Today D.J. McSchmormac was joined by special guests; Matthew Lasar of the Radio Survivor blog, and DJ McSchormac-Junior, D.J. McSchmormac’s son. Matthew was told that if he sang Teddy Bear’s Picnic live on the show; a link would be posted on this blog to Radio Survivor’s PayPal, and guess what happened? Listen and find out!

Sincere thanks to all the people who’ve listened and made contact and gave encouragement and support, it’s very much appreciated, and also thanks to Radio Valencia for being the best station I’ve ever been involved with! It’s been a fantastic 16 months.

Watch for signs of DJ McSchmormac’s possible future reincarnations on the twitter or the facebook.

PLAYLIST:

• “Joquines de una Pastora” by Cobla Principal de la Bisbal from “Cobles Catalanes – Enregistrements 78 tours (1920-1930)”
• “The Foggy Mountain Top” by The Carter Family from “1927 – 1934”
• “When You Wish Upon A Star” by Cliff Edwards from “Walt Disney’s Pinocchio”
• “When I’ve Done The Best I Can” by Richmond’s Harmonizing Four from “1940’s Vocal Groups”
• “I’m Gonna Run To The City of Refuge” by Blind Willie Johnson from “Blind Willie Johnson and the Guitar Evangelists”
• “Farewell Blues” by Hoosier Hot Shots from “Everybody Stomp”
• “Parting at Yang Kwan” by Wei Chung Loh from “The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 3 Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48”
• “Still I’m Travelling On” by Mississippi Sheiks from “Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down – The Best of Mississippi Sheiks”
• “Noche en los Cerros” by Atahualpa Yupanqui from “Camino del Indio – Sus Primeros Exitos 1942-1944”
• “The Teddy Bear’s Picnic” by Matthew Lasar, DJ McSchmormac & Son with Sidney Torch at the organ of the Trocadero, Elephant & Castle from “Cinema Organ – Volume I”
• “Any Old Iron” by Harry Champion from “The Old Bull & Bush”
• “Serenata Ranchera” by Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán from “Their First Recordings 1937- 1947”
• “Media Granaina” by Tomás Pavón with Niño Ricardo from “Tomás Pavón – Grabaciones Discos Pizarra – Año 1940-50”
• “Dear children (from Peter and the Wolf)” narrated by Eleanor Roosevelt; with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sergey Koussevitzky from “PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf – SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2”
• “If I Were King of the Forest” by Bert Lahr & Cast from “The Wizard of Oz – original soundtrack”
• “Elephant’s Wobble” by Bennie Moten & his Kansas City orchestra from “Moten Swing”
• “The Wedding of the Painted Doll” by Ethel Smith from “Tico Tico”
• “Rhapsody In Blue” by Larry Adler with Carroll Gibbons & his Savoy Orpheans from “Maestro of the Mouth Organ”
• “On Account-a I Love You” by Shirley Temple with James Dunn from “America’s Sweetheart Vol. I”
• “Moment Musical” by The Raymond Scott Quintette from “Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights”
• “I’ve No Strings” by Dickie Jones from “Walt Disney’s Pinocchio”
• “Aba Daba Honeymoon” by Collins and Harlan from “Edison Sound Recordings – (Humorous Songs)”
• “Optimistic Voices” by Optimistic Voices from “The Wizard of Oz – original soundtrack”
• “My Precious Sonny Boy” by Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies from “Daddy Of Western Swing”
• “Tiger Rag” by Larry Adler Orchestra from “Maestro of the Mouth Organ”
• “Trunkles” by William Kimber from “Absolutely Classic – The Music of William Kimber”
• “Just A Gigolo (excerpt)” by Louis Prima from “The Very Best of…”
• “Livin’ In The Sunlight, Lovin’ In The Moonlight (excerpt)” by Bernie Cummins and his Orchestra from “1924-1930”
• “I Got Rhythm (excerpt)” by Larry Adler accompanied by Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France, avec Stéphane Grappelli from “Maestro of the Mouth Organ”

Larry Adler

Prof. Dilettante was visiting today, and was able to share the variety of delicious sounds from 1902-1949  as well as some of the scones DJ Fari of Francofun & Yum Yum so kindly gave to McSchmormac.

Madame Bolduc

PLAYLIST:

• “Jugglers from Deems Taylor‘s ‘Circus Day, Op. 18’ (excerpt)” by San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edwin McArthur from “Carousel of American Music – The Fabled 24 September 1940 San Francisco Concerts”
• “Arthimise Marie le Bedeau” by Madame Bolduc from “Madame Bolduc – l’Anthologie”
• “Miss Meal Cramp Blues” by Alec Johnson from “Hard Times Come Again No More – Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships – Vol. 1”
• “Ekyalema Nakato” by Sekinomu from “Something Is Wrong – Vintage Recordings from East Africa”
• “Um chorinho delicioso” by Severino Araujo e sua Orquestra from “Brazilian Big Bands – Dancing Days- 1904-1954”
• “Mosquito’s Parade” by Vess L. Ossman from “Ring, Ring de Banjo – Banjo Showpieces”
• “Ballu logudoresu” by Efisio Melis from “Launeddas”
• “O Hasápis” by Márkos Vamvakáris from “Bouzouki Pioneer 1932-1940”
• “Russkyj Kazatchok” by Konstantina Sadovnika & Krestyanskyj Orkestr from “The Widow’s Joy – Eastern European Immigrant Dances In America, 1925-1930”
• “Ahlen Bikoum” by Sassi from “Opika Pende – Africa at 78 RPM”
• “(Bizet’s) Les Pêcheurs De Perles: Je Crois Entendre Encore” by Dmitri Smirnov from “Highlights from Prima Voce”
• “Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yay” by Leadbelly from “The Very Best of”
• “Untitled Dance” by Cigan Group from “The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 4 – Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48”
• “Rocky Road” by Alabama Sacred Harp Singers from “Anthology Of American Folk Music – Edited By Harry Smith”
• “Satsuma biwa: Ko-Atsumori” by Yoshimura Gakujô from “Japanese Traditional Music – Noh · Biwa · Shakuhachi – Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai 1941”
• “Lagu Ardja” by Colin McPhee from “The Roots of Gamelan”
• “Kebyar Ding V: Pangrangrangan” by Gamelan Gong of Kebyar from “Bali 1928 – Gamelan Gong Kebyar – Belaluan – Pangkung – Busungbiu”
• “Play, Fiddle, Play” by The Slam Stewart Quartet from “Bowin’ Singin’ Slam”
• “(J.S.Bach’s) Violin Sonata No. 3 in C major for solo violin, BWV 1005: IV. Allegro assai” by Yehudi Menuhin from “Enescu, Pizzetti, Bach – Sonatas -1929-1938”
• “Sometimes I’m Happy” by Erroll Garner from “Vol. 2 – Standards – Original 1945-1949 Recordings”
• “I Would Do Anything For You” by Art Tatum Trio from “Trio Days”
• “Hallelujah” by Coleman Hawkins All American Four from “Teddy Wilson – The Elegant Mister Wilson”
• “Harpo Speaks & My Blue Heaven” by Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Harpo Marx & Gary Cooper from “The Golden Age of American Comedy”
• “Hüzzam Taxim” by Ibrahim Bey from “To Scratch Your Heart – Early Recordings From Istanbul”
• “Quinto Regimiento” by The Almanac Singers from “The Sea, The Soil And The Struggle (1941-1942)”
• “Risonha” by Luperce Miranda from “Bresil – Choro – Samba – Frevo – 1914-1945”
• “I Once Loved A Sailor” by Charlie Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers from “With the North Carolina Ramblers & The Highlanders”
• “Trinidad Paseo” by Lovey’s String Band from “Trinidad – 1912-1941”
• “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (excerpt)” by Fats Waller from from “Portrait Vol. 2”

Luperce Miranda

An intercontinental selection of sound reproductions from 1903-1950, DJ McSchmormac’s first meeting with DJ Fari, his new neighbor on the Radio Valencia schedule, presenter of Francofun and Yum Yum, and mentoring DJ Heidi of Shindignation! in the ways of the phone.

Ulla Katajavuori

PLAYLIST:

• (“Madame Arthur” by Yvette Guilbert from the end of DJ Fari’s new show “Yum Yum”)
• “Medley: You Can’t Stop Me from Dreaming / Little Old Lady / Whispers In the Dark (excerpt)” by Reginald Dixon from “The Early Years”
• “Stage Fright” by Carl Stalling from “the Carl Stalling project – Volume 2: more music from Warner Bros. cartoons 1939-1957”
• “That Old Piano Roll Band” by Zez Confrey from “Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era – Volume IV”
• “Der Zuchthäusler” by  D’Jedlern from “Oberösterreich-Salzburg – Volksmusik – Rare Schellacks 1910-1949”
• “Karelsk Vagguisa” by Ulla Katajavuori from “The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 5 – Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48”
• “Oi! Kuinka Engeliksi Mielin (The Preacher and the Slave)” by Arthur Kylander from “Stranded in the USA – early Songs of Emigration”
• “Savoy Blues” Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (plus Lonnie Johnson) from “Original Masters – The Best of … The Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings”
• “Melancolía” by Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Jazz from “Swing Guitar Masterpieces – 1938-1957”
• “Voo-It! Voo-It!” by Marion Abernathy “the Blues Woman” from “Great Googa Mooga! – These words don’t make no sense!”
• “Tsantarmas” by by Yiorgo Anestopoulos from “Premier Greek Clarinettist”
• “Kenge E Dhimitraqit (Song for Dimitri)” by Zonja Qerine Dhe Rizaj Me Shocket from “Albanian Village Music – Recorded in Tirana 1930”
• “Raina Hubavitsa” by Tsonka Petrova from “Outsinging The Nightingale – Lost Treasures of Bulgarian Music – 1905-1950”
• “Rumänische Fantasien, Pt. 1” by Joseph Solinski from “Klezmer Music – Early Yiddish Instrumental Music – The First Recordings: 1908-1927”
• “Hüzzam Taxim” by Şükrü Tunar from “Legendary Clarinetist of Turkey”
• “Soultanigiah” by Kanoni Artaki from “Open Strings – Early Virtuoso Recordings From The Middle East, And New Responses”
• “Kösküm Var” by Koro Heyeti from “Turkish Tradition – Masterpieces Of Turkish Musical Culture”
• “Esírí Zülfünün” by Münir Nurettin Selçuk from “Ustad Münir Nurettin Selçuk –  Turkish Classical Song Master”
• “Illinois Blues” by Skip James from “Legends of the Country Blues”
• “Stack-A-Lee, Pts. 1 & 2” by Archibald from “Gettin’ Funky – The Birth of New Orleans R&B”
• “Red River Blues” by Lottie Beaman from “The Paramount Masters”
• “Rolling Log Blues” by Lottie Kimbrough from “A Richer Tradition – Country Blues and String Band Music 1923-1942”
• “(Coffee in the Morning) Kisses in the Night” by Jim and Bob from “Genial Hawaiians – Jim and Bob – Plus George Ku and his Pacific Islanders”
• “(Grieg’s) Gangar (Peasant’s March) from “Lyric Pieces, Book 5”, Op. 54: No. 2.” Performed by Edvard Hagerup Grieg from “Legends of the Piano – Acoustic Recordings 1901-1924”
• “Mood To Be Stewed” by Slam Stewart Quintet from “The Chronological Classics – 1945 – 1946”
• “Scene With Tweedledum & Tweedledee: The Mulberry Bush/Tweedledum & Tweedledee” by Ann Stephens, Nancy Munks, Leslie Henson & Stanley Holloway from “Teddy Bears’ Picnic”
• “Everything Stops For Tea” by Jack Buchanon from “Radio Memories”
• “Mytilinio” by Popular Orchestra from “Rembetika 2 – More of the Secret History of Greece’s Underground Music”
• “Caravan” by Larry Adler from “The Great Larry Adler – Original Recordings 1934-1947”
• “Babalu (excerpt)” by Orquesta Casino de la Playa from “Memories of Cuba – (1937-1944)”

