OTRS 126 “SQUEEZEBOX HEROES OF DAYS GONE BY” w/ ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK

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Posted on February 1, 2022 by john

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John’s Old Time Radio Show ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK – “SQUEEZEBOX HEROES OF DAYS GONE BY”. Remember when chicks used to think that the lanky guy standing in the back of the orchestra with the accordion strapped around his neck was hot? Me neither. Listen to great old 78 records featuring accordion greats from the collections of Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong, fellow record collector Mark Pollock and yours truly. Thanks to Mark for helping record this show remotely.

Spanish Shawl – Frank Salerno
Ain’t She Sweet – Gardino & Puig
Le Chemin Du Paradis – Salimbeni et son orchestre refrain par Francino
Double Check Stomp – Duke Ellington Orchestra
Alabama Jubilee – Homer Christopher & Ramey Van Vink
Valse De Mon Vieux Village (My Old Home Town Waltz) – Amedie Ardoin
Flor Marchita – Narciso Martinez
It Fair Cows the Cuddy – McKAy Kemp
Walabalaba – Lu Myalo and his Concertina
China Boy – Ozark Red and his Ozark Mountain Boys
Irish Reel Medley – Frank Quinn & Eddie Dunn

OTRS 125 “TRANSPORTATION SONGS!” w/ ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK

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Posted on January 1, 2022 by john

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John’s Old Time Radio Show ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK – “TRANSPORTATION SONGS!”. Remember the days when people looked forward to travel in America before our infrastructure was crumbling and billionaires were robbing our tax dollars to fly penis rockets around the moon? Me neither. Listen to great old 78 records about transportation from the collections of Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong, fellow record collector Mark Pollock and yours truly. Thanks to Mark for helping record this show remotely.

Railroad Blues – Sam McGee
Transportation Blues Part 1 – Charlie Troutt’s Melody Artists
Transfusion – Scatman Crothers
C. C. & O. Blues – Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley
Transportation Blues Part 2 – Charlie Troutt’s Melody Artists
Jackass Caravan – Cactus Pryor & his Pricklypears
Gone Dead Train – King Solomon Hill
V-8 Ford – Willie Love
Hard To Race – Dave Stogner with his Hayride Gang
Ford V-8 – The Cedar Creek Sheik
Buick 59 – The Madallions
Waiting For The Robert E. Lee – Estelita , Buddy Bregman & Orchestra
When The Robert E. Lee Comes To Town – Harry Reser

OTRS 120 “GREAT INSTRUMENTALS OF DAYS GONE BY” w/ ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK

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Posted on July 1, 2021 by john

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John’s Old Time Radio Show ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK – “GREAT INSTRUMENTALS OF DAYS GONE BY”. Fantastic early 78 rpm INSTRUMENTAL records from the collection of Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong, fellow record collector Mark Pollock and yours truly. Thanks to Mark for helping record this show remotely.

Mountain Blues – Jimmy Smith
Celeste Blues – Meade Lux Lewis
Hurdy Gurdy Solo – Le Bourree
Potato Salad – Bernie Ladd & John Cali
Wahine Slack Key – George Keoki Davis
Shore Leave – The Three Old Salts
St. Louis Blues – Willie “Red” Newman
Shine On Harvest Moon – Willie “Red” Newman
Penny Whistle Blues – Willard Cele
Sourwood Mountain – Evans & McClain
Tin Ear – Bob Effros
Lover – Perry Botkin
Bye Bye Blackbird – Eddie Peabody

Five Harmaniacs (Willie “Red” Newman 2nd from left)

OTRS 119 “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE BANJO?” w/ ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK

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Posted on June 1, 2021 by john

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John’s Old Time Radio Show ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK – “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE BANJO?”. Fantastic early 78 rpm BANJO records from the collection of Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong, fellow record collector Mark Pollock and yours truly. Thanks to Mark for helping record this show remotely.

