The Old Codger (WFMU)

23/05/2021

16/04/2021

The Old Codger show on WFMU for April 8, 2021. Featuring Boots & His Buddies, George Formby, Dorothy Donegan, Cole Porter, Fats Waller, Ruth Etting, Stuff Smith, and other luminaries. Also, Gus Bodenheim with a gilded alternative to MyPillow.

Audio & playlist from April 8, 2021

02/04/2021

The Codger collected a fortune in donations from WFMU listeners. His plan? To buy the station and make it listenable. He explains, and spins 78rpm platters by Boots & His Buddies, Teddy Wilson, George Formby, Red Norvo, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Sunnyland Slim, Don Redman, and others. Also—the DELBARTON VACCINE. Comes in seven—count 'em—SEVEN delicious flavors!

Audio & playlist from April 1, 2021

26/03/2021

The Old Codger on WFMU, March 25, 2021. Featured: Dany Kane, George Formby, Oscar Peterson, Mary Lou Williams, Tampa Red, Victoria Spivey, FLIP THE FROG, and more. Also the Codger explains—AGAIN—why he won't play Annette Hanshaw.

Audio & playlist from March 25, 2021

20/03/2021

The Old Codger show from March 18, 2021, including Courtney's exposé of WFMU's virtue-signaling "diversity" scam. Music by Louis Jordan, Fats Waller, Jimmie Lunceford, the Brox Sisters, George Formby, Ruth Etting, and more. Plus special guest fundraising tributes from two members of the strange brood: Gus Bodenheim and Booker T. Bodenheim.

Audio & playlist from March 18, 2021

12/03/2021

The Old Codger show on WFMU for March 11, 2021. Fundraising Week #1 edition (Courtney gets to pocket 50% of all listener donations). Featured this week: Sophie Tucker , Stuff Smith, Red Norvo, George Formby, Helen Kane, Sol Hoopii, and others. And of course FLIP THE FLIPPIN' FRAWG!

Audio & playlist from March 11, 2021

05/03/2021

The Old Codger radio archive from March 4, 2021. Revealed: The Truth about forgotten TV actor Kip Mouseley! Also music by Sophie Tucker, George Formby, Fats Waller, Horace Henderson, Harry "the Hipster" Gibson, Greta Keller, and others. Plus FLOP TEH FROG!

Audio & playlist from March 4, 2021

03/03/2021

A Codger named Courtney T. Edison
Hunkered down in his bunker near Paterson
His 78s
That he pulls out of crates
Take the place of his overpriced medicine.

The Old Codger went down to Hoboken
To procure some ci**rs he was smokin'
And he picked up some glue
and he said "This will do
To fix up that old disc that was broken"

That reprobate Rummy Delbarton
Makes his home in an old plywood carton.
In an alley at nights
He burns Sterno for lights.
For his heating he just uses f... blankets.

— Henry Wadsworth Bodenheim

03/03/2021

On his Feb 25 program, the Codger was rudely censored by WFMU management, who deputized Lolabelle Pancake to monitor the "cough switch." Music by Wilmoth Houdini, Fred Elizalde, Ruth Etting, George Formby, Tito & His Swingtet, Lee Wiley, and others. Also FLIP THE FLIPPIN' FROG.

Audio & playlist from February 25, 2021

19/02/2021

Feb 18: The Old Codger rants against Gus Bodenheim's insolence while featuring fine music by Helen Kane, George Formby, Slim Gaillard, Hazel Scott, Frantic Faye Thomas, Hildegard, Layton & Johnstone, and others. Also—never mind.

Audio & playlist from February 18, 2021

12/02/2021

On his Feb 11 program, the Old Codger regales the rapt listenership with reminiscences of his old friend Casper the Friendly Ghost. Courtney knew him WHEN HE WAS ALIVE. Also featured: music by George Formby, Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds of. Joy, Brz Fletcher, Hadda Brooks, Wilmoth Houdini, Hilo Hattie, Awaya Noriko, and others.

