Category Archives: Early Pop

Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition, Free Form, Oldies

Wide Open Places

January 8, 2021 Dave Leave a comment

A bright future is in store….that’s our story and we’re stickin’ to it! Today’s show contains an inordinate amount of upbeat tickers including a trip to Tulsa with Asleep at the Wheel, a Fats Waller song about those wide open places, a journey following the North Star with Rhiannon Giddens, The Boswells, Hank Williams, Les Paul, and a whole lot more. We’re in a free form mood on a Friday morning here in Sonoma County, celebrating the Twelve Days of Inauguration the best way we know how. Join us on Sonoma County Community radio from the Deeper Roots Den with your host Dave Stroud, celebrating our democracy in a big, big way.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Fats Waller	(Take Me Back To) The Wide Open Places	compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com
3	Asleep at the Wheel	Take Me Back to Tulsa	The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970
4	Robert Gordon	Take Me Back	Are You Gonna Be The One
5	Elizabeth Cotten And Brenda Evans	Shake Sugaree	Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1]
6	Jerry Garcia	Sugaree	Garcia
7	Elizabeth Cotten	Freight Train	Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection
8	Les Paul	The Lonesome Road (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered]	100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
9	Sam Cooke	Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair	Swing Low
10	John Lee Hooker	I Cover The Waterfront	Mr. Lucky
11	The Ravens	Deep Purple	The Greatest Group of Them All
12	Rhiannon Giddens	Following the North Star	Freedom Highway
13	Rhiannon Giddens	I'm On My Way	There Is No Other
14	Geraint Watkins	Heart of Stone	Rush of Blood
15	Paul Thorn	Soon I Will Be Done	Don't Let The Devil Ride
16	James Carr	Pouring Water On A Drowning Man	Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 1]
17	The Pilgrim Travelers	I Never Knew Joy Before	101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1
18	Reliable True Tones	I Came a Long Way	This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
19	Paramount Singers	There's A Leak In This Old Building	15 Down Home Gospel Classics
20	Rick Danko	When I Get My Just Rewards	Cryin' Heart Blues
21	John Fahey	Texas & Pacific Blues (My Bucket's Got A Hole In It)	Your Past Comes Back – Disc 5
22	Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men	Dark Eyes	Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land
23	Hank Williams	My Bucket's Got A Hole In It	Hank Williams – A Country Legend (1)
24	Boswell Sisters	Everybody Loves My Baby	Boswell Sisters
25	Fats Waller	Dry Bones	Music By Fats Waller
26	Ivie Anderson	Five O'clock Whistle	Cocktail Hour
27	Cleo Brown	Breakin' In A Pair Of Shoes	The Legendary Cleo Brown
28	Danny Kaye	Oh By Jingo!	Danny Kaye The Best of
29	Mae West	He's A Bad, Bad Man	The Mae West Collection
30	Rosanne Cash	I Still Miss Someone	Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
31	Mark Knopfler	Rear View Mirror	Down The Road Wherever
32	Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars	Sing, Sing, Sing	Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars
33	Geraint Watkins	It's a Beautiful Day	Watkins Bold as Love

Big Band Blowout!

December 18, 2020 Dave Leave a comment

Swing with us here on Deeper Roots on a Friday morning, one week ahead of the Christmas festivities. The big band sound is that apple pie sound that grew out of the traveling musicians and dance hall bands of the 1920s. From the radio to ballrooms across the land, as the jazz orchestras grew in size, the arrangements had to be formalized to avoid mass confusion. The arranger became the focal point of the band. Improvisation during solos was written into the arrangements but their location and duration were controlled and the vocal stylings grew around the easy flowing style of the evolving jazz that would become known as ‘Swing’. Tune in for two hours of exploration of a century of America’s music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Benny Goodman	King Porter Stomp	RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's
3	Benny Carter (With Lionel Hampton Orchestra)	I'm in the Mood for Swing	RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's
4	Chick Webb	Go Harlem	Stompin' At The Savoy
5	Cab Calloway	The Jumpin' Jive	Best Of The Big Bands
6	Benny Goodman	When Buddha Smiles	Stompin' at the Savoy
7	Count Basie	Doggin' Around	Ken Burns Jazz: Count Basie
8	Artie Shaw & His Orchestra / Artie Shaw's Symphony Swing	Begin The Beguine (LP Version)	The 30s: Hollywood's Best
9	Glenn Miller Orchestra	In The Mood	Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3]
10	Woody Herman	Woodchopper's Ball	Swingingest Sounds Ever Heard – The Best of the Big Bands
11	Benny Goodman & His Orchestra	Why Don't You Do Right	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
12	Charlie Barnet	Skyliner	Swingingest Sounds Ever Heard – The Best of the Big Bands
13	Les Brown	Bizet Has His Day	Best of the Big Bands
14	Woody Herman & His Orchestra	Four Brothers	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
15	Ella Fitzgerald	When My Sugar Walks Down the Street	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
16	Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	Tuxedo Junction	The Centennial Collection Disc 1
17	Benny Goodman & His Orchestra	Let's Dance	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
18	Duke Ellington	Take The A Train	Watch The Closing Doors – A History Of New Yorks Musical Melting Pot Vol 1 1945-59 (CD 1)
19	Tony Pastor	Bell Bottom Trousers	Nipper's Greatest Hits – The 40's Vol 2
20	Benny Goodman	Sing, Sing, Sing (Part I)	Sing, Sing, Sing
21	Woody Herman	Apple Honey	The Essence of Woody Herman
22	Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	Moonlight Serenade	The Centennial Collection Disc 1
23	Artie Shaw	Stardust	Ray Charles – Music that Matters to Him
24	Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra	I'll Be Seeing You	Kiss the Boys Goodbye: Classic Songs from World War II, Vol.1
25	Tommy Dorsey	Opus One	Stompin' At The Savoy
26	Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	A String of Pearls	The Centennial Collection Disc 1
27	Benny Goodman	Stompin' At The Savoy	Stompin' At The Savoy
28	The Andrew Sisters	Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy	Double Goldies [CD2]
29	Artie Shaw	I Got the Sun in the Morning	The Artie Shaw Story – Disc 4 – Little Jazz
30	Harry James	You Made Me Love You	Time-Life Swing Era – 1940-1941 [Disc 1]
31	Doris Day/Les Brown	Sentimental Journey	Those Wonderful Years: Sentimental Journey 1930's & 1940's

Ants In My Pants

February 15, 2020 Dave

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.

No.
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

Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition, Jazz, Oldies, Theme Time

Steel Guitar Retrospective

August 3, 2019 Dave

We’ll be serenading you with some island melodies, country tunes, and rock, all featuring the steel guitar, an instrument whose origins take us back to the late 19^th and early 20^th century invention by native Joseph Kekuku. The music this Friday features some early Hawaiian popular influences including Sol Ho’opi, Hoot Gibson, and King Nawah’s Hawaiians. The focus moves to mid-to late century greats featuring Pete Drake, Buddy Emmons, Buster Martin and Speedy West. The popularity of the ‘island sound’ in the early century brought us the sound of steel across many genres, including gospel, folk, blues, and country. Spend a couple of hours on an August morning in Sonoma County taking a journey from Hawaii to Forth Worth.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	King Nawahi's Hawaiians	Hawaiian Capers	Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
3	Trio De Hawaii	Melodias Populares Mexicana	Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
4	Sol Ho'opi'i	Singing The Blues	Master of the Hawaiian Guitar Vol 1
5	Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette	An Orange Grove in California	Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
6	Hoot Gibson	Mai Givee (Don't Give It Away)	Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
7	Kalama's Quartet	Sassy	Vintage Hawaiian Music: The Great Singers 1928 – 1934
8	Sol K. Bright's Hollywaiians	Heat Wave	Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
9	Sol Ho'opi'i	I Like You	With My Little Ukulele in My Hand
10	King Nawahi's Hawaiians	Under a Texas Moon	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
11	Madame Riviere's Hawaiians	Ellis March	With My Little Ukulele in My Hand
12	Buster Martin	Herbie's Steel Guitar Polka	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 10]
13	Jim & Bob The Genial Hawaiians	Bob & Jim by The Waters of Minetonka	Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
14	Jim & Bob	The Song of the Range	Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
15	Johnny Bond & His Red River Valley Boys	I Won't Stand in Your Way	Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
16	Shot Jackson & Buddy Emmons	Singing Strings Of Steel	The Steel Guitar & Dobro Sounds
17	Lone Star Playboys	Steel Guitar Bounce	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 18
18	Albert Lee	Rainbows All Over Your Blues	The Big E: A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons
19	Howard White	Steel Guitar Swallow	Western Swing And Steel Instrumental
20	Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar	For Pete's Sake [Instrumental]	For Pete's Sake [Gusto]
21	Pete Drake	Pedal Jumpin'	Stars Of The Steel Guitar
22	Speedy West	Stainless Steel	Steel Guitar
23	Tiny Murphy & His Bar 69 Boys	Hot Steel	Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
24	Jerry Byrd	Hilo Steel Guitar	Stars Of The Steel Guitar
25	Bob Wills	Texas Playboy Rag	Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
26	Doc Watson	Steel Guitar Rag	Memories
27	Bobby Lee	Steel Guitar Rag	Quasar Steel Guitar
28	Lloyd Green and Jay Dee Maness	You Ain't Goin' Nowhere	Journey To The Beginning – A Steel Guitar Tribute To The Byrds
29	Cyril Pahinui & Bob Brozman	Hawaiian Cowboy	Four Hands Sweet & Hot
30	Bob Brozman	Dinah	Devil's Slide
31	Bob Brozman	Just As Well To Let Her Go	A Truckload of Blues
32	Bob Brozman	Let's Get It Stomp	A Truckload of Blues
33	Spade Cooley	Spadella	Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
34	Sonny Treadway	Don't Let The Devil Ride	Sacred Steel Guitar
35	Jim & Bob The Genial Hawaiians	Saint Louis Blues	Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story

