Sunday, May 28, 2017

Last Show Playlist - 5/28/2017 - Joe & Jim Together

Hi Folks.

First of all, if you missed it, here is the link to hear the archived show:



Marti on the air at the old farmhouse c.2006
Twelve years ago when Marti and I began doing radio on WHUS we had no idea it would last this long.  The station has changed considerably during that time.  When we began, the station was a very close community of students and community members who not only shared programming duties, but management responsibilities. The studio was in an old farmhouse on the UCONN Storrs campus. We were in our own world both literally and figuratively. 

Today all that has changed, but Red Rooster Party endured.  We started as a replacement show in October 2005 in the 3-6am Sunday morning slot and moved to our now-familiar 2-4pm Sunday slot in February 2006.  Except for a three-year period where we took some time off (and I focused on Bluegrass Cafe for radio), and a couple of semesters in different time slots to avoid sports preemptions, we have been a Sunday afternoon aural staple at WHUS.
The first visit to Joe's basement 7/16/2015
When best friend Ivy Sheppard and I made our first visit to Joe Bussard's basement in July 2015 (an epic story in itself), I was able to secure Joe's programming for WHUS through the Red Rooster Party.  I think anyone who has heard Joe's show knows its significance to the New England music and cultural community.

Marti and I may now complete our arrangements to move back to our home state of North Carolina.  It is possible we may show up on radio again down that way, and I'll let folks know if that happens.  I know the record collecting should be better there.

For this last show, I devoted the first hour to 78s from my own collection, many of which I just picked up from Joe Bussard during my last visit.  Perhaps the most notable record we heard was from Akins Birmingham Boys - the only record they ever made. Marti even made a cameo appearance.


For Joe Bussard's hour he and I got together on the air for the first time.  I used the opportunity to explore some of Joe's musical history, his recordings of himself and others on his own Fonotone label, and some interesting records from his collection.

I loved every minute of it.  I hope you did, too.

I hope to see y'all on down the road and to share much more music.

So long.

Jim Beaver

Artist - Title - Source - Label, Year

1. The Chuck Wagon Gang - Shall We Gather At The River - 78 RPM single - Columbia, 1949
2. Wade Mainer - God's Radio Phone - 78 RPM single - King, 1951
3. Fred Kirby-Bob Phillips - Round Up Time In Heaven - 78 RPM single - Montgomery Ward, 1936
4. Patsy Montana - Ridin' Old Paint - 78 RPM single - Melotone, 1935
5. Akins Birmingham Boys - There Ain't No Flies On Auntie - 78 RPM single - Columbia, 1928
6. Goebel Reeves - The Cowboy's Dizzy Sweetheart - 78 RPM single - Melotone, 1934
7. Merle Travis - I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man - 78 RPM single - Capitol, 1947
8. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper with their Clinch Mountain Clan - Willy Roy (The Crippled Boy) - 78 RPM single - Columbia, 1949
9. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Miss Molly - 78 RPM single - Okeh, 1942
10. Grandpa Jones - Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You - 78 RPM single - RCA Victor, 1954
11. Carl Smith - If Teardrops Were Pennies - 78 RPM single - Columbia, 1951
12. Don Reno, Red Smiley And The Tennessee Cutups - I'm Gone, Long Gone - 78 RPM single - King, 1952
13. Hank Williams - Settin' The Woods On Fire - 78 RPM single - MGM, 1952
14. Mac Wiseman - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett - 78 RPM single - Dot, 1955
15. J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Number 111 - 78 RPM single - Bluebird, 1936
16. Wade Mainer and Sons of the Mountaineers - The Gospel Cannon Ball - 78 RPM single - Bluebird, 1939
17. The Carter Family - Jealous Hearted Me - 78 RPM single - Conqueror, 1936
18. The Carter Family - Lay My Head Beneath The Rose - 78 RPM single - Conqueror, 1936
19. The South Carolina Broadcasters - The Dying Soldier - Live Radio Transcription, 2015

