WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from February 7, 2025

Listener comments!
	♥ 7:01pm Dan S: The Great Experiment begins. Activate the Time Machine! This will be interesting.
	7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hello Dan!!! Welcome to the Tardis
	7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: I got my Tardis on craigslist so it's actually smaller on the inside, sorry guys
	♥ 7:04pm WR: Hi Bronwyn and folks. 1938, eve of the start of the great war, or one of them.
	♥ 7:05pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:02 I got my Tardis real cheap on Temu. It doesn't work very well. :-)
	♥ 7:06pm Yvang: Hi! Listening to the show on my R-5Ch=7R+8P - Edison receiver from 1929.
	♥ 7:08pm Dan S: Also, if this program gets interrupted by an announcement of invading Martians landing in New Jersey, I'll be suspicious. :-)
	7:08pm ChristinaInCanada: Oooh Al Bowlly on vocals: dreamy!
	♥ 7:08pm Dan S: ↳ Yvang @7:06 Updated for internet access?
	7:09pm Listener Gregory: Sorry I'm late! I had to run down to the corner newsagent's to buy a pack of Lucky Strikes. (My doctor recommended them.)
	♥ 7:10pm Dan S: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:09 That's the 1930s spirit.
	♥ 7:11pm Yvang: ↳ Dan S @7:08 Crancked internet.
	7:11pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:02 That is still a potential apartment in Manhattan, especially if it's near the elevated tracks or the IRT.
	7:11pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Yvang @7:06 I love imagining this
	7:11pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @7:08 The real star of the Shining
	♥ 7:14pm Yvang: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:11 I am reading an article about this lunatic in Germany with the weird mustache. Oh boy, I pity the Europeans!
	7:16pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:11 Indeed! Incidentally, Russ Columbo was, like Al Bowlly, fallen in a sudden, violent end. I can't think of a Russ Columbo film.
	♥ 7:16pm Yvang: ↳ Yvang @7:14 On the Evening Standard.
	♥ 7:17pm WR: wfmu.org... Jeff Golick played a recording made of Duke Ellington Orchestra in Fargo from 1940. The recording was made from the side of the stage. Part of the performance was broadcast on radio and the radio announcers can be heard. After the first set the announcers signs off and the broadcast ended and the band continued. Interesting slice of time.
	♥ 7:17pm Dan S: $640 for a new car. Even I might be able to afford that.
	♥ 7:24pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Theatre fans! A cool thing to listen to is the Lux Radio theatre and the Theatre Guild transcriptions that are in archive. org. Plays and films compressed into a 1 hour format, usually with the original cast. archive.org...
	♥ 7:26pm Webhamster Henry: Most of my 1930s experiences are Fleischer Brothers cartoons.
	7:27pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "I Get a Kick Out of You" by "Benny Goodman and Hi... Boy, this is extremely tame for Benny Goodman. Sounds like something they played in between the jazz songs, for the dancers.
	7:32pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ WR @7:17 that sounds so cool!!
	7:33pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Introduction to George Gershwin Memorial" by "Con... They tell me that George Gershwin has died, but I don't have to believe it if I don't want to.
	7:34pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @7:17 That would be over $14,000 today!
	7:34pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:26 I love those
	7:35pm Leon H.: This is SO great, and I think it’s just what I needed tonight.
	7:35pm Bronwyn Bishop: im so glad!! welcome Leon!! :)
	♥ 7:36pm solo mon: Good stuff, Bronwyn!
	7:36pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank you solo mon!! <3
	7:37pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:33 (Someone said this shortly after his death—or as close to this as my memory can manage.)
	7:39pm Bronwyn Bishop: according to the googles it was John o'hara
	♥ 7:39pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:34 That would still be low for a new car, of any model. I don't think you can get one today for less than $20K.
	7:40pm Bronwyn Bishop: imagine if you told people back then that people in 2025 would pay $1k a month for their cars, for years
	7:43pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "I Got Rhythm" by "Ethel Merman & WHN Radio Orches... Great verse to this song, Ms. B! I don't think it's ever performed now.
