Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU
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The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!
Episodes
His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from Apr 17, 2024
4/17/2024
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
Duration:01:08:31
Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 29, 2022
3/29/2022
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...
Duration:01:06:37
Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 15, 2022
3/15/2022
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...
Duration:01:09:00
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
3/8/2022
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...
Duration:01:07:14
Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart." from Feb 22, 2022
2/22/2022
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...
Duration:01:08:05
An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 15, 2022
2/15/2022
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...
Duration:01:08:23
So old his blood type was discontinued. from Jan 25, 2022
1/25/2022
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...
Duration:01:08:24
Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 18, 2022
1/18/2022
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...
Duration:01:08:30
He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 11, 2022
1/11/2022
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"...
Duration:01:08:12
A stormy petrel of unbalanced mental potentialities. from Jan 4, 2022
1/4/2022
Gene Rodgers - "Jukebox Boogie"
Don Redman - "Chant of the Weed" [0:02:04]
Gus Bodenheim - "EschewTube™" [0:10:17]
Roger Etlens et son Ensemble - "Swing Guitare" [0:12:10]
Mamie Smith - "Don't You Advertise Your Man" [0:14:41]
Mary Lou Williams - "Easy Blues" [0:18:06]
Eddie Cole & The Three Peppers - "I Like My Gravy" [0:21:50]
Lucille Bogan - "Stew Meat Blues" [0:24:18]
Adrian Rollini - "Small Fry (Take 1)" [0:31:47]
Ruth Etting - "Now I'm in Love" [0:34:18]
The Brox Sisters -...
Duration:01:08:36
He's the answer to your prayers. And the answer is, "NO!" from Dec 14, 2021
12/28/2021
Fats Waller - "Ain't Misbehavin' / Two Sleepy People (V-Disc)"
Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Gamma Gourmet™ by Delbarton Nuclear" [0:08:44]
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Handsome Harry the Hipster" [0:11:07]
Lizzie Miles - "My Man O'War" [0:13:49]
Noël Coward - "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" [0:17:15]
Tom Crowley Orchestra - "Doc O'Ligy" [0:20:29]
Gus Bodenheim - "Radio Announcer of the Year Award Victory Speech Pt. 2" [0:28:00]
Old South Quartette - "Pussy Cat Rag"...
Duration:01:08:25
Blink and you're passé! from Dec 21, 2021
12/28/2021
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "The Wolf Wobble"
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Opus 12 Eee" [0:02:46]
Gus Bodenheim - "N.E.B.U.C.H.A.D.N.E.Z.Z.A.R. (Part 1)" [0:09:10]
Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me)" [0:11:00]
Beans Hambone & El Morrow - "Beans" [0:14:08]
Gene Krupa & His Orchestra with Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge - "Let Me Off Uptown" [0:16:42]
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - "Blue Blazes" [0:19:44]
Martha Copeland - "The Pawn Shop...
Duration:01:06:24
Codger: "You throw one piece of equipment at the station manager and suddenly you're branded 'difficult to work with'." from Dec 28, 2021
12/28/2021
Jabbo Smith - "Michigander Blues"
Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Come on Coot, Do That Thing" [0:02:55]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "Whimsy While You Work" [0:08:54]
Victoria Spivey - "He Wants Too Much" [0:10:01]
Benny Goodman Trio (with Gene Krupa & Teddy Wilson) - "Avalon" [0:13:23]
Georgia Tom Dorsey & Kansas City Kitty - "How Can You Have the Blues?" [0:16:37]
Lil Johnson - "New Shave 'Em Dry" [0:19:49]
Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel Medi-Spirits™" [0:25:33]
Mary Lou Williams - "D.D.T."...
Duration:01:07:53
You keep forgetting he's still alive. from Dec 7, 2021
12/14/2021
Vaughn de Leath - "I Just Roll Along" [0:00:00]
Red Norvo - "Tomboy" [0:02:50]
Gus Bodenheim - "Radio Announcer of the Year Victory Speech" [0:08:13]
Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "Have a Little Dream on Me" [0:10:55]
Issie Ringold - "Be on Your Merry Way" [0:13:53]
Django Reinhardt - "Serenade for a Wealthy Widow" [0:17:13]
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "No Sale" [0:20:26]
Rege Cordic and Company - "Omicron Visits Earth" [0:27:45]
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Don't You...
