Sister O.M. Terrell - "God's Little Birds" Will Glahe Orchestra - "Krazy Kat" Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 1" Erroll Garner - "Skylark" Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - "Hop-Scotch Polka (Scotch Hot)" Eva Taylor - "My Man is on the Make" Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 2" Buddy Weed - "Whoops a Doodle" Cliff Edwards - "A Great Big Bunch of You" Vaughn Monroe - "Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant)" Duke Ellington - "The Perfume Suite" Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 3" Willard Robison & The Ipana Troubadours - "Wake Up! Chillun, Wake Up!" Thomas Morris & His Seven Hot Babies - "The Mess" The Sons of the Pioneers - "A Melody from the Sky" Annette Hanshaw - "Say It Isn't So" Ethelbert Nevin - "Narcissus" Gus Bodenheim - "mic break 4" Paul Gayten - "True" Paul Robeson - "Sleepy River" Bing Crosby - "My Kinda Love" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/108554

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Gus Bodenheim sits in Courtney's chair, fills his shoes, and depletes his whiskey. from Oct 12, 2021

George Gershwin - "Clap Yo' Hands" Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "Breakin' in a New Pair of Shoes" Wilmoth Houdini - "The Calypso Way" Lil Johnson - "My Stove's in Good Condition" Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Burlesque" Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Clown Car™" Polly Walker - "Where Were You? Where Was I?" Palmer McAbee - "McAbee's Railroad" Milt Herth - "Swamp Fire" Betty Boop - "Bimbo's Express" Groucho Marx - "I'm Against It" Nan Blakstone - "A Lady's a Lady (No Matter What Cooks)" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Repurposed Facial Coverings™" Ruth Etting - "Exactly Like You" Adrian Rollini - "Minuet in Jazz" Reginald Foresythe - "St. Louis Blues" Little Son Joe - "Black Rat Swing" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/108390

Empathied out since 1931. from Oct 5, 2021

George Gershwin - "Someone to Watch Over Me" Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra - "The Mooche" Mississippi John Hurt - "Ain't No Tellin'" Milt Herth Quartet - "Egyptian Ella" Clarence "Pinetop" Smith - "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" Nan Blakstone - "You Can't Find a Place to Do It" Four Southern Singers - "Be Ready" Gus Bodenheim - "EschewTube™" Hank Williams - "Everything's Okay" Walter Gross - "Improvisation in Several Keys" Wilmoth Houdini - "He Had It Coming" Betty Boop - "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" Cab Calloway - "A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird" Gus Bodenheim - "The Protocols of the Elders of Edison" The Brox Sisters - "Cover Me Up with Sunshine of Virginia" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/108119

His very existence affirms Faulkner's observation that "The past is never dead. It's not even past." from Sep 28, 2021

Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Doing Things" - Victor 21561 Ruth Etting - "I Want to Meander in the Meadow" - Columbia 1883-D George Formby - "Swimmin' with the Wimmin" - Decca F-3666 Jimmie Rodgers - "Pistol Packin' Papa" - Victor 22554 Noël Coward - "Poor Little Rich Girl" - The Old Codger's Secret Stash of Noel Coward demos Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang - "Louisiana" - Okeh 41173 Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Delivers an Apology but Refuses to Resign" - Touching Explanations Slatz Randall and His Orchestra - "Skirts" - Brunswick 4779 Los Cuatro Huasos - "Veinticinco Limones" - It is not known Thomas Waller with Thomas Morris and His Hot Babies - "He's Gone Away" - Victor 21202 Fred Elizalde - "Siam Blues" - It is not known Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Broadcast Academy" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams J.H. Squire Celeste Octet - "Baby's Sweetheart" - It is not known Flip the Frogggg - "Chinaman's Chance" - Flip the Frogggg's Perilous Antics Keller Sisters & Lynch with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra - "Sunday" - Sunday Sunday! https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/106526

"The Codger never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see bad ones. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, blind to light, always mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game." — H.W. Beecher from Aug 10, 2021

Fred Elizalde - "Pianotrope" Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Runnin' Ragged (Bamboozlin' the Bassoon)" Nadia, Ken & the Old Codger - "On the Fuzzy Glove Hour Aug 11, 2021" The Brox Sisters - "Sweetest Little Rose in Tennessee" Butterbeans & Susie - "I Got Your Bath Water On" Ruth Etting - "Cigarettes, Cigars" The Trix Sisters - "Ready for the River" Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Non-Discrimination Policy" Lord Kitchener - "Kitch's Bebop Calypso" Sophie Tucker - "It's Human Nature to Complain" Blue Lu Barker - "Loan Me Your Husband" Betty Boop - "Red Hot Mamma" J. H. Squire Celeste Octet - "The Butterfly" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Injury Law™" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/106741

Claims the 21st is the worst century he's ever lived in. from Aug 17, 2021

Fred Elizalde - "Brandy and Soda" Joséphine Baker - "I'm Feelin' Like a Million" Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Følelslange™" Bo Carter - "Your Biscuits Are Big Enough for Me" Prince Partridge - "Choosing a Career" Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra - "Goin' Out the Back Way" Sophie Tucker - "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas" Roy Smeck - "Ukulele Bounce" Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra - "Boyd Meets Stravinsky" The Brox Sisters - "Come On Home" Ruth Berman, Her Harp and Her Orchestra - "Blue Skies" Rudolf Friml - "Chansonette" Betty Boop & Bimbo - "Bimbo's Initiation" Whispering Jack Smith - "Crazy Rhythm" J. H. Squire Celeste Trio - "Carnival of Venice" Gus Bodenheim - "El Pillow de Oro™" Harry Reser - "Etiquette Blues" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107048

