And here we go again, with the lists I kept from July, which was an interesting month for Speakeasy as the heat from the agency that holds song copyrights pressed on us. But that's been squared away. So revel in the fact for the first year of Speakeasy, we've been running illegally under the radar. But the bribe's been made, and the heat's off our back. Onward ho!
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(78) played off the original 78 rpm shellac records
July 21, 2009 @ Rosebud
Charley Straight and his Orchestra :
Hi-Diddle-Diddle
Thelma Perry and her Playboys : When
Sweet Susie Goes Steppin' By
Herman Waldman and his Orchestra :
Marbles
Danny Altier and his Orchestra : I'm
Sorry, Sally
Louisiana Rhythm Kings : When You're
Smiling
Moe Baer and his Wardman Park Orchestra
: Don't Be Like That
Thomas Morris and his Seven Hot Babies
: The Mess
Harris Brother's Texans : Gut Bucket
Shuffle
Bennett's Swamplanders : Big Ben
Helen Savage and the Dixie Syncopators
: Just a Little Love from You
Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight : Pretty
Audrey
Alex Hill and his Orchestra : Dyin'
with the Blues
Monk Hazel and his Bienville Roof
Orchestra : Sizzling the Blues
The Get Happy Band : In Harlem's Araby
Johnny Miller's New Orleans Frollickers
: Dippermouth Blues
The Columbians : Wabash Blues (78)
Ann Cook : He's the Sweetest Black Man
in Town
Clarence William's Stompers : Dinah
Charles A. Mason's Creole Serenaders :
'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do
Mickey Guy's Hottentots : Two Ton
Tessie
Freddy Martin and his Orchestra : What
a Difference a DayMade
George Olsen and his Music : He's the
Hottest Man in Town
Joe Venuti and his Blue Four : Mystery
Leroy Tibbs and his Connie's Inn
Orchestra : One O'Clock Blues
Dick Robertson : Crosby, Columbo, and
Vallee
Musical Stevedores : Honeycomb Harmony
The Three Keys : Heebie Jeebies
Charlie Spand : Moanin' the Blues
Rosa Henderson : Poplar Bluff Blues
Little Brother Montgomery : No Special
Rider
Bobbie Cadillac : He Throws That Thing
Blind Blake : Cold-Hearted Mama Blues
Peetie Wheatstraw : Doin' the Best I
Can
Genvieve Davis : I Haven't Got a Dollar
to Pay the House Rent Man
Jabbo Smith and his Rhythm Aces :
Croonin' the Blues
Jones and Collins Astoria Hot Eight :
Astoria Strut
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
: Cotton Club Stomp
Ray Miller and his Hotel Gibson
Orchestra : I Ain't Got Nobody
Ole Olsen and his Orchestra : Sadie
Green (The Vamp of New Orleans)
Sol Wagner and his Orchestra : You
Don't Like It--Not Much
Alabama Red Peppers : San
The Marigold Entertainers : When My
Sugar Walks Down the Street
Seger Ellis : Have a Little Faith in Me
Cline's Collegians : Violets
Bernie Meroff and his Orchestra : The
Talk of the Town
Husk O'Hare and his Footwarmers
:Milenburg Joys
Henry "Red" Allen and his New
York Orchestra : Pleasin' Paul
Sioux City Six : Flock O' Blues
Harry Dial's Blusicians : I Like What I
Like Like I Like it
Jean Goldkette and his Orchestra : I'm
Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now
Lloyd Smith's Gut-Bucketeers : Wake Up,
Sinners
Hunter's Serenaders : Dreamin 'Bout My
Man
Omer Simeon Trio : Story Book Ball
Cook and his Dreamland Orchestra :
Sidewalk Blues
New Orleans Owls : White Ghost Shivers
Abe Lyman's California Orchestra :
Hullabaloo
Ross DeLuxe Syncopaters : Don't You
Wanna Know?
Ipana Troubadours : Jig Walk
Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders : The
Ramble
Emerson Gill and Bamboo Garden
Orchestra : Ready for the River
Ted Lewis and his Band : I'm Sure of
Everything but You
Ben Pollack and his Park Central
Orchestra : Buy, Buy Baby (or Baby Will Bye Bye You) (78)
Bert Lown's Biltmore Hotel Orchestra :
Mississippi Basin
Boyd Senter and his Senterpedes : Goin'
Back to Tennessee
Ted Weems and his Orchestra : I Don't
Want Your Kisses (If I Can't Have Your Love)
Maxwell House Orchestra with Don
Vorhees : Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On (HOTW)
The Mariners Trio : Happy Feet
Jan Garber and his Orchestra : She's a
Great, Great Girl
Elgar's Creole Orchestra : When Jenny
Does Her Low Down Dance
Joe Steele and his Orchestra : Coal
Yard Shuffle
Levee Serenaders : Mr. Jelly Roll
Clara Smith with Lonnie Johnson :
You're Getting Old on Your Job
Nellie Florence : Jacksonville Blues
Curley Weaver : You was Born to Die
Casie Bill Weldon : Keyhole Blues
Annette Hanshaw : The One I Love Just
Can't be Bothered with Me
Ruth Etting : It All Belongs to Me
Ted Lewis and his Band : Where'd You
Get Those Eyes?
