Show No. 401: June 25, 1995
"All Request" lets listeners have their say, with The Spirits of Rhythm doing "Crazy Rhythm" (1933), the Boswell Sisters singing "Way Back Home" (1933), Henry Hall's Orchestra playing their hit "Home," a frantically whistled "Skater's Waltz," Lee Morse (right) singing "He's a Good Man to Have Around" (1929) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 402: July 2, 1995
"11th Anniversary" compiles some of the favorite songs of Scratchy Grooves listeners, including "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" by Nelson Eddy, "Look For the Silver Lining" (1920) by Jessie Matthews, "Love Letters in the Sand" by Lee Morse, Kate Smith's "Maybe," Rudy Vallee's "Lover Come Back To Me" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 403: July 9, 1995
"Oscar Hammerstein II" documents the career of this versatile artist, from his 1923 "Toodle-Oo," through his work for "The Desert Song" and "Showboat," his declining years, and then his resurgence with Richard Rodgers, including "Oklahoma," "Carousel," "South Pacific" and on and on. (Runs a little long at 67 minutes).
Show No. 404: July 23, 1995
"L Songs" includes "Last Night on the Back Porch" (1923) by the Varsity Three, "Laughing At Life" (1930) by Belle Baker, "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" by Lee Morse, "Linger a While" (1923) by Paul Whiteman, Kate Smith's 1926 "Little White House at the end of Honeymoon Lane" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 405: July 30, 1995
"Opposites" goes to extremes with "Good News" by the Pasadena Roof Orchestra teamed with "I Wanna Be Bad" by Helen Kane, "Hot Coffee" by Jack Payne (1932) and "Cold Cold Heart" by Hank Williams, "Up in the Clouds" by Dave Kaplan and his Happiness Orchestra with "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" by the Boswell Sisters ... You get the idea. (60 min.)
Show No. 406: Aug. 13, 1995
"Remembering" features Connie Boswell's 1925 "You Forgot to Remember," Hal Kemp's "When Summer is Gone," the Mills Brothers doing "Memories of You," the Victor Salon Orchestra playing "Memory Lane" (1926), Al Bowlly's 1934 "Remember Me" and more. (61 mins.)
Show No. 407: Aug. 20, 1995
"Irving Kaufman" brings together a few of the more than 6,000 songs he recorded during a 40-year career under dozens of different names. You'll hear "I Love the Ladies," his 1913 debut, as well as his over-the-top Jolson impersonation on "Sonny Boy," the 1929 "Ever Since the Movies Learned to Talk," a trailer he recorded for a Maurice Chevalier film, an interview snippet the year before his death, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 408: Aug. 27, 1995
"Flapper" looks at the 1920s icon with songs like "Jazz Baby" by Marion Harris (1919), Helen Kane's "I Wanna Be Bad" and "I've Got It But It Don't Do Me No Good," George Olsen's Orchestra playing "The Girlfriend," Esther Walker's "You've Gotta Know How to Love, Baby," "She's Got It" by the Ted Weems Orchestra and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 409: Sept. 17, 1995
"I Love You, Etc.," looks at people loving people and other things, including "Sweetheart of All My Dreams" by Johnny Marvin, "It's You I Love" by the Colonial Club Orchestra, Kitty O'Connor crooning "Because I Love You," Elizabeth Spencer proudly proclaiming "I Love You, California" (1905) and more. There's a bit missing in the middle, so this show runs only 46 mins.
Show No. 410: Sept. 24, 1995
"Long Songs" brings together some of the longest titles ever, including "I'd Rather Be Blue Thinking of You Than Be Happy With Somebody Else" by Fanny Brice (1928), "Sing an Old Fashioned Song to a Young, Sophisticated Lady" by the Mound City Blues Blowers (1936), "You're a Million Miles From Nowhere When You're One Little Mile From Home" by Charles Harrison (1919) and lots more long-windedness. (60 min.)
