Wednesday, December 19, 2012



Face the Music: Seventh Parcel of Twos to air 12.20.12

Yancey Special
Meade Lux Lewis 1942

Bill Bailey, Won’t You
Please Come Home? {1902}
Dave “Fingers” McKenna

Easy Street
singing trombonist Trummy Young
with Jimmie Lunceford’s Orchestra 1942

Carolina in the Morning {1922}
Jerry Colonna & his Dixieland Band

Under the Bamboo Tree {1902}
sung by Susan La Marche with
Waldo’s Ragtime Orchestra

Memphis Blues {1902}
sung by Katherine Handy
with James P Johnson

Oh Didn’t He Ramble {1902}
played and sung by
Jelly Roll Morton

The Dirty Dozen
Ben Curry 1932

Diga Diga Doo
Mills Brothers 1932

Honeysuckle Rose
Hot Club Frankfurt 1942

It’s a Long Way to Tipperary {1912}
Muggsy Spanier & his Dixieland Band

Trinidad Paseo
Lovey’s Trinidad String Band 1912

Black Diamond Rag
Fred Van Eps 1912

Manuelito Waltz
Lovey’s Trinidad String Band 1912

Sweet Adeline
Peerless Quartet 1912

Grey Skies Around the Corner
Charlie & his Orchestra 1942

You Made Me Love You
Orson Welles
singing to a photograph of Lana Turner, 1942

Sweet Sue
Mills Brothers 1932

Doin’ the New Low Down
Cab Calloway & the Mills Brothers
With Don Redman’s Orchestra 1932

Monday, December 10, 2012


Face the Music 121312
A Sixth Parcel of Twos

Greenwich Witch
Zez Confrey 1922

A Breeze From Alabama
Scott Joplin 1902
played by William Albright

Storyville Blues
Bunk Johnson’s
Original Superior Band 1942

Hawaiian Blues
Johnny Dunn’s
Original Jazz Hounds 1922

Ole Miss Blues
James P. Johnson 1922

Nobody Lied
Broadway Dance Orchestra 1922

Fidgety Feet
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

Fat Tuesday
Humphrey Lyttelton’s Band 1952

Rumba de Media Noche
Vicente Sigler 1932

Lawd You Made the Night Too Long
Louis Armstrong 1932

Steal Away
Turner Junior Johnson 1942

Friendless Blues
Humphrey Lyttelton’s Band 1952

Keep Your Hands Off My Mojo
Coot Grant and Wesley Wilson 1932

How You Want It Done?
Big Bill Broonzy 1932

Farewell Blues {1922}
Count Basie & his
All-American Rhythm Section 1942

You Took Advantage of Me
Cliff Jackson 1962

Perdido
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1942

Wednesday, December 5, 2012


Face the Music - Potentials & Probabilities
Fifth Parcel of Twos for 12.06.12

Can’t We Get Together?
Joe Sullivan Trio 1952

Never Heard of Such Stuff
Joe Sullivan Trio 1952

No Local Stops           
Ralph Sutton 1952

Don’t Leave Me Daddy
Eddie Condon & Band 1942

Alexander’s Ragtime Band {1912}
Bessie Smith

Champagne Charlie Is My Name
Blind Blake 1932

The Scat Song
Steve Washington & the
Washboard Rhythm Kings 1932

Toot, Toot, Tootsie! {1922}
Oriole Terrace Orchestra 1922

I Wonder Blues
Bailey’s Lucky Seven 1922

Eccentric
Friar’s Society Orchestra 1922

Runnin’ Wild {1922}
The Cotton Pickers 1922

Under the Double Eagle {1902}
Wilbur De Paris & the Rampart Street Ramblers

Fast and Furious
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1932

Lay Your Racket
Sidney Bechet’s New Orleans Feetwarmers 1932

Pickin’ My Way Guitar Mania {part one}
Eddie Lang & Carl Kress 1932

Two Bits {Really Fine}
Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1942

Moten Swing {1932}
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1932

Down Under
Woody Herman & his Orchestra 1942