Favoriting Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison: Playlist from March 11, 2021 Favoriting

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

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Favoriting March 11, 2021: Using the radio airwaves as a spittoon since 1928.

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Red Norvo  Dance of the Octopus   Favoriting 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Vaughn De Leath  Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon   Favoriting 0:03:36 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Fablio the WFMU DJ  Payback for all the vile things Courtney has said about him   Favoriting 0:09:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Jerry Colonna  I Hate Music   Favoriting 0:12:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Louisiana Sugar Babes ft. Fats Waller  Persian Rug   Favoriting 0:15:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Helen Kane  Get Out and Get Under the Moon   Favoriting 0:19:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Gus Bodenheim  Solicits Your Pledge Dollars   Favoriting 0:23:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hank Williams  Mind Your Own Business   Favoriting 0:24:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sol Hoopii  Singing the Blues   Favoriting 0:27:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gaylord Fields  Endorses the Codger Under Severe Duress   Favoriting 0:30:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
George Formby  Easy-Going Chap   Favoriting 0:31:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Flip the Frog  The Village Barber (1930)   Favoriting 0:37:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Spirits of Rhythm  Dr. Watson & Mr. Holmes   Favoriting 0:44:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Stuff Smith  La Cinquantaine   Favoriting 0:46:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Sheila B.  The Ladies Review Courtney T. Edison   Favoriting 0:50:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sophie Tucker  I Ain't Taking Orders from No One   Favoriting 0:51:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The New Friends of Rhythm  High Voltage   Favoriting 0:54:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 3/9 8:53am
Lolabelle Pancake:

This will be a fundraising week on The Codger's Poutin' Shanty Shindig. Remember, 60% of your donations go directly into Courtney's pocket, so please BE GENEROUS.
Avatar 3/9 9:34pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

OH! And there will be a number of really special guests on this week's show!!!!!
  11:34am
Listener Robert:

"Special" in the euphemistic sense, as in "special education"?
Avatar 11:58am
Lolabelle Pancake:

In one case, yes.
Avatar 4:42pm
Pierre Delecto:

How would I know if I'm out of my mind?
Avatar 4:45pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

If you're listening to Fablio's program and find yourself tapping your toes and humming along — that's a warning sign.
  5:35pm
Listener Robert:

Don't wait until you're low on your mind before you stock up again. But if you ever do run out of your mind, you can borrow some of mine, provided you put all of it back in the right place.
Avatar ♥ 5:46pm
HyperDose:

I would NEVER tap my toes to Fablio's program. I close the drapes and rhythmically nod while no one is looking.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:48pm
G:

Fablio countdown: 12 minutes
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:49pm
rrg:

My money's going to Courtney. None for Fablio! None!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:56pm
ultradamno:

Sounds like Fablio is bracing for impact. Good! Buckle up buttercup!
Avatar 5:59pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Hurricane Courtney is about to make landfall!
Avatar 6:00pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

FABLIO IS ENCROACHING ON OUR TIME!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:01pm
ultradamno:

This naked aggression will not stand!
Avatar ♥ 6:01pm
HyperDose:

Is he enraged or just hopped up on Dr. William's iron pills?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:01pm
ultradamno:

So he could go on about someone "winning" an album of a mumbling beatnik, no less
Avatar 6:01pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Courtney or Fablio?
Avatar 6:02pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Now is the time to begin pledging for The Old Codger Radio Program. Hit the pledge widget in the black banner at the top of the playlist page. THANK YOU!
Avatar 6:04pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Thanks to Elann from Brooklyn for the pledge. We will indeed say hello to Flip the Frog for you!
Avatar ♥ 6:04pm
HyperDose:

I'd imagine Courtney to be the iron-deficient one. You hear all those metallic noises Fablio injects directly into his ears. He must be 80% Mercury by now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:04pm
G:

@Lolabelle 6:00: Hippies don't do bourgeois white people time.
  6:04pm
Miss G:

