Favoriting Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison: Playlist from October 5, 2021 Favoriting

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Favoriting October 5, 2021: Empathied out since 1931.

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Artist Track Approx. start time
George Gershwin  Clap Yo' Hands   Favoriting  
Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra  Breakin' in a New Pair of Shoes   Favoriting 0:02:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Wilmoth Houdini  The Calypso Way   Favoriting 0:09:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lil Johnson  My Stove's in Good Condition   Favoriting 0:11:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra  Burlesque   Favoriting 0:14:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gus Bodenheim  The Delbarton Clown Car™   Favoriting 0:18:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Polly Walker  Where Were You? Where Was I?   Favoriting 0:19:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Palmer McAbee  McAbee's Railroad   Favoriting 0:22:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Milt Herth  Swamp Fire   Favoriting 0:25:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Betty Boop  Bimbo's Express   Favoriting 0:34:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Groucho Marx  I'm Against It   Favoriting 0:39:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Nan Blakstone  A Lady's a Lady (No Matter What Cooks)   Favoriting 0:40:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gus Bodenheim  Delbarton Repurposed Facial Coverings™   Favoriting 0:43:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Ruth Etting  Exactly Like You   Favoriting 0:48:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Adrian Rollini  Minuet in Jazz   Favoriting 0:51:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Reginald Foresythe  St. Louis Blues   Favoriting 0:53:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Little Son Joe  Black Rat Swing   Favoriting 0:56:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  9:07am
Listener Robert:

What does the producer here get as a bonus?
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Lolabelle Pancake:

I think that's a reasonable ask.
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G:

Waiting for the start of Music of Empathy Control.
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G:

@Lolabelle: Who's your haberdasher? I simply *must* know.
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rrg:

$60 in a week? Sixty? I guess I'll sign up for that.
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loveless:

Gershwin! He's da man. Hello all.
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dale:

what is this travesty? if imma' sell tea and coffee i want a studebaker. a kaiser at minimum.
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ultradamno:

Yeah, "tea" I get what you're really delivering there.
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dale:

and why does that dude look like he's high on demon mary jane?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

From Ragtime to Riches
- what a time we're in friends.
Avatar 7:05pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Hello, everyone! I'll reveal my headwear supplier in a little while.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I just know this Century is gonna blossom...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Lolabelle - the original Radiohead.
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ShelbyG:

well, hello
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spodiodi:

tear it up, Codge!
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listener 126464:

Too funny!
Avatar 7:08pm
ShelbyG:

Codger likes an active listener
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loveless:

@ShelbyG Hello again.
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dale:

i still have my grampa's delbarton truss and spats.
Avatar 7:09pm
ShelbyG:

hello lovely loveless
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ultradamno:

Young people these day, "boomers" they call them, only ever talk about themselves and don't give a second's space for anyone else to get in there.
Avatar 7:12pm
(Murakami Whywolf))):

This is mostly using the same melody he used for "Trinidad Coming Like New York Town", and "Bojangles, the Tap Dancer".

Not cheating, calypsoneans usually re-used older melodies….
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:13pm
dale:

huh? adjusting the damper is a simple process. this lady is clueless as to the proper and safe operation of a coal and/or wood stove.
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G:

@ultra: And boomers raised millennials to be even worse. IThis, IThat IEveryFreakinThing. And let's not even start on Gen Z or whatever it's calling itself anymore.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
Webhamster Henry:

Lil Johnson's stove is powered by green energy.
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ShelbyG:

demon mary jane resides with me
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Lolabelle Pancake:

Calypsonians didn't "re-use." They stole.
  7:14pm
The Butterman:

There used to be a dj who would do a weekly segment of Calypso called Henrietta’s Mustache or Gwendolyn’s Sphincter. Whatever happened to that dj?
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G:

She's got somethin in the oven.
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dale:

ShelbyG - pass the dutchie.
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ultradamno:

@Lolabelle Like proper musicians!
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ShelbyG:

dale: it's on the lefthand side, friend
Avatar 7:16pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Butter: You mean Irwin? He used to do a show on WFMU in the 1990s.
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dale:

muriel's treasure - irwin. he took time off from his non paying job at he station.
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G:

Clown Cars, my favorite.
  7:18pm
?:

Didn't Zappa swipe this , Burlesque
  7:19pm
The Butterman:

Lolabelle, that was him. Yeah, I used to live that Muriels Treasure!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:19pm
spodiodi:

best Delbarton product evar
  7:20pm
yippie:

they are doin the Flintstone flop
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ultradamno:

See, all this sounds like it would exacerbate road rage, not so much diffuse it.
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G:

Does the big red beep horn come standard?
Avatar 7:21pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

