OLD TIME RADIO SHOW #9 – The Origins Of Occupy Wall Street

The Songs:

1. All I Got’s Gone – Odie McWinters
2. Down On Penny’s Farm – The Bentley Boys
3. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live – Blind Alfred Reed
4. The Panic Is On – Hezekiah Jenkins
5. Bread Line Blues – Slim Smith & Bennie Nawahi
6. Cotton Mill Colic – Dave McCarn
7. NRA Blues – Bill Cox
8. FDR’s Back Again – Bill Cox
9. In 1992 – Bill Cox
10. Fifty Years From Now – Harry McClintock
11. Everything’s Gonna Be O.K. America – Art Kassel & His Kassels In The Air
12. When My Stocks Come Tumbling Down – Fields And Hall
13. Headin’ For Better Times – Ted Lewis
14. Missed Meal Cramp Blues – Alec Johnson
15. See The Black Clouds Breakin’ Over Yonder – Fred Chubby Parker
16. Dust Can’t Kill Me – Woodie Guthrie

1932 unemployment march on Washington

Bill Cox

Protestors gather on Wall St. 1929

F.D.R. in 1933

Homeless man October 1931

San Fran skid row 1937

Unemployed workers build the Seattle shantytown Hooverville in October 1931

Wall Street protest 1930

Wall Street protest 1930

Wall Street protest 1930

shanty town circa 1931

dust bowl

Members of the picket line at King Farm strike. Morrisville, Pennsylvania. August 1938

1936 in Nipomo, California

Police stand guard outside the entrance to New York's closed World Exchange Bank, March 20, 1931

Toward Los Angeles, California. 1937

bread line San Antonio, Texas. March 1939

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Old Time Radio Show #8 Jazz The World Forgot

The Songs:

1. It Looks Like Susie – Cab Calloway
2. Wild Flower Rag – Clarence Williams
3. You Keep Me Always Living in Sin – Joseph Robechaux And His New Orleans Rhythm Boys
4. Fidgetty Feet – The Arcadian Serenaders
5. Charleston Is The Best Dance – Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten
6. Monia – Ross Deluxe Syncopators
7. St. James Infirmary – Alfonse Trent
8. Doin’ The jug – Tiny Parham
9. Short Dressed Gal – Sam Morgan’s Jazz band
10. Fat Meat And Greens – Jelly Roll Morton
11. Tough Breaks – Bennie Moten
12. Spring Fever – Rube Bloom
13. Brown Jug Blues – Ezra Buzzington’s Rustic Revelers
14. Wild Man Stomp – State Street Ramblers
15. Shanghai Honey Moon – Kansas City Stompers
16. Mississippi Stomp – Slim & His Hot Boys
17. Two Tone Stomp – Ed Lang & Lonnie Johnson
18. Rocky Road – McKinney’s Cotton pickers
19. Just Blues – Memphis Jazzers
22. The Terror – Cliff Jackson And His Crazy Kats
21. Stoppin’ The Traffic – The Missourians

Ezra Buzzington's Rustic Revelers

Slim Lamar (right) And His Hot Boys

Bennie Moten

Lonnie Johnson (far right)

Tiny Parham's Orchestra

Sam Morgan's Jazz Band

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Old Time Radio Show #7 Ethnic Records

The Songs:

1. Les Blues De Crowley – Amédé Ardoin & Denus Mcgee (CAJUN)
2. Glen Lyon Rant – John A. MacDonald (ANTIGONISH NOVA SCOTIA)
3. A Ship From Chros -Takis Nicolau    (GREEK)
4. Todus Ellos – El Ciego Melquiades (MEXICO)
5. Mado A – Polo Malael    (MARTINIQUE)
6. Memee La Creole – Stellio’s Orch Du Bal Antillais (MARTINIQUE)
7. Los Sufrimientos De On Catre – Los Jardineros (PUERTO RICO)
8. Illegible – Michala Thomasa    (UKRAINIAN)
9. Illeg Two Step – Pawlo Humeniuk (UKRAINIAN)
10. La Vai Medeira – Luperce Miranda    Luperce Miranda (BRAZIL)
11. Nadando En Mar De Rosas – Les Loups    (ARGENTINA & BRAZIL)
12. Terry’s Ramble – Mrs. & Miss McNiff-Locke (QUBEC)
13. In The Garden Where The Prates Grow – James J. Mullan with the Four Provinces Orchestra  (IRISH)
14. Chicken Reel – Henri Trio  (FRENCH CANADIAN)
15. Quadrille Du 4 Eme Rang – Les 4 Copains  (FRENCH CANADIAN)
16. Ma Reguliere    2:58    M. Vaissade w/ Django  (FRENCH)
17. Princess Czardas    3:14    H. Bression  (FRENCH)
18. Son P’tit Jupon    3:18    M. Ovila Legare (FRENCH CANADIAN)
19. Illegible    2:52    L. & N. Hanoum    (TURKISH)
20. La Bella Siciliana    3:00    Caldiero Trio  (ITALIAN)