The Boswell Sisters : Sentimental Man
From Georgia
Cliff Edwards : Fascinatin' Rhythm
Frank Crumit : Oh, By Jingo! Oh, By
Gee! You're the Only Girl for Me
Josephine Baker : Then I'll be Happy
Roy Fox and his Band : Here Lies Love
Jabo Williams : Pratt City Blues
Charlie Patton and Bertha Lee :
Troubled 'Bout My Mother
Florence Desmond : Cigarettes, Cigars
Frances Wallace and Clara Burston : I
Had to Smack That Thing
Ida Cox : Pink Slip Blues
July 28, 2009 @ Rosebud
Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orch
: Hot Town
Charlie Straight and his Orchestra :
Minor Gaff
Harry Hudson's Melody Man : A Bench in
the Park
Slaz Randall and his Orchestra : Bessie
Couldn't Help It
Ben Bernie and his Orchestra : Look
Who's Here
Harris Brother's Texans : Louisiana,
That's My home
Helen Savage and the Dixie Syncopators
: It'd Bad for Your Soul
Te Roy Williams and his Orchestra : Oh
Malinda
Lloyd Smith's Gut-Bucketeers : (Come on
Honey) Rub Me Some More
Sam Wooding and his Chocolate Kiddies :
Bull Foot Stomp
Alex Hill and his Orchestra : Dyin'
with the Blues
Elgar's Creole Orchestra : When Jenny
Does Her Low Down Dance
Louisiana Rhythm Kings : When You're
Smiling
Fess Williams and his Joy Boys :
Drifting and Dreaming
Al Handler and his Alamo Cafe Orchestra
: Cryin' for the Moon
Walter Barnes and his Royal Creolians :
Birmingham Bertha
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra : St.
James Infirmary (r)
Jelly Roll Morton : Dead Man Blues
Lovie Austin's Serenaders : Chicago
Mess Around
Ray Miller and his Hotel Gibson
Orchestra : I Ain't Got Nobody
Claude Hopkins and his Orchestra :
California, Here I Come
Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders : The
Ramble
Louis Demaine's Jazzola Eight :
To-Wa-Bac-To-Wa
Slim Lamar's Southerners : GoofusMonk
Hazel and his Bienville Roof Orchestra : Get-With-It
Reb Spike's Majors and Minors : My
Mamy's Blues
Genevieve Davis : I Haven't got a
Dollar to Pay the House Rent Man
Bennett's Swamplanders : You Can't Be
Mine and Someone Else's Too
Phil Baxtor and his Orchestra : Ain't
Got No Gal
Blue Ribbon Syncopators : Memphis
Sprawler
Little Brother Montgomery : No Special
Rider
Dixie Washboard Band : Wait Till You
See My Baby do the Charleston
Harry Dial's Blusicians : When My Baby
Shakes That Thing
George Olsen and his Music : Nobody
Knows What a Red-Head Can Do
Vincent Lopez and his Hotel
Pennsylvania Orchestra : I Want to be Happy
Hitch's Happy Harmonists : Nightingale
Rag Blues
Irving Aaronson and his Commanders :
Let's Misbehave
Ethel Waters with Ben Selvin and his
Orchestra : I Got Rhythm
Helen Kane with the Leonard Joy
Orchestra : I W@ant to be Loved by You
Annette Hanshaw : The One I Love Just
Can't be Bothered with Me
Bert Lown and his Biltmore Hotel
Orchestra : Sweet Summer
Jones and Collins Astoria Hot Eight :
Damp Weather
Ole Olsen and his Orchestra : Sadie
Green (The Vamp of New Orleans)
Johhny DeDroit and his New Orleans
Orchestra : The Swing
Joe Ward's Swanee Club Orchestra :
Scorchin'
Bix Beiderbecke and his Rhythm Jugglers
: Toddlin' Blues
Ldio Venice Dance Orchestra : I Wonder
What's Become of Sally?
Abe Lyman's California Orchestra :
That's My Weakness Now
Alabama Red Peppers : The Drag
Ted Lewis and his Band : Dip Your Brush
in the Sunshine
Eddie Cantor : Makin' Whoopee