Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison
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Thrice-removed from the outskirts of reason. from Apr...
Norman Long - "We Can't Let You Broadcast That" Truett and George - "Ghost Dance" Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer - "Goose Pimples" Florence Brady - "Sunshine" Lydia Mendoza - "Los Besos de mi Negra" George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" Bessie Jackson - "Barbecue Bess" Wynonie Harris - "I Like My Baby's Pudding" Alphonso et Son Orchestre Typique Antillais - "Chain' la Lou" Polly Walker - "Where Were You? Where Was I?" The Savoy Havana Band (vocal: Ramon Newton) - "Masculine...
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He's not old enough to have known the baby Jesus, but he...
The Mighty Spoiler - "Wake Up Christmas Morning" Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra with Henry Glover - "Who Said Shorty Wasn't Coming Back?" Jimmie Rodgers - "What's It!" Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds - "Don't Care Blues" George Formby - "Easy-Going Chap" Edith Wilson - "Rules & Regulations "Signed Razor Jim"" Helen Kane - "I'd Go Barefoot All Winter Long" Cliff Carlisle - "Shanghai Rooster Yodel" Haitian Orchestra with Sidney Bechet - "Sous les Palmiers" Sophie Tucker - "He Hadn't Up Till...
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Courtney usurps the Antique Phonograph Hour Again from...
Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra - "The Eel" - Bluebird 10386 George Formby - "Swimmin' With the Wimmin" - Decca 3666 Kitty Gray & Her Wampus Cats with Oscar "Buddy" Woods - "Baton Rouge Rag" - Vocalion SA-2846 Spivy - "The Alley Cat" - Exclusive S-101B Paul Whiteman's Sax Soctette - "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" - Decca 2467 Noel Coward - "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" - Codgerphone B-666 Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - "Mr. Hoover & Mr. Smith" - Edison 52367 Waikiki Hawaiian...
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A quasi-life force fueled by steamed cabbage, cigar...
Lucille Bogan - "Barbecue Bess" Nick Lucas - "Teasin' the Frets" Tampa Red - "Let Me Play with Your Poodle" Sophie Tucker - "I Never Can Think of the Words" Bo Carter - "Beans" Marion Harris - "We Love It" Larry Adler - "Smoking Reefers" Jack Hodges - "Everything Is Fresh Today" Blind Boy Fuller - "Jivin' Woman Blues" Wilmoth Houdini - "He Had It Coming" Butterbeans & Susie - "I Can't Use You" Cleo Gibson - "I've Got Ford Movements in My Hips" Lecuona Cuban Boys - "Taboo" Billy Jones - "When...
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Nothing from the Codger's efforts grows stronger,...
The Western Brothers - "Bad Show, Chaps" Oluf Carlsson - "Plenty Off Center" Wilmoth Houdini - "Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Beware" Marion Harris - "Afraid of You" Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "China Boy" Bruz Fletcher - "Nympho-Dipso-Ego Maniac" Ruth Etting - "Back in Your Own Backyard" Ernest Butcher - "Peaceful Street" Trio Lescano - "La Gelosia Non Pi Di Moda" Andy Iona - "Naughty Hula Eyes" Noel Coward - "Useless Useful Phrases" Martha Tilton -...
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He's gone from crazy to foolish. Progress! from May 8,...
Hambone Willie Newbern - "Roll and Tumble Blues" Ruth Etting - "Cigarettes, Cigars!" Tommy McClennan - "I'm a Guitar King" James P. Johnson - "You've Got to Be Modernistic" Carl Martin - "Joe Lewis Blues" Sophie Tucker - "When a Lady Meets A Gentleman Down South" The Four Clefs - "I Like Pie, I Like Cake" Bessie Smith - "Kitchen Man" Mississippi Bracey - "You Scolded Me and Drove Me" Bruz Fletcher - "My Doctor" Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines - "Sugar Foot Strut" Aileen Stanley - "I'll Never...
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He neither strives for achievement nor risks failure,...
