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Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra, Frances Williams, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Venuti & Lang, Frankie Trumbauer Orch, Riley Puckett, and Joe Callicott playing the title track ( and more!)

Sidney Bechet's New Orleans Feet Warmers, Louis Armstrong Ochestra, Luke Highnight Ozark Strutters, Harold Arlen w Leo Riseman's Orch, Ethel Waters with James P. Johnson and more and Benny Nawahi's Hawaiian Beach Combers playing the title tune!

The sensational John Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1924 inspired numerous topical songs . This episode features tunes inspired by that sensational trial that pitted science against religion....From THE JOHN SCOPES TRIAL by Charlie Ochs, The Death Of William Jennings Bryant by Vernon Dalhart to several blues and jazz tunes such as MONKEY MAN BLUES, and EVOLUTION MAMA.

Joe features Duke Ellington's amazing FREEZE AND MELT with one of the earliest recorded bass solos ( Wellman Braud!) as well as a killer selection of pre-1935 jazz, blues, country and more

The theme of street walking appears in numerous blues, country and jazz tunes from the pre-war, GREAT DEPRESSION era - we will focus on just a few :Clara Smith , Lucille Bogan, Aileen Stanley and Memphis Minnie had a lot to say on gthe subject!

Many Gospel tunes share a multocultural life. Reverend Gary Davis' amazing I BELONG TO THE BAND is just one example - we will hear Gary's killer version and, for contrast, the same tune performed by Allison's Sacred Harp Singers...and the usual assortmant of other great pre-war jazz, blues and country 78s!

In keeping with our monthly series of THE RAREST OF THE RARE Blues, Jazz, Country, Piano, Skiffle and Sanctified pre-war 78s we are at letters O-P-Q! The Qinlan Brothers, Washington Phillips, Jenny Pope, Memphis Five, Charley Patton, King Oliver, Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra and more!

Sizzling Summer with Duke's Cotton Club Band, Bascom Lamar Lunceford, Ernest Phipps' Holiness Singers, California Ramblers, Fats Waller, Johnny Green's Orchestra, Dixon Brothers, and some songs from the North Carolina Mills! and more!

Mystery man Bayless Rose, Don Redman & His Orchestra , a few Civil War era tunes by Fiddlin' John Carson and Chubby Parker and much more!!

Fats Waller with Benny Goodman in 1931, Wheeler & Wolsey, tunes from the 1933 "CENTURY OF PROGRESS" ( Chicago World's Fair), Uncle Dave Macon, Monroe Brothers, Isham Jones Orchestra, Cliff Jackson's Krazy Kats, Willie Bryant Orchestra and more

Bascom Lamar Lunceford, Ernest Phipps Holiness Singers, Carter Family, Kay Thompson, Fats Waller & His Rhythm , McKinney's Cotton Pickers and more!

Joe presents his guest, 13 year old "Talkies" expert Jack Murphy . Jack's amazing knowledge of early talking film musicals is on display as well as some favorite tracks including Iva Taylor on MOANIN' LOW and AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'!

George M. Cohan was the toast of Broadway from 1904 until his death in 1943. He was the man portrayed by James Cagney in the classic Academy Award winning Warner Brothers musical YANKEE DOODLE DANDY - in this episode we will spend some time hearing original versions of some of Cohan's songs and hear the voice of the man himself!

More gems form Joe's 78 archive - Visiting us this week will be PACKIE DOLAN & HIS BOYS, THE EMERALD TRIO, DAVEY MILLER, SISTER ROSETTA THARPE, SOPHIE TUCKER, BEN SELVIN's BAND and a little fun set of tunes about weight loss from the 1920s-early 30s!

For every Bing Crosby. Al Jolson, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington there were performers and bands trying to jump on their band wagon..IMPOSTERS if you will - this fun episode explores some of these soundalikes -long forgot performers such as Georgie Price and Charlie Palloy who got buy imitating others! - Also famous performers such as Louie Prima and Gene Autry who, early in their careers hung their hats on Louis Armstrong and Jimmy Rodgers respectively!