Joe Bussard and Jim Beaver Together At Last:

20. Bluegrass - Lucky Chatman's Ozark Mountain Boys - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1959
21. Jolly Joe's Jug Band - Cider Time Rag - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1963
22. Beachley Sisters - Nobody's Darling But Mine - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1969
23. Possum Holler Boys - Up Jumped The Devil - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1962
24. The Carter Family - Bear Creek Blues - 78 RPM single - Conqueror, 1940
25. Richard "Rabbit" Brown - James Alley Blues - 78 RPM single - Victor, 1927
26. The Adcock Family - Hot Corn Cold Corn - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1964
27. Happy Johnny and Family - Father Put The Cow Away - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1963
28. Bluegrass Travelers - Banjo Stretch - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1965
29. Mash Mountain Boys - Hopalong Peter - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1968
30. Tennessee Joe - Frankie - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1968
31. Joe Bussard - Sow Good Seeds - Best Of The Lowe Vintage Radio Show Volume 1 - John Boy & Billy, 2015
32. Johnny Dunn and His Band - Sergeant Dunn's Bugle Call Blues - 78 RPM single - Columbia, 1928
33. Jolly Joe's Jug Band - Love Old Memphis - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1964
34. Jolly Joe's Jug Band - Back Alley Wiggle - Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland - Dust-to-Digital, 1965

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Playlist - 5/21/2017

Hi Folks,

For the penultimate Red Rooster Party on WHUS, I pulled out some old vinyl LPs from my collection to share in the first hour.  



Joe Bussard presented his last Hot Town Jazz program for Red Rooster Party.  You can listen again here or at the link in the playlist below.


We will attempt to have the final Red Rooster Party on WHUS next Sunday 5/28/17 from 2-4pm.  We hope you join us. Joe and Jim will be doing the show together for the first time.

Jim Beaver



Artist / Song / Disk / Label / Year

  • The Cooke Duet / Across the Bridge / God Is Not Dead, He's Still Alive / Self-released / 1960s
  • The Cooke Duet / Someday I'm Going Home / God Is Not Dead, He's Still Alive / Self-released / 1960s
  • The South Carolina Broadcasters / Walk Along Charley / We'll Still Sing On / Self-released / 2017
  • Wade Mainer / Gonna Bring My Baby Back / Old Time Banjo Tunes / Old Homestead / 1984
  • A. P. Carter And The Phipps Family / I Have But One Goal / A.P. Carter With The Phipps Family / Mountain Eagle / 1954
  • A. P. Carter And The Phipps Family / Longing For Home / A.P. Carter And The Phipps Family / Mountain Eagle / 1954
  • The Carter Family And The Phipps Family / Gold Watch And Chain / Pickin' And Singing Together / ARC / 1954
  • The Phipps Family / Little Old Country Home (Among The Hills) / Old Time Mountain Pickin' and Singin' / Pine Mountain / 1962
  • The Carter Family / Worried Man Blues / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1930
  • Fields Ward / Rockhouse Gambler / Bury Me Not On The Prairie / Rounder / 1973
  • Fields Ward / I Got A Bulldog / Early Country Music Vol. 1 / Historical Records / 1929
  • Lowell Varney & Landon Messer & Riverside Grass / Hemlocks & Primroses / Hemlocks & Primroses / Charm / 1984
  • The Hired Hands with Snuffy Jenkins & Pappy Sherrill / Red Wing / Something Special / Old Homestead / 1989
  • Strings of Five / Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar / Just Pickin' / Atteiram / 1978
  • Earl Taylor and his Stoney Mountain Boys / Cripple Creek / Alan Lomax presents Folk Songs from the Blue Grass / United Artists / 1959
  • Earl Taylor and his Stoney Mountain Boys / Ruby Are You Mad / Alan Lomax presents Folk Songs from the Blue Grass / United Artists / 1959
  • Wayne Raney & the Raney Family / Lost John Boogie / The Best of Wayne Raney & The Raney Family / Memory / 1947
  • Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Audine Lineberry & Bobby Patterson / June Apple / June Apple / Heritage / 1972

