The Talking Machine Hour

BURNING SANDS VINCENT LOPEZ AND HIS HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA ORCHESTRA OKEH – 4783 WHAT DO WE DO ON A DEW DEW DEWEY DAY MANHATTAN DANCE MAKERS V. IRVING KAUFMAN HARMONY – 458-H IT AIN’T GONNA RAIN NO MO’ WESTCHESTER BILTMORE COUNTRY CLUB ORCHESTRA PERFECT – 14229 SHE KNOWS HER ONIONS THE HAPPINESS BOYS VICTOR – 20208 … Continue reading "Episode 64: Aloha Marimba"

SWEET SOUTHERN BREEZE RUSSO AND FIORITO’S ORIOLE ORCHESTRA VICTOR – 20046 I’VE GOTTA GET MYSELF SOMEBODY TO LOVE HARRY LEWIS AND HIS ORCHESTRA LINCOLN RUSSIAN ROSE GOTHAM DANCE ORCHESTRA BANNER – 6272 OH, LOVEY, BE MINE OKEH SYNCOPATORS OKEH – 40471 I AIN’T GOT NOBODY UNIVERSITY SIX HARMONY – 230 IF YOU KNEW SUSIE ARTHUR FIELDS JOHN RYAN RADIEX … Continue reading "Episode 63: Maybe It’s the Yazoo Moon"

Oh! By Jingo Lanin’s Roseland Orchestra Columbia – A2943 Swanee-Ripples Saxo Sextette Columbia – A2194 Beale Street Blues Earl Fuller’s Famous Jazz Band Victor – 18369-B Home Again Blues Ted Lewis and His Band Columbia – A3464 Oriental Stars Prince’s Dance Orchestra Columbia – A2906 June Art Hickman’s Orchestra Columbia – A3343 Dardanella Biese’s Novelty Orchestra Aeolian-Vocalion – A … Continue reading "Episode 62: Early Jazz w/ Joseph DeStefano"

WHO WOULDN’T BE JEALOUS OF YOU? HOLLYWOOD DANCE ORCHESTRA DOMINO – 4270 BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? RUDY VALLEE AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKEES COLUMBIA – 2725 BACK IN HACKENSACK NEW JERSEY THE BENSON ORCHESTRA OF CHICAGO VICTOR – 19318 CHEATIN’ ON ME BILL WRIGIS AND HIS ORCHESTRA PERFECT – 14404 I GAVE YOU UP … Continue reading "Episode 61: Gonna’ Rub It Back in Hackensack New Jersey"

BROTHERLY LOVE DIXIE DAISIES CAMEO – 8229 DREAM TRAIN ABE LYMAN AND HIS CALIFORNIA ORCHESTRA BRUNSWICK – 4137 SLOW AND EASY ESTHER WALKER VICTOR – 18680 AIN’T SHE SWEET? JANE GRAY VELVET TONE – 1395 DON’T BE LIKE THAT ABE LYMAN AND HIS CALIFORNIA ORCHESTRA BRUNSWICK – 4137 ANYTHING GOES THE DORSEY BROTHERS DECCA – 318 … Continue reading "Episode 60: Zonky in California"

Berliner (US) Estudiantina Waltzes – Banda Rosa Spaghetti Polka Morning on the Farm Laughing Song – GW Johnson French Laughing Song “The Giggle” A Hot Time in the Old Town – Dan W. Quinn Gayest Manhattan – Vess Ossman Georgia Camp Meeting – Cullen & Collins Twin Star March – Joe Cullen Marcha Volunteer – … Continue reading "Episode 59: 1890s Berliner Discs with Don Wilson!"

ON WITH THE DANCE! BEN POLLACK AND HIS PARCK CENTRAL ORCHESTRA VICTOR – 21944 AGGRAVATIN’ PAPA SOPHIE TUCKER OKEH – 4817 DO THAT CHARLESTON, DINAH MANHATTAN MUSICANS NATIONAL MUSIC LOVERS – 1130 GET OUT AND GET UNDER THE MOON THE YANKEE TEN ORCHESTRA ORIOLE – 1252 HERE WE ARE BEN BERNIE AND HIS HOTEL ROOSEVELT … Continue reading "Episode 57: Stomp Off! Let’s Go Charleston Under the Moon!"

