Favoriting Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison: Playlist from May 24, 2022 Favoriting

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Favoriting May 24, 2022: An insatiable vulture snacking on the carcasses of the musical dead.

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Happy 130th Birthday, Maxwell Bodenheim (May 26)
Happy 130th Birthday, Maxwell Bodenheim (May 26)
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Happy 130th Birthday, Maxwell Bodenheim (May 26)

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Rube Bloom  That Futuristic Rag   Favoriting 0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Dodo Marmarosa  Tone Paintings I   Favoriting 0:02:46 (Pop-up)
 
Gus Bodenheim  A Bodenheim Birthday Bulletin   Favoriting 0:08:23 (Pop-up)
Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten  Hot-Tempered Blues   Favoriting 0:11:27 (Pop-up)
Sol K. Bright & His Hollywaiians  Heat Wave   Favoriting 0:14:49 (Pop-up)
Slim Gaillard Quartet  Scotchin' with the Soda   Favoriting 0:17:53 (Pop-up)
Penny Malone  I Couldn't Say Yes   Favoriting 0:20:33 (Pop-up)
Chick Endor with Fred Elizalde  Following You Around   Favoriting 0:22:40 (Pop-up)
 
Horace Henderson & His Orch. (voc: Viola Jefferson)  Oh Boy, I'm in the Groove   Favoriting 0:29:24 (Pop-up)
Gregor & His Gregorians  Gregorology   Favoriting 0:32:08 (Pop-up)
Tau Moe's Hawaiian Jazzites  U Like, Noa Like   Favoriting 0:34:44 (Pop-up)
William Bock  The Civil War   Favoriting 0:37:57 (Pop-up)
George Formby  Easy-Going Chap   Favoriting 0:41:42 (Pop-up)
 
Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra  The Eel   Favoriting 0:48:28 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis-Charlie Parker  Half-Nelson   Favoriting 0:50:53 (Pop-up)
Gus Bodenheim  Gross, But … Bars™   Favoriting 0:53:38 (Pop-up)
Fred Elizalde  I've Got the World on a String   Favoriting 0:55:19 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 10:05pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Historian John Strausbaugh: "Bodenheim had a real talent for scandal, easy enough to generate during Greenwich Village's prolonged drunken orgy in the Prohibition years. Maxwell's haughty, insulting demeanor, and his habit of trying to steal other men's women right under their noses, got him regularly socked on the jaw and thrown out of bars, soirees and the fauxhemian revels at Webster Hall."
  6:57pm
Robert:

Hey, I'd been wondering what John Strausbaugh's been doing lately, glad to see he's on the Bodenheim beat.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
loveless:

23 skidoo. Hello all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
G:

Made it. Totally futuristic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
dale:

'fauxhemian' - excellent!
  7:01pm
P-90:

One minute in and my fauxhemian is sore already
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
spodiodi:

aloha, Courtney and Lolabelle!
Happy Birthday, Max!
(puff, puff, give)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
StringOFperils:

They need a swift kick in the caboose, those fauxhemians.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
DjLorraine:

I have a Joint Balancing massage ceu class...sigh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
G:

Is Dodo dead?
  Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Bruce S.:

fauxhemian becase they were slumming in the village i suppose
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
StringOFperils:

Dodo is simply stuffed again, as usual.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
G:

bridge and tunnel fauxhemians? or village hipster trustfund baby fauxhemians? or does it make any difference?
  7:05pm
Dutch:

Change of name appropriate
Avatar 7:05pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Dodo is wavering between 63 and 82 rpm.
  7:05pm
Dutch 'Bodenheim Sr.':

There
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
G:

Wavering adds character
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
StringOFperils:

It's called rubato. There was an outbreak in the bowery.
Avatar 7:07pm
Stillwell Coney Islander:

Hi Courtney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
ultradamno:

Girl explaining what 'google' means in Scotland twitter.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
The Count of Al Dente:

Rubato Lumbago Strainus
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
spodiodi:

David Icke knows
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
ultradamno:

Maury will have a special today that about 'vangelists, so Christians on the boardwalk, I guess.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Ken From Bodenheim Park:

Hello and happy birthday, Maxwell! 🎂
Avatar 7:12pm
Euneeda S. Bodenheim:

I've heard family stories about the smell and once I dreamed about it, but I never had the pleasure of experiencing it in person.
  Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Bruce S.:

camphor canadian whiskey and linament, sounds like a good time
Avatar 7:12pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...a versatile & vocable ♊︎Gemini to the Max indeed...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
StringOFperils:

In glorious monotreme.
  7:13pm
Glistener MW:

Who’s that weird Brit who’s always talking about Lizardmen? Something like… “The Icke Codger”? 🦎
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
G:

On the tenth day of Christmas (which falls in late May) my DJ gave to me, ten hepcats a-playin
  7:17pm
P-90:

Last time I was in Hollywaii it rained all day
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
StringOFperils:

Anyone seen my celluloid tablets?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
G:

@P-90: It pours, man it pours
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
ultradamno:

Way to one up James White & The Blacks, Slim!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
G:

I assume this song was published in 1933 or later haha
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
ultradamno:

Sol, that is
Avatar 7:20pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Bix Beiderbecke, who died of alcoholism, never took a legal drink in his life.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
ultradamno:

That's how good he was at ripping off late 70s artists.
  7:20pm
Robert:

Did "The Very Happy Fellow" rip off that tune?
  7:21pm
P-90:

That Bix, what an outlaw
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
G:

Bix was da man.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
G:

Sophie would have never sung this one... as Courtney can attest...
  Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
Bruce S.:

Bix was the original Bad Boy of Music
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
StringOFperils:

Da man, but not da Manone
Avatar 7:23pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

This is a song about the pleasures of stalking.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
ultradamno:

Not about a PI, a gumshoe, a shamus?
  Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Bruce S.:

before stalking was considered a bad thing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
StringOFperils:

Micah could play this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
G:

"Every Breath You Take" copycatted that one.
  7:29pm
P-90:

Don’t forget the trinkets for the chorus gals and floozies
  Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Bruce S.:

the Radium Remedies?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
G:

Floozies need nice stuff, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
StringOFperils:

Well, that killed 90 seconds.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
ultradamno:

Vodka can really help with the hangover problem
  7:30pm
Dutch 'Bodenheim Sr.':

Thank Bodenheim i donated.....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
G:

Viola swung hard.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
StringOFperils:

Slags For Life. Dagnabbit! Bamboozled again. When will I learn?
  7:31pm
Old Cod:

Swingin'! :)
  7:32pm
Dutch 'Bodenheim Sr.':

Gimme that 'elixer' and 'cure' me of my ailments yeah.
Avatar 7:32pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

The calendar contains a remedy for PILES! Do you suffer? Your ordeal will be over soon if you donated last March.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
ultradamno:

With information like that you can't afford to just sit around on it.
  Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Bruce S.:

is that for the Goumer or the Goober Piles
  7:33pm
Dutch 'Bodenheim Sr.':

Can't wait....the pain is really gettin me of my socks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
G:

When I study myself, that's also Gregorology
Avatar 7:34pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Very Bix-inflected.
  Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Bruce S.:

this is very nice
  7:35pm
JetBoy of Brooklyn:

I had never heard of Bix. Born on the same day as me (67 yrs before), within 100 miles of where I was born and died 1 neighborhood south of me in Queens. Per wiki, he was an early jazz improvisationalist - now I need to hear more of his music.
  7:36pm
JetBoy of Brooklyn:

My handle should say formerly of Brooklyn in case you wonder.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
G:

Even that guy Irwin Something who used to work here played some Bix. Search the FMU archive for Bix's name ("artist name").
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
G:

Great singer here lol
Avatar 7:39pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Irwin hosted a radio show on WFMU during the 1990s. Courtney remembers him. But not well. Or fondly.
  7:40pm
JetBoy of Brooklyn:

This song is proof that anyone (me?) can sing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
G:

What does Courtney say his problem was anyway?
Avatar 7:41pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

This guy was Lou Reed's father.
  7:41pm
RMB:

According to the the Iona Sentinel Standard for May 26th 1892:
"..Geo. J. Wendell commenced operations at his new cigar factory today. His retail store will be fitted up in a few days. Ionia now has seven cigar factories, employing 100 men and having a weekly pay roll of $750 to $1,000. Nearly $100,000 of capital is invested in the business. Many of the cigar makers have families and the business provides for between 300 and 400 people..."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
G:

@Lolabelle: Ouch!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
ultradamno:

He managed an all-girl barbershop trio I saw once in Ohio. Brawl or something..
Avatar 7:41pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...a great influence on Shel Silverstein mayhaps...
  7:41pm
Dutch 'Bodenheim Sr.':

