Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU

Courtney T. Edison and WFMU

The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!

  • His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from Apr 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
    18 April 2024, 2:32 am
  • Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 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 Calypsonians - "Dr. Kinsey Report" [0:31:30]
    Bob & Ray - "Widen Your Horizons: How to Use Dental Floss" [0:34:25]
    Robert Wilkins - "That's No Way to Get Along" [0:37:54]
    Lonnie Johnson - "Uncle Ned, Don't Use Your Head" [0:40:57]
    Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra - "Tonsilectomy" [0:47:46]
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra - "Flaming Youth" [0:50:37]
    Gus Bodenheim - "Codgertopia™" [0:53:50]
    Blind Willie & Katie McTell - "God Don't Like It (And I Don't Either)" [0:56:26] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113889
    30 March 2022, 1:41 am
  • 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
    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 Daughter" [0:31:39]
    Joe McGasko - "Exposes Courtney's Attempt at Extortion" [0:34:38]
    Fats Waller - "Your Feet's Too Big" [0:35:49]
    Memphis Minnie - "Keep on Eatin'" [0:46:56]
    Gus Bodenheim - "Pledge — What's in it for You?" [0:49:16]
    King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopaters - "Deep Henderson" [0:50:36] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113291
    30 March 2022, 12:29 am
  • Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 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 Lady" [0:41:23]
    Irving Kaufman - "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" [0:53:20]
    Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "I'm Coming Virginia" [0:55:59] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113463
    30 March 2022, 12:28 am
  • Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart." from Feb 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 Red - "It's Heated" [0:33:43]
    Gene Krupa & His Orchestra - "Jungle Madness" [0:37:11]
    Bea Foote - "Try and Get It" [0:40:01]
    Bruz Fletcher - "She's My Most Intimate Friend" [0:42:48]
    Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron - "Jahbero" [0:49:38]
    Hackberry Ramblers - "On Top of the World" [0:52:21]
    Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - "Workout" [0:54:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112899
    23 February 2022, 2:56 am
  • An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 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 Toes")" [0:31:17]
    Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Mop! Mop!" [0:34:06]
    Johnny Marvin - "Half a Moon (Is Better Than No Moon)" [0:37:00]
    Gertrude Lawrence - "The Physician" [0:43:44]
    Ruth Etting - "Wherever You Go, Whatever You Do" [0:46:32]
    Dick McDonough - "Chasing a Buck" [0:49:21]
    Whispering Jack Smith - "Then I'll Be Happy (I Wanna Go Where You Go, Do What You Do)" [0:51:40] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112549
    23 February 2022, 2:56 am
  • He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 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" [0:32:39]
    Reuben Reeves & Omer Simeon - "Smoke House Blues" [0:35:26]
    James McCrary - "Shove It Up in There" [0:38:01]
    Zelma O'Neal - "The Varsity Drag" [0:46:23]
    Noël Coward - "I'm Old Fashioned" [0:48:31]
    Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Ashley Street Blues" [0:51:01]
    Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Smart Shanty™" [0:54:15]
    Adrian Rollini - "Small Fry (Take 2)" [0:56:43] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111437
    26 January 2022, 1:52 am
  • Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 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 Tympany Five - "How 'Bout That" [0:33:47]
    Noel Coward - "What's Going to Happen to the Tots?" [0:36:16]
    Nick Lucas - "Picking the Guitar" [0:40:12]
    Coleman Hawkins Orchestra - "Jamaica Shout" [0:45:36]
    Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) - "Magnolia" [0:48:09]
    Spivy - "The Alley Cat" [0:50:57]
    Gus Bodenheim - "Ginger Psake" [0:52:36]
    Whispering Jack Smith - "The Song is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)" [0:54:55] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111661
    26 January 2022, 1:52 am
  • So old his blood type was discontinued. from Jan 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 a Plenty" - The Harmonettes 78 rpm disc [0:16:13]
    Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "Boogie Woogie Came to Town" - Decca 8581 Sepia Series [0:18:48]
    John Cali & Tony Guttoso - "A Study in Brown" - Victor 25662 (Guitar Duet) [0:21:36]
    Ruth Etting - "It Happened in Monterey" - Columbia 2199-D (Vocal with Accompaniment) [0:24:40]
    Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Bunkers™" - Another Fine Delbarton Product [0:31:29]
    Noël Coward & Cafe De Paris Orchestra - "I Like America" - Noël Coward — He Likes America! (78) [0:33:54]
    Sophie Tucker - "Aren't Women Wonderful?" - single [0:36:58]
    Lonnie Johnson - "She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight" - Okeh 8768 -- Vocal with Guitar [0:39:30]
    Mississippi Sheiks - "Jail Bird Love Song" - Okeh 8834 (for Best Results, Use Okeh needles) [0:42:33]
    Victoria Spivey with Porter Grainger - "You've Gotta Have What It Takes - Parts 1 & 2" - Victor V-38609 (Singing with Piano & Guitar) [0:49:04]
    Carl Kress & Dick McDonough - "Stage Fright" - Brunswick 6917 (Shellac) [0:54:35] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111881
    26 January 2022, 1:50 am
  • A stormy petrel of unbalanced mental potentialities. from Jan 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 - "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again" [0:37:13]
    Flip the Frog - "Soda Squirt (1933)" [0:44:30]
    Slim & Slam - "B-19" [0:50:11]
    Gus Bodenheim - "The Forgotten Gershwin" [0:53:18]
    The King Cole Trio - "The Geek" [0:56:02] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111245
    5 January 2022, 4:05 am
  • He's the answer to your prayers. And the answer is, "NO!" from Dec 14, 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" [0:30:24]
    Arthur Fields and Fred Hall - "Song of the Condemned" [0:32:58]
    Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "If It's Love You Want, Baby That's Me" [0:35:59]
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Paradiddle" [0:38:39]
    Hank Williams - "Crazy Heart" [0:44:36]
    Ruth Etting - "Blue River" [0:46:58]
    Watson Sisters - "Lend Me Jim" [0:50:09]
    Gus Bodenheim - "The Gus Bodenheim Literary Guild" [0:53:35]
    Buchanan Brothers - "When You See Those Flying Saucers" [0:55:05] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/110569
    29 December 2021, 2:39 am
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