Home" [0:00:00] James P. Johnson - "A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid" [0:03:34] Noble Sissle's Swingsters with Sidney Bechet - "Characteristic Blues" [0:06:26] Tadd Dameron Sextet - "The Chase" [0:12:59] Art Blakey & His Messengers - "Groove Street" [0:15:58] Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Jordan for President" [0:18:57] Dizzy Gillespie - "The Champ (Par...

The wreckage of days departed, every completed show a funeral gone by. from Oct 15, 2020 15.10.2020

Harry Reser - "Ukulele Lady" [0:00:00] Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon - "Chocolate to the Bone" [0:02:52] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Afterparty Skincare and Cosmetics" [0:08:34] Florence Desmond - "Cigarettes, Cigars" [0:10:42] Tampa Red - "She Want to Sell My Monkey" [0:14:00] Ethel Waters - "You Can't Stop Me from Loving You" [0:17:24] James Moody - "Convulsions" [0:20:47] Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Ti...

"The Codger demonstrates a laughingstock of intelligence, a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere." — Lee De Forest from Oct 8, 2020 09.10.2020

Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Conversation on Park Avenue" John Kirby Sextet - "B-Flat Special" [0:02:45] Fats Waller - "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" [0:09:24] Lil Johnson - "I'll Take You to the Cleaners" [0:13:05] James Moody - "The Fuller Bop Man" [0:15:59] Art Blakey & His Messengers - "The Thin Man" [0:18:57] [0:21:52] Cole Porter - "Live and Let Live" [0:24:38] Frankie Ne...

"All that is loathsome, drooping, and decayed is here." — Charles Dickens III from Sep 24, 2020 09.10.2020

John Burkhardt - "Light as a Feather" [0:00:00] John Kirby & His Orchestra - "Double Talk" [0:02:58] Fats Waller - "Stardust" [0:08:33] Mamie Smith - "Goin' Crazy with the Blues" [0:11:51] The Charleston Chasers - "Delirium" [0:14:53] Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra - "Love is Where You Find It" [0:18:01] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Only a Paper Moon (Recordio Disc)" [0:23:46] Ruth Berman, Her Harp and He...

Everyone he meets acquires the awesome power to peer into his soul and correctly assume the worst. from Oct 1, 2020 09.10.2020

James P. Johnson - "Jersey Sweet" [0:00:00] Joséphine Baker - "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" [0:02:46] Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks - "The Coat and the Pants Do All the Work" [0:08:53] Ida Cox - "Four Day Creep" [0:11:42] Billy Kyle - "Between Sets" [0:15:03] The Washingtonians - "Black and Tan Fantasy" [0:17:34] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "Ostrich Walk" [0:20:44] Flip the Frog - "Ch...

In the reverie lane, the speed limit is determined by the slowest car. from Sep 17, 2020 17.09.2020

The Old Codger - "Introduction to Time Travel" [0:00:00] Ukulele Ike - "Halfway to Heaven" [0:01:50] Django Reinhardt - "Exactly Like You" [0:05:01] Henry Burr - "Everybody's Sweetheart, But Nobody's Gal" [0:09:56] The Duncan Sisters - "Bull-Frog Patrol" [0:12:53] Jo Ann Lear - "Recipe for Love" [0:16:36] Wingy Manone and His Orchestra - "Black Coffee" [0:22:45] The Roaring Lion - "Rhumba Dance" [...

You may think he's living in the past, but he's living your future. from Sep 10, 2020 10.09.2020

Jess Stacy - "Candlelights" [0:00:00] Jerry Colonna - "I Hate Music" [0:03:24] Gus Bodenheim - "Hardly Hamster™" [0:09:32] Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - "Chocolate Shake" [0:11:02] Boyd Raeburn - "Boyd Meets Stravinsky" [0:13:55] Sam Ulano - "Drum's Fairy Tales (Goldilocks and the Three Bears)" [0:16:48] Bing Crosby - "Swingin' on a Star" [0:19:54] Ruth Berman, Her Har...

He's always "me"-deep in conversation. from Sep 3, 2020 04.09.2020

Little Jack Little - "Three O'Clock in the Morning" - Little Jack Little 78 rpm disc [0:00:00] Hadda Brooks - "Humoresque Boogie" - Hadda Brooks 78 rpm disc [0:03:08] Gus Bodenheim - "Gross, But ... Bars™" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams [0:09:36] Slim Gaillard Quartette - "Laguna Oroonie" - Slim Gaillard 78 rpm disc [0:11:21] Blue Lu Barker - "You Been Holding Out Too Long" - Blue Lu Barker 78...

His sense of decency hasn't taken a holiday — it's on sabbatical. from Aug 27, 2020 27.08.2020

Butterbeans & Susie - "Tain't None o' Your Business" - Butterbeans & Susie 78 rpm disc [0:00:00] Mills Blue Rhythm Band - "Wild Waves" - Mills Blue Rhythm Band 78 rpm disc [0:03:18] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Kloroxide Tooth Lotion™" - Euneeda Bodenheim 73 rpm disc [0:09:41] Ruth Etting - "Sam, The Old Accordion Man" - Ruth Etting 78 rpm disc [0:11:11] Mildred Bailey and Her Orchestra - "Lazy Bones" - M...

When he's finally recycled as cat food, he'll be "indoor senior." from Aug 20, 2020 20.08.2020

Reginald Foresythe - "Because It's Love (For Elisabeth Welch)" [0:00:00] Bebe Daniels & Ben Lyon - "Little Sir Echo" [0:03:04] Bessie Smith with Eddie Lang & Clarence Williams - "Kitchen Man" [0:11:11] Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Frank Signorelli - "Wild Cat" [0:14:10] George Formby - "Leaning on a Lamp Post" [0:16:54] Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Passionette" [0:20:03] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Marvelet...

He's a black & white supremacist. from Aug 13, 2020 13.08.2020

Cole Porter - "Everybodee Who's Anybodee" [0:00:00] Louis Jordan and the Tympani 5 - "Jack, You're Dead!" [0:01:22] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Wapner's Vaginal Cones™" [0:07:02] Mildred Bailey - "As Long as You Live (You'll Be Dead If You Die)" [0:08:48] Lizzie Washington - "My Low Down Brown" [0:11:20] The Happiness Boys - "She's the Sweetheart of Six Other Guys" [0:14:04] Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart...