I go back to 1929 via 78. 2(00)9 recurring, as we crash, crash, crash. Crunch. » You can’t take it with you when you go, even on an iPod… They Shoot Horses Don’t They? Eddie Cantor with Phil Spitalny’s Music – Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz! Phil Spitalny’s Music – Cheer Up! Good Times are Comin’ George Olsen – I’m in the Market for You Dick Robertson – If I Ever Get a Job Again The California Ramblers – Gotta Go To Work Again Jack Payne – I’ve Gotta Get Up And Go To Work Reading from ‘The Conquest of Happiness’ – Bertrand Russell, 1930 backed by Paul Tremaine and his Aristocrats- Aristocratic Stomp Artie Shaw – Whistle while you work Ray Noble & His Orchestra – Long As You’ve Got Your Health Ted Lewis Orch. – Headin’ for Better Times Nelson Eddy – Dusty Road Ethel Waters – Stormy Weather Elsie Carlisle, Bert Ambrose & Orchestra – The Clouds Will Soon Roll By (22-07-1932) Al Foster aka Sid Gary – “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine” (1929) Boswell Sisters – Put That Sun Back In The Sky 19-2-1932 Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders (vocal refrain by Frank Luther) – Keep Your Sunny Side Up Ben Selvin & His Orchestra – Happy Days Are Here Again Ted Lewis – On the Sunny Side of the Street Cliff Edwards – It’s Only A Paper Moon Reading of ‘The Day of the Locust’ – Nathanael West, 1939 backed by Benny Goodman & Charlie Christian – I Surrender, Dear Etting Ruth – Ten Cents A Dance Florence Desmond – Cigarettes, Cigars Bessie Smith – Gimme a pigfoot Bill Cox – NRA Blues Big Bill Broonzy – W.P.A. Blues Victoria Spivey – Detroit Moan Ethel Waters – What Did I Do To Be So Black And Blue Johnny Green Orch. – Repeal the Blues Reading from ‘Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck backed by Al Bowlly, Ray Noble – California Here I Come (1935) Charlie Palloy and His Orchestra – Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Pinetop Smith – Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out The Ink Spots – With plenty of money and you Red Norvo & His Orchestra – Slummin’ On Park Avenue Ben Poll And His Park Central Orchestra – Buy, Buy For Baby Benny Morton And His Orchestra – We’re in the Money Lew Stone And His Band – Pick Yourself Up Walter Huston – September Song George M. Cohan – Life’s A Funny Proposition After All Abe Lyman And His Orchestra – Riddle Me This Annette Hanshaw – I’m A Dreamer – Aren’t We All (4-12-1929) Bing Crosby/Connee Boswell/The Boswell Sisters/The Mills Brothers – Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries Al Bowlly With Lew Stone And His Band – Easy Come, Easy Go