Scratchy Grooves
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Show No. 86: Jan. 25, 1987
"Little Known Songs" features: Well-known artists doing songs you might never have heard, including Al Jolson's "Four Walls," Eddie Cantor's 1925 "Row Row Rosie," Fats Waller (left) singing "A Thousand Dreams of You," Lois Armstrong's 1929 "That Rhythm Man," Helen Kane's 1930 "I Owe You," Libby Holman's 1929 "Find Me a Primitive Man" and more. (60 min)
Show No. 87: Feb. 8, 1987
"Little Known Singers" features: A selection of actors who aren't known for their singing. Some do a good job, and some ... well ... don't. Includes Charles King's "Broadway Melody," Gloria Swanson's "Love, Your Magic Spell is Everywhere," Will Rogers kind of singing "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day," Groucho Marx's "Show me a Rose," W.C. Handy's "Loveless Love," Cole Porter singing "Anything Goes" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 88: Feb. 22, 1987
"Through the Day" features: Songs that take us from morning ("Cooking Breakfast For the One I Love" by Fanny Brice) through the day ("I'm Going Shopping With You" by Little Jack Little) to a glamorous evening ("The Way You Look Tonight" by Fred Astaire). (60 min.)
Show No. 89: March 8, 1987
"Love Story" features: Songs that trace a relationship -- from George Olsen's "My Heart Stood Still" to Ben Pollack's Orchestra playing "Let's Sit and Talk About You" to Art Castle's Orchestra playing "We're Having a Baby." (60 min.)
Show No. 90: March 15, 1987
"Moon Songs" features: Songs about everyone's favorite romantic cliche, including Helen Kane's "Get Out, Get Under the Moon," Kate Smith's 1931 "Making Faces at the Man in the Moon," the Goodyear Silvertown Orchestra's "Moonbeam Kiss Her For Me," Eddie Duchin's "Moon Over Miami," Hal Kemp's 1937 "The Moon Got in My Eyes," Paul Whiteman's "It's Only a Paper Moon" and more. (63 min.)
Show No. 91: March 22, 1987
"By Request" features: Songs that listeners called in and wanted to hear, including "Moonlight on the Ganges" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, "Carolina Moon" by Gene Austin, "Sonny Boy" by Al Jolson, "Heartaches" by Ted Weems, the 1921 "Tiger Rag" by the Mills Brothers, a 1902 piano roll of Scott Joplin playing "The Entertainer" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 92: March 29, 1987
"Anatomy" features: Songs about body parts, including "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" by Bing Crosby, "Baby Face" by Jan Garber, "Cheek to Cheek" by Ginger Rogers, "I Kiss Your Hand Madame" by Ron Weeks, "You Went to my Head" by Fats Waller, "Body and Soul" by Ruth Etting, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 93: April 5, 1987
"Music I Like" features: Dad's favorites, including "Was That the Human Thing to Do?" by the Anson Weeks Orchestra, "The Girlfriend" by George Olsen, "Keeping Out of Mischief Now" by Chick Webb's Orchestra, "Puddinhead Jones" by the Hal Kemp Orchestra, "Please be Kind" by Mildred Bailey, "Sing Song Girl" by the Ben Pollack Orchestra and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 94: April 12, 1987
"Alive and Kicking" features: Songs that have stood the test of time and are still alive, including Lois Armstrong's 1921 "Jazz Lips," a very silly 1931 song called "You Can't Stop Me From Loving You" by Dick Robertson and the High Steppers, "My Future Just Passed" by Henny Hendrickson's Louisville Serenaders, Cab Calloway's "Edie Was a Lady," Kate Smith's 1927 "I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 95: April 19, 1987
"Easter Basket" features: A holiday-themed show, sort of, with "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" by Fred Astaire, "Keep Your Sunny Side Up" by the Kentucky Serenaders, "A Tisket A Tasket" by Chick Webb's Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald, and on to the colors of Easter eggs -- "The Lady in Red" by Louis Prima, "Redhead" by Irene Franklin, "Yellow Dog Blues" by the Rhythmaires, "Blue Again" by Paul Small and so on. (60 min.)