According to some staffers, Irwin's act "got old." Just please don't use those words around Courtney.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:21pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I suppose if you can't quite run away with the Circus anymore there is FMU.
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spodiodi:

hope there's a vase on the dash with a flower that squirts water
Avatar 7:22pm
ShelbyG:

I live for Gus's sponsorship. And wwhhhhy not?
Avatar 7:23pm
ShelbyG:

apparently Ireland is having trouble with a clown shortage due to covid..
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:24pm
spodiodi:

🚂 this sounds like anakin
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ShelbyG:

nypost.com...
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ultradamno:

I thought a clown shortage was referred to as "a good start"
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ShelbyG:

not according to the poor sods in N. Ireland, see the link..tragic
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Seedy:

this guy is legendary and this is great.
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dale:

this dude is tearing his wurlitzer a new one.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Just drove through Hershey, PA. Do you suppose the high school sports team is the Squirts?
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ultradamno:

I don't knowingly click links to clowns
Avatar 7:29pm
ShelbyG:

that wurlitzer don't know what hit it
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:30pm
ultradamno:

Unless some of his album titles are lies, I think Milt preferred a Hammond
Avatar 7:30pm
ShelbyG:

@ultra: fair enough, but it's not a link to clowns, it's a link to an article about the shortage of clowns, to be clear
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
ultradamno:

Well, that does make it upbeat, but the threat of clown imagery is still clear.
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dale:

ultra - couldn't tell. just had the organ store at the mall sound. the one with the guy with the pencil mustache and sansabelt slacks and thom mccann white loafers and all that swagger that turned the older ladies on.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:32pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

If the Clowns delivered coffee then I think we'd be on to something possibly...
  7:35pm
?:

Would that be the fantastic" The American Peoples Encyclopedia" ?
1948
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dale:

the two rarely seen pornos starring flip the frog are pretty filthy. but they are required viewing by tijuana school children even today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:36pm
ultradamno:

The frog that cannot be named was into some freaky, downright Teutonic stuff, from what I hear.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:36pm
maestroso:

@ultradamno that organ sounded like a Hammond model A. I have one; it sounds like that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:36pm
spodiodi:

fresh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:37pm
Webhamster Henry:

Bimbo: Billy Murray
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
ultradamno:

www.discogs.com...
  7:40pm
yippie:

back in the day I always used to listen to Arthur Collins sing that song Moving Day
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:41pm
dale:

flip was a nazi sympathizer from his time spent playing poker with henry ford.
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spodiodi:

The Ramones can't really mess with Groucho
  7:42pm
yippie:

https://www.discogs.com/release/4900251-Arthur-Collins-Moving-Day
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...wasn't called Flip for nothing...
Groucho ripped this from TheRamones of course...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:43pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Is this Mama Cass's mum ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:43pm
spodiodi:

coke is fine, Rev
  7:43pm
yippie:

the cylinder actually says "coon song"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:44pm
ultradamno:

She was "the woman of the year" (why not "lady" at this point is anyone's guess) www.queermusicheritage.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:45pm
spodiodi:

the thing... XD
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:45pm
dale:

i need to hear some knocker's up from rusty warren now.
  7:46pm
Choggie:

Just swagged-for-life ya crazy 'ol wax-twister, may yer schtick survive another gristled'n grouchy year....CHAIRS!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:48pm
chresti:

Oooh I want one those!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:54pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

if I feels toomarruh
just like I feelz tuhday...
Avatar 7:54pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Looks like the clock is signaling that it's time to pack up and shuffle back to the poutin' shanty. Thanks to you all for tuning in and STAYING tuned in.
  7:55pm
yippie:

i always had this theory that the person who is moving in that song moving day, is the real Bill Bailey
Avatar 7:55pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Please be patient and forbearing with Gus next week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:55pm
radioronan:

Thanks Courtney..Lolabelle!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:56pm
spodiodi:

thanks, Codger! thanks, Lolabelle!
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Stillwell Coney Islander:

Thanks Courtney & Lolabelle !
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:58pm
dale:

i clicky star more songs on this fine program. in fact, i unclicky star some songs on other programs because they are overplayed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:58pm
dale:

i mean, there's no overplaying ruth etting.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

She appreciates you defending her honor Dale.
~ TY As Ever DJ Codger ~
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listener 126464:

Great hour. Thanks Courtney. Very funny comments all! Segueing into Uncle Floyd Video Club crap.
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rrg:

What a fine hour. Now what? Whatever it is, it won't be as good as this.
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ShelbyG:

thx Courtney, great show, tell Gus "hi" from me!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00pm
ultradamno:

All Gus? I'm scared!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:01pm
dale:

good shoe. better than arthur godfrey even!
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