West Lawn Polka – Fred J. Bacon
Keep Off The Grass – Vess L. Ossman
Down In Tennessee Blues – Homer Davenport
Darlin’ Cora – B. F. Shelton
Meddlin’ With The Blues – Herbert Leonard & Larry Mays
Minglewood Blues – Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers
Wait Til The Clouds To Roll By – Uncle Dave Macon
If I Can’t Have You – Sleepy Hall’s Melody Boys
Foolin’ Around (Tiger Rag) – Roy Smeck & Art Khan
So Is Your Old Lady – Arthur Fields & Banjo (prob) John Cali
Calling – Harry Reser
Mia Adonata – Frank Fazio
Uyu Mzathu – Monyoso & Kachre
Down South – Harry Reser’s Banjo Boys

OTRS 118 “GREAT GUITAR RECORDS” w/ ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK

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Posted on May 1, 2021 by john

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John’s Old Time Radio Show ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK – “GREAT GUITAR RECORDS”. Fantastic early 78 rpm GUITAR records from the collection of Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong & Fellow record collector Mark Pollock. Thanks to Mark for helping record this show remotely.

Blue Guitar Stomp – Clifford Hayes’ Louisville Stompers
Playing With The Strings – Lonnie Johnson
Misty Mornin’ – Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Sizzling The Blues – Monk Hazel & his Beinville Roof Orchestra
Haunted Nights – Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Wild Man Blues – Johnny Dodds & his Chicago Boys
Guitar In High – Teddy Bunn
Turkey In The Straw/ Arkansas Traveller – Alphus McFayden
Cannon Ball Rag – Merle Travis
Bryant’s Bounce – Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West
Wine Cooler – T. J. Fowler
She Left Me A Mule – Big Joe Williams
Te Amo Me Dijiste – Lydia Mendoza

OTRS 117 “GREAT NOVELTY RECORDS” w/ ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK

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Posted on April 1, 2021 by john

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John’s Old Time Radio Show ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK – “GREAT NOVELTY RECORDS”. Fantastic early 78 rpm NOVELTY records from the collection of Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong & Fellow record collector Mark Pollock. Thanks to Mark for helping record this show remotely.

Thanks For The Lobster – Fred Van Eps Banjo
Mama Ines – Havana Novelty Orchestra
Hunting Tigers Out in “Indiah” – Leslie Sarony
Etiquette Blues – Harry Reser’s Six Jumping Jacks
Rhapsody In Blues – Borrah Minevitch
I Can’t Sleep In The Movies Anymore – Broadway Merry Makers (Fred Hall & His Sugar Babies)
D D Hoedown – Shell Chemical Corporation
Little Dog Yodel – Ralph Richardson
The Swiss Boy – Smiley Burnette
Singin’ In The Bath Tub – Macy & Smalle
Dinah – Billy Costello
Rubenola – Rudy Wiedoeft
Castration of the Strawberry Roan – The Sons Of The Pioneers
Tom and Jerry in Honolulu – Tom & Jerry
If I Know’d Youse A’ Comin’ I’d Cut My Throat – Cactus Pryor & His Pricklypears
Ape Call – Nervous Norvus (Jimmy Drake)

OTRS 116 ROBERT ARMSTRONG “GREAT EARLY HAWAIIAN RECORDS”

Posted on March 1, 2021 by john

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John’s Old Time Radio Show ROBERT ARMSTRONG – “GREAT EARLY HAWAIIAN RECORDS”. Fantastic early 20th Century Hawaiian 78 rpm records from the collection of Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong. Fellow record collector Mark Pollock is also present at the Armstrong interview and many thanks to him for helping record Armstrong remotely in this new age of Covid.

Tu-Tu-E, Tu-Tu-Hoi – Kalama’s Quartet featuring Mike Hanapi & Bob Matsu
Ama Ama – Sam Alama
Mona Chimes – Frank Ferera
Hilo March (Mindanao March) – Bennie Nawahi (although Bennie didn’t think this was him in a 1980 interview)
Paahana Hula – Madame Riviere’s Hawaiians
The Rose Of Heaven – Walter Kolomoku’s Honoluluans
I Nikiniki Malie – Kalama’s Quartette featuring Mike Hanapi
Tomi Tomi – Sol K. Bright
The Hula Blues – Jim and Bob (The Genial Hawaiians)
Hula Girl – Sol Hoopii and his Novelty Quartette
Hula Girl – Andrew Aiona’s Novelty Four
La Rosita – Sol K. Bright
Minnehaha – Andy Iona and his Islanders Sam Koki & Dan Stewart
Faa Navenave – Augie Goupil and his Royal Tahitians
Let’s Go To Honolulu – Kostas Bezo’s White Birds
Oua Oua – Kanui & Lula
Moana Chimes – Sam Ku West and his Royal Hawaiians

Good Tone Banjo Boys – Crumb, Armstrong &

david-Burrows-mike-hanapi — David Burrows (left), Mike Hanapi (right)