Show No. 96: May 10, 1987
"Irving Berlin Part 1" features: A survey of the prolific composer's life and work up to 1928, including "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1911), "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" (1918), "Mandy" (1918), "Say It With Music" (1921), "Lazy" (1924), "All Alone" (1925) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 97: May 17, 1987
"Irving Berlin Part 2" features: A survey of the composer's later career, from 1929 to the mid-1940s, with plenty of hits including "Puttin on the Ritz," "Soft Lights and Sweet Music," "Say It Isn't So," "Heat Wave," "Cheek to Cheek," "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 98: May 24, 1987
"Tuneful 1920s" features: A selection of hummable, toe-tapping songs from the 1920s, including "Ain't She Sweet" by the Radiolites, "Baby Face" by Jan Garber, "Anyone Can See" and "At the End of the Road" by Bing Crosby, "Sunday" by the Keller Sisters, "Flamin' Mamie" by the Coon Sanders Orchestra and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 99: May 31, 1987
"By Request" features: Songs called in by listeners, or requested by random people dad met on the street, including Rudy Vallee's "I'm Just a Vagabond Lover," two songs from "Showboat," Kate Smith's "Maybe," Isham Jones doing "You're Just a Dream Come True," Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks doing "Nagasaki," the 1909 "My Wife's Gone to the Country" and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 100: June 7, 1987
"Traveling" features: Songs about vacations and going places, including "Roll Roll Rolling Along" by Irving Kauffman, "I'm Coming Virginia" by Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys, "Road to Mandalay" by the Anson Weeks Orchestra, a 1912 version of "Waiting on the Robert E. Lee" by Collins & Harlan, Skinny Ennis singing "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 101: June 14, 1987
"Unexpected Singers" features: Songs by actors not usually known for singing, including Charlie Chaplin, Maurice Evans, Bebe Daniels, Stanley Holloway, Pola Negri, W.C. Handy, Rudolph Valentino and others. Play along and see if you can guess who they are before the song ends! (60 min.)
Show No. 102: July 5, 1987
"Girls and Gals" features: Songs all about women, although nobody called them women in the 1920s-1930s. Includes "That's My Girl" by Arthur Hall, "Girl of My Dreams" by Glenn Gray's Orchestra, "The Girlfriend" and "All American Girl" by George Olsen's Orchestra, "Somebody Stole My Gal" by Fletcher Henderson, "Take Your Girly to the Movies" from 1919 and many more. Feminists, please take no offense. (60 min.)
Show No. 103: July 12, 1987
"Novelty Songs" features: All the annoying, silly songs of the era, as far back as 1916. You'll hear "Animal Crackers" by Harry Reser, "Yadda" and "Mama Don't Allow" featuring Bunny Berrigan, the Boswell Sisters doing "Heebie Jeebie Blues," "Pink Elephants" by the Phil Harris Orchestra, "Boo Hoo" by the Guy Lombardo Orchestra, "The Love Bug" by Hal Kemp's Orchestra and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 104: July 19, 1987
"Memories" features: Songs of wistful remembrance, including "You Forgot to Remember," "I Remember You" from 1909, "Memory of a Faded Summer Love" by Ruth Etting, "Something to Remember You By" by Libby Holman, "Where or When?" by Hal Kemp's Orchestra, "Why Do I Always Remember?" by Maurice J. Gunsky, and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 105: July 26, 1987
"Love Songs" features: Sentimental songs including "I'm Lonely Without You" by the B.F. Goodrich Orchestra and The Silver Masked Tenor, Gene Austin's "Thinking of You," Marion Harris singing "It Had to Be You" (1924), Bing Crosby singing "Try a Little Tenderness" and "I'll Follow You," Rudy Vallee singing "I Love You, Sweetheart of All My Dreams" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 106: Aug. 2, 1987
"Right Around Home" features: Songs about furnishings and houses, including the 1915 "I Love a Piano," Ruth Etting's "Build a Little Home" from 1933, Jane Froman singing "Hands Across the Table," Woody Guthrie singing "Make Me a Bed on Your Floor," Bing Crosby singing the very rare "Shadows on the Window" from 1932, and Bert Williams singing "Everybody Wants a Key to my Cellar" and more! (60 min.)
Show No. 107: Aug. 9, 1987
"NIght and Day" features: Songs about daytime and songs about night, including "Love Me Tonight" by the Anson Weeks Orchestra (1932), "When Day is Done" by Mildred Bailey (1935), "Lucky Day" by The Revelers (1926), Bing Crosby's "Lazy Day" (1932), a lively accordion version of "Happy Days are Here Again" from 1930, and more! (60 min.)
Show No. 108: Aug. 16, 1987
"Circus" features: Calliope music, circus bands, circus sounds and all the bombast you'd expect. Dad was a lifelong circus fan, and his depth of knowledge shows in this tribute, which includes dialogue in circus slang and a vivid passage by Booth Tarkington describing the magic of an old-fashioned circus day. (60 min.)
Show No. 109: Aug. 23, 1987
"Water" features: A few words about conservation, and then lots of songs about water. W.C. Fields drinks a glass of water -- against his will. Then we hear Bing Crosby sing "High Water," Sophie Tucker sing "Down by The River" (1923), the Boswell Sisters sing "Roll on Mississippi Roll On" (1931), Al Jolson sing "Down Where the Swanee River Flows" (1916), as well as "Muddy River Blues," "Mighty River," the 1911 "Oceana Roll" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 110: Aug. 30, 1987
"Dreams" features: Songs about dreams and dreaming, of course, including Russ Columbo's "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming," Morton Downey's "Dream Sweetheart," Jan Garber's "I'll See You in My Dreams," Connie Boswell's "Afraid to Dream," Mildred Bailey's "Darn That Dream" and "Smoke Dream," and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 111: Sept. 6, 1987
"Potpourri" features: A re-introduction of the show for a new crop of college students, spanning the 1907 cylinder recording of "I Picked a Lemon in the Garden of Love" by Billy Murray, the 1930 "Betty Co-Ed" by Scrappy Lambert, the 1927 "Gonna Get a Girl" by V. Walton McKinney, the 1929 "My Baby's Back Today" by Irene Beasley, and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 112: Sept. 13, 1987
"Awful Songs" features: Songs so bad they're good, including Little Jack Little's ode to cannibalism "I'd Like to Dunk You in My Coffee," Vernon Dalhart's maudlin "The Sinking of the Titanic," the World War 1 pun "We Don't Want the Bacon," Dick Robertson's stridently racist "Hello Mama, I'm Off to Yokohama," the apalling "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'," the astoundingly sappy "Baby Your Mother Like She Babied You" and "Little Miss Tippy Toes," Bing Crosby's tuneless and confused "I've Got To Pass Your House" (left) and, unfortunately, more. (60 min.)
Show No. 113: Sept. 20, 1987
"Harry Reser Part Two" features: More from the versatile musician who played with a variety of bands in the 1920s and 1930s and was known for the bright, happy nature of his music. Songs include "Let's Misbehave" (1928), "Ukelele Lady" (1925), "Mine All Mine" (1928), "Heebie Jeebies" (1925), "The Flapper Wife" (1926) and many more. (60 min.)
Show No. 114: Sept. 27, 1987
"Paper Music" features: More of the "Hit of the Week" records issued on cardboard and sold at newsstands from 1929 to 1931. Songs include "Sing a New Song," "Me," "The King's Horses," "I Found a Million Dollar Baby," the Great Depression lament "Ballyhoo," "I'll Be Blue," "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 115: Oct. 11, 1987
"Dreams and Dreaming 2" features: Connie Boswell singing "All I Do Is Dream of You" and "I'll Never Have to Dream Again," John McCormack's "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming," Eddie Peabody's "Dream," Marilyn Miller's "If I'm Dreaming," Hal Kemp's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," Ruth Etting's "Walking Around in a Dream" and lots more. (only 55 min., due to a technical glitch at the end!)
Show No. 116: Oct. 18, 1987
"Phonograph Dance Party 2" features: A back-to-back dance music fest, played on the old Victrola, including "Just Hot" by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, "Linger Awhile" by Paul Whiteman, "I'm Telling the Birds, I'm Telling the Bees" by George Olsen, "There's Yes Yes in Your Eyes" by the Orioles Dance Orchestra, "By and By Sweetheart" by the Melody Three, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 117: Oct. 25, 1987
"Hot Jazz" features: A pack of fast-moving tunes from the late 1920s by Kay Kaiser ("Collegiate Fanny," "Hark! The Sound of Tarheel Voices"), Boyd Center and his Centerpedes ("Basin Street Blues," "Give It To Me Right Away"), Jackie Sauder's Orchestra ("Gonna Get a Girl," "When Rastus Plays His Old Kazoo"), Joe Vanuti ("I Like a Little Girl Like That") and more! (60 min.)
