Jack Norton's Old-Time Radio Show: 1920s and 1930s 78 RPM Records
Jun 30, 2026 · 58 min · 14 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…
Stop the traffic to Dixie, hold it right at the line.
Don't want nothing betwixt me and that old home of mine.
And so lonely Every hour seems a day But there is one and one only Who understands when I say I'm coming, Virginia I'm coming to stay Don't hold it against me For going away I tried to forget you And found that I was wrong Beneath your bright southern moon Once more I'll croon A dear old mammy's song And if I can win ya I'll never more roam I'm coming Virginia My Dixieland home guitar solo ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
The crowd sees me out dancing Carefree and romancing Happy with my someone new I'm laughing on the outside Crying on the inside Because I'm still in love with you They see me night and daytime Having such a gay time They don't know what I go through I'm laughing on the outside Crying on the inside Cause I'm still in love with you No one knows, it's just a pose Pretending I'm glad we're apart And when I cry, my eyes are dry The tears are in my heart My darling, can't we make up Ever since our breakup Make-believe is all I do I'm laughing on the outside Crying on the inside Cause I'm still in love with you Darling, can't we make up Ever since our breakup Make believe is all I do on the outside crying on the inside cause I'm
still in
love with you
Well, friends, you are hearing the golden voice of Jack Norton, host, genius host, good-looking, talented, funny, smart, witty, humble, Jack Norton.
Merry month of May, sunny skies of blue ¶¶ ¶ Clouds have rolled away and the sun peeps through ¶¶ ¶ May Express ¶¶ Joy you may define in a thousand ways But a case like mine needs a special phrase To
reveal
how I feel I've got the world on a string Sitting on a rainbow Got the string around my finger What a world, what a life I'm in
love
I've got the song that I sing I can make the rain go Anytime I move my finger Lucky me, can't you see I'm in love Life is a beautiful
thing As
long as I hold the string I'd be a silly so-and-so
If I
should ever let you go I've got the world on a string Sittin' on a rainbow Got the string around my
Stop the traffic to Dixie, hold it right at the line.
Don't want nothing betwixt me and that old home of mine.
And so lonely Every hour seems a day But there is one and one only Who understands when I say I'm coming, Virginia I'm coming to stay Don't hold it against me For going away I tried to forget you And found that I was wrong Beneath your bright southern moon Once more I'll croon A dear old mammy's song And if I can win ya I'll never more roam I'm coming Virginia My Dixieland home guitar solo ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
The crowd sees me out dancing Carefree and romancing Happy with my someone new I'm laughing on the outside Crying on the inside Because I'm still in love with you They see me night and daytime Having such a gay time They don't know what I go through I'm laughing on the outside Crying on the inside Cause I'm still in love with you No one knows, it's just a pose Pretending I'm glad we're apart And when I cry, my eyes are dry The tears are in my heart My darling, can't we make up Ever since our breakup Make-believe is all I do I'm laughing on the outside Crying on the inside Cause I'm still in love with you Darling, can't we make up Ever since our breakup Make believe is all I do on the outside crying on the inside cause I'm
still in
love with you
Well, friends, you are hearing the golden voice of Jack Norton, host, genius host, good-looking, talented, funny, smart, witty, humble, Jack Norton.
Merry month of May, sunny skies of blue ¶¶ ¶ Clouds have rolled away and the sun peeps through ¶¶ ¶ May Express ¶¶ Joy you may define in a thousand ways But a case like mine needs a special phrase To
reveal
how I feel I've got the world on a string Sitting on a rainbow Got the string around my finger What a world, what a life I'm in
love
I've got the song that I sing I can make the rain go Anytime I move my finger Lucky me, can't you see I'm in love Life is a beautiful
thing As
long as I hold the string I'd be a silly so-and-so
If I
should ever let you go I've got the world on a string Sittin' on a rainbow Got the string around my
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