Saturday, February 8, 2014

Nonagenarian recordings at nine

Someone else can cover sports
It's really not my bag.
And while we wait for their reports
I'm going to play some rag.

1.Wilbur C. Sweatman, Accompanied by Emerson Trio - Down Home Rag (1:28)
2.Thomas Craig - Old Black Joe (2:00)
3.Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th U. S. Infantry “Hell Fighters” Band - Darktown Strutters' Ball (3:00)
4.Cousins & DeMoss - Poor Mourner (2:03)
5.Dallas String Band With Coley Jones - Shine (3:01)
6.Harry T. Burleigh - Go Down Moses (2:05)

We started a little early because there was no one playing before me. This month, we're going to go through my old recordings. My ooooooold recordings. Some of these tracks are 100 years old.

9:00
8.Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop - G. Burns is Gonna Rise Again (3:01)
9.Polk Miller's Old South Quartette - Jerusalem Mornin' by Polk Miller's Old South Quartette (2:06)
10.Wilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band - Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues But I'm Happy (3:01)
11.Dabney's Band - Camp Meeting Blues (2:15)
12.Jim Jackson - Bye, Bye, Policeman (3:03)
13.Cousins & DeMoss - Who Broke The Lock (2:16)
14.Len Spencer & George W. Johnson - The Merry Mail Man (3:03)
15.Tuskegee Institute Singers - Good News (2:25)
16.Frank Hutchinson - Stackalee (3:05)
17.Apollo Jubilee Quartette - Shout All Over God's Heaven (2:22)
18.Frank Stokes - I Got Mine (3:06)
19.Oriole Quartette - Brother Michael, Won't You Hand Down That Rope (2:34)
20.Lil McClintock - Don't Think I'm Santa Claus (3:06)
21.Dinwiddie Colored Quartet - Down On The Old Camp Ground (2:33)
22.Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Go Along Mule (3:07)
23.Three Tobacco Tags - Reno Blues (2:39)
24.Afro American Folk Song Singers - The Rain Song (3:08)
25.Opal Cooper - Beans, Beans, Beans (3:11)
26.Noble Sissle - Great Camp Meetin' Day (2:39)
27.Noble Sissle - Great Camp Meetin' Day (2:39)
28.Blake's Jazzone Orchestra - The Jazz Dance (3:08)
29.Miss Daisy Tapley and Carroll Clark - I Surrender All (2:41)

Most of these are early Black recordings (thank you, Black History Month). Next week, we'll get a little raunchy with pre-censor songs of ribaldry.

10:00
31.Hezekiah Jenkins - Shout You Cats (3:08)
32.Bogus Ben Covington - Adam and Eve in the Garden (2:42)
33.Stovepipe #1 & David Crockett - A Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around (3:08)
34.Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Gonna Tip Out Tonight (3:09)
35.Edward H. S. Boatner - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (2:43)
36.The Memphis Sheiks - He's in the Jailhouse Now (3:11)
37.Apollo Jubilee Quartette - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2:44)
We had a little problem here.
38.Blind Sammie - Atlanta Strut (3:11)
39.Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bring it with You When You Come (2:45)
40.Handy's Memphis Blues Band - St. Louis Blues—Medley Fox Trot (Intro: Ole Miss Blues) (3:12)
41.Walter Cole - Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean (2:47)
42.Dallas String Band With Coley Jones - Hokum Blues (3:14)
43.Fisk University Jubilee Quartet - Little David, Play On Yo' Harp / Shout All Over God's Heaven (2:48)
44.Four Harmony Kings - Goodnight Angeline (3:14)
45.R. Nathaniel Dett - Barcarolle (2:48)
46.Florence Cole–Talbert; piano accompaniment by William Leonard King - Villanelle (3:15)
47.Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Casey Bill (2:48)
48.Williams And Walker - My Little Zulu Babe by Williams & Walker (2:49)

Thanks for sticking around during that hiccup, guys. The work machine had an update tonight and it sucked up all the bandwidth.

11:00
50.Alec Johnson & His Band - Mysterious Coon (3:15)
51.Jackson, Papa Charlie - Scoodle Um Skoo (3:17)
52.Carroll Clark - Old Dog Tray (2:51)
53.Henry Thomas " Ragtime Texas" - Railroadin' Some (3:19)
54.Memphis Pickaninny Band - Some Jazz Blues (2:51)
55.Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers - The Gypsy (3:21)
56.Jim Jackson - I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop (2:52)
57.Right Quintette - The Rain Song (3:21)
58.Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah - The Spasm (2:52)
59.Right Quintette - Exhortation (3:24)
60.Beans Hambone & El Morrow - Beans (2:53)
61.Europe's Society Orchestra - Down Home Rag (3:33)
62.Standard Quartette - Keep Movin' (2:53)
63.Clarence Cameron White - Lament (3:38)
64.Banjo Joe - My Money Never Runs Out (2:53)
65.Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra - On The Shore at Le-Lei-Wei (3:48)
66.Bert Williams - Nobody (2:55)
67.Afro American Folk Song Singers - Swing Along (3:58)
68.Eubie Blake Trio - Sarah from Sahara (2:56)