Uncles

Our sponsor this week is the National Association of Uncles – those official and unofficial, often wacky, surrogate parents who provide extra-familial inspiration to young people. Uncles and aunts can provide kids with a different world view from that of their parents and rescue those nieces and nephews from going into safe careers such as accounting, systems analysis or sales engineering by leading them astray to become musicians, composers, and comedians.

1 - Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean   - Nat Shilkret – 1922

J. C. Higginbotham

2 - Give Me Your Telephone Number - J. C. Higginbotham and his Six Hicks - 1930

Irene Higginbotham

3 - Fat Meat Is Good Meat (Irene Higginbotham) - Savannah Churchill with Jimmy Lytell and his All Star Seven – 1943

Fats Waller and James P. Johnson

4 - You've Got To Be Modernistic - James P. Johnson - 1930

5 - Carolina Shout (James P. Johnson) - Fats Waller – 1941

James P. Johnson and his “nephews”

6 - Ham 'N Eggs - Count Basie and his Orchestra - 1939

7 - Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra – 1930

8 - Aunt Hagar's Blues - Jack Teagarden and the Modernaires with Paul Whiteman and his Swing Wing - 1938

9 - Aunt Patsy - Prince's Band – 1916

10 - Black and Blue - Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra - 1929

11 - Nasty Uncle Adolf - Jack Cooper with Ambrose and his Orchestra – 1939

12 - I'd Like to Give My Dog to Uncle Sam - Red River Dave – 1944

13 - He's My Uncle - Rose Blane with Abe Lyman and his Californians – 1940

14 - Bop's Your Uncle - George Shearing - 1948

15 - Uncle George - Herb Greggerson with Slim and his Country Cousins

16 - They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me - Uncle Ezra and the Hoosier Hotshots - 1935

17 - Uncle Bud - Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) and his Orchestra – 1941

18 - A Trip to Aunt Sarah's - The Whistler – 1951 (Radio Drama)

19 - The Monkey's Uncle - The Adventures of Philip Marlowe – 1950 (Radio Drama)