Show No. 118: Nov. 1, 1987
"Unsolicited Advice" features: Songs about people telling you what to do, including "Wear a Hat With a Silver Lining" by the Ted Lewis Orchestra, "Do Something" by Helen Kane, "Be Your Age" by Irene Franklin, "Keep Smiling at Trouble" by Al Jolson, "Stay Out of the South" by Gus Arnheim, "Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil" by Irving Berlin, and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 119: Dec. 6, 1987
"Bird Songs" features: A host of songs about our feathered friends, including "Hello Bluebird" by Blossom Sealey, "Bird in a Gilded Cage" by Beatrice Kay, "My Prairie Songbird" by Henry Burr, "Bye Bye Blackbird" by George Olsen, "Woodpecker" by the Hit Parade Orchestra, "Nightingale" complete with bird imitators, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 120: Dec. 27, 1987
"Unexpected Singers 2" features: More unlikely vocalists, including Louise Rainier ("Won't You Come and Play With Me?"), Adolph Monjou ("Two White Arms"), Walter Pidgeon ("What'll I Do?"), Lily Palmer ("Baby Whatcha Gonna Do?"), Cole Porter ("You're the Top"), along with Pola Negri, Talulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson and others. (60 min.)
Show No. 121: Jan. 3, 1988
"Predictions" features: A tongue-in-cheek view of what's to come in 1988 in politics, the economy, religion and more. Somehow this is tied into songs such as "There'll Be Some Changes Made" by the Boswell Sisters, "You Gotta Pull Strings" by the Ziegfeld Chorus, "Fool Me Some More" by Bing Crosby, "School Days" by Byron G. Harlan, "Shopping Mall Blues" by Robert Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders, and a mash-up of "We're in the Money" and "Brother Can You Spare a Dime." (60 min.)
Show No. 122: Jan. 10, 1988
"Ted Weems" features: A career retrospective of the Pennsylvania-born bandleader, who led one of the top dance orchestras of the 1920s and 1930s thanks to relentless touring and radio play, including being the house band on "Fibber McGee and Molly." Songs include "My Cutie's Due at 2:22 Today" (1926), "She's Got It" and "Annabelle Lee" from 1927, "Nothin' on My Mind" (1928), "Anything Your Heart Desires" (1929) and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 123: Jan. 17, 1988
"Movie Musicals of the 1930s" features: Dialogue and music from the fantasies of opulence and showbiz that kept America going during the dark days of the Depression. Includes "All's Fair in Love and War," "Mammy I'll Sing About You," "Don't Say Goodnight," "Honeymoon Hotel" and more (55 min.)
Show No. 124: Jan. 24, 1988
"Eyes" features: A survey of this perennial songwriting topic, including "Making Eyes," a 1903 comedy song by Harlan and Collins, "Them There Eyes" by Bing Crosby, "Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?" by George White and the Southampton Society Orchestra, "I'll Close My Eyes" by Mildred Bailey, "You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes" by Clyde McCoy, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 125: Jan. 31, 1988
"Music on the Bright Side" features: A collection of music to battle the upcoming February blahs, including Gus Arnheim's "Feelin' Good," Isham Jones' "You're Just a Dream Come True," Ethel Merman's "It's De-Lovely," Sam Brown and the Carlyle Cousins singing "Yes Yes," Paul Small's "Ain't That a Grand and Glorious Feeling," Kate Smith's "I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now" and other mood-brighteners. (60 min.)
Show No. 126: Feb. 7, 1988
"Radio Comedy" features: A selection of radio's classic old-time comedy shows, including clips from George Burns and Gracie Allen, Fibber Magee and Molly, Amos and Andy, and my dad's favorite, "Vic and Sade," one of the best-written radio comedies ever made. (60 min.)
