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John Heneghan’s Old Time Radio Show

Don Kent – Early Country Blues Records from Don’s 78 rpm record collection Part One.

1. Long Ago Blues – Henry Townsend
2. If You Want Me Baby – Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah
3. Liquor Store Blues – Sleepy John Estes
4. Coffee Grinder Blues – Jaybird Coleman
5. You Can’t Get Enough Of That Stuff – Famous Hokum Boys

Don Kent

Maxwell Street Chicago

Chicken Man

Daddy Stovepipe circa 1927

Daddy Stovepipe cica 1960

Don

Robert Nighthawk on Maxwell Street

Henry Townsend circa 1960

Mr. Kent

Bob Koester at the Jazz Record Mart circa 1960.

Bob Koester at the Jazz Record Mart today.

Chicken Man on Maxwell Street

Don’s Flyin’ Crow Label

Genial Fat Boys Flyin’ Crow

Don’s Mamlish Label.

Maxwell Street circa 1930

Unknown Street Musician

Chicken Man on Maxwell Street circa 1955

Don Kent & John Heneghan

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John Heneghan’s Old Time Radio Show

Dom Flemons Part 2
Great American Songsters, 78 rpm records from John’s collection.

1. Dry Land Blues – Furry Lewis
2. Nobody’s Business – Frank Stokes
3. Beans – “Beans” Hambone & El Morrow
4. Beans Beans Beans – Opel Cooper
5. Sweet Nora Shanon – W. L. “Rustic” Waters
6. I Surely Am Living A Ragtime Life – Lindsay & Alvin Conder
7. Mississippi Sawyer – Ernest Thompson
8. Davey Crockett – Chubby Parker
9. Pickaninny Lullaby Song – Uncle Dave Macon
10. The Girl Who Lived On Polecat Creek – Willard Hodgins
11. But They Got It Fixed Right On – Georgia Tom Dorsey
12. James Alley Blues – Richard Rabbit Brown
13. Bright Eyes – Papa Charlie Jackson
14. Do It Right – Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie

Dom Flemons

Frank Stokes

Furry Lewis

Furry Lewis circa 1960

“bean beans beans” sheet music

drawing by R. Crumb

Uncle Dave Macon

papa charlie jackson

papa charlie jackson

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John Heneghan’s Old Time Radio Show

Dom Flemons Part 1
Records from Dom’s collection.

1. Hold Em Joe Medley – Blind Blake (Blake Alponso Higgs)
2. I’m Sorry Mama To My Heart – Leadbelly
3. interview/ Poor Howard – Leadbelly
4. Jim & John – Ed & Lonnie Young
5. Emmaline Take Your Time – Alec Askew
6. Buttermilk – Miles & Bob Pratcher
7. Live At Newport – Joe Patterson & The Georgia Sea Island Singers
8. The Fox And The Hounds – Henry Thomas
9. Little Liza Jane – Pete Harris
10. Knoxville County Stomp – Tennessee Chocolate Drops

Blind Blake

Sheet Music

Leadbelly

Blind Blake Alponso Higgs

sheet music

Eden & John’s East River String Band w/ Dom Flemons & R. Crumb

Sid Hempill

Lonnie Young

Henry Thomas record ad

Dom Flemons

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R. Crumb’s Record Room Pt. 5
John’s Old Time Radio Show w/ R. Crumb “Religious Music & Sermons” of the 1920’s & 30’s. Special Guest Robert Crumb plays 78 rpm records from his fabulous record collection from the South of France on John Heneghan’s Old Time Radio Show with Eden Brower.

R. Crumb’s Record Room Pt. 5

1. I’m So Happy – Rev. Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux & His Congregation
2. I’m Gonna Shout All Over God’s Heaven – Forbes Randolph’s Kentucky Jubilee Choir
3. The Whole World In His Hand – Bessie Johnson’s Sanctified Singers
4. Will My Mother Know Me There? – Blind Connie Rosemond
5. I’ll Just Stand And Ring My Hands And Cry – Rev. J. C. Burnett with Thomas
Waller on organ & Sisters Ethel Grainger and Odette Jackson singing
6. Zions Hill – Rev. Calbert & Sister Billie Holstein
7. I Wonder How They Live At Home – Rev. Edwin, Olive & Mrs. Boone
8. At The River – Tennessee Moutaineers
9. The Bible’s True – Uncle Dave Macon
10. You Can’t Make A Monkey Out Of Me – Eva Quartet
11. Jubilate – Benedictine Choir

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R. Crumb’s Record Room Pt. 4
John’s Old Time Radio Show w/ R. Crumb “Banjo Records” from the 1920’s & 30’s. Special Guest Robert Crumb plays 78 rpm records from his fabulous record collection from the South of France on John Heneghan’s Old Time Radio Show with Eden Brower. 

