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His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2024/04/18

Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "The Baby and the Pup"Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers - "Preachin' Blues" [0:02:25] Bo Carter - "Beans" [0:08:46] The Whoopee Makers - "Rush Inn Blues" [0:11:24] Butterbeans & Susie - "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stuff" [0:14:25] Jabbo Smith - "Till Times Get Better" [0:17:53] Raymond Scott & The Sophisticators - "Farewell Blues" [0:20:32] Una Mae Carlisle - "Throw It Out Your Mind" [0:26:46] Dr. Humphrey Bate and His Possum Hunters -

He's an evolutionary dead end. from May 31, 2022

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/06/01

Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Trade Winds"Don Byas - "I Don't Know Why" [0:02:58] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Euneeda This" [0:10:13] Herm "Sonny" Blount - "Old Man River" [0:12:25] Vaughn De Leath - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" [0:15:23] Slim Gaillard Quartette - "Jumpin' at the Record Shop" [0:18:59] Marion Abernathy - "Ja-Hoosey Baby" [0:22:04] Jack McVea & His Door Openers - "Richard Gets Hitched" [0:24:42] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus — Betrayed!" [0:32:32] Vaughn de Leath - "Bridgeport by the Sea"

An insatiable vulture snacking on the carcasses of...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/05/25

Rube Bloom - "That Futuristic Rag" [0:00:00] Dodo Marmarosa - "Tone Paintings I" [0:02:46] Gus Bodenheim - "A Bodenheim Birthday Bulletin" [0:08:23] Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten - "Hot-Tempered Blues" [0:11:27] Sol K. Bright & His Hollywaiians - "Heat Wave" [0:14:49] Slim Gaillard Quartet - "Scotchin' with the Soda" [0:17:53] Penny Malone - "I Couldn't Say Yes" [0:20:33] Chick Endor with Fred Elizalde - "Following You Around" [0:22:40] Horace Henderson & His Orch. (voc: Viola Jefferson) - "Oh

"God knows what I've done. Let's just move on." from...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/05/18

Jess Stacy - "In the Dark — Flashes" - Odeon OR 2233 Dodo Marmarosa - "Tone Paintings II" - private recording, Hollywood, 1947 [0:02:59] Gus Bodenheim - "The Art of the Non Sequitur" - The Art of the Non Sequitur [0:09:18] The Milt Herth Trio - "Jersey Bounce" - Odeon 78 286061-A [0:12:16] Eric Siday - "Paraphrase (Dinah)" - Columbia test pressing [0:14:58] Valaida Snow with Billy Mason & His Orchestra - "You Bring Out the Savage in Me" - Parlophone F-140 [0:18:00] Django Reinhardt -

He fishes on his side. You fish on your side. And no...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/05/11

Howard McGhee Sextet - "Up in Dodo's Room" - Dial 1010 [0:00:00] Horace Henderson & His Orchestra - "Kitty on Toast" - Vocation 5433 [0:03:16] Gus Bodenheim - "OCNN+ Extends Bodenheim History Month" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams [0:10:01] Bud Powell's Modernists - "Wail" - Blue Note 1567-B [0:11:55] Andrew Aiona & His Novelty Four - "That Lovin' Hula" - Columbia 1788 D [0:14:51] Fats Waller - "Lonesome Road (Pipe Organ)" - Victor 78 [0:18:13] Swan & Lee - "Fishy Little Thing" - Okeh 8732

Has the curiosity of flies that swarm around garbage...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/05/04

Willie "The Lion" Smith & His Cubs - "Harlem Joys" Kitty Gray & Her Wampus Cats with Oscar "Buddy" Woods - "Baton Rouge Rag" [0:02:33] Bob & Ray - "Members of the Audience Write a Song" [0:08:08] Lani McIntyre & His Orchestra ft. Hal Aloma - "Holo Holo Kaa" [0:11:01] Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Put and Take" [0:14:10] Sophie Tucker - "No One Man is Ever Going to Worry Me" [0:17:26] James P. Johnson - "You've Got to Be Modernistic" [0:20:28] Victoria Spivey - "Dirty T.B. Blues" [0:23:39] Van and

Suggests you go find your own wormhole. from Apr 26,...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/04/27

