Podcasts by Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU
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He's an evolutionary dead end. from May 31, 2022 from 2022-05-31T20:50:39
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]
Vaug...
An insatiable vulture snacking on the carcasses of the musical dead. from May 24, 2022 from 2022-05-24T20:14:34
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...
"God knows what I've done. Let's just move on."from May 17, 2022 from 2022-05-17T20:24:31
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" - ...
He fishes on his side. You fish on your side. And no one fishes in the middle. from May 10, 2022 from 2022-05-10T20:52:18
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 H...
Has the curiosity of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from May 3, 2022 from 2022-05-03T20:14:43
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"...
Suggests you go find your own wormhole. from Apr 26, 2022 from 2022-04-26T20:11:58
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...
Radio needs him as nature needs mosquitoes. from Apr 19, 2022 from 2022-04-19T20:13:35
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 ...
If he had two ice creams, you can go to Hell. from Apr 12, 2022 from 2022-04-12T20:18:51
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 fr...
Smoked metaphors and pickled syntax. from Apr 5, 2022 from 2022-04-05T20:39:49
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" [...
Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 29, 2022 from 2022-03-29T21:41:15
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:...
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 from 2022-03-29T20:29:17
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 Co...
Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 15, 2022 from 2022-03-29T20:28:57
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 ...
"Everything that's wrong with a human stuffed into one man."— Eli Vardens from Mar 22, 2022 from 2022-03-22T21:10:29
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...
Everybody deserves a 22nd chance! from Mar 1, 2022 from 2022-03-01T21:01:03
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 Orch...
Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of"large stones being thrown into a dump-cart."from Feb 22, 2022 from 2022-02-22T21:56:43
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 - "Expe...
An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 15, 2022 from 2022-02-22T21:56:08
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 Booke...
There are forms of bowel cancer that have higher approval ratings than the Codger. from Feb 8, 2022 from 2022-02-08T20:51:37
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...
A distended gasbag of terribleness. from Feb 1, 2022 from 2022-02-01T20:23:11
George Gershwin - "Preludes for Piano: 1. (Allegro ben ritmato e deciso); 2. (Andante con moto e poco rubato); 3. (Agitato)" - Gershwin: Preludes for Piano [0:00:00]
Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weas...
He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 11, 2022 from 2022-01-25T20:52:54
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 M...
Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 18, 2022 from 2022-01-25T20:52:33
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 Br...
So old his blood type was discontinued. from Jan 25, 2022 from 2022-01-25T20:50:59
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 S...
A stormy petrel of unbalanced mental potentialities. from Jan 4, 2022 from 2022-01-04T23:05:29
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]
M...
He's the answer to your prayers. And the answer is,"NO!"from Dec 14, 2021 from 2021-12-28T21:39:01
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 H...
Blink and you're passé! from Dec 21, 2021 from 2021-12-28T21:38:33
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 ...
Codger:"You throw one piece of equipment at the station manager and suddenly you're branded 'difficult to work with'."from Dec 28, 2021 from 2021-12-28T21:37:02
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 W...
You keep forgetting he's still alive. from Dec 7, 2021 from 2021-12-14T20:29:39
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 - ...
He'll steal anything that isn't nailed down. And anything he can pry loose isn't nailed down. from Nov 23, 2021 from 2021-11-30T21:40:17
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" [...
"The Codger's brain is a sepulcher furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones."- Joseph Glanvill from Nov 30, 2021 from 2021-11-30T20:14:33
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 - "...
This program may be shut down pending an internal review of repeated violations of established protocols which led to a most unfortunate incident. from Nov 16, 2021 from 2021-11-16T21:03:46
Joe Venuti & His Blue Four - "Really Blue" - B-4866
Duke Ellington & His Harlem Footwarmers - "Rockin' in Rhythm" - R-924 [0:02:14]
Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Smart Shanty™" - Gus B...
"Latin never seemed to be about anything. They were all kinda bughouse—Caesar, and Cicero, and what's-his-name."— Fred Whitmarsh from Nov 9, 2021 from 2021-11-09T21:47:28
Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra - "Gershwin's Piano Concerto In F: III. Allegro con brio (Allegro agitato)" - Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Doin' ...
Knew Gatsby when he was just"pretty good."from Nov 2, 2021 from 2021-11-02T20:49:06
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 - ...
All he asks is a fair trial before they hang him. from Oct 26, 2021 from 2021-10-26T20:59:31
Milt Herth - "Hell's Bells" [0:00:00]
The Boswell Sisters - "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" [0:02:20]
Dinah Washington - "Evil Gal Blues" [0:08:45]
Jaybird Coleman & the Birmin...
Empathied out since 1931. from Oct 5, 2021 from 2021-10-19T20:32:54
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 - "M...
Gus Bodenheim sits in Courtney's chair, fills his shoes, and depletes his whiskey. from Oct 12, 2021 from 2021-10-19T20:32:40
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]
...
His cynicism is not cheap! from Oct 19, 2021 from 2021-10-19T20:32:19
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 - ...
His very existence affirms Faulkner's observation that"The past is never dead. It's not even past."from Sep 28, 2021 from 2021-09-28T20:24:25
George Gershwin - "Someone to Watch Over Me" [0:00:00]
Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra - "The Mooche" [0:02:42]
Mississippi John Hurt - "Ain't No Tellin'" [0:09:56]
Mil...