	♥ 7:43pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:40 The modern miracle of buy now, pay later, at high interest rates. Pretty much forever.
	7:45pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Medley: This Can't Be Love/Simple and Sweet" by "... Any song from The Boys From Syracuse reminds me of a dinner theater production of it when I was a stage crew apprentice in '73. Unlike other productions there, the stage manager was put in charge of costumes this time. With the cast providing a few helpful hands and outfit contributions, and with some costume-loft pulling, he got it done. I made a few props. The slightly unusual short tunics and improvised looks in the performances in the lighting on that small stage are reliably featured in my mind to accompany the songs.
	♥ 7:45pm Dan S: Wow, a combination radio/record player! Only $49.95! Where do I get one? :-)
	🎭 ♥ 7:45pm TonyR: I don't haz a Victrola button!!
	7:47pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Dinah" by "Charlie Christian" Whoa! Great find. However, I suspect that Goodman was the original leader on these dates.
	7:51pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @7:45 that actually seems like a reasonable price for a radio/record player now...but in December 1938 (around when that commercial was recorded) it was the equivalent of $1126!
	♥ 7:52pm Dan S: What boggles my mind is that in the mid-1970s, when I came of age, the mid-1930s were 40 years distant and were ancient history to me. Now, the mid-1970s are 50 years distant, yet sometimes seem like just yesterday to me. Life is strange.
	♥ 7:54pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:51 Yes, that is rather very expensive. So cars have become less affordable, but consumer audio devices much more affordable.
	7:57pm ChristinaInCanada: sounds like Fred Allen
	♥ 8:01pm Dan S: Nice harmonies in that Wheaties commercial.
	♥ 8:02pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Heat Wave" by "Ethel Merman" A heat wave. I wish.
	8:02pm Listener Gregory: Part of the problem comparing prices is that the products change. Cars are so much safer, more reliable, more comfortable (in some respects, like heat), and efficient that you aren’t comparing apples to apples. The maintenance on a 1930s car was a half-time job.
	♥ 8:02pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "Heat Wave" by "Ethel Merman" Climate change, already!
	♥ 8:02pm Dan S: ↳ Yvang @8:02 Prescient.
	♥ 8:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Heat Wave" by "Ethel Merman" Rudy butts in
	♥ 8:07pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:06 A world where Royal Gelatin and Jello and Roma Wine ruled the Radio World.
	♥ 8:09pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" by "Judy Garl... Her name is Ethel Marion Gumm.
	8:10pm Bronwyn Bishop: A heartbreaking story about this broadcast, courtesy of the person who posted this on YouTube, ImInBetween: "Judy performs another one of her signature tunes for the first time in public. Broadcast on ''The Shell Chateau Hour'' with Wallace Beery on 16 November, 1935. On the night of the show's broadcast, Judy discovered that her father (Frank Gumm) was seriously ill in hospital with spinal meningitis, but had no choice but to go on and perform - her performance has an added intensity. Her father died the next morning and Judy never saw him alive again. However, a radio was placed next to his bed so he could hear the broadcast, and hear 'Baby' sing one last time."
	8:14pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ still b/p @7:45 I love this story!!
	8:14pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @7:57 it was!
	♥ 8:14pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:10 Wow, that is a poignant, heartbreaking story. I know it's said that the show must go on, but still...
	8:17pm still b/p: Judy had plenty of trouble of various kinds around performances, but I hadn't heard of that distressed moment. A more...feelgood...?..anecdote is from after her neck-cutting suicide attempt. Her first time afterward in front of the public was singing for a live and broadcast audience on Bing Crosby's radio show. Bing's introduction mentioned something about her difficulty, and asked for the audience to give her a warm reception, recognizing the benefit of some compassion and encouragement. Bing not always a nice guy, but a creditable mensch on the occasion.
	🎭 ♥ 8:18pm TonyR: "Porgy & Bess", you say? Nope, never got around to it.
	8:22pm ChristinaInCanada: After so much poignance, I need this Fats Waller
	♥ 8:23pm Dan S: "Sheer, unadulterated thrills." Cpt. Rickenbacker must have been talking about WFMU. :-)
	8:24pm northguineahills: been here, finishing taxes....
	8:28pm Bronwyn Bishop: This appears to be the only appearance anywhere, ever, of "A Man Has Got a Right to Change His Mind," the middle song in this medley
	8:32pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love/A Man Has Got ... This is puzzling. Ms. Walsh's voice is really not up to the standard of 1930s radio. I thought maybe she was a knockout, cruising on her looks, but the photo doesn't really back that up either. Strange.
	8:33pm Bronwyn Bishop: see, I'm not the only one who's ever played tap dancing on the radio
	8:33pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:28 Thank goodness!
	♥ 8:34pm Webhamster Henry: Yeah tap dance on the radio! Eleanor Powell FTW!
	♥ 8:37pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "A Little of You on Toast" by "Don Ameche (with Ri... Never heard of this show -- Great curation there BB
	♥ 8:38pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "A Little of You on Toast" by "Don Ameche (with Ri... So this one is kinda/sorta a show tune?
	8:38pm still b/p: Only saw Ameche movies later in life, after catching him on TV on Friday nights when I was a kid and he hosted the circus show.
	♥ 8:40pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Whispers in the Dark" by "Joe Morrison" Hmm. An early British invasion.
	♥ 8:41pm Webhamster Henry: A Frederick Hollander set would be nice some time. "Destry Rides Again", "5000 Fingers of Dr. T" www.frederickhollandermusic.com
	8:41pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ still b/p @8:17 :( but also :)
	8:42pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:32 I will say she looks better in the still from the YouTube video I pulled this audio from, lol
	8:43pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:37 aww thanks <3
	8:43pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:41 good idea!! love his music!
	8:43pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ still b/p @8:38 I will admit I've only ever seen him in trading places
	♥ 8:44pm Webhamster Henry: Jack always worked Jello into the show.
	8:51pm still b/p: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:43 I love it when hoods in "Ball of Fire" ('44) call the telephone "the Ameche" because he was in "The Story Of Alexander Graham Bell." ('39).
	8:53pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "My Love" by "Dick Webster with Jimmie Grier and H... Written 10 minutes before the show.
	♥ 8:55pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "When I'm With You" by "Fred MacMurray" That's quite a photo there. Bare-chested AND holding a gun. :-)
	🎭 ♥ 8:56pm TonyR: ↳ Dan S @8:55 My Two Guns.
	8:56pm Listener Gregory: What a great show, Ms. B! Thanks a lot for putting all this together, including the dreamy pictures. My RCA tubes are burning up!
	8:56pm Dean: The Cocoanut Grove, a nightclub space at LA's Ambassador Hotel, where I believe Howard Hughes famously holed up and of course where RFK was murdered. My senior high school prom took place at the Ambassador, but not at the Grove. I helped plan it and refused to attend.
	🎭 ♥ 8:57pm TonyR: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:56 Turn off the Victrola button!!!
	♥ 8:57pm Dan S: This show was fun! I'm glad you decided to depart from the usual format of Acid Jazz Hands for tonight to do this 1930s special. Next Friday, back to show tunes and mic breaks? I miss hearing your voice.
	🎭 ♥ 8:57pm TonyR: ↳ TonyR @8:57 Are you sure you got a model 96???
	8:57pm ChristinaInCanada: Thanks, Bronwyn Bishop. I listen to some OTR, and some performers here are new to me.
	8:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:44 I'm gonna start working jello into every ajh show
	8:58pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:56 I thought the Cocoanut Grove burned down in a horrific fire with many dead, in the 40s. It did, but in Boston.
