Jack Norton's Old-Time Radio Show: 1920s and 1930s 78 RPM Records
Jun 9, 2026 · 58 min · 12 segments
Travel back to the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s as vaudeville blues and ragtime hokum musician Jack Norton spins his favorite 78 rpm records from his collection. From early hot jazz to jug band blues…
Someday, when I'm awfully low, when the world is cold, I will feel aglow, just thinking of you and the way you look tonight.
Oh, but you're lovely, with your smile so warm and your cheeks so soft.
With each word your tenderness grows, tearing my fear apart.
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.
Lovely, never, never change.
Keep that breathless charm, won't you please arrange it? 'Cause I love you just the way you look tonight.
[upbeat music]
I've got 49 women and I only need one more.
I've got 49 women and I only need one more.
And when I get that other gal, I'm gonna get me 49 more.
If you don't want me, baby, you don't have to stall.
If you don't want me, mama, you don't have to stall.
I can get more women than a passenger train can haul.
I've got nine little puppies and one old shaggy hound.
I've got nine little puppies and one old shaggy hound.
It takes all of those dogs to keep my women run down.
[upbeat music] If you've got a pretty mama and she don't treat you right.
If you've got a pretty mama and she don't treat you right.
Get you 49 women and treat them all alike.
Now, a blonde-headed woman can really get around.
Say, a blonde-headed woman can really get around.
But a red-headed gal can turn your damper down.
Someday, when I'm awfully low, when the world is cold, I will feel aglow, just thinking of you and the way you look tonight.
Oh, but you're lovely, with your smile so warm and your cheeks so soft.
With each word your tenderness grows, tearing my fear apart.
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.
Lovely, never, never change.
Keep that breathless charm, won't you please arrange it? 'Cause I love you just the way you look tonight.
[upbeat music]
I've got 49 women and I only need one more.
I've got 49 women and I only need one more.
And when I get that other gal, I'm gonna get me 49 more.
If you don't want me, baby, you don't have to stall.
If you don't want me, mama, you don't have to stall.
I can get more women than a passenger train can haul.
I've got nine little puppies and one old shaggy hound.
I've got nine little puppies and one old shaggy hound.
It takes all of those dogs to keep my women run down.
[upbeat music] If you've got a pretty mama and she don't treat you right.
If you've got a pretty mama and she don't treat you right.
Get you 49 women and treat them all alike.
Now, a blonde-headed woman can really get around.
Say, a blonde-headed woman can really get around.
But a red-headed gal can turn your damper down.
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