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Today’s episode features some of my favorite records. Records that make me smile. Not necessarily records that make me laugh or chuckle, although those are here, but also records that simply make me smile, and shake my head. Make me smile in a sense of just how unusual or cool these records are. More like a shake my head in wonderment type of a smile. Hope you enjoy this episode of the Old Dingy Jukebox Podcast: Records That Make Me Smile: Humdingers, Monkeys, Biscuits and Crooked yodels.  Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. Also, please go take a visit to the show's website olddingyjukebox.com and have a look around. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show.

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1. R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders- “Fine Artiste Blues” 1976
2. Billy Jack Wills and his Western Swing Band- “Cattle Call” 1951
3. Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters-’Ride That Mule” 1927
4. Mississippi Fred McDowell and Hunter’s Chapel Singers “Lay My Burden Down” 1966
5. Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers “Monkey On A String” 1926
6. The Farmer Boys “Humdinger” 1955
7. The Georgia Sea Island Singers “Before This Time Another Year” 1959
8. Bernie Cummins “Mysterious Mose” 1930
9. The Hall Brothers “Little Mo-Hee” 1937
10. Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France “Sweet Georgia Brown” 1938
11. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys “Roly Poly”
12. Chris Bouchillion “The Medicine Show” 1927
13. Charlie Parker “Rabbit Chase” 1927
14. Sister O.M. Terrell “Going To that City To Die No More” 1953
15. Big Tweed “That One Girl At The Bar” 2009

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These history and music related episodes are inspired by my interest in musicology and history as well as some of my favorite podcasts like Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" or Tyler Mahan Coe's "Cocaine and Rhinestones". So, here it goes...check out episode one, part one..."Goin' Up The Country": Race, Records and the American Musical Identity. Available on all podcast platforms. Please subscribe and share and go check out the show's website
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Today's episode features some great and wacky records from my special guest host, Matt Sayles. Matt has been a guest on the Old Dingy Jukebox before, once as a solo host (episode #5) as well as with his wife, co-host, historian Dr. Cheryl Jimenez-Frei (episode #14). Matt brings a different and appreciated perspective to the show. I love having him as a guest and enjoying his sensibilities not only as a fellow record collector/enthusiast, but also as a musician good buddy. Also, check out Matt's record label Philville Records and social media handles on Instagram and Facebook. He's got a pretty cool YouTube page as well. I think you're going to enjoy this show.

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[Custom Records, Early 60’s, “Commercial” “Atmosphere” Long Play 45’s 5:00 minutes or more per side. Used For background music in factories, department stores, bars, etc. ]

1. Crazy Boogie (Merle Travis) Capitol Records 1948
2. Motorcycle Bill (Willis Brothers) Thunder On The Road Starday 1966
3. Cajun Fiddle (Buck Owens & Tom Brumley) Roll Out The Red Carpet Capitol 1966
4. July 12, 1939 (Charlie Rich Written by Norro Wilson) Epic Records 1970
5. 4-F Ferdinand The Frantic Freak (Harry The Hipster Gibson) Musicraft 1944
6. Giddyup Hobo (Johnny Bond & Red Sovine) Thunder On The Road Starday 1966
7. Long Lanky Lena  (Unknown) Wolf-Tex 1958-1960
8. Can’t We call It Even and Be Cool (The Old Joe Clarks) Raging Woody Records 1994 
9. Rosse Marie (Bobbejaan Schoepen) Decca Belgium 1957
10. Hash Bamboo Shuffle 1702 (Ferre Grignard) Fontana 1968 (Netherlands)
11. One Armed Love (Ace Ball) Test Pressing 1954
12. Let Me Play With Your Poodle (Hank Penny) 1947
13. Plastic Saddle (Jerry Reed Written by Vic McAlpin) Cookin' RCA 1970
14. I’m Moving On (Homer Haynes Jethro Burnes and Hank Snow) RCA Victor 1951
15. Moanin’ (Hank Snow) Hank Snow Sings RCA Victor 1952
16. Sailor’s Plea (Bill Monroe  Decca 1962)
17. Yma Sumac Voice of the Xtabay (Yma Sumac) 1955
18. It Hurt Me Too (Connie Van Dyke written by Marvin Gaye) Motown 1963
19. Shine Hallelujah Shine ( Traditional Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys) 1948 Columbia

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Today’s show features some of my favorite 78s from my collection. I thought it would be fun to feature hokum blues and jazz records from the pre-war era. A subcategory of the blues, hokum was popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Hokum songs were often uptempo, funny, and on the raw to often raunchy side. The origins of this style of blues can be traced back to the vaudeville and minstrel show era of the late 19th Century, where songs of this type were performed with a touch of innuendo and comedy. This genre became wildly popular with adult audiences during the 20s and 30s. In the early days, common performers surfaced in jug bands that performed in the beer joints and brothels found up and down Beale Street, in Memphis, Tennessee. 