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OTRS 115 “THE LOST BENNIE NAWAHI INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG Pt. 2”

Posted on February 1, 2021 by john

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John’s Old Time Radio Show “THE LOST BENNIE NAWAHI INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG Pt 2”. Recently unearthed interview with the King of the Hawaiian guitar & Ukulele Bennie Nawahi from 1980 by Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong. Also present are Bennie’s wife Betty and his stepson Norman Peterson as well as Robert Crumb, who is also an interviewee and Spencer Quinn. This episode starts with an interview with Robert Crumb from the present, remembering the day he met Bennie and then the 2nd part of the interview Armstrong recorded with Bennie is played in it’s entirety, unedited. In Part 2 they listen to some of Nawahi’s records that Bennie had including many records he personally recorded which have NEVER BEEN HEARD BEFORE (and are currently lost as far as we know)!!!! There is some background talking but I decided not to edit it or replace the known records with clean tracks because the feel of being “in the room” with those guys seems more important than a perfect record listening scenario. Mark Pollock is also present at the Armstrong interview and many thanks to him for helping record Armstrong remotely in this new age of Covid. This is a two part interview of Bennie which will be followed by an episode where Armstrong spins some very fine Hawaiian discs from his collection.

Robert Crumb interview (2021)

Bennie Nawahi interview Part Two

Records played by Bennie (during interview)

Vana Vana – King Nawahi Trio
(The end of) Hawaiian Capers – King Nawahi’s Hawaiians
My Little A-1 Brownie – Charles (Bernard “Slim”) Smith, Nawahi & Benny Goodman
(partial) Guitar Rhythm – Georgia Jumpers
California Blues – Georgia Jumpers
Big Feet Rag – Georgia Jumpers
Ukulele Benny – Georgia Jumpers
Hawaiian Love-Bird – King Nawahi’s Hawaiians w/ Bill Cody
Hula Medley – King Nawahi Trio
If I Had A Talking Picture Of You – Hawaiian Beach Combers
I Get The Blues When It Rains – King Nawahi Trio
Fort Street – Bennie Nawahi
Nola/ Swanee River/ Taps – Bennie Nawahi
My Adobe Hacienda – King Nawahi Trio
Maui Girl – King Nawahi Trio

Robert Armstrong interviews King Bennie Nawahi 1980

Good Tone Banjo Boys – Crumb, Armstrong & Spencer Quinn!

OTRS 114 “THE LOST BENNIE NAWAHI INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG Pt. 1”

Posted on January 24, 2021 by john

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John’s Old Time Radio Show “THE LOST BENNIE NAWAHI INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG”. Recently unearthed interview with the King of the Hawaiian guitar & Ukulele Bennie Nawahi from 1980 by Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong. Also present are Bennie’s wife Betty and his stepson Norman Peterson as well as Robert Crumb, who is also an interviewee and Spencer Quinn. This episode starts with an interview with Robert Armstrong from the present, remembering the day he met Bennie and then the interview he recorded with Bennie is played in it’s entirety, unedited. Mark Pollock is also present at the Armstrong interview and many thanks to him for helping record Armstrong remotely in this new age of Covid. This is a two part interview of Bennie which will be followed by an episode where Armstrong spins some very fine Hawaiian discs from his collection.

Honlulu Bound – Hawaiian Beach Combers (1930)
Robert Armstrong interview (2021)
Mauna Kea (White Mountain) – King Nawahi’s Hawaiians (1930)
Robert Armstrong interviews King Bennie Nawahi (1980)
Ukulele Benny – The Georgia Jumpers (1931)
Robert Armstrong interviews King Bennie Nawahi (1980) cont.
Hawaiian Melody – Hawaiian Beach Combers (1930)
Robert Armstrong interviews King Bennie Nawahi (1980) cont.
Black Boy Blues – QRS Boys (1929)

Robert Armstrong interviews the "king" Bennie Nawahi — Robert Armstrong interviews the “King” Bennie Nawahi 1980

OTRS 113 “GREAT HAWAIIAN MUSIC OF KALAMA’S QUARTET”

Posted on January 1, 2021 by john

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John’s Old Time Radio Show “GREAT HAWAIIAN MUSIC OF KALAMA’S QUARTET”. Fantastic old 78 rpm records featuring guitarist Mike Hanapi and Kalama’s Quartet from John Heneghan’s record collection.