Scratchy Grooves
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Show No. 349: April 17, 1994
"E Songs" continues the alphabetical series, with "Edie Was a Lady" by Ethel Merman, "An Earful of Music" by Eddie Cantor, "The East Side of Heaven" by Bing Crosby, "Easy Come, Easy Go" by Ruth Etting, "Easy to Love" by Frances Langford, the saucy "Egyptian Ella" by Ted Lewis, and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 350: April 24, 1994
"Songs Not Played Before" welcomes some tunes not previously heard on the show, including "They Call Me a Dreamer" sung by Chips Chippendale, "No One But You" by Whispering Jack Smith, "I'm Needing You" by Leonard Joy's Orchestra, "Dream Kisses" by the Troubadors, Billy Murray's 1919 "Alcoholic Blues" and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 351: May 1, 1994
"Circus" collects songs and stories about circus performers, one of dad's big loves. He was a member of several circus fan international groups, and his knowledge of the subject shines through here. It's somewhat off the topic of 1920s-30s music, but still fun tto hear! (60 min.)
Show No. 352: May 8, 1994
"Mother Songs" salutes Mother's Day with sentimental favorites like "A Boy's Best Friend is His Mother" by Vernon Dalhart, "Mother Macree" by John McCormack, "I'd Love to Fall Asleep and Wake Up In My Mammy's Arms" by the Peerless Quartet, and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 353: May 15, 1994
"Crooners" looks at the soft-voiced singers who benefited from the introduction of microphones in the recording process, including Rudy Vallee ("I'm Just a Vagabond Lover"), Whispering Jack Smith, Little Jack Little and others. Songs include "Croon Time" (1916), "Jealous of You" (1921), Russ Colombo's "I'm Just a Prisoner of Love," Elmo Tanner's 1927 "Girl of My Dreams" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 354: May 22, 1994
"Whistling" looks at the illustrious history of whistling in popular music, beginning with a snippet of an 1894 recording called "Whistling Rufus" and including Carson Robinson's "Whistle A Happy Tune," Paul Whiteman's Orchestra and Margaret McKee doing "Honolulu Eyes" (1920), The Studebaker 16 singing "Give a Little Whistle" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 355: May 29, 1994
"Remembering" strolls down Memory Lane with "My Garden of Yesterday" (1919), "Remember" by Connie Boswell, "Memories of You" by Louis Armstrong, "Dreams of Long Ago" by Enrico Caruso, "Down on the Farm" by Vernon Dalhart, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 356: June 5, 1994
"F Songs" continues the stroll through the alphabet, with songs including Ruth Etting's "Faded Summer Love," Bing Crosby singing "Faraway Places," the Mills Merrymakers doing "Farewell Blues," Sophie Tucker's 1929 "Feathering a Nest," George Olsen's 1924 "Follow the Swallow" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 357: June 12, 1994
"Laughter" blends classic comedy routines with songs including Al Bowlly's "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile," Fred Astaire singing "They All Laughed," Belle Baker's "Laughing at Life," the 1912 "Okeh Laughing Record" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 358: June 19, 1994
"Father's Day" combines the very few songs written about fathers, including Gene Autry's "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" and Mildred Bailey's 1934 "Old Pappy," and fills out the hour with songs left over from past shows, such as "Let's Make Up" by George Olsen's Orchestra, "Two Hearts on a Tree" by the Billy Cotton Orchestra, and "Dancing at The Moving Picture Ball" (1921). (60 min.)
Show No. 359: June 26, 1994
"Rain Songs" tries to break a drought by playing songs like "Rain" by the California Ramblers, "I Get the Blues When it Rains" by Annette Hanshaw, "Let It Rain, Let It Pour" from 1925, "Alone in the Rain" by the Coon Sanders Nighthawks, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 360: July 10, 1994
"Jimmy McHugh" traces the career of the prolific songwriter, including his first song, "Emeline" (1921) sung by Vernon Dalhart, "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" (1924), "Everything is Hotsy Totsy Now" (1925) by Vernon Dalhart, "Blue Again" by Marion Harris, "Goodbye Blues" (1932), "I'm in the Mood for Love" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 361: July 24, 1994
"Songs for a Summer Night" includes languid selections such as "A Man and His Dream" by Bing Crosby, Libby Holman's 1934 "You and the Night and the Music," the Biltmore Trio's 1930 "Singing a Song to the Stars," Harry Richman's 1937 "The Night is Young" and more. The last song is cut short! (57 min.)
Show No. 362: July 31, 1994
"August" is a wry, comedic look at the events, good and bad, that have occurred in August through history, told with dad's dry wit and sense of irony. Includes snippets of music that comment on the list of facts. (60 min.)