The Gershwins, Cole Porter, and Jerome Kern were BUSY offering new musical shows to the Great White Way. Tune in for our part TWO of Broadway in the 1930s - all of of the rare original 78 rpm discs!

Continuing our series of "the rarest of the rare" pre-war Blues, Jazz, Country and Gospel recordings, this following Pete Whelan's legendary "78 QUARTERLY" magazine brings us to the likes of Kansas City Frank Melrose, Gene Kardos Orch, Blind Willie Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Jolly Jivers, Freddy Keppard and more!

Beginning in 1904 with Williams & Walkers groundbreaking musical play IN DAHOMEY and peaking in 1928 with BLACKBIRDS OF 1928 Broadway has been no stranger to vibrant and popular "all-black cast" productions. This episode scratches the surface - you will hear BERT WILLIAMS, EDITH WILSON, ETHEL WATERS and other luminaries of BLACK BROADWAY

This episode dedicated to records made in 1926- From Jelly Roll Morton, Peg Leg Howell, Dixieland Jug Blowers, Frank Hutchison to Irving Kaufman!! Bobbed hair and bootleg liquor !

from the late 1920s-mid 1930s country and blues singers often sang about riding the rails - Hoboing if you will

From Jimmie Rodgers to Louis Armstrong we will play some of the songs of the open road!

Continuing our series of "the rarest of the rare" pre-war Blues, Jazz, Country and Gospel recordings, this following Pete Whelan's legendary "78 QUARTERLY" magazine brings us to the likes of Skip James, Duke Ellington's Washingtonians , Ewing Brothers, Charlie Patton ( as Elder Hadley) and more !

some tunes about San Francisco : Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe, LITTLE BROTHE MONTGOMERY, THE GEORGIANS, CLARA SMITH, Al Jolson and more!

A mix of genre bending fun with Seven Foot Dilly , the forgotten 1933 hot tune YEAH MAN written by Noble Sissle and J. Russell Robinson is featured by Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and the Sizzlers, Riley Puckett, Fred Rich & His Orchestra, Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers, and Delta Bluesman Ishman Bracey join the fun

In memory of that fateful night of April 14, 1912 we play several topical songs recorded in the 1920's remembering that night. Rabbit Brown, Dixon Brothers, Ernest Stoneman and others

The Great Depression did not begin on Black Friday October 1929 - it began in the rural farm areas a few years before - the price of raising cotton and beef was beginning to exceede the prices the farmers could get- Thus a call for "Farm Relief" and i 1933 "Socialist" President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with his New Deal came to the rescue..literaly saving the farm - we will play some cool topical recordings address just this issue ( plus the usual assortment of other cool stuff!)

Blues, jazz and country guitarists generally played traditional six sting models. The twelve string version was rarely used but a handful of players championed it - This episode includes a segment where we play some tracks by Barbecue Bob, Lonnie Johnson and Leadbelly - all twelve string masters!

Several versions of this classic folk tune are played - Dixon Brothers and Buell Kazie as well as some fantastic original pre-ww2 Jazz blues and country 78s

Part 3 of our continuing monthly series! - The infamous rare 78 collector magazine Pete Whelan's "78 QUARTERLY" published a beloved column in each of it's 12 issues titled THE RAREST OF THE RARE - collectors were asked to submit the records they felt qualified and everyone offered their opinions as to how many copies of the record might be out there - clearly a collector's "boys club" opinion page but informative still used today by certain dealers as a reference guide or barometer to a record's rarity. - The focus was COUNTRY BLUES, SKIFFLE, PIANO, and JAZZ records from the 1920s-early 30s - So, we are revisiting this column some 20 years after the last issue of 78 Quarterly was published with a monthly edition of AMERICAN GROOVES devoted to those alleged rarities! The first episode of American Grooves each month we will hit the letters covered by each issue of 78 QUARTERLY - this is our second show and covers E, F & G! - 78s by Gillmore Sisters, Eddie & Sugar Lous' Hotel Tyler Orch, Joe Evans, Eli Framer, John Estes and Duke Ellingtons' Washingtonians , are among the rarities played!