Jug bands like the Memphis Jug Band and Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers played good-time, upbeat music on assorted instruments like washboards, fiddles, triangles, harmonicas, guitars and banjos, all anchored by bass notes of an empty jug. Later on, duets featuring the piano and guitar would become popular as well. I’ve always found these types of records entertaining and I thought it would make for a good show to combine these types of hokum records along with some early pre-war jazz records and a few piano stomps thrown in for good measure.  

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1. Clarence Williams’ Jug Band. “You Ain’t Too Old” 1933
2. Lil Johnson “My Stove’s In Good Condition” 1936
3. Jelly Roll Morton “Mr. Jelly Lord” 1924
4. Hokum Boys “Keep Your Mind On It” 1936
5. Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra “When A Black Man’s Blue” 1931
6. Sweet Violet Boys “Sweet Violets” 1936
7. Sidney “Pops” Bechet with Noble Sissle’s Swingers “Viper Mad” 1938
8. Eddie Lang (Blind Willie Dunn) and Lonnie Johnson 1929
9. Django Reinhardt Hot Club of France “Paramount Stomp” 1937
10. Pigmeat Pete and Catjuice Charlie “Get Your Mind Out The Gutter” 1929
11. Lonnie Johnson and Clarence Williams “Wipe It Off” 1930
12. Fats Waller “Serenade For A Wealthy Widow” 1934
13. Georgia Tom and Hannah May “What’s That I Smell?” 1934
14. Red Nichols and His Five Pennies “Boneyard Shuffle” 1927
15. Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys “Old Joe’s Hittin’ The Jug” 1936
16. Smokehouse Charley “Pig Meat Blues” 1929
17. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five “West End Blues” 1928

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Today’s episode features some of my favorite records centered around truck driving, hot roddin’, infidelity and surfing. The show's music selection comes from my 78s, 45s and….even a few LPs! 

I figured these topics would make for an entertaining show. Also, stepping outside the box a little for this show with some instrumental electric guitar groups. That’s where the surfing and hot roddin’ comes in. I love those types of records and I figured I’d throw some of those into the mix for this show. Why not? Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. Also, go take a visit to the show's new website olddingyjukebox.com and have a look around. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show. "Truckin', Skiddin', Cheatin' & Surfin'"

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1. Washboard Sam and His Washboard Band “Back Door” 1935
2. Benny Barnes “Diesel Smoke” 1966
3. Big Tweed “Ratchet Jaw” 2014
4. Porter Wagoner “The Cold Hard Facts of Life” 1967
5. Lonnie Irving “Trucker’s Vitus” 1960
6. Phantom Surfers “Rootin’ Around For Ramona” 1997
7. Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers “Three Nights Experience” 1927>
8. Del Reeves “Last Run To Memphis” 1968
9. Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnys “Ganroku Hanami Odori” 1967
10. Blind Boy Fuller “You Never Can Tell” 1937
11. Jeanne Gayle with Cliffie Stone’s Music “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” 1952>
12. Terry Fell “Coffee Jim The Trucker” 1976
13. The De-Fenders “Taco Wagon” 1963
14. Wynn Stewart “Uncle Tom Got Caught” 1959
15. Red Simpson “Sleeper Cab Five-By-Two” 1967>
16. Jerry Cole and His Spacemen “Border Run” 1964 

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Today's episode features some of my favorite 78s from my collection covering a variety of styles. Early country music, piano blues, jazz, hokum and western swing are some of the styles presented in today's show. I think you'll find the show an entertaining sample of early recorded vernacular styles of down home American music. Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. Also, go take a visit to the shows new website (olddingyjukebox.com) and have a look around. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show. “Chitlins, Flying Saucers, Bull Fiddles and Baboons”

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1. Jimmie Heap and the Melody Masters "Ethyl In My Gas Tank" 1950
2. Charles Kama and his Moana Hawaiians "Hawaiian Hotel March" 1940
3. Jelly Roll Morton "Buddy Bolden's Blues" 1939
4. Jack Mose and his Oklahoma Cavaliers "I Mean Corrina" 1936
5. Lee "Pork Chops" Green "Country Gal Blues" 1937
6. Bang Boys "When Lulu's Gone" 1936
7. Lonnie Johnson and Clarence Williams "Monkey and the Baboon" 1930
8. Fiddlin' Arthur Smith "Chitlin Cooking Time In Cheatham County" 1936
9. "Banjo" Ikey Robinson and his Bull Fiddle Band "Four Reasons" 1929
10. The Buchanan Brothers "Those Flying Saucers" 1947
11. Skeets McDonald "Scoot, Git and Begone" 1952
12. Little Chocolate Dandies "Six or Seven Times" 1929
13. Pigmeat Pete and Catjuice Charlie "Old Age Is Creeping Upon Us" 1929
14. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys "Black and Blue Rag" 1935

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Today’s show of the Old Dingy Jukebox is a special themed one. This episode is a collection of songs that tell stories of past events or people; stories that in one way or another were marginalized, censored, sanitized, or buried, often because they dealt with histories considered too traumatic, contentious, or even a threat to those in power. Overall, the songs in today’s episode all recount histories that survived—or that were preserved and retold—through music, when they might have otherwise disappeared. 