Fats Waller - "The London Suite, Pt. 6: Whitechapel" Pete Johnson - "Death Ray Boogie" [0:03:20] Gus Bodenheim - "OCNN+ (The Expanded Old Codger News Network)" [0:09:02] Bo Carter - "Same Thing the Cats Fight About" [0:12:00] Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Whirl in a Whirl" [0:15:27] Helen Kane - "He's So Unusual" [0:18:04] Dave Bartholomew - "Frantic Chick" [0:20:58] Lucky Millinder Orchestra - "Shorty's Gotta Go" [0:23:29] Ruth Etting - "Glad Rag Doll" [0:29:24] Sister Rosetta Tharpe - "Strange Things

Radio needs him as nature needs mosquitoes. from Apr...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/04/20

Fats Waller - "London Suite Pt. 4: Bond Street" Fats Waller - "London Suite Pt. 5: Limehouse" [0:03:40] Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons - "Boogie Woogie Man" [0:08:51] Gus Bodenheim - "Apologia for This Week's Absence" [0:12:29] Dave Bartholomew - "Ay Cubanos" [0:13:43] Jazz Gillum & His Boys - "Windy Blues" [0:16:16] Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five - "You're My Meat" [0:18:46] Lucky Thompson Quartet - "Dodo's Bounce" [0:21:43] The Brox Sisters - "Do I?" [0:25:48] Bob & Ray - "Reuniting a Sister

If he had two ice creams, you can go to Hell. from...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/04/13

Fats Waller - "London Suite - Pt. 1 Piccadilly" [0:00:00] Fats Waller - "London Suite - Pt. 2 Chelsea" [0:02:23] Mississippi Sheiks - "Sales Tax" [0:09:42] Sophie Tucker - "Max from the Income Tax" [0:12:48] Blind Willie Johnson (with Willie B. Harris) - "Lord I Just Can't Keep from Crying" [0:15:20] Pigmeat Pete (Wesley Wilson) and Catjuice Charlie (Harry McDaniels) - "Our Family Doctor" [0:18:02] Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Farms Head Cheese" [0:24:42] Django Reinhardt - "Nuages" [0:26:41] Jones,

Smoked metaphors and pickled syntax. from Apr 5, 2022

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/04/06

Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Mellow Mood" Robert Wilkins - "Rolling Stone" [0:02:59] Gus Bodenheim - "An Open Letter to the Ladies" [0:10:57] Barney Kessel's All-Stars - "Slick Chick" [0:13:30] George Formby - "Springtime's Here Again" [0:16:18] Jim & Bob (The Genial Hawaiians) - "The Song of the Range" [0:19:16] Noël Coward - "Any Little Fish" [0:21:50] Riley Puckett - "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again" [0:24:15] Blind Willie McTell & Ruby Glaze - "Mama, Let Me Scoop for You" [0:30:55] Josh White -

Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 29, 2022

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/03/30

James P. Johnson - "Blue Turning Gray Over You" [0:00:00] Bessie Smith (with Eddie Lang) - "Kitchen Man" [0:08:42] Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month III - Moe Levy Bodenheim" [0:08:45] Cannon's Jug Stompers - "Walk Right In" [0:11:15] Blind Willie Johnson - "God Moves on the Water" [0:14:28] Walter Page & His Original Blue Devils - "Blue Devil Blues" [0:17:08] Noël Coward - "Lorelei" [0:19:54] Lucky Thompson Quartet - "Commercial Eyes" [0:28:54] Lord Lebby & the Jamaican Calypsonians - "Dr

Money donated during this hour funds the Codger's...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/03/30

Fletcher Henderson - "Queer Notions" Slim Gaillard - "Potato Chips" [0:03:14] Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - "Jack the Bellboy" [0:11:34] Euneeda Bodenheim - "Give to the Old Codger Today!" [0:14:06] Ruth Etting - "Keep Sweeping Cobwebs off the Moon" [0:15:32] Sheila B - "The Ladies Review Courtney T. Edison" [0:18:34] Sophie Tucker - "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas" [0:19:39] George Formby - "Swimmin' With the Wimmin" [0:28:59] The BBC Dance Orchestra - "Mickey's Son and Daughter"

Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio!...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/03/30

Ruth Etting - "Shine on Harvest Moon" Van & Schenck - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" [0:02:36] DJ Fablio - "Please Pledge for the Old Codger" [0:12:58] Sophie Tucker - "I Ain't Taking Orders from No One" [0:14:02] Gerald Wiggins - "S'posin'" [0:16:57] Curly Weaver & Blind Willie McTell - "Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More" [0:20:57] George Formby - "It's a Grand and Healthy Life" [0:35:42] Blue Bird Trio - "When Mickey Mouse and Minnie's in Town" [0:38:41] Vaughn De Leath - "Ukulele Lady"

"Everything that's wrong with a human stuffed into...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/03/23