Show No. 127: Feb. 14, 1988
"Valentine Love Songs" features: A few songs of romance, including Kate Smith's "Love, Your Magic Spell is Everywhere," Tess Gardella's "Can't Help Loving That Man of Mine," Bing Crosby's "My Kind of Love," Rudolph Valentino kind-of singing "Kashmiri Love Song," Joe Venuti's "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 128: Feb. 21, 1988
"Hot Music for a Cold Night" features: An hour of hot jazz to warm up February, including Johnny Mercer's "Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive," Carl Bryson's 1930 "Savage Serenade," Hoagy Carmichael's "Walkin' the Dog" and "March of the Hoodlums," Cliff Jackson and His Crazy Cats doing "Torrid Rhythm" and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 129: March 6, 1988
"Paul Ash Orchestra" features: Plenty of peppy dance songs played by this Midwest-based dance orchestra in the late 1920s, including many with vocalist Paul Small. Songs include "Precious," "Oh If I Only Had You," "There Ain't No Maybe in My Baby's Eyes," "Take in the Sun and Hang out the Moon," "Sweet Someone," "I've Been Yearning for a Girl Like You," "Salty," "Deep Blue" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 130: April 3, 1988
"Easter and Spring" features: A very funny hour of dad celebrating his favorite season, including a warning to set your clocks ahead -- and lots of music, such as "Easter Parade" by Clifton Webb, "Ho Hum" by Bing Crosby, "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" by Fred Astaire, "Nothing but Blue Skies" by Morton Downey, "April Showers" by Al Jolson and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 131: April 17, 1988
"Recent Acquisitions" features: Some songs that were new (to dad, anyway), including "Mississippi Roll On" by the Revelers, "There's a Lull in My Life" (1935) by Ruth Etting, "I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart" by Mildred Bailey, "Just a Crazy Song" (1931) by Bill Bojangles Robinson, and the 1922 best-seller "Laughing Song," which has feeble cornet playing and ... people laughing. (60 min.)
Show No. 132: May 1, 1988
"Lovely Ladies of Song: 1930s" features: "There'll Be Some Changes Made" by the Boswell Sisters, "What Love Has Done to Me" by Jane Froman, "You Let Me Down" by Kay Thompson, "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone" by Mae West, "Harlem on My Mind" by Ethel Waters, "Moon Song" by Kate Smith and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 133: May 15, 1988
"Bums, Hobos and Free Spirits" features: Burl Ives singing "The Big Rock Candy Mountain," Harry McClinton singing "Hallelujah I'm a Bum," Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore," Wendell Hall singing "Who Said I Was a Bum?", Sophie Tucker's "I Ain't Taking Orders," and the 1907 "If I'm Gonna Die I'm Gonna Have Some Fun." (60 min.)
Show No. 134: May 22, 1988
"Sunshine" features: A plea for sunny days, including "Hello Sunshine Hello" by Eddie Cantor, "Some Sunny Day" by Lee Wiley, "Old Man Sunshine" by Lee Morse and the Bluegrass Boys, "Painting the Clouds With Sunshine" by Jack Hilton's Orchestra, "Blue Skies" by George Olsen, "My Carolina Sunshine Girl" by Jimmie Rogers and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 135: June 5, 1988
"Red Nichols and Ben Pollack" features: A survey of the songs of these two bandleaders from the 1920s. A who's who of stars played with these two groups, including Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa and others. Songs include Nichols' "Oh Baby," "Get Out And Get Under the Moon," "My Ohio Home" and more. Also, Pollack's "When I First Met Mary," "You're the One For Me," "He's the Last Word," "Let's Sit and Talk About You," and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 136: June 19, 1988
"Father's Day" features: The very few songs ever written about dads, including "Old Pappy" by Mildred Bailey," "Everybody Works But Father" (1908), "When Father Laid the Carpet on the Stairs" (1905), and songs about being a dad, such as "Little Curly Hair in a High Chair" by Eddie Cantor, "Sonny Boy" and "Little Boy Blue" by John McCormack and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 137: June 26, 1988
"You Songs" features: 'You' from "The Great Ziegfeld," "You Are Love" from "Showboat," "You Brought a New Kind of Love To Me" by Maurice Chevalier, "You Can't Stop Me From Loving You" by Dick Robertson, "You Do Something to Me" by Marion Harris, "You Oughta Be In Pictures" by Little Jack Little, the strangely titled "You Remind Me of a Naughty Springtime Cuckoo" by Helen Morgan and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 138: July 31, 1988
"Heat Relief" is a little experiment in the power of suggestion. On a hot summer night, what we really need are some cold songs like "Out in the Cold Again," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" by Alice Faye, "It's Winter Again" by Hal Kemp's Orchestra, "Winter Overnight" by Helen Morgan, "Frozen Bill" by Arthur Pryor's Band (1909), and "Meet Me By The Ice House, Lizzie" by the Hoosier Hotshots. (60 min.)
