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

Courtney T. Edison and WFMU


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    His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from Apr 17, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2024


    Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "The Baby and the Pup" Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers - "Preachin' Blues" [0:02:25] Bo Carter - "Beans" [0:08:46] The Whoopee Makers - "Rush Inn Blues" [0:11:24] Butterbeans & Susie - "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stuff" [0:14:25] Jabbo Smith - "Till Times Get Better" [0:17:53] Raymond Scott & The Sophisticators - "Farewell Blues" [0:20:32] Una Mae Carlisle - "Throw It Out Your Mind" [0:26:46] Dr. Humphrey Bate and His Possum Hunters - "Ham Beats All Meat" [0:29:04] Clara Smith - "My Good for Nuthin' Man" [0:31:47] Gus Bodenheim - "Beyond Mouse" [0:36:52] Sophie Tucker - "Oh! You Have No Idea" [0:38:51] Lil McClintock - "Don't Think I'm Santa Claus" [0:41:23] Willard Robison and His Deep River Orchestra - "Harlem Blues" [0:44:28] Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Look Out" [0:51:19] Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas - "Fishing Blues" [0:59:19] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138536

    He's an evolutionary dead end. from May 31, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2022


    Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Trade Winds" Don Byas - "I Don't Know Why" [0:02:58] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Euneeda This" [0:10:13] Herm "Sonny" Blount - "Old Man River" [0:12:25] Vaughn De Leath - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" [0:15:23] Slim Gaillard Quartette - "Jumpin' at the Record Shop" [0:18:59] Marion Abernathy - "Ja-Hoosey Baby" [0:22:04] Jack McVea & His Door Openers - "Richard Gets Hitched" [0:24:42] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus — Betrayed!" [0:32:32] Vaughn de Leath - "Bridgeport by the Sea" [0:37:12] George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" [0:39:00] Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 - "Look Out" [0:45:02] Viviane Greene - "He's the Man (He's Tall & Cool)" [0:47:33] The Brox Sisters - "I'm Lonely Without You" [0:50:14] Henry Burr - "After the Ball" [0:53:13] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/116169

    An insatiable vulture snacking on the carcasses of the musical dead. from May 24, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2022


    Rube Bloom - "That Futuristic Rag" [0:00:00] Dodo Marmarosa - "Tone Paintings I" [0:02:46] Gus Bodenheim - "A Bodenheim Birthday Bulletin" [0:08:23] Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten - "Hot-Tempered Blues" [0:11:27] Sol K. Bright & His Hollywaiians - "Heat Wave" [0:14:49] Slim Gaillard Quartet - "Scotchin' with the Soda" [0:17:53] Penny Malone - "I Couldn't Say Yes" [0:20:33] Chick Endor with Fred Elizalde - "Following You Around" [0:22:40] Horace Henderson & His Orch. (voc: Viola Jefferson) - "Oh Boy, I'm in the Groove" [0:29:24] Gregor & His Gregorians - "Gregorology" [0:32:08] Tau Moe's Hawaiian Jazzites - "U Like, Noa Like" [0:34:44] William Bock - "The Civil War" [0:37:57] George Formby - "Easy-Going Chap" [0:41:42] Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra - "The Eel" [0:48:28] Miles Davis-Charlie Parker - "Half-Nelson" [0:50:53] Gus Bodenheim - "Gross, But … Bars™" [0:53:38] Fred Elizalde - "I've Got the World on a String" [0:55:19] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/115850

    "God knows what I've done. Let's just move on." from May 17, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022


    Jess Stacy - "In the Dark — Flashes" - Odeon OR 2233 Dodo Marmarosa - "Tone Paintings II" - private recording, Hollywood, 1947 [0:02:59] Gus Bodenheim - "The Art of the Non Sequitur" - The Art of the Non Sequitur [0:09:18] The Milt Herth Trio - "Jersey Bounce" - Odeon 78 286061-A [0:12:16] Eric Siday - "Paraphrase (Dinah)" - Columbia test pressing [0:14:58] Valaida Snow with Billy Mason & His Orchestra - "You Bring Out the Savage in Me" - Parlophone F-140 [0:18:00] Django Reinhardt - "Improvisation #1" - HMV B-8587 [0:21:19] Howard Jacobs - "Down in the Forest" - Columbia FB 1260 [0:24:09] The Williams Sisters - "Sam, The Old Accordion Man" - Victor 20452 [0:30:19] Bob & Ray - "Widen Your Horizons — How to Brush Your Hair" - The Old Codger Show feature spot [0:33:32] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "Choo Choo" - Okeh W404434 [0:37:00] Elsie Carlisle with Ambrose and His Orchestra - "Pu-leeze! Mister Hemingway" - Regal Zonophone MR-769 [0:39:57] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Følelslange™" - Euneeda Bodenheim 73 rpm disc [0:46:08] Sophie Tucker - "I Know That My Baby Is Cheating on Me" - Columbia 4995 [0:48:27] The Savoy Havana Band: Reg Batten, dir. [vocal: Ramon Newton] - "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" - HMV 5027 [0:51:01] Vladimir Selinski - "Professor Visits Harlem" - Brunswick 8095 [0:53:38] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/115626

    He fishes on his side. You fish on your side. And no one fishes in the middle. from May 10, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2022


    Howard McGhee Sextet - "Up in Dodo's Room" - Dial 1010 [0:00:00] Horace Henderson & His Orchestra - "Kitty on Toast" - Vocation 5433 [0:03:16] Gus Bodenheim - "OCNN+ Extends Bodenheim History Month" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams [0:10:01] Bud Powell's Modernists - "Wail" - Blue Note 1567-B [0:11:55] Andrew Aiona & His Novelty Four - "That Lovin' Hula" - Columbia 1788 D [0:14:51] Fats Waller - "Lonesome Road (Pipe Organ)" - Victor 78 [0:18:13] Swan & Lee - "Fishy Little Thing" - Okeh 8732 [0:20:59] Tiny Grimes Quartet - "Groovin' with Grimes" - Savoy SJL 2208 [0:31:33] Clarence Williams & James P. Johnson - "I've Found a New Baby" - Columbia 14502 [0:34:12] Thore Jederby's Septet - "Bix Idé" - Scala 395 [0:37:03] The Sunshine Boys - "Do Something" - Columbia 5524 [0:40:07] Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight - "Didn't It Rain" - Decca 48054-A [0:46:31] Mills' Ten Black Berries (Duke Ellington & His Orch.) - "Black and Tan Fantasy" - Columbia Records UK Test Pressing [0:48:36] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Bodenheim's Literary Finessence" - Gustatory Indulgences [0:51:50] Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie - "You'se My Friend" - Columbia 14640 [0:55:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/115292

    Has the curiosity of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from May 3, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2022


