Favoriting Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison: Playlist from April 17, 2024 Favoriting

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Favoriting April 17, 2024: His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover.

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Artist Track Approx. start time
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson  The Baby and the Pup   Favoriting  
Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers  Preachin' Blues   Favoriting 0:02:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Bo Carter  Beans   Favoriting 0:08:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Whoopee Makers  Rush Inn Blues   Favoriting 0:11:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Butterbeans & Susie  Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stuff   Favoriting 0:14:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jabbo Smith  Till Times Get Better   Favoriting 0:17:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Raymond Scott & The Sophisticators  Farewell Blues   Favoriting 0:20:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Una Mae Carlisle  Throw It Out Your Mind   Favoriting 0:26:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dr. Humphrey Bate and His Possum Hunters  Ham Beats All Meat   Favoriting 0:29:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Clara Smith  My Good for Nuthin' Man   Favoriting 0:31:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Gus Bodenheim  Beyond Mouse   Favoriting 0:36:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sophie Tucker  Oh! You Have No Idea   Favoriting 0:38:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lil McClintock  Don't Think I'm Santa Claus   Favoriting 0:41:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Willard Robison and His Deep River Orchestra  Harlem Blues   Favoriting 0:44:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five  Look Out   Favoriting 0:51:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas  Fishing Blues   Favoriting 0:59:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 4/11 6:49am
Lolabelle Pancake:

We're back for one magnificent week!!! Courtney plays the blues.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4/11 11:38pm
rrg:

I trust we’ll get to hear how the Surface Noise Tour is going.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm
Matt from Springfield:

Weekly World SNOOZE!!! With the Old Codger!

Welcome back! Hope your cart full of 78 records got up the stairs!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm
ultradamno:

Courtney! Lolabelle! They couldn't keep this show off the air!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "The Baby and the Pup" by "Harry "the Hipster" Gib...
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson!
The "Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine" guy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm
dale:

can't spell dill pickle masked ball without pickle ball. or dill....dill is in there too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm
ultradamno:

Fablio's been strutting around like he owns the place!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm
The Butterman:

Ho boi! What a treat! The Codge! You know, like the Pidge or the Butterman.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:03pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ dale @7:02
It also spells out "Deck Mask Ball Pile"..
Avatar 7:03pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

HI AGAIN EVERYBODY!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:04pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Lolabelle Pancake @7:03
Hi Lolabelle!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:05pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "The Baby and the Pup" by "Harry "the Hipster" Gib...
Couldn't tell if this was allegorical. Maybe having a puppy right now is confusilating me. Am planning on just popping out for another vasectomy, though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:05pm
rrg:

Hi, y'all. It's Codgerrific.
Avatar 7:06pm
Bri The Beatnik:

Codger! I’d been planning to check your show out!
Avatar ♥ 7:06pm
lothianman:

Hey everyone! Git it Codger! You turned me on to Ruth Etting. Some of the best blues were in the early20s but hey you knew that!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:06pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Handy Haversack @7:05
Everything by Harry "the Hipster" (as well as Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends) is "allegorical".

"Second vasectomy" - ummmm...good name for a band??
Avatar 7:06pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ lothianman @7:06
Agreed!
  7:07pm
Glistener MW:

I, FOR ONE, missed you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:07pm
dale:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:03
ha ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:07pm
JazzUpholsterer:

We did miss you !!! the archives aren't enough. Keep talking Cortney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:07pm
dale:

i wonder if fablio's honesdale lawyer is listening.
Avatar ♥ 7:08pm
quietlife:

your reputation precedes you
  7:08pm
P-90:

who knew Matt was that young?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:08pm
Matt from Springfield:

Wow, Matt Fiveash looks and sounds great! I didn't think him a day over 86...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:09pm
The Butterman:

Careful, Courtney I got into major trouble calling a kid a punk.
Avatar 7:09pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:06
Love Harry and Julia!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:10pm
Glistener MW:

"I once shot a man just to watch him die; but then got distracted and missed it."
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:10pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:09
Me too! 🥰 Love that era of '40s blues in general!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:10pm
ultradamno:

The station has been trying to appeal to the merlininielles....DJs as young as 68 on the station nowadays
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:12pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Here for the Codge-rock.
Avatar 7:12pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:10
Same! It was the best!
Avatar 7:13pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

After the program, Courtney and his cronies will go back on the road to resume the Surface Noise Tour.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:13pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @7:12
Math rock even - numbers increasing exponentially towards infinity!
  7:14pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Lolabelle Pancake @7:13
Maybe you can tell us how things went at some recent stops.
Avatar 7:15pm
I'm with the banned:

Hi Courtney & Lolabelle I missed you two ✌!!
Avatar 7:15pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Isn't this show absolutely KILLER DILLER?!!
Avatar 7:15pm
Bri The Beatnik:

Listening in class rn, trying not to laugh at the movie project we’re making
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:16pm
The Butterman:

↳ Song: "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stu...
Awww shucks, thanks Courtney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:16pm
∫ydniuß:

did I miss spin the pickle already? 🥒
Great to have you back Courtney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:16pm
Glistener MW:

I would very much like to find out more about the Dill Pickle Masked Ball. How was it, Courtney? What did you dress as?
Avatar ♥ 7:16pm
neveract:

wish there were more shows like this! Thanks Codger!!!
Avatar ♥ 7:16pm
lothianman:

↳ Song: "Get Yourself a Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stu...
Awesome stuff didn't they also do the hot dog?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:17pm
ultradamno:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:13
I know Courtney can remember when rocks were necessary for doing math...mostly as part of the average abacus
Avatar 7:17pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ neveract @7:16
Agreed!
Avatar ♥ 7:18pm
neveract:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:17
😁
Avatar 7:18pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ neveract @7:18
:D
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:19pm
dale:

is midnight blue still on toronto's am740? so much of this stuff, the butcher man, the hotdog man etc...
Avatar 7:19pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ dale @7:19
Ooh! Will have to check that one out
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:22pm
D Rok:

Courtney T Edison, in the flesh.
And me fresh out of Sly Weasel bourbon... I guess I'll have to suffer through sober.
  7:22pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "Till Times Get Better" by "Jabbo Smith"
I wonder when that was. The depression of 1920-1 or so?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:23pm
dale:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:19
just looked it up - yup. still there and filthy as always.

www.zoomerradio.ca...
Avatar ♥ 7:23pm
neveract:

↳ D Rok @7:22
How about some Old Crow?
Avatar 7:23pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ dale @7:23
Yay! Will try and listen tonight if not on an archive!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:23pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Farewell Blues" by "Raymond Scott & The Sophistic...
"and the Sophisicators"! GREAT name, no idea Raymond Scott once had a band called that!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:24pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ dale @7:23
Ah "Zoomer radio" AM out of Toronto - good throwback station, it's usually receivable down in Virginia at night, the strongest Canadian AM reception I've found so far.
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dale:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:23
you'll enjoy it if you want to know who cuts the meat until the butcher comes.
Avatar ♥ 7:25pm
neveract:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:19
It's still on!

zoomerradio.ca...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:25pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ neveract @7:23
Too high class.
For the Old Codger, it's all about cheap Sly Weasel bourbon, and Rancho Malario cigars.
  7:25pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Listener Robert @7:22
Looked Smith up and saw he'd've been much too young for then.
Avatar 7:26pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ dale @7:24
I bet I will! Thanks guys! I listen to Zoomer sometimes but had no idea they had a dirty blues show, dig it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:26pm
dale:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:24
i'd take a little radio with me to motorcycle rallies and camp outs and listen in my tent at night. always a reliable station.
Avatar ♥ 7:27pm
neveract:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:25
hahaha!
  7:27pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Matt from Springfield @7:24
I listened to them because for a while they carried Coast to Coast AM.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:27pm
dale:

i tell my wife i like her hair parted in the middle and she finally figured out i was being a pig.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:28pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ dale @7:27
😜🐖
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:30pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Ham Beats All Meat" by "Dr. Humphrey Bate and His...
What hath innuendo wrought?!...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
The Butterman:

Next, some Uncle Dave or Gid Tanner and his skillet lickers.
Avatar 7:31pm
Lolabelle Pancake:

Is anybody enjoying some Sly Weasel bourbon during the show?
  7:32pm
manana:

Very nice to hear courtney!
  7:32pm
Maroe m Chicago:

Hey Gus, can you play something by Louie Bluie?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:33pm
dale:

↳ Lolabelle Pancake @7:31
drinking 'oj's shrunken glove elixer.' it tastes bloody fine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:33pm
The Butterman:

Possum meat am good to eat.
  7:34pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ The Butterman @7:33
It ain't am good--it am grate.
  7:35pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Lolabelle Pancake @7:31
That stuff's good only for fueling the lantern .
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:36pm
ultradamno:

I keep hearing about people wanting to take the country back to 1864....pfffft, progressives.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:37pm
dale:

↳ Marie in Chicago @7:34
lol!
  7:37pm
Craig fitch:

Your the best Old Codger
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
The Butterman:

↳ Marie in Chicago @7:34
Not as good as mouse, apparently!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Beyond Mouse" by "Gus Bodenheim"
What WON'T Delbarton™ come up with next!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
dale:

wife got some faux-meat steak things. tasted okay but looked like pork chop squeak toys you'd give benji.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:39pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Oh! You Have No Idea" by "Sophie Tucker"
Red Hot Mama Sophie Tucker!!
  7:39pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "Beyond Mouse" by "Gus Bodenheim"
I'm afraid all the food I make in this house are of that technology -- suffused with mouse turds, no actual mouse.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:41pm
Joey C:

Check!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:43pm
dale:

↳ Listener Robert @7:39
non-gmo turds we hope.
Avatar ♥ 7:45pm
neveract:

↳ Lolabelle Pancake @7:31
afraid not.. have some nice muggle tho!
  7:46pm
Listener Robert:

↳ dale @7:43
Can't be picky when the mice run over food preparation surfaces. Once they got into Kwadwo's bottle of olive oil in the cabinet, and 3 of them drowned.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:47pm
dale:

↳ Listener Robert @7:46
ooph! they were on a mediterranean diet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:48pm
cbunny:

↳ Song: "Don't Think I'm Santa Claus" by "Lil McClintock"
this Lil McClintock track is catchy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:52pm
dave miss:

Thought I saw the Old Codger at the Chart House in Wehawken
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:53pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Look Out" by "Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five"
LOUIS JORDAN!
And TYMPANY FIVE!!! 🤘
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:53pm
Matt from Springfield:

↳ Song: "Look Out" by "Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five"
"Ed Sullivan"!! Probably from back when he was still on the radio.
Avatar ♥ 7:54pm
lothianman:

Great show and thanks Codger Get back here soon!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:56pm
rrg:

This was great. Lolabelle, try to drag Courtney back here once in a while.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:56pm
radioronan:

Thanks for dropping the jalopy in Jersey City for an hour to make this special guest appearance, Courtney and Lolabelle !!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:56pm
The Butterman:

Oh my how I love this fish in’ song. !!!!! Thought you were playing it before. Stay out of my mind, Codger!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:56pm
Matt from Springfield:

THANKS Mr. Courtney T. Edison, Esq.! Always a fun time, come back soon from the Surface Noise Tour!

Have a good night, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:57pm
listener 126464:

Thanks, OG OC.
Avatar ♥ 7:58pm
neveract:

Thanks Old Codger!! LOVED your show!! Come back soon!
  7:58pm
Aging Codger:

↳ dale @7:24
Appreciate you droppin by, Old.
Avatar 7:59pm
I'm with the banned:

Thanks Courtney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:59pm
dale:

great music tonight!
Avatar ♥ 7:59pm
Mailman Tom:

Welcome back!!
  7:59pm
miles of middle texas:

Thanks Codger !
  6:37am
Olli:

Thanks Courtney for coming back on the air!!
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