Yes Folks, DJ McSchmormac’s weekly BART trip to The Mission was unfortunate to experience major delays this morning; due to heavy rain, resulting in a shorter-than-usual  show, but possibly the old Irish saying “Bíonn blás ar an mbeagán” can be applied here!

Maria Callas – born on this day in 1923

PLAYLIST:

• “Karsilamas Tekirdag” by Cavadhias Popular Orchestra from “Rembetika 2 – More of the Secret History of Greece’s Underground Music”
• “How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live” by Blind Alfred Reed from “Hard Times Come Again No More – Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships – Vol. 1”
• “Little Maggie” by The Stanley Brothers from “Echoes of Clinch Mountain”
• “Good Looking Girl Blues” by Furry Lewis from “Masters of Memphis Blues”
• “A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around” by Stovepipe # 1 and David Crockett from “Good for What Ails You – Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937”
• “Zacataque” by Cuartetto Iberia from “The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. II – Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48”
• “Un gringo en globo” by Alejandro Sáez y Hermanos Ascuez from “Early Recordings of Peruvian Music: 1911-1930”
• “Variations on Johannes Strauss (from Mouse Mazurka)” by Carl Stalling from “the Carl Stalling project – Volume 2: more music from Warner Bros. cartoons 1939-1957”
• “(Lassen’s) Thine Eyes So Blue” by Pablo Caslas with Walter Golde from “Encores & Transcriptions, Vol. 4, Complete Acoustic Recordings, Part 2 (1916-1920)”
• “You’ve got to lay down and die some day” by Rev. J. M. Gates from “Rev. J. M. Gates – Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order – VOLUME 4 – December 1926”
• “I Don’t Want To Go Down There” by Two Gospel Keys from “Rev. Gary Davis and the Guitar Evangelists Volume 2”
• “Tamzara” by D. Perperian from “To What Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora – 1916-1929”
• “Blue Skies” by The Royal Rhythm Boys from “Slim Gaillard – The Chronological Classics – 1940-1942”
• “Casta Diva…Ah! Bello a me ritorna – from Bellini’s Norma” by Maria Callas from “Arias from…”
• “Il barbiere di Siviglia. Cavatina (G. Rossini)” by P. Taraffo  & M. Sartori from “”O Rêua” – Una leggenda della vecchia Genova”
• “Nobody Loves a Fairy When She’s Forty” by Tessie O’Shea from “Music Hall Memories”
• “Chi Mi Frena” by Giovanni Giovale from “Italian String Virtuosi”
• “The Strike” by Atilla the Hun with the Cyril Monrose String Orchestra from “Calypsos From Trinidad – Politics, Intrigue and Violence in the 1930s”
• “Canto de seitura” by Faustino Santalices from “Gravacións Históricas de Zanfona 1927-1949”
• “Quem Mais Jura” by Madelena De Melo from “Variações em Fado – Lisbõa & Coimbra 1926-1936”
• “Waiata Poi” by Peter Dawson from “Classic Dawson”