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His state implies a necessary curse: when not...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/07/21

Fred Elizalde - "Brandy and Soda" Joe Venuti's Blue Four - "Nothing But Nots" [0:03:00] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Xervac™" [0:09:14] Stuff Smith - "Sam, The Vegetable Man" [0:10:50] Reginald Foresythe Orchestra - "A Hymn to Darkness: Deep Forest" [0:14:06] Ruth Etting - "But I Do, You Know I Do" [0:17:12] The Watson Sisters - "China, We Owe a Lot to You" [0:19:47] Red Norvo - "Knockin' on Wood" [0:27:04] Peppy Prince and Christine Chatman - "Ain't Nothin' Shakin''" [0:29:38] Esmereldy (Verna

Specializing in locally sourced, free-range, organic,...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/07/14

Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys - "I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music" [0:00:00] Bo Carter - "You Better Know Your Business" [0:02:30] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Des Jardins Canderriere™" [0:09:29] Bessie Tucker - "Katy Blues" [0:11:14] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Little Buttercup (I'll Never Be the Same)" [0:14:31] Cole Porter - "Sunday Morning Breakfast Time" [0:17:38] Jack Lumsdaine & Ward Leopold - "Wouldn't It?" [0:19:14] Reddy Kilowatt - "The Reddy Kilowatt song" [0:21:59] Lionel Hampton & His

Never nominated for a Peabody, but takes first prize...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/07/14

George Van Eps - "The Chant" [0:00:00] Betty Roche - "Trouble Trouble" [0:02:10] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton & Bailey Clown Car™" [0:11:04] Adrian Rollini Quintet - "(How to Make Love In) Ten Easy Lessons" [0:12:44] Stuff Smith Trio - "Skip It" [0:15:32] Willie "The Lion" Smith & His Cubs - "Harlem Joys" [0:18:15] Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends - "Mama Don't Allow It" [0:20:56] Willie Whopper - "Hell's Fire (1934)" [0:28:37] Henry Burr - "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" [0:34:47] Eddie South -

Rejects the five-second rule. In his house they...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/07/13

Hillbilly Charley Vaughn - "Father's A Drunkard, and Mother Is Dead" Red Norvo - "In a Mist" [0:02:37] Gus Bodenheim - "The Protocols of the Elders of Edison" [0:09:49] Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys - "Old Joe's Hittin' the Jug" [0:11:43] Nifty Three - "Dog Gone" [0:14:09] Isham Jones & His Orchestra (Eddie Stone, vocal) - "Junk Man" [0:16:51] Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Glad Rag Doll" [0:19:53] Cozy Cole - "The Beat" [0:22:30] Willie Whopper - "Stratos-Fear (1933)" [0:31:00] Al Bernard - "In 1999"

Even his mildest observations reek of vinegar. from...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/06/23

Garfield Akers - "Dough Roller Blues" [0:00:00] Lucille Bogan - "Tricks Ain't Walking No More" [0:02:47] Gus Bodenheim - "The Old Codger's AirPS" [0:10:06] Fats Waller - "Functionizin'" [0:12:06] Blue Lu Barker - "Where's Joe" [0:14:45] Coleman Hawkins Quartet (ft. Thelonious Monk) - "Flyin' Hawk" [0:17:35] Eddie Cole's Solid Swingers - "Honey Hush" [0:20:44] Nadia and Ken - "Slandering Courtney" Hattie Hudson - "Doggone My Good Luck Soul" [0:28:22] Bebe Scott - "I'm Very Australian"

"This louse is Dickensian in his meanness, filth, and...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/06/23

Coleman Hawkins Quartet feat. Thelonious Monk - "Recollections" [0:00:00] Hadda Brooks - "I Can't Get Started" [0:02:32] Gus Bodenheim - "Codgercoin™" [0:10:17] Ethel Waters - "Hottentot Potentate" [0:12:09] Bo Carter - "Let Me Roll Your Lemon" [0:15:23] The Ponce Sisters - "Oh! You Have No Idea" [0:18:20] The Ponce Sisters - "Ten Little Miles from Town" [0:19:58] Lord Kitchener - "Carnival in Town" [0:21:27] George Formby - "Keep Fit" [0:28:15] Helen Kane - "I've Got 'It' (But It Don't Do Me No

The Devil Caught Me Nappin' (Guest Host: Monica) from...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/06/23

Eddie South - "My Ohio Home" - Eddie South 1923-1937 [0:00:00] Dinning Sisters - "I Only Want a Buddy Not a Sweetheart" - Back In Country Style [0:02:58] The Lone Star Cowboys - "Just Because" - When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 10: East Virginia Blues [0:05:42] Stanley Holloway - "Keep Smiling" - The Lion and Albert [0:08:35] Comedian Harmonists - "Wochenend und Sonnenschein" - Gold Masters: Comedian Harmonists, Vol. 2 [0:15:30] Brother Bones & His Shadows - "Red Wing" - Globetrottin' With Bones

Fats All, Folks! Birthday Tribute to the Great Mr....

