WFMU: Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg: Playlist from August 1, 2024

Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg: Playlist from August 1, 2024

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Artist	Track	Year	Images
Bob Roberts	Alexander "Alexander" by "Bob Roberts"	1904
Bob Roberts was born on April 27, 1879, in Cincinnati as Robert A. Roberts. He became known to record buyers as Bob Roberts or Ragtime Bob Roberts. His father was Nicholas Roberts, proprietor of the Nick Roberts' Pantomime Company (he had emigrated from Germany). In his youth Bob traveled extensively with shows. He apparently made his recording debut in 1902 with Columbia, cutting performances issued on early Columbia discs (seven-inch as well as ten-inch), black wax cylinders, and brown wax cylinders (the company continued to use brown wax for over a year after introducing its molded cylinders in February 1902). He was most successful with comic numbers, especially "coon" songs. He covered for some companies material that Arthur Collins and Billy Murray covered for others. Though known for comic songs, he recorded a few plantation-type numbers such as "Old Log Cabin in the Lane" (Victor 4458). His first Edison records, made in late 1903, were issued in February 1904. One of the two cylinders is Edison Standard 8617, which features Roberts singing Theodore Morse's "The Woodchuck Song," which asks in its chorus, "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" Billy Murray recorded this for Victor on September 29, 1903--an example of Roberts and Murray cutting the same material for competing companies. They began recording within a year of each other. Roberts was first (with Columbia) though Murray had been making Edison cylinders for several months before Roberts worked for Edison. Edison executives probably viewed Roberts as an easy substitute for or alternative to Murray. In March 1904, the Edison company issued Roberts singing Tom Lemonier's "I'm Just Barely Living That's All" (8644), which Roberts also recorded for Victor on January 11, 1904 (2623). Roberts was most popular on records from 1903 to 1907, his work being issued on major disc and cylinder labels as well as small ones such as Aretino, Busy Bee, Indestructible, D & R, and U-S Everlasting. He recorded often for Victor, beginning on October 1, 1903, and also for its subsidiary record label, Zon-o-phone (he began in early 1904 with nine-inch records). He cut "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" from the Follies of 1911 for Victor 16909. In 1912 Roberts cut the popular "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" (Victor 17090). His last Edison recording appears to be Blue Amberol 1632, issued in March 1913: "Fables," with music by J. Fred Helf and words by Jeff Branen. It was his sole Blue Amberol recording, and he made no Diamond Discs. By 1913 he had stopped working for the three big companies--that is, Victor, Columbia, and Edison. During the 1920s Roberts worked in radio. He was a member of the "Adolph and Otto" team, featured on WCKY in Cincinnati. Walsh reports in the May 1975 issue of Hobbies that Roberts operated a poolroom late in life. His death was sudden. He went to the radio station on January 21, 1930, but chest pains prevented him from performing. He hurried home to 3671 Vine Street and took medicine. A few minutes later his wife Katherine heard him fall over a chair. He died shortly thereafter of a heart attack. sorry forgot to write down the source...
Alice Babs	Nobody's Sweetheart "Nobody's Sweetheart" by "Alice Babs"	1939
The Ramblers	Could Be "Could Be" by "The Ramblers"	1939
Carla van Renesse	Het Dorpje Van St Bernadette	1960
Ivan Petroff	Lucovitski Mome Vo Struga Grada	1940s
Music behind DJ: Christianne	Spring in the Air [Carolyn Miller]		Kleines Präludium [Bach] Kleines Präludium [Bach]
Bob Roberts	and the parrot said "and the parrot said" by "Bob Roberts"	1911
Gretli & Ruedi Egger	Amor i Alperna	1946
Edith Piaf	Le Chasseur De L'hôtel	1944
Bessie Smith	Empty Bed Blues "Empty Bed Blues" by "Bessie Smith"	1928
Eddy Christiani	Een Melodie Met Een Beetje Rhythme	1944	Eddy Christiani Eddy Christiani
Music behind DJ: Christianne	Spring in the Air [Carolyn Miller]		Kleines Präludium [Bach] Kleines Präludium [Bach]
Bob Roberts	And the world goes on	1905
Lee Tully & Bernie Share Orchestra	Essen - Part II	1947
Albert Whelan	The Barmaids Song "The Barmaids Song" by "Albert Whelan"	1930
Rita Abadzi	Neos Konialis "Neos Konialis" by "Rita Abadzi"	1930s
Peter Alexander	Das Ganze Haus Ist Schief	1958
Fred Duprez and Bob Roberts	Blitz and Blatz at the sea shore	1909
Music behind DJ: Christianne	Spring in the Air [Carolyn Miller]		Kleines Präludium [Bach] Kleines Präludium [Bach]
OLD TIME RADIO "OLD TIME RADIO"
Various Artists	A Barrel Of Fun 1942-01-23	1942
Kirby Walker a.o.	Harlem Hospitality Club 1947 (14)	1947
Dinah Shore	Way You Look Tonight "Way You Look Tonight" by "Dinah Shore"	1945