Luperce Miranda

Oscar Aleman age 16

Amede Ardoin (left) & Denus McGee

Django's 1st recording

Pawlo Humeniuk

Humeniuk on Columbia ethnic catalog cover

Pawlo Humeniuk 1st row left

Aleman (left ) & Gaston Bueno Lobo

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Old Time Radio Show #6 Listening To Records

The Songs:

1. Death Alley – Blind Boy Fuller
2. Dixie Flyer – George Walburn’s Footscorchers
3. Turn Up The Heat – University Syncopators
4. Sweet N’ Low Blues – Jabbo Smith And His Rhythm Aces
5. Liquor Store Blues – Sleepy John Estes
6. No One’s Going To Miss Me When I’m Gone – Golden Melody Boys
7. There’s A Rickety Rackety Shack – Frank Black
8. Whiskey And Gin Blues – South Street Trio
9. House Cat Mama – Bill Carlisle
10. Passing Time With Me – Art Gillham
11. Donald Rag – Martin Melody Boys
12. La Turtape De Saroied – Amédé Ardoin
13. Richmond Square – Charlie Poole
14. Boodle De Bum Bum – Bogus Ben Covington
15. Cherokee Rag – Big Cheif Henry’s String Band
16. I’m Gonna Quit Drinkin’ When I Die – Fletcher & Foster
17. It Goes Like This – Fred “Sugar” Hall
18. Escudilla Waltz – White Mountain Orchestra
19. Pardon Me Pretty Baby – Joe Venuti’s Blue Four
20. Ow Could Red Riding Hood? – Tommy Christian

Blind Boy Fuller

Sleepy John Estes

Jabbo Smith circa 1927

Jabbo Smith circa 1960

Bill & Cliff Carlisle

Joe Venuti

great version of The Golden Melody Boys from a listener!!!

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Old Time Radio Show #5 Listening To Records

The Songs:

1. Fattening Frogs For Snakes – Mobile Strugglers
2. All I Got’s Gone – Odie McWinters
3. Tuck Me In – Red Brush Rowdies
4. Look Who’s Coming Down The Road – Joe McCoy
5. Circus Rag – Chumbler’s Breakdown Gang
6. Dear Little Girl – Mississippi Sheiks
7. Mama Don’t Like Music – Smilie Burnette
8. The Bible’s Right – Sisiter O. M. Terrell
9. You Aint The One – Charles Johnson’s Paradise Ten
10. Milwaukee Blues – Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers                                     11. I Don’t Work For A Living – James J. Mullan with the Four Provinces Orchestra
12. My Pretty Girl – Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra
13. Fort Worth Rag – Jack Cawley
14. If You Want The Rainbow – Ben Selvin
15. Somethin’ Doin’ – Nap Hayes And Matthew Prater
16. The Suit Of Corduroy – Sullivan’s Shamrock String Band
17. Keru Aman Qassab – Louisa Hanoum
18. Tip Out Tonight – Beans Hambone & El Morrow
19. Love My Stuff – Charley Patton

The Moblie Stugglers photo that fell out of the sleeve.

Charley Patton

Joe McCoy

Mississippi Sheiks

Louisa Hanoum

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Old Time Radio Show #4 Listening To Records

The Songs:

1. Plantation Mem’ries – Small Town Players
2. Arkansas Hoedown – Small Town Players
3. Practice Night At Chicken Bristle – Bob Miller & His Hinky Dinkers
4. Pleur Plus’ – Columbus Fruge
5. La Valse J’Aime – Cleoma Breaux w/Joe Falcon
6. Mama Where You At? – Leo Soileau & Mayuse Lafleur
7. Down On Me – Eddie Head And Family
8. Humming Blues – Red Onion Joe
9 . Do It Right   – Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie
10. I’m Gonna Dance Wit De Guy Wot Brung Me – Six Jumping Jacks
11. Magnolia – Cliff Edwards
I12.  I Learned About Women From Her – Goebel Reeves
13. The Old Man’s Drunk Again – Uncle Dave Macon
14. Next Week Sometime – Alec Johnson
15. Broke Down Engine – Blind Willie McTell
16. Going To Leave Old Arkansas – A. E. Ward And His Plow Boys
17. Lonesome House Blues – Blind Lemon Jefferson
18. Johnson City – Clarenece Green
19. Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed – Josh White

Andy Sanella

Cleoma & Joesph Falcon

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Uncle Dave Macon (right) w/ Sam Mcgee

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Old Time Radio Show #3 Pat Conte Part Two

THE SONGS:
1. Illegible – Janaki Bia (India)
2. Madame Atchen – Amede Ardoin
3. My Old Crippled Daddy – Tex Morton
4. Papio – Unknown Tahitian Band
5. Spanish Blues – Lewis Black
6. Rock & Gravel – Skillet Dick & His Frying Pans
7. Illegible – Sexteto National
8. The Automobile Trip Through Alamaba – Red Henderson
9. Goin’ To Ashhville – The Legendary Otis Brothers
10. The Great Divide – The Carter Family

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Old Time Radio Show #3 – Pat Conte Part One

The Songs:
1. Lowlands- Highland Laddy – John Goss’s Cathedral Quartet
2. Boston Burgler – Riley Puckett
3. Goodbye Old Paint – Harry “Mac” McClintock
4. Bella Contadinell – Giovanni Gioviale
5. Illegible – Miyagi Michio
6. Siyokulandela – Alfred Radebe
7. La Tana – Cuadro Gitano
8. Neva Rast Cazel – unknown Turkish string band
9. Hamba Sutubaker – Dundee Wandering Singers

Pat's compilation series for Yazoo Records

Pat Conte circa 1567

Pat Conte circa 2011

R. Crumb, John Heneghan & Pat Conte

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Old Time Radio Show #2 – Early Female Country Greats

The songs:
1. On The Banks Of The Sunny Tennessee – Mr. And Mrs. J.W.Baker
2. Pretty Little miss – Cousin Emmy
3. Little Rosewood Casket – Lulu Jackson
4. Wait For Me – Harold And Hazel
5. Big Bend Gal – Shelor Family
6. Haunted Hunter – Billie Maxwell
7. I Wanna Be A Cowboy’s Sweetheart – Patsy Montana
8. Married Girls Troubles – Hazel Scherf
9. St. Louis Blues – Virginia Childs
10. Pretty Little Blue Eyed Sally – Mr. And Mrs. Hugh Cross
11. Daises Won’t Tell – Moore Sisters
12. The Farmer’s Daughter – Lulu Belle
13. John Hardy – Eva Davis
14. Railroad Bill – Roba Stanley & Bill Paterson

Railroad Bill on the Cooling Board

Railroad Bill on the Cooling Board

Unknown Female Guitarist Circa 1920



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Old Time Radio Show #1 – Great Hawaiian Music

The songs:

1. Sweet Georgia Brown – Jim & Bob, The Genial Hawaiians

2. Milenberg Joys – Rodney Roger’s Red Peppers

3. Hawaiian Melody – Bennie Nawahi

4.Oua Oua – Kanui & Lula

5. On The Beach At Waikiki – The Waikiki Stone Wall Boys

6. Shoo The Hoodoo Away – Queenie & David Kaili

7. Lei E – Emma Bush

8. Honolulu Stomp – Honolulu Serenaders

9. I Like You – Sol Hoopii

10. Wahine Ui – William Ewaliko With Royal Hawaiian Glee Club

11. Pu Ana Kamakani E – Rose Tribe

12. Tu-Tu-E, Tu-Tu-Hoi – Kalama’s Quartet

13. Hanohano Hanalei – The Brays Troupe


 

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