Playlist for Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison - August 4, 2009

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

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August 4, 2009: Spearheading the derrière-garde since 1948

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Artist Track
Fats Waller  Stayin' At Home  
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five  Open the Door, Richard  
Coot Grant and Kid Wilson  Have Your Chill, I'll Be Here When Your Fever Rises  
Hillbilly Charley Vaughn  Father's a Drunkard, and Mother Is Dead  
Whispering Jack Smith  Baby Face  
Billie Holiday  Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town  
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians  Fu Manchu, Why Can't You Behave?  
Frank Crumit  I Wish't I Was In Peoria  
Al Jolson  Lazy  
Victoria Spivey with The Clarence Williams Blue Five  My Handy Man  
Vaughn De Leath  Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs off the Moon  
Harry Hudson & His Melody Men (voc: Leslie Sarony)  My Wife Is On A Diet  
Henry Burr  Stay Down Here Where You Belong  
Kate Smith  (In The Gloaming) By The Fireside  
Henry Hall Orchestra (voc: Kitty Masters)  Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day  

Listener comments!

Tue. 8/4/09 7:18pm Mrs. Whispering Jack Smith:

Just for the record, he sounded that way even before I shot him.

Tue. 8/4/09 7:19pm Mr. Green Beans:

Can he please speak up and stop whisperin'?? My hearin' ain't what it once was.

Tue. 8/4/09 7:22pm Your Wake-Up Call, Inc.:

Mr. Codger, you asked us to wake you up at 7:22

Tue. 8/4/09 7:28pm harumph:

guard you own damn derriere, and leave the world at large out of it. thanks :-P

Tue. 8/4/09 7:31pm Iow-ay:

i wisht i were in council bluffs

Tue. 8/4/09 7:31pm George Lucas:

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if dozens of listeners suddenly cried out in terror and and disappeared.

Tue. 8/4/09 7:32pm Bob Crumit:

What the hell kind of a name is "Frank Crumit?"

Tue. 8/4/09 7:33pm Frank:

my down-low name, that's what.

Tue. 8/4/09 7:42pm doc:

Place a nitroglycerin pill under your tongue immediately, Mr. Edison

Tue. 8/4/09 7:45pm Technical Support:

Vaughn De Leath is a MAN. You're playing that disc way too fast.

Tue. 8/4/09 7:53pm old cadger:

mebbe someun shuld call him up on at-ere newefangled teleephony so's he don't sleep through the end of his own consarn show

Tue. 8/4/09 7:54pm The Channel 11 Yule Log:

I just got one of those new microwave fireplaces. You can spend an entire evening by the fire in only 8 minutes.

Tue. 8/4/09 7:55pm inquiring minds:

do you play those 1950s christmas 33-1/3s on 78, too?

Tue. 8/4/09 7:57pm transition:

little known fact -- those beatles songs tom scharpoling likes are now much closer to the 78 era than they are to the present

Tue. 8/4/09 9:40pm Ruy de Lima e Silva:

It's a shame you don't put the year of the recordings. A must for any collector, Codge. You just seem not to take your job as seriously as in those ol' KDKA-Wilson days!

Sat. 8/8/09 8:48am The Old Critter:

Why in tarnation ain't this guy on the radio like, every week?! THOUY! THOUY on that, I say!

Sat. 8/22/09 4:00pm Old Grot:

Good to hear you again...another superb selection. Thanks

Sat. 8/22/09 4:22pm Gertie:

Courtney are you the guy who used to be a disk jocky on the make belief ballpark? I was in a child then. I don't have a computere. This is my nehpew's internet. Bye..!

Mon. 9/21/09 4:08pm Stanley:

I want a palm-sized 78RPM Palm Victrola!

Wed. 12/30/09 12:49am stanford crumbly:

ain't you dead yet?

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