A nice shellac stack featuring Bennie Moten and his Kansas City Orchestra, the Carter Family , Robert Johnson, Annette Hanshaw, Louis Hot 5, Frankie Half -Pint Jaxon, Boswell Sisters and featured tune SINCE MY BEST GAL TURNED ME DOWN Albert Gale Orch & Bix with Goldkette!

For our Valentines' Day 2016 edition we will play songs of love ! ..Carter Family , Mills Brothers, Sissle & Blake, Lonnie Johnson, Gene Autry, Harry Reser Eskimos, Jimmie Rodgers and Fannie Brice will be in the house!

King Oliver's SUGAR FOOT STOMP featured in this episode as performed in a swinging Fletcher Henderson arrangement in 1931 by Fletcher and band! ( then holding court at Harlems' CONNIE's INN) -aols be prepared to hear FATS WALLER's RHYTHM, young ETHEL MERMAN singing Irving Berlin's HOW DEEP IS THE OCAN, HOW HIGH IS THE SKY from 1933, JIMMIE NOONE with Earl Hines in 1928, string band GUS & THEO CLARK, MA RAINEY'S TUB JUG WASHBOARD BAND and more!

Part 2 of our continuing monthly series! - The infamous rare 78 collector magazine Pete Whelan's "78 QUARTERLY" published a beloved column in each of it's 12 issues titled THE RAREST OF THE RARE - collectors were asked to submit the records they felt qualified and everyone offered their opinions as to how many copies of the record might be out there - clearly a collector's "boys club" opinion page but informative still used today by certain dealers as a reference guide or barometer to a record's rarity. - The focus was COUNTRY BLUES, SKIFFLE, PIANO, and JAZZ records from the 1920s-early 30s - So, we are revisiting this column some 20 years after the last issue of 78 Quarterly was published with a monthly edition of AMERICAN GROOVES devoted to those alleged rarities! The first episode of American Grooves each month we will hit the letters covered by each issue of 78 QUARTERLY - this is our second show and covers C & D - 78s by Slim Duckett, Carmichaels' Collegians, Cookie's Gingersnaps, Jimmie Davis , are among the rarities played!

This episodes delves into the land of "unissued test pressings" Recordings made in the day and not issued for reasons of economy or performance - you will here some un-issued sides by BOSWELL SISTERS, HALFWAY HOUSE DANCE ORCHESTRA, DUKE ELLINGTON, CLIFF CARLISLE, MEMPHIS JUG BAND, LONNIE JOHNSON , GENE GOLDKETTES ORCH ( with Bix!) and more

THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1932 is the ultimate pre-code Hollywood musical ensemble - The film that launched young Bing Crosby on his Hollywood feature film career - it includes super early performances by CAB CALLOWAY, MILLS BROTHERS, EDDIE LANG ( with Bing Crosby), BOSWELL SISTERS and more - This edition of American Grooves explores the film and presents some of the great musicians and performers who were featured in it

With the coming of sound films in the late 1920s many Vaudeville and Broadway stage performers were summoned to Hollywood to try their hand ( and voice and feet!) to the new "Talkies" This episode plays recordings of some of the most famous ( and a few who toiled in obscurity!) Some included are the first Singing Cowboy KEN MAYNARD, German Bombshell MARLENE DIETRICH , BUDDY RODGERS, as well as JOLSON, CANTOR and ASTAIRE!

In 1967 pioneer collector, writer and researcher PETE WHELAN began his legendary "78 QUARTERLY" magazine- a journal dedicated to the Blues, Jazz, and Gospel music, musicians and RECORDS of the 1920s-early 30s... The magazine went on into the 1990s with a near 20 year gap between volumes 2 and 3! - One of it's regular columns was called THE RAREST OF THE RARE where a survey was held within the record collecting community of what everyone then considered to be the" rarer than hen's teeth" 78s - We are re-visiting that imperfect though fun research this year with a monthly show dedicated to "The Rarest Of The Rare" Blues, Gospel Jazz and ( some) Country 78s! This episode is part 1 of letters A-B!