Rock A Teens	Woo Hoo "Woo Hoo" by "Rock A Teens"	1959

Lots and lots of other audio antiquities on WFMU:

Centennial Songs - The Antique Phonograph Music Program contextually presented by Michael Cumella

The Ragged Phonograph Program with Mike Haar Original ragtime, jazz, and pop music from the first quarter of the 20th century, with historical background on vaudeville-era artists

Merrilly We Roll Along A mish-mash of high energy lunacy, reverence, and irreverence for forgotten pop stars, love for Saturday morning cartoons and exploration of pre-rock novelties, classic and neo-Vaudeville, jug bands, polka, klezmer and much much more fun! with MHLee

Thomas Edison's Attic The audio curator at Edison National Historic Site rummages through the archives of the legendary Edison Laboratory of West Orange, New Jersey

The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!

Secret Museum of the Air with Citizen Kafka and Pat Conte: Archives

Rare Oldies Radio hosted by Kitschy Mama, featuring lost songs from the 50s & 60s: Retro Obscuro with Kitschy Mama

Music from the 1920s in the January 7, 2020 episode of Continental Subway with David Dichelle

Music and other recordings of Lynda Barry in the june 7, 2020 episode of Canibal Stew with DJ ARB

You might want also to check out the Surface Noise archives with DJ Joe McGasko from 2008 and 2009

More Dutch 'forgotten artists' can be found on Vergeten Artiesten by Mike Winkelman