"The Codger never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see bad ones. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, blind to light, always mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game."— H.W. Beecher from Aug 10, 2021 from 2021-09-21T20:32:21
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Doing Things" - Victor 21561
Ruth Etting - "I Want to Meander in the Meadow" - Columbia 1883-D [0:03:01]
George Formby - "Swimmin' with the Wimmin" - Decca F-...
Claims the 21st is the worst century he's ever lived in. from Aug 17, 2021 from 2021-09-21T20:32:01
Fred Elizalde - "Pianotrope"
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Runnin' Ragged (Bamboozlin' the Bassoon)" [0:02:38]
Nadia, Ken & the Old Codger - "On the Fuzzy Glove Hour Aug 11, 2021" [0:07:58...
"The Codger is a dark little archaic personage—hard, compact, unscrupulous, imitative, and neatly vulgar."— H.G. Wells from Aug 24, 2021 from 2021-09-21T20:31:45
Fred Elizalde - "Brandy and Soda"
Joséphine Baker - "I'm Feelin' Like a Million" [0:02:33]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Følelslange™" [0:08:33]
Bo Carter - "Your Biscuits Ar...
Hubris is his other middle name. from Sep 7, 2021 from 2021-09-21T20:31:14
Arthur Schutt - "Piano Puzzle" [0:00:00]
Fats Waller - "Imagine My Surprise" [0:02:21]
Sophie Tucker - "Red Hot Mama" [0:09:03]
The Happiness Boys - "Wimmin ... AAAH!" [0:11:13]
Recently spent a week in Arkansas to get his liver drained. from Sep 14, 2021 from 2021-09-21T20:30:17
John Ouwerx - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow"
Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "The Henderson Stomp" [0:02:22]
Gus Bodenheim - "The Forgotten Gershwin" [0:08:26]
L...
Recently spent a week in Arkansas to get his liver drained. from Sep 14, 2021 from 2021-09-21T20:30:17
John Ouwerx - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow"
Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "The Henderson Stomp" [0:02:22]
Gus Bodenheim - "The Forgotten Gershwin" [0:08:26]
Lil Johnson - "Hottest ...
Once asked what to feed babies, he recommended suntan lotion, dust bunnies, clumps of bread soaked in rubbing alcohol, and pennies. from Sep 21, 2021 from 2021-09-21T20:29:28
Fred Elizalde - "Melancholy Weeps"
Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Volcanic (Eruption for Orchestra)" [0:02:23]
Bo Carter - "Ram Rod Daddy" [0:09:40]
Joe Venuti & Eddie La...
Laura Cantrell hosts while Courtney is off being a miscreant-at-large from Aug 31, 2021 from 2021-08-31T20:46:21
Eubie Blake - "Charleston Rag" [0:00:00]
Georgia White - "The Stuff Is Here" [0:05:59]
Ida Cox - "Lonesome Blues" [0:06:44]
Valaida Snow - "Lonesome Road" [0:11:31]
Sol Hoop...
Laura Cantrell hosts while Courtney is off being a miscreant-at-large from Aug 31, 2021 from 2021-08-31T20:46:21
Eubie Blake - "Charleston Rag" [0:00:00]
Georgia White - "The Stuff Is Here" [0:05:59]
Ida Cox - "Lonesome Blues" [0:06:44]
Valaida Snow - "Lonesome Road" [0:11:31]
Sol Hoop...
His excuses make the labyrinth seem like the shortest distance between two points. from Aug 3, 2021 from 2021-08-03T21:19:17
Cyril Scott - "Danse Negre" - HMV B2895
Whistlin' Alex Moore - "Heart Wrecked Blues" - Columbia 14518-D
Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang - "Margie" - B71142
Cyril Diaz & His Orchestra ...
Guest Host: Matt Fiveash from Jul 27, 2021 from 2021-07-27T20:13:11
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - "Hyena Stomp" [0:00:00]
Maurice Chevalier - "Just a Bum" [0:03:25]
Cab Calloway - "I Love to Sing-a" [0:06:17]
The Light Crust Doughboys - "P...
His state implies a necessary curse: when not himself, he's mad; when most himself, he's worse. from Jul 20, 2021 from 2021-07-20T20:14:01
Fred Elizalde - "Brandy and Soda"
Joe Venuti's Blue Four - "Nothing But Nots" [0:03:00]
Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Xervac™" [0:09:14]
Stuff Smith - "Sam, The Vegetable Man" [0:10:...
Specializing in locally sourced, free-range, organic, sustainable misery. from Jun 29, 2021 from 2021-07-14T18:27:34
Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys - "I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music" [0:00:00]
Bo Carter - "You Better Know Your Business" [0:02:30]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Des Jardins Canderriere™" [0:...
Never nominated for a Peabody, but takes first prize for narcissism, peevishness and vulgarity. from Jul 13, 2021 from 2021-07-14T18:27:04
George Van Eps - "The Chant" [0:00:00]
Betty Roche - "Trouble Trouble" [0:02:10]
Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton & Bailey Clown Car™" [0:11:04]
Adrian Rollini Quintet - "(How to Make L...
Rejects the five-second rule. In his house they observe the three-day rule. Except for liquids, to which he applies a strict 10-minute rule. from Jul 6, 2021 from 2021-07-13T00:00:13
Hillbilly Charley Vaughn - "Father's A Drunkard, and Mother Is Dead"
Red Norvo - "In a Mist" [0:02:37]
Gus Bodenheim - "The Protocols of the Elders of Edison" [0:09:49]
Stuff Smit...