Show No. 363: Aug. 14, 1994
"Top of the Stack" features records drawn at random, including Frank Crummett singing "The Bootlegger's Daughter," Billy Murray's "It's You, Just You," rousing tunes by the Dixieland Jug Blowers and the Dixie Jazzers Washboard Band, "I Lost My Girl From Memphis" (1926), the Brox Sisters singing "How Many Times?" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 364: Aug. 21, 1994
"The California Ramblers" covers the history and a few of the thousands of songs recorded by this band under hundreds of different names. The 1928-1929 songs include "Me and the Man in the Moon," "From Sunrise to Sunset," "My Sin," "Broadway Baby Dolls," "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and more (60 min.)
Show No. 365: Aug. 28, 1994
"Sunshine" features "Cover Me Up With Sunshine," Blossom Sealey's 1924 "I Want to Be Lazy," Louis Armstrong's "Sun Showers," Al Bowlly's "Bathing in the Sunshine," Jimmy Greer's Orchestra doing "The Sun's in My Heart" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 366: Sept. 11, 1994
"G Songs" continues the alphabetical odyssey with songs like "Garden in the Rain" by John McCormack, Billy Murray's 1911 "Gee But It's Great to Meet a Friend From Your Hometown," Will Holly's 1913 "Get Out and Get Under," "Glad Rag Doll" by Ruth Etting, Marion Harris singing "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (1918) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 367: Sept. 18, 1994
"The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra" continues an earlier program about this authentic ragtime band, formed in 1985, that performs faithful recreations of ragtime songs as they were originally played, including W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues" (1912), Arthur Pryor's 1916 "Heart of America," "The Aviation Rag" from 1912 and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 368: Sept. 25, 1994
"Harry Akst" looks at the career of the songwriter, born in 1894, who wrote "Babyface" and other well-known songs, including "Dinah," "Home Again Blues," "It's a Million to One You're In Love," "Am I Blue" and others. (60 min.)
"Desert Island Discs": Sept. 25, 1994
This is a segment of the "In a Mist" show that followed dad's show for decades. On it, dad plays the 11 records he'd have if shipwrecked on a desert island. Typically, he overthinks the question and brings things like a bagpipe record to play loudly so he can be rescued, but there are also personal connections to "I Faw Down and Go Boom," "Whispering Grass" by the Ink Spots, "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" by Les Brown and Doris Day, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 369: Oct. 2, 1994
"Tools and Utensils" features music played on unconventional things, including washboards ("Weary City" by Jimmy Dodd's Washboard Band), jugs ("Memphis Boy" by the Memphis Jug Band), the comb ("Firehouse Blues" by the Mound City Blue Blowers), the musical saw and the glass harp. (60 min.)
Show No. 370: Oct. 9, 1994
"Completely Different" features music not played before on the show, including Jack Hilton's Orchestra doing "Goodbye to All That," Arthur Smith singing "Conversation With a Mule," the Henry Hall Orchestra playing "I've Got a Brand New Suit," Jack Cooper singing "Me and My Girl," Wayne King's 1929 "Sally" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 371: Oct. 16, 1994
"Cozy Songs 2" continues a series begun earlier, with more love songs for a chilly evening. As dad says, "The mush is ankle deep." Songs include Connie Boswell's "The Nearness of You," Gene Austin's 1928 "My Melancholy Baby," Little Jack Little singing "I"m in the Mood for Love," Al Bowlly's "In the Still of the Night," Ruth Etting's "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 372: Oct. 30, 1994
"A Mixed Bag" clears up some leftovers, requests and new songs, including Frank Crummet's "Crazy Words, Crazy Tune," Elmer Feldkamp singing "I'll Be Blue Just Thinking of You," "Moonlight and Marigolds" by Al Jolson, "Lady Luck" by the California Ramblers, Ruth Etting's "Goodnight Sweetheart" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 373: Nov. 6, 1994
"H Songs" continues the alphabet series with "Happy Days are Here Again" (1930) by Annette Hanshaw, Al Bowlly singing "Have You Ever Been Lonely," a 1936 version of the Hawaiian War Chant, "Home" (1932) by Ruth Etting, Marion Harris singing "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" (1924) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 374: Nov. 13, 1994
"George M. Cohan" looks at the life of the songwriter who defined patriotism for a nation and changed musical theater with his wildly successful shows from 1904 to 1919. Songs include "Under Any Old Flag At All" by Billy Murray, Al Jolson singing "That Haunting Melody" (1914), and Nora Bayes singing "Over There" (1917). (60 min.)
