Favoriting Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison: Playlist from May 27, 2021 Favoriting

The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!

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Favoriting May 27, 2021: The only guy who would abduct your cat, and when the ransom is paid, you get back more cats.

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Billiken Johnson & Fred Adams  Interurban Blues   Favoriting 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Fats Waller & His Rhythm  Every Day's a Holiday   Favoriting 0:03:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Vivian Greene  He's the Man (He's Tall & Cool)   Favoriting 0:10:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lonnie Johnson  Swing Out Rhythm   Favoriting 0:12:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Thelonious Monk Trio  Ruby My Dear   Favoriting 0:15:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang  A Mug of Ale   Favoriting 0:18:44 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra  Organ's Grinder Swing   Favoriting 0:21:44 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Gus Bodenheim  Delbarton Repurposed Facial Coverings   Favoriting 0:28:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Nicholas Brothers  Lucky Number   Favoriting 0:29:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Coot Grant and Kid Wilson  Old Age Is Creeping Upon You   Favoriting 0:32:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lloyd Thomas & the Calypso Troubadours  Climbing the Mountain   Favoriting 0:35:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Wynonie Harris  Grandma Plays the Numbers   Favoriting 0:37:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Sophie Tucker  I Don't Want to Get Thin   Favoriting 0:45:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ruth Etting  Dancing in the Moonlight   Favoriting 0:48:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dave Brubeck Octet  Fugue on Bop Themes   Favoriting 0:51:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra  Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm   Favoriting 0:53:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Roberta Lee  Common Folks   Favoriting 0:56:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 5/25 11:01pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Hello in advance, everybody. Starting in the 2nd week of June, the Codger will move to Tuesday evenings at 8pm on WFMU. Yes, we will finally be free of Fablio!!!! Hopefully nothing worse awaits.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
G:

After the movie music show. Unless that 7pm Tue slot gets twiddled for the summer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:21pm
rrg:

That’s Betty Grable’s favorite personal radio!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:58pm
ultradamno:

Well, that sounded like music leading into this show. That's almost alarming.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:58pm
loveless:

All these schedule changes are leaving me discombobulated. Pass me a drink.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
G:

Dave M ending with a Brasilian classic. Right in Courtney's wheelhouse.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
D Rok (in brooklyn):

What a transition! It sure is exciting to have everyone back in the studio.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
StringOFperils:

Nothing's been the same since Pa dug that new well. Psheeesh, this place is haunted if you ask me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

I had one of those Motorola portable Tube radios. it took a big 67 volt dry cell if you didn't plug it in. Someone took it from me.
Avatar 6:04pm
TDK60:

Evenin' Mr. Edison.
Avatar 6:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

& His Rhythm indeed.
  6:06pm
Bimbus Bambus:

I appreciate sherioushnesh.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
dale:

that may be her favorite personal radio. but i'll but it's not her favorite battery powered personal device.
Avatar 6:07pm
Mailman Tom:

I love Betty Grable
Avatar 6:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Popectomy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
ultradamno:

Is this a Delbarton product? twitter.com...
Avatar 6:09pm
HyperDose:

Music City is a pretty happenin' place
Avatar 6:11pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

dale yer not helping us ♏︎Scorpios dodge the stereotypes
...I do however appreciate the company...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
G:

"He's the Man"? Cheesecake playlist picture? So much sexual objectification on this show, running both ways. CANCEL!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
dale:

i yam what i yam. getting too old to be ashamed.
Avatar 6:13pm
Euneeda S. Bodenheim:

When I was little I had "The Lollypop Guild" stuck in my brain on repeat for weeks, but the doctors said there was nothing they could do.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
G:

@Euneeda: He just gave up and welcomed you to Munchkin Land.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
dale:

glad it wasn't the lullaby league!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
rrg:

So it cleared up on its own?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
dave wuz here:

lonnie johnson might be my favorite
Avatar 6:15pm
Euneeda S. Bodenheim:

No, but my brother Gus had that song in his head for awhile. He could never spell that well.
Avatar 6:16pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Hi, everybody. Sorry I haven't kept up with the comments. I had to mediate a brawl between Courtney and the guy who preceded him, Dave Mondel, who almost damaged Courtney's Victrola.
Avatar 6:16pm
Euneeda S. Bodenheim:

No RRG, it plagues me to this day. The doctors say it's a rare kind of tinnitus. Or rather, tinyitus.
Avatar 6:17pm
HyperDose:

Who's taking bets? I've got $50 on the Codger to knock out Mondel in the 3rd round
Avatar 6:18pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...this Lonnie is practically as fiddly a GittarPicker as the two-fingered Gypsy Frenchman ! @ least he plays Chords & Rhythm too... No good'll come of this parlor instrument - I can feel it...
& I met this Monk playing this crazy new Bop Musics - & he was just - spooky...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
ultradamno:

The hazards of returning to JC. Hippies not knowing better than to handle technology above their understanding.
Avatar 6:19pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

I know!
  6:19pm
yippie:

hey old codger do you ever see antique phonograph DJ MAC around?
Avatar 6:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Mondel was saying he'd like to be back @ FMU more ...I think that turned 180 by the very end of his three hours somehow...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
rrg:

Euneeda, some of us represent the Lollipop Guild.
Avatar 6:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...oh - when the Guild sang ...resistence was Feudal...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
dale:

they like those crocheted cozies too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
G:

JFK killed hats. Had to show off his coif.
  6:26pm
Bimbus Bambus:

I now have two pencils ready.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
dale:

jerry maren played one of the mole people on the superman pilot. true story!
Avatar 6:28pm
Euneeda S. Bodenheim:

I'm making mine into potpourri sachets for all my girlfriends!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
StringOFperils:

I'm making them into hamster garden-swings.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
G:

Wear four excess masks. Tell the world you are truly superior.
Avatar 6:30pm
Euneeda S. Bodenheim:

They also make handy mouse parachutes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
Webhamster Henry:

We approve of tap dancing on the radio.
Avatar 6:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Free (from) pathogens & free enterprise.
It's truly the best of all possible worlds.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
dale:

it's like ventriloquism on the radio - who knows if the ventriloquist is any good?
Avatar 6:32pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

These are such great ideas to repurpose masks. We will pass along all these ideas to Rummy when he emerges from rehab.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
StringOFperils:

Arm-wrestling on the radio is going to sell a lot of detergent in the future.
Avatar 6:35pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...this is how History is disrupted : Air Force requirements for rodents were suddenly waived...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
G:

Last song was very cheery
Avatar 6:35pm
Euneeda S. Bodenheim:

Oh my! this song is filthy!
  6:36pm
Listener Robert:

If Andy can hustle people at tug of war at a rest stop on the Garden State Parkway on radio, all is possible, StringOfPerils.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
G:

@Euneeda: Just wait for Formby.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
rrg:

It’s just a song about mountain climbing.
Avatar 6:39pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

That's correct, RRG. Just a recreational pursuit.
Avatar 6:39pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...couldn't we break for a wholesome Cartoon full of outrageous violence ?...
Avatar 6:39pm
HyperDose:

There are always railroad bonds in the fruit stand
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
G:

An' the next thing ya know,
Your son is playin' for money
In a pinch-back suit.
And list'nin to some big out-a-town Jasper
Here to tell him all about horse-race gamblin'.
Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
But a race where they set down right on the horse!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
ultradamno:

Playing the numbers is how you build up enough to play twenty bingo cards per round.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
ultradamno:

Repurposed Facial Coverings are excellent for train robberies!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
G:

Indefinite storage on millions of useless masks is astronomical.
  6:43pm
Listener Robert:

As opposed to when those useless masks were stored on people's faces?
Avatar 6:44pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...might be cheaper to start another contagion...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
G:

@Robert. Zero argument here :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
ultradamno:

That guy is playing with fire.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
dale:

i imagine bea arthur 'singing' in this fashion.
Avatar 6:48pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...don't be derisive - she works very hard on her own material with her 'handlers' ...& yeah - it takes several of those...
Avatar 6:48pm
Mailman Tom:

That's very funny. dale
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
G:

Take One.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
dale:

it took four tries to get good?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
G:

practice makes perfect
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
rrg:

It’s a boppy fugue.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
dale:

skippy de scoopy de flippety floopy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
dale:

it seems that flip the frog's attorney's have contacted the codger with a cease and desist.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
G:

I love to sing-a About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a, I love to sing-a, About a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a, Anything-a with a swing-a to an "I love you-a," I love to, I love to sing!
Avatar 6:56pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

G - Owl's well that ends well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
G:

Owl Jolson. Cab did that song, too.
Avatar 6:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...a Cab is Fair enuff...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
radioronan:

Thanks Codger..Lolabelle!
  6:59pm
theia:

Tuesday!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
G:

Sounds like you broke Fabio's back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
dale:

thanks euneeda. time for a colonic codger!
Avatar 7:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

TY again Codger - I will admit to some mild amusement.
Avatar 7:17pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Thank you everybody for listening, commenting, supporting Courtney in his legal battle against Fablio (we will file an appeal!), and for buying Delbarton fine products. Remember, in the 2nd week of June this show will move to Tuesday nights at 7pm Eastern.
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