Audio & playlist from February 11, 2021

08/02/2021

Gus Bodenheim fills in for the Codger. "Gus is a blowhard," says Courtney, "and the drunker he gets, the harder he blows." Featured on this program: Minnie Wallace, Jimmie Rodgers, Foy Willing, Gracie Fields, Marais & Miranda, Charles Ives, Willie "The Lion" Smith, and others. Courtney returns next week.

Audio & playlist from February 4, 2021

29/01/2021

The Old Codger Show on WFMU for Jan. 28, 2021, featuring Billy Murray, Helen Kane, Desi Arnaz, Babs Gonzales, George Formby, Louis Jordan, FLIP THE FROG, Blind Blake, and others. Plus: the truth behind Flip's disastrous 1947 epic film , THE DAY THE FROG CRIED, starring Mickey Rooney as a convincing Adolf Hi**er.

Audio & playlist from January 28, 2021

22/01/2021

The Old Codger program on WFMU from Jan. 21, 2021, featuring Romeo Nelson, Babe and Blind Blake (but not in a duet), Ruth Etting, Cleo Brown, the Brox Sisters, George Formby, Flip the Frog and others. Also, Gus Bodenheim introduces the Delbarton Chawsack™. Gus is so charismatic. He has that je ne sais wot?

Audio & playlist from January 21, 2021

15/01/2021

The Old Codger Radio show on WFMU from Jan 14, 2021, featuring Maxine Sullivan, Noel Coward, Helen "Citizen" Kane, Whispering Jack Smith, Hadda Brooks, Jabbo Smith, and 260 lbs of Sophie Tucker. Plus: The Poutin' Shanty will soon have an annex: the Sulking Shed, and possibly even a Rage Room with "choking dummies."

Audio & playlist from January 14, 2021

08/01/2021

The Old Codger on WFMU, audio archive from Jan. 7, 2021 program, featuring Desi Arnaz y su Orquesta, Bennie Moten, Whispering Jack Smith, Helen Kane, Sophie Tucker, Red Norvo, Memphis Slim, Duke Ellington, and others. Also: COCOMALT, which will make you gals "sturdy," and Delbarton Solutions™, which are FINAL.

Audio & playlist from January 7, 2021

01/01/2021

Old Codger on WFMU, archived show for Dec. 31, featuring Bruz Fletcher singing in 1944 about a transgendered "it," Marion Harris, Sophie Tucker, Helen Kane, Tammy Faye Bodenheim, Flip the Frog (winner of the 1932 Academy Award for Best Dramatic Performance by an Amphibian), Alma Gluck, and others.

Audio & playlist from December 31, 2020

01/01/2021

Old Codger show on WFMU from Dec. 24, 2020, featuring Jabbo Smith, Irving Berlin, Betty Boop & Prof. Grampy, Hartman's Heartbreakers, Milt Herth, and others. Plus a spectral visit from the ghost of Hearty White, and Gus Bodenheim offers "Things for Tots."

Audio & playlist from December 24, 2020

18/12/2020

The Old Codger show on WFMU from Dec. 17, 2020, featuring Fats Waller, Harry McClintock, Betty Grable, Lil Armstrong, Mildred Bailey, FLIP THE FROG, Hartman's Heartbreakers, Billie Holiday, and more. Also new sponsors, presented by the Bodenheim family: Gas Station Brand Hot Dogs™ and Winetta's Whimsy Shed™.

Audio & playlist from December 17, 2020

11/12/2020

Old Codger radio show from Dec. 10, 2020. Featured: Earl Hines, Django Reinhardt, FLIP THE FROG, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, FLIP THE FROG, the Mighty Sparrow, Kenny Dorham, a FROG named FLIP, and more. Also, the Codger is offered $500 for THAT FROG, and Ken Freedman's case for war against NPR and his obsession with MOON DIRT are exposed.