R. Crumb’s Record Room Pt. 4

1. The Hootenanny Song – Miller’s Bullfrog Entertainers
2. Steppin’ Around – Jan Garber featuring Harry Reser
3. Take Your Pick – Pete Mandell with the Savoy Havana Band
4. The Coloured Major – Olly Oakley
5. Darktown Dandies – Grimshaw’s Banjo Quartet
6. Can You Blame The Colored Man – Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon)
7. Moyo Wanga – Thayelo Kapiye Nyanja Trio
8. I Ain’t A Bit Drunk – George “Shortbuckle” Roark
9. Country Blues – Dock Boggs
10. Banjo Rock & Roll – Boy Bennett And His Band
11. Twisted – Annie Ross
12. The Letter – The Medallions
13. Oh! Oh! Get Out Of The Car – Richard Berry

This is the banjo player from the 1940 film “And So They Live” that Crumb talks about.

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R. Crumb’s Record Room Pt. 3
John’s Old Time Radio Show w/ R. Crumb “Jazz From Around The World” from the 1920’s & 30’s. Special Guest Robert Crumb plays 78 rpm records from his fabulous record collection from the South of France on John Heneghan’s Old Time Radio Show.

R. Crumb’s Record Room Pt. 3

1. Mitropa – George Boulangers And His Orchestra
2. Illegible – Weintraub’s Syncopators
3. Illegible – Dobree Saxophone Orchestra
4. Jazz Devil – Peter Erving
5. Eccentric – Jack Bund
6. Troisieme Quatuor A Cordes – Quator Lespine
7. Bugatti Step – Jaroslav Jezek
8. My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now – Jean Goldkette
9. Beedle Um Bum – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
10. Dixie Stomp – Fess Williams And His Joy Boys
11. Ella May – Earl Hines
12. There’s A Rickety Rackety Shack – The Old Mill Dance Kings

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R. Crumb’s Record Room Pt. 2
John’s Old Time Radio Show w/ R. Crumb “Novelty & Weird Records” from the 1920’s & 30’s. Special Guest Robert Crumb plays 78 rpm records from his fabulous record collection from the South of France on John Heneghan’s Old Time Radio Show.

1. Cornbelt Symphony -Jack Lathrop
 2. Comes The Revolution – Willie Howard
 3. Big Butter & Egg Man From The West – Phil Baker
 4. My Thing-A-Ma-Jig – Billy Cullen
 5. Christopher Columbus – Party Record
 6. Strawberry Roan – unknown
7.  “What’s Really Going On”? – R. Crumb
8.  Fatal Flower Garden – Nelstone’s Hawaiians

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R. Crumb’s Record Room Pt. 1
John’s Old Time Radio Show w/ R. Crumb. Special Guest Robert Crumb plays 78 rpm records from his fabulous record collection from the South of France on John Heneghan’s Old Time Radio Show.

R. Crumb’s Record Room Pt. 1

1. Rose Rose I Love You – Frankie Laine
2. Charlotte Hot Step – Fletcher & Foster
3. Hilarious Zeb – McLaughlin’s Old Time Melody Makers
4. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams – Abe Lyman Orchestra
5. Illegible – Lucknow Zanawae
6. Illegible Violin record – (India)
7. Two White Horses In A Line – Two Poor Boys
8. No No Blues – Curley Weaver
9. Dirty Butter – Minnie Wallace
10. My Laona Blues – Teddy Darby
11. On the Sea Of Life – E. R. Nance Singers
12. My Loving Brother – Smilin’ Ed McConnell & Family
13. Rose – Fredo Gardoni

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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