Shellac Stack No. 114 savors every minute of the hour. We waste no time, getting down to business with superb records by the High Steppers, Harry Reser, Don Byas, Ruby Newman’s Orchestra, Raie Da Costa, Mary Jane Walsh, and many more.
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Shellac Stack No. 113 sees the sea! On this maritime-themed program, we hear trad jazz by the bands of Raymond Burke and Bob Mielke, a polka by Henry Ford’s Old Time Dance Orchestra, crooners Bing Crosby and Dick Robertson, Irish fiddling by James Swift, and witness a dramatic shipwreck!
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Shellac Stack No. 112 journeys “Down to the Roadside Inn” with Leon McAuliffe’s Western Swing Band. We dance the rumba with the Lecuona Cuban Boys and the tango with Victor Arden – Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra, sample some hot jazz by Paul Mares and His Friars Society Orchestra and Johnny Dodds and the Chicago Footwarmers, and head up to the top of the Hotel McAlpin in New York for some selections by the WMCA Broadcasters. Lots more too!
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Shellac Stack No. 111 wobbles your way with hot jazz from Marty Grosz, Albert Ammons, Clifford Hayes’ Louisville Stompers, and Chris Powell and the Five Blue Flames. We hear from tenor Colin O’Moore, pianist Carroll Gibbons, dance along with Sam Lanin and Bob Haring, and listen in on an Italian band of the “old school” as they play Joffini’s striking “Valzer Dei Due Quartini.”
An advertisement for new records by “Mart Gross and the Cellar Boys” appearing in the September 1951 issue of “The Record Changer.”
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Shellac Stack No. 110 brings you love, affection, and $20 cash. Well, sort of. We spend a “golden” hour with Frankie Franko and His Louisianians, Jack Shilkret, the National Cavaliers, the Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra, Bill Hatch’s Melody-Makers, Barney Bernard, and many more. From comedy monologues to sentimental vocals to hot jazz, there’s good listenin’ today!
Barney Bernard in 1904 (from the Los Angeles Times)
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Shellac Stack No. 108 visits January 1930 for 15 selections recorded that month. We survey some of the day’s news stories and listen to discs by the Duncan Sisters, Seger Ellis, the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, Julie Wintz, Nat Shilkret, Slatz Randall, Earl Burtnett, McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, and more.
The ill-fated Belowskes, from the Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA), 15 January 1930
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Shellac Stack No. 107 goes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ along! We hear from Curley Bradley — the Tom Mix of radio — along with Bing Crosby, Connie Boswell, Blue Steele, George Olsen, Bob Bachelder, Jimmy Dorsey, and many others, venturing as far back as 1904.
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Shellac Stack No. 106 takes a lesson with “Professor Spoons” — that regular “spoonatic” — and then dances along with Goldkette’s Book-Cadillac Orchestra, Sam Lanin, the Savoy Hotel Orpheans, Henry Biagini, Horace Heidt, and more. We hear from Rudy Wiedoeft, the Polish National Orchestra, Pud Brown, Peggy Lee, and many others.
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Shellac Stack No. 105 visits London, England. From old English madrigals by Orlando Gibbons and John Farmer to vaudeville and theatre stars Binnie Hale and Mabel Marks to organists Sidney Torch and Stanley Roper to the dance band of Victor Vorzanger, it’s another assortment of shellac delights on this week’s program. We even take a break for a pantomime skit!
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