Here are the songs, artists and "set themes" for the shows I produced during June 2006. Many of these tracks are available on CD; you can try searching the database at Worlds Records, an excellent mail-order company based in Novato, California, which sells CDs of vintage jazz and pop music. A wonderful "brick-and-mortar" store for vintage music on CD is Canterbury Records, a legendary venue in Pasadena, California. They even carry phonograph cartridges and styli for those of us who love real records!
WEEKLY SHOW LISTINGS
June 4, 2006
We really went south this week, but we also heard some sweet music, stopped in a hotel, and had a nice time seeing sights, just the two of us.
LIKABLE SONGS: I Like That - Frank Trumbauer with Bix Beiderbecke, 4/30/29; You Don't Like It, Not Much! - Jan Garber with Harry Goldfield and Webb Hahne, vocal, 5/18/27; I Like to Do Things for You - Paul Whiteman with the Rhythm Boys, vocal, 3/23/30; I Like What You Like - Annette Hanshaw, 6/27; That's What I Like About You - Jack Teagarden with Fats Waller, 10/14/31; That's What I Like About You - Jackie Taylor with the Boswell Sisters, vocal, 7/20/30.
PARTNERS, DEVIOUS AND DEVOTED: You Took Advantage of Me - Paul Whiteman with Bix, Tram and Bing, 4/28/26; I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You - Fletcher Henderson, Claude Jones, vocal, 7/31; I Know That My Baby Is Cheatin' On Me - Sophie Tucker, 1928; Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home - Annette Hanshaw, 5/31/29; I'm Following You - Vivian and Rosetta Duncan, 1/4/30; You Can Depend on Me - Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing, 1937; Side By Side - Gene Krupa with Anita O'Day, 1/23/42.
A BRIEF STROLL: Would You Like to Take a Walk? - Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson, 2/11/31; Walkin' My Baby Back Home - The Charleston Chasers with Paul Small, 2/9/31; Wob-a-ly Walk - Waring's Pennsylvanians, 11/10/27.
THE MIGHTY WURLITZER - WITH A BAND!: Thou Swell - The Louisiana Sugar Babes, 1928; Maybe - Jesse Crawford with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra, 1926; The Spell of the Blues - Milton Charles with Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians, 1928; I'd Love to Call You My Sweetheart - Jesse Crawford with Jean Goldkette's Book-Cadillac Hotel Orchestra, 1926.
TROTTING OUT SOME SONGS: Horses - George Olsen and His Music, vocal by Fran Frey, 3/4/26; The King's Horses - New York Syncopators, 1931; I Can't Get Offa My Horse - The Korn Kobblers, 1946; William Tell Overture - Spike Jones with Doodles Weaver, 1947; Horse Playing Poppa - Sophie Tucker, 1956; Horses Don't Bet on People - Kay Kyser, vocal by Clyde Rogers, 5/18/45.
MAY WE?: One Morning in May - Ray Noble with Al Bowlly, 4/5/34; In the Merry Month of Maybe - Frank Trumbauer with the King's Jesters, 6/24/31; In the Middle of May - The Pied Pipers, 10/9/45.
A WILD FINISH: I'm Just Wild About Animal Crackers - Six Jumping Jacks with Tom Stacks, vocal, 6/1/26; I'm Just Wild About Harry - Jimmy Dorsey with Spike Hughes' Three Blind Mice, 7/15/30.
June 11, 2006
We got while the gettin' was good, had breakfast, met some nice dolls, hit a new low, rode the riverboat, paid tribute to a swingin' monarch, and flew the coop.
WELL, GET IT! GET IT?: I'm Gonna Get You - Gus Arnheim and his Cocoanut Grove Orchestra, vocal by Bing Crosby, 5/1/31; The Day I Let You Get Away - The Little Ramblers, vocal by Ed Kirkeby, 1936; Hard to Get Gertie - Jay C. Flippen and his Gang, 7/26; I Gotta Get Myself Somebody to Love - Annette Hanshaw, 2/2/27; Gonna Get a Girl - The Six Jumping Jacks, vocal by Tom Stacks, 7/7/27; What Have You Got That Gets Me? - Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, vocal by Martha Tilton; Get With It - Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, vocal by Tommy Duncan and the Band, 9/23/35; She's Got It - Ted Weems and his Orchestra, vocal by Parker Gibbs, 7/28/27; Ya Got Love - Roy Fox, vocal by Al Bowlly, 1931.
