An Uncle Wilsci Joint

1. Opener (Fields, etc.)
2. The JULIO GUTIERREZI ORCHESTRA plays EL Hideaway DE Hernando in the original Spanish. [UDL]
3. Science / Groucho
4. BILLY ECKSTINE sings the worst song of his career, Condemned For Life With A Rock And Roll Wife (1956) [Bumb]
5. Hitsville USA
6. TONY BENNETT sings a very swinging single, The Cool School, with classic arrangement for trombone section by Ralph Sharon (1959)
7. stick with me

Jazz In Unromantic Places Segment

8. DICK HAYMES sings of Cincinnatti (Livingston-Evans) Why, I couldn't tell you (1947 aircheck) [RD]
9. drums isn't that awful
10. BOB CHESTER & HIS ORCH play AZUSA (Gallop-Wood), vLora Jamison (1946, Sonora label). [RS]
11. Hollywood
12. ETHEL WATERS treats us to Underneath The Harlem Moon (1934, from the soundtrack of Rufus Jones For President) [Hutch]

Special Section: The Exotic Next Door

13. The South African composer JOSEF MARAIS (of Marais & Miranda fame) plays his song Sugarbush, later a hit for Doris Day. [DrD]
14. In Waikiki, a little-known Johnny Mercer lyric from Navy Blues, sung by FRANCES LANGFORD with DICK MCINTYRE and his Harmony Hawaiians (1941). [T2]
15. Groucho Marx introduces a song of Latin America
16. CARMEN MIRANDA sings a little known piece by Johnny Burke, namely It's Like Getting A Donkey To Gallop.

Special Section: STAR DUST MELODIES - THE RADICAL EXTREMES
17. Jack Benny & Mel Blanc provide a perfect intro for :
18. NAN BLACKSTONE, normally known for her off-color material, sings what has to be the weirdest version of Star Dust ever committed to vinyl. [JL]
19. Blondes
20. soprano ELIZABETH LANDS sings the strangest version of Ol' Man River that I ever hope to hear. [IS]
21. Frank Sinatra tells us about "The Perfect Girl."
22. A little known but great singer named JERRY KREUGER (female, white) does a wild, red-hot treatment of Summertime, with accompaniment by a Benny Carter small band - Benny on trumpet.
23. Abbott & Costello, who's on first?
24. Something strange: An anti-allied German propaganda record of Stormy Weather, played by Charlie and his Orchestra, with anti-Churchill lyrics. This is the kind of thing that gives Nazis a bad name. [RS]

Tribute to Charles Trenet

25. John Wayne meets Dream Curley
26. Is this Frank Sinatra meets Glenn Miller? Actually, it's an aircheck (1948) of TEX BENEKE AND THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA, with vocal by RONNIE DEAUVILLE, of "La Mer" / "Beyond The Sea." [DW]
27.
28. My favorite TRENET record: "Boom!" sung in English, with a great band that sounds sort of like a the French Hal Kemp. [EC]

29. Another literary, tres continental offering, The Bee Song by LOUIS PRIMA AND HIS ORCHESTRA (1948). Like man, it's real "bee-bop!" [GK]
30. "Actors!"
31. Here's something you don't hear every day: MEL TORME sings Zip A Dee Doo Dah, taken from an AFRS Personal Album. Ach, such a funster! [HS]
32. Jackie Gleason's Jukebox bit
33. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't heard it myself: MARION HARRIS vocalizes over the Tram & Bix solos on Singin' The Blues, rec in England, 1934 [RMS]
34. Hug me
35. Dr. T (HANS CONRIED) and friends sing of Get-Together Weather (Frederick Hollaender meets Dr. Seuss)
36. Saran wrap - the 2000 Year Old Man
37. An obscure band called ROANE'S PENNSYLVANIANS play a very depressing song of The Great Depression, Isn't It Swell To Be Laying Out Dead? [JL]
38. This is an unknown vocal group, once (mistakenly) thought to be The Mills Brothers, recorded for the MGM film Operator 13, doing Lazy Bones.
39. "Peter Lorre"
40. WILLIE MABON sings his big hit I Don't Know
41. The same song as done by BUDDY GRECO with AL COHN (yes!) and his Orchestra - great singing, great chart!

Special Segment: Salute to Jolson

42. Dean Martin: matzoh
43. Bet you never heard JOLSON sing a Christmas song! It's Christmas Dreaming, a hit for Sinatra, from the Kraft Music Hall, 1948 [S]
44. Dean Martin: more matzoh
45. Mammy! Listen to what they're playing! Here's an oddity: FRANK SINATRA sings JOLSON'S actual arrangement (by Morris Stoloff) of Rock A-Bye Your Baby from The Jolson Story. (1946)
46. FS: how about that?
47. One of the worst things I've ever heard: a heavy metal version of Rock A-Bye Your Baby by a group called "The Slappin' Mammies featuring the Revered Jesse Jolson" - they only play Jolsonia!
48. Dean: and when you see clouds
49. Al Jolson sings another Christmas song, sort of, along with Santa himself he does a parody of SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN.

50. Miss PEG LA CENTRA sings a unique holiday song, "Don't Wait Until The Night Before Christmas," from a 1939 aircheck, The Goulden's Mustard Show [ripped off from Baldwin Street Music]
51. closer

An Uncle Wilsci Joint. Interstitials stolen from Alan Warner.