Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU
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Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU
The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!
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His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from Apr 17, 2024
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "The Baby and the Pup"
Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers - "Preachin' Blues" [0:02:25]
Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 29, 2022
James P. Johnson - "Blue Turning Gray Over You" [0:00:00]
Bessie Smith (with Eddie Lang) - "Kitchen Man" [0:08:42]
Gus Boden...
Money donated during this hour funds the Codger's "infrastructure" needs (whiskey, cigars, Chinese takeout, rare 78rpm discs). Booker T. Bodenheim co-hosts. from Mar 8, 2022
Fletcher Henderson - "Queer Notions"
Slim Gaillard - "Potato Chips" [0:03:14]
Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - "Jack the Bel...
Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 15, 2022
Ruth Etting - "Shine on Harvest Moon"
Van & Schenck - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" [0:02:36]
DJ Fablio - "Please Pledge...
Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart." from Feb 22, 2022
Little Jack Little - "Three O'Clock in the Morning"
Trio Servando Diaz - "Param Pan Pin" [0:02:43]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "The...
An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 15, 2022
Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Non-Discrimination Policy" [0:00:00]
Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Bopmatism" [0:01:36]
Lonnie Johnson...
He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 11, 2022
Romeo Nelson - "Head Rag Hop" [0:00:00]
Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Get Off with Me" [0:04:47]
Gus Bodenheim - "Gus...
Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 18, 2022
Bix Beiderbecke - "In a Mist"
Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Rasslin' 'Til the Wagon Comes" [0:02:41]
Gus Bodenheim - "Codgert...
So old his blood type was discontinued. from Jan 25, 2022
Regal Jazz Band - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" - unknown 78 rpm disc
Lionel Hampton & His Just Jazz All Stars & Oscar Peterson - "It'...
A stormy petrel of unbalanced mental potentialities. from Jan 4, 2022
Gene Rodgers - "Jukebox Boogie"
Don Redman - "Chant of the Weed" [0:02:04]
Gus Bodenheim - "EschewTube™" [0:10:17]
He's the answer to your prayers. And the answer is, "NO!" from Dec 14, 2021
Fats Waller - "Ain't Misbehavin' / Two Sleepy People (V-Disc)"
Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Gamma Gourmet™ by Delbarton Nuclear" [0:08:44]
Blink and you're passé! from Dec 21, 2021
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "The Wolf Wobble"
Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Opus 12 Eee" [0:02:46]
Gus Bodenheim - "N.E.B.U.C....
Codger: "You throw one piece of equipment at the station manager and suddenly you're branded 'difficult to work with'." from Dec 28, 2021
Jabbo Smith - "Michigander Blues"
Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Come on Coot, Do That Thing" [0:02:55]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "W...
You keep forgetting he's still alive. from Dec 7, 2021
Vaughn de Leath - "I Just Roll Along" [0:00:00]
Red Norvo - "Tomboy" [0:02:50]
Gus Bodenheim - "Radio Announcer of the Year...
He'll steal anything that isn't nailed down. And anything he can pry loose isn't nailed down. from Nov 23, 2021
Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Updated Terms of Service"
Dodo Marmarosa - "Dodo's Bounce" [0:01:38]
The Georgia Browns - "Decat...
"The Codger's brain is a sepulcher furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones." - Joseph Glanvill from Nov 30, 2021
James P. Johnson - "Jersey Sweet"
Cliff Edwards - "Hang On to Me" [0:02:30]
Gus Bodenheim - "Rediscover Radium!" [0:08:25]
Knew Gatsby when he was just "pretty good." from Nov 2, 2021
Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra - "Grand Canyon Suite: V. Cloudburst" [0:00:00]
Gus Bodenheim - "A Tour Through My Library" [0:12...
Empathied out since 1931. from Oct 5, 2021
George Gershwin - "Clap Yo' Hands"
Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "Breakin' in a New Pair of Shoes" [0:02:22]
Wilmoth...
Gus Bodenheim sits in Courtney's chair, fills his shoes, and depletes his whiskey. from Oct 12, 2021
Sister O.M. Terrell - "God's Little Birds" [0:00:00]
Will Glahe Orchestra - "Krazy Kat" [0:02:32]
Gus Bodenheim - "mic break...
His cynicism is not cheap! from Oct 19, 2021
Percy Grainger - "Pagodes (Debussy, from "Estampes")"
Hadda Brooks - "Boogie Celeste" [0:04:15]
Gus Bodenheim - "Reads the M...
His very existence affirms Faulkner's observation that "The past is never dead. It's not even past." from Sep 28, 2021
George Gershwin - "Someone to Watch Over Me" [0:00:00]
Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra - "The Mooche" [0:02:42]
M...