I am unapologetically coming over from Fabio's show, and this piece is gorgeous. There, I said it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

I pledged pre-marathon and YES I am getting the calendar. HELL YES.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm
ultradamno:

He thinks it makes him one of those "heavy metal kids"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm
G:

Cmon, freeloaders. Leave the freeloading to Courtney. I already renewed my pledge.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm
dave wuz here:

i gave at the office, get off of my porch
  6:06pm
Marie:

Hey, I heard the Old Codger used to do a ventriloquist act--will a dummy be his co-host for the marathon?
Avatar 6:06pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Thank you Wendy McQueso. We appreciate your rennet-imbued pledge.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:08pm
dale:

i heard delbarton industries is ramping up production of spats and opium-laced soft drinks and i want to get in on the ground floor with some pledgations.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:08pm
G:

"Lolabelle" hasn't pledged lol
  6:10pm
Listener Robert:

That means you play it with your fingers. Or it requires digitalis.
Avatar ♥ 6:11pm
HyperDose:

Computer? He knows witches have been burned at the stake for less, right?
  6:11pm
De Fenestrated:

Are the dirty postcards a pledge prize?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:11pm
ultradamno:

WELL, I NEVER!
Avatar 6:11pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

THIS IS LIBEL!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm
rrg:

Ambush!
Avatar 6:12pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...closing the drapes and rhythmically nodding pretty much my entire lifestyle now...
  6:12pm
J*Boogie:

How dare you Fabio
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm
G:

That's what I call a ringing endorsement.
  6:12pm
Laura L:

Outrageous defamation!!!!!!
Avatar ♥ 6:12pm
HyperDose:

This can only result in a torrential downpour of hostility
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:13pm
ultradamno:

I hereby demand that the "Strength Through Failure" be awarded to Gus Bodenheim for his own standalone program as reparations
  6:13pm
Listener Robert:

That comes very close to Andy's benediction of 7SD.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:14pm
dale:

jerry mc colonna?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:15pm
Webhamster Henry:

Ahhhhhhh Yes!
Avatar 6:15pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Courtney is on the phone with his attorney. Same attorney he's had since 1903. His phone number is "14."
Avatar 6:16pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...if you hate Pina Colonnas...
Avatar ♥ 6:16pm
HyperDose:

Okay, so who's going to take one for the team and call Courtney past 4pm?
  6:17pm
Andres:

Hello! I hope someone will be karaoke-ing I Hate Music. Seems tailor made!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:18pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Well, that certainly was a quick take by Fablio.
Avatar 6:18pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Thanks to listener Greg from Jersey City for pledging and soundtracking his Thursday evening dinner prep to Courtney's sublime frequencies.
Avatar ♥ 6:18pm
(Murakami Whywolf))):

R. Crumb and His Cheap-Suit Serenaders did a good version of "Persian Rug"—and released it on a 78r.p.m. disc.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:18pm
Webhamster Henry:

I only know the Sweet Suit Serenaders version of Persian Rug.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:18pm
McGroovey:

If I pledged $20, do I have a chance to win the Red Norvo 78? I hope it's not the Colonna record. I mean, if it were Colonna on a Joe Herlihy record, OK, but not that pedestrian novelty record.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

*Cheap
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:19pm
rrg:

I think that was Fats Waller on the organ but James P. Johnson on piano.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:20pm
Krull Sagan:

Now this is the kind of music French experimental composers COULD have been making on their home made instruments....FABIO
Avatar 6:20pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Thanks to Chresti of San Gabriel for a generous pledge in defiance of what Fablio said about Courtney.
Avatar 6:21pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Thanks to fellow staffer Matt5 for the Codger-sized pledge. Matt: Courtney does not love the blues, but they have dated.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:22pm
dale:

hune, spoon, croon, moon, spitoon...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:22pm
Rick from SC:

Flip the Frog!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:22pm
dale:

june, i meant...
Avatar 6:22pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Thanks to listener Casey from King Ferry for the pledge. Indeed pulchritude isn't everything!
Avatar 6:25pm
Otis Fodder:

Good evening Lolabelle and Courtney. Cat brushing as a profession knows no end. I slipped out when they left to drink water.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:26pm
rrg:

Laura Bodenheim!
Avatar 6:26pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Thanks to Pollie and Ted from Brooklyn for pledging to support Court!
  6:26pm
Laura L:

I know her!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:26pm
dale:

mind your own business, move it on over....hank got lazy there.
Avatar ♥ 6:26pm
HyperDose:

Gus' sultry delivery makes me want to donate my money AND my purity.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:27pm
ultradamno:

I guess this is fine, for the kids.
Avatar 6:27pm
Otis Fodder:

My cally der will look so lovely on my frigo.
Avatar 6:27pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Courtney: "I adora Laura."
Avatar 6:28pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...so - you *don't* want me to throw bail for ya Hank ??...
  6:28pm
Miss G:

Aw, did I miss Fabio cursing out OC (the OG)? I had a phone call. Well at least I can hear Hank Williams (and Gus B's hostage video)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:29pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Sol Hoopii <3 <3 <3
Avatar 6:30pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

By the way, the role of the martian on the calendar cover is played by Kip Mouseley!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:31pm
Franco Twinkie:

This is hilarious! Just goes to show, just because you're on social security doesn't mean you can't yank the table clothe and sent all the dishes to the floor.
Avatar 6:32pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Franco, you must have attended one of Courtney's buffets!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm
G:

I can envision the pistol at his temple.
Avatar ♥ 6:33pm
HyperDose:

Our beloved Gaylord! He really is a swell guy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm
Little Danny:

Hahaha! Poor Gaylord.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm
G:

Here comes Pervy Formby
Avatar 6:33pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Poor Gaylord's cat!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm
rrg:

Are there no phone pledges this year?
Avatar 6:33pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@ Courtney's age you need a catnap...
Avatar 6:34pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

If you want to pledge by phone, call Courtney direct. You have his phone number, right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm
McGroovey:

Or you can send a telegram.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm
Little Danny:

Kansas 5-6342
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm
ultradamno:

Will Mr Fields get his cat back or one of those made from a kit?
Avatar 6:35pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Next week Gaylord's cousin Booker T. Bodenheim will be offering an endorsement of this program.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:35pm
D Rok (in brooklyn):

@Lolabelle Pancake: Was it 6 or 7? I can't remember.
Avatar 6:35pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Booker T. Bodenheim is the black black sheep of the family.
Avatar ♥ 6:35pm
(((Murakami Whywolf):

Maybe Mr Edison can us some of his cut to supply the poutin' shanty with its missing cat.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:37pm
Rich in Washington:

Wasn't George Formby the furniture polish guy?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:39pm
G:

Flip was the first genius in the 20th century to adapt Sweeney Todd
Avatar 6:39pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Toss the Toad is forgotten - had regrettable production values...
Avatar 6:40pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Little known fact: Chaplin stole most of his best gags from Flip when they traveled the vaudeville circuit together.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:40pm
Gaylord Fields:

Booker T. Bodenheim would like to be here to help with the fundraising this week, but he's currently attending the reunion of his old squadron, the Tuskegee Amphicar-men. He's especially eager to see his old commanding officer, 1st Lt. Willie "Sleep 'n Eat" Best.
Avatar ♥ 6:41pm
HyperDose:

Please tell us you got your cat back, Gaylord!
Avatar 6:41pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Gaylord, did you personally know Abe "Hit Sign Win Suit" Stark?
  6:42pm
J*Boogie:

Imagine the Old Codger’s face when he sees that Ken used the money to put a wave pool in the basement. Pledge!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:42pm
rrg:

I gotta have more slide whistle!
Avatar 6:43pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Thanks to Paul of East Hampton and Mark of Sea Bright for the pledges. Every dollar pledged to Courtney helps make Fablio look shabby by comparison.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:44pm
Gaylord Fields:

