Welcome to Three Tune Tuesday
A Journey into the Soundtrack of the Past
Why Three Tune Tuesday?
Because it’s more than nostalgia—it’s a time machine. By listening closely to these century-old voices, we rediscover the roots of today’s music and the stories of the people who sang them. Each crackle and hiss carries history: resilience in hard times, laughter in the face of change, and artistry that still resonates.
Where to Listen
- Right here at Blind Skeleton, the podcast home of Three Tune Tuesday.
- On Apple Podcasts.
- Or wherever you enjoy your weekly dose of vintage sound
Whether you’re a history buff, a music lover, or simply curious, Three Tune Tuesday offers an inspiring window into the past. Tune in each week to experience the melodies and stories that laid the groundwork for the music we know and love today.
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Every Tuesday, Boneapart and Yulia spin three songs from 78rpm records more than 100 years old: ragtime, early jazz, blues, vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, dance bands and forgotten hits from the 1900s to the 1920s.
Each episode follows a theme of the week, and every track is an acoustically recorded, public-domain gem played on period-appropriate phonographs and gramophones from a private collection of 78 rpm records. Along with the music come the stories: who made these recordings, what the world sounded like when they were new, and why these voices deserve to be remembered.
Whether you’re a record collector, a lover of old-time music and the Jazz Age, or just curious what people were dancing to a century ago, pull up a chair. Three tunes, every Tuesday, played the way they were first heard.
A Blind Skeleton production.
This week on Three Tune Tuesday, we’re taking a lighthearted look at the Bell record label — a 1920s New Jersey budget label that rarely recorded anything itself. It bought recordings from other companies and printed whatever name it liked on them. So we’re playing detective with three Bell records, newest to oldest, asking one question: who’s really playing? First, “Doodle Doo Doo,” the 1924 nonsense-song hit, credited to the “Orpheum Melody Masters” — a band that, a century later, nobody can identify. Then “Dancing Fool,” by the “Moulin Rouge Orchestra,” which turns out to be Ben Selvin in disguise — the man credited with recording more 78s than anyone in history. And finally, “Profiteering Blues,” Billy Murray’s 1920 lament about landlords who take your raise before you can spend it, with no disguise at all. A mystery band, a superstar in a fake mustache, and the real thing, all on the same cheap label.
