AMERICAN GROOVES RADIO HOUR hosted by JOE LAURO

From 1908-1931 THE ZIEGFELD FOLLIES were perhaps the most well known and beloved of the Broadway reviews.  In this episode of American Grooves we will play original cast recordings from some of Ziegfeld's most known performers ( Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Burt Williams, Ruth Etting) and a supersizing assortment of recordings by his most unlikely performers!

The roots of Skiffle music can be traced to the 1890s. It was first recorded in the 1920s and 1930s and was somehow resurrected in the late 1950s in England. If it weren't for SKIFFLE music there would be no Beatles. This episode explores SKIFFLE'S early roots and recording

From wash tub bass, kazoos, tin can drums to cigar box fiddles - the specific brand of American Folk Music helped launch the  1960s British Invasion 

YOU WILL HEAR:   The Five Harmainiacs - SADDIE GREEN ( The Vamp Of New Orleans - 1926)

                             Mississippi Jook Band - BARBECUE BUST ( 1936)

                             Mobile Strugglers - FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES ( 1950s)

                             also, Bobby Leacan's Need More Band, Dallas String Band and much more!

In the "nothing is new under the sun" category hear some desperate and funny tunes from the BIG  1929 Wall Street  bloodbath!  While they were jumping out of windows on Broad & Wall Streets, tin pan alley was churning out an amazing array of related topical tunes! Tune in and hear just a few! ( plus our usual eclectic assortment of pre-war rarities!)

you will hear:

MY STOPS COME TUMBLING DOWN - Fields & Hall

EDDIE CANTOR's TIPS ON WALL STREET ( recorded a few days after the 1929 crash!)

TALE OF THE TICKER - Frank Crumit

GET THE JITTERS - Don Redman Orchestra ( 1932)

WALL STREET WAIL - Duke Ellingtons' Cotton Club Orchestra ( 1929) and many more!

From a rare 1935 recording of doomed Governor HUEY P. LONG's campaign song  song  to obscure Bluesman BIG BOY  TEDDY EDWARDS  and  forgotten American songwriter WILLARD ROBISON we will play some fine tunes by groups from Louisiana to songs ABOUT Louisiana 

Our special FATHER's DAY broadcast covers the spectrum from Blues, Country, Jazz to ancient Pop!  Minstrel ManLEW DOCKSTADER's immortal EVERYBODY WORKS BUT FATHER ( circa 1910) to the FIRST Betty Boop Girl HELEN KANE's 1930 THANK YOUR FATHER..and some surprises from The Washboard Rhythm Kings, Jimmie Rodgers and more

Young Irving Berlin made one commercial recording singing his own OH HOW THAT GERMAN COULD LOVE in 1910 - not too long after his stint as a Chinatown Singing Waiter came to an end! Many songwriters in the 1900-30s were pianists AND vocalists - this episode of American Grooves brings you recordings of composers doing their own thing - GEORGE GERSHWIN, CLARENCE WILLIAMS, JAMES P. JOHNSON, HOAGY CARMICHAEL, WILLARD ROBISON and young HAROLD ARLEN are presented  in pre-1935 recordings - writing it, singing it and playing it!

From the first ever recording of Irving Berlin's all time classic EASTER PARADE ( 1933 Meyer Davis & His Orchestra) to  ALABAMA SACRED HARP SINGERS, REVEREND MOSLEY & HIS CONGREGATION, SON HOUSE and many more let us  catapult you you to  broadway  and your favorite "Hot Spot" after a visit to church !

American Grooves focuses on the pre-1934, pre Swing Era  recordings of five  Jazz clarinetists - SIDNEY BECHET, OMAR SIMEON, BENNY GOODMAN, JIMMIE NOONE and JOHNNY DODDS 

From Hoagy Carmichael's immortal GEORGIA to the Georgia Organ Grinders' 1928  GEORGIA MAN  American Grooves heads down south and unearths a surprising array of songs dedicated to the great state of GEORGIA - Country, Blues, Pop and JAZZ all pre 1938  - Tune In !!

American Grooves presents an hour of songs dedicated to the old demon alcohol - songs about bootlegging, alcoholism, drinking and all around inebriation! From Tampa Red, Frankie Trumbauer, Lucille Bogan to Chick Bullock - Lost gems like ALCOHOLIC WARD BLUES ( 1930) and SLOPPY DRUNK ( 1935) will be played.. Have one on us!