Little Willie John - If I Thought You Needed Me (1957)

New 78 needle should be coming in soon. In the meantime,

Jack Hylton and His Orchestra - Me and Jane In A Plane (1927)

I have no idea what flight regulations looked like in 1927 but I think the FAA acts as traffic cop of the skies these days.

Why I haven’t posted my own 78s recently (Exhibit A)

Whoops

Baby Rose Marie - My Bluebird Is Singing The Blues (1933) (International House)

From the depths of the Depression comes a movie I watched many times growing up and a piano with a ten-year-old standing on top of it.

Harry Reser’s Syncopators - The Whoopie Hat Brigade (1929)

Find out what a whoopie hat is. Buy a whoopie hat. Wear that whoopie hat. Find like-minded whoopie hat wearers and form a brigade. It’s Friday.

Billy Banks and the Chicago Rhythm Kings - Who’s Sorry Now (1932)

You know, you’re right. Who is sorry now?

Don’t answer that.

Arthur Fields and His Assassinators - Is It Possible (1927)

I didn’t think Edison discs ever sounded like this.

Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long (1932)

And tonight it’s shorter than any other.

Charlie Fry’s Million Dollar Pier Orchestra - Happy Days and Lonely Nights (1928)

The Savoy Havana Band - Masculine Women, Feminine Men (1926)

It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today! Hey, hey!