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/06/04

Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "The Joint is Jumpin'" Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "You Asked for It, You Got It" [0:02:38] Fats Waller - "Your Socks Don't Match" [0:08:07] Fats Waller - "Bouncin' on a V-Disc" [0:11:07] Fats Waller - "Fair and Square" [0:15:23] Fats Waller - "Bach Up to Me" [0:18:12] Fats Waller - "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" [0:20:36] Mamie Smith - "Keep a Song in Your Soul" [0:27:57] Fats Waller - "Gladyse" [0:30:29] Fats Waller - "All that Meat and No Potatoes" [0:33:15] Bill

The only guy who would abduct your cat, and when the...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/06/04

Billiken Johnson & Fred Adams - "Interurban Blues" [0:00:00] Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "Every Day's a Holiday" [0:03:00] Vivian Greene - "He's the Man (He's Tall & Cool)" [0:10:33] Lonnie Johnson - "Swing Out Rhythm" [0:12:33] Thelonious Monk Trio - "Ruby My Dear" [0:15:30] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "A Mug of Ale" [0:18:44] Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - "Organ's Grinder Swing" [0:21:44] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Repurposed Facial Coverings" [0:28:18] The Nicholas Brothers - "Lucky Number"

"A lot of people think they're nostalgic for radio...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/06/03

Coleman Hawkins Quartet (ft. Thelonious Monk) - "On the Bean" Tampa Red - "Grievin' and Worryin' Blues" [0:02:37] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Afterparty Skincare and Cosmetics" [0:08:53] Bobby Cadillac - "Carbolic Acid Blues" [0:10:57] Maynard Baird and His Orchestra - "Postage Stomp" [0:13:27] Winifred Atwell - "17th Century Boogie" [0:16:08] Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli - "Melody Man's Dream" [0:18:42] Reginald Foresythe - "Serenade for a Wealthy Widow" [0:26:32] Whispering Jack Smith - "Baby Face"

The next person who tells him to "stay safe" won’t...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/05/14

James P. Johnson - "You've Got to Be Modernistic" [0:00:00] Billiken Johnson with Neal Roberts - "Sun Beam Blues" [0:02:56] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Injury Law™" [0:08:04] Ruth Etting - "At Sundown" [0:09:53] Boots & His Buddies - "How Long Blues, Pt. 1" [0:12:49] Meade Lux Lewis - "Doll House Boogie" [0:16:28] Gene Krupa & His Orchestra ft. Leo Watson - "Do You Wanna Jump, Children?" [0:20:22] Flip the Frog - "The Music Lesson (1932)" [0:26:16] George Formby - "The Emperor of Lancashire"

A matchless holder of grudges. from May 6, 2021

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/05/14

Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "Sad Sap Sucker Am I" [0:00:00] Don Redman & His Orchestra - "Doin’ What I Please" [0:02:45] Gus Bodenheim - "123 and Me™" [0:08:47] Sophie Tucker - "Hollywood Will Never Be the Same" [0:10:47] Boots & His Buddies - "A Salute to Harlem" [0:13:39] Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Caution Blues (Blues in Thirds)" [0:16:11] Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and Frank Signorelli - "Wild Cat" [0:19:06] Victoria Spivey with Porter Grainger - "You've Gotta Have What It Takes - Parts 1 & 2"

"Ten minutes in his company leads me to the threshold...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/04/30

Camille Howard - "Fire-Ball Boogie" Putney Dandridge - "Here Comes Your Pappy (With the Wrong Kind of Load)" [0:02:15] Gus Bodenheim - "Codgercoin™" [0:08:06] Fats Waller - "Fair and Square" [0:10:03] Boots & His Buddies - "How Long Blues, Pt. 2" [0:12:42] George Formby - "Auntie Maggie's Remedy" [0:16:07] Sam Ulano - "Drum's Fairy Tales (The Three Bears)" [0:19:25] Jabo Williams - "Jab's Blues" [0:21:54] The Brox Sisters - "How Many Times" [0:27:51] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "I Like

Downs a lot of whiskey, considers it...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/04/26