    Willie "The Lion" Smith & His Cubs - "Harlem Joys" Kitty Gray & Her Wampus Cats with Oscar "Buddy" Woods - "Baton Rouge Rag" [0:02:33] Bob & Ray - "Members of the Audience Write a Song" [0:08:08] Lani McIntyre & His Orchestra ft. Hal Aloma - "Holo Holo Kaa" [0:11:01] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Put and Take" [0:14:10] Sophie Tucker - "No One Man is Ever Going to Worry Me" [0:17:26] James P. Johnson - "You've Got to Be Modernistic" [0:20:28] Victoria Spivey - "Dirty T.B. Blues" [0:23:39] Van and Schenck - "Pastafazoola" [0:30:29] The Brox Sisters - "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again" [0:32:44] Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - "South" [0:35:59] Sir Galba - "Bajan Diplomat" [0:38:46] Gus Bodenheim - "OCNN+ (The Expanded Old Codger News Network)" [0:47:37] Frances King - "He's Got It" [0:50:19] Gerald Wiggins - "The Wig" [0:53:12] Vaughn De Leath - "Looking at the World Thru Rose-Coloured Glasses" [0:55:48] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/115097

    Suggests you go find your own wormhole. from Apr 26, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2022


    Fats Waller - "The London Suite, Pt. 6: Whitechapel" Pete Johnson - "Death Ray Boogie" [0:03:20] Gus Bodenheim - "OCNN+ (The Expanded Old Codger News Network)" [0:09:02] Bo Carter - "Same Thing the Cats Fight About" [0:12:00] Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Whirl in a Whirl" [0:15:27] Helen Kane - "He's So Unusual" [0:18:04] Dave Bartholomew - "Frantic Chick" [0:20:58] Lucky Millinder Orchestra - "Shorty's Gotta Go" [0:23:29] Ruth Etting - "Glad Rag Doll" [0:29:24] Sister Rosetta Tharpe - "Strange Things Happening Every Day" [0:32:41] Hartman's Heartbreakers - "A Night in Carolina" [0:35:28] Fats Waller - "Smoke Dreams of You" [0:38:08] Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - "Lavender Coffin" [0:40:58] Dizzy Gillespie - "Be-Bop" [0:46:04] Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy - "That Song is Gone" [0:49:13] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Bunkers™" [0:52:10] Charles Trenet - "La Mer" [0:54:50] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/114817

    Radio needs him as nature needs mosquitoes. from Apr 19, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2022


    Fats Waller - "London Suite Pt. 4: Bond Street" Fats Waller - "London Suite Pt. 5: Limehouse" [0:03:40] Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons - "Boogie Woogie Man" [0:08:51] Gus Bodenheim - "Apologia for This Week's Absence" [0:12:29] Dave Bartholomew - "Ay Cubanos" [0:13:43] Jazz Gillum & His Boys - "Windy Blues" [0:16:16] Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five - "You're My Meat" [0:18:46] Lucky Thompson Quartet - "Dodo's Bounce" [0:21:43] The Brox Sisters - "Do I?" [0:25:48] Bob & Ray - "Reuniting a Sister and Brother Separated for 70 Years" [0:29:03] Count Basie - "How Long How Long Blues" [0:32:37] Gordon "Little Gordon" McNulty - "Trucker's Companion Bourbon" [0:35:45] Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson - "Have to Change Keys to Play These Blues" [0:36:49] Lucky Thompson Quartet - "Slam's Mishap" [0:39:54] Hartman's Heartbreakers - "My Southern Movements" [0:44:35] Sister Rosetta Tharpe - "Lonesome Road" [0:47:01] Dorothy Donegan - "St. Louis Blues" [0:49:33] Gus Bodenheim - "A Bodenheim Medical Extra: Delbarton Vaccine Side Effects" [0:52:19] Django Reinhardt & the Quintet of the Hot Club of France - "Rhythme Futur" [0:54:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/114619

    If he had two ice creams, you can go to Hell. from Apr 12, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2022


    Fats Waller - "London Suite - Pt. 1 Piccadilly" [0:00:00] Fats Waller - "London Suite - Pt. 2 Chelsea" [0:02:23] Mississippi Sheiks - "Sales Tax" [0:09:42] Sophie Tucker - "Max from the Income Tax" [0:12:48] Blind Willie Johnson (with Willie B. Harris) - "Lord I Just Can't Keep from Crying" [0:15:20] Pigmeat Pete (Wesley Wilson) and Catjuice Charlie (Harry McDaniels) - "Our Family Doctor" [0:18:02] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Farms Head Cheese" [0:24:42] Django Reinhardt - "Nuages" [0:26:41] Jones, Smith Inc. (Count Basie Quintet, Prez, Jo Jones, Walter Page) - "Lady, Be Good" [0:29:56] Lovin' Sam Theard - "You Rascal You - No. 2" [0:32:40] Zuzu Bollin - "Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night?" [0:39:01] Lucille Bogan - "Barbecue Bess" [0:41:34] Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "At the Swing Cats' Ball" [0:44:04] Gus Bodenheim - "Let's Build a Drugs Caddy" [0:46:42] Dodo Marmarosa - "Bopmatism (Take 1)" [0:49:26] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/114368

    Smoked metaphors and pickled syntax. from Apr 5, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2022


    Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Mellow Mood" Robert Wilkins - "Rolling Stone" [0:02:59] Gus Bodenheim - "An Open Letter to the Ladies" [0:10:57] Barney Kessel's All-Stars - "Slick Chick" [0:13:30] George Formby - "Springtime's Here Again" [0:16:18] Jim & Bob (The Genial Hawaiians) - "The Song of the Range" [0:19:16] Noël Coward - "Any Little Fish" [0:21:50] Riley Puckett - "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again" [0:24:15] Blind Willie McTell & Ruby Glaze - "Mama, Let Me Scoop for You" [0:30:55] Josh White - "Pure Religion" [0:33:37] Lee Sims - "Falling In Love with You" [0:36:52] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Delbarton's Poesy Alive™ (celebrating National Poetry Month)" [0:40:34] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "Humpty Dumpty" [0:42:33] [0:45:25] Lonnie Johnson - "Winnie the Wailer" [0:48:44] Bob & Ray - "Mary McGoon Explains "Scrabbopoly"" [0:51:40] Earl Hines and His Orchestra - "Blue Drag" [0:55:07] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/114125

    Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 29, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022


    James P. Johnson - "Blue Turning Gray Over You" [0:00:00] Bessie Smith (with Eddie Lang) - "Kitchen Man" [0:08:42] Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month III - Moe Levy Bodenheim" [0:08:45] Cannon's Jug Stompers - "Walk Right In" [0:11:15] Blind Willie Johnson - "God Moves on the Water" [0:14:28] Walter Page & His Original Blue Devils - "Blue Devil Blues" [0:17:08] Noël Coward - "Lorelei" [0:19:54] Lucky Thompson Quartet - "Commercial Eyes" [0:28:54] Lord Lebby & the Jamaican Calypsonians - "Dr. Kinsey Report" [0:31:30] Bob & Ray - "Widen Your Horizons: How to Use Dental Floss" [0:34:25] Robert Wilkins - "That's No Way to Get Along" [0:37:54] Lonnie Johnson - "Uncle Ned, Don't Use Your Head" [0:40:57] Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra - "Tonsilectomy" [0:47:46] Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra - "Flaming Youth" [0:50:37] Gus Bodenheim - "Codgertopia™" [0:53:50] Blind Willie & Katie McTell - "God Don't Like It (And I Don't Either)" [0:56:26] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113889