Even his mildest observations reek of vinegar. from Jun 22, 2021 from 2021-06-22T20:51:07
Garfield Akers - "Dough Roller Blues" [0:00:00]
Lucille Bogan - "Tricks Ain't Walking No More" [0:02:47]
Gus Bodenheim - "The Old Codger's AirPS" [0:10:06]
Fats Waller - "Function...
"This louse is Dickensian in his meanness, filth, and insensitivity to ordinary human beings."– Laurence Bergreen from Jun 8, 2021 from 2021-06-22T20:48:34
Coleman Hawkins Quartet feat. Thelonious Monk - "Recollections" [0:00:00]
Hadda Brooks - "I Can't Get Started" [0:02:32]
Gus Bodenheim - "Codgercoin™" [0:10:17]
Ethel Waters - "Ho...
The Devil Caught Me Nappin' (Guest Host: Monica) from Jun 15, 2021 from 2021-06-22T20:48:15
Eddie South - "My Ohio Home" - Eddie South 1923-1937 [0:00:00]
Dinning Sisters - "I Only Want a Buddy Not a Sweetheart" - Back In Country Style [0:02:58]
The Lone Star Cowboys - "Just B...
The Devil Caught Me Nappin' (Guest Host: Monica) from Jun 15, 2021 from 2021-06-22T20:48:15
Eddie South - "My Ohio Home" - Eddie South 1923-1937 [0:00:00]
Dinning Sisters - "I Only Want a Buddy Not a Sweetheart" - Back In Country Style [0:02:58]
The Lone Star...
Fats All, Folks! Birthday Tribute to the Great Mr. Thomas Waller from May 20, 2021 from 2021-06-03T20:24:03
Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "The Joint is Jumpin'"
Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "You Asked for It, You Got It" [0:02:38]
Fats Waller - "Your Socks Don't Match" [0:08:07]
Fats Waller ...
The only guy who would abduct your cat, and when the ransom is paid, you get back more cats. from May 27, 2021 from 2021-06-03T20:23:28
Billiken Johnson & Fred Adams - "Interurban Blues" [0:00:00]
Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "Every Day's a Holiday" [0:03:00]
Vivian Greene - "He's the Man (He's Tall & Cool)" [0:10:33]
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"A lot of people think they're nostalgic for radio theater, and they're wrong."– Hearty White from Jun 3, 2021 from 2021-06-03T19:49:49
Coleman Hawkins Quartet (ft. Thelonious Monk) - "On the Bean"
Tampa Red - "Grievin' and Worryin' Blues" [0:02:37]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "Afterparty Skincare and Cosmetics" [0:08:53]
...
The next person who tells him to"stay safe"won’t be. from May 13, 2021 from 2021-05-13T20:18:36
James P. Johnson - "You've Got to Be Modernistic" [0:00:00]
Billiken Johnson with Neal Roberts - "Sun Beam Blues" [0:02:56]
Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Injury Law™" [0:08:04]
Ruth ...
A matchless holder of grudges. from May 6, 2021 from 2021-05-13T20:17:07
Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "Sad Sap Sucker Am I" [0:00:00]
Don Redman & His Orchestra - "Doin’ What I Please" [0:02:45]
Gus Bodenheim - "123 and Me™" [0:08:47]
Sophie Tucker - "Ho...
"Ten minutes in his company leads me to the threshold of madness, almost murder."—"Chips"Channon from Apr 29, 2021 from 2021-04-29T20:52:26
Camille Howard - "Fire-Ball Boogie"
Putney Dandridge - "Here Comes Your Pappy (With the Wrong Kind of Load)" [0:02:15]
Gus Bodenheim - "Codgercoin™" [0:08:06]
Fats Waller - "Fair ...
Downs a lot of whiskey, considers it"infrastructure."from Apr 15, 2021 from 2021-04-26T07:59:19
Layton & Johnstone - "The Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks" [0:00:00]
Ikey Robinson Band - "Rub Me Some More" [0:03:22]
Babe Ruth - "Buy "Ectable" Annuities" [0:08:15]
Be...
Don't mention cancel culture to Courtney. He's not a stamp collector. from Apr 8, 2021 from 2021-04-08T20:33:09
Fats Waller - "Sloppy Water Blues" [0:00:00]
Cole Porter - "C'est Magnifique" [0:03:37]
Ken Freedman - "phone message to Courtney about selling the station" [0:10:50]
Euneeda Bode...
Someone tried to dictate his pronouns. When he finished with the perp, all they found was a zipper. from Apr 1, 2021 from 2021-04-01T20:48:35
Jimmie Rodgers - "Let Me Be Your Side Track" [0:00:00]
Cannon's Jug Stompers - "Viola Lee Blues" [0:03:39]
Jean Starr & L'Ana Hyams All Stars - "Seven Riffs with the Right Women" [0:10:...
Has a natural immunity to viruses, poxes, modesty, logic, and reason. from Mar 18, 2021 from 2021-04-01T20:47:18
Fats Waller - "Messin' Around with the Blues" [0:00:00]
Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Finger Buster" [0:03:08]
Joe McGasko - "Exposes Courtney's Attempt at Extortion" [0:08:38]
Georg...
A messenger of Satan to torment you, and keep you from being too elated. from Mar 25, 2021 from 2021-04-01T20:46:46
Tampa Red - "She Want to Sell My Monkey"
Dany Kane & Virginie Morgan - "Dany Smokes Virginie" [0:03:29]
Mamie Smith - "Goin' Crazy with the Blues" [0:09:44]
Fats Waller - "There's...