Show No. 411: Oct. 1, 1995
"M Songs" continues the alphabet with "Mandy" by Van and Skenk (1919), "Manhattan" by Dick Todd (1925), "Margie" by Louis James (1921), "Me" by Gus Arnheim's Orchestra, "Mean to Me" by Ruth Etting (1929) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 412: Oct. 8, 1995
"Only Songs" features "Only the Girl" by Scrappy Lambert, "Only a Rose" by Nathaniel Childreth's Orchestra, the cautionary tale "Only a Glass of Champagne," the Benny Goodman Quintet doing "Only Another Boy and Girl," Al Bowlly's "I Only Want One Girl" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 413: Oct. 15, 1995
"Harvest" looks at the fall season with food-related songs, including "She Knows Her Onions" by Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, "Strawberries" (1909) by Arthur Fields, "Melon Time in Dixieland," the comedy song "What? No Spinach?", "The Song of the Prune" by Frank Crumett, and more. (60 min.).
Show No. 414: Oct. 22, 1995
"N Songs" includes "Nagasaki" by the Mills Brothers, "The Nearness of You" by Connie Boswell, "Never Again" (1924) by Al Jolson, "Never in a Million Years" (1937) by Mildred Bailey, "The Night is Young" by Harry Richman, "No No Nora" (1923), "Nobody Cares If I'm Blue" (1930) by Annette Hanshaw, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 415: Oct. 29, 1995
"Breaking Up" features songs for ending a romance, including Lee Morse singing "You're Driving Me Crazy," Scrappy Lambert's "A Cottage for Sale," the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks doing "After You've Gone," Pearl Bailey's "I Need You Like I Need a Hole in My Head," Bessie Smith's "You've Been a Good Old Wagon" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 416: Nov. 5, 1995
"Hello!" is a friendly bunch of songs, including "Hello Baby" by Ruth Etting (1926), "Hello Bluebird" by Blossom Sealey, "Hello Frisco" by Sam Ash (1915), Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians doing "Hello Swanee Hello," the 1916 Collins and Harlan comedy song "Hello Summer," Paul Small singing "Hello Beautiful" (1931) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 417: Nov. 12, 1995
"Looking on the Bright Side" includes "Keep Your Sunny Side Up" by Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders, "Laughing at Life" by Belle Baker, "Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow" by Glen Gray, "Keep Smiling at Troubles" by Al Jolson, "Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs off the Moon" by Ruth Etting, and more (60 min.)
Show No. 418: Nov. 25, 1995
"Potpourri" includes a wide range of songs, with Scrappy Lambert's "I Used to Love You in the Moonlight" (1929), Cliff Edwards' "I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight," the Boswell Sisters singing "There'll Be Some Changes Made," a 1920 version of "The Pastime Rag No. 4," the Ray Miller Orchestra doing "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" (1929) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 419: Dec. 3, 1995
"Giving" gets into the spirit of the season with "I Gave Her That" (1919) by Al Jolson, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (1929) by Duke Ellington, "I'd Do Anything For You" by Helen Kane, "You Gave Me Everything But Love" (1932) by Adelaide Hall, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 420: Dec. 10, 1995
"Lyricist Andy Razaf" features songs with lyrics by this very successful writer, including "Ain't Misbehavin" by Fats Waller, "Honeysuckle Rose," Lee Morse's "Blue Turning Gray Over You" and "My Fate Is In Your Hands," Bing Crosby's "Sposin'" (1929), Bessie Smith's "On Revival Day," and more. Razaf himself sings "Go Harlem" (1931). (60 min.)
Show No. 421: Dec. 17, 1995
"Proverbs and Bits of Wisdom" teaches us something in song, including Henry Hall's "Love Helps the World Go Around," Fanny Brice's "If You Want to Have Rainbows, You Must Have the Rain," Bing Crosby's "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella," Dick Powell's "All's Fair in Love and War," Sophie Tucker's "Never Let the Same Dog Bite You Twice" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 422: Dec. 24, 1995
"Christmas With Crosby" combines two Bing Crosby radio Christmas specials, one from 1949 and one from 1951. (60 min.)
