Whether it was Prohibition, the need for comic relief from the worst Depression our country has known, or the release from Victorian norms in the age of the flapper…something was afoot. The humor it portended is not something that we all understand in this age… but it’s worth looking at. Novelty ruled the day and every Victrola and Edison radio spilled a silly song, whether it worked from puns or light humor (pop music), corny songs that sometimes had hidden charms (country and folk), or right in your face real life naughty bits (the blues)…there was something for everyone to sample. We’ll hear from Lonzo and Oscar, Milton Brown, Frank Crumit, George Formby, and Lonnie Johnson in this week’s episode of Deeper Roots. A hoot and a holler by any other name on Sonoma County Community Radio.
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| 1 | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
| 2 | Lonnie Johnson | She's Making Whoopee In Hell Tonight | Hot Fingers |  |
| 3 | Frank Crumit | My Little Bimbo Down on the Bimbo Isle (1920) | grimriper2u@yahoo.com | |
| 4 | Billy Murray | I'll See You In C-U-B-A | Echoes From The 1920's Disc 1 | |
| 5 | Ozzie & Harriet Nelson | Oh Susanna, Dust off That Old Pianna | The Nelson Touch | |
| 6 | Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies | Down By the O-H-I-O | The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – The Eyes of Texas [Disc 1] | |
| 7 | Roy Newman | I Can't Dance (I've Got Ants In My Pants) | The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 | |
| 8 | The Johnson Sisters | Hillbilly Soldier Joe | Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell | |
| 9 | Texas Jim Robertson | The Last Page of Mein Kampf | Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell | |
| 10 | Sweet Violet Boys | I Love My Fruit | Okeh Western Swing | |
| 11 | The Happiness Boys: Billy Jones & Ernest Hare | I've Never Seen A Straight Banana | The Charleston Days | |
| 12 | Hoosier Hot Shots | I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) | Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure | |
| 13 | Lonzo & Oscar | I'm My Own Grandpa | Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure | |
| 14 | Lonzo and Oscar | Girls Don't Nag Your Husbands | 1947-1950 (Warped 4741) | |
| 15 | Six Jumping Jacks | I Do Not Chose to Run | Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure | |
| 16 | Buddy Rogers | (I'd Like to Be) A Bee in Your Boudoir | The Big Broadcast vol. 6 | |
| 17 | Paul Specht | Shoo-Shoo-Boogie-Boo | Static Strut: Hot Dance Rarities 1922-1930 | |
| 18 | George Formby | Grandad's Flannelette Nightshirt | I'm The Ukulele Man | |
| 19 | The Three Keys | Oh! By Jingo | The Big Broadcast, Volume 2: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s | |
| 20 | Marx Brothers | I'm Against It/Horse Feathers | Horse Feathers / Animal Crackers | |
| 21 | Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees | Lydia, The Tatooed Lady | gimriper2u@yahoo.com | |
| 22 | Ben Selvin and his Orch (The Knickerbockers). v/ Dick Robertson | When Yuba Plays The Rhumba On the Tuba | orig. 78 rpm Columbia 2483-D | |
| 23 | Ross & Sargent | Nellie the Nudist Queen | Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure | |
| 24 | Ozzie Nelson | Avis Scaffin Fortintoo | Campus Swing | |
| 25 | Frank Crumit | Crazy Words Crazy Tune | Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit | |
| 26 | Frank Crumit | The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away | Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit | |
| 27 | Frank Crumit | Song of the Prune | The Silly Songs (1922 to 1934) | |
| 28 | Leslie Sarony with Harry Hudson & His Melody Men | My Wife Is On A Diet | The Charleston Days | |
| 29 | Helen Kane with the Victor Orchestra directed by Leonard Joy | Dangerous Nan McGrew | Flappers, Vamps And Sweet Young Things | |
| 30 | Helen Kane | I Taut I Taw a Puddy Kat | The Boop Boop a Doop Girls | |
| 31 | Carmen Miranda | I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) | Anthology | |
| 32 | Irving Aaronson and His Commanders | Oh! You Sweet Old Whatcha May Call It | The Big Broadcast vol. 9 | |