Using the radio airwaves as a spittoon since 1928. from Mar 11, 2021 from 2021-03-11T19:26:58
Red Norvo - "Dance of the Octopus" [0:00:00]
Vaughn De Leath - "Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon" [0:03:36]
Fablio the WFMU DJ - "Payback for all the vile things Courtney has said...
He's a blowhard. And the drunker he gets, the harder he blows. from Mar 4, 2021 from 2021-03-11T19:14:03
Horace Henderson Orchestra - "Kitty on Toast" [0:00:00]
Fats Waller - "Spring Cleaning" [0:03:01]
Gus Bodenheim - "Gas Station Brand Hot Dogs™" [0:07:41]
Helen Kane - "Don't Be Li...
He never drinks between 10 and 11 am Mondays just to ensure he's not addicted to the stuff. from Feb 25, 2021 from 2021-02-25T20:24:27
Layton & Johnstone - "All of Me" [0:00:00]
Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers - "Original Jelly-Roll Blues" [0:02:56]
George Formby - "The Window Cleaner (No. 2)" [0:09:11]
W...
He owns two revolvers and his brother owns at least a dozen, though neither of them has fired one since the close of the Liberty Bond drives. from Feb 18, 2021 from 2021-02-18T21:34
Helen Kane - "I'd Go Barefoot All Winter Long (If You'd Fall for Me in Spring)"
Cole Porter - "I Do" [0:03:26]
Gus Bodenheim - "Rebuke to the Old Codger's slanderous remarks" [0:09:08]<...
Leading the fight to raise the wages of sin to $18/hr. from Feb 11, 2021 from 2021-02-11T20:52:30
Ambrose & His Orchestra - "Deep Henderson" [0:00:00]
Barney Kessel - "Bernardo" [0:03:24]
Ruth Etting - "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" [0:09:46]
Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clou...
For decades scholars of karmic justice have been debating how he's managed to evade the gallows. from Jan 21, 2021 from 2021-02-04T19:38:59
Romeo Nelson - "Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing" - Where Are Thou? [0:00:00]
Blind Blake - "I Was Afraid of That (Part 2)" - The Blind of Best Blake [0:03:05]
Desi Arnaz y Su Orch...
He has that certain je ne sais what? from Jan 28, 2021 from 2021-02-04T19:38:16
Billy Murray - "He's a Devil in His Own Home Town" [0:00:00]
Helen Kane - "I Have to Have You" [0:02:57]
Gus Bodenheim - "Gross, But … Bars™" [0:08:57]
Blind Blake - "Too Tight Bl...
Gus Bodenheim services the Old Codger's listenership this week. from Feb 4, 2021 from 2021-02-04T19:37:49
Tommy Todd Trio - "Chloe" [0:00:00]
Minnie Wallace - "The Old Folks Started It" [0:02:40]
Mildred Bailey - "Where Are You?" [0:06:50]
Foy Willing & the Riders of the Purple Sage -...
Keep your beard out of his soup. from Jan 14, 2021 from 2021-01-14T20:02:57
Mary Lou Williams - "Boogie Misterioso" - Mary Lou Williams 78
Hadda Brooks - "Swingin' the Boogie" - Hadda Brooks 78 rpm disc [0:02:58]
Gus Bodenheim - "Hardly Hamster™" - Another Fine...
In a new poll, his approval rating has edged up to 5% (with a margin of error of 6%). from Jan 7, 2021 from 2021-01-14T20:01:20
Ruth Etting - "Let's Talk About My Sweetie" [0:00:00]
Red Norvo & Mae Questel - "The Broken Record" [0:02:44]
Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Solutions™" [0:09:08]
Desi Arnaz y Su Orqu...
Old enough to remember the Dead Sea when it was just sick. from Nov 19, 2020 from 2021-01-14T19:18:20
James P. Johnson - "Liza"
Nick and His Creole Serenaders - "Salee Dame #2"
Frankie Newton & His Uptown Serenaders - "Cause My Baby Says So"
Clarence Williams - "A Pane in the Glas...
Scratch his breech and he'll claw your elbow. from Nov 26, 2020 from 2021-01-14T19:17:59
James P. Johnson - "Sweet Lorraine" [0:00:00]
Marion Harris - "Singin' The Blues" [0:02:49]
Betty Hutton - "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun" [0:08:53]
Cats & the Fiddle - "We Cats ...
Went out to buy arugula and quinoa, came back with bourbon, chewing tobacco and ammo. He really needs to get new glasses. from Dec 3, 2020 from 2021-01-14T19:17:43
Earl Hines - "Tantalizing a Cuban" [0:00:00]
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra ft. Mildred Bailey - "I Like to Do Things for You" [0:03:09]
Gus Bodenheim - "Beyond Mouse™" [0:09:11]
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His testimony before the Mills Commission in 1905 clinched Abner Doubleday's acclaim as the inventor of baseball. from Dec 10, 2020 from 2021-01-14T19:17:15
Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Child of a Disordered Brain" [0:00:00]
Fats Waller - "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" [0:02:40]
Gus Bodenheim - "N.E.B.U.C.H.A.D.N.E.Z.Z.A.R. (Part 1)" [0:09:41]...
Do you like worms? He's about to open a large can of them. from Dec 24, 2020 from 2021-01-14T19:16:45
Hearty White - "The Night Before Codger's Christmas" [0:00:00]
Milt Herth - "Satan Takes a Holiday" [0:03:19]
James P. Johnson - "Jungle Drums" [0:05:53]
Marion Harris - "My Canar...