STEALIN' STEALN' - a jug band, medicine show classic that transcended genres is this episodes featured song o ( versions by Walker Corbins' Ramblers, Mississippi Sheiks and Memphis Jug Band will be featured!) - also along for the ride are Johnny Dodds Black Bottom Stomper, Dixon Brothers, Little Jack Little, Riley Puckett, Joe Mannone's Cafe Royal Boys and more!

Some vintage and unusual Yuletide 78s by Harry Reser Orchestra , Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, Fidldin' John Carson, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, A Christmas Greeting to Decca Records Dealers from Jack Knapp and Connie Boswell, 1929 Oldsmobile Christmas, Benny Goodman Orchestra , Cotton Top Sanctified Singers, Clarence Williams Blue Five with young Louis Armstrong and of course, Bing Crosby!

Blind Alfred Reed, Kokomo Arnold, George Gershwin, Washboard Rhythm Kings, Willard Robison, Rosie Mae Moore, Memphis Jug Band and more!

Joe ventures uptown to Harlem during the final years of it's dominance ( 1930-36) as "thee" place to see and be seen..MILLS BLUE RHYTHM BAND, ETHEL WATERS, DUKE and more..and offers a heartfelt dedication to the "great generation" .

Red Headed Fiddlers, Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother, Hoagy Carmichael, Ethel Waters and oter pre-war shellac heros join our end of holiday weekend broadcast!

During the mid 1920s-mid-1930s the major record companies sent their portable recording equipment to several regions in search of local artists performing jazz, country, blues and ethnic music - the market for local music and music earmarked to different ethnic groups had exploded - Texas was one of te places they went - recordings were made in Dallas, San Antonio and El Paso and artists such as BOB WILLS, WHISTLIN' ALEX MOORE, THE RED HEADED FIDDLERS, TEXAS JUBILEE SINGERS, BILLIE MAXWELL, DON ALBERT's ORCHESTRA and many others were recorded - and featured in this episode ( 1st of 2!)

Published in mid-1925 SWEET GEORGIA BROWN has been an enduring classic covered for the last 100 years by Jazz, Pop, Country and Blues artists - we will feature sone of the earliest and coolist versions! ( plus the usual assortment of Blues, Jazz and Country rare shellac!)

The Boswell Sister's great version of the title song plus super tracks by "Ragtime" Henry Thomas, Joe Mannone Harmony Kings, Memphis Jug Band, Rev McGee in the belly of the whale and more!

Louis Armstrong, Paul Whiteman & His Orch, Bobby Leecan's NEED MORE BAND, Richmond Starlite Quartet, Mound City Blue Blowers, Mills Brothers, Denison Sacred Harp Singers and more!

From the 1900s-1940s AL JOLSON and EDDIE CANTOR were beloved performers. Both beginning in Vaudeville and moving to Broadway, Films and Radio ( and in Cantor's case Television!)

Both early influences to me as a budding record collectior - tgis episode includes a tribute to their artistry

A 78 rpm listening session at Joe's house, join us for the musical fun.. Mississippi John Hurt plays the Blues, Jazz, Country and Miss Annette Hanshaw!

Perhpas the most important ind influential of the 1920s-early 30s "Classic Female Blues Singers" were Mamie Smith, Bessie Smith and Gertrude "Ma" Rainey. This episode explores some of their backrounds and recordings

From the Triangle Harmony Boys, Frank Stokes and Daddy Stovepipe to Gus Canon's Jug Band EVERYBODY in the folk, Country and blues idiom had a song about out fowl friends! we just chicken scratch the surface in this episode!

TUNES FROM THE CLASSIC 1928 EDDIE CANTOR BROADWAY MUSICAL AS WELL AS OTHER TUNES ABOUT "MAKIN' WHOOPEE" FROM MOZELLE ALDERSON, EDDIE WALTERS TO LONNIE JOHNSON!