Bert Williams - "When I Return" Frank Trumbauer Orchestra - "There'll Come a Time" Wendell Hall - "There's a Trick in Pickin' a Chick Chick Chicken These Days" Vaughn De Leath - "Tin Pan Parade" Harry Reser - "Ukulele Lady" Victoria Spivey - "One Hour Mama" Sophie Tucker - "Oh! You Have No Idea" The Trix Sisters - "I'm Crazy Over You" Bruz Fletcher - "The Hellish Mrs. Haskell" Los Cuatro Huasos - "Veinticinco Limones" Clara Smith - "My John Blues" Larry Adler - "Solitude" Eddie Cantor - "My...
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Stay out of his yard! Damn birds. from Jan 18, 2011
Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Get Off With Me" Jesse Stone and His Blue Sereneders - "Starvation Blues" Ernest Rogers - "Willie the Chimney Sweeper" Johnny Marvin - "Oh How She Could Play A Ukulele" The Plantation Players (vocal: Tom Stacks) - "You Never Get Nowhere Holding Hands" Victor Roberts - "Sahara Rose" The Brox Sisters - "School House Blues" Sophie Tucker - "Stay At Home Papa" Sophie Tucker - "Aren't Women Wonderful" Sophie Tucker - "The Lady Is A Tramp" Aileen Stanley and...
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He's been "file-sharing" music since the 1930s. Only...
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Kickin' the Cat" - Okeh 40853 Claude Hopkins - "The Traffic Was Terrific" - Delbarton 110-A Sophie Tucker - "Sophie Tucker for President" - Mercury 5839 Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "In a Mist" - Brunswick 14850 The Okeh Kut Ups (Jerry Macy & Ed Smalle) - "And Then I Forget" - Okeh 40682 Vaughn De Leath - "What Do We Do on a Dew-Dew-Dewy Day?" - Okeh 40844 The Brox Sisters - "Who" - Victor 19631 Nearsighted Jay Palmer and Justin von Bieber - "Do You Really...
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If he ever forges his crankiness into a bullet, duck!...
Jimmie Rodgers - "A Drunkard's Child" Harry Jacobson - "You're the Top/I Get a Kick Out of You" Marion Harris - "Everybody But Me" Fats Waller - "We, The People" Pigmeat Pete (Wesley Wilson) and Catjuice Charlie (Harry McDaniels) - "Old Age Is Creeping Up On You" Gorni Kramer - "China Boy" Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra w/Bix Beiderbecke - "Trumbology" Sophie Tucker - "Aggravatin' Papa" Joe Haymes Orchestra (vocal: Roy Wager) - "Lazybones" Sophie Tucker - "I Ain't Takin' Orders From No...
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"His irascibility amounts almost to disease. He is a sad...
Nora Bayes - "I Work Eight Hours, Sleep Eight Hours, That Leaves Eight Hours for Love" Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - "Washboard Blues" Willie "The Lion" Smith and His Cubs - "Harlem Joys" Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Meat Cuttin' Blues" The Ponce Sisters - "A Million Dreams" Don Redman - "Chant of the Weed" Vaughn De Leath - "Sing Me a Baby Song" Harry McClintock - "Big Rock Candy Mountain" The Boswell Sisters - "If It Ain't Love" Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - "South"...
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Once described by his own lawyer as "a man of nugatory...
Harmony Kings Orchestra - "Anything for Love (Tango Calypso)" Frances King - "He's Got It" Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow" Len Hughes - "Twilight in Turkey" Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Wild Cat" Ella Johnson with the Buddy Johnson Orchestra - "When My Man Comes Home" Jane Green - "Hard to Get Gertie" Jack Pettis and His Pets - "Spanish Dream" Bert Williams - "Twenty Years" Delta Rhythm Boys - "St. Louis Blues" Fletcher Henderson Orchestra - "Sweet Music" Al...
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Loves the planet. Just hates all the people on it. from...
Earl Hines - "Pianology" The Happiness Boys - "That's a Lot of Bunk" John Kirby Orchestra - "Dawn on the Desert" Johnny Marvin - "Magnolia" Alphonso et Son Orchestre Typique Antillais - "Mettezi I Dero" Sophie Tucker - "Conversational Man" Adrian Rollini - "Minuet in Jazz" Victoria Spivey - "How Do They Do It That Way?" Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "I Like That" The Mills Brothers - "Swing Is The Thing" The Original Dixieland Jass Band - "Bow Wow Blues" Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club...
