Here are the songs, artists and "set themes" for the shows I produced during March 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
March 12, 2006
Since it's March, what else could we do? Skip? Hop? After we came to a parade rest, we commemorated the Iditerod dog-sled race in Alaska, played some jigs for St. Patrick's Day, had a little fun, and made magic.
HUP, TWOP, THREEP, FOURP!: March of the Hoodlums - Hoagy Carmichael's Collegians, 5/5/28; March Winds and April Showers - Ruth Etting, 2/35; March Winds Goin' to Blow My Blues Away - The Carter Family (A.P., Sara and Maybelle), 12/11/34; Marching Along Together; Ted Weems and his Orchestra, vocal by Elmo Tanner, Dudley Fosdick and Wes Vaughan, 8/4/33; Marching Along with Time - Tommy Dorsey, vocal by Edythe Wright, 4/27/38; St. Louis Blues March - Glenn Miller 418th Army Air Forces Band, 10/29/43; Free Lance March - John Philip Sousa's Band, 1915; I'm Marching Home to You - The Captivators (with Red Nichols), vocal by Scrappy Lambert, 3/20/29.
MUSH, YOU HUSKIES, OR HUSH, YOU MUSKIES!--IDITEROD! (I DID??): Clicquot - The Cliquot Club Eskimos, unknown vocalist doing dog-barking approximation, 5/28/26; Don't Be Like an Eskimo - Joe Haymes, vocal by Cliff Wettereau (Weston), 12/29/39; Igloo - Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra, vocal by Betty Hutton; Ya Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Around - Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, vocal by Riley Puckett, 1926; The Whistler and His Dog - Unknown Orchestra, from cylinder, 1905; What D'ye Mean You Lost Your Dog? - Albert White and the Gaslight Orchestra, 1955; Mushmouth Shuffle - Jelly Roll Morton, 7/14/30.
BLARNEY!: It Takes an Irish Heart to Sing an Irish Song - Jack Daly, circa 1935; For the Likes O' You and Me - Ambrose and his Orchestra, vocal by Lou Abelardo, 11/4/29; When They Sing the Wearin' of the Green in Syncopated Blues - Morton Downey, 6/25/29; Clancy Lowered the Boom - Dennis Day; An Irishman Will Never Fight 'til an Argument's at Hand - Red Ingle and the Natural Seven, 1/27/49; Saint Patrick's Day Parade - Bing Crosby; How Are Things in Glocca Morra? - Ella Logan, 1/47; Sixpence Each Way - Jimmy O'Dea and Harry O'Donovan, 1928.
LITTLE BY LITTLE: Ev'ry Little Bit of Me Loves Ev'ry Little Bit of You - Joe Haymes, 6/27/32; I Want a Little Girl - McKinney's Cotton Pickers, vocal by George Thomas, 7/30/30; Want a Little Lovin' - Fred Hamm and his Orchestra, vocal refrain, 12/17/25; Good Little, Bad Little You - Carroll Gibbons and the New Mayfair Orchestra, vocal by Eddie Collis, 2/19/29; Just a Little Thing Called Rhythm - George Olsen and his Music, vocal by Fran Frey, 10/30/25.
MUSICAL MAGIC: Hocus Pocus - Fletcher Henderson, 3/6/34; Mister Magician (Bring My Honey Back to Me) - Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra with Harriet Hilliard, 2/5/34; I Can Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat - Red McKenzie, 4/3/36; It's Magic - Doris Day, 1949; That Old Black Magic - Spike Jones and his City Slickers, vocal by Del Porter, 1943.
March 19, 2006
We ran around before finally catching a train, then did absolutely nothing! After that, we dabbled in the mass media, heard some novelties by big bandleaders, and had one last toast to St. Pat.
A MUSICAL MARATHON: Runnin' Wild - Red Nichols and his Orchestra, vocal by the Songcopators, 6/18/34; Run Joe - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five; My Girl Ran Away - Frank Crumit, 1/30/33; Pardon Me for Loving and Running - Mae West, 1947; You Can't Run Away from Love Tonight - Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra, vocal by Ozzie Nelson, 4/2/37.
FLAG THAT TRAIN:Choo Choo - Jack Hylton, 2/3/31; Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train - Louis Armstrong, 12/8/32; Gone to Chicago - The Pied Pipers, 4/8/49; Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, 1/23/46; When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam' - Tommy Dorsey and the Clambake Seven, vocal by Edythe Wright, 3/10/38; Get on Board, Little Children - Ella Mae Morse, 7/31/42; Take the "A" Train - Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, 2/15/41.
IT'S A SET ABOUT NOTHING: Nothin' - Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra, 9/15/27; Love Ain't Nothin' But the Blues - Abe Lyman, 1929; Nothin' on My Mind - Ted Weems and his Orchestra, vocal by Parker Gibbs, 4/5/28; There's Nothing Too Good for My Baby - Gus Arnheim, vocal by Eddie Cantor, 8/23/31; Do Nothin' 'Till You Hear From Me - Stan Kenton, vocal by Red Dorris, 1943; Nothin', Nothin', Baby Without You - Pearl Bailey with Don Redman's Orchestra, 12/28/51.