Listener comments!
	9:52am Mr Fab: Gooooood morning, all! (Or whatever it is where you are.) Hope you are enjoying your semi-holiday, Jan.
	9:55am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Mr Fab. I'm semi-here. I mean: we're semi-here indeed. Christianne and I. I'll be popping in ebery now and then.
	9:58am DJ Guin: morning jan hello Mr. Fab hey kids
	10:01am Mr Fab: Someone really named their child "Robert Roberts"..?
	🎸 10:04am WR: Hello Jan and folks.
	10:04am DJ Guin: I knew a Robert Robertson. name changed when he was adopted his stepfather
	10:04am DJ Guin: hey WR
	10:09am Jan Turkenburg: Hi WR and DJ Guin!
	10:10am Mr Fab: OMG, we used to sing this “Ave Maria“ song in Catholic school. I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard a recording of it before.
	🎸 10:12am Krys O.: Hi, Jan!
	🎸 10:12am WR: Hi DJ Guin,
	10:13am DJ Guin: popup web player is showing the last song listed on the playlist, but not a big deal
	🎸 10:13am Krys O.: ↳ Mr Fab @10:01 I knew someone named Pete Peterson. Also someone named Pete Rabbitt.
	🎸 10:14am Krys O.: Bob Roberts was a great movie.
	🎸 10:14am Krys O.: ↳ Song: a song Sounded like some Slavic language in there.
	🎸 10:14am WR: ↳ DJ Guin @10:13 Yes, since Jan already published the whole playlist, the players all show the last track from the list.
	10:15am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Krys!
	🎸 10:16am Krys O.: ↳ WR @10:14 Thanks for the tip, WR. I missed that.
	10:16am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ WR @10:14 yes, correct.
	10:22am David in California: ↳ Song: "and the parrot said" by "Bob Roberts" Hello, Jan. This song reminded me of a cartoon that used to run on "The Electric Company": www.youtube.com...
	10:26am MHLee: Hi Jan
	10:27am MHLee: Sounds like Bessie Smith maybe?
	🎸 10:29am WR: ↳ MHLee @10:27 absolutely yes. hearing Smith's Empty Bed Blues now.
	🎸 10:30am Krys O.: ↳ MHLee @10:27 The whole playlist was pre-published.
	10:32am MHLee: Oh it's being run by MrFab. I see.
	10:35am DJ Guin: ↳ David in California @10:22 oh, geez, David...i STILL do this routine when people knock!! "WHO is it?" "It's the Plumber. I've come to fix the sink!"
	10:36am DJ Guin: ↳ DJ Guin @10:35 i would like to think the Jerky Boys were inspired by Electric Company
	🎸 10:44am WR: ↳ Song: "and the parrot said" by "Bob Roberts" Ok, Jan, the source of your info on Bob Roberts seems to be from Tim Gracyk. He has a youtube channel with nearly 12,000 early recordings and has self published some books on American recordings 1895 - 1925 (currently a Kindle only edition available on Amazon). He has several Bob Roberts recordings on youtube and each one has the text you copied into the playlist here. Here is Gracyk's youtube for the parrot song: www.youtube.com... I thought at first maybe Gracyk copied the text from some one's web page or book but I only found other people referencing Gracyk's work.
	🎸 10:54am WR: ↳ WR @10:44 There is also an ebook edition of the recording pioneer book and it was published in 2000 in HB and paper but very expensive, even used.
	11:04am Roberto: ↳ Song: "A Barrel Of Fun 1942-01-23" by "Various Artists" Wait, Carole Lombard died the week before this aired 1942-01-23.
	11:04am Roberto: ↳ Roberto @11:04 Maybe the news traveled slowly.
	11:05am Roberto: ↳ Roberto @11:04 Or maybe he was a necro.
	11:07am Jan Turkenburg: Hi David, MHLee and Roberto! Thanks WR for looking that up!
	11:10am MHLee: ↳ Roberto @11:04 I don't know my golden age actors or actresses... but wow she was pretty
	11:13am Arvo Zylo: Goood morning Vietnam!
	11:15am Arvo Zylo: I <3 Rita Abadzi! And most of the Rebitiko of that time. Shame I missed it.
	11:15am Roberto: ↳ MHLee @11:10 Yeah, pretty dead by 1/23/42.
	11:28am David in California: ↳ MHLee @11:10 Two good films she was in, that are easily available because they're in public domain, are "My Man Godfrey" and "Nothing Sacred".
	11:41am coelacanth∅: Greetings Jan and all
	11:43am MHLee: This doesn't seem like Bebop to me? Of course I think I'm more used to hard bop
	11:46am DJ Guin: thanks in advance, jan! see you soon
	11:53am Mr Fab: Stay tuned for five, yes, FIVE! hours of audio weirdness from Arvo Zylo.
	11:54am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Arvo Zylo, coelacanth∅. Thanks for listening and being here, everybody! See you another time! 🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️
	🎸 11:56am Krys O.: Thanks, Jan!
	🎸 11:56am WR: Thank you! Jan!
	11:57am David in California: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @11:54 Thank you, Jan. I'm going to look for more from Kirby Walker. I really like his piano playing.
	11:58am Asheville Jon: 🦆
	11:59am MHLee: Vontage commercial?
	11:59am Mr Fab: Rock A Teens "Woo Hoo": covered by the 5678s in "Kill BIll."
	11:59am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ Asheville Jon @11:58 👍🦆❗
	11:59am MHLee: Vonage

