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Everyone he meets acquires the awesome power to peer...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/10/09

James P. Johnson - "Jersey Sweet" [0:00:00] Joséphine Baker - "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" [0:02:46] Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks - "The Coat and the Pants Do All the Work" [0:08:53] Ida Cox - "Four Day Creep" [0:11:42] Billy Kyle - "Between Sets" [0:15:03] The Washingtonians - "Black and Tan Fantasy" [0:17:34] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "Ostrich Walk" [0:20:44] Flip the Frog - "Chinaman's Chance" [0:26:57] Ethel Waters - "I Ain't Gonna Sin No More" [0:35:05] Thelma Carpenter -

In the reverie lane, the speed limit is determined by...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/09/17

The Old Codger - "Introduction to Time Travel" [0:00:00] Ukulele Ike - "Halfway to Heaven" [0:01:50] Django Reinhardt - "Exactly Like You" [0:05:01] Henry Burr - "Everybody's Sweetheart, But Nobody's Gal" [0:09:56] The Duncan Sisters - "Bull-Frog Patrol" [0:12:53] Jo Ann Lear - "Recipe for Love" [0:16:36] Wingy Manone and His Orchestra - "Black Coffee" [0:22:45] The Roaring Lion - "Rhumba Dance" [0:25:32] Butterbeans & Susie - "I'll Put You Under the Jail" [0:28:52] William K. Henderson - "Hello,

You may think he's living in the past, but he's...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/09/10

Jess Stacy - "Candlelights" [0:00:00] Jerry Colonna - "I Hate Music" [0:03:24] Gus Bodenheim - "Hardly Hamster™" [0:09:32] Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - "Chocolate Shake" [0:11:02] Boyd Raeburn - "Boyd Meets Stravinsky" [0:13:55] Sam Ulano - "Drum's Fairy Tales (Goldilocks and the Three Bears)" [0:16:48] Bing Crosby - "Swingin' on a Star" [0:19:54] Ruth Berman, Her Harp and Her Orchestra - "Dinorah" [0:21:47] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Kelvilene Butz's PantryPedia"

He's always "me"-deep in conversation. from Sep 3, 2020

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/09/04

Little Jack Little - "Three O'Clock in the Morning" - Little Jack Little 78 rpm disc [0:00:00] Hadda Brooks - "Humoresque Boogie" - Hadda Brooks 78 rpm disc [0:03:08] Gus Bodenheim - "Gross, But ... Bars™" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams [0:09:36] Slim Gaillard Quartette - "Laguna Oroonie" - Slim Gaillard 78 rpm disc [0:11:21] Blue Lu Barker - "You Been Holding Out Too Long" - Blue Lu Barker 78 rpm disc [0:14:11] Ethel Waters - "Hottentot Potentate" - Ethel Waters 78 rpm disc [0:17:02] Bo

His sense of decency hasn't taken a holiday — it's on...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/08/27

Butterbeans & Susie - "Tain't None o' Your Business" - Butterbeans & Susie 78 rpm disc [0:00:00] Mills Blue Rhythm Band - "Wild Waves" - Mills Blue Rhythm Band 78 rpm disc [0:03:18] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Kloroxide Tooth Lotion™" - Euneeda Bodenheim 73 rpm disc [0:09:41] Ruth Etting - "Sam, The Old Accordion Man" - Ruth Etting 78 rpm disc [0:11:11] Mildred Bailey and Her Orchestra - "Lazy Bones" - Mildred Bailey 78 rpm disc [0:14:18] Eddie Lang - "April Kisses" - Eddie Lang 78 rpm disc

When he's finally recycled as cat food, he'll be...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/08/20

Reginald Foresythe - "Because It's Love (For Elisabeth Welch)" [0:00:00] Bebe Daniels & Ben Lyon - "Little Sir Echo" [0:03:04] Bessie Smith with Eddie Lang & Clarence Williams - "Kitchen Man" [0:11:11] Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Frank Signorelli - "Wild Cat" [0:14:10] George Formby - "Leaning on a Lamp Post" [0:16:54] Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Passionette" [0:20:03] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Marvelette Whirlicue™" [0:25:02] Vaughn De Leath & Irving Kaufman - "You Took Advantage of Me" [0:26:41] Mamie