Show No. 423: Dec. 31, 1995
"Time" ponders the big issue with Rudy Vallee's "My Time Is Your Time," John McCormack's "Tick, Tick, Tock," Scrappy Lambert's "Forever And Ever," Jimmy Joy's "Today Is Today," Connie Boswell and Don Ameche singing "Time Was," and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 424: Jan. 14, 1996
"O Songs" continues the alphabet series, but it is only 17 minutes, the end of the show. For some reason, the button didn't get pushed on time, so this is all that's left. I knew if I didn't include at least part of it, people would wonder what happened to the letter O. (17 min.)
Show No. 425: Jan. 21, 1996
"Requests and Leftovers" is a grab-bag, including "Moonlight & Roses" by the Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman crooning "There's a Flaw in My Flue," dad's choice for the worst record ever, called "Are You Lonesome?" by Lou Steele and his Orchestra, Irving Kauffman's "I Love the Ladies," "I Like Bananas" by the Hoosier Hotshots, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 426: Feb. 4, 1996
"Bandleader Meyer Davis" looks at just a few of the more than 80 bands that Davis oversaw or played with during his very busy career in the 1920s and 1930s. His bands played high-society dances, and Davis sometimes ran between three bands with his name on a single night. Songs include "The One That I Love Loves Me," "Bye Bye Pretty Baby," "Halfway to Heaven," "The Tiger Rag" and "I Ain't Got Nobody." (60 min.)
Show No. 427: Feb. 11, 1996
"Valentines" takes a look at the gooey side of love, with "You Have Taken My Heart" by Al Bowlly, "My Heart Stood Still" by Guy Lombardo, "Melody of Love" by Wayne King, "You're the Rainbow I've Been Looking For" by Irving Kauffman, "My Funny Valentine" by Charles Devere, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 428: Feb. 18, 1996
"Nacio Herb Brown" looks at the many hit songs penned by this writer, who had a successful tailoring business but wrote music largely as a hobby. Songs include "Singing in the Rain," "Broadway Melody," "You Were Meant For Me," "Pagan Love Song," "Temptation," "All I Do is Dream of You," "You are My Lucky Star" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 429: Feb. 25, 1996
"Letter P Songs" includes "Paddlin' Madeline Home" by Cliff Edwards, "Pretty Baby" by Billy Murray, "Peg O My Heart" (1913) by Henry Burr, "Perhaps" by Rudy Vallee, "Play a Simple Melody" by Billy Murray and Elsie Baker (1916), and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 430: March 3, 1996
"Songs Not Played Before" includes the California Ramblers doing "Wishing and Waiting For Love," Al Bowlly singing "The Down and Out Blues," "The Golfer's Lament" (1935), "A Song Of Old Hawaii" by Cliff Edwards, "Slippin' Around" by Red and Mif's Stompers (1927), the Coon-Sanders Orchestra doing "Alone at Last" (1925) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 431: March 24, 1996
"The Many Bands of Ben Selvin" scratches the surface of this bandleader's hundreds of bands. During the 1920s and 1930s, Selvin churned out some 4,000-plus records using different band names for nearly every one. Songs here include "I Want to Sing About You" (1931), "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (1919), "You're My Everything" (1932), "Making Faces at the Man in the Moon" (1931) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 432: March 31, 1996
"One" features songs that use that number, such as "One Hour With You" (1932), "One More Chance" by Bing Crosby (1931), "You're the One" by Ambrose and his Orchestra, "The One in the World" by Annette Hanshaw, "One Little Quarrel" by Dick Robertson (1931), "My One and Only" by Harry Reser, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 433: April 14, 1996
"Death and Taxes" features the Yacht Club Boys bemoaning income tax in 1936, Will Rogers offering his thoughts, Eddie Cantor begging the government "Don't Put a Tax on the Beautiful Girls," and plenty of songs about death: Bert Williams doing "Oh Death Where is Thy Sting?" (1911), Vernon Dalhart's "Casey Jones," and The Blue Lyres doing "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You." (60 min.)