LE PETIT DEJEUNER: Breakfast Dance - Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra, 1929; Looking at You Across the Breakfast Table - Al Jolson, 1/10/30; Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love - Annette Hanshaw with Sam Lanin's Famous Players, 2/25/30; Hot Cakes and Sausage - Ernie Kovacs with the Tony DeSimone Trio, 1954; Waffles - Irving Aaronson and his Commanders, 6/23/26.
HIYA, DOLL!: You're Some Pretty Doll - Eddie Condon and his Band with "Maurice" (Fats Waller), 11/39; Broken Doll - Brian Lawrance, vocal by Marjorie Stedeford, 6/15/38; You're Just a Great Big Baby Doll - Ted Weems and his Orchestra, vocal by Parker Gibbs, 9/4/28; Glad Rag Doll - Ruth Etting, 1/29; Doll Dance - Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra, 3/3/27; The Wedding of the Painted Doll - Horace Heidt, 4/10/29.
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN (WHATTA SONG): High and Low - Ambrose and his Orchestra, vocal by Sam Browne, 2/13/30; I'm Feelin' Mighty Low - Jimmy Durante and Candy Candido, 1946; 'Cause I Feel Low Down - The California Ramblers, vocal by Ed Kirkeby, 8/30/28; Hi-Ho! Doin' the New Low Down - Don Redman and his Orchestra, vocal by Cab Calloway and the Mills Brothers, 12/29/32; Sing It Way Down Low - Louis Prima and his New Orleans Gang, 11/30/34; My Resistance Is Low - Hoagy Carmichael, 3/1/51.
LET'S RIDE A RIVERBOAT!: Riverboat Shuffle - Hoagy Carmichael; Riverboat Shuffle - Frank Trumbauer's Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke and Eddie Lang, 1927; Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On - The Boswell Sisters, 4/23/31; Rollin' Down the River - Leo Reisman and his Orchestra with Bubber Miley, vocal by Daniel L. Haynes, 1930; Sailin' on the Robert E. Lee - Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Orchestra, vocal by Al Bowlly, 5/3/32; Steamboat Bill - Paul Tremaine, vocal chorus, 1930; Here Comes the Showboat - The Six Jumping Jacks, vocal by Tom Stacks, 9/24/27; Selections from "Show Boat" - Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, vocal by Olive Kline and Lamare Murphy, 1928.
OR SOME OTHER KIND OF BOAT: A Sailboat in the Moonlight - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, vocal by Carmen Lombardo, 1937; Ferryboat Serenade - Gray Gordon and his Tic-Toc Rhythm, vocal by Meredith Blake and Chorus, 1940; Caribbean Clipper - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra (composed/arranged by Jerry Gray), 7/14/42.
HAPPY 60th ANNIVERSARY, KING OF THAILAND: When (composed by the King of Thailand) - Jack Teagarden, 7/1/59; We're Swinging This One for the King - Joe Haymes and his Orchestra, vocal by Toots Mondello, 12/20/34; Kingdom of Swing - Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, 4/7/39; The King's Horses - Hit of the Week Orchestra, vocal by Dick Robertson, 2/31; Rhythm King - The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, vocal by Joe Sanders, 12/12/28.
IT'S FOR THE BIRDS: When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along - Woody Herman and Peggy Lee, 6/47; Bye, Bye Blackbird - George Olsen and his Music, vocal by Fran Frey, Bob Rice and Bob Borger, 6/16/26; My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now - McKinney's Cotton Pickers, vocal by Van Fleming, 11/23/28; Bluebirds in the Moonlight - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, vocal by Marion Hutton, 10/9/39.
June 18, 2006
Happy day, Dad! It's our annual Father's Day show, as we salute proud papas, ding-dong daddies, and frisky fathers.
THANKS, POP!: Thank Your Father - The Knickerbockers with Jack Teagarden, vocal by Smith Ballew, 1/27/30; Take a Little Tip from Father - Deane Kincaide, 3/9/50; If It Wasn't for Your Father - Dorothy Shay (the Park Avenue Hillbilly), circa 1951.
DADDIES, DING-DONG AND OTHERWISE: I'm a Ding-Dong Daddy from Dumas - Louis Armstrong with Sebastian's New Cotton Club Orchestra, 7/21/30; Daddy - Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye, vocal by the Kaye Choir, 3/31/41; My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Mary Martin with Eddy Duchin and his Orchestra, 11/30/38.
