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The Show
Red Rooster Party is a two-hour program of American roots music that airs Sunday afternoons 2-4 o'clock Eastern Time on WHUS Storrs (CT), 91.7 FM -- The radio station of the University of Connecticut.  The station is webcast at whus.org.  Marti and Jim can be contacted by e-mail at redroosterparty@gmail.com and on the air during the show by Instant Messenger using the address WHUSDJ.  The DJ phone on the air is 860-486-9487.

Tune in 20 July at 2:00 EDT for another musical trip to the past.

About Us
Jim & Marti host the Red Rooster Party (and occasionally the Bluegrass Cafe).  Both are from the Piedmont region of North Carolina, but have lived in nine states and visited many countries, most related to Jim's work in the aerospace industry.  Marti is a secondary-level science teacher.  Both have had a lifelong love of music of many genres.  In fact, they met in their university's marching band and have been married since graduation.  Marti occasionally pulls her French horn from its case and plays a bit.  Jim set aside his trumpet and flugelhorn years ago and now plays the five-string banjo.  Both Jim & Marti count bluegrass and roots music as their favorite these days, but have a huge collection of jazz, orchestral, western, and folk music as well.
Latest Play List  (archived lists are here for 2006, here for 2007, & here for 2008)

13 July 2008
Marti's Picks

Marti had intended to bring you this show solo, and picked all the music.  Jim was able to be there after all and sat back and enjoyed what Marti was spinning along with everyone else.

  • Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Introduction (1994)
  • Nelly Was A Lady (1941) / Golden Gate Quartet / Radio Transcriptions 1941-1944 / Document
  • Brother Bill (1941) / Golden Gate Quartet / Radio Transcriptions 1941-1944 / Document
  • Homer & Jethro's Pluckin' And Singin' Medley (1955) / Homer & Jethro / Volume 3 / B.A.C.M.
  • I'm My Own Grandpa (1956) / Homer & Jethro / Volume 3 / B.A.C.M.
  • Sally's Got a Wooden Leg (1941) / Sons of the West / Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys / Proper
  • Pistol Packin' Mama (1942) / Al Dexter & his Troopers / Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys / Proper
  • Forgive Me One More Time (1944) / Spade Cooley & His Orchestra / Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys / Proper
  • Shame On You (1944) / Spade Cooley & His Orchestra / Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys / Proper
  • Goin' Up Town (1928) / Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters / Mountain Frolic - Rare Old Timey Classics / JSP
  • Fate of Santa Barbara (1925) / Bascom Lamar Lunsford / Mountain Frolic - Rare Old Timey Classics / JSP
  • Mobile County Blues (1929) / Nelstone's Hawaiians / Mountain Frolic - Rare Old Timey Classics / JSP
  • Brownie's Stomp (1934) / Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys / Proper
  • Boyd's Blues (1935) / Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers / Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys / Proper
  • I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart (1935) / Patsy Montana & The Prairie Ramblers / Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys / Proper
  • Sadie Green (The Vamp Of New Orleans) (1935) / Roy Newman & His Boys / Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys / Proper
  • Little Darling Pal of Mine (c.late 1960s) / Red Smiley & Bluegrass Cut-ups / Log Cabin Favorites / Rural Rhythm
  • The Quilting Party (c.late 1960s) / Jim Greer & the Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks / Log Cabin Favorites / Rural Rhythm
  • New Kingdom Coming (1967) / J.E. Mainer & the Mountaineers / Log Cabin Favorites / Rural Rhythm
  • Death of Floyd Collins (1967) / J.E. Mainer & the Mountaineers / Log Cabin Favorites / Rural Rhythm

Mayberry Corner Trivia:  What military service did Jim Nabors' Gomer Pyle character join when he departed The Andy Griffith Show?

Answer:  The Marine Corps

  • Utah Carrol (1928) / Cartwright Brothers / When I Was A Cowboy Vol. 1 / Yazoo
  • Wild West Rambler (1937) / Crowder Brothers / When I Was A Cowboy Vol. 1 / Yazoo
  • The Last Longhorn (1929) / Carl Sprague / When I Was A Cowboy Vol. 1 / Yazoo
  • Devil's Dream / Joe Maphis & Fiddlin' Red Herron / Pictures From Life's Other Side / CMH
  • Pictures From Life's Other Side / Grandpa Jones / Pictures From Life's Other Side / CMH
  • Mary of the Wild Moor / Blue Sky Boys / Pictures From Life's Other Side / CMH
  • Grandfather's Clock / Grandpa Jones / Pictures From Life's Other Side / CMH
  • Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek / Roy Acuff / Pictures From Life's Other Side / CMH
  • Cowpuncher's Waltz / Rosalie Allen / A Cowboy's Life Is Good Enough For Me / Jasmine
  • Cowboy's Roundup Song / Smoky Dawson & His Rocky Canyon Boys / A Cowboy's Life Is Good Enough For Me / Jasmine
  • Ridin' With My Gal / Elton Britt / A Cowboy's Life Is Good Enough For Me / Jasmine
  • Who Shot The Hole In My Sombrero? / Rex Allen / A Cowboy's Life Is Good Enough For Me / Jasmine
  • Tom Dooley (1929) / G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter / When The Sun Goes Down - East Virginia Blues / BMG
  • Short Life And It's Trouble (1937) / Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris / When The Sun Goes Down - East Virginia Blues / BMG
  • That Nasty Swing (1936) / Cliff Carlisle / When The Sun Goes Down - East Virginia Blues / BMG
NEXT SHOW:  Tune in 20 July at 2:00 EDT for another musical trip to years past.