King Nawahi's Hawaiians - "Tickling the Strings" Dixie Rhythm Kings - "The Chant" [0:03:00] Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month II - Music" [0:09:53] Gerald Wiggins - "Wiggin' with Wig" [0:12:43] The Ticklers - "Healing in the Balm Yard" [0:16:04] Florence Brady - "Sunshine" [0:18:56] Jack Pettis and His Pets - "Spanish Dream" [0:22:02] Noël Coward - "Something to Do With Spring" [0:28:53] Cole Porter - "You're the Top" [0:31:09] Pinetop Smith - "Jump Steady Blues" [0:34:25] Eddie Cole's

Everybody deserves a 22nd chance! from Mar 1, 2022

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/03/02

Rube Bloom - "Soliloquy" Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio - "Clawin' the Frets" [0:02:38] Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month, ep. 1" [0:09:04] Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "The Duke Insists" [0:11:48] Henry Thomas - "Bull Doze Blues" [0:14:36] Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Dodo's Blues" [0:18:02] Lonnie Johnson and Blind Willie Dunn (Eddie Lang) - "Two Tone Stomp" [0:21:14] King Radio - "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" [0:24:12] Slim Gaillard Trio - "Cement Mixer (Put-ti-Put-ti)" [0:31:51] Cole

Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/02/23

Little Jack Little - "Three O'Clock in the Morning" Trio Servando Diaz - "Param Pan Pin" [0:02:43] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Old Codger Mailbag" [0:10:20] Gertrude Lawrence - "Experiment" [0:12:40] Howard McGhee Sextet - "Midnight at Minton's" [0:15:20] Carl Kress & Dick McDonough - "Chicken a La Swing" [0:18:20] Ruth Etting - "Now I'm in Love" [0:20:34] Mary Lou Williams and Her Trio - "Roll 'Em" [0:23:12] Gus Bodenheim - "Let's Build a Drugs Caddy" [0:31:16] Frankie Jaxon and Tampa Red - "It's

An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/02/23

Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Non-Discrimination Policy" [0:00:00] Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Bopmatism" [0:01:36] Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang - "Handful of Riffs" [0:08:32] Beryl Booker (p), Mary Osborne (g), and June Rotenberg (b) - "Low Ceiling" [0:11:22] Jack McVea - "Groove Juice" [0:14:37] Eddie Walters - "Makin' Whoopee" [0:17:28] Dusty Fletcher - "Open the Door Richard" [0:21:09] Gus Bodenheim - "The 2022 Rummy Awards" [0:29:01] George Gershwin - "When Do We Dance? (from "Tip Toes")"

He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/01/26

Romeo Nelson - "Head Rag Hop" [0:00:00] Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Get Off with Me" [0:04:47] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Bodenheim's Literary Finessence" [0:11:02] Robert Lee McCoy - "Next-Door Neighbor" [0:14:01] Fats Waller & His Buddies - "Harlem Fuss" [0:16:57] Ruth Etting - "There Ain't No Maybe in My Baby's Eyes" [0:20:10] Trio Matamoros - "Son de la Loma" [0:22:54] The Three Stripped Gears - "1931 Depression Blues" [0:29:51] Billy Taylor Trio - "All Too Soon" [0:32:39] Reuben Reeves &

Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/01/26

Bix Beiderbecke - "In a Mist" Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Rasslin' 'Til the Wagon Comes" [0:02:41] Gus Bodenheim - "Codgertopia™" [0:09:28] Earl Hines - "Child of a Disordered Brain" [0:11:47] Lonnie Johnson - "I'm Just Dumb" [0:14:37] Sidney Bechet - "Blue Horizon" [0:17:34] Ruth Etting - "Together We Two" [0:22:03] Dick McDonough - "Dick Bernstein Ramble" [0:28:17] Ham Gravy (Washboard Sam with Black Bob) - "Who Pumped the Wind in My Doughnut" [0:30:23] Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - "How

So old his blood type was discontinued. from Jan 25,...

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU ·

2022/01/26

Regal Jazz Band - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" - unknown 78 rpm disc Lionel Hampton & His Just Jazz All Stars & Oscar Peterson - "It's a Blue World" - Lionel Hampton & His Just Jazz All Stars & Oscar Peterson 78 [0:02:34] Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Old Codger Mailbag" - Missives from Our Saintly Listeners [0:09:50] Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Have Your Chill, I'll Be Here When Your Fever Rises" - Paramount 12317 (with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra) [0:13:12] The Harmonettes - "That's a Plenty"

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