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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Always asks for plastic bags at the grocer, because despite what environmentalists claim, he doesn't believe there's a plastic shortage. from Aug 6, 2020 07.08.2020

Mary Lou Williams - "Leo" [0:00:00] Noel Coward - "I Like America" [0:01:40] Fabian André & His Orchestra - "La Perrita" [0:04:24] The Brox Sisters - "Do the Strut" [0:09:46] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "Raisin' the Roof" [0:12:38] Frankie Newton - "The Onyx Hop" [0:15:35] Memphis Minnie - "Keep on Eatin'" [0:18:21] State Street Swingers with Mary Mack - "Don't Tear My Clothes (No. 2)" [0:...

Still has that new cadaver smell! from Jul 30, 2020 31.07.2020

Memphis Minnie - "Down in the Alley" [0:00:00] McKinney's Cotton Pickers - "I Got Ya" [0:02:53] [0:05:23] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Sunshine" [0:08:01] Hoagy Carmichael - "Moon Country" [0:10:45] The Keller Sisters & Lynch with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra - "Sunday" [0:13:59] Merritt Brunies and the Friar's Inn Orchestra - "Masculine Women, Feminine Men" [0:17:06] Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel Bou...

Exercise? The only part of him that's ever jogged is his memory. from Jul 23, 2020 23.07.2020

Oscar Pettiford - "Stardust" [0:00:00] Cab Calloway's Jungle Band - "St. Louis Blues" [0:04:46] Renato Carosone - "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" [0:10:45] Mildred Bailey and Her Swing Band - "I'd Love to Take Orders from You" [0:13:47] Cole Porter - "The Law" [0:16:43] Baby Dodds - "Drum Improvisation #2" [0:18:57] Django Reinhardt - "Tears" [0:21:35] The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Grove's...

He doesn't want your respect. He wants nothing less than graven images. from Jul 16, 2020 16.07.2020

Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "Trumbology" [0:00:00] Strayhorn Trio - "In a Blue Summer Garden" [0:02:58] The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Kellogg's Pep" [0:11:24] Teddy Wilson - "Breaking In a Pair of Shoes" [0:12:27] Lil Johnson - "Was I?" [0:15:16] Josephine Baker - "Vous faites partie de moi (I've Got You Under My Skin)" [0:18:16] Cole Porter - "Me and Marie" [0:21:21] George Hanna...

Everything he touches turns to mold. from Jul 9, 2020 09.07.2020

Josephine Baker - "Sans amour" [0:00:00] Victoria Spivey - "Baulin' Water Blues - Part 1" [0:03:08] Irving Kaufman - "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" [0:09:31] Cole Porter - "Maidens Typical of France" [0:12:26] The Boswell Sisters - "Does My Baby Love?" [0:13:57] Claude Thornhill - "The Doll Dance" [0:16:03] Hoagy Carmichael - "Cosmics" [0:18:44] The Brox Sisters - "Iyone, My Iyone" [0:26:21] Vau...

Patient Zero for the Miasma Theory of Broadcasting. from Jul 2, 2020 03.07.2020

The Brox Sisters - "Who" [0:00:00] Mildred Bailey with Red Norvo and His Orchestra - "A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid" [0:02:40] The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Squibb Dental Cream" [0:08:50] The Red Norvo Trio with Tal Farlow & Charles Mingus - "Prelude to a Kiss" [0:09:30] Ruth Etting - "It All Depends on You" [0:13:28] Lennie Tristano - "Spontaneous Combustion" [0:16:55] Dizzy Gilles...

Sorry—he left his compassion in his other soul. from Jun 25, 2020 26.06.2020

The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Doctors Love Camels" [0:00:00] Fats Waller - "Love Me or Leave Me" [0:00:50] Ruth Etting - "Ain't Misbehavin'" [0:03:30] Bert Shefter & Morton Gould - "157 West 57th Street" [0:09:40] Baby Dodds Trio - "Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing" [0:12:07] Jeremiah Wallace & "Stompy" Van Ronk - "Samson & Delilah" [0:15:03] Elizabeth Welch - "Solomon" [0:17:37] Flip the Frog...

Welcome to the Codger's Happy Autonomous Zone! from Jun 18, 2020 18.06.2020

The Ponce Sisters - "Ten Little Miles From Town" [0:00:00] Bert Shefter - "Taming the Devil" [0:01:24] Ruth Etting - "Hoosier Sweetheart" [0:04:32] The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "The 1950 Ford" [0:10:41] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Tempi Di Modernage" [0:11:54] Fats Waller - "Nero" [0:15:00] The Ticklers - "Healing in the Balm Yard" [0:17:41] Sonny Blount and Stuff Smith - "Deep Purple" [0:20...

The zeitgeist is SO out of touch with him. from Jun 11, 2020 11.06.2020

Fabian André & His Orchestra - "Waltz Night at the Savoy" [0:00:00] Mary Lou Williams - "Gemini" [0:02:45] The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Arid Deodorant" [0:08:59] Ruth Etting - "Her Beaus are Only Rainbows" [0:09:49] Tampa Red - "Denver Blues" [0:12:25] Lord Beginner - "Injection" [0:15:29] Oscar Pettiford - "Take the "A' Train" [0:18:15] Joseph Moskowitz - "Don't Step on My Foot" [0:20:29...

