Recordings from old records, bad tapes, home recordings and friends.
01 Carson Robison and his Pleasant Valley Boys - That Horse Named Pete (3:04)
c1950, MGM 10732, 78 rpm
02 Baby Gramps - Bahama Mama (4:31)
Live in the 1970's at a concert I produced, written and performed by Baby Gramps. www.babygramps.com
03 Eva Siders & Two Men - Telephone Conversation (3:00)
Home made disk
04 Lew Childre on ET - Jig Time (1:32)
1940's transcription disk
05 Jim Page & Artis the Spoonman - Very Scary (Gays in the Military) (3:26)
www.jimpage.net
06 Bluegrass Roy - Intro and Hamlin's Wizard Oil Pitch (0:36)
Radio pitch by Bluegrass Roy, 1940's radio singer. Very big on radio in the Midwest and Northeast. This gives the flavor of OT radio.
07 Florence Baker - Eliah the Camel (Hump on his Ass) (0:26)
08 Florence Baker - Chocolate Ice Cream Cone (2:07)
Home made disk, 1949
09 Bobby Marks (the pool shooting monkey) - Cool Pool Shooter (1:29)
Ledo 45 #D-1806
10 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (2:32)
In concert at Court C Coffee House, Tacoma, 1971
11 Mr. Buchanan - Boogie Chillen' (3:25)
Self recorded at 78 rpm, 1954 in Japan
12 Don & Dean - Midnight Boogie & Steel Guitar Rag (2:32)
Home recording
13 Oswald and Rachel - You Are My Sunshine (2:50)
Grand Ole Opry air check, unknown date, from home recording
14 Unknown Woman - Freight Train Blues (2:31)
Aircheck, probably from Grand Ole Opry, home recorded from radio
15 Buzz Martin - Too High On The Stump (3:59)
45, Ripchord, 45-008
16 Dixieland Swingsters - The Widow's Daughter (2:49)
Bb B-7857-B at 78 rpm
17 Dick Powell - Hip Radio Dialogue (3:10)
On radio, from home made air check
18 Heidelberg Beer - Slow Brewed Jingle (1:01)
Made in Tacoma, Wa, radio station commercial production
19 Cameo Dance Orchestra - That Tacoma Home Of Mine (3:07)
78 rpm, oldest tribute to my home town in my collection, Cameo 505
20 Carson Robison and his Pleasant Valley Boys - The Devil Calls A Meeting (2:50)
c1950, MGM 10732, 78 rpm
21 Grandma Harding Orting - Home Recording (2:50)
Orting, WA family
22 Roy Acuff - Advice To Joe (2:35)
78 rpm (Stalin probably didn't listen)
23 Myrtle? Baker? - Rhumba Boogie (1:54)
Home made disk
24 James Talley - Richland, Washington (2:19)
A great Guthrie like tune and song. Taken from his Capitol album. James is currently exploring compensation for he and his sister for the cancer his father probably got at the Hanford plant in Richland. He has strong evidence from Hanford medical records he has received. www.jamestalley.com
Tracks by Baby Gramps, Jim Page and James Talley appear with permission from the artists.
Image: Cover
- Contributed by: Dennis Flannigan
Great set of oddball recordings. Highly enjoyable.
Posted by: Walter Brennan | December 14, 2007 at 05:53 AM
Walter,
Thank you. Loved your Christmas album.
df
Posted by: Dennis Flannigan | December 15, 2007 at 06:57 PM
DENNIS! Thanks for the awesome Tacoma stuff... love that Heidelberg ad.
I'm a big wfmu fan and Tacoma resident. we've met before...next time let's talk WFMU and tunes!
Posted by: John Carlton | January 02, 2008 at 02:31 AM
What comes up as Myrtle Baker is obviously wrong as the voice is that of a guy.Probably Baker Myrtle or Mirkle
Posted by: Richard | November 22, 2008 at 06:52 PM
Freight Train Blues - Unknown Woman
Well, I'm sorry, but I got a fixation on this woman's voice now. Wish I knew who it was. Anyone have any idea when this was recorded or who it could be?? I think I'm in love. (where does she hold all that air??)
Posted by: Chris in NH | May 25, 2009 at 09:29 AM
thanks, i remember seeing baby gramps as a kid. he was older then, by now he is probably a young man. isn't that what happens when babygramps ages?
i also remember artis playing his spoons sometimes down in Fremont. when i go to heaven i want to come back as a soup spoon virtuoso. spoons always provide such pleasurable music . thanks for the memories
Posted by: MacCarragher | June 19, 2010 at 06:06 PM