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Artist	Track	Year	Images
Bob Roberts	Alexander "Alexander" by "Bob Roberts"	1904
Bob Roberts was born on April 27, 1879, in Cincinnati as Robert A. Roberts. He became known to record buyers as Bob Roberts or Ragtime Bob Roberts. His father was Nicholas Roberts, proprietor of the Nick Roberts' Pantomime Company (he had emigrated from Germany). In his youth Bob traveled extensively with shows. He apparently made his recording debut in 1902 with Columbia, cutting performances issued on early Columbia discs (seven-inch as well as ten-inch), black wax cylinders, and brown wax cylinders (the company continued to use brown wax for over a year after introducing its molded cylinders in February 1902). He was most successful with comic numbers, especially "coon" songs. He covered for some companies material that Arthur Collins and Billy Murray covered for others. Though known for comic songs, he recorded a few plantation-type numbers such as "Old Log Cabin in the Lane" (Victor 4458). His first Edison records, made in late 1903, were issued in February 1904. One of the two cylinders is Edison Standard 8617, which features Roberts singing Theodore Morse's "The Woodchuck Song," which asks in its chorus, "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" Billy Murray recorded this for Victor on September 29, 1903--an example of Roberts and Murray cutting the same material for competing companies. They began recording within a year of each other. Roberts was first (with Columbia) though Murray had been making Edison cylinders for several months before Roberts worked for Edison. Edison executives probably viewed Roberts as an easy substitute for or alternative to Murray. In March 1904, the Edison company issued Roberts singing Tom Lemonier's "I'm Just Barely Living That's All" (8644), which Roberts also recorded for Victor on January 11, 1904 (2623). Roberts was most popular on records from 1903 to 1907, his work being issued on major disc and cylinder labels as well as small ones such as Aretino, Busy Bee, Indestructible, D & R, and U-S Everlasting. He recorded often for Victor, beginning on October 1, 1903, and also for its subsidiary record label, Zon-o-phone (he began in early 1904 with nine-inch records). He cut "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" from the Follies of 1911 for Victor 16909. In 1912 Roberts cut the popular "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" (Victor 17090). His last Edison recording appears to be Blue Amberol 1632, issued in March 1913: "Fables," with music by J. Fred Helf and words by Jeff Branen. It was his sole Blue Amberol recording, and he made no Diamond Discs. By 1913 he had stopped working for the three big companies--that is, Victor, Columbia, and Edison. During the 1920s Roberts worked in radio. He was a member of the "Adolph and Otto" team, featured on WCKY in Cincinnati. Walsh reports in the May 1975 issue of Hobbies that Roberts operated a poolroom late in life. His death was sudden. He went to the radio station on January 21, 1930, but chest pains prevented him from performing. He hurried home to 3671 Vine Street and took medicine. A few minutes later his wife Katherine heard him fall over a chair. He died shortly thereafter of a heart attack. sorry forgot to write down the source...
Alice Babs	Nobody's Sweetheart "Nobody's Sweetheart" by "Alice Babs"	1939
The Ramblers	Could Be "Could Be" by "The Ramblers"	1939
Carla van Renesse	Het Dorpje Van St Bernadette	1960
Ivan Petroff	Lucovitski Mome Vo Struga Grada	1940s
Music behind DJ: Christianne	Spring in the Air [Carolyn Miller]		Kleines Präludium [Bach] Kleines Präludium [Bach]
Bob Roberts	and the parrot said "and the parrot said" by "Bob Roberts"	1911
Gretli & Ruedi Egger	Amor i Alperna	1946
Edith Piaf	Le Chasseur De L'hôtel	1944
Bessie Smith	Empty Bed Blues "Empty Bed Blues" by "Bessie Smith"	1928
Eddy Christiani	Een Melodie Met Een Beetje Rhythme	1944	Eddy Christiani Eddy Christiani
Music behind DJ: Christianne	Spring in the Air [Carolyn Miller]		Kleines Präludium [Bach] Kleines Präludium [Bach]
Bob Roberts	And the world goes on	1905
Lee Tully & Bernie Share Orchestra	Essen - Part II	1947
Albert Whelan	The Barmaids Song "The Barmaids Song" by "Albert Whelan"	1930
Rita Abadzi	Neos Konialis "Neos Konialis" by "Rita Abadzi"	1930s
Peter Alexander	Das Ganze Haus Ist Schief	1958
Fred Duprez and Bob Roberts	Blitz and Blatz at the sea shore	1909
Music behind DJ: Christianne	Spring in the Air [Carolyn Miller]		Kleines Präludium [Bach] Kleines Präludium [Bach]
OLD TIME RADIO "OLD TIME RADIO"
Various Artists	A Barrel Of Fun 1942-01-23	1942
Kirby Walker a.o.	Harlem Hospitality Club 1947 (14)	1947
Dinah Shore	Way You Look Tonight "Way You Look Tonight" by "Dinah Shore"	1945