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (circa 1900)

On this week’s show Ian Nagoski phones in to chat about some of his recently released 78RPM reissue compilations, and other things.

D.J McSchmormac gets so excited he totally forgets to wish the listeners an auspicious and happy Chinese New Year – Year of the Water Snake!

PLAYLIST:

• “Hesitation Blues (excerpt)” by Victor Military Band from “Cakewalks, Rags & Blues – Military Style”
• “Dzieci w Krateczki” by Wladyslaw Polak from “The Widow’s Joy – Eastern European Immigrant Dances In America, 1925-1930”
• “Rast Gazel, Faryadi Figan” by Hafiz Saadeddin Kaynak from “To What Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora – 1916-1929”
• “Chinary Yares Aghchg” by Karekin Proodian from “To What Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora – 1916-1929”
• “Ouskeh Gukas” by Nishan Keljikian from “To What Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora – 1916-1929”
• “Taqasim Saba Kanun” by Ustaz Kamil Ibrahim from “What Remains of Eden – Anatolian & Levantine Music 1928-1952”
• “Polka Francuszka” by Braci Balabanowych from “The Widow’s Joy – Eastern European Immigrant Dances In America, 1925-1930”
• “Basant khyal: Ab maine man dekheri (ektal)” by Abdul Karim Khan from “Ustad Abdul Karim Khan – 1934-1935”
• “Taxim Ouchak” by Athanasiou Makedonas from “To What Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora – 1916-1929”
• “Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall” by The Ink Spots with Ella Fitzgerald from “Getting’ Sentimental – 1939-1945”
• “Mr. Garfield” by Bascom Lamar Lunsford from “Songs and Ballads of American History and of the Assassination of Presidents”
• “Crescendo In Blue” by Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra from “Original Masters – The best of Duke Ellington”
• “Deixa comigo” by Carmen Miranda from “Bresil – Choro – Samba – Frevo – 1914-1945”
• “Nabok Hej!” by Orkiestra Feltana from “The Widow’s Joy – Eastern European Immigrant Dances In America, 1925-1930”
• “Sabah Manes” by Mme. Koula from “To What Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora – 1916-1929”
• “Miserlou” by Tetros Demetriades from “To What Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora – 1916-1929”
• “Goud Malhar: Maan Na Kari” by Kesarbai Kerkar from “Kesarbai Kerkar”
• “Shamisen Boogie Woogie” by Ichimaru from “Rocket Infinity: The Global Rise of Rocking Music 1942-62”
• “Ghumar” by Yusuf al-Manyalawi from “Ian Nagoski Collection (unreissued)”
• “Tchakidji” by Shekar Hanim from “To What Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora – 1916-1929”
• “Valencia (excerpt)” by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra from “Sweet & Low Down – Original Recordings Vol. 3”

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Click here for the 5/2/2012 episode when Ian previously phoned-into the show, and be sure to check out Ian’s mixtape on the Sound American site before it’s removed in a couple of months.