Show No. 434: April 21, 1996
'Cliff Edwards" looks at the career of the man who made the ukulele cool in the 1920s and 1930s, including "Singin' in the Rain" (1929), "California Here I Come," "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (1924), "Halfway to Heaven," "Dream Sweetheart (1932), "I Want To Call You Sweet Mama" (1933) and more. (60 min.).
Show No. 435: April 28, 1996
"Two" looks at pairs in the world of music, including "Two Cigarettes in the Dark" by Frank Parker, "It Takes Two to Make a Bargain" by Bing Crosby, "Two Sleepy People" by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross, "A Couple of Fools in Love" by Al Bowlly, "A Pair of Blue Eyes" by John McCormack, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 436: May 5, 1996
"Beautiful" is a lovely evening including "Beautiful" by Pete Woolery, "Beautiful Girl" by Ozzie Nelson, "Beautiful Love" by Arthur Tracy, "Hello Beautiful" by Paul Small, "Too Beautiful for Words" by Russ Columbo, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 437: May 26, 1996
"Vacation Cities" looks at destinations including "My New York" (1928) by Dave Kaplan and His Happiness Orchestra, "Miami" by George Olsen's Orchestra (1925), "Mobile" by the Confederates, "Memphis in June" by Hoagy Carmichael," "Valencia" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 438: June 2, 1996
"Something Different" is a collection of songs that are new to Scratchy Grooves and were not hit singles, including "Birds of a Feather" (1921) by Arthur Fields, "I'm an Unemployed Sweetheart" by Ted Wallace, "Let's Call It A Day" (1932) by Frank Munn, "This Is Romance" (1934) by Hal Kemp, "The Land of Not To Be" (1930) by Rudy Vallee and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 439: June 9, 1996
"Q And R Songs" continues the alphabet series with a lonely handful of Q songs, including "Quality Rag" by Scott Joplin, and then moves on to R songs, including the maudlin paper-boy lament "Rags," "Ragtime Violin" by the American Quartet, "Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away" by Johnny Marvin, and more. There's a bit of the old Newark static here and there because the wind shifted the radio signal! (60 min.)
Show No. 440: June 23, 1996
"If" includes "What If I Do?", Henry Burr's "If I Had My Way," Gus Arnheim's "If I Can't Have You" (1928), Rudy Vallee's "If I Had a Girl Like You," Al Bowlly's "If I Had You" (1928), Harry Reser's "If My Baby Cooks as Good as She Looks" (1926) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 441: June 30, 1996
"Sailing and Paddling" looks at a favorite pastime of summer, with "Paddlin' Madeline Home," "Row, Row Rosie" by Eddie Cantor, "Row, Row, Row" by Ada Jones (1910), "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" by Guy Lombardo, songs from Noel Coward's musical "Sail Away" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 442: July 7, 1996
"R Songs" dips into the big bag of songs beginning with R, including "Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes" by the Mound City Blues Blowers, "Rhythm King" (1928) by Coon Sanders Night Hawks, "Ridin' Around in the Rain" (1934) by Earl Burnett's Orchestra, "River Stay Away From My Door" by Kate Smith, "Roll Up the Carpet" (1935) by Al Bowlly, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 443: July 14, 1996
"Summer Random" takes a bunch of records from the top of the stack and comes up with "Don't Be Like That" by Lee Morse, "Hortense" by Little Jack Little, Ethel Wilson singing "He May Be Your Man, But He Comes to See Me Sometimes," The Missourians dashing through "Market Street Stomp," Bert Williams' 1910 "I'll Lend You Anything" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 444: July 21, 1996
"Isham Jones: Composer" looks at the bandleader and songwriter's many compositions, including "It Had to Be You" (1924), "Swingin' Down the Lane" (1923), "I'll See You In My Dreams" (1934), "Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me," "I'll Never Have to Dream Again" (1932), "You've Got Me Crying Again" (1933) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 445: July 28, 1996