"The Codger is a dark little archaic personage—hard, compact, unscrupulous, imitative, and neatly vulgar." — H.G. Wells from Aug 24, 2021

Arthur Schutt - "Piano Puzzle" Fats Waller - "Imagine My Surprise" Sophie Tucker - "Red Hot Mama" The Happiness Boys - "Wimmin ... AAAH!" Reginald Foresythe & Arthur Young - "Tiger Rag" Ruth Etting - "My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Money Laundromat™" Helen Kane - "Me and the Man in the Moon" Slim & Slam (Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart) - "I Got Rhythm" Elizabeth Welch - "Solomon" Betty Boop - "Snow White" J. H. Squire Celeste Octet - "Moonbeams and Shadows" J. Edgar Bodenheim - "Delbarton Beer" Fred Elizalde - "Harmonizing" Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - "Brown Sugar" The Brox Sisters - "Mandy, Make Up Your Mind" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107456

Hubris is his other middle name. from Sep 7, 2021

John Ouwerx - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow" Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "The Henderson Stomp" Gus Bodenheim - "The Forgotten Gershwin" Lil Johnson - "Hottest Gal in Town" Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Lament for Congo (A Hymn to Darkness No. 2)" The Brox Sisters - "Bring on the Pepper" Alma Gluck, The Victor Orchestra & Walter B. Rogers - "Have You Seen But a Whyte Lillie Grow?" Bo Carter - "My Pencil Won't Write No More" Ruth Etting - "When You're with Somebody Else" Paul Howard & His Quality Serenaders - "California Swing" Hank Williams - "I'll Be a Bachelor Till I Die" Betty Boop - "Service with a Smile" Ferdy Kauffman and His Orchestra - "The Clock and the Dresden Figures" Whispering Jack Smith - "Gimme a Little Kiss (Will Ya, Huh?)" Gus Bodenheim - "The Old Codger's AirPS™" Marion Harris - "There's a Lump of Sugar Down in Dixie" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107682

Once spent a week in Arkansas to get his liver drained. from Sep 14, 2021

Fred Elizalde - "Melancholy Weeps" Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Volcanic (Eruption for Orchestra)" Bo Carter - "Ram Rod Daddy" Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Penn Beach Blues" Lothar Perl - "Crazy Top" Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon - "Down at Jasper's Bar-B-Que" Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Leftover Takeout™" Lil Johnson - "Sam, the Hot Dog Man" Sophie Tucker - "My Pet" Fats Waller & Ada Brown - "That Ain't Right" Euneeda Bodenheim - "Kelvilene Butz's PantryPedia™" Billy Mayerl - "Beetle in the Bottle" Betty Boop - "Morning, Noon and Night" J. H. Squire Celeste Octet - "Moment Musicale (Schubert, arr. Sear)" Henry Burr - "Rags" Gus Bodenheim - "The Delbarton Time Machine™" George Formby - "Under the Blasted Oak" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107956

Once asked what to feed babies, he recommended suntan lotion, dust bunnies, clumps of bread soaked in rubbing alcohol, and pennies. from Sep 21, 2021

John Ouwerx - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow" Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "The Henderson Stomp" Gus Bodenheim - "The Forgotten Gershwin" Lil Johnson - "Hottest Gal in Town" Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Lament for Congo (A Hymn to Darkness No. 2)" The Brox Sisters - "Bring on the Pepper" Alma Gluck, The Victor Orchestra & Walter B. Rogers - "Have You Seen But a Whyte Lillie Grow?" Bo Carter - "My Pencil Won't Write No More" Ruth Etting - "When You're with Somebody Else" Paul Howard & His Quality Serenaders - "California Swing" Hank Williams - "I'll Be a Bachelor Till I Die" Betty Boop - "Service with a Smile" Ferdy Kauffman and His Orchestra - "The Clock and the Dresden Figures" Whispering Jack Smith - "Gimme A Little Kiss (Will Ya, Huh?)" Gus Bodenheim - "The Old Codger's AirPS™" Marion Harris - "There's a Lump of Sugar Down in Dixie" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107682

Eubie Blake - "Charleston Rag" Georgia White - "The Stuff Is Here" Ida Cox - "Lonesome Blues" Valaida Snow - "Lonesome Road" Sol Hoopii - "Hana Hana Hawaii" Madame Riviere's Hawaiians - "Fort Street" Sol K. Bright & His Hollywaiians - "Hawaiian Cowboy" Bob Wills with the McKinney Sisters - "Hawaiian War Chant" Lily May Ledford, Rosalie and Bella Allen - "Gypsy Davy" Hoagy Carmichael - "Rogue River Valley" Ernest Tubb - "I Walk Alone" Girls of the Golden West - "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" Slim and Slam - "Champagne Lullabye" Dicky Wells - "Dicky Wells Blues" Boswell Sisters - "Mood Indigo" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107417

Proprietress subs for Courtney T. Edison from Aug 31, 2021

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

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