	♥ 9:00pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Wishful Thinking" by "Gwen Williams" 1941. Cheating a little? :-)
	9:01pm Dean: I know there are other Cocoanuts Grove, but I thought the LA one was the only one with the oddball spelling. The Ambassador on Wilshire Blvd. was razed ages ago, sadly. It was a rich LA landmark.
	♥ 9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the show!
	🎭 ♥ 9:01pm TonyR: ↳ Dan S @9:00 We couldn't afford a model 96 until the 40s.
	♥ 9:02pm Yvang: Thanks Bronwyn! Fun show!
	♥ 9:14pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn!

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from February 7, 2025

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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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February 7, 2025: Radio Daze

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Bunny Berigan	Program Introduction/Back In Your Own Backyard	1938 Broadcasts from the Paradise Restaurant	Jazz Hour Compact Classics	1992	Music: Dave Dreyer	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
jan savitt	I Married an Angel "I Married an Angel" by "jan savitt"	1938 Live in Hi-Fi	Jazz Hour Compact Classics	1992	Music: Richard Rodgers	0:04:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ray Noble & His All-American Orchestra	lullaby of broadway	1935/6 Vol. 1	London Records	1976	Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Al Dubin	0:06:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmy Dorsey	Shine on Harvest Moon	1938-39 Broadcasts in Hi-Fi	Jazz Hour Compact Classics	1998	Music: disputed	0:11:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Russ Columbo	Lover "Lover" by "Russ Columbo"	The Best of the Radio Broadcasts 1933-1934	Screenland Records	2013	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart	0:14:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Glen Gray	my blue heaven "my blue heaven" by "Glen Gray"	Live at the Rainbow Room NYC March/April 1936	Jazz Hour Compact Classics	1995	Music: Walter Donaldson	0:17:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nita Bradley with the Artie Shaw Rhythm Makers	It's Wonderful	Original 1938 Radio Transcriptions	Ancha	2011	Music: Cameron Salter Wells & Stuff Smith Lyrics: Mitchell Parish	0:21:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman and His Rhythm Makers	I Get a Kick Out of You	Original 1935 Radio Transcriptions	Tax	1990	Music: Cole Porter	0:23:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra	Medley: This Can't Be Love/Simple and Sweet	CBS Radio Shows 1939	rarity records	2014	Music: Richard Rodgers ("This Can't Be Love")/Abel Baer ("Simple and Sweet")	0:26:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Conrad Nagel	Introduction to George Gershwin Memorial	Radio Tributes & Memorials to George Gershwin: Historical Live Broadcasts, July 1937	CamBria	2015		0:29:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
KHJ Orchestra	I Got Plenty o' Nuttin/Summertime/It Ain't Necessarily So	Radio Tributes & Memorials to George Gershwin: Historical Live Broadcasts, July 1937	CamBria	2015	Music: George Gershwin	0:32:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George White & Harold Arlen	Remarks	Radio Tributes & Memorials to George Gershwin: Historical Live Broadcasts, July 1937	CamBria	2015		0:37:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ethel Merman & WHN Radio Orchestra	I Got Rhythm	Radio Tributes & Memorials to George Gershwin: Historical Live Broadcasts, July 1937	CamBria	2015	Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin	0:40:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Charlie Christian	Dinah "Dinah" by "Charlie Christian"	The Radio Broadcasts 1939-1941	Stardust Records	2001	Music: Harry Akst	0:44:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bunny Berigan	They All Laughed "They All Laughed" by "Bunny Berigan"	Swingin' & Jumpin', 1937-39	hep records	2013	Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin	0:47:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmie Lunceford	Honeysuckle Rose	1936-43 Live Broadcasts	Jazz Hour Compact Classics	1997	Music: Fats Waller	0:49:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Donald Novis with Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra	Bon Voyage to Your Ship of Dreams	radio broadcast	No Label	1932	Music & Lyrics: Jimmie Grier & Hal