"Hopes and Wishes" takes an optimistic view, with "Tomorrow Is Another Day" by Irving Kauffman, "There's a New Day Coming" (1932) by Sam Ross and his Orchestra, "Wishing and Waiting For Love" (1929) by the Washington Ramblers, "When My Ship Comes In" (1934) by Kate Smith, "Great Day" (1929) by Paul Whiteman, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 446: Aug. 4, 1996
"By the Numbers" includes "One Hour With You," "Two Sleepy People," "Three Little Words" ... you get the idea. Along the way, there's Al Bowlly singing "Dinner at Eight," Ruth Etting's "Ten Cents a Dance," Johnny Marvin's "Twelfth Street Rag," the odd "20 Swedes Ran Through the Weeds" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 447: Aug. 11, 1996
"CD Sampler" takes a scratchless tour through the new world of CDs, with Judy Garland singing "Embraceable You" and "Stormy Weather," Ben Selvin's 1931 "She Didn't Say Yes," Cole Porter singing his own "You're the Top" in 1934, Bing Crosby's 1933 "Learn to Croon," Harry Reser's 1928 "At Sundown" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 448: Aug. 18, 1996
"Roads" celebrates summer traveling with "Stay on the Right Side of the Road" (1933) by Bing Crosby, "The Lonesome Road Blues," "On the Road to Mandalay" by Anson Weeks, "On the Road to Home Sweet Home" by Percy Hemus, the overly optimistic "The Road Is Open Again" (1933) by Dick Powell, and more. (60 min.)Scratchygrooves81896.mp3
Show No. 449: Aug. 25, 1996
"The Coon-Sanders Orchestra" visits this very popular 1920s dance band with red hot songs like "Red Hot Mama," "Oriental Love Dreams," "Why Don't My Dreams Come True," "Everything is Hotsy Totsy Now," "My Baby Knows How" and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 450: Sept. 1, 1996
"Leftovers & Requests" cleans out the backlog with songs not used in other programs, including "You're Lucky To Me" (1930) by Ethel Waters, Billy Murray's "If You Talk in Your Sleep, Don't Mention My Name" (1911), Isham Jones doing "It's Funny to Everyone But Me," Annette Hanshaw singing "20 Million People," and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 451: Sept. 8, 1996
"Down Songs" is actually a lively bunch of music, icluding "Down Among the Sheltering Pines" by the Boswell Sisters, "The Down and Out Blues" by Al Bowlly, "Down by the River" (1923) by Sophie Tucker, "Down Where the Sun Goes Down" by the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, "Down Where the Swanee River Flows" (1916) by Al Jolson, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 452: Sept. 15, 1996
"Blue Songs" brings together Gene Austin's "My Blue Heaven" (1927), "Blue Skies Around the Corner" by Jack Hilton's Orchestra, "Blue Moon" by Belle Baker, "Blue Hawaii" by Al Bowlly, "Blue River" by the California Ramblers (1929), and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 453: Sept. 22, 1996
"Moon Songs" looks at the favorite topic of songwriters, including "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" by Paul Whiteman (1928), "Shine On Harvest Moon" by Ruth Etting (1931), "Reaching for the Moon" by Sam Lanin's Orchestra (1931), "Moon" by Ambrose and His Orchestra, along wth "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Moon Song" by Annette Hanshaw (1933) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 454: Sept. 29, 1996
"Change of Seasons" looks at autumn moods, with Ruth Etting's "A Faded Summer Love," Hal Kemp's 1929 "When Summer is Gone," Jo Stafford's "The Thing We Did Last Summer," Billy Murray and Eileen Stanley's "When The Leaves Come Tumbling Down" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 455: Oct. 7, 1996
"Automobiles" is an amusing look at the early days of autos, with "In My Merry Oldsmobile" by Henry Burr and the Peerless Quartet (1905), "Get Out and Get Under," "Take Me Out for a Joyride," "Keep Away From the Man Who Owns an Automobile," "Gasoline Gus," "Poor Lizzie," "Get 'em in a Rumbleseat" and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 456: Oct. 13, 1996
"S Songs Part 1" starts the trip through S, with "Sam the Old Accordion Man" by the Williams Sisters (1927), "Say It Isn't So" (1932), "Says My Heart" by Eve Beck (1938), "Shadow Waltz" by Dick Powell (1933), "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" by the Boswell Sisters (1933) and lots more. (60 min.)