    "Everything that's wrong with a human stuffed into one man." — Eli Vardens from Mar 22, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2022


    King Nawahi's Hawaiians - "Tickling the Strings" Dixie Rhythm Kings - "The Chant" [0:03:00] Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month II - Music" [0:09:53] Gerald Wiggins - "Wiggin' with Wig" [0:12:43] The Ticklers - "Healing in the Balm Yard" [0:16:04] Florence Brady - "Sunshine" [0:18:56] Jack Pettis and His Pets - "Spanish Dream" [0:22:02] Noël Coward - "Something to Do With Spring" [0:28:53] Cole Porter - "You're the Top" [0:31:09] Pinetop Smith - "Jump Steady Blues" [0:34:25] Eddie Cole's Solid Swingers - "Honey Hush" [0:37:14] Clevis Multrum - "The House That Was Built from the Upstairs Down" [0:44:28] The Jungle Band - "Admiration" [0:46:35] Ruth Etting - "Beloved" [0:49:25] Gus Bodenheim - "Codgercoin™" [0:52:40] George Gershwin - "Sweet and Low Down (from "Tip Toes")" [0:54:38] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113637

    Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 15, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022


    Ruth Etting - "Shine on Harvest Moon" Van & Schenck - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" [0:02:36] DJ Fablio - "Please Pledge for the Old Codger" [0:12:58] Sophie Tucker - "I Ain't Taking Orders from No One" [0:14:02] Gerald Wiggins - "S'posin'" [0:16:57] Curly Weaver & Blind Willie McTell - "Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More" [0:20:57] George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" [0:35:42] Blue Bird Trio - "When Mickey Mouse and Minnie's in Town" [0:38:41] Vaughn De Leath - "Ukulele Lady" [0:41:23] Irving Kaufman - "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" [0:53:20] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "I'm Coming Virginia" [0:55:59] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113463

    Money donated during this hour funds the Codger's "infrastructure" needs (whiskey, cigars, Chinese takeout, rare 78rpm discs). Booker T. Bodenheim co-hosts. from Mar 8, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2022


    Fletcher Henderson - "Queer Notions" Slim Gaillard - "Potato Chips" [0:03:14] Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - "Jack the Bellboy" [0:11:34] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Give to the Old Codger Today!" [0:14:06] Ruth Etting - "Keep Sweeping Cobwebs off the Moon" [0:15:32] Sheila B - "The Ladies Review Courtney T. Edison" [0:18:34] Sophie Tucker - "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas" [0:19:39] George Formby - "Swimmin' With the Wimmin" [0:28:59] The BBC Dance Orchestra - "Mickey's Son and Daughter" [0:31:39] Joe McGasko - "Exposes Courtney's Attempt at Extortion" [0:34:38] Fats Waller - "Your Feet's Too Big" [0:35:49] Memphis Minnie - "Keep on Eatin'" [0:46:56] Gus Bodenheim - "Pledge — What's in it for You?" [0:49:16] King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopaters - "Deep Henderson" [0:50:36] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113291

    Everybody deserves a 22nd chance! from Mar 1, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2022


    Rube Bloom - "Soliloquy" Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio - "Clawin' the Frets" [0:02:38] Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month, ep. 1" [0:09:04] Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "The Duke Insists" [0:11:48] Henry Thomas - "Bull Doze Blues" [0:14:36] Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Dodo's Blues" [0:18:02] Lonnie Johnson and Blind Willie Dunn (Eddie Lang) - "Two Tone Stomp" [0:21:14] King Radio - "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" [0:24:12] Slim Gaillard Trio - "Cement Mixer (Put-ti-Put-ti)" [0:31:51] Cole Porter - "The Physician (from "Nymph Errant")" [0:34:48] The Mel Powell Sextet - "Cuban Pete" [0:37:46] Seger Ellis - "Sunday" [0:40:36] Hersal Thomas - "Hersal Blues" [0:46:57] Prof. Grampy & His Inventive Hooligans - "Ha-Cha-Nan" [0:49:25] Blind Boy Fuller - "Jivin' Woman Blues" [0:51:50] Ruth Etting - "Beloved" [0:54:39] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113005

    Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart." from Feb 22, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2022


    Little Jack Little - "Three O'Clock in the Morning" Trio Servando Diaz - "Param Pan Pin" [0:02:43] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Old Codger Mailbag" [0:10:20] Gertrude Lawrence - "Experiment" [0:12:40] Howard McGhee Sextet - "Midnight at Minton's" [0:15:20] Carl Kress & Dick McDonough - "Chicken a La Swing" [0:18:20] Ruth Etting - "Now I'm in Love" [0:20:34] Mary Lou Williams and Her Trio - "Roll 'Em" [0:23:12] Gus Bodenheim - "Let's Build a Drugs Caddy" [0:31:16] Frankie Jaxon and Tampa Red - "It's Heated" [0:33:43] Gene Krupa & His Orchestra - "Jungle Madness" [0:37:11] Bea Foote - "Try and Get It" [0:40:01] Bruz Fletcher - "She's My Most Intimate Friend" [0:42:48] Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron - "Jahbero" [0:49:38] Hackberry Ramblers - "On Top of the World" [0:52:21] Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - "Workout" [0:54:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112899

    An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 15, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2022


    Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Non-Discrimination Policy" [0:00:00] Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Bopmatism" [0:01:36] Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang - "Handful of Riffs" [0:08:32] Beryl Booker (p), Mary Osborne (g), and June Rotenberg (b) - "Low Ceiling" [0:11:22] Jack McVea - "Groove Juice" [0:14:37] Eddie Walters - "Makin' Whoopee" [0:17:28] Dusty Fletcher - "Open the Door Richard" [0:21:09] Gus Bodenheim - "The 2022 Rummy Awards" [0:29:01] George Gershwin - "When Do We Dance? (from "Tip Toes")" [0:31:17] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Mop! Mop!" [0:34:06] Johnny Marvin - "Half a Moon (Is Better Than No Moon)" [0:37:00] Gertrude Lawrence - "The Physician" [0:43:44] Ruth Etting - "Wherever You Go, Whatever You Do" [0:46:32] Dick McDonough - "Chasing a Buck" [0:49:21] Whispering Jack Smith - "Then I'll Be Happy (I Wanna Go Where You Go, Do What You Do)" [0:51:40] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112549

    There are forms of bowel cancer that have higher approval ratings than the Codger. from Feb 8, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2022


    Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Glad Rag Doll" Mississippi Sheiks - "Stop and Listen Blues" [0:02:50] Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel Medi-Spirits™" [0:10:43] Ruth Etting - "So Is Your Old Lady" [0:12:46] Wilmoth Houdini with the Lionel Belasco Orchestra - "Caroline" [0:15:49] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Small Town Boy" [0:18:52] Mary Lou Williams - "Sagittarius" [0:21:35] Riley Puckett - "Ma (He's Making Eyes at Me)" [0:27:58] Teddy Brown - "Canadian Capers" [0:30:32] Baby Dodds - "Drum Improvisation #2" [0:32:02] George Formby - "I Wish I Was Back on the Farm" [0:34:43] Noël Coward - "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" [0:37:35] Carl Kress & Dick McDonough - "Heat Wave" [0:40:08] Rose "Chi-Chi" Murphy - "My Blue Heaven" [0:45:42] Ruth Etting - "Ten Cents a Dance" [0:47:47] Olive Kline and Elsie Baker - "Whispering Hope" [0:50:51] Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Clown Car™" [0:53:13] George Gershwin - "Looking for a Boy (from "Tip Toes")" [0:55:14] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112488

    A distended gasbag of terribleness. from Feb 1, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2022


    George Gershwin - "Preludes for Piano: 1. (Allegro ben ritmato e deciso); 2. (Andante con moto e poco rubato); 3. (Agitato)" - Gershwin: Preludes for Piano [0:00:00] Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel — It's Codgerlicious!" - Sly Weasel Hit-of-the-Week [0:08:43] Nick Lucas - "Teasing the Frets" - Brunswick 6508 [0:10:29] Mississippi Sheiks - "He Calls That Religion" - Paramount 13142 [0:12:49] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Pan Pan" - Decca 12793 [0:16:22] Wynonie Harris - "I Like My Baby's Pudding" - King 4342 [0:19:34] Mary Lou Williams Girl Stars with Marjorie Hyams & Mary Osborne - "Boogie Mysterioso" - Continental 78 [0:21:56] Van & Schenck - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" - Columbia 1492-D [0:28:02] Ruth Etting - "What a Man" - Columbia 675-D [0:30:45] Pigmeat Pete (Wesley Wilson) and Catjuice Charlie (Harry McDaniels) - "Old Age is Creeping Upon You" - Columbia 14513-D [0:33:36] Lonnie Johnson - "I'm Nuts About That Gal" - Okeh 8946 [0:36:52] Sophie Tucker - "I Don't Want to Get Thin" - Victor 21995 [0:39:38] George Gershwin & Fred Astaire - "The Half of It, Dearie Blues (from "Lady, Be Good")" - Lady Be Good demos [0:46:44] Henry Burr - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - Victor 20873 [0:49:26] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Leftover Takeout™" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams [0:52:39] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Knock Me a Kiss" - Decca 8593 [0:54:52] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112173

    He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 11, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2022


    Romeo Nelson - "Head Rag Hop" [0:00:00] Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Get Off with Me" [0:04:47] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Bodenheim's Literary Finessence" [0:11:02] Robert Lee McCoy - "Next-Door Neighbor" [0:14:01] Fats Waller & His Buddies - "Harlem Fuss" [0:16:57] Ruth Etting - "There Ain't No Maybe in My Baby's Eyes" [0:20:10] Trio Matamoros - "Son de la Loma" [0:22:54] The Three Stripped Gears - "1931 Depression Blues" [0:29:51] Billy Taylor Trio - "All Too Soon" [0:32:39] Reuben Reeves & Omer Simeon - "Smoke House Blues" [0:35:26] James McCrary - "Shove It Up in There" [0:38:01] Zelma O'Neal - "The Varsity Drag" [0:46:23] Noël Coward - "I'm Old Fashioned" [0:48:31] Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Ashley Street Blues" [0:51:01] Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Smart Shanty™" [0:54:15] Adrian Rollini - "Small Fry (Take 2)" [0:56:43] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111437

    Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 18, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2022


    Bix Beiderbecke - "In a Mist" Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Rasslin' 'Til the Wagon Comes" [0:02:41] Gus Bodenheim - "Codgertopia™" [0:09:28] Earl Hines - "Child of a Disordered Brain" [0:11:47] Lonnie Johnson - "I'm Just Dumb" [0:14:37] Sidney Bechet - "Blue Horizon" [0:17:34] Ruth Etting - "Together We Two" [0:22:03] Dick McDonough - "Dick Bernstein Ramble" [0:28:17] Ham Gravy (Washboard Sam with Black Bob) - "Who Pumped the Wind in My Doughnut" [0:30:23] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "How 'Bout That" [0:33:47] Noel Coward - "What's Going to Happen to the Tots?" [0:36:16] Nick Lucas - "Picking the Guitar" [0:40:12] Coleman Hawkins Orchestra - "Jamaica Shout" [0:45:36] Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) - "Magnolia" [0:48:09] Spivy - "The Alley Cat" [0:50:57] Gus Bodenheim - "Ginger Psake" [0:52:36] Whispering Jack Smith - "The Song is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)" [0:54:55] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111661

    So old his blood type was discontinued. from Jan 25, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2022


    Regal Jazz Band - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" - unknown 78 rpm disc Lionel Hampton & His Just Jazz All Stars & Oscar Peterson - "It's a Blue World" - Lionel Hampton & His Just Jazz All Stars & Oscar Peterson 78 [0:02:34] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Old Codger Mailbag" - Missives from Our Saintly Listeners [0:09:50] Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Have Your Chill, I'll Be Here When Your Fever Rises" - Paramount 12317 (with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra) [0:13:12] The Harmonettes - "That's a Plenty" - The Harmonettes 78 rpm disc [0:16:13] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Boogie Woogie Came to Town" - Decca 8581 Sepia Series [0:18:48] John Cali & Tony Guttoso - "A Study in Brown" - Victor 25662 (Guitar Duet) [0:21:36] Ruth Etting - "It Happened in Monterey" - Columbia 2199-D (Vocal with Accompaniment) [0:24:40] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Bunkers™" - Another Fine Delbarton Product [0:31:29] Noël Coward & Cafe De Paris Orchestra - "I Like America" - Noël Coward — He Likes America! (78) [0:33:54] Sophie Tucker - "Aren't Women Wonderful?" - single [0:36:58] Lonnie Johnson - "She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight" - Okeh 8768 -- Vocal with Guitar [0:39:30] Mississippi Sheiks - "Jail Bird Love Song" - Okeh 8834 (for Best Results, Use Okeh needles) [0:42:33] Victoria Spivey with Porter Grainger - "You've Gotta Have What It Takes - Parts 1 & 2" - Victor V-38609 (Singing with Piano & Guitar) [0:49:04] Carl Kress & Dick McDonough - "Stage Fright" - Brunswick 6917 (Shellac) [0:54:35] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111881

    A stormy petrel of unbalanced mental potentialities. from Jan 4, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2022


    Gene Rodgers - "Jukebox Boogie" Don Redman - "Chant of the Weed" Gus Bodenheim - "EschewTube™" Roger Etlens et son Ensemble - "Swing Guitare" Mamie Smith - "Don't You Advertise Your Man" Mary Lou Williams - "Easy Blues" Eddie Cole & The Three Peppers - "I Like My Gravy" Lucille Bogan - "Stew Meat Blues" Adrian Rollini - "Small Fry (Take 1)" Ruth Etting - "Now I'm In Love" The Brox Sisters - "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again" Flip the Frog - "Soda Squirt (1933)" Slim & Slam - "B-19" Gus Bodenheim - "The Forgotten Gershwin" The King Cole Trio - "The Geek" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111245