He looks forward to giving back to the community. There's so much he's stolen. from Nov 5, 2019 06.11.2019

Mary Lou Williams - "Scorpio" - none Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "A Mug of Ale" - none Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington - "Tonk" - none Bert Shefter & His Rhythm Octet - "Locomotive" - none [0:12:39] Bruz Fletcher - "The Simple Things in Life" - none [0:15:21] Frankie Jaxon and Tampa Red - "It's Heated" - none [0:18:23] Oscar Pettiford, His Cello & Quartet - "Blues for Blanton" - none [0:21:46] Fa...

He's a crusty parasite and WFMU is the host organism. from Jul 25, 2017 26.07.2017

Sonny Burns & the Western Cherokees - "Waltzing with Sin" [0:00:00] The Pilgrim Travelers - "Jesus is the First Line Defense" [0:02:29] Harry Choates & His Fiddle - "Harry Choates Special" [0:08:21] Wilmoth Houdini - "Rum and Coca-Cola Parts 1 and 2" [0:10:56] Camille Howard - "Million Dollar Boogie" [0:16:47] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Cheese & Crackers" [0:19:21] Noël Coward - "Poor Little Rich...

His karma deficit is beyond recoupment. from Jul 18, 2017 19.07.2017

Seven Little Polar Bears - "Since She Learned to Ride a Horse" [0:00:00] Blind Boy Fuller - "Step It Up and Go" [0:02:31] The Executor - "Three Friends' Advice" [0:09:58] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Penn Beach Blues" [0:12:43] The Ink Spots - "Knock-Kneed Sal (on the Mourner's Bench)" [0:15:27] Duke Ellington & His Harlem Footwarmers - "Rockin' in Rhythm" [0:18:38] Geechie Wiley - "Last Kind Word B...

He doesn't choose the lesser of two evils; he chooses the one he hasn't tried yet. from Jun 14, 2016 15.06.2016

Wynonie Harris - "Grandma Plays the Numbers" [0:00:00] George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" [0:02:21] Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - "The New East St. Louis Toodle-oo" [0:07:16] Bea Foote - "Try and Get It" [0:10:06] Bobby Gordon & His Rhythm - "Lady from St. Paul" [0:12:45] Fletcher Henderson & Connie's Inn Orchestra - "Radio Rhythm" [0:15:39] Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boy...

Codger (1926): "Valentino must have a successor somewhere, and it might as well be me." from Apr 5, 2016 06.04.2016

Butterbeans & Susie - "I Got Your Bath Water On" Baby Dodds - "Buddy Bolden's Blues #1" [0:02:06] Sophie Tucker - "50 Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" [0:10:11] George Formby - "I Wonder Who's Under Her Balcony Now" [0:12:23] Roy Brown & His Mighty-Mighty Men - "Butcher Pete, Pt. 1" [0:15:32] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "Baltimore" [0:17:56] Dizzy Gillespie - "The Cha...

Shut Up, Hippies! (Fill-in for Shut Up, Weirdo, 6-7pm Eastern) from Dec 25, 2015 26.12.2015

Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - "Queer Notions" Baby Dodds Trio - "Chocko Mo Feendo Hey" George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "The Wolf Wobble" Wynonie Harris & His All-Stars - "Big City Blues" Butterbeans & Susie - "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stuff" Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - "Delta Serenade" Bruz Fletcher - "Keep an Eye on His Bu...

"The Codger is endowed with awful powers of evil, to the exercise of which he might at any time set his malignant will." – Ambrose Bierce from Sep 15, 2015 16.09.2015

Noel Coward - "I'm Old Fashioned" Baby Dodds - "Les Ognons" Ukulele Ike - "Red Hot Mamma" John Kirby Sextet - "Blues Petite" Geri Galian and His Caribbean Rhythm Boys - "Jungle Rhumba" Dinah Washington & the Ravens - "Hey, Good Lookin'" George Formby - "Grandad's Flannelette Nightshirt" Pee Wee King - "I Don't Mind" Walter Gross - "Creepy Weepy (A Boogie-Woogie Study)" Jessie Knight & His Combo -...

First he tells you that he's gonna tell you what he thinks, then he tells you what he thinks, then he tells you what he just told you. from Jul 14, 2015 15.07.2015

Roaring Lion - "I Can Make More Love Than Romeo" [0:00:00] Baby Dodds - "Mo Pas Lemme Ca #1" [0:04:51] The Six Hottentots with Irving Kaufmann - "I'm in Love Again" [0:07:26] Ben Webster with Bob Howard & His Orchestra - "The Ghost of Dinah" [0:10:34] Roberta Lee - "Common Folks" [0:12:53] Winifred Atwell - "17th Century Boogie" [0:14:27] Ikey Robinson Band - "Rub Me Some More" [0:21:30] Frankie T...

