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John’s Old Time Radio Show
Early Occupy Wall Street Music of the 1930’s. John plays records from his 78 rpm record collection that were written about the fall of the American stock market in 1930 which lead to the great depression.

1. All I got’s Gone – Odie McWinters
2. Down On Penny Farm – The Bentley Boys
3. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live – Blind Alfred Reed
4. The Panic Is On – Hezekiah Jenkins
5. Bread Line Blues – Smith & Nawahi
6. The Cotton Mill Colic – Dave McCarn
7. NRA Blues – Bill Cox
8. F.D.R.’s Back Again – Bill Cox
9. In 1992 – Bill Cox
10. Fifty Years From Now – Harry McClintock
11. Interview w/Eden Brower about modern day Occupy Wall St.
12. Everything’s Gonna Be O.K. America – Art Kassell
13. When My Stocks Come Tumbling Down – Fields & Hall
14. Headin’ For Better Times – Ted Lewis
15. Missed Meal Cramp Blues – Alec Johnson
16. See The Black Clouds Breaking Over Yonder – Chubby Parker
17. Dust Can’t Kill Me – Woody Guthrie

1932 unemployment march on Washington

Workers Alliance San Francisco WPA-1931

skid row S.F. 1937

Unemployed workers build the Seattle shantytown Hooverville in October 1931.

unemployed miner 1937

Homeless-man-sitting-in-front-of-Hooverville-shack October 27, 1931

FDR 1931

Demonstration of the Unemployed Kansas1936

Crowd gathering on Wall Street after the 1929 crash

Bill Cox

Dust Bowl

unemployment office 1931

NYSE floor

pea pickers

police guard World Exchange Bank after crash

x-mas tree

bread line

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John’s Old Time Radio Show
More Jazz The World Forgot. John plays records from his 78 rpm record collection from the 1920’s and 30’s.

1. it Looks Like Susie – Cab Calloway
2. Wild Flower Rag – Clarence Williams
3. You Keep Me Always Living in Sin – Joseph Robechaux And His New Orleans Rhythm Boys
4. Fidgetty Feet – The Arcadian Serenaders
5. Charleston Is The Best Dance – Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten
6. Monia – Ross Deluxe Syncopators
7. St. James Infirmary – Alfonse Trent
8. Doin’ The jug – Tiny Parham
9. Short Dressed Gal – Sam Morgan’s Jazz band
10. Fat Meat And Greens – Jelly Roll Morton
11. Tough Breaks – Bennie moten
12. Spring Fever – Rube Bloom
13. Brown Jug Blues – Ezra Buzzington’s Rustic Revelers
14. Wild Man Stomp – State Street Ramblers
15. Shanghai Honey Moon – Kansas City Stompers
16. Mississippi Stomp – Slim & His Hot Boys
17. Two Tone Stomp – Ed Lang & Lonnie Johnson
18. Rocky Road – McKinney’s Cotton pickers
19. Just Blues – Memphis Jazzers
22. The Terror – Cliff Jackson And His Krazy Cats
21. Stoppin’ The Traffic – The Missourians

Tiny Parham Orchestra

Lonnie Johnson

Slim Lamar’s Southeners

Ezra Buzzington’s Rustic Revelers

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John’s Old Time Radio Show

John plays Great Old Ethnic Records records from his 78 rpm record collection from the 1920’s and 30’s.

1. Les Blues De Crowley – Amédé Ardoin & Denus Mcgee (CAJUN)
2. Glen Lyon Rant – John A. MacDonald (ANTIGONISH NOVA SCOTIA)
3. A Ship From Chros -Takis Nicolau    (GREEK)
4. Todus Ellos – El Ciego Melquiades (MEXICO)
5. Mado A – Polo Malael    (MARTINIQUE)
6. Memee La Creole – Stellio’s Orch Du Bal Antillais (MARTINIQUE)
7. Los Sufrimientos De On Catre – Los Jardineros (PUERTO RICO)
8. Illegible – Michala Thomasa    (UKRAINIAN)
9. Illeg Two Step – Pawlo Humeniuk (UKRAINIAN)
10. La Vai Medeira – Luperce Miranda    Luperce Miranda (BRAZIL)
11. Nadando En Mar De Rosas – Les Loups    (ARGENTINA & BRAZIL)
12. Terry’s Ramble – Mrs. & Miss McNiff-Locke (QUBEC)
13. In The Garden Where The Prates Grow – James J. Mullan with the Four Provinces Orchestra    (IRISH)
14. Chicken Reel – Henri Trio    (FRENCH CANADIAN)
15. Quadrille Du 4 Eme Rang – Les 4 Copains (FRENCH CANADIAN)
16. Ma Reguliere – M. Vaissade w/ Django (FRENCH)
17. Princess Czardas -H. Bression (FRENCH)
18. Son P’tit Jupon     – M. Ovila Legare    (FRENCH)
19. Illegible – L. & N. Hanoum    (TURKISH)
20. La Bella Siciliana – Caldiero Trio    (ITALIAN)