His New Year's resolution—same as last year's—is to change the sheets. Only this time, HE'LL DO IT! from Dec 31, 2020 from 2020-12-31T20:32:32
Alma Gluck & the Victor Orchestra - "La Colomba" [0:00:00]
Tammy Faye Bodenheim - "Blue Skirt Waltz" [0:02:27]
Gus Bodenheim - "Beyond Water™" [0:08:09]
Nick and His Creole Serena...
The Codger is like a hole in the ground. He's a vacant space, but he can break your leg. from Dec 17, 2020 from 2020-12-17T20:24:52
Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Rosetta" [0:00:00]
Harry McClintock - "Ain't We Crazy" [0:03:20]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "Winetta's Whimsy Shed™" [0:08:55]
Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra - "At ...
His home is a quack's sanitarium for nervous diseases, treated with medicines of high alcoholic content and"doctor"-prescribed, whiskey-based potions. from Nov 12, 2020 from 2020-11-12T21:00:24
Fats Waller - "African Ripples" [0:00:00]
Nick and His Creole Serenaders - "Les Ognons" [0:03:16]
Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra - "Small Fry" [0:09:34]
Edith Piaf - "Correqu' et ...
Kicking off Lumbago Awareness Month from Nov 5, 2020 from 2020-11-05T19:39:06
Flip the Frog - "The Flip the Frog Theme Song" [0:00:00]
Blind Willie Dunn & Lonnie Johnson - "Deep Minor Rhythm" [0:00:24]
Kenny Dorham - "Bebop In Pastel" [0:03:31]
The Brox Sis...
He has a lamp fashioned in the shape of Sophie Tucker's thigh. from Oct 29, 2020 from 2020-10-29T19:57:12
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "The Wild Dog" [0:00:00]
Django Reinhardt & Beryl Davis - "Undecided" [0:02:52]
Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon - "Hannah Fell in Love with My Piano" [0:08:56]
...
A talkative footnote. from Oct 22, 2020 from 2020-10-22T19:36:40
Arthur Fields - "I Love to Stay at Home" [0:00:00]
James P. Johnson - "A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid" [0:03:34]
Noble Sissle's Swingsters with Sidney Bechet - "Characteristic Bl...
The wreckage of days departed, every completed show a funeral gone by. from Oct 15, 2020 from 2020-10-15T19:53:53
Harry Reser - "Ukulele Lady" [0:00:00]
Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon - "Chocolate to the Bone" [0:02:52]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "Afterparty Skincare and Cosmetics" [0:08:34]
Florence Des...
"The Codger demonstrates a laughingstock of intelligence, a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere."— Lee De Forest from Oct 8, 2020 from 2020-10-08T21:12:25
Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Conversation on Park Avenue"
John Kirby Sextet - "B-Flat Special" [0:02:45]
Fats Waller - "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" [0:09:24]
...
"All that is loathsome, drooping, and decayed is here."— Charles Dickens III from Sep 24, 2020 from 2020-10-08T21:10:41
John Burkhardt - "Light as a Feather" [0:00:00]
John Kirby & His Orchestra - "Double Talk" [0:02:58]
Fats Waller - "Stardust" [0:08:33]
Mamie Smith - "Goin' Crazy with the Blues" ...
Everyone he meets acquires the awesome power to peer into his soul and correctly assume the worst. from Oct 1, 2020 from 2020-10-08T21:10:17
James P. Johnson - "Jersey Sweet" [0:00:00]
Joséphine Baker - "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" [0:02:46]
Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks - "The Coat and the Pants Do All the Work" [0:08...
In the reverie lane, the speed limit is determined by the slowest car. from Sep 17, 2020 from 2020-09-17T19:43:55
The Old Codger - "Introduction to Time Travel" [0:00:00]
Ukulele Ike - "Halfway to Heaven" [0:01:50]
Django Reinhardt - "Exactly Like You" [0:05:01]
Henry Burr - "Everybody's Swee...
You may think he's living in the past, but he's living your future. from Sep 10, 2020 from 2020-09-10T19:47:44
Jess Stacy - "Candlelights" [0:00:00]
Jerry Colonna - "I Hate Music" [0:03:24]
Gus Bodenheim - "Hardly Hamster™" [0:09:32]
Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra...
He's always"me"-deep in conversation. from Sep 3, 2020 from 2020-09-03T20:49:27
Little Jack Little - "Three O'Clock in the Morning" - Little Jack Little 78 rpm disc [0:00:00]
Hadda Brooks - "Humoresque Boogie" - Hadda Brooks 78 rpm disc [0:03:08]
Gus Bodenheim - "G...
His sense of decency hasn't taken a holiday — it's on sabbatical. from Aug 27, 2020 from 2020-08-27T19:41
Butterbeans & Susie - "Tain't None o' Your Business" - Butterbeans & Susie 78 rpm disc [0:00:00]
Mills Blue Rhythm Band - "Wild Waves" - Mills Blue Rhythm Band 78 rpm disc [0:03:18]
Eun...
When he's finally recycled as cat food, he'll be"indoor senior."from Aug 20, 2020 from 2020-08-20T19:25:34
Reginald Foresythe - "Because It's Love (For Elisabeth Welch)" [0:00:00]
Bebe Daniels & Ben Lyon - "Little Sir Echo" [0:03:04]
Bessie Smith with Eddie Lang & Clarence Williams - "Kitche...
