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Mostly Singles: Blues and Sunshine, Part 2 (Audio)

May 28, 2024

Celebrate spring with more 78 shellac, cool 45s, and vinyl LPs: pre-electric steel guitars, combos, crooners, rare field recordings, and unissued tracks; kiwi beauties and a brand-new single. Jay Clarkson, Chills, Fred “Sugar” Hall, Scrappy Lambert, Chris Montez, Mance Lipscomb, Lightnin’ Hopkins, The Free Design, Blind Willie Dunn, Joe Venuti’s Blue Four, and more. Here, the originals, crackles and all. Come trip the light fantastic toe.

Claverack resident Michael Wilde presents "Mostly Singles," selections from an extensive collection of 45 rpm vinyl — music from the 1950s, '60s, '70s, and early '80s, mixed with some 78 rpm selections from American popular song and field recordings from the Library of Congress and folklore archives. Broadcast live from the Hudson studio.

Playlist:
  • Transmission (The 1980 Martin Hannett Sessions) / Joy Division
  • Taint No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin) / Fred Hall
  • Am I Blue / Lou Gold and His Orchestra
  • Guitar Blues (78 rpm Version) / Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Botttle Four
  • Smoke Rings / Leo Reisman And His Orchestra
  • We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye / Annette Hanshaw
  • Mc Garrett's Theme / Mort Stevens And His Orchestra
  • One Note Samba / Chris Montez
  • How Insensitive / Triste Janero
  • Never Said Goodbye / The Bats
  • Children of the Rule / Jay Clarkson & the Containers
  • Deep Ellum Blues / Paul Elliott
  • Good Times Here, Better Times Down the Road / Joel Hopkins
  • Sensation (78 rpm Version) / Joe Venuti's Blue Four
  • Black Magic / Isham Jones
  • Never Tell The World / The Free Design
  • Badinerie [Orchestral Suite No.2 BWV 1067] / The Swingle Singers
  • Without Him / Triste Janero
  • Natural Born Lover / Long Gone Miles feat. Lightnin' Hopkins feat. Love Crazy
  • So Different Blues / Mance Lipscomb
  • Pretty Trix (78 rpm Version) / Joe Venuti's Blue Four
  • Blues Jumped a Rabbit / Lightnin' Hopkins
  • Tomi Tomi / Sol K. Bright
  • Moanful Blues / Jabbo Smith
  • Prelude And Fugue No.3 In C Sharp BWV 848 / The Swingle Singers