Luperce Miranda

Pawlo Humeniuk (left)

Pawlo Humeniuk

1st Django recording

Amede Ardoin & Dennus McGee

OscarAleman

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John’s Old Time Radio Show

John plays Great Old records from his 78 rpm record collection from the 1920’s and 30’s.

1. Death Alley – Blind Boy Fuller
2. Dixie Flyer – George Walburn’s Footscorchers
3. Turn Up The Heat – University Syncopators
4. Sweet N’ Low Blues – Jabbo Smith And His Rhythm Aces
5. Liqour Store Blues – Sleepy John Estes
6. No One’s Going To Miss Me When I’m Gone – Golden Melody Boys
7. There’s A Rickety Rackety Shack – Frank Black
8. Whiskey And Gin Blues – South Street Trio
9. House Cat mama – Bill Carlisle
10. Passing Time With Me – Art Gillham
11. Donald Rag – Martin Melody Boys
12. La Turtape De Saroied – Amédé Ardoin
13. Richmond Square – Charlie Poole
14. Boodle De Bum Bum – Bogus Ben Covington
15. Cherokee Rag – Big Cheif Henry’s String Band
16. I’m Gonna Quit Drinkin’ When I DIe – Fletcher & Foster
17. It Goes Like This – Fred “Sugar” Hall
18. Escudilla Waltz – White Mountain Orchestra
19. Pardon Me Pretty Baby – Joe Venuti’s Blue Four
20. Ow Could Red Riding Hood? – Tommy Christian

Sleepy John Estes

Jabbo Smith

Jabbo Smith

The Carlisle Brothers

Blind Boy Fuller

Joe Venuti

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John’s Old Time Radio Show

John plays Great old records from his 78 rpm record collection from the 1920’s and 30’s.

1. Fattening Frogs For Snakes – Mobile Strugglers
2. All I Got’s Gone – Odie McWinters
3. Tuck Me In – Red Brush Rowdies
4. Look Who’s Coming Down The Road – Joe McCoy
5. Circus Rag – Chumbler’s Breakdown Gang
6. Dear Little Girl – Mississippi Sheiks
7. Mama Don’t Like Music – Smilie Burnette
8. The Bible’s Right – Sisiter O. M. Terrell
9. You Aint The One – Charles Johnson’s Paradise Ten
10. Milwaukee Blues – Charlie Poole
11. I Don’t Work For A Living – James J. Mullan and Four Provinces Orchestra
12. My Pretty Girl – Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra
13. Fort Worth Rag – Jack Cawley
14. If You Want The Rainbow – Ben Selvin
15. Somethin’ Doin’ – Nap Hayes And Matthew Prater
16. The Suit Of Corduroy – Sullivan’s Shamrock String Band
17. Keru Aman Qassab – Louisa Hanoum
18. Tip Out Tonight – Beans Hambone & El Morrow
19. Love My Stuff – Charley Patton

Charley Patton

Mobile Strugglers

Blind Willie McTell

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John’s Old Time Radio Show

John plays Great old records from his 78 rpm record collection from the 1920’s and 30’s.

