Jack Norton's Old-Time Radio Show: 1920s and 1930s 78 RPM Records
Aug 4, 2026 · 58 min · 16 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…
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket Never let it fade away Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket Save it for a rainy day For love may come and tap you on the shoulder Some starless night Just in case you feel you want to hold her Have a pocket full of starlight, catch a falling star and put
it in your pocket.
Never let it fade away.
Never let it fade away.
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket Save it for a night, save it for a rainy day For love may come and tap you on the shoulder Some starless night
And
just in case you feel you wanna hold her You'll have a pocket full of starlight.
Pocket full of starlight.
Never let it fade away.
Never let it fade away.
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket Save it for a rainy day Save it for a rainy,
rainy, rainy
day For when your troubles start multiplying
They just might It's
easy to forget them without trying With just a pocket full of starlight, catch a falling star and put it in your pocket.
Never let it fade away.
Save it for a rainy day.
Save it for a rainy day.
Save it for a rainy day.
I got a man that's more than eight foot tall, four foot shoulders, and that ain't all.
King-sized papa, he's my king-sized papa.
I take the door off the hinges when my baby comes to call.
There's such a lot of him, the way he grew, enough to last till 1992.
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket Never let it fade away Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket Save it for a rainy day For love may come and tap you on the shoulder Some starless night Just in case you feel you want to hold her Have a pocket full of starlight, catch a falling star and put
it in your pocket.
Never let it fade away.
Never let it fade away.
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket Save it for a night, save it for a rainy day For love may come and tap you on the shoulder Some starless night
And
just in case you feel you wanna hold her You'll have a pocket full of starlight.
Pocket full of starlight.
Never let it fade away.
Never let it fade away.
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket Save it for a rainy day Save it for a rainy,
rainy, rainy
day For when your troubles start multiplying
They just might It's
easy to forget them without trying With just a pocket full of starlight, catch a falling star and put it in your pocket.
Never let it fade away.
Save it for a rainy day.
Save it for a rainy day.
Save it for a rainy day.
I got a man that's more than eight foot tall, four foot shoulders, and that ain't all.
King-sized papa, he's my king-sized papa.
I take the door off the hinges when my baby comes to call.
There's such a lot of him, the way he grew, enough to last till 1992.
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