Well I tried to do a mix of spooky and enchanting recordings from 1950 or earlier, but I found a bag of candy someone left at the studio, and I might have eaten too much of it, and gotten a bit carried away towards the end, on a tremendous sugar rush, completing Gramophoney Baloney’s first year at Radio Valencia. Yes! Gramophoney Baloney on Radio Valencia is one year old already! Hip! Hip! Hooray!!!! Hooray for Radio Valencia!!

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Louis Armstrong & pal

PLAYLIST:

• “Marigold (excerpt)” by Quentin M. Maclean from “Cinema Organ – Volume I”
• “Toccata, from J.S. Bach’s: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565” by Dr. Albert Schweitzer from “Albert Schweitzer plays Bach – Volume 1”
• “Devil’s Jump” by John Lee Hooker from “The Classic Early Years 1948 – 1951”
• “Skeleton In The Closet” by Louis Armstrong with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra from “The Chronological Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra 1936-1937”
• “Me And The Devil Blues” by Robert Johnson from “Legendary Blues”
• “Transbluency (A Blue Fog That You Can Almost See Through)” by Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra featuring Kay Davis on vocal from “Time’s A Wastin’ Original Recordings Vol.11 1945-1946”
• “Mysterioso” by Thelonious Monk Quartet from “Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Moods – Original Recordings 1944-1948”
• “It’s Magic” by Doris Day with Les Brown’s Band of Renown from “It’s Magic”
• “(Dubensky’s) The Raven” spoken by Benjamin de Loache with Leopold Stokowsi and the Philadelphia Orchestra from “1932 Recordings of Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra”
• “Down on the Banks of the Ohio” by The Blue Sky Boys from “The Blue Sky Boys – The very best of classic country remastered”
• “Streams of Poolaphuca“ by Edward Meehan’s Rosaleen Orchestra from “Oldtime Records – Vol. 2 – U.S. Recordings”
• “The Goblin Band” by Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra from “Halloween Stomp – jazz and big band dance music for a haunted house party!”
• “Black Rat Blues” by Robert Wilkins from “Masters of Memphis Blues”
• “Omar” by Korla Pandit from “The Grand Moghul Suite”
• “March Medley: The Fairies’ Revels/I Won’t Be a Nun” by Leo Rowsome from “Classics of Irish Piping”
• “Bewitched” by Mel Tormé with Pete Rugulo’s Orchestra from “Spotlight on Mel Tormé”
• “Where the Whippoorwill Is Whispering Goodnight” by Charlie Poole from “Charlie Poole with The North Carolina Ramblers And The Highlanders”
• “In The Pines” by The Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle with Chet Atkins from “1949”
• “Awi-Aw-A, Lage Bourik-La” by Bann Rara Ago from “Alan Lomax in Haiti 1936-1937”
• “Hoodoo Lady” by Memphis Minnie by Memphis Minnie from ”Columbia Original Masters – The Best of … 1933-1937”
• “Never Mo’” by Bert Williams from “The Middle Years, 1910-1918”
• “Why Do You Weep Dear Willow?” by The Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle with Chet Atkins from “1949”
• “Snake Woman (alt.)” by The Raymond Scott Quintet from “Ectoplasm”
• “Sredni Vashtar” by (The) Orson Welles Show from “Orson Welles – Your Obedient Servant”
• “The Devil’s Great Grandson” by Sons of the Pioneers from “American Yodeling 1911-1946”
• “Ionisation” by the Juilliard Percussion Orchestra from “Complete Works of Edgard Varèse – Volume 1”
• “Zombie” by Gene Kardos Orchestra from “Halloween Stomp – jazz and big band dance music for a haunted house party!”
• “The Hitch-Hiker (excerpt)” by (The) Orson Welles Show from “Orson Welles – Your Obedient Servant”
• “Joc: Hategana (I)” by Gheorghe Voila, Nicolae Iancu & Vasile Muntean from “Romania – Village music: Transylvania”
• “Joc: Ardeleana cu strigaturi” by Avram Ticusan & Victor Doru from “Romania – Village music: Transylvania”
• “Fairy Dance; Five Mile Chase (excerpt)” by Dan Sullivan’s Shamrock Band from “Oldtime Records Vol 3. Piping Rarities”
• “Devil Got My Woman (excerpt)” by Skip James from “Legends of the Country Blues”

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

On last year’s show I played the entire  “War of the Worlds” on the anniversary of its original broadcast, on October 30 1938, that show’s podcast is here, and the playlist is here.