Jack Norton's Old-Time Radio Show: 1920s and 1930s 78 RPM Records
Aug 18, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 19 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…
[singing] Well, I'm lonesome but happy.
I'm rich, but I'm broke.
And the good Lord knows the reason.
I'm just a cowpoke.
From Cheyenne to Douglas, the ranges I know.
I drift with the wind.
No one cares where I go.
[singing] Well, I ain't got a dime in these old worn out jeans.
So I'll stop eating steak and I'll go back to beans.
But I'll pick up a 10 spot in Prescott I know, riding the broncs in the big rodeo.
[singing] Some evening in the springtime, a filly I'll find.
And I might spend all summer with her on my mind.
But I'll never be branded.
I'll never be broke.
I'm a carefree, range-riding, drifting cowpoke.
She's gone to Caroline.
I know just who she went with, a dear old pal of mine.
I ought to hop a choo choo.
I know I ought to go.
I'd love to find my baby, but my funds are awful low.
My gal
galWhy did she leave me? Sweet gal, I'm missing her so.
[singing] Well, I'm lonesome but happy.
I'm rich, but I'm broke.
And the good Lord knows the reason.
I'm just a cowpoke.
From Cheyenne to Douglas, the ranges I know.
I drift with the wind.
No one cares where I go.
[singing] Well, I ain't got a dime in these old worn out jeans.
So I'll stop eating steak and I'll go back to beans.
But I'll pick up a 10 spot in Prescott I know, riding the broncs in the big rodeo.
[singing] Some evening in the springtime, a filly I'll find.
And I might spend all summer with her on my mind.
But I'll never be branded.
I'll never be broke.
I'm a carefree, range-riding, drifting cowpoke.
She's gone to Caroline.
I know just who she went with, a dear old pal of mine.
I ought to hop a choo choo.
I know I ought to go.
I'd love to find my baby, but my funds are awful low.
My gal
galWhy did she leave me? Sweet gal, I'm missing her so.
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