1. Plantation Memories – Small Town Players (this is NOT Bennie Nawahi)

2. Arkansas Hoedown – Small Town Players

3. Practice Night In Chicken Brissell – Bob Miller & His Hinkey Dinkers

4. Pleur Plus’ – Columbus Fruge

5. La Valse J’Aime – Cleoma Falcon

6. Mama Where You At? – Leo Soileau

7. Down On Me – Eddie Head And Family

8. Humming Blues – Red Onion Joe

9. Do It Right – Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie

10. I’m Gonna Dance Wit Da Guy What Brung Me – Six Jumping Jacks

11. Magnolia – Cliff Edwards

12. I Learned About Woman From Her – Goebel  Reeves

13. The Old Man’s Drunk Again – Uncle Dave Macon
14. Next Week Sometime – Alec Johnson

15. Broke Down Engine – Blind Willie McTell

16. I’m Going To Leave Old Arkansas – A. E. Ward And His Plow Boys

17. Lonesome House Blues – Blind Lemon Jefferson

18. Johnson City – Clarence Green

19. Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed – Josh White

Andy Sanella

Uncle Dave Macon

Cliff Edwards

Willie McTell & Ruby Glaze

Columbus Fruge

Cleoma & Joseph Falcon

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John’s Old Time Radio Show

Pat Conte’s plays Great old records from his extensive 78 rpm record collection. Music from all over the world.

1. Illegible – Janaki Bia (India)

2. Madame Atchen – Amede Ardoin
3. My Old Crippled Daddy – Tex Morton
4. Papio – Unknown Tahitian Band
5. Spanish Blues – Lewis Black
6. Rock & Gravel – Skillet Dick & His Frying Pans
7. Illegible – Sexteto National
8. The Automobile Trip Through Alamaba – Red Henderson
9. Goin’ To Ashhville – The Legendary Otis Brothers
10. The Great Divide – The Carter Family

Otis’s

Carter Family

unknown Sexteto

Tex Morton

Amede Ardoin

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Pat Conte’s plays Great old records from his extensive 78 rpm record collection. Music from all over the world.

1. Lowlands- Highland Laddy – John Goss’s Cathedral Quartet
2. Boston Burgler – Riley Puckett
3. Goodbye Old Paint – Harry “Mac” McClintock
4. Bella Contadinell – Giovanni Gioviale
5. Illegible – Miyagi Michio
6. Siyokulandela – Alfred Radebe
7. La Tana – Cuadro Gitano
8. Neva Rast Cazel – unknown Tahitain string band
9. Hamba Sutubaker – Dundee Wandering Singers

Miyagi Michio

Riley Puckett

Harry McClintock

Giovanni Gioviale

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John’s Old Time Radio Show

John plays Early Female Country artists of the 1920’s & 30’s from his extensive 78 rpm record collection.

1. On The Banks Of The Sunny Tennessee – Mr. And Mrs. J.W.Baker
2. Pretty Little miss – Cousin Emmy
3. Little Rosewood Casket – Lulu Jackson
4. Wait For Me – Harold And Hazel
5. Big Bend Gal – Shelor Family
6. Haunted Hunter – Billie Maxwell
7. I Wanna Be A Cowboy’s Sweetheart – Patsy Montana
8. Married Girls Troubles – Hazel Scherf
9. St. Louis Blues – Virginia Childs
10. Pretty Little Blue Eyed Sally – Mr. And Mrs. Hugh Cross
11. Daises Won’t Tell – Moore Sisters
12. The Farmer’s Daughter – Lulu Belle
13. John Hardy – Eva Davis
14. Railroad Bill – Roba Stanley & Bill Paterson

Samantha Bumgarner

Shelor Family

Shelor Family

Roba Stanley

Lulu Bell

Patsy Montana

cousin Emmy

Railroad Bill on the cooling board

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John plays Great Early Hawaiian Music of the 1920’s & 30’s from his extensive 78 rpm record collection.

1. Sweet Georgia Brown – Jim & Bob
2. Milenberg Joys – Rodney Roger’s Red Peppers
3. Hawaiian Melody – Bennie Nawahi
4. Oua Oua – Kanui & Lula
5. On The Beach At Waikiki – Waikiki Stonewall Boys
6. Shoo The Hoodoo Away – Queenie & David Kaili
7. Lei E – Emma Bush
8. Honolulu Stomp – Honolulu Serenaders
9. I Like You – Sol Hoopii
10. Beautiful Woman – William Ewaliko & Royal Hawaiian Band
11. Pu Ana Kamakani E – Rose Tribe
12. Tu-Tu-E Tu-Tu-Hoi – Kalama’s Quartet
13. Hano Hano Hanalei – Brays Troupe

Sol Hoopii

Bennie Nawahi (far right)

Jim & Bob