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Episode 322: 1926

11:00am, 7-19-2026
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Once a year, Dick Dickenbock & his team travel a century into the past to examine what the world was like one hundred years ago. This year it's 1926. Listen for music from that time period as well as discussions about movies, a famous book, & some local weirdos who have a 1926 club.
Please remember it's not Dick Dickenbock's 100th birthday. He hates when people think that.
Image of the Our Gang kids celebrating the 1926 new year found here.

  • 11:01am 3.O.L. (A Radio Fan's Dream) Parts 1 & 2 by Rupert Hazell on 3.O.L. (A Radio Fan's Dream) - Single (Columbia, 1926)
  • 11:10am Make Me A Pallet On The Floor by Ethel Waters on 1925-1926 (Classics, 1992)
  • 11:13am Trouble In Mind by Bertha 'Chippie' Hill on I Can't Be Satisfied: Early American Women Blues Singers - Town & Country, Vol. 2 - Town (Yazoo, 1997)
  • 11:16am Special Delivery Blues by Sippie Wallace on Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 2 (1925-1945) (Document, 1995)
  • 11:20am Lost Your Head Blues by Bessie Smith on The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3 (Columbia, 1992)
  • 11:23am Black Snake Blues by Victoria Spivey on Fattenin' Frogs For Snakes (The Essential Recordings Of The Blues Ladies) (Indigo, 1996)
  • 11:25am Down In The Basement by Ma Rainey & Her Georgia Band on Mother Of The Blues (JSP, 2007)
  • 11:36am Sail Away Lady by Uncle Bunt Stephens on Desperate Man Blues: Discovering The Roots Of American Music (Dust-To-Digital, 2006)
  • 11:38am Way Down The Old Plank Road by Uncle Dave Macon on Anthology Of American Folk Music (Smithsonian Folkways, 1997)
  • 11:41am In The Pines by Dock Walsh on Serenade In The Mountains: Early Old-Time Music On Record (JSP, 2006)
  • 11:45am Ya Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around by Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett on Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers (JSP, 2012)
  • 11:48am O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie (The Dying Cowboy) by Carl T. Sprague on Cowtrails, Longhorns, & Tight Saddles (Bear Family, 2003)
  • 11:51am White House Blues by Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers on You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole & The Roots Of Country Music (Columbia, 2005)
  • 12:00pm Shake That Thing by Abe Lyman's California Orchestra on Abe Lyman & His California Orchestra (Hot Recordings By A West Coast Band 1922-1932) (Timeless, 2001)
  • 12:03pm Heebie Jeebies by Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five on The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (Columbia, 2000)
  • 12:07pm The Stampede by Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra on 1926-1927 (Classics, 1991)
  • 12:10pm Gate Mouth by New Orleans Wanderers on A Portrait Of New Orleans Jazz (Gallerie, 1997)
  • 12:13pm Black Bottom Stomp by Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers on The Centennial: His Complete Victor Recordings (RCA, 1990)
  • 12:16pm The Creeper (1st Take) by Duke Ellington & His Kentucky Club Orchestra on Early Ellington: The Complete Brunswick & Vocalion Recordings 1926-1931 (Decca Jazz, 1994)
  • 12:26pm Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child by Paul Robeson on When The Sun Goes Down: The Secret History Of Rock & Roll (RCA Victor, 2002)
  • 12:30pm Jack O'Diamond Blues by Blind Lemon Jefferson on The Best Of Blind Lemon Jefferson (Yazoo, 2000)
  • 12:33pm West Coast Blues by Blind Blake on All The Published Sides (JSP, 2003)
  • 12:35pm You Can't Keep No Brown by Bo Weavil Jackson on The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records 1917-1927, Volume 1 (Third Man, 2013)
  • 12:39pm Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine by Papa Charlie Jackson on Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Vol. 2 (Document, 1991)
  • 12:42pm Muddy Water Blues by Papa Freddie on Mississippi Blues, Vol. 2 (1926-1935) (Document, 2007)
  • 12:47pm Masculine Women! Feminine Men! by Frank Harris (Irving Kaufman) on Wonderful Nonsense: Fun Songs Of The Roaring Twenties (Take Two, 1999)
  • 12:50pm Horses by George Olsen's Music on Beyond The Blue Horizon (Living Era, 2002)
  • 12:53pm The Laughing Policeman by Charles Penrose on Hello Children Everywhere (EMI, 1988)
  • 12:56pm Farewell Blues by Sol Hoopii on Master Of The Hawaiian Guitar (Volume I) (Round, 1977)
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