Shellac Stack No. 124 kisses Montparnasse with Beatrice Lillie and visits the Codfish Ball with Miss Joy. We’ve got records by Don Bestor, Mal Hallett, Tom Coakley, the Revelers, Bing Crosby, Johnny Marvin, and many more on this edition packed to the gills with 1920s and ’30s pop.
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Shellac Stack No. 122 goes to the Woodchopper’s Ball with Nat Gonella. Perhaps that’s where they play “outdoor chamber music”? We hear records this time by Al Katz and His Kittens, Jimmie Lunceford, the Peerless Quartet, Bud Powell, Red Ingle and the Natural Seven, and Andres Segovia. How’s that for variety?
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Shellac Stack No. 121 does the Hambone and the French Trot! We hear records by bandleaders Jelly Roll Morton, Tom Gerun, and Lu Watters; vocalists Frank Crumit, the Happiness Boys, and the Four Aristocrats; accordionist Guido Deiro, and so much more!
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Shellac Stack No. 120 buttons shoes so we can “step” to heaven… or maybe ten little miles from town. We have great jazz from Frank Teschemacher, Red Nichols, and Miff Mole; solid dance records from George Olsen, the Bostonians, and Johnny Johnson; assorted odds ‘n’ ends by Sophie Tucker, Alec Wilder, Lani McIntire, Arthur Lynn (“America’s Golden Tenor”), and more!
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Shellac Stack No. 119 looks on the bright side with records by Harry James, Jean Goldkette, Jay Wilbur, the Revelers, Teddy Hill’s Orchestra, and others. With songs by George Gershwin, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger (among others), it’s a pleasant, tuneful hour. Here’s lookin’ at you, kid!
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Shellac Stack No. 118 whips that old T.B. with Jimmie Rodgers and heads down the Old Ox Road with Chick Bullock. We hear records about “ladies,” some college-themed songs, and more, with performances by Ethel Merman, Singin’ Sam, Paul Robeson, Abe Lyman’s California Orchestra, Jimmy McPartland, and others.
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Shellac Stack No. 117 pays income tax and then shakes the blues away with Irving Berlin. No foolin’! We hear records by Dick Robertson, Skitch Henderson, Henry Burr, Charlie Palloy, the Brox Sisters, Tommy Dorsey, Nellie Lutcher, and many more.
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Shellac Stack No. 116 welcomes springtime with records by Sam Lanin, the Florentine Quartet, and Fred Rich. We also hear from Beatrice Lillie, Duke Ellington, Joe “Fingers” Carr, Jimmy Durante, and enjoy the jazz harp stylings of Mario “Harp” Lorenzi and His Rhythmics. There’s lots more too, including an excursion to hear “Jazz at the Philharmonic.”
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Shellac Stack No. 115 does the raccoon — and lots more besides! From Zimbabwe to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, we’ve got records this week by Wingy Manone, Benny Strong, Fred Rich, Grace Hayes, Hazel Scott, Elmo Tanner, the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band, George Formby, and many more.
The Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band
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