Duration:01:07:17
He'll steal anything that isn't nailed down. And anything he can pry loose isn't nailed down. from Nov 23, 2021
11/30/2021
Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Updated Terms of Service"
Dodo Marmarosa - "Dodo's Bounce" [0:01:38]
The Georgia Browns - "Decatur Street 81" [0:03:22]
Red Norvo - "Blues in E Flat" [0:11:06]
Slim Gaillard - "Travelin' Blues" [0:14:13]
Lecuona Cuban Boys - "Ay Si, Ay No" [0:16:48]
Memphis Minnie - "Keep on Eatin'" [0:18:55]
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Cheese and Crackers" [0:21:54]
Gus Bodenheim - "The Maxwell Bodenheim Diaries, Part 1" [0:28:40]
Wilmoth Houdini - "Rum and Coca-Cola -...
Duration:02:05:31
"The Codger's brain is a sepulcher furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones." - Joseph Glanvill from Nov 30, 2021
11/30/2021
James P. Johnson - "Jersey Sweet"
Cliff Edwards - "Hang On to Me" [0:02:30]
Gus Bodenheim - "Rediscover Radium!" [0:08:25]
Ruth Etting - "Lazy Day" [0:11:13]
Fats Waller - "Sweet Sue, Just You" [0:14:21]
Red Norvo - "Decca Stomp" [0:17:18]
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Texas and Pacific" [0:20:18]
Julius Edison (The Older Codger) - "Diddy Wah Diddy" [0:27:19]
Helen Kane - "That's Why I'm Happy" [0:30:20]
Robert and Raymond - "Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons" [0:32:43]
Slim...
Duration:01:06:30
Knew Gatsby when he was just "pretty good." from Nov 2, 2021
11/2/2021
Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra - "Grand Canyon Suite: V. Cloudburst" [0:00:00]
Gus Bodenheim - "A Tour Through My Library" [0:12:56]
Ruth Etting & the Victor Young Orchestra - "Whose Honey Are You?" [0:15:27]
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Who's Goin' Steady with Who" [0:17:18]
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Pretty Trix" [0:20:15]
Victoria Spivey - "One Hour Mama" [0:23:37]
Gorni Kramer - "China Boy" [0:28:58]
Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - "Tidal Wave" [0:31:35]
Blind...
Duration:01:08:03
Empathied out since 1931. from Oct 5, 2021
10/19/2021
George Gershwin - "Clap Yo' Hands"
Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "Breakin' in a New Pair of Shoes" [0:02:22]
Wilmoth Houdini - "The Calypso Way" [0:09:22]
Lil Johnson - "My Stove's in Good Condition" [0:11:52]
Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Burlesque" [0:14:47]
Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Clown Car™" [0:18:01]
Polly Walker - "Where Were You? Where Was I?" [0:19:41]
Palmer McAbee - "McAbee's Railroad" [0:22:35]
Milt Herth - "Swamp Fire" [0:25:49]
Betty Boop -...
Duration:01:08:57
Gus Bodenheim sits in Courtney's chair, fills his shoes, and depletes his whiskey. from Oct 12, 2021
10/19/2021
Sister O.M. Terrell - "God's Little Birds" [0:00:00]
Will Glahe Orchestra - "Krazy Kat" [0:02:32]
Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 1" [0:05:25]
Erroll Garner - "Skylark" [0:07:23]
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - "Hop-Scotch Polka (Scotch Hot)" [0:10:35]
Eva Taylor - "My Man is on the Make" [0:13:17]
Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 2" [0:16:00]
Buddy Weed - "Whoops a Doodle" [0:17:55]
Cliff Edwards - "A Great Big Bunch of You" [0:20:07]
Vaughn Monroe - "Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant)"...
Duration:01:09:01
His cynicism is not cheap! from Oct 19, 2021
10/19/2021
Percy Grainger - "Pagodes (Debussy, from "Estampes")"
Hadda Brooks - "Boogie Celeste" [0:04:15]
Gus Bodenheim - "Reads the Mailbag" [0:11:09]
Blind Willie Dunn & Lonnie Johnson - "Deep Minor Rhythm" [0:13:50]
Sammy Price - "Just Jivin' Around" [0:17:06]
The Mills Brothers - "Bugle Call Rag" [0:19:59]
Maxine Sullivan - "Molly Malone" [0:21:59]
Cyril Scott - "Rainbow Trout" [0:28:33]
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "What's His Story" [0:31:17]
Vaughn De Leath - "Looking at the World Thru...
Duration:01:09:02