We decide to ask an array of shellac collectors just what circa 1920s-30s 78 was the ( their) HOTTEST! - we were inundated with scores of opinions and suggestions - so much so that we will have three episode! - by COLLECTOR's CHOUCE of the hottest jazzer in the land - and what an array - Some of the ones you would suspect like Jelly Roll, Duke, Goldkette but some total left fielders like Benny Nawahi, Ina Ray Hutton, J.C. Johnson, and Bernie Schultz! So tune in to episode # 1 and you just might ...
Nov 21, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 111923
The world of pre-war 78 collectors is not large! Most of us have been at it for years but fortunately there is always some new blookd in the hobby- and about 4 times a years a group of like minded collectors gather at the home of Rich Nevins and spend a day and night spinning some of the best of the best discs from that era...or, at the very least, ones we love...here's a selection of what was played at the last get-together! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/amer...
Nov 07, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 11523
Last week it was Heaven..this week.......you guest it the devil down below! ROBERT JOHNSON, ART KASSAL & HIS KASSALS IN THE AIR, GID TANNER and some fun reefer songs! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Nov 07, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 10823
Those pearly gates have been the subject to countless tunes in all genres and in all eras! - Here's some fun tunes from the pre-1940 era! From Washington Phillips to Al Jolson......with a bit of Cleo Brown and Monroe Brothers mixed in as well --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Nov 07, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 923
Max Fleischer's Great Depression era cartoon characters were almost immediately intrenched into era's pop culture - This episode features a few tunes dedicated to and BY our "Out Of The Inkwell" heroes! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Oct 26, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 101123
In St. Louis Missouri on Christmas day 1895 Billy Lyons and "Stag" Lee Sheldon got into a ruckus that turned into a murder that turned into one of the longest lasting folk songs in American's history! - This episode plays just a few of them! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Oct 26, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 101523
Joe digs into a Jug Band standard and its various versions! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Oct 26, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 102323
When Country music was first recorded in the 1920s and early 30s there were precious few women singers and stars. This episode presents some of the earliest commercial recordings by women singers of early Country music - Patsy Montana, "Moonshine " Kate, Girls Of The Golden West, Billie Maxwell and of course Sarah and Maybelle Carter. Saddle up and join us! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
Oct 02, 2023•55 min
A largely African-American neighborhood in Dallas Texas going back to the 19th century "Deep Elum" was the home of many saloons and bawdy houses. A slew of songs were written about it or referenced it through the years - We will explore some of te earliest! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Sep 28, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 92423
Besides the usual array of pre-1940 musical Americana Joe plays different version of the classic NOBODY's BUSINESS from Mississippi John Hurt to Bessie Smith - AND a shout-out to the legendary UNCLE FFLOYD! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Sep 20, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 9323
Scott Joplin's "Classic" Rag has lived many lives since its first publication by John Stark in 1899. From Banjo, to Piano to Jazz Bands - the tune was a standard in the repertoire of musicians around the world. American Grooves will play several awesome versions including Vess Ossmans' 1907 banjo solo and Joplin himself, performing it off of a rare 1900 piano roll. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
Sep 18, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 91723
Our song of the week is the Maceo Pinkard 1925 standard SWEET GEORGIA BROWN - Some cool versions by the likes of Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway and Oliver Naylor'a Orchestra plus some fun jazz, blues and country pre-war gems! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Sep 04, 2023•55 min•Season 2023Ep. 82023
American Grooves, explores the origins of at least TWO versions of the Easy Rider musical myth- and it didn't originate with a motorcycle! From Sam McGee and Barbecue Bob to Mae West, with a bit of Jelly Roll Morton thrown in to set you on year ear! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Aug 29, 2023•55 min•Season 2023Ep. 81319
American Grooves celebrates the early career of the American Genius and Jazz icon LOUIS ARMSTRONG on what would have been his 122 birthday! - we will focus on Louis' early years up through 1933 plus a a surprising 1949 duet with Billy Holiday. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Aug 14, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 8623
Like Chuck Berry influenced every guitar player from Keith Richards to George Harrison LOUIS ARMSTRONG was the most influential trumpet phis day. We will focus on five important trumpet players who owe quite a dept to old "Pops" : JABBO SMITH, HENRY ALLEN JR., JOE "WINGY" MANNONE, JACK PURVIS and LOUIS PRIMA. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
Aug 14, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 73023
The early Newport Folk Festivals ( 1963-66) were the stage for the re-discovery of some of Americans' deepest "roots" music...Folklorists and 78rpm Record Collectors such as Ralph Rinzler, Alan Lomax, Dick Spottswood and Dick Waterman resurrected the careers and music of MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT, SON HOUSE, SKIP JAMEs, MAYBELLE CARTER, ROBERT WILKINS, ECK ROBERTSON, DORSEY DIXON and others - Most of these artists had been living in obscurity , many assumed deceased only having gained a bit of recog...
Jul 31, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 73023
With people's shoe's sticking to the pavement in Phoenix and Coney Island filled to capacity in Brooklyn here's some musical heat you can enjoy in the air conditioned comfort of your home or car! Joe plays some tunes of HEAT! - from Ethel Water's original cast recording of HEAT WAVE ( 1933, from Irving Berlins' show As Thousands Cheer backed by young Benny Goodmans' band!) and Gene Kardos and band playing their "hot" PLAY ME A FRIGID AIR! to EVA TAYLOR with the CHARLESTON CHASERS " Turn On The H...