Show No. 375: Nov. 20, 1994
"Leftovers and Thanks" includes some songs left off of previous shows, and in honor of Thanksgiving, a few songs about being thankful: Al Bowlly's "Thanks" (1933), Dick Powell's "Thanks a Million" (1935), Helen Kane singing "Thank Your Father," Frank Crumett singing "Thanks for the Buggy Ride" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 376: Dec. 4, 1994
"Music From Friends 2" features songs sent in by dad's tape-trader friends, including "Good Little Bad Little You" by Ray Noble, "The Wabash Blues" (1923) by Isham Jones, Nick Lucas singing "The Song I Love" (1928), Henry Burr's "If I Only Had My Way" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 377: Dec. 11, 1994
"All Requests" includes three Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys selections, Ted Lewis doing "TheTiger Rag," three by Rudy Vallee, Lee Morse doing "Miss You" and "Sweethearts Holiday" (1929) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 378: Dec. 18, 1994
"Dance Bands of the 1920s" is a toe-tapping collection including "No No, Nora" (1923), "Flamin' Mamie" (1925) by Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, "By the Sapphire Sea" (1921) and "I'm In Love Again" (1924) by Paul Whiteman, Ben Selvin's very goofy 1929 "Now's The Time to Fall in Love" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 379: Dec. 25, 1994
"A Scratchy Grooves Christmas" combines Christmas carols played on an old music box with excerpts from radio productions of "A Christmas Carol," "It's a Wonderful Life," a reading of "The Night BeforeChristmas" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 380: Jan. 1, 1995
"New Year's Optimism" gathers some upbeat tracks, including "There'll Be Some Changes Made" by the Boswell Sisters, "Never Again" (1924) by Al Jolson, Johnny Marvin's 1928 "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," the Harry Reser Orchestra doing "I'm Sitting On Top of the World" (1925) and more.
Show No. 381: Jan. 8, 1995
"A Sampler" is a cross-section of what people could expect on Scratchy Grooves, including Dusty Slim singing "A Pub With No Beer," Al Bowlly's 1933 "A Couple of Fools in Love," Johnny Marvin's "A Million to One You're in Love," Lee Morse singing "The Little Things in Life," a couple of calliope songs, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 382: Jan. 15, 1995
"I Songs" continues the alphabet series with "I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me" (1927) by Roger Wolf Kahn and His Orchestra, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (1928) by Cliff Edwards, "I Cried For You" by Red McKenzie, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" (1932) by Kate Smith, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 383: Jan. 22, 1995
"Dancing" includes Ruth Etting's 1933 "Dancing in the Moonlight," Mildred Bailey's 1929 "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry," Irving Kaufman's 1929 "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes," Billy Murray's 1906 "Waltz Me Around Again, Willie" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 384: Jan. 29, 1995
"Bobby De Silva and Harry Ruby" looks at the separate careers of these songwriters, who individually came up with probably 100 well-known songs, including "Three Little Words" (1930), "My Daddy Longlegs" (1919), "Thinking of You" (1927), "Look for the Silver Lining" (1921), "Somebody Likes Me," "If You Knew Susie" (1925) and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 385: Feb. 5, 1995
"Old Fashioned Winter" makes the best of the season with "It's Winter Again" (1933) by Isham Jones, "When Winter Comes" by Alan McQuahe (1923), "The Old Bobsled" (1924) by the Shannon Four, Ballard and Wilbur's 1915 "When You Sit Beside the Fireside in Winter," a zippy whistling version of "The Skater's Waltz" and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 386: Feb. 12, 1995
"Old Fashioned Valentine's Day Love Songs" features Kate Smith's "Love, Your Magic Spell is Everywhere," Tess Gardella's "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," Frances Langford's 1935 "I'm in the Mood for Love," Jane Froman's 1934 "What Love Has Done," Joe Venuti doing "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" and more. (runs a bit short at 52 mins.)