Lolabelle, my distant cousin, Negro Leagues player Cool Papa Bodenheim, once hit the sign, but all Abe Stark would give him was a pocket square, accusing him of being one of those material-hogging "Zoot Suiters"!
Avatar 6:45pm
Jennica:

Lolabelle, What does Courtney do with his large portion of the pledge dollars? More firewater?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm
G:

Those boxes of Rancho Malarios don't pay for themselves.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm
Gaylord Fields:

@HyperDose: Thor the cat is safely back home, with a nasty note attached to his collar from Courtney referencing O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief" — does anyone remember offhand how that story goes? It slips my mind.
Avatar 6:47pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

It's a happy ending all around: we got mucho ransom money and you got your cat back!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:47pm
dale:

home alone was just the ransom of red chief. without the ransom part.
Avatar 6:49pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Listener Michael from Brooklyn has pledged and sent this note: "Like the Old Codger himself, I enjoy blowing my own horn."
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:50pm
Gaylord Fields:

And with my making the ransom payment, I now qualify for the stimulus check! "Win-win" is what they call that.
  6:50pm
Listener Robert:

There's a YouTube of Hugh Laurie playing Nagasaki in an excerpt from Jeeves and Wooster. Someone commented that that was a very popular number at the time depicted. Someone commented back that it couldn't've been too popular if this was the first s/he was hearing of it.

Take nothing for granted.
Avatar 6:51pm
Jennica:

Sheila Bodenheim. Nice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:52pm
ultradamno:

Like Courtney, she doesn't do computerized socializing media either!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:53pm
dale:

i KNEW she came from bootleg whiskey money.
Avatar ♥ 6:53pm
northguineahills:

ha, sheilab!
Avatar 6:53pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...can Culture from 1927 be Canceled ?...
  6:54pm
Listener Robert:

This was on Jan Turkenburg's list of "ain't" songs today.
Avatar ♥ 6:54pm
HyperDose:

@Gaylord Such a relief!

This Sophie Tucker was quite the trailblazer!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:55pm
ultradamno:

@RRN Sure, Birth Of A Nation was an early cancellation party
  6:55pm
Will:

Is there an Old Codger t-shirt? I am already a lifetime swagger, but would pay dearly for a t-shirt. This is my favorite show on FMU!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:55pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

I effin' love Sophie Tucker.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm
G:

@RR63: AN-Y-THING can be cancelled. It's an easy system. You can't name an example of something that can't get the cancel treatment. That's why 25 year olds can do it from their parents' basement with an iPhone 11.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
ultradamno:

This was such a pretty song before that AC/DC group from Australia got ahold of it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
dale:

shiela and sophie both have 6 letter names and SHIE in there - coincidence?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
rrg:

The show is almost over. But at least in 167 hours we'll have another one to listen to.

Thanks, all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
dale:

probably.
Avatar ♥ 6:59pm
HyperDose:

Thank you Lolabelle.....and Courtney "cat burglar" Edison!
Avatar 6:59pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...well a lynch mob is a democracy I suppose ...I wonder if Sophie had any dirt on Pepe the skunk we oughta know about...
Avatar 6:59pm
Jennica:

Thank you Courtney and Lolabelle.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm
Little Danny:

Congratulations Courtney! Two hoots and a holler, you are.
  7:00pm
P-90:

Does Courtney accept Bitcoin? Has he heard of Bitcoin?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm
dale:

ha ha!
Avatar 7:00pm
Otis Fodder:

Thanks a bunch Fablio and Lolabelle and special guests. You too Courtney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm
Webhamster Henry:

I pledge allegiance... to the Frog ... of the United States of America.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm
G:

The Flip the Frog Theme is now the national anthem!
Avatar 7:02pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...United Snakes & Amphibians...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:03pm
chresti:

Thank you Courtney and Lolabelle!
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