Episode 33: 1925 Songs

Thank you, sir.

Good to be with you.

Yeah, good to have you.

And, hey, tell us a little bit about, introduce us to this Tompkins Square compilation.

Okay,

well, thanks for extending the timeline an extra year, because I know you like the century, but 101 years we'll have to do this morning.

Well...

I've been putting out a lot of archival reissues over the years.

Stuff from the 20s, stuff sourced from 78 RPM records.

I've done that for many years.

But I was thinking that it would be fun to put out a compilation every year of music from each year.

So 1925 is the first one.

So next year will be 1926 and so forth.

Outstanding.

And I'm working with Dick Spotswood And I sort of got to know Dick a little bit from a book that I wrote that I edited called Treasures Untold.

And that's a modern 78 RPM reader.

And In that book, he's interviewed by a guy named Ian Nagoski, and they go deep into his career.

And I was so fascinated by that.

I was like, I really need to get in touch with Dick.

Because when you buy a Yazoo record or a county record or something and you flip it over, you see Dick Spotswood's name on so many of those records.

So I've been seeing his name for years, but never really got to know the man.

And I still don't.

But I reached out to him.

He's 89 years old.

He's a brilliant musicologist.

Thank you, sir.

Good to be with you.

Yeah, good to have you.

And, hey, tell us a little bit about, introduce us to this Tompkins Square compilation.

Okay,

well, thanks for extending the timeline an extra year, because I know you like the century, but 101 years we'll have to do this morning.

Well...

I've been putting out a lot of archival reissues over the years.

Stuff from the 20s, stuff sourced from 78 RPM records.

I've done that for many years.

But I was thinking that it would be fun to put out a compilation every year of music from each year.

So 1925 is the first one.

So next year will be 1926 and so forth.

Outstanding.

And I'm working with Dick Spotswood And I sort of got to know Dick a little bit from a book that I wrote that I edited called Treasures Untold.

And that's a modern 78 RPM reader.

And In that book, he's interviewed by a guy named Ian Nagoski, and they go deep into his career.

And I was so fascinated by that.

I was like, I really need to get in touch with Dick.

Because when you buy a Yazoo record or a county record or something and you flip it over, you see Dick Spotswood's name on so many of those records.

So I've been seeing his name for years, but never really got to know the man.

And I still don't.

But I reached out to him.

He's 89 years old.

He's a brilliant musicologist.