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A fifty-dollar hat on a five-cent head from Jun 10, 2008
J.B. Wesolowsky (vocal: Ischuk) - "After Midnight Polka" The Duncan Sisters - "It Must Be An Old Spanish Custom" J.B. Wesolowsky (vocal: Sophia Hawryshchuk-Kalba) - "Yak Zayde Sontse (After Sunset)" Louis Jordan and His Orchestra - "I Can't Dance, I Got Ants in My Pants" New Orleans Owls - "White Ghost Shivers" Mary Lou Williams's Girl Stars - "Boogie Mysterioso" Sl. & Muz. W. Trytiak - "Cyhanske Tango" Ruth Etting - "Lonesome and Sorry" Ben Webster - "I Surrender Dear" Sidney Bechet -...
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AARP considers him beyond his "sell-by" date from May...
Ruth Etting - "Could I? I Certainly Could" Charleston Chasers - "Lovable and Sweet" Cats vs. Chicks - "Cat Meets Chick" Helen Humes with the Harry James Orchestra - "Song of the Wanderer" Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "I'm Coming Virginia" Jimmie Rodgers - "My Carolina Sunshine Girl" The Happiness Boys - "I Scream - You Scream - We All Scream for Ice Cream" Joe Daniels and His Hotshots - "Crashing Through" Irving Berlin - "Follow the Crowd" Louis Jordan and His...
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Buckets of unrelenting weariness from May 20, 2008
Red Norvo Quartet - "Dance of the Octopus" Earl Burtnett and His Los Angeles Biltmore Orchestra - "Low Down Rhythm" Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "Singin' the Blues" Pauline Alpert - "The Carioca" Milton Brown - "Taking Off" Chin's Calypso Sextet (vocal: E. Bedasse) - "Big Boy and Teacher" Helen Humes - "Central Avenue Boogie" Jimmie Rodgers - "Away Out On the Mountain" Blind Blake (with the Hokum Boys) - "I Was Afraid of That (Pt 2)" Irving Aaronson and Phil Saxe...
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Still has full bladder control — and boasts about it...
Girls of the Golden West - "Lonely Cowgirl" The Chicago Loopers (with Bix & Tram) - "Three Blind Mice" Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra - "Hodge Podge" Hank Williams - "Ramblin' Man" Ted Steele and His Novatones - "Mood Indigo" Ted Lewis and His Orchestra - "Egyptian Ella" Sophie Tucker - "After You've Gone" The Boswell Sisters and the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra - "Was That the Human Thing To Do" Washboard Rhythm Boys - "Dog and Cat" The Cook Sisters - "Make My Cot Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton...
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His autobiography grows an ever-thicker crust of...
Louis Jordan and the Tympany 5 - "Hungry Man" Mary Lou Williams's Girl Stars - "Conversation" Jimmie Davis - "She's a Hum Dum Dinger From Dingersville" Sonny Boy Williamson - "Welfare Store Blues" Betty Roche - "Trouble, Trouble" Wilmoth Houdini - "Poor But Ambitious" Vivian Garry and Her All-Girl Band - "A Woman's Place is in the Groove" Big Bill Broonzy - "Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down" The Brox Sisters - "Learn to Do the Strut" Sophie Tucker - "Stay At Home Papa" Blind Alfred Reed -...
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Pet peeve: YOU! from Apr 1, 2008
The Milt Herth Trio - "Minuet in Jazz" Thomas (Fats) Waller with Morris's Hot Babies - "Red Hot Dan" Gertrude Niesen - "I'm A Big Girl Now" Joseph Moskowitz - "Hungarian Czardas" The Dixon Brothers - "The Old Home Brew" Collins H. Driggs (on the Novachord) - "In a Chinese Temple Garden" The Dezurik Sisters - "Birmingham Jail" Scrapper Blackwell - "Trouble Blues Part 1" Billie Holiday - "I Must Have That Man" Felix & His Krazy Kats with the Duke of Iron - "Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing...
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He wants to stick his chromium stylus in your groove!...
Gene Autry - "Don't Fence Me In" Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "Futuristic Rhythm" M.J. O'Connell - "Old Bill Baker" Scrapper Blackwell - "Back Door Blues" Johnny Marvin - "Magnolia" Woody "Fishcakes" Clooney - "Eat to Live" Norton "Clubfoot" Grubbage - "The Stuttering Polkalypso" Kay Starr - "There's Yes Yes Yes in Your Eyes" The Milt Herth Trio - "Jersey Bounce" Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) - "My Dog Loves Your Dog" Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - "Gotta Go Places...
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His glass is always half-bull (Marathon 2008, with...
Mae West - "Little Bar Butterfly" Rose Murphy - "Pennies from Heaven" The Ink Spots - "With Plenty of Money and You" Les Paul & Mary Ford - "The Best Things in Life Are Free" Julia Lee - "Don't Save It Too Long (The Money Song)" Van & Schenck - "Ain't We Got Fun" The Old Codger - "Money" Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - "It's A Good Day" Marion Abernathy - "You Ain't Got Nothin' For Me" Sippie Wallace - "Buzz Me" The Boswell Sisters - "If I Had A Million Dollars"...
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At his age, it's hard to get parts from Feb 19, 2008
Blind Willie Johnson - "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There" Dolly Kay - "I Loved You Once" Joe Daniels and His Hotshots - "Drum Boogie" Albert Ammons - "Sweet Patootie Blues" Kay Starr - "She's Funny That Way" Andre Musette Orchestra - "Pretzel Bender Polka" Beatrice Lillie - "He Was a Gentleman" Ambrose and His Orchestra - "Deep Henderson" Vivian Holt & Lillian Rosedale - "When the Shadows Softly Come and Go" Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Our Family Doctor" Midge Williams and...
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A nasty piece of work made up of many smaller pieces of...
Elizabeth Wheeler - "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" Midge Williams and Her Jazz Jesters - "Walkin' the Dog" Palmer McAbee - "McAbee's Railroad" Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart - "Look Out" Furman & Nash - "Oh! They're Such Nice People" Clarence Williams Blues Five - "Uncle Sammy, Here I Am" Smiley Burnette - "Minnie the Moocher at the Morgue" Kay Starr - "He's a Good Man to Have Around" Sophie Tucker - "Mr. Siegel" James Kok Orchestra - "Jungle Jazz" Joe Daniels and His Hotshots -...
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Old enough to know the guy who invented Monday from Jan...
Ruth Etting - "Cigarettes, Cigars!" Marcia Freer - "When Lights Are Low" Leona Anderson - "Tambourine" Dinah Washington - "Don't Come Knocking at My Door" Clarence Williams Trio - "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Mama Didn't Do It and Papa Didn't Do It" The Raymond Scott Quintette - "Brass Buttons and Epaulets" a word from our sponsor - "Use Sinologen" Sophie Tucker - "Hollywood Will Never Be the Same" Moondog - "Oboe Rounds / Chant / All Is Loneliness" Blue...
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Tucked in his nostalgia blankie, blathering with...
Clarence Williams with Babe Matthews - "Bluer Than Blue" Dinah Washington - "Big Long Slidin' Thing" Mamie Smith - "Let's Agree to Disagree" Jimmie May - "I Love My Baby" Blue Lu Barker - "That Made Him Mad" Elizabeth Spencer - "When You Come Over" Alice Green (Olive Kline) - "Rackety Coo" Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) - "If You Can't Land 'er on the Old Veranda" Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Key Hole Blues" Sophie Tucker - "That's What I Call Sweet Music" Raymond Hitchcock - "In the Days of...
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Larger than life? He's larger than DEATH! from Dec 31,...
Moose Jackson with Tiny Bradshaw Orchestra - "Big Ten Inch Record" Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Everybody Eats When They Come to My House" Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Pop Corn Man" Lovin' Sam Theard - "You Rascal You #2" Esther Walker - "Sahara" Clarence Williams Swing Band - "Old Time Religion" Jimmy Liggins - "I Ain't Drunk" Sophie Tucker - "I Ain't Taking Orders From No One" Louis Armstrong - "If We Never Meet Again" Mamie Smith - "Mama Whip! Mama Spank!" Reinald Werrenrath - "Dear...