Show No. 457: Oct. 20, 1996
"S Songs Part 2" continues with Sophie Tucker's 1911 recording of "Some of These Days," Billy Cotton's Orchestra doing "Somebody Stole My Gal," the California Ramblers "Someday Sweetheart" (1929), Libby Holman's 1930 "Something to Remember You By," Annette Hanshaw's "The Song is Ended" and more. (56 mins.)
Show No. 458: Oct. 27, 1996
'Halloween" brings together some spooky songs (and spooky titles), including "The Boneyard Shuffle" by Red Nichols, "Those Haunting Blues," "I Ain't Got Nobody" (get it?), "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You," "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" and more. (58 mins.)
Show No. 459: Nov. 3, 1996
'Me" looks at everyone's favorite subject, including Ruth Etting's "Me" and "Love Me or Leave Me," Billy Murray's "I Love Me," "Give it To me Right Away" (1930), "Love Me Forever," "Love Me A Little," Annette Hanshaw's "Don't Blame Me," Al Jolson's 1913 "You Made Me Love You" and more. (58 mins.)
Show No. 460: Nov. 10, 1996
"T Songs" continues the alphabet series with "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris (1924), "Take Me In Your Arms" by Arthur Tracy (1932), "Taking a Chance on Love" by Ethel Waters, Al Bowlly singing "Thanks" (1933), Isham Jones doing "That Certain Party" (1925), Cliff Edwards hamming it up in "That's My Weakness Now" (1928) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 461: Nov. 17, 1996
"Composer Harry Woods" looks at the big contributions of this songwriter, including "When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along" (1926), "Paddlin' Madeline Home" (1925), "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover," "Moonbeam Kiss Her For Me," "River Stay Away From My Door," "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 462: Nov. 24, 1996
'Thanks!" gets ready for Thanksgiving with "Thanks for the Buggy Ride" by Frank Crummett, "Thanks For That Lovely Weekend" by Vera Lynn, "Thank Your Father" by Helen Kane, "My Thanks to You" by Steve Conway, "Thanks For Your Very Kind Attention" by the Happiness Boys, and more (60 min.)
Show No. 463: Dec. 1, 1996
"First Records" spotlights the first recordings by many stars, including Bing Crosby's "I've Got the Girl" (1926), Rudy Vallee's "You'll Do It Someday" (1926), Ben Pollock and His Californians doing "When I First Met Mary" (1926), Ted Weems doing "Covered Wagon Days" (1923), the Boswell Sisters doing "The Crying Blues" (1925), Gus Arnheim's "If I Can't Have You" (1928) and more. (57 min.)
Show No. 464: Dec. 8, 1996
"New Old Records" takes some records off the top of the stack, includig "My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now" (1928) by McKinney's Cottonpickers, Paul Specht's Orchestra doing "The World's Greatest Sweetheart is You" (1929), the Peerless Quartet's "Way Down Yonder in new Orleans," Roy Fox and His Orchestra doing "Without That Certain Thing" (1933) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 465: Dec. 15, 1996
"Dancing" cuts a rug with "Dancing on the Ceiling" by the Anson Weeks Orchestra, "Dancing Shadows" (1927) by Ernie Golden's Orchestra, Al Bowlly's 1933 "Waltzing in a Dream," Spike Hughes doing "Dancing Time" (1922), "The Old Folks Shuffle" (1929) by BIlly James, and more. (55 min)
Show No. 466: Dec. 22, 1996
"Christmas" is a gentle hour of holiday-themed material, including Louis Armstrong reading "The Night Before Christmas," a reading of "The Gift of the Magi," a bit about English pub carols, traditional holiday music and songs of goodwill. (56 min.)