TELEPHONES, TELEGRAMS, RADIOS AND RECORDS: Communication - Slim Gaillard, 12/22/47; Hello, Frisco, Hello - Alice Faye and John Payne, 1943; Busy Line - Rose Murphy, 12/31/48; The Telegram Song - Eddie Cantor, 5/10/36; Loud Speakin' Papa - Elsie Clark, 6/25; Nettie Is the Nitwit of the Networks - Frank Crumit, 3/17/38; Get Out Those Old Records - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, vocal by Carmen Lombardo and Kenny Gardner, 11/7/50 .
BIG BAND LEADERS GO WACKY: Theme From the Lombardo Ending - Pete Rugolo, 4/28/54; My Gigi from the Fiji Isles - Chuck Thomas (Woody Herman), 7/49; Beat the Band to the Bar - Sam Donahue and his Orchestra, vocal by Irene Daye, 5/20/41; Annie's Cousin Fanny - The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with Glenn Miller and Kay Weber, 6/34.
ONE MORE TOAST TO ST. PAT: Hooray for the Irish! - The Six Jumping Jacks, vocal by Tom Stacks, 2/13/26; Irish Black Bottom - Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, 11/27/26; It's a Great Day for the Irish - Judy Garland, 12/18/40.
March 26, 2006
This week, we met the Misses (as opposed to the Missus), reveled in our bad grammar (as opposed to Bad Grandma), changed things around, opened a few doors, celebrated the start of Spring, and got busy doing things.
PARDON ME MISS, BUT I'VE NEVER DONE THIS....: Miss Annabelle Lee - Ted Weems and his Orchestra, vocal by Parker Gibbs and Dusty Rhoades, 7/28/27; I Miss a Little Miss Who Misses Me in Sunny Tennessee - McKinney's Cotton Pickers, vocal by George Bias, 11/5/30; Have You Met Miss Jones? - Louis Armstrong; Miss Otis Regrets - Alberta Hunter, 9/24/34; Strut, Miss Lizzie - Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang, vocal by Dick Robertson, 6/6/30; Miss What's Her Name - Jack Payne and his BBC Dance Orchestra with vocal trio, 1/34; Miss Wonderful - Ted Weems and his Orchestra, vocal by Parker Gibbs, 9/13/29.
THERE AIN'T NO SUCH WORD: Ain'tcha Glad? - Isham Jones and his Orchestra, vocal by Eddie Stone, 8/33; Ain'tcha? - Helen Kane, 10/29/29; Aint'cha Kinda Sorry Now? - George Olsen and his Music, vocal by Fran Frey, 10/20/32.
PLUS CA CHANGE, PLUS LE MEME CHOSE: There'll Be Some Changes Made - The Hoosier Hot Shots, 1/27/41; Changes - Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke, vocal by Bing Crosby and trio, 11/23/27; Change Partners - Fred Astaire, 3/24/38; You've Changed - Harry James and his Orchestra, vocal by Dick Haymes, 10/6/41; I Wouldn't Change You for the World - Gene Kardos and his Orchestra, vocal by Dick Robertson, 1932.
ONE CLOSES, ANOTHER OPENS: Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, 1/19/46; Open the Door, Richard - Jack McVea with Dusty Fletcher, 1947; River, Stay 'way from My Door - The Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers, 11/5/31; The Boy Next Door - Judy Garland, 1944; On Her Doorstep Last Night - Jack Hylton, vocal by Sam Browne, 11/21/29; Who's That Knockin' at My Door? - Annette Hanshaw, 9/8/27; Knock, Knock, Who's There? - Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys, 8/21/36.
PAGING VERN L. EQUINOX: Spring Is Here - Frank Sinatra; I've Got the Spring Fever Blues - Chick Webb and his Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald, 10/29/36; Spring Cleaning - Bob Howard, 3/12/37; It Might as Well Be Spring - Margaret Whiting, 7/30/45; Mendelssohn's Spring Song - Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, 8/16/39.
DO, DO, DO WHAT YOU DONE, DONE, DONE BEFORE: I'm Doin' That Thing - Gus Arnheim and his Coconut Grove Orchestra, vocal by the Ambassador Trio, 7/29/30; Hi-Ho, Doin' the New Lowdown - Don Redman and his Orchestra, vocal by Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, 12/29/32; Doin' the Raccoon - George Olsen and his Music, vocal by Fran Frey, Bob Rice, Bob Borger and Jack Gifford, 9/13/28; Ev'rybody's Doin' It - Tommy Dorsey and the Clambake Seven, vocal by Edythe Wright, 3/10/38; Doin' the Rumba - Irving Mills and his Orchestra, vocal by the Sunshine Boys (Joe and Dan Mooney), 5/3/31; Keep On Doin' What You're Doin' - Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, vocal by Jack Teagarden, 12/18/33.