Chanslor	0:54:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ruby Elzy	Summertime "Summertime" by "Ruby Elzy"	Town Hall Tonight broadcast	No Label	1937	Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Dubose Heyward	0:57:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ethel Merman	Heat Wave "Heat Wave" by "Ethel Merman"	Rudy Vallee Royal Gelatin Hour broadcast	No Label	1938	Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin	1:00:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Archie Gottler	Big City Blues/Walking with Susie/That's You Baby	radio broadcast	No Label	1931	Music & Lyrics: Con Conrad, Archie Gottler & Sidney D. Mitchell	1:05:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Judy Garland	Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart	The Shell Chateau Hour broadcast	No Label	1935	Music & Lyrics: James F. Hanley	1:08:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Louis Armstrong Orchestra	Harlem Stomp	Live Broadcast from the Cotton Club	No Label	1939	Music: J.C. Higginbotham	1:15:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Billie Holiday	God Bless The Child	Harlem Nocturne: Jazz After Hours	The Reader's Digest Association Inc.	2011	Music & Lyrics: Billie Holiday & Arthur Herzog Jr.	1:18:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fats Waller	Hold My Hand "Hold My Hand" by "Fats Waller"	Saturday Night Swing Club broadcast	No Label	1938	Music & Lyrics: J.C. Johnson & Fats Waller	1:22:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mary Jane Walsh	I Can't Give You Anything But Love/A Man Has Got a Right to Change His Mind/Rhythm at the Rainbow Room	Rudy Vallee Royal Gelatin Hour broadcast	No Label	1937	Music: Jimmy McHugh ("I Can't Give You Anything But Love")/Arthur Swanstrom & Michael Cleary ("Rhythm at the Rainbow Room") Lyrics: Dorothy Fields ("I Can't Give You Anything But Love")/Arthur Swanstrom & Michael Cleary ("Rhythm at the Rainbow Room") The songwriters of the mysterious "A Man Has Got a Right to Change His Mind" are unknown	1:27:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ethel Waters & Eleanor Powell	Got a Bran' New Suit	radio broadcast	No Label	1936	Music: Arthur Schwartz Lyrics: Howard Dietz	1:30:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Don Ameche (with Richard Rodgers on piano)	A Little of You on Toast	The Chase and Sanborn Hour broadcast	No Label	1937	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart	1:34:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joe Morrison	Whispers in the Dark	The Ray Noble Show broadcast	No Label	1938	Music: Frederick Hollander Lyrics: Leo Robin	1:37:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Virginia Verrill with Johnny Green and His Orchestra	Ev'rything's Been Done Before	Socony Sketchbook broadcast	No Label	1935	Music: Jack King Lyrics: Edwin H. Knopf & Harold Adamson	1:44:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shirley Ross	Deep Purple "Deep Purple" by "Shirley Ross"	The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre broadcast	No Label	1939	Music: Peter DeRose Lyrics: Mitchell Parish	1:47:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dick Webster with Jimmie Grier and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra	My Love	radio broadcast	No Label	1933	Music: Victor Young Lyrics: Ned Washington	1:50:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fred MacMurray	When I'm With You "When I'm With You" by "Fred MacMurray"	Hollywood Hotel broadcast	No Label	1937	Music & Lyrics: Harry Revel & Mack Gordon	1:52:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gwen Williams	Wishful Thinking "Wishful Thinking" by "Gwen Williams"	The Song of Your Life broadcast	No Label	1941	Music: Ralph Rainger Lyrics: Leo Robin	1:56:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Andrews Sisters	I've Got No Strings	The Chesterfield Broadcasts	Bluebird	2003	Music: Leigh Harline Lyrics: Ned Washington	1:59:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 7:01pm Dan S: The Great Experiment begins. Activate the Time Machine! This will be interesting.
	7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hello Dan!!! Welcome to the Tardis
	7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: I got my Tardis on craigslist so it's actually smaller on the inside, sorry guys
	♥ 7:04pm WR: Hi Bronwyn and folks. 1938, eve of the start of the great war, or one of them.