He's a black & white supremacist. from Aug 13, 2020

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/08/13

Cole Porter - "Everybodee Who's Anybodee" [0:00:00] Louis Jordan and the Tympani 5 - "Jack, You're Dead!" [0:01:22] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Wapner's Vaginal Cones™" [0:07:02] Mildred Bailey - "As Long as You Live (You'll Be Dead If You Die)" [0:08:48] Lizzie Washington - "My Low Down Brown" [0:11:20] The Happiness Boys - "She's the Sweetheart of Six Other Guys" [0:14:04] Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart - "A Tip on the Numbers" [0:16:52] Miles Davis All-Stars - "Milestones" [0:19:50] Ruth Etting - "Deep

Always asks for plastic bags at the grocer, because...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/08/07

Mary Lou Williams - "Leo" [0:00:00] Noel Coward - "I Like America" [0:01:40] Fabian André & His Orchestra - "La Perrita" [0:04:24] The Brox Sisters - "Do the Strut" [0:09:46] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - "Raisin' the Roof" [0:12:38] Frankie Newton - "The Onyx Hop" [0:15:35] Memphis Minnie - "Keep on Eatin'" [0:18:21] State Street Swingers with Mary Mack - "Don't Tear My Clothes (No. 2)" [0:21:17] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Rancho Malariettes™ cigars for ladies" [0:27:11] Lillian Miller - "Dead

Still has that new cadaver smell! from Jul 30, 2020

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/07/31

Memphis Minnie - "Down in the Alley" [0:00:00] McKinney's Cotton Pickers - "I Got Ya" [0:02:53] [0:05:23] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Sunshine" [0:08:01] Hoagy Carmichael - "Moon Country" [0:10:45] The Keller Sisters & Lynch with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra - "Sunday" [0:13:59] Merritt Brunies and the Friar's Inn Orchestra - "Masculine Women, Feminine Men" [0:17:06] Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel Bourbon™ ("Feel the Clench!")" [0:23:37] Billy Cotton and His Band - "Skirts" [0:24:38] Fats Waller -

Exercise? The only part of him that's ever jogged is...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/07/23

Oscar Pettiford - "Stardust" [0:00:00] Cab Calloway's Jungle Band - "St. Louis Blues" [0:04:46] Renato Carosone - "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" [0:10:45] Mildred Bailey and Her Swing Band - "I'd Love to Take Orders from You" [0:13:47] Cole Porter - "The Law" [0:16:43] Baby Dodds - "Drum Improvisation #2" [0:18:57] Django Reinhardt - "Tears" [0:21:35] The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Grove's Emulsified Nose Drops" [0:26:43] Joséphine Baker with the Lecuona Cuban Boys - "La Conga Blicoti"

He doesn't want your respect. He wants nothing less...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/07/16

Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "Trumbology" [0:00:00] Strayhorn Trio - "In a Blue Summer Garden" [0:02:58] The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Kellogg's Pep" [0:11:24] Teddy Wilson - "Breaking In a Pair of Shoes" [0:12:27] Lil Johnson - "Was I?" [0:15:16] Josephine Baker - "Vous faites partie de moi (I've Got You Under My Skin)" [0:18:16] Cole Porter - "Me and Marie" [0:21:21] George Hannah with Meade "Lux" Lewis (piano) - "The Boy in the Boat" [0:27:44] Dizzy Gillespie - "Dizzy

Everything he touches turns to mold. from Jul 9, 2020

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/07/09

Josephine Baker - "Sans amour" [0:00:00] Victoria Spivey - "Baulin' Water Blues - Part 1" [0:03:08] Irving Kaufman - "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" [0:09:31] Cole Porter - "Maidens Typical of France" [0:12:26] The Boswell Sisters - "Does My Baby Love?" [0:13:57] Claude Thornhill - "The Doll Dance" [0:16:03] Hoagy Carmichael - "Cosmics" [0:18:44] The Brox Sisters - "Iyone, My Iyone" [0:26:21] Vaughn De Leath - "All By Myself" [0:29:02] Lil Johnson - "So Long Babe, I'm Gone" [0:32:04] Ruth Etting

Patient Zero for the Miasma Theory of Broadcasting....

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/07/03

The Brox Sisters - "Who" [0:00:00] Mildred Bailey with Red Norvo and His Orchestra - "A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid" [0:02:40] The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Squibb Dental Cream" [0:08:50] The Red Norvo Trio with Tal Farlow & Charles Mingus - "Prelude to a Kiss" [0:09:30] Ruth Etting - "It All Depends on You" [0:13:28] Lennie Tristano - "Spontaneous Combustion" [0:16:55] Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Quintet - "Hot House" [0:19:48] Reddy Kilowatt - "The Reddy Kilowatt Song"

Sorry—he left his compassion in his other soul. from...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/06/26