Rock A Teens	Woo Hoo "Woo Hoo" by "Rock A Teens"	1959

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Listener comments!
	9:52am Mr Fab: Gooooood morning, all! (Or whatever it is where you are.) Hope you are enjoying your semi-holiday, Jan.
	9:55am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Mr Fab. I'm semi-here. I mean: we're semi-here indeed. Christianne and I. I'll be popping in ebery now and then.
	9:58am DJ Guin: morning jan hello Mr. Fab hey kids
	10:01am Mr Fab: Someone really named their child "Robert Roberts"..?
	🎸 10:04am WR: Hello Jan and folks.
	10:04am DJ Guin: I knew a Robert Robertson. name changed when he was adopted his stepfather
	10:04am DJ Guin: hey WR
	10:09am Jan Turkenburg: Hi WR and DJ Guin!
	10:10am Mr Fab: OMG, we used to sing this “Ave Maria“ song in Catholic school. I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard a recording of it before.
	🎸 10:12am Krys O.: Hi, Jan!
	🎸 10:12am WR: Hi DJ Guin,
	10:13am DJ Guin: popup web player is showing the last song listed on the playlist, but not a big deal
	🎸 10:13am Krys O.: ↳ Mr Fab @10:01 I knew someone named Pete Peterson. Also someone named Pete Rabbitt.
	🎸 10:14am Krys O.: Bob Roberts was a great movie.
	🎸 10:14am Krys O.: ↳ Song: a song Sounded like some Slavic language in there.
	🎸 10:14am WR: ↳ DJ Guin @10:13 Yes, since Jan already published the whole playlist, the players all show the last track from the list.
	10:15am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Krys!
	🎸 10:16am Krys O.: ↳ WR @10:14 Thanks for the tip, WR. I missed that.
	10:16am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ WR @10:14 yes, correct.
	10:22am David in California: ↳ Song: "and the parrot said" by "Bob Roberts" Hello, Jan. This song reminded me of a cartoon that used to run on "The Electric Company": www.youtube.com...
	10:26am MHLee: Hi Jan
	10:27am MHLee: Sounds like Bessie Smith maybe?
	🎸 10:29am WR: ↳ MHLee @10:27 absolutely yes. hearing Smith's Empty Bed Blues now.
	🎸 10:30am Krys O.: ↳ MHLee @10:27 The whole playlist was pre-published.
	10:32am MHLee: Oh it's being run by MrFab. I see.
	10:35am DJ Guin: ↳ David in California @10:22 oh, geez, David...i STILL do this routine when people knock!! "WHO is it?" "It's the Plumber. I've come to fix the sink!"
	10:36am DJ Guin: ↳ DJ Guin @10:35 i would like to think the Jerky Boys were inspired by Electric Company
	🎸 10:44am WR: ↳ Song: "and the parrot said" by "Bob Roberts" Ok, Jan, the source of your info on Bob Roberts seems to be from Tim Gracyk. He has a youtube channel with nearly 12,000 early recordings and has self published some books on American recordings 1895 - 1925 (currently a Kindle only edition available on Amazon). He has several Bob Roberts recordings on youtube and each one has the text you copied into the playlist here. Here is Gracyk's youtube for the parrot song: www.youtube.com... I thought at first maybe Gracyk copied the text from some one's web page or book but I only found other people referencing Gracyk's work.
	🎸 10:54am WR: ↳ WR @10:44 There is also an ebook edition of the recording pioneer book and it was published in 2000 in HB and paper but very expensive, even used.
	11:04am Roberto: ↳ Song: "A Barrel Of Fun 1942-01-23" by "Various Artists" Wait, Carole Lombard died the week before this aired 1942-01-23.
	11:04am Roberto: ↳ Roberto @11:04 Maybe the news traveled slowly.
	11:05am Roberto: ↳ Roberto @11:04 Or maybe he was a necro.
	11:07am Jan Turkenburg: Hi David, MHLee and Roberto! Thanks WR for looking that up!
	11:10am MHLee: ↳ Roberto @11:04 I don't know my golden age actors or actresses... but wow she was pretty
	11:13am Arvo Zylo: Goood morning Vietnam!
	11:15am Arvo Zylo: I <3 Rita Abadzi! And most of the Rebitiko of that time. Shame I missed it.
	11:15am Roberto: ↳ MHLee @11:10 Yeah, pretty dead by 1/23/42.
	11:28am David in California: ↳ MHLee @11:10 Two good films she was in, that are easily available because they're in public domain, are "My Man Godfrey" and "Nothing Sacred".
	11:41am coelacanth∅: Greetings Jan and all
	11:43am MHLee: This doesn't seem like Bebop to me? Of course I think I'm more used to hard bop
	11:46am DJ Guin: thanks in advance, jan! see you soon
	11:53am Mr Fab: Stay tuned for five, yes, FIVE! hours of audio weirdness from Arvo Zylo.
	11:54am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Arvo Zylo, coelacanth∅. Thanks for listening and being here, everybody! See you another time! 🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️
	🎸 11:56am Krys O.: Thanks, Jan!
	🎸 11:56am WR: Thank you! Jan!
	11:57am David in California: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @11:54 Thank you, Jan. I'm going to look for more from Kirby Walker. I really like his piano playing.
	11:58am Asheville Jon: 🦆
	11:59am MHLee: Vontage commercial?
	11:59am Mr Fab: Rock A Teens "Woo Hoo": covered by the 5678s in "Kill BIll."
	11:59am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ Asheville Jon @11:58 👍🦆❗
	11:59am MHLee: Vonage

Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg: Playlist from August 1, 2024

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