	♥ 7:05pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:02 I got my Tardis real cheap on Temu. It doesn't work very well. :-)
	♥ 7:06pm Yvang: Hi! Listening to the show on my R-5Ch=7R+8P - Edison receiver from 1929.
	♥ 7:08pm Dan S: Also, if this program gets interrupted by an announcement of invading Martians landing in New Jersey, I'll be suspicious. :-)
	7:08pm ChristinaInCanada: Oooh Al Bowlly on vocals: dreamy!
	♥ 7:08pm Dan S: ↳ Yvang @7:06 Updated for internet access?
	7:09pm Listener Gregory: Sorry I'm late! I had to run down to the corner newsagent's to buy a pack of Lucky Strikes. (My doctor recommended them.)
	♥ 7:10pm Dan S: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:09 That's the 1930s spirit.
	♥ 7:11pm Yvang: ↳ Dan S @7:08 Crancked internet.
	7:11pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:02 That is still a potential apartment in Manhattan, especially if it's near the elevated tracks or the IRT.
	7:11pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Yvang @7:06 I love imagining this
	7:11pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @7:08 The real star of the Shining
	♥ 7:14pm Yvang: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:11 I am reading an article about this lunatic in Germany with the weird mustache. Oh boy, I pity the Europeans!
	7:16pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:11 Indeed! Incidentally, Russ Columbo was, like Al Bowlly, fallen in a sudden, violent end. I can't think of a Russ Columbo film.
	♥ 7:16pm Yvang: ↳ Yvang @7:14 On the Evening Standard.
	♥ 7:17pm WR: wfmu.org... Jeff Golick played a recording made of Duke Ellington Orchestra in Fargo from 1940. The recording was made from the side of the stage. Part of the performance was broadcast on radio and the radio announcers can be heard. After the first set the announcers signs off and the broadcast ended and the band continued. Interesting slice of time.
	♥ 7:17pm Dan S: $640 for a new car. Even I might be able to afford that.
	♥ 7:24pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Theatre fans! A cool thing to listen to is the Lux Radio theatre and the Theatre Guild transcriptions that are in archive. org. Plays and films compressed into a 1 hour format, usually with the original cast. archive.org...
	♥ 7:26pm Webhamster Henry: Most of my 1930s experiences are Fleischer Brothers cartoons.
	7:27pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "I Get a Kick Out of You" by "Benny Goodman and Hi... Boy, this is extremely tame for Benny Goodman. Sounds like something they played in between the jazz songs, for the dancers.
	7:32pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ WR @7:17 that sounds so cool!!
	7:33pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Introduction to George Gershwin Memorial" by "Con... They tell me that George Gershwin has died, but I don't have to believe it if I don't want to.
	7:34pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @7:17 That would be over $14,000 today!
	7:34pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:26 I love those
	7:35pm Leon H.: This is SO great, and I think it’s just what I needed tonight.
	7:35pm Bronwyn Bishop: im so glad!! welcome Leon!! :)
	♥ 7:36pm solo mon: Good stuff, Bronwyn!
	7:36pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank you solo mon!! <3
	7:37pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:33 (Someone said this shortly after his death—or as close to this as my memory can manage.)
	7:39pm Bronwyn Bishop: according to the googles it was John o'hara
	♥ 7:39pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:34 That would still be low for a new car, of any model. I don't think you can get one today for less than $20K.
	7:40pm Bronwyn Bishop: imagine if you told people back then that people in 2025 would pay $1k a month for their cars, for years
	7:43pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "I Got Rhythm" by "Ethel Merman & WHN Radio Orches... Great verse to this song, Ms. B! I don't think it's ever performed now.
	♥ 7:43pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:40 The modern miracle of buy now, pay later, at high interest rates. Pretty much forever.
	7:45pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Medley: This Can't Be Love/Simple and Sweet" by "... Any song from The Boys From Syracuse reminds me of a dinner theater production of it when I was a stage crew apprentice in '73. Unlike other productions there, the stage manager was put in charge of costumes this time. With the cast providing a few helpful hands and outfit contributions, and with some costume-loft pulling, he got it done. I made a few props. The slightly unusual short tunics and improvised looks in the performances in the lighting on that small stage are reliably featured in my mind to accompany the songs.