Joe Bussard's Hot Town Jazz #83           listen again here

  • Fess Williams And His Royal Flush Orchestra / Hot Town / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1928
  • Leroy's Dallas Band / Going Away Blues / 78 RPM single / Columbia / 1929
  • Clarence Williams and His Orchestra / Left All Alone With The Blues / 78 RPM single / Columbia / 1930
  • King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators / Dead Man Blues / 78 RPM single / Vocalion / 1926
  • Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders / Black Bottom / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1926
  • Dixieland Jug Blowers / Boodle-Am Shake / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1926
  • Buzzington Rustic Revelers / Kansas City Kitty / 78 RPM single / Gennett / 1929
  • Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra / Sluefoot / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1927
  • Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers / Deep Creek / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1929
  • Peggy Hill / Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1928
  • McKinney's Cotton Pickers / If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1930
  • Cab Calloway / Six Or Seven Times / 78 RPM single / Brunswick / 1931
  • Jack Crawford and His Orchestra / Baltimore / 78 RPM single / Vocalion / 1927
  • Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra / I'm A Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) / 78 RPM single / Vocalion / 1930
  • Tiny Parham and his Musicians / Cuckoo Blues / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1928
  • Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra / Oh! Eddie / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1930

Monday, May 15, 2017

Playlist - 5/14/2017 - Mother's Day

Hi Folks.

Though we are not on the WHUS schedule now, we will still be doing "fill-in" shows from time-to-time, and this was the first such show. 

It was also Mother's Day, so we played a round of mother songs that we have not played before.  

We visited Connecticut record collector Archie Kneeland earlier in the week and picked up some 78s that we shared on this show. Archie is into country 45s these days, so if you have any to get rid of, contact him or me.


I also got to play my favorite cowboy record of all time which I just acquired this past week:   "Lonely Cowboy" by Arthur Miles.  Not much is known about Miles as this 1929 record was his only recording, but it is incredible as it features what is known as harmonic singing or throat singing -- a style that is thought to be indigenous to the Asian regions of Mongolia and Tuva.  How Miles came up with this style independently may forever be a mystery.

Joe Bussard's 82nd show of Country Classics was a great one.  You can hear it again here, or at the link in the playlist below.

We are planning to be back next Sunday if there are no sports events in the way, so be sure to tune in if you get a chance.