The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Doctors Love Camels" [0:00:00] Fats Waller - "Love Me or Leave Me" [0:00:50] Ruth Etting - "Ain't Misbehavin'" [0:03:30] Bert Shefter & Morton Gould - "157 West 57th Street" [0:09:40] Baby Dodds Trio - "Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing" [0:12:07] Jeremiah Wallace & "Stompy" Van Ronk - "Samson & Delilah" [0:15:03] Elizabeth Welch - "Solomon" [0:17:37] Flip the Frog - "Cuckoo Murder Case" [0:24:27] Walter Roland - "Piano Stomp" [0:31:58] The Boswell Sisters with the

Welcome to the Codger's Happy Autonomous Zone! from...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/06/18

The Ponce Sisters - "Ten Little Miles From Town" [0:00:00] Bert Shefter - "Taming the Devil" [0:01:24] Ruth Etting - "Hoosier Sweetheart" [0:04:32] The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "The 1950 Ford" [0:10:41] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Tempi Di Modernage" [0:11:54] Fats Waller - "Nero" [0:15:00] The Ticklers - "Healing in the Balm Yard" [0:17:41] Sonny Blount and Stuff Smith - "Deep Purple" [0:20:33] Hal Herzon Septet - "Robot" [0:24:40] Flip the Frog - "Techno-Cracked (1931 Flip the Frog film

The zeitgeist is SO out of touch with him. from Jun...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2020/06/11

Fabian André & His Orchestra - "Waltz Night at the Savoy" [0:00:00] Mary Lou Williams - "Gemini" [0:02:45] The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor - "Arid Deodorant" [0:08:59] Ruth Etting - "Her Beaus are Only Rainbows" [0:09:49] Tampa Red - "Denver Blues" [0:12:25] Lord Beginner - "Injection" [0:15:29] Oscar Pettiford - "Take the "A' Train" [0:18:15] Joseph Moskowitz - "Don't Step on My Foot" [0:20:29] Al Grey & Orchestra - "Walking One" [0:27:29] Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "A Man's Best Friend

He looks forward to giving back to the community....

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2019/11/06

Mary Lou Williams - "Scorpio" - none Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "A Mug of Ale" - none Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington - "Tonk" - none Bert Shefter & His Rhythm Octet - "Locomotive" - none [0:12:39] Bruz Fletcher - "The Simple Things in Life" - none [0:15:21] Frankie Jaxon and Tampa Red - "It's Heated" - none [0:18:23] Oscar Pettiford, His Cello & Quartet - "Blues for Blanton" - none [0:21:46] Fabian André & His Orchestra - "The Maid with the Slight Swiss Accent" - none [0:28:42] Ted Steele and

He's a crusty parasite and WFMU is the host organism....

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2017/07/26

Sonny Burns & the Western Cherokees - "Waltzing with Sin" [0:00:00] The Pilgrim Travelers - "Jesus is the First Line Defense" [0:02:29] Harry Choates & His Fiddle - "Harry Choates Special" [0:08:21] Wilmoth Houdini - "Rum and Coca-Cola Parts 1 and 2" [0:10:56] Camille Howard - "Million Dollar Boogie" [0:16:47] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Cheese & Crackers" [0:19:21] Noël Coward - "Poor Little Rich Girl" [0:22:09] The Ticklers - "Healing in the Balm Yard" [0:30:24] Memphis Slim & His House Rockers -

His karma deficit is beyond recoupment. from Jul 18,...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2017/07/19

Seven Little Polar Bears - "Since She Learned to Ride a Horse" [0:00:00] Blind Boy Fuller - "Step It Up and Go" [0:02:31] The Executor - "Three Friends' Advice" [0:09:58] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Penn Beach Blues" [0:12:43] The Ink Spots - "Knock-Kneed Sal (on the Mourner's Bench)" [0:15:27] Duke Ellington & His Harlem Footwarmers - "Rockin' in Rhythm" [0:18:38] Geechie Wiley - "Last Kind Word Blues" [0:21:49] Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "A Man's Best Friend is a Bed" [0:28:51] Hal Herzon

He doesn't choose the lesser of two evils; he chooses...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2016/06/15

Wynonie Harris - "Grandma Plays the Numbers" [0:00:00] George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" [0:02:21] Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - "The New East St. Louis Toodle-oo" [0:07:16] Bea Foote - "Try and Get It" [0:10:06] Bobby Gordon & His Rhythm - "Lady from St. Paul" [0:12:45] Fletcher Henderson & Connie's Inn Orchestra - "Radio Rhythm" [0:15:39] Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow" [0:18:28] Moondog - "Wildwood" [0:26:02] Peter Van Woerden - "Bomb

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