Audio & playlist from December 10, 2020

06/12/2020

The Old Codger show from Dec. 3, 2020, on WFMU, featuring: FLIP THE FROG, Sol Hoopii, Lil Johnson, FLIP THE FROG, Sophie Tucker, Eddie Lang, FLIP THE FROG, Don Redman Orch, Fats Waller, "Fatha" Hines, and more. Also, the Codger introduces the Rancho Malodoro, a new cigar that smells like burning hippies. From Delbarton To***co, the most trusted name in match-lit carcinogens.

Audio & playlist from December 3, 2020

27/11/2020

The Thanksgiving edition of the Old Codger show, brought to you by Gas Station Brand Hot Dogs™, made of the finest premium meat by-products. Tonight show features George Formby, Betty Hutton, Big Bill Broonzy, Hartman's Heartbreakers, James P. Johnson, the Cats & the Fiddle, Bo Carter, and more.

Audio & playlist from November 26, 2020

20/11/2020

Is that an Amberol cylinder in his pocket or is he just feeling frisky?

20/11/2020

Here's the audio archive for the Old Codger's Nov. 19 program, featuring: Ruth Etting, Cole Porter, Sophie Tucker, James P. Johnson, Libby Holman, Fats Waller, Clarence Williams, and others. Also a first-rate pre-Hayes Code FLIP THE FROG cartoon soundtrack from 1931, and a song by Hartman's Heartbreakers that listener Floradix Hundwassser termed "pure filth."

Audio & playlist from November 19, 2020

13/11/2020

The Old Codger audio archive for Nov. 12, 2020, featuring Fats Waller, Mildred Bailey, Butterbeans & Susie, the Cats & the Fiddle, Louis Jordan, Edith Piaf, the Mighty Sparrow, and others. Plus: a tribute to the literary magnificence of Maxwell Bodenheim by his ne'er-do-well brother Gus.

Audio & playlist from November 12, 2020

09/11/2020

Belated posting of the Old Codger radio hour from Nov. 5, 2020, featuring: Earl Hines, Wilmoth Houdini, Ruth Etting, Mildred Bailey, Winifred Atwell, Noel Coward, the Cats and the Fiddle, and more. Also: a brand new FLIP THE FROG film soundtrack from 1931. BRAND NEW, we said. Also, the Codger will soon be opening his POUTIN' HOSTEL for aggrieved and resentful males who need a restful retreat. Free black & white TV and limitless Jim Beam!

Audio & playlist from November 5, 2020

30/10/2020

Audio archive of the Old Codger Show on WFMU from October 29, 2020. Featured: Sophie Tucker (for President), Eddie Lang (lots), Noel Coward, Fats Navarro, Ruth Etting, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, Django Reinhardt, and others. Also: meet the Old Codger's new companion animal!

Audio & playlist from October 29, 2020

25/10/2020

Here's the WFMU archive of the Old Codger program from Oct. 22. Featured: James P. Johnson, Olive Kline, Dizzy Gillespie, Ruth Etting, Joseph Moskowitz, Flip the Frog, and others. Also—Gus Bodenheim explains how you can buy your own Sears-Built Poutin' Shanty!

Audio & playlist from October 22, 2020

17/10/2020

Here's the WFMU archive of the Old Codger program from Oct. 15, 2020. Featured: Harry Reser, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, Cab Calloway, Mel Blanc, Billie Holiday, Victoria Spivey, Tampa Red, and more. Plus: Cosmetic secrets of the dead, and the Delbarton Time Machine — available in a consumer model!

Audio & playlist from October 15, 2020

09/10/2020

Here's the WFMU archive of the Old Codger program from Oct. 8, 2020. Featured: Cole Porter, Fats Waller, John Kirby, The Happiness Boys, Victoria Spivey, James Moody, Wilmoth Houdini, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, and others. Also: introducing a new genetic testing service called 123 AND ME, in which you can submit bodily fluids to determine if you share DNA with the Old Codger.

Audio & playlist from October 8, 2020