Jim Beaver




















Artist / Song / Disk / Label / Year

  • The Easter Brothers / Mother's Prayers Are Not In Vain / 45 RPM EP / New Dominion Barndance / 1961
  • Eddie Zack And His Dude Ranchers / Beautiful Brown Eyes / 78 RPM single / Decca / 1950
  • Eddie Zack And His Dude Ranchers / Shenandoah Waltz / 78 RPM single / Decca / 1950
  • Allen Flatt / Counterfeit Baby / 78 RPM single / Mercury / 1954
  • Jim Eanes / Rose Garden Waltz / 78 RPM single / Decca / 1953
  • Jack Cardwell / Two Arms / 78 RPM single / King / 1953
  • Arthur Smith And His Cracker-Jacks / In Memory Of Hank Williams / 78 RPM single / MGM / 1953
  • Ray Crowder (writer) / Good Shape For The Shape (I'm In) / 45 RPM laquer demo / na / unk
  • Arthur Miles / Lonely Cowboy - Part 1 & Part 2 / 78 RPM single / Columbia / 1929
  • The Spinney Brothers / I Haven't Seen Mama In Years / Live at WHUS 7 May 2011 / na / 2011
  • Rebe and Rabe / Mother Sweet Mother / 78 RPM single / Tennessee / 1952
  • The South Carolina Broadcasters / Evening Bells / We'll Sing Once More / Self-released / 2017
  • Fisher Hendley and his 'Aristocratic Pigs' / I'll Meet My Precious Mother / 78 RPM single / Vocalion / 1938
  • Jim's Mom Sees Charlie and Bill Monroe / Interview (2000) / Interview (2000) / na / 2000
  • Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys / Mama Said It's Naughty / Private recording, Bean Blossom, 1956 / na / 1956
  • Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys / Mother Knows Best / Ted Lundy and the Southern Mountain Boys / Rounder / 1972
  • Carl Story / Be Kind To Mother / Gospel Revival / Starday / 1959
Joe Bussard's Country Classics #82        Listen again here
  • The Stripling Brothers / The Lost Child / 78 RPM single / Melotone / 1928
  • Jack Reedy & His Walker Mountain String Band / Chinese Breakdown / 78 RPM single / Brunswick / 1928
  • Moonshine Kate (Rosa Lee Carson) / The Last Old Dollar is Gone / 78 RPM single / Okeh / 1930
  • Carolina Twins (David O. Fletcher & Gwen Foster) / Your Wagon Needs Greasing / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1928
  • Carolina Buddies / In A Cottage By The Sea / 78 RPM single / Columbia / 1930
  • Robert Wilkins / Rolling Stone-Part 1 / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1928
  • Ashley & Foster (Tom Ashley & Gwen Foster) / Frankie Silvers / 78 RPM single / Vocalion / 1933
  • Leonard Rutherford & John D. Foster / Sarah Jane / 78 RPM single / Gennett / 1929
  • Fisher Hendley & His Carolina Tar Heels / Hook And Line / 78 RPM single / Vocalion / 1933
  • Tennessee Ramblers / Give The Fiddlers A Dram / 78 RPM single / Vocalion / 1929
  • David McCarn / Take Them For A Ride / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1930
  • Uncle Dave Macon (& Sam McGee) / Over The Road I'm Bound To Go / 78 RPM single / Brunswick / 1928
  • Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys / We Live In Two Different Worlds / 78 RPM single / Columbia / 1945
  • Hank Williams / With Tears In My Eyes / 78 RPM single / MGM / 1949
  • Country Gentlemen / Hey, Little Girl / 45 RPM single / Starday / 1958
  • Don Reno, Red Smiley and The Tennesse Cutups / Crazy Finger Blues / 78 RPM single / King / 1952
  • Dixon Brothers / Easter Day / 78 RPM single / Montgomery Ward / 1936

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Playlist - 5/7/2017 - Last Scheduled Red Rooster Party

Hi Folks.

Today was the last regularly-scheduled Red Rooster Party on WHUS.  There is a chance we will do a few more shows, but they will be occasional appearances not on the summer schedule.  Marti and I are moving to NC soon, and we had to end it sometime, and now is the time.

We were preempted in our usual time slot 2-4pm, so we moved the show up two hours to 12-2pm to bring you the entire show.



We remembered my horse, Aero, who died the day before after a nearly 30-year lifespan.  We played the original version of "Goodbye Old Pal" by Cliff Carlisle in tribute as well as the Bill Monroe version a little later in the show.  Our equine pals are down to two remaining, and while the pasture is lonelier now, we will be taking them with us to NC.

We played some of my favorite early country music in the first half of the show, and 
Joe Bussard had a wonderful Country Classics show during the second half playing some early favorites and a handful of rare recordings I had not only not heard before, but had not heard OF either.

Check the radio around the usual time slot on Sunday afternoons through May and you might catch us again.  If you join our Facebook page, we will even give you advance notice.