He's a black&white supremacist. from Aug 13, 2020 from 2020-08-13T19:36:09
Cole Porter - "Everybodee Who's Anybodee" [0:00:00]
Louis Jordan and the Tympani 5 - "Jack, You're Dead!" [0:01:22]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "Wapner's Vaginal Cones™" [0:07:02]
Mildred...
Always asks for plastic bags at the grocer, because despite what environmentalists claim, he doesn't believe there's a plastic shortage. from Aug 6, 2020 from 2020-08-06T20:11:40
Mary Lou Williams - "Leo" [0:00:00]
Noel Coward - "I Like America" [0:01:40]
Fabian André & His Orchestra - "La Perrita" [0:04:24]
The Brox Sisters - "Do the Strut" [0:09:46]
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Still has that new cadaver smell! from Jul 30, 2020 from 2020-07-30T21:03:43
Memphis Minnie - "Down in the Alley" [0:00:00]
McKinney's Cotton Pickers - "I Got Ya" [0:02:53]
[0:05:23]
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Sunshine" [0:08:01]
Hoagy Carmichael - "...
Exercise? The only part of him that's ever jogged is his memory. from Jul 23, 2020 from 2020-07-23T19:48:01
Oscar Pettiford - "Stardust" [0:00:00]
Cab Calloway's Jungle Band - "St. Louis Blues" [0:04:46]
Renato Carosone - "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" [0:10:45]
Mildred Bailey and Her ...
He doesn't want your respect. He wants nothing less than graven images. from Jul 16, 2020 from 2020-07-16T19:32:14
Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "Trumbology" [0:00:00]
Strayhorn Trio - "In a Blue Summer Garden" [0:02:58]
The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Kellogg's Pep" [0:11:24]
Ted...
Everything he touches turns to mold. from Jul 9, 2020 from 2020-07-09T19:23:29
Josephine Baker - "Sans amour" [0:00:00]
Victoria Spivey - "Baulin' Water Blues - Part 1" [0:03:08]
Irving Kaufman - "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" [0:09:31]
Cole Porter - "Maid...
Patient Zero for the Miasma Theory of Broadcasting. from Jul 2, 2020 from 2020-07-02T20:26:24
The Brox Sisters - "Who" [0:00:00]
Mildred Bailey with Red Norvo and His Orchestra - "A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid" [0:02:40]
The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Squibb Dental...
Sorry—he left his compassion in his other soul. from Jun 25, 2020 from 2020-06-25T20:03:31
The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Doctors Love Camels" [0:00:00]
Fats Waller - "Love Me or Leave Me" [0:00:50]
Ruth Etting - "Ain't Misbehavin'" [0:03:30]
Bert Shefter & Morton...
Welcome to the Codger's Happy Autonomous Zone! from Jun 18, 2020 from 2020-06-18T19:58:19
The Ponce Sisters - "Ten Little Miles From Town" [0:00:00]
Bert Shefter - "Taming the Devil" [0:01:24]
Ruth Etting - "Hoosier Sweetheart" [0:04:32]
The Old Codger Show Proud Spons...
The zeitgeist is SO out of touch with him. from Jun 11, 2020 from 2020-06-11T19:46:24
Fabian André & His Orchestra - "Waltz Night at the Savoy" [0:00:00]
Mary Lou Williams - "Gemini" [0:02:45]
The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Arid Deodorant" [0:08:59]
Ruth Ett...
He looks forward to giving back to the community. There's so much he's stolen. from Nov 5, 2019 from 2019-11-06T17:05:36
Mary Lou Williams - "Scorpio" - none
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "A Mug of Ale" - none
Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington - "Tonk" - none
Bert Shefter & His Rhythm Octet - "Locomoti...
He's a crusty parasite and WFMU is the host organism. from Jul 25, 2017 from 2017-07-25T21:43:33
Sonny Burns & the Western Cherokees - "Waltzing with Sin" [0:00:00]
The Pilgrim Travelers - "Jesus is the First Line Defense" [0:02:29]
Harry Choates & His Fiddle - "Harry Choates Speci...
His karma deficit is beyond recoupment. from Jul 18, 2017 from 2017-07-18T22:28:06
Seven Little Polar Bears - "Since She Learned to Ride a Horse" [0:00:00]
Blind Boy Fuller - "Step It Up and Go" [0:02:31]
The Executor - "Three Friends' Advice" [0:09:58]
Joe Venu...
He doesn't choose the lesser of two evils; he chooses the one he hasn't tried yet. from Jun 14, 2016 from 2016-06-14T21:30:33
Wynonie Harris - "Grandma Plays the Numbers" [0:00:00]
George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" [0:02:21]
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - "The New East St. Louis Toodle...
Codger (1926):"Valentino must have a successor somewhere, and it might as well be me."from Apr 5, 2016 from 2016-04-05T22:20
Butterbeans & Susie - "I Got Your Bath Water On"
Baby Dodds - "Buddy Bolden's Blues #1" [0:02:06]
Sophie Tucker - "50 Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" [0:10:11]
George Formby - "...
Shut Up, Hippies! (Fill-in for Shut Up, Weirdo, 6-7pm Eastern) from Dec 25, 2015 from 2015-12-25T20:12:33
Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - "Queer Notions"
Baby Dodds Trio - "Chocko Mo Feendo Hey"
George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life"
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "The Wolf W...