This week it’s an all-railroad-themed selection of vintage recordings, it’s been a long time coming down the line, with DJ McSchmormac even going totally off the rails at the end of the show, with the deliberate inclusion of a post-1950 recording, in clear violation of the show’s usual strictly pre-1951-only playlist policy…

PLAYLIST:

• “The National Game”(excerpt) by Sousa’s Band, conducted by Joe Pasternak from “Under The Double Eagle – The Marches of John Philip Sousa”
• “Calling Trains” by unidentified train caller from “Railroad Songs and Ballads”
• “In Charge of a Book Stall” by Tommy Handley from “’Talented Talkers’ – Favourite Monologues”
• “Oh, I’m a Jolly Irishman Winding on the Train” by Nobel B. Brown from “Railroad Songs and Ballads”
• “K.C. Moan” by Memphis Jug Band from “Memphis Jug Band with Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers”
• “I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground” by Bascom Lamar Lunsford from “Serenade In The Mountains – Early Old Time Music on Record”
• “The Engineer” by Lester A. Coffee from “Railroad Songs and Ballads”
• “Take The ‘A’ Train” by The Slim Gaillard Trio from “The Absolute Voutest! ‘46”
• “Track-Lining Song “ by Allen Prothero from “Negro Work Songs and Calls”
• “The New River Train” by the Ridge Rangers from “Railroad Songs and Ballads”
• “Rock Island Blues” by Furry Lewis from “Masters of Memphis Blues”
• “Your Good Man Caught The Train And Gone” by Mississippi Sheiks from “The Best of Mississippi Sheiks”
• “Bill Mason” by Roy Harvey and the North Carolina Ramblers from “Charlie Poole with The North Carolina Ramblers And The Highlanders”
• “The Wreck of the Virginian” by Blind Alfred Reed from “The Bristol Sessions”
• “Depot Blues’ by Son House from “Legends of the Country Blues”
• “Casey Jones” by Pete Seeger “If I Had A Hammer – Original Recordings 1944-1950”
• “Honky Tonk Train Blues” by Meade Lux Lewis from “Shakin’ That Thing – The Essential Recordings of Boogie Woogie Stomp”
• “Frisco Whistle Blues” by Ed Bell from “A Richer Tradition – Country Blues and String Band Music 1923-1942”
• “The Wreck of the Number Nine” by Vernon Dalhart from “Puttin’ on the Style – The Edison Collection”
• “El Rapido” by Astor Piazzolla y Su Orquesta Típica from “Los Primeros Años”
• “Rock Island Line” by Kelly Pace, Charlie Porter, L.T. Edwards, Willie Hubbard, Luther Williams, Napoleon Cooper, Albert Pate & Willie Lee Jones from “Negro Work Songs and Calls”
• “The Union Train” by The Almanac Singers from “Talking Union”
• “The Gone Dead Train” by King Solomon Hill from “The Paramount Masters”
• “K.C. Railroad Blues “ by Andrew & Jim Baxter from “Violin, Sing The Blues for Me – African-American Fiddlers 1926-1949”
• “The Hobo’s Last Ride” by Hank Snow from “We’ll Never Say Goodbye – The Montreal Sessions 1937-1943”
• “I’m Going Home On The Morning Train” by E.M. Martin and Pearline Johns from “Railroad Songs and Ballads”
• “John Henry” by Paul Robeson from “Songs of Struggle”
• “Frisco Leaving Birmingham” by George ‘Bullet’ Williams from “The Paramount Masters”
• “Train Whistle Blues” by Jimmie Rodgers from “With My Little Ukulele In My Hand”
• “Bound Steel Blues” by Bill Shepherd with Hayes Shepherd & Ed Webb from “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of – Super Rarities & Unissued Gems Of The 1920s & 30s”
• “Georgia Hobo” by The Cofer Brothers from “Hard Times Come Again No More – Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships – Vol. 1”
• “The Cannonball” by The Carter Family from “The Carter Family – 1927-1934”
• “Broke Down Engine” by Lonnie Clarke from “The Paramount Masters”
• “Wreck Of The Tennessee Gravy Train” by Uncle Dave Macon from “Uncle Dave Macon – Classic Sides -1924-1938”“The Big Rock Candy Mountains” by Harry McClintock from “Railroad Songs and Ballads”
• “The Big Rock Candy Mountains” by Harry McClintock from “Railroad Songs and Ballads”

There were too many great railroad songs that I didn’t get to include during this show, so there’ll be a “Railroad Tracks Pt. 2” show, some time in the not too distant future

Train Crash, 1900, Harcourt St., Dublin, Ireland

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On next week’s show Ian Nagoski will be phoning in for a chat about some of his latest compilation reissues

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D.J. McSchmormac returns to the wonky form that listeners have grown accustomed to, with trademark miscues, and a selection of recordings dating from 1911-1949, including a couple of recent releases.