Leon Redbone Tribute

June 8, 2019 Dave

“The only thing that interests me is history – reviewing the past and making something out of it”. A man after our own heart here at Deeper Roots, shining bright like that old harvest moon. We lost Leon this past week and his family lovingly announced his passing with the following prose deserving of the mysterious Mr. Redbone: “It is with heavy hearts we announce that early this morning, May 30th 2019, Leon Redbone crossed the delta for that beautiful shore at the age of 127. He departed our world with his guitar, his trusty companion Rover, and a simple tip of his hat. He’s interested to see what Blind Blake, Emmett, and Jelly Roll have been up to in his absence.” We’ll take some time to honor the music that so inspired this delightful entertainer who elevated the blues, early century pop, and country into a form that extracted the joy of life and bottled like fine wine over the past 40 years. We’ll even reach into the Redbone bins for a handful of delightful covers. A simple tip of our hat to Leon as he crosses to the other shore…

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Leon Redbone	If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven	Double Time
3	Merle Travis	If We Never Meet Again	Hot Pickin' [Disc 1]
4	Emmett Miller	I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll	Minstrel Man From Georgia
5	Red Nichols & His Five Pennies	The Sheik Of Araby	Saints Ramble & Sensation
6	Laurel and Hardy	Shine on Harvest Moon	The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999
7	Nat King Cole	Sweet Lorraine	The Cocktail Combos [Disc 1]
8	Billie Holiday Feat. Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra	Sugar	Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944 [Disc 05]
9	Hoagy Carmichael	Lazybones	Sometimes I Wonder….
10	Hoagy Carmichael	Lazy River	Sometimes I Wonder….
11	Lonnie Johnson	He's A Jelly-Roll Baker	Tomorrow Night
12	Peetie Wheatstraw	Shake That Thing	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 48
13	Dave Van Ronk	Shake That Thing	Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers
14	Elvis Presley	You're A Heartbreaker	Elvis – The King Of Rock 'N' Roll – The Complete 50's Masters (CD1)
15	Julia Lee	Breeze	Kansas City Star [Disc 3]
16	Cowboy Copas	Breeze	1954-1958
17	Leon Redbone	Breeze	Sugar
18	Rex Griffin	Sweet Mama Hurry Home	1935-1936 (Warped 3520)
19	Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy	Bouquet Of Roses	Hillbilly Fever – Vol. 3: Legends Of Nashville
20	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 2 : Brownie Special
21	Emmett Miller	Lovesick Blues	American Yodeling
22	Blind Blake	Diddie Wa Diddie (Pm 12888, 15459-A)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
23	Leon Redbone	Diddy Wa Diddie	Double Time
24	Shirley Temple	Polly Wolly Doodle	America's Sweetheart
25	Boswell Sisters	When I Take My Sugar to Tea	Boswell Sisters
26	Paul Specht	Sweet Lorraine	Static Strut: Hot Dance Rarities 1922-1930
27	Ruth Etting	Shine on, Harvest Moon	Art Deco: Lovely Ladies of Stage and Screen
28	Joe Keawe	My Little Grass Shack	Hapa-Haole Hawaiian Hula Classics – Vintage Hawaiian Treasures: Vol. I
29	Leon Redbone	My Little Grass Shack	Whistling In The Wind
30	Leon Redbone & Zooey Deschanel	Baby It's Cold Outside	Unknown
31	Al Jolson	Pretty Baby	The Very Best Of Al Jolson
32	Leon Redbone	Pretty Baby	Sugar
33	Bert Lown's Biltmore Hotel Orchestra	Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone	Bert Lown's Biltmore Hotel Orchestra
34	Leon Redbone	Lulu's Back In Town	On The Track

Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Free Form, Oldies, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Soul

That’s The Way The World Goes ‘Round

May 18, 2019 Dave

Friday morning fresh from the archives. We’ve got the classics today with a free form mix of vintage sounds from siblings The Mills Brothers and The Boswell Sisters as well as some folk, jubilee, soul, and rhythm from Sugar Pie De Santo, Andy Griffith, The New Christy Minstrels, and The Manhattan Transfer. If that’s not enough, we’ll share some Killer, Albert Ammons, and Creedence. You cannot go wrong on a Thursday evening…. particularly when we get cooking with a track from Maria Muldaur, Marcia Ball, and Angela Strehli in tribute to Sister Rosetta. Join Dave Stroud on Sonoma County Community Radio…88.1 FM, streaming at kwtf.net/live.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	John Prine	That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round	Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1
3	Jerry Lee Lewis	Just a Little Bit	Southern Roots
4	The Four Blazes	Mary Jo	Mary Jo
5	Fats Domino	Lady Madonna	Fats Is Back
6	Big Joe Turner	Shake, Rattle and Roll	Big Joe Rocks
7	The Isley Brothers	Shout, Pts. 1-2	Red, White & Rock Disc 1
8	The Isley Brothers	Twist And Shout	Grandson Of Frat Rock! Vol. 3
9	Maria Muldaur, Marcia Ball, Angela Strehli & Tracy Nelson	Shout, Sister, Shout!	Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
10	Louis Armstrong	Going To Shout All Over God's Heaven	Louis And The Good Book
11	Andy Griffith	Careless Love	Shouts The Blues And Old Timey Songs
12	Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra	Georgia On My Mind	Paper Moon
13	The New Christy Minstrels	Wagoner's Song (Land of the Sacramento)	Ramblin'
14	Rudy Vallee	Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries	Vagabond Lover
15	The Boswell Sisters	Got The South In My Soul	The Boswell Sisters Collection
16	The Mills Brothers	Swing Is The Thing	Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats
17	Kermit Ruffins	When It's Sleepy Time Down South	We Partyin' Traditional Style
18	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Lodi	Green River
19	Quicksilver Messenger Service	Dino's Song	The Best Of Quicksilver Messenger Service
20	The Manhattan Transfer	Tuxedo Junction	Anthology – Down In Birdland (Disc 2)
21	Videos	Trickle Trickle	Doo Wop Box Disc 3
22	Chuck Willis	Sugar Sugar	I Remember Chuck Willis / The King Of The Stroll
23	Chuck Willis	Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes	I Remember Chuck Willis / The King Of The Stroll
24	Sugar Pie DeSanto	A Little Taste of Soul	A Little Bit of Soul (1957-1962)
25	Big Daddy Wilson	I Got Plenty	Deep in My Soul
26	Benny Spellman	Fortune Teller	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 6]
27	King Floyd	Groove Me	In Yo' Face!: The History Of Funk, Vol. 1
28	Eric Clapton	I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) [feat. Don White]	The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
29	Benny Goodman Trio	Oh, Lady Be Good	After You've Gone:The Original Benny Goodman Trio And Quartet
30	Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders	Sunnyside Up	Paper Moon
31	Buck Owens	Big in Vegas	The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) – Disc 3
32	Norman Fox & The Rob Roys/Sid Bass/The Rob Roys	Pizza Pie	Doo Wop Box Disc 3
33	Dean Martin/Orchestra	That's Amore	That's Amore: The Best of Dean Martin

Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Early Rock, Fifties Country, Free Form, Oldies, Rhythm and Blues

