In keeping with our monthly series of THE RAREST OF THE RARE Blues, Jazz, Country, Piano, Skiffle and Sanctified pre-war 78s we are at letters O-P-Q! The Qinlan Brothers, Washington Phillips, Jenny Pope, Memphis Five, Charley Patton, King Oliver, Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra and more!

Sizzling Summer with Duke's Cotton Club Band, Bascom Lamar Lunceford, Ernest Phipps' Holiness Singers, California Ramblers, Fats Waller, Johnny Green's Orchestra, Dixon Brothers, and some songs from the North Carolina Mills! and more!

Mystery man Bayless Rose, Don Redman & His Orchestra , a few Civil War era tunes by Fiddlin' John Carson and Chubby Parker and much more!!

Fats Waller with Benny Goodman in 1931, Wheeler & Wolsey, tunes from the 1933 "CENTURY OF PROGRESS" ( Chicago World's Fair), Uncle Dave Macon, Monroe Brothers, Isham Jones Orchestra, Cliff Jackson's Krazy Kats, Willie Bryant Orchestra and more

Bascom Lamar Lunceford, Ernest Phipps Holiness Singers, Carter Family, Kay Thompson, Fats Waller & His Rhythm , McKinney's Cotton Pickers and more!

Joe presents his guest, 13 year old "Talkies" expert Jack Murphy . Jack's amazing knowledge of early talking film musicals is on display as well as some favorite tracks including Iva Taylor on MOANIN' LOW and AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'!

How many copies of Skip James "Devil Got My Woman" on Paramount Records exist? How many copies of ZULU'S BALL by King Oliver on Gennett have been found? Pete Whelan's "78 QUARTERLY MAGAZINE" speculated on matters such as this for over 20 years! This series ( once a month) explores some of the RAREST OF THE RARE pre-war Blues, Jazz, Skiffle and Gospel 78 rpm records - we will hear some of them and marvel in their rarity!

George M. Cohan was the toast of Broadway from 1904 until his death in 1943. He was the man portrayed by James Cagney in the classic Academy Award winning Warner Brothers musical YANKEE DOODLE DANDY - in this episode we will spend some time hearing original versions of some of Cohan's songs and hear the voice of the man himself!

More gems form Joe's 78 archive - Visiting us this week will be PACKIE DOLAN & HIS BOYS, THE EMERALD TRIO, DAVEY MILLER, SISTER ROSETTA THARPE, SOPHIE TUCKER, BEN SELVIN's BAND and a little fun set of tunes about weight loss from the 1920s-early 30s!

No particular theme except a ton of amazing pre-ww2 performance direct form Joes' 78s JAZZ, BLUES, COUNTRY , WORLD and other surprises