Likes his lovin' as he likes his cars: hand-cranked. from Dec 24, 2014 25.12.2014

Lil Johnson - "My Baby (Squeeze Me Again)" [0:00:00] Willie Bryant - "Chimes at the Meeting" [0:04:43] Mildred Bailey - "Long About Midnight" [0:09:29] Sammy Price - "Do You Dig My Jive?" [0:12:34] George Olson & His Music - "Pu-Leeze! Mister Hemingway" [0:15:23] Margaret Young w/Bennie Krueger's Orchestra - "Stumbling" [0:17:59] Lou Holden & His Disciples of Rhythm - "A Windy Day on Outer Drive"...

He's the spokesman for his generation—because he's the only one left. from Jul 15, 2014 16.07.2014

Lionel Hampton - "Hot Mallets" [0:00:00] Billy Strayhorn Trio - "Johnny Come Lately" [0:01:59] Tampa Red Orchestra - "I'm Gonna Get High" [0:09:43] Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang - "Rhythm King" [0:12:29] Sophie Tucker - "I Don't Want to Get Thin" [0:15:46] Lord Kitchener - "Kitch's Bebop Calypso" [0:18:37] Earl Hines - "Child of a Disordered Brain" [0:21:19] Willie Bryant - "Viper's Moan" [0:27:47] C...

An hour of purloined platters rudely interrupted by grating harangues and emphatic salivary discharge. from Jul 8, 2014 09.07.2014

Django Reinhardt - "Parfum" [0:00:00] Clarence Williams & James P. Johnson - "How Can I Be Blue?" Mildred Bailey - "The Little Man Who Wasn't There" [0:08:00] Eugene Wright & His Dukes of Swing - "Pork 'n' Beans" [0:10:32] George Formby - "The Joo-Jah Tree" [0:13:08] Chin's Calypso Sextet (vocal: E. Bedasse) - "Industrial Fair" [0:15:54] Cab Calloway - "What's Buzzin' Cousin" [0:18:59] Sidney Bech...

A non-renewable fossil fool. from Mar 18, 2014 19.03.2014

Ambrose & His Orchestra - "Tarantula" [0:00:00] George Formby - "It's No Use Looking at Me" [0:02:36] Mary Lou Williams - "Zonky" [0:09:04] Sophie Tucker - "I Know That My Baby is Cheating on Me" [0:11:37] Bix, Tram and Lang - "Wringin' and Twistin'" [0:15:09] Bert Williams - "Not Lately" [0:17:44] Ted Steele and His Novatones - "Azure" [0:20:20] Lil Armstrong and Her Orchestra - "It's Murder" [0:...

Life was so much simpler when there were only three Stooges. from Jan 6, 2014 07.01.2014

Edmond Hall - "Celestinal Express" [0:00:00] Oscar Buddy Woods - "Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away" [0:03:21] Stuff Smith - "Sam, The Vegetable Man" [0:09:38] George Formby - "Like the Big Pots Do" [0:12:22] Lydia Mendoza - "Los Besos de mi Negra" [0:15:03] Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron - "Jahbero" [0:18:16] Roy Brown & His Mighty-Mighty Men - "Butcher Pete, Pt. 1" [0:20:57] Ruth Etting - "Me!" [0:...

Tonight's forecast: partly cranky with a 60% chance of rage. from Nov 12, 2013 13.11.2013

Larry Clinton Orchestra - "Midnight in the Madhouse" [0:00:00] Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "A Strictly Cullud Affair" [0:02:24] Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends - "Mama Don't Allow" [0:09:24] George Formby - "I Don't Like" [0:11:46] Sol Hoopii - "Fascinating Rhythm" [0:14:32] Blind Alfred Reed - "Woman's Been After Man Ever Since" [0:17:20] Lydia Mendoza - "Tu Diras" [0:20:33] Willard Robison -...

All the vices you admire, none of the virtues you detest. from Aug 13, 2013 14.08.2013

Florence Brady - "Here Comes the Show Boat" [0:00:00] Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet - "Jammin' in Four" [0:07:03] Butterbeans & Susie - "That Same Dog" [0:11:16] Slim Gaillard - "Communication" [0:13:46] The Coon-Sanders Orchestra - "Roodles" [0:16:07] Ruth Etting - "After You've Gone" [0:18:58] George Formby - "Sitting on the Sands All Night" [0:21:58] Milt Herth Trio - "Satan Takes a Holiday" [0:2...

He doesn't need to prove he's God's gift to women. The facts speak for themselves. from Apr 16, 2013 17.04.2013

Norman Long - "We Can't Let You Broadcast That" [0:00:00] Truett and George - "Ghost Dance" [0:02:42] Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer - "Goose Pimples" [0:09:09] Florence Brady - "Sunshine" [0:12:03] Lydia Mendoza - "Los Besos de mi Negra" [0:15:08] George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" [0:18:52] Bessie Jackson - "Barbecue Bess" [0:21:11] Wynonie Harris - "I Like My Baby's Pudding" [...