Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU
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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
He's an evolutionary dead end. from May 31, 2022
5/31/2022
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"...
Duration:01:07:44
An insatiable vulture snacking on the carcasses of the musical dead. from May 24, 2022
5/24/2022
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...
Duration:01:07:30
"God knows what I've done. Let's just move on." from May 17, 2022
5/17/2022
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 -...
Duration:01:08:04
He fishes on his side. You fish on your side. And no one fishes in the middle. from May 10, 2022
5/10/2022
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" -...
Duration:01:08:33
Has the curiosity of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from May 3, 2022
5/3/2022
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"...
Duration:01:07:48
Suggests you go find your own wormhole. from Apr 26, 2022
4/26/2022
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 -...
Duration:01:08:48
Radio needs him as nature needs mosquitoes. from Apr 19, 2022
4/19/2022
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 -...
Duration:01:07:07
If he had two ice creams, you can go to Hell. from Apr 12, 2022
4/12/2022
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"...
Duration:01:02:56
Smoked metaphors and pickled syntax. from Apr 5, 2022
4/5/2022
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"...
Duration:01:07:26
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
"Everything that's wrong with a human stuffed into one man." — Eli Vardens from Mar 22, 2022
3/22/2022
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"...
Duration:01:07:38
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
Everybody deserves a 22nd chance! from Mar 1, 2022
3/1/2022
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)"...
Duration:01:07:48
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
There are forms of bowel cancer that have higher approval ratings than the Codger. from Feb 8, 2022
2/8/2022
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...
Duration:01:08:28
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