Favoriting Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison: Playlist from April 17, 2024 Favoriting

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Favoriting April 17, 2024: His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover.

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Artist Track Approx. start time
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson  The Baby and the Pup   Favoriting  
Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers  Preachin' Blues   Favoriting 0:02:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Bo Carter  Beans   Favoriting 0:08:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Whoopee Makers  Rush Inn Blues   Favoriting 0:11:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Butterbeans & Susie  Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stuff   Favoriting 0:14:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jabbo Smith  Till Times Get Better   Favoriting 0:17:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Raymond Scott & The Sophisticators  Farewell Blues   Favoriting 0:20:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Una Mae Carlisle  Throw It Out Your Mind   Favoriting 0:26:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dr. Humphrey Bate and His Possum Hunters  Ham Beats All Meat   Favoriting 0:29:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Clara Smith  My Good for Nuthin' Man   Favoriting 0:31:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Gus Bodenheim  Beyond Mouse   Favoriting 0:36:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sophie Tucker  Oh! You Have No Idea   Favoriting 0:38:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lil McClintock  Don't Think I'm Santa Claus   Favoriting 0:41:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Willard Robison and His Deep River Orchestra  Harlem Blues   Favoriting 0:44:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five  Look Out   Favoriting 0:51:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas  Fishing Blues   Favoriting 0:59:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 4/11 6:49am
Lolabelle Pancake:

We're back for one magnificent week!!! Courtney plays the blues.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4/11 11:38pm
rrg:

I trust we’ll get to hear how the Surface Noise Tour is going.
Avatar 7:00pm
Matt from Springfield:

Weekly World SNOOZE!!! With the Old Codger!

Welcome back! Hope your cart full of 78 records got up the stairs!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
ultradamno:

Courtney! Lolabelle! They couldn't keep this show off the air!
Avatar 7:01pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "The Baby and the Pup" by "Harry "the Hipster" Gib...
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson!
The "Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine" guy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
dale:

can't spell dill pickle masked ball without pickle ball. or dill....dill is in there too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
ultradamno:

Fablio's been strutting around like he owns the place!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
The Butterman:

Ho boi! What a treat! The Codge! You know, like the Pidge or the Butterman.
Avatar 7:03pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ dale @7:02
It also spells out "Deck Mask Ball Pile"..
Avatar 7:03pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

HI AGAIN EVERYBODY!!!!
Avatar 7:04pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Lolabelle Pancake @7:03
Hi Lolabelle!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "The Baby and the Pup" by "Harry "the Hipster" Gib...
Couldn't tell if this was allegorical. Maybe having a puppy right now is confusilating me. Am planning on just popping out for another vasectomy, though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
rrg:

Hi, y'all. It's Codgerrific.
Avatar 7:06pm
Bri The Beatnik:

Codger! I’d been planning to check your show out!
Avatar 7:06pm
lothianman:

Hey everyone! Git it Codger! You turned me on to Ruth Etting. Some of the best blues were in the early20s but hey you knew that!
Avatar 7:06pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Handy Haversack @7:05
Everything by Harry "the Hipster" (as well as Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends) is "allegorical".

"Second vasectomy" - ummmm...good name for a band??
Avatar 7:06pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ lothianman @7:06
Agreed!
  7:07pm
Glistener MW:

I, FOR ONE, missed you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
dale:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:03
ha ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
JazzUpholsterer:

We did miss you !!! the archives aren't enough. Keep talking Cortney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
dale:

i wonder if fablio's honesdale lawyer is listening.
Avatar 7:08pm
quietlife:

your reputation precedes you
  7:08pm
P-90:

who knew Matt was that young?
Avatar 7:08pm
Matt from Springfield:

Wow, Matt Fiveash looks and sounds great! I didn't think him a day over 86...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
The Butterman:

Careful, Courtney I got into major trouble calling a kid a punk.
Avatar 7:09pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:06
Love Harry and Julia!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Glistener MW:

"I once shot a man just to watch him die; but then got distracted and missed it."
Avatar 7:10pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:09
Me too! 🥰 Love that era of '40s blues in general!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
ultradamno:

The station has been trying to appeal to the merlininielles....DJs as young as 68 on the station nowadays
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Here for the Codge-rock.
Avatar 7:12pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:10
Same! It was the best!
Avatar 7:13pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

After the program, Courtney and his cronies will go back on the road to resume the Surface Noise Tour.
Avatar 7:13pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @7:12
Math rock even - numbers increasing exponentially towards infinity!
  7:14pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Lolabelle Pancake @7:13
Maybe you can tell us how things went at some recent stops.
Avatar 7:15pm
I'm with the banned:

Hi Courtney & Lolabelle I missed you two ✌!!
Avatar 7:15pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Isn't this show absolutely KILLER DILLER?!!
Avatar 7:15pm
Bri The Beatnik:

Listening in class rn, trying not to laugh at the movie project we’re making
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
The Butterman:

↳ Song: "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stu...
Awww shucks, thanks Courtney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
∫ydniuß:

did I miss spin the pickle already? 🥒
Great to have you back Courtney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
Glistener MW:

I would very much like to find out more about the Dill Pickle Masked Ball. How was it, Courtney? What did you dress as?
Avatar 7:16pm
neveract:

wish there were more shows like this! Thanks Codger!!!
Avatar 7:16pm
lothianman:

↳ Song: "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stu...
Awesome stuff didn't they also do the hot dog?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
ultradamno:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:13
I know Courtney can remember when rocks were necessary for doing math...mostly as part of the average abacus
Avatar 7:17pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ neveract @7:16
Agreed!
Avatar 7:18pm
neveract:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:17
😁
Avatar 7:18pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ neveract @7:18
:D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
dale:

is midnight blue still on toronto's am740? so much of this stuff, the butcher man, the hotdog man etc...
Avatar 7:19pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ dale @7:19
Ooh! Will have to check that one out
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
D Rok:

Courtney T Edison, in the flesh.
And me fresh out of Sly Weasel bourbon... I guess I'll have to suffer through sober.
  7:22pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "Till Times Get Better" by "Jabbo Smith"
I wonder when that was. The depression of 1920-1 or so?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
dale:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:19
just looked it up - yup. still there and filthy as always.

www.zoomerradio.ca...
Avatar 7:23pm
neveract:

↳ D Rok @7:22
How about some Old Crow?
Avatar 7:23pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ dale @7:23
Yay! Will try and listen tonight if not on an archive!
Avatar 7:23pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Farewell Blues" by "Raymond Scott & The Sophistic...
"and the Sophisicators"! GREAT name, no idea Raymond Scott once had a band called that!
Avatar 7:24pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ dale @7:23
Ah "Zoomer radio" AM out of Toronto - good throwback station, it's usually receivable down in Virginia at night, the strongest Canadian AM reception I've found so far.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
dale:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:23
you'll enjoy it if you want to know who cuts the meat until the butcher comes.
Avatar 7:25pm
neveract:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:19
It's still on!

zoomerradio.ca...
Avatar 7:25pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ neveract @7:23
Too high class.
For the Old Codger, it's all about cheap Sly Weasel bourbon, and Rancho Malario cigars.
  7:25pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Listener Robert @7:22
Looked Smith up and saw he'd've been much too young for then.
Avatar 7:26pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ dale @7:24
I bet I will! Thanks guys! I listen to Zoomer sometimes but had no idea they had a dirty blues show, dig it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
dale:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:24
i'd take a little radio with me to motorcycle rallies and camp outs and listen in my tent at night. always a reliable station.
Avatar 7:27pm
neveract:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:25
hahaha!
  7:27pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:24
I listened to them because for a while they carried Coast to Coast AM.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
dale:

i tell my wife i like her hair parted in the middle and she finally figured out i was being a pig.
Avatar 7:28pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ dale @7:27
😜🐖
Avatar 7:30pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Ham Beats All Meat" by "Dr. Humphrey Bate and His...
What hath innuendo wrought?!...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
The Butterman:

Next, some Uncle Dave or Gid Tanner and his skillet lickers.
Avatar 7:31pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Is anybody enjoying some Sly Weasel bourbon during the show?
  7:32pm
manana:

Very nice to hear courtney!
  7:32pm
Maroe m Chicago:

Hey Gus, can you play something by Louie Bluie?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
dale:

↳ Lolabelle Pancake @7:31
drinking 'oj's shrunken glove elixer.' it tastes bloody fine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
The Butterman:

Possum meat am good to eat.
  7:34pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ The Butterman @7:33
It ain't am good--it am grate.
  7:35pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Lolabelle Pancake @7:31
That stuff's good only for fueling the lantern .
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
ultradamno:

I keep hearing about people wanting to take the country back to 1864....pfffft, progressives.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
dale:

↳ Marie in Chicago @7:34
lol!
  7:37pm
Craig fitch:

Your the best Old Codger
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
The Butterman:

↳ Marie in Chicago @7:34
Not as good as mouse, apparently!
Avatar 7:38pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Beyond Mouse" by "Gus Bodenheim"
What WON'T Delbarton™ come up with next!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
dale:

wife got some faux-meat steak things. tasted okay but looked like pork chop squeak toys you'd give benji.
Avatar 7:39pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Oh! You Have No Idea" by "Sophie Tucker"
Red Hot Mama Sophie Tucker!!
  7:39pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "Beyond Mouse" by "Gus Bodenheim"
I'm afraid all the food I make in this house are of that technology -- suffused with mouse turds, no actual mouse.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Joey C:

Check!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
dale:

↳ Listener Robert @7:39
non-gmo turds we hope.
Avatar 7:45pm
neveract:

↳ Lolabelle Pancake @7:31
afraid not.. have some nice muggle tho!
  7:46pm
Listener Robert:

↳ dale @7:43
Can't be picky when the mice run over food preparation surfaces. Once they got into Kwadwo's bottle of olive oil in the cabinet, and 3 of them drowned.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
dale:

↳ Listener Robert @7:46
ooph! they were on a mediterranean diet.
Avatar 7:48pm
cbunny:

↳ Song: "Don't Think I'm Santa Claus" by "Lil McClintock"
this Lil McClintock track is catchy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
dave miss:

Thought I saw the Old Codger at the Chart House in Wehawken
Avatar 7:53pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Look Out" by "Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five"
LOUIS JORDAN!
And TYMPANY FIVE!!! 🤘
Avatar 7:53pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Look Out" by "Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five"
"Ed Sullivan"!! Probably from back when he was still on the radio.
Avatar 7:54pm
lothianman:

Great show and thanks Codger Get back here soon!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
rrg:

This was great. Lolabelle, try to drag Courtney back here once in a while.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
radioronan:

Thanks for dropping the jalopy in Jersey City for an hour to make this special guest appearance, Courtney and Lolabelle !!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
The Butterman:

Oh my how I love this fish in’ song. !!!!! Thought you were playing it before. Stay out of my mind, Codger!!!!
Avatar 7:56pm
Matt from Springfield:

THANKS Mr. Courtney T. Edison, Esq.! Always a fun time, come back soon from the Surface Noise Tour!

Have a good night, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
listener 126464:

Thanks, OG OC.
Avatar 7:58pm
neveract:

Thanks Old Codger!! LOVED your show!! Come back soon!
  7:58pm
Aging Codger:

↳ dale @7:24
Appreciate you droppin by, Old.
Avatar 7:59pm
I'm with the banned:

Thanks Courtney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
dale:

great music tonight!
Avatar 7:59pm
Mailman Tom:

Welcome back!!
  7:59pm
miles of middle texas:

Thanks Codger !
  6:37am
Olli:

Thanks Courtney for coming back on the air!!
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