Jim and Bob – The Genial Hawaiians

PLAYLIST:

• “The Flying Scotsman” by Sidney Torch from “Cinema Organ – Volume I”
• “Mule Skinner Blues” by Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys from “All The Classic Releases 1937-1949“
• “West Virginia Gals” by Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters from “Harry Smith’s Anthology Of American Folk Music, Volume Four”
• “(Schubert arr. Kreisler) Rosamunde” by Fritz Kreisler with Michael Raucheisen from “The Charming Maverick – Plays…”
• “Dakhalt Marra” by Asmahan from “Les Archives De La Musique Arabe – Volume 1”
• “Uzbekiston Dyorim” by A. Mirzaeva from “The Secret Museum of Mankind – Central Asia – Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48”
• “My Clam Digger Sweetheart” by Yogi Yorgesson from “Pre-1951 Yogi Yorgesson”
• “Dem Rebens Tanz (The Rabbi’s Dance)” by Art Shryer’s Orchestra from “Klezmer Pioneers – European American Recordings 1905-1952”
• “Bagesri” by Surat Band from “Sprigs of Time – 78s from The EMI Archive”
• “Mandalena” by Marika Papagika from “Greek Popular and Rebetic music in New York 1918 – 1929”
• “Cintec De Joc (hora): Trece Mindra Pe Colnic” by Ioana Zlataru & Nicolae Zlataru from “Village Music from Romania: Oltenia, Runc and the Villages of Gorj”
• “(Stravinsky’s) Orpheus, ballet in 3 scenes for orchestra: Scene 2: Pas d’action” by The RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra conducted by Igor Stravinsky from “Octet To Orpheus – The Neo-Classical Stravinsky”
• “Kinnekulle-Schottis” by Hjalmar Peterson’s Hobo Orchestra from “Gay Life in Dikanka – R. Crumb’s Old-Time Favorites”
• “Aloma” by Jim and Bob from “Genial Hawaiians – Jim and Bob – Plus George Ku and his Pacific Islanders”
• “Blues Collins” by “The Grand Slam of Swing” – The Slam Stewart Quartet from “The Chronological Classics – 1945-1946”
• “Hora” by Unknown musicians from “Song Of The Crooked Dance – Early Bulgarian Traditional Music 1927-42″
• “Céline ” by Édith Piaf & Les Compagnons de la Chanson from “La Vie En Rose”
• “Celle Qui Est Perdre” by Michel Warlop & son Orchestre featuring Germaine Sablon (vocal) from from “Django Reinhardt – Musette to Maestro 1928-1937– The early work of a guitar genius”
• “Je Voudrais Vivre” by Michel Warlop & son Orchestre featuring Germaine Sablon (vocal) from from “Django Reinhardt – Musette to Maestro 1928-1937– The early work of a guitar genius”
• “Café Society Rag” by Big Joe Turner with Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis from “All The Classic Hits – 1938-1952”
• “(Rachmaninov’s) Vocalise 0p.34, No. 14” by Gregor Piatigorsky with Ralph Berkowitz from “Concertos and Encores (1934-1950)”
• “Coast of High Barbary” by The Almanac Singers from “The Sea, The Soil And The Struggle (1941-1942)”
• “Deep Purple” by Dodo Marmarosa from “Dodo’s Dance”
• “Cold Winter Blues” by Kokomo Arnold from “Midnight Blues”
• “Shepherd’s Hey” by William Kimber from “Absolutely Classic – The Music of William Kimber”
• “Dark Loch na Gar” by Néillidh Boyle from “A Feeling In The Blood”
• “James Alley Blues” by Rabbit Brown from “New Orelans Blues”
• “Working Man Blues” by Sleepy John Estes from “Legendary Country Blues Artists”
• “Krakowiak” by J. Davidenko from “Ukrainian and Lemko String Bands In America”
• “Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air” by The Southern Sons from “1940’s Vocal Groups -Southern Sons (1941-1944) – Harmonizing Four (1943)”
• “Skokiaan” by The African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia from “Rocket Infinity: The Global Rise of Rocking Music 1942-62”
• “Old Hen Cackle” by Coleman & Harper from “Down In The Basement – Joe Bussard’s Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s – 1926-1937”
• “(Kreisler’s) Liebesfreud” by Fritz Kreisler with Franz Rupp from “The Charming Maverick – Plays…”

Whoah! Second miscue-free show in a row! D.J. McSchmormac is truly on fire with a vividly varied selection of vintage recordings 1920-1950, including three that feature Django Reinhardt, whose birthday is coming up later in the week ahead.

Django Reinhardt

PLAYLIST:

• “Koster Valsen”(excerpt) by Lager-Olson Quartet from “Global Accordion – Early Recordings”
• “Quand Je Suit Partis Pour Le Texas (When I Left For Texas)” by Cléoma Breaux, Joe Falcon & Ophy Breaux from “Cajun – Vol. 1 Abbeville Breakdown 1929-1939”
• “Loveless Love” by Thomas “Fats” Waller from “Portrait Vol.1”
• “Rosie” by C.B. ’88’ Cook and Axe Gang from “Presenting the Alan Lomax Collection”
• “I’m Gonna Run To The City of Refuge” by Blind Willie Johnson from “Blind Willie Johnson and the Guitar Evangelists”
• “I Wonder To Myself” by Tommy Johnson from “Legends of the Country Blues”
• “Farrell O’Gara” by Michael Coleman from “Ceoltóir Mórthionchair na hAoise – Ireland’s most influential traditional musician of the 20th century”
• “The Saga of Jenny” by Danny Kaye from “Kurt Weill”
• “(Grieg’s) Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45: III. Allegro animato” by Fritz Kreisler & Sergey Rachmaninoff from “Beethoven-Schubert-Grieg – Violin Sonatas”
• “(Stravinsky’s) Ebony Concerto” by (Woody) Herman’s Herd conducted by Igor Stravinsky from “Octet To Orpheus – The Neo-Classical Stravinsky”
• “Nozaki-mura no dan from Shinpan utazaimon” by Takemoto Oritayû, Takezawa Danroku & Nozawa Katsuyoshi from “Japanese Traditional Music – Koto and Shamisen – Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai 1941”
• “La Corneta China (The Chinese Cornet)” by Miguel Matamoros & Rafael Cueto from “Hot Music from Cuba – 1907-1936”
• “Furniture Payment (from “Thicker Than Water”)” by Laurel & Hardy etc. from “Another Fine Mess Records Presents Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy”
• “The Wild Wagoner” by Jilson Setters (aka. James Wilson Day) from “Anthology Of American Folk Music – Edited By Harry Smith”
• “I Wish I Had a Nickel” by Hank Williams from “Lovesick Blues – August 1947-December 1948 – Volume II”
• “Miss Liza, Poor gal” by The Teneva Ramblers from “RCA Country Legends – The Bristol Sessions – Vol. 1”
• “Little Betty Brown” by Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies from “Daddy of Western Swing”
• “Kick It!” by The Gene Krupa Orchestra feat. Anita O’Day from “Anita O’Day with Gene Krupa & Stan Kenton – expanded edition”
• “Minore, Skliro To Peprameno” by Katina Homatianou from “Remetika 7 – Women of Rembetika 1908-1947”
• “It Won’t Be You” by Bessie Smith from “Vol. 4 – Empty Bed Blues – Original Recordings 1927-1928″
• “That’ll Learn Ya” by The Maddox Bothers & Rose from “That’ll Learn Ya Durn Ya”
• “Směs Českých Narodnich Tanců” by Pepa Sňábl & Ondřez Ludvik from “The Ace & Deuce of Pipering – 1906-1947”
• “Siroon Aghcheek” by Udi Hrant from “The Early Recordings – Volume 1”
• “Casbah (Song of the Medina)” by Sidney Bechet from “L’Album Souvenir – 1949 – Les Premiers Enregistrements Parisiens”
• “El Bood Tale” by Omme Kolsoum from “La Diva IV”
• “Stackolee” by Mississippi John Hurt from “The Best of Mississippi John Hurt – Columbia – Original Masters”
• “God is a Battle Axe (Take 2)” by The Sallie Martin Singers from “Throw Out the Lifeline”
• “Kolomyjka Lubka (Sweetheart Kolomyjka)” by Ukrainska Selska Orchestra from “Ukrainian Village Music – Historic Recordings 1928-1933”
• “C’est ça Java” by by Orchestre Musette avec refrain chante from “France – Une Anthologie des Musiques Traditionelles”
• “L’Ondee” by Jean Vaissade from “Django Reinhardt – Musette to Maestro 1928-1937– The early work of a guitar genius”
• “(It’s Only A) Paper Moon” by Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France, avec Stéphane Grappelli from “Djangology”
• “Debussy’s Reverie” by Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France from “Kind of Reinhardt”

Another reasonably fine mix of vintage recordings, this time from 1907-1950, including a couple of Mel Tormé‘s especially for Prof. Dilettante who dropped by for a long overdue visit. Wow! and I was so bummed about not bringing my playlist, I totally forgot about miscues!

Mel Tormé

PLAYLIST:

• “March Medley: The Fairies’ Revels/I Won’t Be a Nun”(excerpt) by Leo Rowsome from “Classics of Irish Piping”
• “Tight Time Blues” by Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell from “Hard Time Blues”
• “Voisa” by Choir Makvaneti from “Drinking Horns and Gramophones – The First Recordings in the Georgian Republic, 1902-1914”
• “Pagina gris” by El Trio Victor from “Elvino Vardaro – El Violin Mayor del Tango – 1928-1943″
• “Mos Me Kjani More Shoke” by Mati Kola from “Albanian Village Music – Recorded in Tirana 1930”
• “Where Was Eve Sleeping?” by the Delta Big Four from “Charley Patton – Complete Recordings 1929-1934”
• “Flûte mexicaine (Mexican Flute)” by Pierre Schaeffer “Panorama De Musique Concrète”
• “Blue Skies” by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra from “Black, Brown and Beige – Original Recordings – Vol.9 – 1943-1945”
• “Ya Khouya Aaoued el Khber” by Cheika Zohra Rilizania from “The Secret Museum of Mankind – North Africa – Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48”
• “Black Stick” by Sidney ‘Pops’ Bechet with Noble Sissle’s Swingsters from “Sidney Bechet – Ken Burns Jazz”
• “The opening of the battle of Gettysburg” by Stephen Vincent Benét from “In Their Own Voices – A Century of Recorded Poetry”
• “It’s a Grand and Healthy Life” by George Formby from “With My Little Ukulele In My Hand”
• “I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling” by Mel Tormé with the Red Norvo Trio from “Spotlight on Mel Tormé”
• “Tune Tonic” by Emile Grimshaw and his Banjo Quartet from “Ring, Ring de Banjo – Banjo Showpieces”
• “Happy Talk” by Juanita Hall from “South Pacific – Original Broadway Cast and Bonus Recordings – 1949-1951”
• “Ngwidika Sadanga Wapamagulu” by Pancras Mkwawa and Anselm P. Mkwawa from “Tanzania Instruments – Tanganyika 1950”
• “Holiday for Strings” by Spike Jones & His City Slickers from “Strictly For Music Lovers”
• “Manasa Sri Ramachandra” by Thiruvazhimilalai Subramanian Bros. & Needamangalam Meenakshisundaram Pillai from “Black Mirror – Reflections in Global Musics”
• “I Ain’t Got Nobody” by the Art Tatum Trio from “Trio Days”
• “Deuces Wild” by Johnny Guarnieri Trio from “Slam Stewart – Bowin’ Singin’ Slam”
• (Rachmaninov’s) “Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19: Allegro mosso – Meno mosso – Moderato – Piu vivo” by William Kapell (piano) & Edmund Kurtz (cello) from “Great Pianists – Kapell – Beethoven-Schubert-Rachmaninov”
• “You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me” by Mel Tormé with orchestra conducted by Sonny Burke from “Spotlight on Mel Tormé”
• “Marcia Cogliolo” by Pasquale Taraffo from “”O Rêua” – Una leggenda della vecchia Genova”
• “Dog House Blues” by Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys from “Bill Monroe – All The Classic Releases 1937-1949“
• “Háthika Trelláthika” by Roza Eskenazi from “Rembetissa 1933-1936”
• “Don’t Leave Me Here” by Henry ‘Ragtime’ Thomas from “Baby, How Can It Be? – Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s”
• “Les Patineurs” by Guido Deiro from “Complete Recorded Works, Vol.2”
• “Java Jive” by The Ink Spots from “Swing High, Swing Low – The Early Recordings 1935-41”
• “Javor Kolo” by Tamburitza Orchestra ‘Javor’ from “Tamburitza! Hot String Band Music from The Balkans To America 1910-1950”

D.J.McSchmormac, with his Janus-like ability, started the new year looking both forward and backward, with a selection of tunes from 1950 and earlier, some that were played on the show before, and others being played for the first time.

PLAYLIST:

The last show of 2012 turned into a double-length McSchmormathon, the first two hours featuring 2012-released reissues of recordings from before 1950 and the second two hours featuring a selection of Umm Kulthum‘s 1920s-1940s recordings. Thanks for listening during the year, and have a peaceful & prosperous 2013.

PLAYLIST:

(Act I: A modest selection of reissues released during 2012:)