    Codger: "You throw one piece of equipment at the station manager and suddenly you're branded 'difficult to work with'." from Dec 28, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2021


    Jabbo Smith - "Michigander Blues" Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Come on Coot, Do That Thing" Euneeda Bodenheim - "Whimsy While You Work" Victoria Spivey - "He Wants Too Much" Benny Goodman Trio (with Gene Krupa & Teddy Wilson) - "Avalon" Georgia Tom Dorsey & Kansas City Kitty - "How Can You Have the Blues?" Lil Johnson - "New Shave 'Em Dry" Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel Medi-Spirits™" Mary Lou Williams - "D.D.T." McKinney's Cotton Pickers (ft. Chocolate Dandies) - "Paducah" Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Jack, You're Dead!" Fats Waller - "You Meet the Nicest People in Your Dreams" Little Jack Little - "I've Always Wanted to Dance in Berlin" Wayne King and His Orchestra (vocal: Burke Bivens) - "Swamp Ghosts" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Money Laundromat™" Norton "Clubfoot" Grubbage - "The Stuttering Polkalypso" Billy Murray - "He's a Devil in His Own Home Town" Margaret Young (Rube Bloom, piano) - "Big Bad Bill" Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "How Long Must I Wait for You?" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/110973

    Blink and you're passé! from Dec 21, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2021


    Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "The Wolf Wobble" Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Opus 12 Eee" Gus Bodenheim - "N.E.B.U.C.H.A.D.N.E.Z.Z.A.R. (Part 1)" Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me)" Beans Hambone & El Morrow - "Beans" Gene Krupa & His Orchestra with Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge - "Let Me Off Uptown" Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - "Blue Blazes" Martha Copeland - "The Pawn Shop Blues" Gus Bodenheim - "N.E.B.U.C.H.A.D.N.E.Z.Z.A.R. (Part 2)" Clara Smith - "How'm I Doin'" Sister Cally Fancy - "Goin' on to Heaven in the Sanctified Way" Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "Baltimore" George Formby - "Swim Little Fish, Swim On" Toby Deane and the Hummingbirds - "Alice in Christmas Wonderland" The John Kirby Sextet - "Sweet Georgia Brown" Ruth Etting - "Love Letters in the Sand" Adrian Rollini Trio - "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/110770

    He's the answer to your prayers. And the answer is, "NO!" from Dec 14, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2021


    Fats Waller - "Ain't Misbehavin' / Two Sleepy People (V-Disc)" Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Gamma Gourmet™ by Delbarton Nuclear" Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Handsome Harry the Hipster" Lizzie Miles - "My Man O'War" Noël Coward - "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" Tom Crowley Orchestra - "Doc O'Ligy" Gus Bodenheim - "Radio Announcer of the Year Award Victory Speech Pt. 2" Old South Quartette - "Pussy Cat Rag" Arthur Fields and Fred Hall - "Song of the Condemned" Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "If It's Love You Want, Baby That's Me" Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Paradiddle" Hank Williams - "Crazy Heart" Ruth Etting - "Blue River" Watson Sisters - "Lend Me Jim" Gus Bodenheim - "The Gus Bodenheim Literary Guild" Buchanan Brothers - "When You See Those Flying Saucers" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/110569

    You keep forgetting he's still alive. from Dec 7, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2021 59:19


    Vaughn de Leath - "I Just Roll Along" Red Norvo - "Tomboy" Gus Bodenheim - "Radio Announcer of the Year Victory Speech" Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "Have a Little Dream on Me" Issie Ringold - "Be on Your Merry Way" Django Reinhardt - "Serenade for a Wealthy Widow" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "No Sale" Rege Cordic and Company - "Omicron Visits Earth" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Don't You Worry 'Bout that Mule" Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra - "Jivin' with Jarvis" Mills Blue Rhythm Band - "The Growl" George Formby - "You Can't Stop Me from Dreaming" Euneeda Bodenheim - "Winetta's Whimsy Shed™" Ruth Etting - "Lazy Day" Noël Coward - "It's Only You" Ethel Waters - "A Hundred Years from Today" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/110392

    "The Codger's brain is a sepulcher furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones." - Joseph Glanvill from Nov 30, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2021


    James P. Johnson - "Jersey Sweet" Cliff Edwards - "Hang On to Me" Gus Bodenheim - "Rediscover Radium!" Ruth Etting - "Lazy Day" Fats Waller - "Sweet Sue, Just You" Red Norvo - "Decca Stomp" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Texas and Pacific" Julius Edison (The Older Codger) - "Diddy Wah Diddy" Helen Kane - "That's Why I'm Happy" Robert and Raymond - "Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons" Slim Gaillard Trio - "Sighing Boogie" George Formby - "Pardon Me" Betty Boop - "Is My Palm Read?" Vaughn De Leath - "Ukulele Lady" Gus Bodenheim - "Things for Tots™" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Beware" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/110119

    He'll steal anything that isn't nailed down. And anything he can pry loose isn't nailed down. from Nov 23, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2021


    Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Updated Terms of Service" Dodo Marmarosa - "Dodo's Bounce" The Georgia Browns - "Decatur Street 81" Red Norvo - "Blues in E Flat" Slim Gaillard - "Travelin' Blues" Lecuona Cuban Boys - "Ay Si, Ay No" Memphis Minnie - "Keep on Eatin'" Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Cheese and Crackers" Gus Bodenheim - "The Maxwell Bodenheim Diaries, Part 1" Wilmoth Houdini - "Rum and Coca-Cola - Parts 1 and 2" Blind Blake - "Dry Bone Shuffle (unissued take)" The Cook Sisters - "Make My Cot Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows" Betty Boop featuring Wiffle Piffle - "Hot Air Salesman" George Formby - "The Lancashire Toreador" Noël Coward - "Imagine the Duchess's Feelings" Ruth Etting - "At Sundown" Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Des Jardins Canderriere" Hoagy Carmichael - "Cosmics" Edmond Hall - "Jammin' in Four" Lionel Belasco y su Orquesta - "Juliana" Duke Ellington with Dolores Parker - "The Wildest Gal in Town" Bruz Fletcher - "Miss Day" Gus Bodenheim - "The Maxwell Bodenheim Diaries, Part 2" Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra - "Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F: II. Andante con moto - Adagio" Frank Socolow's Duke Quintet - "Reverse the Charges" The Be-Bop Boys - "Webb City" Flip the Frog - "The Cuckoo Murder Case (1930)" Blind Blake and Charlie Spand - "Hastings Street" Cliff Jackson's Krazy Kats - "Desert Blues" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/109859

    This program may be shut down pending an internal review of repeated violations of established protocols which led to a most unfortunate incident. from Nov 16, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2021