This ol fart has got to sleep. 1:40 am overhere. Bye all. Thank ya kindly Ol Codger. Greetings to Gus n Maxwell.
  Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Bruce S.:

more like his great grandfather
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
dale:

this was on folk songs of saskathawan...there was a honey dipper war in canada?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
G:

Formby Dirt Incoming!
Avatar 7:43pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

My town of Lebanon, NewHampshuh is in the very longterm process of separating its storm runoff from its sewers ...so William's a little - on the nose as the expression goes...
  Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Bruce S.:

This show is definitley in Black and White
Avatar 7:45pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...there was once an E coli. warning for the water very shortly after being declared Best Smalltown in the USA by some geriatric magazine...
Avatar 7:47pm
Mailman Tom:

All these things and more!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
G:

Courtney probably has a Multiple-Lifetimes-Achievement-Award coming, by now.
  Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Bruce S.:

The Society for Sustained Mediocraty
  Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Bruce S.:

who will the MC be, Georgie Jessel?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
dale:

hey - did we run through the entire flip the frog ouevre?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
ironybread:

Well, SURE, I mean everyone over the age of two trillion deserves an award just on general principles. #RespectWhereRespectIsDue
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
G:

eelemosynary
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
G:

@Dale: Courtney seems to have gotten something like a cease-and-desist letter from the proud owner of Flip's IP rights.
  7:51pm
JetBoy of Brooklyn:

@G - thank you for the tip re Bix
Avatar 7:51pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

We are in protracted litigation with Flip's "legal counsel," who is a scoundrel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
G:

Miles ttw
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
ultradamno:

I always feel like those lifetime achievement awards are just gentle ways of telling an artist "you can die now, OK?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
G:

ftw ugh. I was up working at 3:30am
Avatar 7:53pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Miles and Bird is as far as Courtney goes with jazz. After that, he thinks "it all went to hell."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
ironybread:

Is EVERYBODY on this comment board a reissue producer??? I mean, that would be wonderful, actually. #SpecialtyProplemsOfSpecialPeople
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
ultradamno:

More of a scoundrel than Flip himself (who we know was at least a rascal)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
StringOFperils:

If it's for a lifetime, than one may assume that time period has come to a conclusion. Unlike me, having considered Bodenheim's rant.
Avatar 7:54pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

More of this willfully complex Bop AntiMusic. How I fear for our dark Age of Insanity.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
ultradamno:

Everyone on this board is old enough to have produced the original issues, thank you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
dale:

there's always a lawyer with a wife in furs and a mistress in a modest studio apartment to pay off.
  7:54pm
rachel:

I've been installing grommets for the past three hours..... this isn't the right music for operating machines.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
StringOFperils:

Those wall-sconces don't pay for themselves.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
ironybread:

@Ultradamno I'm sure most of the people who comment on my show are old and experienced enough to have engineered the first long-playing albums. And bless them all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
G:

Joyce called quotation marks "perverted commas," and never used them. (The common UK printers' term for quotation marks is "inverted commas.")
  Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Bruce S.:

thanks Courtney, Gus, and Lolabelle, great show, time to polish my spats
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
radioronan:

Thanks Courtney, Lolabelle, Bodenheims everywhere!
  7:57pm
Eugene R.:

Was Mr. Bodenheim just enunciating atop "Comma Chameleon"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
dale:

this is much bouncier than jerry lewis's version from 'jerry - just sings.' and more melodic to boot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
ultradamno:

Christopher Walken goes one further and removes all punctuation from all the scripts he's given. Like it has any bearing on the one delivery he'll give any sentence he has to speak.
  7:58pm
JetBoy of Brooklyn:

Joyce did not make things easy
Avatar 7:58pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

G'night, all. Plushment is on Codger's horizon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
listener 126464:

Thanks Courtney and associates.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
ironybread:

And punishment is on mine. Hope to join you all next week
Avatar 7:58pm
Stillwell Coney Islander:

Good night Courtney!
Avatar 7:59pm
βrian:

Little Human editorially inserts the comma when she calls out to momma.
  7:59pm
JetBoy of Brooklyn:

Great show - thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
spodiodi:

thanks, Courtney and Lolabelle!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
StringOFperils:

A miasma of pure bliss. Or outrageous puffery. One or the other. Whatever. Thank you, OC
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
G:

The Old Codger Penny Pincher
Avatar 8:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ Codger ~
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
dale:

the staff and management is at an offsite spending our hard earned ill-gotten dollars.
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