SHE WAS JUST A SAILOR’S SWEETHEART THE CAROLINERS CAMEO – 580 DARKTOWN STRUTTER’S BALL COLLINS & HARLAN COLUMBIA – A2478 THERE’S EVERYTHING NICE ABOUT YOU GOLDEN GATE ORCHESTRA PERFECT – 14793 LAST NIGHT ON THE BACK PORCH PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA VICTOR – 19139 THE CUCKOO CLOCK LUCY GATES COLUMBIA   LUCKY LINDY JACK … Continue reading "Episode 53: Luck Lindy Lovin’"

THE ARRIVAL OF THE ROBINS JOSEPH BELMONT VICTOR – 4422 ME TOO PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA VICTOR – 20197 YOU’VE GOT TO SEE MAMMA EV’RY NIGHT HOLLYWOOD DANCE ORCHESTRA PERFECT – 14092 SHAKING THE BLUES AWAY HARRY RESSER’S SYNCOPATORS COLUMBIA – 1109-D THAT CERTAIN PARTY JOSEPH ELLIOTT AND SAMUEL SPENCER NATIONAL MUSIC LOVERS – … Continue reading "Episode 58: The Arrival of Mamma Ev’ry Night"

WEARY WEASEL ABE LYMAN’S SHARPS AND FLATS BRUNSWICK- 3964 BRREEZIN’ ALONG SEATTLE HARMONY KINGS VICTOR – 20142 THERE’S TOO MANY EYES (THAT WANNA MAKE EYES AT THE TWO PRETTY EYES I LOVE) IPANA TROUBADOURS COLUMBIA – 1982-D WHEN YOU’RE SMILING LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ORCHESTRA OKEH – 41296 WHERE THE SWEET FORGET-ME-NOTS REMEMBER BEN POLLACK … Continue reading "Episode 55: Happy Returns of the Day"

WHEN MY BABY SMILES AT ME TED LEWIS JAZZ BAND COLUMBIA – A2908 IN A LITTLE SPANISH TOWN TUXEDO DANCE ORCHESTRA PERFECT – 14754 BOUND IN MOROCCO PRINCE’S DANCE ORCHESTRA COLUMBIA – A2906 DO THE NEW YORK VINCENT ROSE AND HIR ORCHESTRA PERFECT – 15499 YES SHE DO BEN SELVIN AND HIS ORCHESTRA BRUNSWICK – 3636 … Continue reading "Episode 52: When My Baby Smiles In Morocco"

I’D DO ANYTHING FOR YOU HELEN KANE VICTOR – 22080 CARRY ME BACK TO CONNEMARA UNIVERSAL DANCE ORCHESTRA GREY GULL – 1497 MY DARLING OWEN FALLON AND HIS CALIFORNIANS PERFECT – 151719 EVER SINCE I MET THAT GIRL ROY COLLINS DANCE ORCHESTRA ORIOLE – 1252 GIMME A LITTLE KISS WILL YA HUH? THE JAZZ PIOLTS … Continue reading "Episode 51: Soft Lights and the Yum-Yum Tree"

STEPPIN’ IN SOCIETY MASTER MELODY MAKERS NATIONAL MUSIC LOVERS – 1125 IF I HAD A GIRL LIKE YOU ANSON WEEKS & HIS HOTEL MARK HOPKINS ORCHESTRA COLUMBIA – 2211-D MY SONG OF THE NILE BUDDY BLUE & HIS TEXANS DOMINO – 8830 I MAY BE DANCING WITH SOMEBODY ELSE WILL OSBORNE & HIS ORCHESTRA PERFECT … Continue reading "Episode 50: Steppin’ in Baltimore"