COZY DOMESTICITY: I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad - Cliff (Ukulele Ike) Edwards, 1946; My Blue Heaven - Don Voorhees, vocal by Lewis James, 9/9/27; Our Bungalow of Dreams - Frank Trumbauer and his Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke, vocal by Noel Taylor, 4/3/28; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra with Harriet Hilliard, 6/1737; This Is the Missus - Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees, 8/7/31.
DO REAL MEN DO HOUSEWORK?: When I Am Housekeeping for You - Annette Hanshaw with Frank Auburn's Orchestra, 11/27/29; Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love - Bernie Cummins and his Orchestra, vocal by Belle Mann, 1/23/30; Washing Dishes With My Sweetie - Ted Weems and his Orchestra, vocal by Parker Gibbs, 4/3/30.
RUSTIC PAPPIES...: Ol' Pappy - Mildred Bailey with Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, 2/2/34; When Paw Was Courtin' Maw - Dick Todd with Orchestra Directed by Leonard Joy, 9/11/38; (My-My-My, It's Almost) Courtin' Time - Earl Burtnett, 1931.
...AND THEIR DIFFICULT OFFSPRING!: Little Knucklehead - Yogi Yorgesson, 1951; Hey! Pop! I Don't Wanna Go to Work - Kay Kyser, vocal by Harry Babbit, 1940; Slap 'er Down Again, Pa - Arthur Godfrey and the Too Fat Trio, 12/3/47; Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar! - The Andrews Sisters, 8/28/40.
TWO COMEDIANS COMMENT: Father's Day - Bob Hope, circa 1952; Father's Day - Groucho Marx, 1951.
FATHERS BY ANY OTHER NAME: Sam's Song - Bing and Gary Crosby; Elmer's Tune - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, vocal by Ray Eberle and the Modernaires, 8/11/41; I'm Just Wild About Harry - Jimmy Dorsey with Spike Hughes' Three Blind Mice, 7/15/30; Harvey - Irving Mills' Hotsy Totsy Gang, vocal by Hoagy Carmichael, 9/20/29; Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie - The Savoy Orpheans, 1/21/26; Bill - Helen Morgan, 2/14/28.
FRUSTRATIN' FATHERS: Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home - Annette Hanshaw, 5/31/29; Aggravatin' Papa - Sophie Tucker, 3/23; My Papa Doesn't Two-Time No Time - George Olsen and his Music, vocal by Billy Murray, 3/25/24.
TOO POOPED TO POP: Lazy Daddy - The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 7/17/18; Ev'rybody Works But Father - Billy Murray, 1906; I Still Suits Me - Paul Robeson and Elisabeth Welch with Clifford Greenwood and the New Mayfair Orchestra, 5/18/36; My Old Man - The Spirits of Rhythm, 12/6/33; Is My Pop In There? - Louis Jordan, 3/1/51; Behind Those Swinging Doors - Spike Jones and his City Slickers, 1942; Here Comes Your Pappy (With the Wrong Kind of Load) - Nappy Lamare, 10/27/47; Papa's in Bed With His Britches On - Cab Calloway; Poor Papa (He's Got Nothin' At All) - Irving Aaronson and his Commanders, vocal by Phil Saxe, Irving Aaronson and Frank Cornwell, 3/24/26 .
HANDSOME AND HIRSUTE: The Mustache Song - John Ryan (Joe Rines), circa 1946; Must You Wear a Mustache? - The Happiness Boys; Your Father's Mustache - Woody Herman, 9/5/45; The Wind Blew Through His Whiskers - The Six Jumping Jacks, vocal by Tom Stacks, 1/22/26; When the Mush Begins to Rush Down Father's Vest - Shep Fields, vocal by Larry Neill and chorus, 4/23/40.
SALUTING DAD'S DAD: Old Grand Dad - Fats Waller and his Rhythm, 4/11/40; Oh, Gran'pa! - Cab Calloway, 5/3/47; I'm My Own Grandpa - The Korn Kobblers, 1947.
PROUD PAPAS: What Is a Boy? - Arthur Godfrey; That's My Boy - Stan Freberg, 6/22/51; Little Curly Hair in a High Chair - Eddie Cantor, 1940; Ten Tiny Toes - Sol Hoopii, 1934; Sonny Boy - Al Jolson, 3/27/46.
