Shellac Stack No. 144 only has eyes for you! We look over a four-leaf clover with Jean Goldkette, hear from Eddie Cantor and Andy Griffith, shuffle with Tiny Hill’s Orchestra, and listen to a rare solo record by trumpeter Sylvester Ahola. It’s another musical variety hour on the Shellac Stack!
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Shellac Stack No. 143 reminisces just a bit. We hear records by Jane Green, Pietro Deiro, Jimmy Durante, Aileen Stanley, Pinky Tomlin, Henry Busse, and many more. From ragtime to western swing to vaudeville vocals, it’s another musical variety hour on the Shellac Stack!
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Shellac Stack No. 142 reminds you that “you can wander anywhere, but you have to go to Italy to roam.” (Ouch!) From the Happiness Boys to Georgia Gibbs; from Bing Crosby to Jerry Colonna; from Joseph Samuels to Jay Wilbur; it’s another 78 rpm variety hour, full of delightfully unexpected musical twists and turns.
A small correction for 78 die-hards: When discussing the Supertone label in this episode, I mistakenly conflated it with another Sears & Roebuck label of the same era: Silvertone. Silvertone was pressed at times by Columbia (and Gennett, among many others), but Supertone was — to my knowledge — never pressed by Columbia. Supertone records were recorded and pressed primarily by Gennett (like the one pictured above), with a few late issues deriving from Brunswick masters. Trivial? Perhaps. But someone might care.
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Shellac Stack No. 141 walks with music! It’s another variety assortment this time, from a banjo-accordion duet (Gardoni and Puig) to vocalists Tommy Lyman and Vaughn De Leath, to pianists Johnny Wittwer, Jelly Roll Morton, and Frankie Carle. We eavesdrop on a live concert by the Associated Glee Clubs of America in 1926 and dance to bandleaders Kenn Sisson, Paul Whiteman, Lou Raderman, and much more!
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Shellac Stack No. 140 listens to the music of the one man band with Ted Weems! The Whispering Three take us to a Persian Market, the Taskiana Four bring joy to our souls, and the enthusiastic Tony Short treats us to a solo piano rendition of the “Dipper Mouth Blues.” We hear also from Yerkes’ S. S. Flotilla Orchestra, Howard Rattay, Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, Gene Austin, Hazel Gertrude Kinscella, and many more!
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Shellac Stack No. 139 cozies up with Armand Hug for some fine ragtime piano and shakes with the Dixieland Jug Blowers! We hear from the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, Joe Haymes, Ruby Newman, Coleman Hawkins, Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards), and many more on this program that is at times hot and at times coolly at ease.
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Shellac Stack No. 138 lets itself go with songs from Fred Astaire films. We hear from the man himself, plus performances by Lud Gluskin, Dennis Day, Johnny Johnson, the Andrews Sisters, Johnny Guarnieri, Nat Brandwynne, and others.
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Shellac Stack No. 137 squats at the grotto with George Van Eps and toots through the roof with Duke Ellington. Don’t think about that too hard. We’ve got records by Jack Teagarden, Eddy Howard, Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, John Kirby, and many more in this hour that’s perfect for dancing or listening.
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Shellac Stack No. 136 shakes the tree with Pearl Bailey! We hear some top-shelf British dance bands (Jerry Hoey, Jay Whidden, and Joe Brannelly), explore some early polyphony with the English Singers, boogie with J. H. Shayne, and smile with Eddie Cantor. There’s plenty more too…
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Shellac Stack No. 135 promises you a good time with its assortment of fine 78s: from hot jazz with Carl Halen to nostalgic piano with Carroll Gibbons to relaxing vocals by Jon and Sondra Steele — we even hear a famous melody from a comic opera that had its debut in Chicago in 1890.
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