    Joe Venuti & His Blue Four - "Really Blue" - B-4866 Duke Ellington & His Harlem Footwarmers - "Rockin' in Rhythm" - R-924 Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Smart Shanty™" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams Brew Moore - "Blue Brew" Bill Broonzy - "Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down" - B-6230 Red Norvo - "Hole in the Wall" P. Iwanyshyn (Vocal: L. Ischuk) - "Divchyno Molodenka (My Darling)" Noël Coward - "Poor Little Rich Girl" The Happiness Boys - "The Coat and Pants Do All the Work" - 40785-B Lee Sims - "Falling in Love With You" - 3551-A The Williams Sisters - "Sam, the Old Accordion Man" - 20452 Corrine Morgan - "Home, Sweet Home" - 2831 Betty Boop - "Blunderland" - Betty Boop Major Motion Picture Soundtracks Gus Bodenheim - "The Problematic™" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams Fats Navarro - "Nostalgia" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/109627

    "Latin never seemed to be about anything. They were all kinda bughouse—Caesar, and Cicero, and what's-his-name." — Fred Whitmarsh from Nov 9, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2021


    Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra - "Gershwin's Piano Concerto In F: III. Allegro con brio (Allegro agitato)" - Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Doin' Things" - 21561 Gus Bodenheim - "Maxwell Bodenheim's Classic Poetry" - Gus Bodenheim's Faulty Reminiscences Fats Waller - "Alligator Crawl" - B.8784 Nora Bayes - "I Work Eight Hours, Sleep Eight Hours, That Leaves Eight Hours for Love" - Bayes 78 Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra - "China Stomp (Chinatown, My Chinatown)" - 25586-A Noel Coward - "Parisian Pierrot" - B.8414 Edith Evans - "Get Out, Get Under the Moon" - Edith 98239 Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn - "Bull Frog Moan" - 8695 R.G. Dunbarton Industries - "R.G. Dunn Cigars" - R.G. Dunbarton Industries Fine Products Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Relaxing" - xxxx9 Betty Boop & Prof. Grampy - "The Candid Candidate" - Betty Boop, The Great Jewish Actress George Gershwin - "Do, Do, Do" - George Gershwin demos Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business" - 7705 Gus Bodenheim - "Gas Station Brand Hot Dogs™" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams Al Jolson - "Lazy" - 99Ch-102Ch https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/109401

    Knew Gatsby when he was just "pretty good." from Nov 2, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2021


    Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra - "Grand Canyon Suite: V. Cloudburst" Gus Bodenheim - "A Tour Through My Library" Ruth Etting & the Victor Young Orchestra - "Whose Honey Are You?" Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Who's Goin' Steady with Who" Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Pretty Trix" Victoria Spivey - "One Hour Mama" Gorni Kramer - "China Boy" Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - "Tidal Wave" Blind Blake - "Champagne Charlie is My Name" The Brox Sisters - "Red Hot Mamma" Betty Boop - "Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions" Edith Evans - "Oh, You Have No Idea!" Gus Bodenheim - "123 and Me™" Vaughn De Leath - "Sing Me a Baby Song" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/109198

    All he asks is a fair trial before they hang him. from Oct 26, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021


    Milt Herth - "Hell's Bells" The Boswell Sisters - "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" Dinah Washington - "Evil Gal Blues" Jaybird Coleman & the Birmingham Jug Band - "Giving It Away" Eddie Lang - "April Kisses" Mildred Bailey - "Hold On" Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra - "Till Tom Special" Gus Bodenheim - "Ginger Psake™" Mezzrow-Bechet Quintet ft. Coot Grant - "Evil Gal Blues" The Chicago Loopers - "Three Blind Mice" Alma Gluck, The Victor Orchestra & Walter B. Rogers - "Angels Ever Bright and Fair" Opal Cooper - "Beans, Beans, Beans" Betty Grable & Dan Dailey - "It's Halloween" Cliff Edwards - "Hard-Hearted Hannah" Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Broadcast Academy" Connie Conway - "I Should Not Be Seeing You" Ruth Etting - "Varsity Drag" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/108979

    His cynicism is not cheap! from Oct 19, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021


    Percy Grainger - "Pagodes (Debussy, from "Estampes")" Hadda Brooks - "Boogie Celeste" Gus Bodenheim - "Reads the Mailbag" Blind Willie Dunn & Lonnie Johnson - "Deep Minor Rhythm" Sammy Price - "Just Jivin' Around" The Mills Brothers - "Bugle Call Rag" Maxine Sullivan - "Molly Malone" Cyril Scott - "Rainbow Trout" Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "What's His Story" Vaughn De Leath - "Looking at The World Thru Rose-Coloured Glasses" Betty Boop - "Baby Be Good" Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang - "Goose Pimples" Gus Bodenheim - "The Sears Poutin' Shanty" George Gershwin - "Maybe" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/108810

    Gus Bodenheim sits in Courtney's chair, fills his shoes, and depletes his whiskey. from Oct 12, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2021


    Sister O.M. Terrell - "God's Little Birds" Will Glahe Orchestra - "Krazy Kat" Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 1" Erroll Garner - "Skylark" Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - "Hop-Scotch Polka (Scotch Hot)" Eva Taylor - "My Man is on the Make" Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 2" Buddy Weed - "Whoops a Doodle" Cliff Edwards - "A Great Big Bunch of You" Vaughn Monroe - "Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant)" Duke Ellington - "The Perfume Suite" Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 3" Willard Robison & The Ipana Troubadours - "Wake Up! Chillun, Wake Up!" Thomas Morris & His Seven Hot Babies - "The Mess" The Sons of the Pioneers - "A Melody from the Sky" Annette Hanshaw - "Say It Isn't So" Ethelbert Nevin - "Narcissus" Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 4" Paul Gayten - "True" Paul Robeson - "Sleepy River" Bing Crosby - "My Kinda Love" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/108554

    Empathied out since 1931. from Oct 5, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2021


    George Gershwin - "Clap Yo' Hands" Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "Breakin' in a New Pair of Shoes" Wilmoth Houdini - "The Calypso Way" Lil Johnson - "My Stove's in Good Condition" Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Burlesque" Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Clown Car™" Polly Walker - "Where Were You? Where Was I?" Palmer McAbee - "McAbee's Railroad" Milt Herth - "Swamp Fire" Betty Boop - "Bimbo's Express" Groucho Marx - "I'm Against It" Nan Blakstone - "A Lady's a Lady (No Matter What Cooks)" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Repurposed Facial Coverings™" Ruth Etting - "Exactly Like You" Adrian Rollini - "Minuet in Jazz" Reginald Foresythe - "St. Louis Blues" Little Son Joe - "Black Rat Swing" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/108390

    His very existence affirms Faulkner's observation that "The past is never dead. It's not even past." from Sep 28, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2021


    George Gershwin - "Someone to Watch Over Me" Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra - "The Mooche" Mississippi John Hurt - "Ain't No Tellin'" Milt Herth Quartet - "Egyptian Ella" Clarence "Pinetop" Smith - "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" Nan Blakstone - "You Can't Find a Place to Do It" Four Southern Singers - "Be Ready" Gus Bodenheim - "EschewTube™" Hank Williams - "Everything's Okay" Walter Gross - "Improvisation in Several Keys" Wilmoth Houdini - "He Had It Coming" Betty Boop - "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" Cab Calloway - "A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird" Gus Bodenheim - "The Protocols of the Elders of Edison" The Brox Sisters - "Cover Me Up with Sunshine of Virginia" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/108119

