I go back to 1929 via 78. 2(00)9 recurring, as we crash, crash, crash. Crunch.

» You can’t take it with you when you go, even on an iPod…

• They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
• Eddie Cantor with Phil Spitalny’s Music – Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz!
• Phil Spitalny’s Music – Cheer Up! Good Times are Comin’
• George Olsen – I’m in the Market for You
• Dick Robertson – If I Ever Get a Job Again
• The California Ramblers – Gotta Go To Work Again
• Jack Payne – I’ve Gotta Get Up And Go To Work
• Reading from ‘The Conquest of Happiness’ – Bertrand Russell, 1930
  • backed by Paul Tremaine and his Aristocrats- Aristocratic Stomp
• Artie Shaw – Whistle while you work
• Ray Noble & His Orchestra – Long As You’ve Got Your Health
• Ted Lewis Orch. – Headin’ for Better Times
• Nelson Eddy – Dusty Road
• Ethel Waters – Stormy Weather
• Elsie Carlisle, Bert Ambrose & Orchestra – The Clouds Will Soon Roll By (22-07-1932)
• Al Foster aka Sid Gary – “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine” (1929)
• Boswell Sisters – Put That Sun Back In The Sky 19-2-1932
• Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders (vocal refrain by Frank Luther) – Keep Your Sunny Side Up
• Ben Selvin & His Orchestra – Happy Days Are Here Again
• Ted Lewis – On the Sunny Side of the Street
• Cliff Edwards – It’s Only A Paper Moon
• Reading of ‘The Day of the Locust’ – Nathanael West, 1939
  • backed by Benny Goodman & Charlie Christian – I Surrender, Dear
• Etting Ruth – Ten Cents A Dance
• Florence Desmond – Cigarettes, Cigars
• Bessie Smith – Gimme a pigfoot
• Bill Cox – NRA Blues
• Big Bill Broonzy – W.P.A. Blues
• Victoria Spivey – Detroit Moan
• Ethel Waters – What Did I Do To Be So Black And Blue
• Johnny Green Orch. – Repeal the Blues
• Reading from ‘Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck
  • backed by Al Bowlly, Ray Noble – California Here I Come (1935)
• Charlie Palloy and His Orchestra – Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
• Pinetop Smith – Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
• The Ink Spots – With plenty of money and you
• Red Norvo & His Orchestra – Slummin’ On Park Avenue
• Ben Poll And His Park Central Orchestra – Buy, Buy For Baby
• Benny Morton And His Orchestra – We’re in the Money
• Lew Stone And His Band – Pick Yourself Up
• Walter Huston – September Song
• George M. Cohan – Life’s A Funny Proposition After All
• Abe Lyman And His Orchestra – Riddle Me This
• Annette Hanshaw – I’m A Dreamer – Aren’t We All (4-12-1929)
• Bing Crosby/Connee Boswell/The Boswell Sisters/The Mills Brothers – Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
• Al Bowlly With Lew Stone And His Band – Easy Come, Easy Go

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