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.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Lonnie Johnson	She's Making Whoopee In Hell Tonight	Hot Fingers
2	Frank Crumit	My Little Bimbo Down on the Bimbo Isle (1920)	grimriper2u@yahoo.com
3	Billy Murray	I'll See You In C-U-B-A	Echoes From The 1920's Disc 1
4	Ozzie & Harriet Nelson	Oh Susanna, Dust off That Old Pianna	The Nelson Touch
5	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	Down By the O-H-I-O	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – The Eyes of Texas [Disc 1]
6	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
7	The Johnson Sisters	Hillbilly Soldier Joe	Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
8	Texas Jim Robertson	The Last Page of Mein Kampf	Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
9	Sweet Violet Boys	I Love My Fruit	Okeh Western Swing
10	The Happiness Boys: Billy Jones & Ernest Hare	I've Never Seen A Straight Banana	The Charleston Days
11	Hoosier Hot Shots	I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones)	Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure
12	Lonzo & Oscar	I'm My Own Grandpa	Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure
13	Lonzo and Oscar	Girls Don't Nag Your Husbands	1947-1950 (Warped 4741)
14	Six Jumping Jacks	I Do Not Chose to Run	Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure
15	Buddy Rogers	(I'd Like to Be) A Bee in Your Boudoir	The Big Broadcast vol. 6
16	Paul Specht	Shoo-Shoo-Boogie-Boo	Static Strut: Hot Dance Rarities 1922-1930
17	George Formby	Grandad's Flannelette Nightshirt	I'm The Ukulele Man
18	The Three Keys	Oh! By Jingo	The Big Broadcast, Volume 2: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s
19	Marx Brothers	I'm Against It/Horse Feathers	Horse Feathers / Animal Crackers
20	Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees	Lydia, The Tatooed Lady	gimriper2u@yahoo.com
21	Ben Selvin and his Orch (The Knickerbockers). v/ Dick Robertson	When Yuba Plays The Rhumba On the Tuba	orig. 78 rpm Columbia 2483-D
22	Ross & Sargent	Nellie the Nudist Queen	Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure
23	Ozzie Nelson	Avis Scaffin Fortintoo	Campus Swing
24	Frank Crumit	Crazy Words Crazy Tune	Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit
25	Frank Crumit	The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away	Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit
26	Frank Crumit	Song of the Prune	The Silly Songs (1922 to 1934)
27	Leslie Sarony with Harry Hudson & His Melody Men	My Wife Is On A Diet	The Charleston Days
28	Helen Kane with the Victor Orchestra directed by Leonard Joy	Dangerous Nan McGrew	Flappers, Vamps And Sweet Young Things
29	Helen Kane	I Taut I Taw a Puddy Kat	The Boop Boop a Doop Girls
30	Carmen Miranda	I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)	Anthology
31	Irving Aaronson and His Commanders	Oh! You Sweet Old Whatcha May Call It	The Big Broadcast vol. 9