"The Codger never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see bad ones. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, blind to light, always mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game." — H.W. Beecher from Aug 10, 2021
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Doing Things" - Victor 21561
Ruth Etting - "I Want to Meander in the Meadow" - Columbia 1883-D [0:03:01]
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Claims the 21st is the worst century he's ever lived in. from Aug 17, 2021
Fred Elizalde - "Pianotrope"
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "Runnin' Ragged (Bamboozlin' the Bassoon)" [0:02:38]
Nadia, Ken & the...
"The Codger is a dark little archaic personage—hard, compact, unscrupulous, imitative, and neatly vulgar." — H.G. Wells from Aug 24, 2021
Fred Elizalde - "Brandy and Soda"
Joséphine Baker - "I'm Feelin' Like a Million" [0:02:33]
Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Delbarto...
Hubris is his other middle name. from Sep 7, 2021
Arthur Schutt - "Piano Puzzle" [0:00:00]
Fats Waller - "Imagine My Surprise" [0:02:21]
Sophie Tucker - "Red Hot Mama" [0:09:...
Recently spent a week in Arkansas to get his liver drained. from Sep 14, 2021
John Ouwerx - "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow"
Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "The Henderson Stomp" [0:02:22]
Gus Bodenheim - "Th...
Once asked what to feed babies, he recommended suntan lotion, dust bunnies, clumps of bread soaked in rubbing alcohol, and pennies. from Sep 21, 2021
Fred Elizalde - "Melancholy Weeps"
Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "Volcanic (Eruption for Orchestra)" [0:02:23]
Bo C...
Laura Cantrell hosts while Courtney is off being a miscreant-at-large from Aug 31, 2021
Eubie Blake - "Charleston Rag" [0:00:00]
Georgia White - "The Stuff Is Here" [0:05:59]
Ida Cox - "Lonesome Blues" [0:06:44]<...
His excuses make the labyrinth seem like the shortest distance between two points. from Aug 3, 2021
Cyril Scott - "Danse Negre" - HMV B2895
Whistlin' Alex Moore - "Heart Wrecked Blues" - Columbia 14518-D
Bix Beiderbecke & H...
His state implies a necessary curse: when not himself, he's mad; when most himself, he's worse. from Jul 20, 2021
Fred Elizalde - "Brandy and Soda"
Joe Venuti's Blue Four - "Nothing But Nots" [0:03:00]
Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton Xervac™"...
Specializing in locally sourced, free-range, organic, sustainable misery. from Jun 29, 2021
Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys - "I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music" [0:00:00]
Bo Carter - "You Better Know Your Business" [0:02:30]
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Never nominated for a Peabody, but takes first prize for narcissism, peevishness and vulgarity. from Jul 13, 2021
George Van Eps - "The Chant" [0:00:00]
Betty Roche - "Trouble Trouble" [0:02:10]
Gus Bodenheim - "Delbarton & Bailey Clown C...
Rejects the five-second rule. In his house they observe the three-day rule. Except for liquids, to which he applies a strict 10-minute rule. from Jul 6, 2021
Hillbilly Charley Vaughn - "Father's A Drunkard, and Mother Is Dead"
Red Norvo - "In a Mist" [0:02:37]
Gus Bodenheim - "The...
Even his mildest observations reek of vinegar. from Jun 22, 2021
Garfield Akers - "Dough Roller Blues" [0:00:00]
Lucille Bogan - "Tricks Ain't Walking No More" [0:02:47]
Gus Bodenheim - "Th...
"This louse is Dickensian in his meanness, filth, and insensitivity to ordinary human beings." – Laurence Bergreen from Jun 8, 2021
Coleman Hawkins Quartet feat. Thelonious Monk - "Recollections" [0:00:00]
Hadda Brooks - "I Can't Get Started" [0:02:32]
Gus...
The Devil Caught Me Nappin' (Guest Host: Monica) from Jun 15, 2021
Eddie South - "My Ohio Home" - Eddie South 1923-1937 [0:00:00]
Dinning Sisters - "I Only Want a Buddy Not a Sweetheart" - Back In Country...
Fats All, Folks! Birthday Tribute to the Great Mr. Thomas Waller from May 20, 2021
Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "The Joint is Jumpin'"
Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "You Asked for It, You Got It" [0:02:38]
Fats W...
The only guy who would abduct your cat, and when the ransom is paid, you get back more cats. from May 27, 2021
Billiken Johnson & Fred Adams - "Interurban Blues" [0:00:00]
Fats Waller & His Rhythm - "Every Day's a Holiday" [0:03:00]
Vi...
"A lot of people think they're nostalgic for radio theater, and they're wrong." – Hearty White from Jun 3, 2021
Coleman Hawkins Quartet (ft. Thelonious Monk) - "On the Bean"
Tampa Red - "Grievin' and Worryin' Blues" [0:02:37]
Euneeda Bo...
The next person who tells him to "stay safe" won’t be. from May 13, 2021
James P. Johnson - "You've Got to Be Modernistic" [0:00:00]
Billiken Johnson with Neal Roberts - "Sun Beam Blues" [0:02:56]
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