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The Codger and his lady friend Blossom present the I'm...
Ray Burnside - "Giving Directions to the Chorus Girls" Blanche Ring - "I've Got Rings on My Fingers" Tallulah Bankhead - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Wingy Manone - "The Broken Record" Zola Taylor - "Make Love To Me" Mae Barnes - "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis" Tempo King - "Through the Courtesy of Love" Ronald Frankau - "One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven" Victoria Spivey - "Sweet Pease" Orquesta Casino de la Playa - "Los Bomberos" Len Spencer and Vess Ossman - "A Hot Time in the Old...
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He's been skinning local roadkill all day for stew from...
Ukulele Ike - "Halfway to Heaven" Django Reinhardt - "Exactly Like You" Henry Burr - "She's Everybody's Sweetheart, But Nobody's Gal" The Duncan Sisters - "Bull-Frog Patrol" Jo Ann Lear - "Recipe for Love" Wingy Manone and His Orchestra - "Black Coffee" The Roaring Lion - "Rhumba Dance" Butterbeans and Susie - "I'll Put You Under the Jail" William K. Henderson - "Hello, World" Ethel Waters - "Shake That Thing" Bessie Smith - "Worn Out Papa Blues" Lolabelle Pancake - "Black Panty Hose" Louis...
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He just got the results of his blood test. It's RED. And...
Louis Jordan and the Tympany 5 - "Beware" Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - "Tell Me" The Revelers - "Oh, Miss Hannah" The Farber Sisters - "How'd You Like to Be My Daddy" Elton Britt and Rosa Lee Allen - "Tennessee Yodel Polka" Louis Prima and His Orchestra - "Let's Swing It" Sophie Tucker - "Egyptian Ella" Ethel Waters - "Shake That Thing" Bessie Smith - "Sinful Blues" Dizzy Gillespie - "Oop-Bop-Sh'bam" Dorothy Shay, The Park Avenue Hillbilly - "Say That We're Sweethearts Again" The Mills...
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Thomas Wolfe on the Codger (1926): "a nervous ugly man,...
Helen Kane - "That's My Weakness Now" Willie "The Lion" Smith and His Cubs - "Honeymoonin' on a Dime" Art Gentry and His Orchestra - "Three Little Fishes" The Revelers - "Dinah" The Happiness Boys - "A Gay Caballero" Sophie Tucker - "It's Human Nature to Complain" "Tennessee" Ernie Ford - "Philadelphia Lawyer" The Brox Sisters - "I'm Lonely Without You" Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Papa's in Bed With His Britches On" Tex Williams - "With Men Who Know Tobacco Best, It's Women Two to One"...
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So old, his social security number's only three digits...
Red Nichols and Wingy Mannone - "Bug-A-Boo" Tom Crowley Orchestra - "Doc O'ligy" Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) - "Nobody But You!" Louis Jordan - "At the Swing Cats' Ball" Ruth Etting - "But I Do, You Know I Do!" The Milt Herth Trio (O'Neil Spencer - vocal) - "Josephine" Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Paradiddle" Betty Boop, Bimbo, and Friends - "Wanna Be A Member?" Helen Kane - "That's My Weakness Now" Butterbeans & Susie - "Cold Storage Papa (Mama's a Little Too Warm For You)" The Ponce...
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Mean and stingy are his GOOD qualities from Oct 16, 2007
Sophie Tucker - "Last of the Red Hot Mamas" Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends - "Ugly Papa" Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell - "Barrelhouse Woman No. 2" Milt Herth Trio - "The Dipsy Doodle" Wilmoth Houdini - "I Need a Man" Blind Blake - "Good-Bye Mama Moan" The Ponce Sisters - "Fit As a Fiddle" Roy Smeck - "12th Street Rag" Butterbeans and Susie - "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stuff" Sophie Tucker - "Ain't Women Wonderful?" Nat King Cole Trio - "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?"...
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