Jul 26, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 723
NO SPECIAL THEME TO THIS EPISODE BUT JOE PLAYS SOME OF HIS FAVORITES INCLUDING JIMMIE RODGERS, JIM AND ANDREW BAXTER, CAB CALLOWAY WITH THE MISSOURIANS AND A FEW TUNES ABOUT DATES GONE WRONG! GOOD OLE' PRE-1940 MUSICAL MADCAP FUN! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Jul 14, 2023•55 min
WITH THE RECENT TRAGEDY OF THE TITAN IN THE DEEP HAUNTED WATERS OFF OF NEWFOUNDLAND WHERE THE TITANIC SLEEPS AMERICAN GROOVES OFFERS SEVERAL 1920S-50'S RECORDINGS RECALLING THE ORIGINAL TITANIC DISASTER - FROM JAMES" RABBIT" BROWN TO THE CARTER FAMILIES FINAL RECORDING..AS WELL AS THE USUAL ECLECTIC MISS OF OTHR PRE-1940 FOLK, BLUES, JAZZ AND COUNTRY GEMS! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
Jul 14, 2023•55 min
This very special episode, in commemoration of PRIDE MONTH , will explore what scholars have called "The Pansy Craze" of the 1920s-30s a time when LGBTQ performers ruled the roost in clandestine nightclubs that catered to a gay and sophisticated clientele . Amazingly rare recordings by Jean Malin, Bruz Fletcher, Ray Bourbon and Gladys Bentley will be heard as well as silly tin pan alley ditties written to exploit that short lived largely underground moment --- Support this podcast: https://podca...
Jun 26, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Written in 1910 by African American songwriter Sheldon Brooks, the SOME OF THESE DAYS took on a new life after being embraced by popular Vaudeville singer SOPHIE TUCKER who made it her theme song and sang it nonstop in her act until her death in 1966. By 1966 the song had long before become a jazz standard. Besides Sophie's three pre-1930 recordings of it the tune was recorded by numerous Jazz Bands, Torch Singers, Jazz Singers, Washboard Bands and it could b e heard in "nightclub scenes" in num...
Jun 12, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Since the 1920s Charlotte North Carolina was a destination for field recording by several of the major record labels. Victor and Bluebird specifically recorded a fabulous array of Country Singers, String Bands, Gospel Quartets and "territory" Jazz Bands. Among several others Bill Monroe and his Brother Charlie started their recording career in Charlotte. This episode re-visits some of the great variety of American Music recorded at those sessions in the 1920s-30s --- Support this podcast: https:...
Jun 05, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Joe plays a mixture of 78s from his collection and of his friends! Perfect for a "Moldie Fig" barbecue soundtrack! You Will have swingin' tracks by Mart Britt & His Orchestra, Carl Webster's Yale Collegians, Carter Family and much more! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
May 30, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 5
This episode, besides an array of rare Blues, Jazz and Country recordings focuses on a variety of different versions of the classic 1913 tune AFTER YOU'VE GONE from Fats to Sophie and then some! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
May 30, 2023•55 min
Besides a fun selection of pre-war Blues. Jazz and Country in this episode Joe explores the origins and development of Jelly Roll Morton's classic KING PORTER STOMP - from piano solo to swing band standard --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
May 22, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 5
The ASHEVILLE SHELLAC BASH is by far the most eclectic gathering of pre-war Blues, Country and Jazz 78 rpm record collectors and musicians . This year's "Bash" - the first since a covid shut down of a few years, was one for the books. This show is dedication to Brody Hunt and Hunter Holmes, the event's organizers and the many collectors who traveled the world to attend. I will only play 78's acquired at that great event that now have a place in my collection.....Shellac by BLIND WILLIE, LOUIS' H...
May 11, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 5
THE FIRST TRUE JAZZ BANDS TO RECORD WERE GENERALLY SMALL BANDS...THE CLASSIC LINEUP WAS TRUMPET OR CORNET, TROMBONE, CLARINET, PIANO AND DRUMS ( YOU CAN ADD A BASS HORN/BASS FIDDLE, AND OR GUITAR WITHOUT MISSING THE POINT/!) THIS EPISODE WILL EXPLORE SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS OF THE RECORDED HOT JAZZ "FABULOUS FIVES": THE ORIGINAL MEMPHIS FIVE, THE ORIGINAL INDIANA FIVE, LOUISIANA FIVE, ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND AND OTHERS - --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/amer...
May 03, 2023•55 min
After the success of Ralph Peer's early 1920s recordings of rural musicians such as Henry Whitter and Fiddlin' Joh Carson most every major record label slowly began dabbling in the recording of rural country ( often labeled "Hillbilly" ) artists. A new record selling market was awoken! By 1928, with the success of the first "Bristol Sessions" Victor was all in. They established their 40,000 numerical --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
May 03, 2023•55 min
After the success of Ralph Peer's early 1920s recordings of rural musicians such as Henry Whitter and Fiddlin' Joh Carson most every major record label slowly began dabbling in the recording of rural country ( often labeled "Hillbilly" ) artists. A new record selling market was awoken! By 1928, with the success of the first "Bristol Sessions" Victor was all in. They established their 40,000 numerical series dedicated to all ealry country recordings and then in 1930 rtheir 23,500 series which wne...
Apr 12, 2023•55 min
From Maybelle and Sarah Carter, "Moonshine Kate", Fiddler Hattie Stoneman, Patsy Montana to The Girls Of The Golden West women's contributions to pre-war country music are often overlooked. American Grooves celebrates some of those early voices in this episode - part 3 of our 2023 celbaration of Women's History Month 2023 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
Apr 12, 2023•55 min