	♥ 7:45pm Dan S: Wow, a combination radio/record player! Only $49.95! Where do I get one? :-)
	🎭 ♥ 7:45pm TonyR: I don't haz a Victrola button!!
	7:47pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Dinah" by "Charlie Christian" Whoa! Great find. However, I suspect that Goodman was the original leader on these dates.
	7:51pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @7:45 that actually seems like a reasonable price for a radio/record player now...but in December 1938 (around when that commercial was recorded) it was the equivalent of $1126!
	♥ 7:52pm Dan S: What boggles my mind is that in the mid-1970s, when I came of age, the mid-1930s were 40 years distant and were ancient history to me. Now, the mid-1970s are 50 years distant, yet sometimes seem like just yesterday to me. Life is strange.
	♥ 7:54pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:51 Yes, that is rather very expensive. So cars have become less affordable, but consumer audio devices much more affordable.
	7:57pm ChristinaInCanada: sounds like Fred Allen
	♥ 8:01pm Dan S: Nice harmonies in that Wheaties commercial.
	♥ 8:02pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Heat Wave" by "Ethel Merman" A heat wave. I wish.
	8:02pm Listener Gregory: Part of the problem comparing prices is that the products change. Cars are so much safer, more reliable, more comfortable (in some respects, like heat), and efficient that you aren’t comparing apples to apples. The maintenance on a 1930s car was a half-time job.
	♥ 8:02pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "Heat Wave" by "Ethel Merman" Climate change, already!
	♥ 8:02pm Dan S: ↳ Yvang @8:02 Prescient.
	♥ 8:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Heat Wave" by "Ethel Merman" Rudy butts in
	♥ 8:07pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:06 A world where Royal Gelatin and Jello and Roma Wine ruled the Radio World.
	♥ 8:09pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" by "Judy Garl... Her name is Ethel Marion Gumm.
	8:10pm Bronwyn Bishop: A heartbreaking story about this broadcast, courtesy of the person who posted this on YouTube, ImInBetween: "Judy performs another one of her signature tunes for the first time in public. Broadcast on ''The Shell Chateau Hour'' with Wallace Beery on 16 November, 1935. On the night of the show's broadcast, Judy discovered that her father (Frank Gumm) was seriously ill in hospital with spinal meningitis, but had no choice but to go on and perform - her performance has an added intensity. Her father died the next morning and Judy never saw him alive again. However, a radio was placed next to his bed so he could hear the broadcast, and hear 'Baby' sing one last time."
	8:14pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ still b/p @7:45 I love this story!!
	8:14pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @7:57 it was!
	♥ 8:14pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:10 Wow, that is a poignant, heartbreaking story. I know it's said that the show must go on, but still...
	8:17pm still b/p: Judy had plenty of trouble of various kinds around performances, but I hadn't heard of that distressed moment. A more...feelgood...?..anecdote is from after her neck-cutting suicide attempt. Her first time afterward in front of the public was singing for a live and broadcast audience on Bing Crosby's radio show. Bing's introduction mentioned something about her difficulty, and asked for the audience to give her a warm reception, recognizing the benefit of some compassion and encouragement. Bing not always a nice guy, but a creditable mensch on the occasion.
	🎭 ♥ 8:18pm TonyR: "Porgy & Bess", you say? Nope, never got around to it.
	8:22pm ChristinaInCanada: After so much poignance, I need this Fats Waller
	♥ 8:23pm Dan S: "Sheer, unadulterated thrills." Cpt. Rickenbacker must have been talking about WFMU. :-)
	8:24pm northguineahills: been here, finishing taxes....