"The Codger is endowed with awful powers of evil, to the exercise of which he might at any time set his malignant will."– Ambrose Bierce from Sep 15, 2015 from 2015-09-15T22:30:09
Noel Coward - "I'm Old Fashioned"
Baby Dodds - "Les Ognons"
Ukulele Ike - "Red Hot Mamma"
John Kirby Sextet - "Blues Petite"
Geri Galian and His Caribbean Rhythm Boys - "Jun...
First he tells you that he's gonna tell you what he thinks, then he tells you what he thinks, then he tells you what he just told you. from Jul 14, 2015 from 2015-07-14T22:09:19
Roaring Lion - "I Can Make More Love Than Romeo" [0:00:00]
Baby Dodds - "Mo Pas Lemme Ca #1" [0:04:51]
The Six Hottentots with Irving Kaufmann - "I'm in Love Again" [0:07:26]
Ben ...
Likes his lovin' as he likes his cars: hand-cranked. from Dec 24, 2014 from 2014-12-24T19:44:09
Lil Johnson - "My Baby (Squeeze Me Again)" [0:00:00]
Willie Bryant - "Chimes at the Meeting" [0:04:43]
Mildred Bailey - "Long About Midnight" [0:09:29]
Sammy Price - "Do You Dig M...
He's the spokesman for his generation—because he's the only one left. from Jul 15, 2014 from 2014-07-15T22:37:03
Lionel Hampton - "Hot Mallets" [0:00:00]
Billy Strayhorn Trio - "Johnny Come Lately" [0:01:59]
Tampa Red Orchestra - "I'm Gonna Get High" [0:09:43]
Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang - "R...
An hour of purloined platters rudely interrupted by grating harangues and emphatic salivary discharge. from Jul 8, 2014 from 2014-07-08T21:35:12
Django Reinhardt - "Parfum" [0:00:00]
Clarence Williams & James P. Johnson - "How Can I Be Blue?"
Mildred Bailey - "The Little Man Who Wasn't There" [0:08:00]
Eugene Wright & His ...
A non-renewable fossil fool. from Mar 18, 2014 from 2014-03-18T21:27:58
Ambrose & His Orchestra - "Tarantula" [0:00:00]
George Formby - "It's No Use Looking at Me" [0:02:36]
Mary Lou Williams - "Zonky" [0:09:04]
Sophie Tucker - "I Know That My Baby is...
Life was so much simpler when there were only three Stooges. from Jan 6, 2014 from 2014-01-06T21:24:12
Edmond Hall - "Celestinal Express" [0:00:00]
Oscar Buddy Woods - "Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away" [0:03:21]
Stuff Smith - "Sam, The Vegetable Man" [0:09:38]
George Formby - "Li...
Tonight's forecast: partly cranky with a 60% chance of rage. from Nov 12, 2013 from 2013-11-12T21:32
Larry Clinton Orchestra - "Midnight in the Madhouse" [0:00:00]
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "A Strictly Cullud Affair" [0:02:24]
Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends - "Mama Don't Allow" [...
All the vices you admire, none of the virtues you detest. from Aug 13, 2013 from 2013-08-13T22:13:53
Florence Brady - "Here Comes the Show Boat" [0:00:00]
Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet - "Jammin' in Four" [0:07:03]
Butterbeans & Susie - "That Same Dog" [0:11:16]
He doesn't need to prove he's God's gift to women. The facts speak for themselves. from Apr 16, 2013 from 2013-04-16T21:34:15
Norman Long - "We Can't Let You Broadcast That" [0:00:00]
Truett and George - "Ghost Dance" [0:02:42]
Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer - "Goose Pimples" [0:09:09]
He's not old enough to have known the baby Jesus, but he recalls as a youth reading the obit. from Dec 25, 2012 from 2012-12-25T22:14:41
The Mighty Spoiler - "Wake Up Christmas Morning" [0:00:00]
Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra with Henry Glover - "Who Said Shorty Wasn't Coming Back?" [0:02:36]
Jimmie R...
An hour of brutish entertainment from Dec 4, 2012 from 2012-12-04T21:59:28
Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra - "The Eel" - Bluebird 10386 [0:00:00]
George Formby - "Swimmin' With the Wimmin" - Decca 3666 [0:04:25]
Kitty Gray & Her W...
A quasi-life force fueled by steamed cabbage, cigar stubs plucked from the gutter, and petty grievances. from Oct 23, 2012 from 2012-10-23T21:36:35
Lucille Bogan - "Barbecue Bess" [0:00:00]
Nick Lucas - "Teasin' the Frets" [0:02:10]
Tampa Red - "Let Me Play with Your Poodle" [0:09:20]
Sophie Tucker - "I ...
He's gone from crazy to foolish. Progress! from May 8, 2012 from 2012-05-08T21:32:25
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 ...
Columnist Ty Muckton on the Codger (1944): "a surly curmudgeon whose behavioral spectrum consists of finely calibrated degrees of spitefulness." from Aug 30, 2011 from 2011-08-30T22:13:13
Bessie Smith - "Oh Daddy Blues"
Charles Lavere & His Chicagoans - "Ubangi Man"
King Radio - "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"
The Happiness Boys - "The Coat and Pan...
He neither strives for achievement nor risks failure, focusing instead on solid, sustained mediocrity. from Jul 19, 2011 from 2011-07-20T01:25:09
Bert Williams - "When I Return"
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "There'll Come a Time"
Wendell Hall - "There's a Trick in Pickin' a Chick Chick Chicken These Days"...