DREAM KISSES THE YANKEE TEN ORCHESTRA (V LARRY HOLTON) JEWEL – 5173 ALL FOR YOU THE MELODY MEN BELL – 535-B DIANE ANDY SANELLA AND HIS ALL STAR TRIO DIVA – 2519-G MIDNIGHT MAMA JELLY ROLL MORTON’S LEVEE SERENADERS BRUNSWICK – 80040 OH! YOU HAVE NO IDEA SEVEN LITTLE POLAR BEARS ROMEO – 667 WHO … Continue reading "Episode 49: Midnight Mama Blues"

YOU’RE THE CREAM IN MY COFFEE IRVING KAUFMAN DOMINO – 4265 SIDE-BY-SIDE BROADWAY BELL HOPS DIVA ONE O’CLOCK BABY THE ASTORITES (V. CHARLES HART) HARMONY – 438-h MINE PHILL OHMAN AND VICTOR ARDEN WITH THEIR ORCHESTRA BRUNSWICK – 3457 I TOLD THEM ALL ABOUT YOU MARKEL’S SOCIETY FAVORITES CONQUEROR – 7009 RIVER STAY AWAY FROM MY DOOR … Continue reading "Episode 48: You’re the Beaus In My Rainbows"

DOIN’ THE RACCOON GEORGE OLSEN AND HIS MUSIC VICTOR – 21701 TRUE BLUE LOU SEGER ELLIS OKEH ELECTRIC – 41290 MON HOMME LIBERTY DANCE ORCHESTRA REGAL – 9106 DID YOU MEAN IT? MARKEL’S SOCIETY FAVORITES CONQUEROR – 7009 YOU’VE GOT TO SEE MAMA EVERY NIGHT SOPHIE TUCKER OKEH – 4817 HOW COULD RED RIDING HOOD? … Continue reading "Episode 47 – Raccoon Breakfast Every Night"

OUT OF THE DAWN NAT SHILKRET AND THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA VICTOR – 21572 ROSE MARIE CARL FENTON’S ORCHESTRA BRUNSWICK – 2759 I GOTTA MISERY LLOYD E HILLMAN’S 1640 BOYS TOMMY MONROE AND BOB ALLEN COLUMBIA – 40000-D THE MAN FROM HARLEM CAB CALLOWAY AND HIS ORCHESTRA PERFECT – 15825 WHO WOULDN’T BE JEALOUS OF YOU? … Continue reading "Episode 46: That Certain Vagabond Shadow"

OKAY, BABY MCKINNEY’S COTTON PICKERS VICTOR – 23000 CONFESSIN’ LLOYD KEATING & HIS MUSIC HARMONY – 1198-H HE’S A BIG MAN FROM THE SOUTH (WITH A BIG CIGAR IN HIS MOUTH) SIX JUMPING JACKS BRUNSWICK – 4498 HOT COFFEE HONEY DUKE AND HIS UKE HARMONY – 94-H I’M GONNA CHARLESTON BACK TO CHARLESTON THE VAGABONDS … Continue reading "Episode 45: I’m Gonna Charleston Back to Emily Brown"

MY REGULAR GAL ED KIRKEBY AND HIS ORCHESTRA OKEH – 40788 WHAT’LL I DO VICTOR SALON ORCHESTRA VICTOR – 19433 I CAN’T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE LOU GOLD & HIS ORCH HARMONY – 660-H I CRIED FOR YOU HOWARD LANIN’S ARCADIA ORCHESTRA GENNETT – 5167 SHE’S EVERYBODY’S SWEETHEART TED LEWIS AND HIS BAND COLUMBIA … Continue reading "Episode 44:"

HELLO BABY RUTH ETTING, W/ ART KAHN AND HIS ORCHESTRA COLUMBIA – 716-D JUST A LITTLE LONGER N.M.L. DANCE ORCHESTRA NATIONAL MUSIC LOVERS – 1170 SUNDAY THE RADIOLITES COLUMBIA – 793-D WAS IT A DREAM? SAM LANIN’S DANCE ORCHESTRA CHALLENGE – 567 AND THAT AIN’T ALL BILLY MURRAY COLUMBIA – 2757 SUNSHINE JOE WILBUR PERFECT – … Continue reading "Episode 42: Let a Smile be your Evening Star"