    Once spent a week in Arkansas to get his liver drained. from Sep 14, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2021


    John Ouwerx - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow" Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "The Henderson Stomp" Gus Bodenheim - "The Forgotten Gershwin" Lil Johnson - "Hottest Gal in Town" Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Lament for Congo (A Hymn to Darkness No. 2)" The Brox Sisters - "Bring on the Pepper" Alma Gluck, The Victor Orchestra & Walter B. Rogers - "Have You Seen But a Whyte Lillie Grow?" Bo Carter - "My Pencil Won't Write No More" Ruth Etting - "When You're with Somebody Else" Paul Howard & His Quality Serenaders - "California Swing" Hank Williams - "I'll Be a Bachelor Till I Die" Betty Boop - "Service with a Smile" Ferdy Kauffman and His Orchestra - "The Clock and the Dresden Figures" Whispering Jack Smith - "Gimme a Little Kiss (Will Ya, Huh?)" Gus Bodenheim - "The Old Codger's AirPS™" Marion Harris - "There's a Lump of Sugar Down in Dixie" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107682

    Once asked what to feed babies, he recommended suntan lotion, dust bunnies, clumps of bread soaked in rubbing alcohol, and pennies. from Sep 21, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2021


    Fred Elizalde - "Melancholy Weeps" Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Volcanic (Eruption for Orchestra)" Bo Carter - "Ram Rod Daddy" Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Penn Beach Blues" Lothar Perl - "Crazy Top" Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon - "Down at Jasper's Bar-B-Que" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Leftover Takeout™" Lil Johnson - "Sam, the Hot Dog Man" Sophie Tucker - "My Pet" Fats Waller & Ada Brown - "That Ain't Right" Euneeda Bodenheim - "Kelvilene Butz's PantryPedia™" Billy Mayerl - "Beetle in the Bottle" Betty Boop - "Morning, Noon and Night" J. H. Squire Celeste Octet - "Moment Musicale (Schubert, arr. Sear)" Henry Burr - "Rags" Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Time Machine™" George Formby - "Under the Blasted Oak" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107956

    Hubris is his other middle name. from Sep 7, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2021


    Arthur Schutt - "Piano Puzzle" Fats Waller - "Imagine My Surprise" Sophie Tucker - "Red Hot Mama" The Happiness Boys - "Wimmin ... AAAH!" Reginald Foresythe & Arthur Young - "Tiger Rag" Ruth Etting - "My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Money Laundromat™" Helen Kane - "Me and the Man in the Moon" Slim & Slam (Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart) - "Crazy Rhythm" Elizabeth Welch - "Solomon" Betty Boop - "Snow White" J. H. Squire Celeste Octet - "Moonbeams and Shadows" J. Edgar Bodenheim - "Delbarton Beer" Fred Elizalde - "Harmonizing" Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - "Brown Sugar" The Brox Sisters - "Mandy, Make Up Your Mind" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107456

    Proprietress subs for Courtney T. Edison from Aug 31, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2021


    Eubie Blake - "Charleston Rag" Georgia White - "The Stuff Is Here" Ida Cox - "Lonesome Blues" Valaida Snow - "Lonesome Road" Sol Hoopii - "Hana Hana Hawaii" Madame Riviere's Hawaiians - "Fort Street" Sol K. Bright & His Hollywaiians - "Hawaiian Cowboy" Bob Wills with the McKinney Sisters - "Hawaiian War Chant" Lily May Ledford, Rosalie and Bella Allen - "Gypsy Davy" Hoagy Carmichael - "Rogue River Valley" Ernest Tubb - "I Walk Alone" Girls of the Golden West - "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" Slim and Slam - "Champagne Lullabye" Dicky Wells - "Dicky Wells Blues" Boswell Sisters - "Mood Indigo" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107417

    subs sol k bright
    "The Codger is a dark little archaic personage—hard, compact, unscrupulous, imitative, and neatly vulgar." — H.G. Wells from Aug 24, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2021


    Fred Elizalde - "Brandy and Soda" Joséphine Baker - "I'm Feelin' Like a Million" Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Følelslange™" Bo Carter - "Your Biscuits Are Big Enough for Me" Prince Partridge - "Choosing a Career" Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra - "Goin' Out the Back Way" Sophie Tucker - "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas" Roy Smeck - "Ukulele Bounce" Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra - "Boyd Meets Stravinsky" The Brox Sisters - "Come On Home" Ruth Berman, Her Harp and Her Orchestra - "Blue Skies" Rudolf Friml - "Chansonette" Betty Boop & Bimbo - "Bimbo's Initiation" Whispering Jack Smith - "Crazy Rhythm" J. H. Squire Celeste Trio - "Carnival of Venice" Gus Bodenheim - "El Pillow de Oro™" Harry Reser - "Etiquette Blues" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107048

    Claims the 21st is the worst century he's ever lived in. from Aug 17, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2021


    Fred Elizalde - "Pianotrope" Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Runnin' Ragged (Bamboozlin' the Bassoon)" Nadia, Ken & the Old Codger - "On the Fuzzy Glove Hour Aug 11, 2021" The Brox Sisters - "Sweetest Little Rose in Tennessee" Butterbeans & Susie - "I Got Your Bath Water On" Ruth Etting - "Cigarettes, Cigars" The Trix Sisters - "Ready for the River" Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Non-Discrimination Policy" Lord Kitchener - "Kitch's Bebop Calypso" Sophie Tucker - "It's Human Nature to Complain" Blue Lu Barker - "Loan Me Your Husband" Betty Boop - "Red Hot Mamma" J. H. Squire Celeste Octet - "The Butterfly" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Injury Law™" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/106741

    "The Codger never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see bad ones. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, blind to light, always mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game." — H.W. Beecher from Aug 10, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2021


    Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Doing Things" - Victor 21561 Ruth Etting - "I Want to Meander in the Meadow" - Columbia 1883-D George Formby - "Swimmin' with the Wimmin" - Decca F-3666 Jimmie Rodgers - "Pistol Packin' Papa" - Victor 22554 Noël Coward - "Poor Little Rich Girl" - The Old Codger's Secret Stash of Noel Coward demos Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang - "Louisiana" - Okeh 41173 Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Delivers an Apology but Refuses to Resign" - Touching Explanations Slatz Randall and His Orchestra - "Skirts" - Brunswick 4779 Los Cuatro Huasos - "Veinticinco Limones" - It is not known Thomas Waller with Thomas Morris and His Hot Babies - "He's Gone Away" - Victor 21202 Fred Elizalde - "Siam Blues" - It is not known Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Broadcast Academy" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams J.H. Squire Celeste Octet - "Baby's Sweetheart" - It is not known Flip the Frogggg - "Chinaman's Chance" - Flip the Frogggg's Perilous Antics Keller Sisters & Lynch with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra - "Sunday" - Sunday Sunday! https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/106526