Diddy Wah Diddy

September 15, 2018 Dave

This morning’s show finds a festive free form summer set featuring the usual suspects and a whole lot of fine sounds from the deeper wells. We’ll be sharing country classics from George Jones, Floyd Tillman, and Pee Wee King as well as some sweet upbeat R&B from Clyde McPhatter, Big Maybelle, and Ivory Joe. Taj Mahal, some doo wop pioneers, and the great Ella Fitzgerald will round things out in a free form fest on Sonoma County Community Radio. Tune in at 9am Pacific at www.kows.fm/listen.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Taj Mahal	Diddy Wah Diddy	Maestro
3	Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends	Oh Chuck It (In a Bucket)	Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 2
4	Hank Williams	My Bucket's Got A Hole In It	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 18
5	Hank Williams	I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Living	The History Of Country & Western Music (Disc 19)
6	Johnny Cash	The Night Hank Williams Came To Town	Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town & Water From The Wells Of Home
7	Leon Russell	Love's Gonna Live Here	Legend in My Time – Hank Wilson Vol. III
8	Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue	Jones On the Jukebox	Set Two
9	George Jones	I Always Get Lucky With You With Mark Knopfler	Burn Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased Duets
10	Porter Wagoner	Highway Headin' South	The Essential Porter Wagoner
11	Red Saunders & His Orchestra	Hambone	OKeh Rhythm & Blues
12	Lillian Briggs	Can't Stop	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
13	Big Maybelle	Rock House	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
14	Clyde McPhatter	Just to Hold My Hand	Atlantic and Mercury Sessions – Disc 1
15	Ivory Joe Hunter	It's A Sin	Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter (1950-1951)
16	Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots	I'm Making Believe	R&B Jukebox Hits 1944
17	The Ink Spots	Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees)	Greatest Hits
18	The Dubs	Could This Be Magic	The Roots Of Frank Zappa
19	The Cadillacs	Gloria	The Cadillacs Meet The Orioles
20	Pee Wee King	Slow Poke	Classic Country Hits 'Your Cheatin Heart' Disc 3
21	Rusty Draper	The Shifting Whispering Sands	Your Hit Parade – 1955
22	Floyd Tillman	This Cold War With You	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 17
23	Foy Willing	Texas Blues	History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 9
24	Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)	X's From Down In Texas – 1958	Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58
25	The Light Crust Doughboys	Stay Out Of The South	1936-1941
26	Bobby Bare	They Covered Up the Old Swimming Hole	Memories – RCA Singles 1962 – 1969
27	Eilen Jewell	Whispering Sea	Butcher Holler
28	Cookie & His Cupcakes	Breaking Up Is Hard To Do	Rhythm 'n' Bluesin' By The Bayou – Vocal Groups
29	Big Jay McNeely & His Blue Jays	Deacon's Hop	Jump, Jive & Swing
30	Little Esther & the Dominoes	The Deacon Moves In	Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 1
31	Bull Moose Jackson	Fare Thee Well, Deacon Jones, Fare Thee Well	Badman Jackson Thats Me
32	Jimmy Durante	Little Bit This, Little Bit That	The Great Schnozzle
33	Annette Hanshaw	I Want To Be Bad	Annette Hanshaw, Volume 6, 1929 (1999)
34	Ozzie & Harriet Nelson	I Want the Waiter with the Water	The Nelson Touch
35	Taj Mahal	Take a Giant Step	In Progress and In Motion (1965-1998) (3 of 3)