Show No. 139: Aug. 7, 1988
"Dance Band ABC's" features: An alphabetical stroll from Irving Aaronson's "Animal Crackers" (1926), through the Duriam Dance Orchestra's "Now That You've Gone" (1932), Duke Ellington's "Sing You Sinners" (1930), the Ipana Troubadors doing "Sunny" (1926), "I'm Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" by the Mountain City Blues Blowers and a lot more -- up to the letter P. Oh, and there's a legal disclaimer, just to keep things legit. (60 min.)
Show No. 140: Aug. 21, 1988
"Harold Arlen" looks at the prolific songwriter, including his classics "Get Happy" (1928), "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (1931), "Kicking the Gong Around" (1932), "Stormy Weather," "It's Only a Paper Moon" (1933), "Let's Fall in Love," "Over the Rainbow" and many others. (60 min.)
Show No. 141: Sept. 11, 1988
"Goodbye to Summer/Dance Band ABC's Part Two" features: A few songs about the fall, including Hal Kemp's "When Summer is Gone" and Kate Smith's 1931 recording of "Shine On Harvest Moon," along with the second half of the "Dance Band ABC's" show, with Boyd Senter and His Senterpedes doing "Give It To Me Right Away," Alphonso Trent doing "After You've Gone," and on to the end of the alphabet (almost). (60 min.)
Show No. 142: Sept. 18, 1988
"Buying and Selling" features: Songs such as the Boswell Sisters' "If I Had a Million Dollars" (1934), Dick Powell's "I'm Going Shopping With You" (1935), Arthur Collins singing about the price of "Strawberries" (1909), plus commercials from 1889, 1906, 1912 and through the 1920s for a huge range of products. (60 min.)
Show No. 143: Oct. 2, 1988
"Sunny Side Up" features: An hour of relentlessly upbeat music, including "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" by Harry Reser's Jazz Pilots (1925), "Kiddies Cabaret" (1929), "Happy Feet" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, "Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses" by Paul Ash and his Orchestra, "I'm Riding to Glory" by the Piccadilly Players (1928), "Singin' in the Bathtub" by Robert Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders, and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 144: Oct. 16, 1988
"Who" features: Songs that ask the question we all want to know, including "Who?" by Benny Hale (1926), "Who Cares?" by Al Jolson (1922), "Who Cares What You Have Been?" by Helen Morgan (1925), "Who Played Poker With Pocahontas?" by Al Jolson (1919), "Who Threw The Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?" and other pithy questions. (53 min.)
Show No. 145: Oct. 30, 1988
"Friends" features: Russ Columbo's "Just Friends," George Olsen's 1926 "The Boyfriend," Eddie Cantor's "A Girlfriend of a Boyfriend of Mine," Vernon Dalhart's "A Boy's Best Friend is His Mother," Bing Crosby's "My Buddy," Billy Murray and Ed Small singing "That Old Gang of Mine," Henry Burr's "Old Pal" and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 146: Nov. 6, 1988
"George Gershwin Part 1" features: A chronological survey of the composer's life and music, starting with his first hit, "Swanee," from 1919, and covering "Scandal Walk" and "Idle Dreams" from 1921, "Yankee Doodle Blues" from 1923, "Somebody Loves Me" from 1924, a 1924 recording of "Rhapsody in Blue" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Gershwin on the piano, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 147: Nov. 13, 1988
"George Gershwin Part 2" features: More of the prolific composer's hits and lesser-known songs, including "Someone to Watch Over Me" played by Gershwin himself (1926), "My One and Only" by Harry Reser's Band (1927), "S'Wonderful," "Liza" by Al Jolson, "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" (1928), "How Long Has This Been Going On" by Ella Fitzgerald (1928), and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 148: Nov. 27, 1988
"Singers Seldom Heard" features a collection of obscure voices (some for good reason), including Joan Crawford's "How Long Will It Last," Ginger Rogers' "I Can't Get Along," Fred Astaire's "I Love Louisa," Janet Gaynor's perky "Keep Your Sunny Side Up," Fred MacMurray crooning "All I Need is Just One Girl," Buddy Rogers singing "I'd Like to Be a Bee in Your Budoir," Tallulah Bankhead's "Don't Tell Him What Happened To Me" and other mysteries. (60 min.)