Layton & Johnstone - "The Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks" [0:00:00] Ikey Robinson Band - "Rub Me Some More" [0:03:22] Babe Ruth - "Buy "Ectable" Annuities" [0:08:15] Betty Grable and Dan Dailey - "It's Deductible" [0:11:25] Clevis Multrum & the Paregoric Harmonizers - "The House that Was Built from the Upstairs Down" [0:14:47] Putney Dandridge - "You're a Heavenly Thing" [0:16:53] Frantic Faye Thomas - "I'm in Town" [0:20:51] Gus Bodenheim - "A Bodenheim Medical Extra: Delbarton Vaccine

Don't mention cancel culture to Courtney. He's not a...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/04/09

Fats Waller - "Sloppy Water Blues" [0:00:00] Cole Porter - "C'est Magnifique" [0:03:37] Ken Freedman - "phone message to Courtney about selling the station" [0:10:50] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Delbarton's Poesy Alive™ (celebrating National Poetry Month)" [0:13:54] Koichi Sugii - "Kiso-Bushi" [0:15:53] Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - "Everybody Eats When They Come to My House" [0:18:46] Boots & His Buddies - "Anytime" [0:21:25] Flip the Frog - "Fire-Fire (1932)" [0:27:29] George Formby - "I Don't Like"

Someone tried to dictate his pronouns. When he...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/04/02

Jimmie Rodgers - "Let Me Be Your Side Track" [0:00:00] Cannon's Jug Stompers - "Viola Lee Blues" [0:03:39] Jean Starr & L'Ana Hyams All Stars - "Seven Riffs with the Right Women" [0:10:46] Boots & His Buddies - "Rose Room" [0:14:21] Sidney Phillips and His Orchestra - "Message from Mars" [0:17:15] Earl Hines - "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" [0:20:09] Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Vaccine" [0:25:01] Teddy Wilson - "Blues in C Sharp Minor" [0:26:55] Sunnyland Slim and His Pals - "No Whiskey

Has a natural immunity to viruses, poxes, modesty,...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/04/02

Fats Waller - "Messin' Around with the Blues" [0:00:00] Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Finger Buster" [0:03:08] Joe McGasko - "Exposes Courtney's Attempt at Extortion" [0:08:38] George Formby - "Isle of Man" [0:09:46] Lord Invader - "Reincarnation" [0:12:41] Louis Jordan and His Tympany 5 - "Run Joe" [0:16:27] Gus Bodenheim - "Expressing More Pity than Scorn for WFMU" [0:22:30] Ronald Frankau & Monte Crick - "Everyone's Got Sex Appeal for Someone" [0:23:47] Ruth Etting - "Love Me or Leave Me"

A messenger of Satan to torment you, and keep you...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/04/02

Tampa Red - "She Want to Sell My Monkey" Dany Kane & Virginie Morgan - "Dany Smokes Virginie" [0:03:29] Mamie Smith - "Goin' Crazy with the Blues" [0:09:44] Fats Waller - "There's a Gal in My Life" [0:12:45] George Formby - "The Barmaid at the Rose and Crown" [0:15:59] Mary Lou Williams Girl Stars with Marjorie Hyams & Mary Osborne - "Timmie Time" [0:18:39] Gus Bodenheim - "The Problematic™" [0:25:24] Victoria Spivey - "Murder in the First Degree" [0:26:52] Oscar Peterson - "I Surrender, Dear"

Using the radio airwaves as a spittoon since 1928....

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/03/12

Red Norvo - "Dance of the Octopus" [0:00:00] Vaughn De Leath - "Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon" [0:03:36] Fablio the WFMU DJ - "Payback for all the vile things Courtney has said about him" [0:09:45] Jerry Colonna - "I Hate Music" [0:12:53] The Louisiana Sugar Babes ft. Fats Waller - "Persian Rug" [0:15:37] Helen Kane - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" [0:19:20] Gus Bodenheim - "Solicits Your Pledge Dollars" [0:23:58] Hank Williams - "Mind Your Own Business" [0:24:59] Sol Hoopii - "Singing

He's a blowhard. And the drunker he gets, the harder...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2021/03/12

Horace Henderson Orchestra - "Kitty on Toast" [0:00:00] Fats Waller - "Spring Cleaning" [0:03:01] Gus Bodenheim - "Gas Station Brand Hot Dogs™" [0:07:41] Helen Kane - "Don't Be Like That" [0:09:25] Alec Wilder Octet - "Dance Man Buys a Farm" [0:12:27] Maxine Sullivan - "Who is Sylvia?" [0:15:20] Maurice Chevalier and Genevieve Tobin - "Three Times a Day" [0:18:12] Greta Keller - "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" [0:20:38] Flip the Frog - "The New Car (1931)" [0:29:01] George Formby - "With My Little

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