100 Years Ago

July 21, 2018 Dave

We’re taking this ‘Century of America’s Music’ theme quite serious this week. The tracks we’ll be playing are from the the first few decades of the 20th Century. Parlor music had lost its attraction by the turn of the century in favor of minstrel, vaudeville, and the emergence of Tin Pan Alley. Ragtime and jazz would evolve in an organic manner and blues would inform much of the jazz and band music that would become popular with the advent of the Victrola. Music today includes tracks from Vernon Dahlart, Billy Murray, Frank Crumit, and Ben Selvin & His Orchestra as we find the music of the teens and early 20s on a show that keeps our tagline strong. Tune in for this celebration of American popular music in its infancy.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	W.C. Handy	Livery Stable Blues	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
3	Burt Williams	Nobody	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
4	Felix Arndt	Desecration Rag	The Big Broadcast vol. 9
5	Paramount Symphony Orchestra	Made In America (Pm 2008, 60-A)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927)
6	Harry McClaskey	Your Country And My Country (Pm 2011, 2011-A)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927)
7	Arthur Fields	Good Morning, Mr. Zip, Zip, Zip (Pm 2052, 2052-A)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927)
8	Whit Cunliffe	Hoch, Hoch Der Kaiser!	Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure
9	Original Dixieland Jazz Band	Tiger Rag	78s
10	Billy Murray	The Little Old Ford	Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure
11	Edith Day, Rosario Bourdon	Alice Blue Gown	Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's
12	Paul Whiteman	Whispering	Greatest Hits
13	Billy Murray	I'll See You In C-U-B-A	Echoes From The 1920's Disc 1
14	Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	Dardanella	Dardanella
15	Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles	Dardanella
16	Al Jolson	Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night (1916)	Columbia-1976
17	Al Jolson	Hello Central, Give Me No Man's Land (World War I Song) (1918)	Columbia-2542 (77753)
18	Vernon Dalhart	Can't Yo' Hear Me Callin' Caroline?	Puttin on the Style
19	Fisk Jubilee Singers	O Mary Don't You Weep Don't You Mourn	Recordings In Chonological Order, Vol. 2: 1915-1920
20	Fisk Jubilee Singers	Shout All Over God's Heaven	Recordings In Chonological Order, Vol. 2: 1915-1920
21	Van Eps Trio	Ragging The Scale (Pm 2050, 87R-1)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927)
22	Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band	Everybody's Crazy 'Bout The Doggone Blues	Jazz In The Charts Vol. 1 – Tiger Rag
23	Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band	Indianola (Those Draftin' Blues)	Jazz In The Charts Vol. 1 – Tiger Rag
24	Pale K. Lua	The Rosary	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
25	Frank Crumit	I'm a Lonesome Little Rain Drop (1920)	Columbia-3332 (79460)
26	Louise, Ferera and Rose	Aloha Land (Pm 30060, 245-1)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927)
27	Helen Louise & Frank Derera's Hawaiians	Kai Maia O ka Maoli	With My Little Ukulele in My Hand
28	Helen Louise & Palakiko Ferreira – Moana Lua	Hawaiian Hula Medley	Hawaiian Rainbow – Hawaiian Music on Edison Records
29	Ford's Hawaiian Orchestra	Kahola March	Hawaiian Rainbow – Hawaiian Music on Edison Records
30	Al Jolson	Swanee	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
31	Bert Williams	Moon Shines On The Moonshine, The	A Tribute To Black Entertainers #1
32	Mamie Smith	Crazy Blues	American Roots Music [Disc 2]

Early Female Pop Vocals

May 19, 2018 Dave

Here’s to the pioneering pop mavens. Don’t think we won’t draw a little bit outside the lines as well in this show, bringing in flappers, jazz, and novelty sounds. The groups and solo acts are thoroughly represented with the likes of Marion Harris, Ruth Etting, Billie Holiday, Kate Smith, and The Andrews Sisters. We’ll go a little bit further and bring you songs to uplift in hard times, ring with a bit of jingoism in war time, and celebrate the good times in every way possible. West County radio will get a good dose of the best of the early and mid-century popular music…all from the ladies.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Boswell Sisters	Heebie Jeebies, #1	The Boswell Sisters Collection
3	Marion Harris	There'll Be Some Changes Made	Echoes From The 1920's Disc 1
4	Helen Kane, Leonard Joy	I Wanna Be Loved By You	Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's
5	Lee Morse	If You Want the Rainbow	The First Torch Singers, the Twenties
6	Lee Morse	If I Can't Have You	The First Torch Singers, the Twenties
7	Annette Hanshaw	I Want To Be Bad	Annette Hanshaw, Volume 6, 1929 (1999)
8	Annette Hanshaw	I Get The Blues When It Rains	The Girl Next Door
9	Ethel Shutta With George Olsen & His Music	I'm On A Diet Of Love	The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
10	Ruth Etting	My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now	Love Me or Leave Me CD1
11	Ruth Etting	Ten Cents a Dance	The Boop Boop a Doop Girls
12	Vaughn De Leath	Ukulele Lady	With My Little Ukulele In My Hand (Disc 4 Of 4)
13	Vaughn De Leath	Banana Oil	The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
14	Marion Harris	Spring Is Here Again	The Big Broadcast vol. 6
15	Boswell Sisters	Put That Sun Back In the Sky	Boswell Sisters
16	The Boswell Sisters	Shuffle Off To Buffalo	The Boswell Sisters Volume 2
17	Kate Smith	Twenty Million People	Emergence Of A Legend
18	Kate Smith	Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen	Emergence Of A Legend
19	Josephine Baker	Confessing	1926-1932
20	Billie Holiday	My Last Affair	Billie Holiday: The Legacy Box 1933-1958 Disc 2
21	Billie Holiday	I Wished On The Moon	Billie Holiday: The Lady Sings CD 1- This Year's Kisses
22	Billie Holiday	What A Little Moonlight Can Do	Billie Holiday: The Lady Sings CD 1- This Year's Kisses
23	Ella Fitzgerald	Hallelujah!	Cryin' Mood
24	Chick Webb & His Orchestra	A-Tisket, A-Tasket	Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 2]
25	Helen Forrest	Two Blind Loves	Harold Arlen Writes the Songs
26	The Andrews Sisters	Rhumboogie	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 2]
27	The Andrews Sisters	East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
28	Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	I'll Si-Si Ya In Bahia [Single Version]	Their Complete Recordings Together [Disc 2]
29	Dinning Sisters	Beg Your Pardon	Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 1]
30	Dinning Sisters	Oh Monah	Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 1]
31	The McGuire Sisters	Sugartime	The McGuire Sisters Greatest Hits
32	Helen Kane	Button Up Your Overcoat	The Boop Boop a Doop Girls