Until then, all our best.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Disk / Label / Year

  • The Stanley Brothers / The White Dove / 78 RPM single / Columbia / 1949
  • Shadd Cobb & Charlie Cushman / Sourwood Mountain / Out of These Mountains / A Simple Life / 2013
  • Wayne Raney / Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me / Country & Western Hit Parade 1949 / Bear Family / 1949
  • Cliff Carlisle / Goodbye Old Pal / A Country Legacy 1930-1939 / JSP / 1934
  • Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans / Sad Memories / 78 RPM single / Vocalion / 1937
  • Lulu Belle & Scotty / Sugar Babe / Early and Great Volume 1 / Old Homestead / 1940s
  • Rose Maddox & The Maddox Brothers / Old Pal of Yesterdays / When The Sun Goes Down / B.A.C.M / 1954
  • The South Carolina Broadcasters / Things In Life / We'll Sing Once More / Self-released / 2017
  • Loretta Lynn / Blue Kentucky Girl / Blue Kentucky Girl / Decca / 1965
  • Andy Griffith with The Country Boys / Flop Eared Mule / American Originals / Capitol / 1961
  • Andy Griffith / Cindy / American Originals / Capitol / 1961
  • Sara & Maybelle Carter / Happiest Days Of All / Sara & Maybelle Carter / Bear Family / 1966
  • Jimmie Driftwood / Tennessee Stud / Voice Of The People / Omni / 1966
  • Hank Williams / Rockin' Chair Money / Rockin' Chair Money / Bear Family / 1949
  • Pappy "Gube" Beaver / The Straight And Narrow Way / The Golden Age Of Country Music / Cattle / 1947
  • Tex Williams & His Western Caravan / Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) / Smoke That Cigarette - Pleasure To Burn / Bear Family / 1947
  • Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Goodbye Old Pal / Blue Moon Of Kentucky - 1936-1949 / Bear Family / 1947
  • J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers / Kiss Me Cindy / The Golden Age Of J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers / Cattle / 1937
  • Early Upchurch, Doris Kidd, and The Friendly Quartet / I'm Getting Ready To Go / 45 RPM single / Field Recorders Collective / 1960s
Joe Bussard's Country Classics #81          Listen again here
  • The Stripling Brothers / The Lost Child / 78 RPM single / Melotone / 1928
  • Hoke Rice and His Southern (or Capitol) String Band / Chinese Breakdown / 78 RPM single / QRS / 1929
  • Georgia Crackers [Cofer Brothers] / I've Got A Gal In Baltimore / 78 RPM single / Okeh / 1927
  • Henry Spaulding / Cairo Blues / 78 RPM single / Brunswick / 1939
  • "Hi" Henry Brown / Skin Man Blues / 78 RPM single / Vocalion / 1932
  • South Street Trio (Bobby Leecan, Robert Cooksey, Alfred Martin) / Big Four / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1929
  • Charles Underwood Acc. Hack's String Band / Black Snake Moan / 78 RPM single / Gennett / 1930
  • John & Emery McClung (McClung Brothers) / Liza Jane / 78 RPM single / Brunswick / 1927
  • Gid Tanner-Riley Puckett / On Tanner's Farm / 78 RPM single / Bluebird / 1934
  • Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) / My Faithful Old Pinto Pal / 78 RPM single / Bluebird / 1936
  • Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Fan It / 78 RPM single / Decca / 1936
  • Lone Ark Mountain Boys / Bill's Last Run / Bill's Last Run / unk / unk
  • Old Joe Clark / Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / unk / unk
  • Hobo Jack (Adkins) / Mountain Music / 78 RPM single / Starday / 1957
  • Buffalo Mountain Boys / Walking In the Parlor / single / Fonotone / 1960s
  • Buzz Busby and the Bayou Boys / Talking Banjo / 78 RPM single / Starday / 1956
  • Johnson Mountain Boys / Johnson Mountain Hoedown / 45 RPM single / Copper Creek / 1979
  • Rev F. W. McGhee and Congregation / Death May Be Your Pay Check / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1928
  • The Carter Family / Walking In The King's Highway / 78 RPM single / Decca / 1938
  • Carl Story and the Rambling Mountaineers / My Lord Keeps A Record / 78 RPM single / Mercury / 1949
  • Ned Luberecki, Ron Pennington / Grey Eagle / New Strings / Borderline Productions / 1990

Playlist - 4/30/2017

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