"Get out of my yard, damn birds!" from Jan 18, 2011 from 2011-01-18T23:12:23
Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Get Off With Me"
Jesse Stone and His Blue Sereneders - "Starvation Blues"
Ernest Rogers - "Willie the Chimney Sweeper"
Jo...
He's been "file-sharing" music since the 1930s. Only then it was called "shoplifting." from Dec 7, 2010 from 2010-12-07T21:29:10
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Kickin' the Cat" - Okeh 40853
Claude Hopkins - "The Traffic Was Terrific" - Delbarton 110-A
Sophie Tucker - "Sophie Tucker for President" - ...
His third set of dentures are older than you! from Jul 27, 2010 from 2010-07-27T21:42:53
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra w/Bix Beiderbecke (v: Marlin Hunt, Dee Orr & Harry Barris) - "Bless You Sister"
Fats Waller - "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby"
Stuff Smith &...
If he ever forges his crankiness into a bullet, duck! from Jun 15, 2010 from 2010-06-15T21:56:27
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 Peo...
"His irascibility amounts almost to disease. He is a sad mortal to carry a wonder to." — Flossie Thrale from Jan 12, 2010 from 2010-01-12T20:57:39
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 H...
Once described by his own lawyer as "a man of nugatory intelligence and much unpleasantness" from Feb 3, 2009 from 2009-02-03T21:20:12
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"
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Loves the planet. Just hates all the people on it. from Dec 22, 2008 from 2008-12-26T22:59:59
Earl Hines - "Pianology"
The Happiness Boys - "That's a Lot of Bunk"
John Kirby Orchestra - "Dawn on the Desert"
Johnny Marvin - "Magnolia"
Alphons...
A fifty-dollar hat on a five-cent head from Jun 10, 2008 from 2008-06-10T23:18:34
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) - "Y...
AARP considers him beyond his "sell-by" date from May 27, 2008 from 2008-05-27T21:30:55
Ruth Etting - "Could I? I Certainly Could"
Charleston Chasers - "Lovable and Sweet"
Cats vs. Chicks - "Cat Meets Chick"
Helen Humes with the Harry James Orch...
Buckets of unrelenting weariness from May 20, 2008 from 2008-05-20T22:55:43
Red Norvo Quartet - "Dance of the Octopus"
Earl Burtnett and His Los Angeles Biltmore Orchestra - "Low Down Rhythm"
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbe...
Still has full bladder control — and boasts about it often! from Apr 29, 2008 from 2008-04-29T22:10:24
Girls of the Golden West - "Lonely Cowgirl"
The Chicago Loopers (with Bix & Tram) - "Three Blind Mice"
Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra - "Hodge Podge"
Hank W...
His autobiography grows an ever-thicker crust of hyperbole with each rehash from Apr 15, 2008 from 2008-04-15T23:14:35
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...
Pet peeve: YOU! from Apr 1, 2008 from 2008-04-02T12:23:26
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 ...
When the Codger's in your boudoir, no groove is safe from his stylus. from Mar 18, 2008 from 2008-03-18T23:21:34
Gene Autry - "Don't Fence Me In"
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "Futuristic Rhythm"
M.J. O'Connell - "Old Bill Baker"
Scrapper Blac...
His glass is always half-bull (Marathon 2008, with co-host Blossom Moskowitz) from Mar 4, 2008 from 2008-03-04T23:25:55
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 ...
At his age, it's hard to get parts from Feb 19, 2008 from 2008-02-20T10:31:49
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 A...
A nasty piece of work made up of many smaller pieces of nastiness from Feb 5, 2008 from 2008-02-05T21:22:35
Elizabeth Wheeler - "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls"
Midge Williams and Her Jazz Jesters - "Walkin' the Dog"
Palmer McAbee - "McAbee's Railroad"
Slim Gaill...
Old enough to know the guy who invented Monday from Jan 22, 2008 from 2008-01-22T21:59:01
Ruth Etting - "Cigarettes, Cigars!"
Marcia Freer - "When Lights Are Low"
Leona Anderson - "Tambourine"
Dinah Washington - "Don't Come Knocking at My Door"
Tucked in his nostalgia blankie, blathering with self-absorbed gusto from Jan 8, 2008 from 2008-01-08T23:31:37
Clarence Williams with Babe Matthews - "Bluer Than Blue"
Dinah Washington - "Big Long Slidin' Thing"
Mamie Smith - "Let's Agree to Disagree"
Jimmie May - "I ...
Larger than life? He's larger than DEATH! from Dec 31, 2007 from 2007-12-31T21:53:50
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...
The Codger and his lady friend Blossom present the I'm In The Mood For Love (But NOT for Christmas) Extravaganza from Dec 25, 2007 from 2007-12-26T11:34:51
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 Mano...
He's been skinning local roadkill all day for stew from Dec 11, 2007 from 2007-12-11T23:29:11
Ukulele Ike - "Halfway to Heaven"
Django Reinhardt - "Exactly Like You"
Henry Burr - "She's Everybody's Sweetheart, But Nobody's Gal"
The Duncan Sisters - "B...
He just got the results of his blood test. It's RED. And HOT. from Nov 27, 2007 from 2007-11-28T00:34:59
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...
Thomas Wolfe on the Codger (1926): "a nervous ugly man, swollen with petty tyranny" from Nov 13, 2007 from 2007-11-13T23:17:51
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"
Th...
So old, his social security number's only three digits from Oct 30, 2007 from 2007-10-30T22:54:43
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...
Mean and stingy are his GOOD qualities from Oct 16, 2007 from 2007-10-17T11:16:52
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 Her...