Show No. 387: Feb. 19, 1995
"New Bands, Old Songs" looks at some contemporary artists doing vintage music, including Terry Blaine's version of "Louisiana Serenade" (1935), Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks doing "Sometimes I'm Happy," the Pasadena Roof Orchestra doing "I've Got Those Vo-De-O Blues" (1928), Dixieland music from Japan, France and Poland, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 388: March 5, 1995
"Nonsense Songs" features plenty of silly tunes, including Al Jolson's 1916 bit of Hawaiian blather, Paul Ashe's 1927 "Beedle Um Bo," the Mills Brothers doing "Digga Digga Do," Cliff Edwards doing "It Goes Like This" (1928), a 1919 "Oh By Jingo," Bill Robinson singing and tapping his way through "Just a Crazy Song" (1931) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 389: March 26, 1995
'1930s Songs by Terry Blaine" features a "scratchless" program of classic songs done by vocalist Terry Blaine, who was based in Ohio and caught the attention of dad's listeners. Songs include "Me, Myself and I," "If I Could Be With You," "He's Funny That Way" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 390: April 2, 1995
"A Salute to April" contains fun facts about the month of flowers and springtime, along with songs like Jo Stafford's "An April Breeze," "April in Paris" by Les Allen and Henry Hall's Orchestra, "The Sun's in My Heart" by Jimmy Greer's Orchestra and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 391: April 9, 1995
"A Grab Bag of Tunes" takes some songs from the top of the pile, including Ted Lewis singing "Headin' for Better Times" (1931), Hoagy Carmichael's "Riverboat Shuffle," Whispering Jack Smith's 1929 "A New Kind of Old Fashioned Girl," the Swift Jewel Cowboys doing "Coney Island Washboard Girl" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 392: April 30, 1995
"J Songs" includes "Junk Man" by Mildred Bailey, "Just You, Just Me" by Ambrose and his Orchestra (1930), "Jazz Baby" by Marion Harris (1919), "June Night" by Ted Lewis (1924), "Jimmy Valentine" by Billy Murray (1928) and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 393: May 7, 1995
"Lorenz Hart" looks at the lyricist who found fame with Richard Rodgers' melodies, including "Manhattan" by Dick Todd (1925), "The Blue Room" by the Revelers (1920), "With a Song in My Heart" by James Melton (1929), "Little Girl Blue" by Margaret Whiting (1935) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 394: May 14, 1995
"Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights" features happy tunes by this very popular dance band of the 1920s, including "I'll See You in My Dreams," "Hello Cutie," "Golden Gate," "Get 'em in a Rumble Seat" and "My Stairway of Dreams." (60 min.)
Show No. 395: May 21, 1995
"Walking" gets some exercise with the Diplomats singing "I'm Walking With My Sweetness Down Among the Sugar Cane," the Edisongsters doing "Meander in the Meadow" (1929), Harry Reser's "Baby's Feet Go Pitter Patter Cross my Floor" (1927), Ruth Etting singing "Walking Around in a Dream" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 396: May 28, 1995
"Leftovers & Requests" clears the decks with "Mary Lou" by Pete Wendell's Orchestra, actor George Saunders crooning "The Very Thought of You," the Cass Hagan Orchestra's version of "The Varsity Drag," Bert Williams doing "Everybody Wants a Key to My Cellar" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 397: May 28, 1995
"Lazy Songs" marks the beginning of summer with "I Want to be Lazy" by the Brox Sisters (1924), Frank Crummett's "Where the Lazy Daisies Grow," Kaye Ballard's "Lazy Afternoon," Annette Hanshaw singing "Lazy Louisiana Moon," Bing Crosby's 1932 "Lazy Day" and more. (60 min.). Note: For some reason, this show is labeled 5/28/95, like the previous show. I don't know why!
Show No. 398: June 4, 1995
"Scratchless Grooves" features CDs of old songs that have the scratches removed, including "My Pet" (1928) by Bert Furman and his Orchestra, the Kentucky Serenaders doing "Black Bottom" (1926), Fred Astaire's 1935 "The Piccolino," Dick Gardner's 1929 "Hey Young Lady," Ambrose and His Orchestra doing "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 399: June 11, 1995
"K Songs" keeps the alphabet rolling with "Keep Your Sunny Side Up" (1929) by the Kentucky Serenaders, "King for a Day" by Ted Lewis, "K-k-k Katie" by Billy Murray (1917), "Kitty From Kansas City" by Rudy Vallee (1930), the Brox Sisters doing "Kiki Koo" (1922) and more. (60 min.)
Show 400: June 19, 1995
"An Assortment" includes Frank Crummett singing about building outhouses, Al Plunkett's 1929 "Hesitation Blues," Whispering Jack Smith's "Poor Papa," Irving Aaronson singing "Do You Mean It?", the Crescent City Trio doing "Our Bungalow of Dreams" (1927) and more. (60 min.)
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This autographed photo of Ruth Etting hung in the room where "Scratchy Grooves" was recorded every week. As dad's favorite singer, she was an inspiration for all those long hours. It is signed to Betty Barclay, a supporting actress who worked with the Marx Brothers and others, and dated 1929. It's stamped on the back by Columbia Records.