• “Washington Post”(excerpt) by Sousa’s Band, conducted by Arthur Pryor from “Under The Double Eagle – The Marches of John Philip Sousa”
• “To Kalogeraki” by Gus Dussas from “Bed of Pain” (compiled and annotated by Ian Nagoski)
• “Gitti De Gelmeyiverdi – Selçuk, Münir Nureddin from “Turkish Tradition – Masterpieces Of Turkish Musical Culture” (compiled and annotated by Chris King)
• “Cyganske Vesilia, Pt. 3 [a Gypsy Wedding, Pt. 3]” by Stefana Shkimby I Cyganska Orchestra from “Aimer et Perdre – To Love & To Lose – Songs, 1917-1934” (compiled and annotated by Chris King)
• “Gidelim Göksuya” by Meydan Fasil Heyeti from “Turkish Tradition – Masterpieces Of Turkish Musical Culture”
• “Cyganske Vesilia, Pt. 3 [a Gypsy Wedding, Pt. 3]” by Stefana Shkimby I Cyganska Orchestra from “Aimer et Perdre – To Love & To Lose – Songs, 1917-1934”* (* yes, I accidentally played it twice – the first time around I actually meant to play track 9 from Disc 1 but this is track 9 from Disc 2 … Oops!!! Live Radio!!!)
• “Ta Oula Sou” by Kos & Ka. Papagika from “Remetika 7 – Women of Rembetika 1908-1947” (compiled and annotated by Charles Howard)
• “Ne Çok Çektim Hasretini” by Perihan Altindag-Sözeri from “Turkish Tradition – Masterpieces Of Turkish Musical Culture”
• “Melography” by Unknown Musician from “Pictures of Sound – One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980” (compiled and annotated by Patrick Feaster)
• “It’s Hot Like That” by Charlie McCoy with Chatman’s Mississippi Hot Footers from “Bo Carter & The Mississippi Sheiks” (compiled and annotated by Neil Slaven)
• “Taqasim Bayat Nay” by Ustaz George Saad from “What Remains of Eden – Anatolian & Levantine Music 1928-1952” (compiled and annotated by Ian Nagoski)
• “La Valse la Prison [The Prison Waltz]” by Douglas Ballard & Kirby Riley from “Aimer et Perdre – To Love & To Lose – Songs, 1917-1934”
• “Dzivaeri, Posses Pliges Mou Anixes” by Marika Politissa from “Remetika 7 – Women of Rembetika 1908-1947”
• “Two Step de Maman [Mama’s Two Step]” by Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee from “Aimer et Perdre – To Love & To Lose – Songs, 1917-1934”
• “Yia Afto Foumaro Kokaini” by Marika Politissa from “Remetika 7 – Women of Rembetika 1908-1947”
• “Beans” by Bo Carter from “Bo Carter & The Mississippi Sheiks”
• “Nideyim Sahni Çemen” by Üstad Münir Nureddin from “Turkish Tradition – Masterpieces Of Turkish Musical Culture”
• “Gildelim” by Marika Papagika from “Remetika 7 – Women of Rembetika 1908-1947”
• “Eche Yeia Panayia” by Kas. Pipinas from “Remetika 7 – Women of Rembetika 1908-1947”
• “She Lied To Me” by Emry Arthur from “Aimer et Perdre – To Love & To Lose – Songs, 1917-1934”
• “Ti Se Melli Esenane” by Kas. Pipinas from “Remetika 7 – Women of Rembetika 1908-1947”
• “Balbastre’s Romance (1778)”(excerpt) by Le Père Marie-Dominique-Joseph Engramelle from “Pictures of Sound – One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980”
• “Musica Enchiriadis (10th C.)” by Anonymous from “Pictures of Sound – One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980”
• “Uwiedziona Dziewczyna [The Cheated Girl]” by Franciszek Dukli Wiejska Banda from “Aimer et Perdre – To Love & To Lose – Songs, 1917-1934”
• “Aghan Yar” by Untraced Artists from “What Remains of Eden – Anatolian & Levantine Music 1928-1952”
• “Yarin Bahçesinde” by Müzeyyen Senar Isil from “Turkish Tradition – Masterpieces Of Turkish Musical Culture”
• “Dance Sherzad” by Semi Sheheen & His Utica Ensemble from “What Remains of Eden – Anatolian & Levantine Music 1928-1952”
• “Polka Mazurka” by Ukrainska Selska Orchestra from “Aimer et Perdre – To Love & To Lose – Songs, 1917-1934”
• “Tavas Zeybegi” by Ìzmirli Santuri Recep, Kemani Cemal & Udi Mustafa Beyler  from “Turkish Tradition – Masterpieces Of Turkish Musical Culture”
• “Aimer Et Perdre (To Love And To Lose)” by Cléoma & Joe Falcon from “Aimer et Perdre – To Love & To Lose – Songs, 1917-1934”
• “Basant khyal: Ab maine man dekheri (ektal)” by Abdul Karim Khan from “Ustad Abdul Karim Khan – 1934-1935” (compiled and annotated by Ian Nagoski)

(Act II: Some Umm Kulthum, on the possible occasion of her 108th or 114th birthday:)

• “Bestenigar Taksim (violoncello)”(excerpt) by Tanburi Çemil Bey from “Tanburi Çemil Bey – Vol. I”
• “al-Sabbu tafdahuhu ‘uyunuh” (1930) from “Omme Kolsoum – La Diva III”
• “Ya ma nadeet” (1932) from “Oum Kaltsoum – Vol. VII (1936)”
• “Ya layl nujumak” (1936) from “Omme Kolsoum – Wedad – Original Soundtrack”
• “Qul lil-bakhilati” (1930) from “Omme Kolsoum – La Diva I”
• “Kayfa marrat ‘ala hawak” (1938) from “The Legend – Oum Kalsoum – The Arab World’s Greatest Singer”
• “Yawm il-hinna” (1930) from “Oum Kaltsoum – (1930-1931) Vol. III”
• “Akhadhti sutik min ruhi” (1928) from “Omme Kolsoum – La Diva II”
• “Ghanna al-rabi” (1946) from “The Legend – Oum Kalsoum – The Arab World’s Greatest Singer”
• “Min illi qal” (1936) from “Oum Kaltsoum – Vol. VII (1936)”
• “Ya tayr ma ‘ayish asir” (1936) from “Omme Kolsoum – Wedad – Original Soundtrack”
• “Amana ayyuha al-qamar al-mutill” (1930) from “Omme Kolsoum – La Diva II”
• “Ruhi wi-ruhak” (1930) from “Oum Kaltsoum – Vol. VII (1936)”
• “Tira’i ghayri” (1928) from “Omme Kolsoum – La Diva II”
• “Ijma’i ya Misru!” (1936) from “The Legend – Oum Kalsoum – The Arab World’s Greatest Singer”
• “Imta al-hawa” (1932) from “Oum Kaltsoum – Vol. VII (1936)”

(the above dates are taken from this site, and differ from many given by the above CDs, as announced during the show)

(Epilogue:)

• “Twist It Baby” by Bo Carter from “Bo Carter & The Mississippi Sheiks”
• “Feredze Foro” by Rita Abadzi from “Remetika 7 – Women of Rembetika 1908-1947”
• “I’m An Old Bumble Bee” by Bo Carter from “Bo Carter & The Mississippi Sheiks”
• “Under The Double Eagle”(excerpt) by Sousa’s Band, conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret from “Under The Double Eagle – The Marches of John Philip Sousa”

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