	8:28pm Bronwyn Bishop: This appears to be the only appearance anywhere, ever, of "A Man Has Got a Right to Change His Mind," the middle song in this medley
	8:32pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love/A Man Has Got ... This is puzzling. Ms. Walsh's voice is really not up to the standard of 1930s radio. I thought maybe she was a knockout, cruising on her looks, but the photo doesn't really back that up either. Strange.
	8:33pm Bronwyn Bishop: see, I'm not the only one who's ever played tap dancing on the radio
	8:33pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:28 Thank goodness!
	♥ 8:34pm Webhamster Henry: Yeah tap dance on the radio! Eleanor Powell FTW!
	♥ 8:37pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "A Little of You on Toast" by "Don Ameche (with Ri... Never heard of this show -- Great curation there BB
	♥ 8:38pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "A Little of You on Toast" by "Don Ameche (with Ri... So this one is kinda/sorta a show tune?
	8:38pm still b/p: Only saw Ameche movies later in life, after catching him on TV on Friday nights when I was a kid and he hosted the circus show.
	♥ 8:40pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Whispers in the Dark" by "Joe Morrison" Hmm. An early British invasion.
	♥ 8:41pm Webhamster Henry: A Frederick Hollander set would be nice some time. "Destry Rides Again", "5000 Fingers of Dr. T" www.frederickhollandermusic.com
	8:41pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ still b/p @8:17 :( but also :)
	8:42pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:32 I will say she looks better in the still from the YouTube video I pulled this audio from, lol
	8:43pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:37 aww thanks <3
	8:43pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:41 good idea!! love his music!
	8:43pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ still b/p @8:38 I will admit I've only ever seen him in trading places
	♥ 8:44pm Webhamster Henry: Jack always worked Jello into the show.
	8:51pm still b/p: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:43 I love it when hoods in "Ball of Fire" ('44) call the telephone "the Ameche" because he was in "The Story Of Alexander Graham Bell." ('39).
	8:53pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "My Love" by "Dick Webster with Jimmie Grier and H... Written 10 minutes before the show.
	♥ 8:55pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "When I'm With You" by "Fred MacMurray" That's quite a photo there. Bare-chested AND holding a gun. :-)
	🎭 ♥ 8:56pm TonyR: ↳ Dan S @8:55 My Two Guns.
	8:56pm Listener Gregory: What a great show, Ms. B! Thanks a lot for putting all this together, including the dreamy pictures. My RCA tubes are burning up!
	8:56pm Dean: The Cocoanut Grove, a nightclub space at LA's Ambassador Hotel, where I believe Howard Hughes famously holed up and of course where RFK was murdered. My senior high school prom took place at the Ambassador, but not at the Grove. I helped plan it and refused to attend.
	🎭 ♥ 8:57pm TonyR: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:56 Turn off the Victrola button!!!
	♥ 8:57pm Dan S: This show was fun! I'm glad you decided to depart from the usual format of Acid Jazz Hands for tonight to do this 1930s special. Next Friday, back to show tunes and mic breaks? I miss hearing your voice.
	🎭 ♥ 8:57pm TonyR: ↳ TonyR @8:57 Are you sure you got a model 96???
	8:57pm ChristinaInCanada: Thanks, Bronwyn Bishop. I listen to some OTR, and some performers here are new to me.
	8:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:44 I'm gonna start working jello into every ajh show
	8:58pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:56 I thought the Cocoanut Grove burned down in a horrific fire with many dead, in the 40s. It did, but in Boston.
	♥ 9:00pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Wishful Thinking" by "Gwen Williams" 1941. Cheating a little? :-)
	9:01pm Dean: I know there are other Cocoanuts Grove, but I thought the LA one was the only one with the oddball spelling. The Ambassador on Wilshire Blvd. was razed ages ago, sadly. It was a rich LA landmark.
	♥ 9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the show!
	🎭 ♥ 9:01pm TonyR: ↳ Dan S @9:00 We couldn't afford a model 96 until the 40s.
	♥ 9:02pm Yvang: Thanks Bronwyn! Fun show!
	♥ 9:14pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn!

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from February 7, 2025

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