    His excuses make the labyrinth seem like the shortest distance between two points. from Aug 3, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2021


    Cyril Scott - "Danse Negre" - HMV B2895 Whistlin' Alex Moore - "Heart Wrecked Blues" - Columbia ‎14518-D Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang - "Margie" - B71142 Cyril Diaz & His Orchestra - "Shake U-Pam-Pa-Lam Calypso" - Kay R45/500 Helen Kane - "I Wanna Be Loved By You" - Victor 21684 King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators - "Someday Sweetheart" - Vocalion 1059 Reginald Foresythe Orchestra - "Bit" - Columbia DO-1213 Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Updated Terms of Service" - Delbarton Fine Products Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "To To Blues" - Parlophone R 1115 Florence Brady - "Sunshine" - A Cycle of Songs George Formby - "On the Beat" - Spare a Copper Flip the Frog - "The Cuckoo Murder Case (1930)" - Flip the Frog Major Motion Picture Soundtracks J.H. Squire Celeste Octet - "The Grasshoppers' Dance" - Columbia 3608 Gus Bodenheim - "Hardly Hamster™" - Delbarton Fine Products Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Black and Blue Bottom" - Columbia 914-D Eddie Lang - "Prelude Opus 3, No, 2" - Parlophone R2317 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/106413

    Guest Host: Matt Fiveash from Jul 27, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021


    Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - "Hyena Stomp" Maurice Chevalier - "Just a Bum" Cab Calloway - "I Love to Sing-a" The Light Crust Doughboys - "Pussy, Pussy, Pussy" Honolulu Players - "Leilihua" Robert Hill - "You Gonna Look Like a Monkey When You Get Old" The Spirits of Rhythm - "My Old Man" Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Orchestra - "You'se a Viper" Bezos' Hawaiian Orchestra - "Pame Sti Honoloulou" The Boswell Sisters - "Making Faces At The Man In The Moon" The Cats & the Fiddle - "Killin' Jive" Fred Astaire - "Slap That Bass" John Kirby Sextet - "Anitra's Dance" Marvin Smolev & His Syncopators - "The Terror" Lionel Belasco - "Buddy Abraham" Taylor-Griggs Louisiana Melody Makers - "Where the Sweet Magnolias Bloom" The Ink Spots - "When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano" Andy Kirk & His Clouds Of Joy - "Floyd's Guitar Blues" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/106249

    His state implies a necessary curse: when not himself, he's mad; when most himself, he's worse. from Jul 20, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2021


    Fred Elizalde - "Brandy and Soda" Joe Venuti's Blue Four - "Nothing But Nots" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Xervac™" Stuff Smith - "Sam, The Vegetable Man" Reginald Foresythe Orchestra - "A Hymn to Darkness: Deep Forest" Ruth Etting - "But I Do, You Know I Do" The Watson Sisters - "China, We Owe a Lot to You" Red Norvo - "Knockin' on Wood" Peppy Prince and Christine Chatman - "Ain't Nothin' Shakin''" Esmereldy (Verna Sherrill) - "Ain't Nature Grand" George Formby - "Fanlight Fanny" Flip the Frog - "Techno-Cracked (1933)" Frankie Trumbauer & Joe Venuti - "Manhattan Rag" Paul Whiteman Orchestra with the Raymond Scott Quintette - "Bumpy Weather Over Newark" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Solutions™" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/105833

    Never nominated for a Peabody, but takes first prize for narcissism, peevishness and vulgarity. from Jul 13, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2021


    George Van Eps - "The Chant" Betty Roche - "Trouble Trouble" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton & Bailey Clown Car™" Adrian Rollini Quintet - "(How to Make Love In) Ten Easy Lessons" Stuff Smith Trio - "Skip It" Willie "The Lion" Smith & His Cubs - "Harlem Joys" Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends - "Mama Don't Allow It" Willie Whopper - "Hell's Fire (1934)" Henry Burr - "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" Eddie South - "Snowfall" Eddie Lang - "Guitar Blues" The Brox Sisters - "Just You, Just Me" Adrian Rollini Trio - "Vibrollini" James P. Johnson - "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/105628

    Rejects the five-second rule. In his house they observe the three-day rule. Except for liquids, to which he applies a strict 10-minute rule. from Jul 6, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021


    Hillbilly Charley Vaughn - "Father's A Drunkard, and Mother Is Dead" Red Norvo - "In a Mist" Gus Bodenheim - "The Protocols of the Elders of Edison" Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys - "Old Joe's Hittin' the Jug" Nifty Three - "Dog Gone" Isham Jones & His Orchestra (Eddie Stone, vocal) - "Junk Man" Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Glad Rag Doll" Cozy Cole - "The Beat" Willie Whopper - "Stratos-Fear (1933)" Al Bernard - "In 1999" Lillie Mae Kirkman - "He's Just My Size" Cliff Edwards with Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti - "Good Little, Bad Little You" The Brox Sisters - "Broken Hearted Sue" Slim & Slam - "Lookin' for a Place to Park" Gus Bodenheim - "Beyond Water™" Alphonso et son Orchestre Typique Antillais - "Chain' la Lou" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/105427

    Specializing in locally sourced, free-range, organic, sustainable misery. from Jun 29, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2021


    Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys - "I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music" Bo Carter - "You Better Know Your Business" Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Des Jardins Canderriere™" Bessie Tucker - "Katy Blues" Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Little Buttercup (I'll Never Be the Same)" Cole Porter - "Sunday Morning Breakfast Time" Jack Lumsdaine & Ward Leopold - "Wouldn't It?" Reddy Kilowatt - "The Reddy Kilowatt song" Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - "Four or Five Times" Gus Bodenheim - "Black Colon Coffee™" Billiken Johnson with Neal Roberts - "Frisco Blues" Blind Alfred Reed - "Woman's Been After Man Ever Since" Clarence Williams & His Orchestra - "I Got Horses and Got Numbers on My Mind" Flip the Frog - "School Days (1932)" Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - "Papa's in Bed with His Britches On" Sophie Tucker - "Make Yourself at Home" Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "Three Blind Mice" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/105196

    Even his mildest observations reek of vinegar. from Jun 22, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2021


    Garfield Akers - "Dough Roller Blues" Lucille Bogan - "Tricks Ain't Walking No More" Gus Bodenheim - "The Old Codger's AirPS" Fats Waller - "Functionizin'" Blue Lu Barker - "Where's Joe" Coleman Hawkins Quartet (ft. Thelonious Monk) - "Flyin' Hawk" Eddie Cole's Solid Swingers - "Honey Hush" Nadia and Ken - "Slandering Courtney" Hattie Hudson - "Doggone My Good Luck Soul" Bebe Scott - "I'm Very Australian" Peter Van Woerden - "Bomb Attack" Alma Gluck - "Little Grey Home in the West" Flip the Frog - "Flying Fists (1930)" Bo Carter - "Same Thing the Cats Fight About" Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra - "Jollity Farm" Wilmoth Houdini w/Lionel Belasco Orchestra - "Good Night Ladies and Gents" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/105042

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