Americana, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Free Form, Rhythm and Blues

Free Form – Roll Like a Big Wheel

April 14, 2018 Dave

We mix it up once again. Nothing like ending the week on a high note, a low note, and just the right mix of jazz, pop, rock, country, bluegrass, and R&B. You know it won’t stop there because if it’s one thing we do well is find all that is good in between the boards. Join Dave Stroud for music featuring tracks from The Boswell Sisters, Red Foley, Julia Lee, The Prisonaires, Mose Allison, and John Prine. Friday mornings in West County … where we kick off the weekend on the stream our hearts out!

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Joan Osborne	Roll Like A Big Wheel	Bring It On Home
3	The Mills Brothers	Cherry (L. Armstrong)	The Mills Brothers Golden G'ts(3)
4	Les Paul & The Andrews Sisters	Rumors Are Flying (Single Version)	Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2]
5	Louis Jordan	Hungry Man	Jivin' With Jordan
6	Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra	Shout, Brother, Shout – (featuring The Five Tones)	Not So Quiet Please
7	The Prisonaires	Just Walking in the Rain	Sun Ballads 1953-62
8	Mose Allison	Lost Mind	Allison Wonderland Anthology [Disc 1]
9	Dinah Washington	Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?	Verve Unmixed
10	Julia Lee	When Jennie Does That Lowdown Dance	Kansas City Star [Disc 5]
11	Nellie Lutcher	Let Me Tell You 'Bout The Guy	Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 4]
12	Boswell Sisters	Put That Sun Back In the Sky	Boswell Sisters
13	Red Foley & The Andrews Sisters	I Want To Be With You Always	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
14	The Andrews Sisters	Pistol Packin' Mama	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 1]
15	Junior Brown	Where Has All the Money Gone?	Down Home Chrome
16	Merle Haggard	Mama Tried	The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
17	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Down In Mexico	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
18	Santiago Jimenez	Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio	Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 2]
19	Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars	Havana Moon	Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars
20	Levon Helm	Tennessee Jed	Electric Dirt
21	Grateful Dead	Dire Wolf	Workingman's Dead
22	Graham Parker	Sugaree	Your Country
23	Jim Lauderdale	The Night The Moon Fell Down	Carolina Moonshine
24	Jimmy Martin	20/20 Vision	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 1]
25	Hank Williams	Cold, Cold Heart	24 Greatest
26	John Prine	Summers End	The Tree of Forgiveness
27	Billie Holiday	Gloomy Sunday	Ken Burns Jazz
28	Lula Reed	I'll Drown In My Own Tears	The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
29	Effie Smith	Water, Water	The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
30	Mildred Jones	Mr. Thrill	Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett
31	T-Bone Walker	Cold Cold Feeling	Electric Blues – Part 1: Beginnings 1939-1954
32	Jo Stafford	Shrimp Boats	Your Hit Parade – 1951
33	Louis Armstrong	The Music Goes Round And Around [Single Version]	Rhythm Saved The World

A Century of America's Music