The idea for this episode came from my friend Cheryl Jimenez Frei, who is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. Dr. Frei used to live in Ventura California, while she was working on her PhD in history at the University of California Santa Barbara. I have talked on the show before about some of the origins of the Old Dingy Jukebox, with record listening parties my good friend Matt Sayles and I would have. As Matt’s wife, Cheryl would often get roped into our listening sessions too, and as a historian, she started up a conversation about songs as primary sources that can tell us a lot about the moment in which they were created. 

That conversation led to a lesson plan she put together for a public history course she was teaching at UCSB at the time, focusing on how folk music, in many senses, has served as an archive—a people’s archive—preserving events, subjects, and stories that have been absent or silenced in “official” histories or records. Cheryl invited both Matt and I to give a guest lecture and play a few tunes for that class, and now a few years later, this episode is an extension of those conversations about folk music, public history, and memory.

Many people might think of folk music as only a US-American tradition, but the style and tradition exists in some form or another in countries all over the world. And in and in all of those places, music does the same: preserving the stories of the people. This episode reflects that diversity, with songs from Mexico, Chile, Ireland, and the US. Both Cheryl and Matt are guests on this episode so sit back and enjoy this history centered episode of the Old Dingy Jukebox: A People’s Archive: Buried Stories, Radical Histories, and Folk music

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For this episode of the Old DIngy Jukebox, I figured it being election time and all, it would be a good idea to feature records about drinking and politics. As it turns out, the show is mostly songs about drinking. I have a few records in my collection that are political in nature, but the more I started digging through the stacks the more I realized that at this point, the last thing people want to hear about is politics. So, with that in mind, I featured a few records that are political in nature,albeit politics from the 1930s and the 1950s. How quaint. Hope you enjoy the show and please share with friends and family. Also, please rank and review the show over at Apple podcasts, the more rankings and positive reviews really help the show. Thanks for listening and kindly follow the show on the various social media outlets.

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1. George Riddle “Set Up Another” Starday Records 1966
2. Chicago Blck Swans “You Drink Too Much” Conqueror 1937
3. Freddie Hart “Drink Up and Go Home” Columbia 1956
4. BIll Cox and Cliff Hobbs “FDR Is Back Again” Conqueror 1936
5. The Stanley Brothers “Little Glass of Wine” Rich-R-Tone 1948
6. Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan “Who Drank My Beer” Kicking Mule 1983
7. Lulu Belle & Scotty “I’m No Communist” Mercury 1952
8. Ray Anderson “Stalin Kicked The Bucket” Kentucky 1953
9. Whiskey Chimp “Tecate” Barely Right Now 2009
10. Matt Sayles and the Detroit Sportsmen's Congress “Old Man’s First Call” Manifest Refugees 2018
11. Webb Pierce “There Stands The Glass” Decca 1953
12. Charlie Walker “Bubbles In My Beer” Epic 1966
13. Lowe Stokes and His North Georgians “Home Brew Rag” Columbia 1928
14. Charlie Wilson’s Hayloft Boys “The Beer Party” Montgomery Ward 1933
15. Dave Dudley “Two Six Packs Away” Mercury 1965
16. Washboard Sam “I Drinks Good Whiskey” Bluebird 1937

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This episode of the Old, Dingy Juke Box features some of my favorite tracks from the great record label, Arhoolie Records. This great record label had a great impact on my musical development and music tastes when I was younger. It still does, and I often marvel at the great and varied output to be found on Arhoolie records. Founded by Chris Stachwitz in 1960, Arhoolie records was started out as an extension of Chris’ love for hunting down old 78rpm records of down home, traditional styles of music. Over the years Chris recorded many types of musicians in a wide variety of ethnic styles. Blues, Cajun, Zydeco, Jazz, Conjunto, Norteno, Western Swing, Country, Gospel and Klezmer are some examples of the styles Chris recorded and released on his label over the past four decades. Many of the musicians were often recorded on their “home turf” in beer joints, churches, front porches, gatherings, living rooms and dance halls. The records released on Arhoolie represent a fascinating snapshot into the deep and wide well of American vernacular music styles and are truly a national treasure. 

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Down Home Music: A Journey Through The Heartland 1963
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In honor of Labor Day, this episode of the Old, Dingy Jukebox features songs revolving around the theme of work. I had a great time going through my records and finding a variety of songs from different styles, across different eras, that deal with a variety of experiences relating to work, employment and money. Looking through the discography, the first thing that stands out is the eclectic set list. From early blues, country music, and folk songs, to truckin songs and instrumental breakdowns, there’s something for everyone. The show’s breadth deals with lighthearted compositions as well as those of a more hard hitting nature. Hope you enjoy the show and please share with friends and family.

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Relax and enjoy episode #11 of the Old, Dingy Jukebox: Labor Day- “Unwieldy Hammers, Big Boss Men and Mining Catastrophes”

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