Show No. 467: Dec. 29, 1996
"1896" looks back -- way back -- at the year of "Sweet Rosie O'Grady," a cylinder recording of "She's Not the Only Pebble on the Beach," a quote about temperance from Billy Sunday, "America the Beautiful" played on a saw, Vernon Dalhart's mournful "The Baggage Coach Ahead," "My Mother Was a Lady" by Beatrice Kay, and more. (57 min.)
Show No. 468: Jan. 12, 1997
"U and V Songs" continues the alphabet series with "Under a Blanket of Blue" by Connie Boswell (1933), "Under the Anheuser Bush" by Billy Murray (1908), "Unless" by Al Bowlly (1934), "Valencia" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra (1926), "The Vamp" by Billy Murray (1919), and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 469: Jan. 19, 1997
"Smiling" makes the best of winter with "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" by Lee Morse, "Put That Sun Back in the Sky" by the Boswell Sisters, George Olsen's "Save Your Sorrow for Tomorrow," Arthur Fields singing "You're in Style When You're Wearing a Smile" (1919), Ethel Merman belting "Wipe That Frown Right Off Your Face" (1931) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 470: Jan. 26, 1997
"Red" features "Wrapped in a Red, Red Rose" by the Wayne King Orchestra, "Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away" by Johnny Marvin and Alene Stanley (1927), "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas" by Sophie Tucker, "Red Hot Mama" by the Brox Sisters, "I'm Keeping This Red, Red Rose" by Ruth Etting (1928) and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 471: Feb. 2, 1997
"Early Spring & Leftovers" tries to warm up winter with "Hello Sunshine Hello" by Eddie Cantor, "Sun Showers" by Louis Armstrong, "Tiptoe Thru the Tulips" by the California Ramblers, "The Sun's at My Window" by Arthur Fields, and, as an opposing point of view, Beatrice Lilly's "I Hate Spring." Plus some tracks left off of earlier shows. (57 mins.)
Show No. 472: Feb. 9, 1997
"Who's That Singing?" asks who's the voice behind some songs that perhaps shouldn't have been sung in the first place. Vocalists include Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Olivia DeHaviland, Ida Lupino, Cary Grant and others! (60 min.)
Show No. 473: Feb. 16, 1997
"Black Artists" features Scott Joplin's 1899 piano roll of "Maple Leaf Rag," Bessie Smith singing "St. Louis Blues" (1925), "Get Ready" by Sister Rosetta Thorpe, "The Castle House Rag" (1914) by the James Europe Band, Ethel Waters singing "Stormy Weather" (1933) and more. (55 min.)
Show No. 474: Feb. 23, 1997
"Wishing" includes "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate," "I Wish I Had a Girl" by Billy Murray, "I Wish I Was Single Again" by Frank Luther, "I Wish I Were Aladdin" by Bing Crosby, "I Wish I Had Died in My Cradle" by Gene Austin, and a lot of other musical wishes! (60 min.)
Show No. 475: March 2, 1997
"W Songs" includes "Walking My Baby Back Home" (1931) by Ted Weems, "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" (1923) by Vernon Dalhart, "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" by Annette Hanshaw, "When I Lost You" by Lee Morse, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 476: March 9, 1997
"Eyes" includes "Blue Eyes" by Jack Hilton's Orchestra, "Jeepers Creepers" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, "Where'd You Get Those Eyes?" by George Olsen, "Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?" by the Silver-Masked Tenor, the Happiness Boys doing "Barney Google," "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by the Corn Cobblers, and more. (60 min.)
Show No. 477: March 30, 1997
"Listener Favorites" grows out of the Radiothon, and features a request list including "If I Had a Talking Picture of You" by Johnny Hamp and his Kentucky Serenaders, Annette Hanshaw singing "Say It Isn't So," Marion Harris singig "You Do Something To Me," the Ipana Troubadors doing "I Want To Be Happy," Isham Jones doing "It's Funny to Everyone But Me" and more. (60 min.)
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