CRACKLETON MANOR

A recently discontinued weekly show on Radioactive International specializing in vintage sound reproductions, presented by Sir Ernest Crackleton - heroic explorer or pre-1951 recordings.

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Click here for the cloudcast of program January 9th 2017 - recordings 1916-1950

The photo is a mug of Gracie Fields - whose birthday it was that day

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Click here for the cloudcast of program January 16th (MLK Day) 2017 featuring recordings from 1913-1949

photo is Mahalia Jackson (featured in musical selection) with Dr. King

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Click here for the cloudcast for 1/23/17 all women’srecordings from 1910-1950

Photo is Argentinian singer Azucena Maizani

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Click this link for cloudcast of program 1.30.2017 - all recordings from 1915-1905 in celebration of Chinese new Year

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Click here for the cloudcast of last Monday’s show, all recordings made during World War 1 - The Great War 1914-1918

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click here for the cloudcast of this week’s Gramophoney Baloney - recordings from 1926-1929

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Click here for the cloudcast of this week’s Gramophoney Baloney - with very special guest selector Zombie McSchmormac playing recordings from 1911-1950

Pic: from “Ghost Wanted" (1940)

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Click here to listen to this week’s Gramophoney Baloney cloudcast - live tango music from Alex Roitman & I-Yun Chung of San Francisco based tango group, Tangonero, and tango recordings 1909-1947

Pic: Pedro Laurenz

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Click here for this week’s Gramophoney Baloney cloudcast - Latin recordings 1926-1929

Pic: Sexteto Boloña ca. 1926

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Click here for the cloudcast of this week’s Gramophoney Baloney - a mix of rare Mexican 78s (1907-1950) mostly non-reissued from the personal collection of special guest selector Zac Salem

Pic: Trío Garnica-Ascencio (courtesy Zac Salem)

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Click here to hear the cloudcast of Monday’s Gramophoney Baloney on KPOO 89.5FM - All Cuban recordings 1926-1949

Photo: Arsenio Rodriguez

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Click here for the cloudcast of this week’s Gramophoney Baloney - featuring follow-up interview with fimmaker Maureen Gosling about the Bay Area screenings of her film about Arhoolie Records/Chris Strachwitz - and playlist mostly taken from historic recording reissues on that label

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Click here for this week’s Gramophoney Baloney cloudcast - D.J. McSchmormac talks to Chris SImon & Maureen Gosling about their film “This Ain’t No Mouse Music!” a film about Arhoolie Records and its founder Chris Strachwitz.

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Click here to check out the cloudcast of this week’s Gramophoney Baloney - recordings from Feb.1926 - Dec.1929

Pic: Andrew and Jim Baxter

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Scottdale String Band – Old Folks Better Go to Bed (Arhoolie)

String bands were common musical currency amongst the recording labels that trafficked in early country music. OKeh in particular had numerous such ensembles under its expansive roster in the 1920s and 30s. Few boasted the range of repertoire represented by the Scottdale String Band (SSB), eponymously named for a small town in Georgia where its members resided. The trio was fairly conventional in terms of instrumentation: Barney Pritchard and Marvin Head on acoustic guitars and either Belvie Freeman or Charlie Simmons on banjo-mandolin. Freeman or Simmons handled the lead parts while Pritchard and Head were usually responsible for rhythm. All four men were also longtime employees at the local cotton mill and that vocational association accorded their impetus as a musical outfit.

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Click here to check out the cloudcast of Monday’s Labor Day show - more recordings from late 1922 to early 1926

Pic: Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey