Of all the holidays, Halloween has the fewest carols, but Randy Hamilton and Danny Cox have brought us this one, a spooky tune that hit the U.S. pop charts no fewer than three different times in the 1960s and ‘70s. Here Randy and Danny are leading on “Spooky”!
Friday, October 30, 2026
This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood
Friday, October 23, 2026
This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood
When Hoagy Carmichael wrote this song on a cold, stormy night nearly a century ago now, he couldn’t have known how many people would a special warmth in his new tune.
Just listen to the solos in this take from last week’s rehearsal and hear how Danny Cox, Sam St. Clair and visiting bassist Ian Nuckols each finds his own comfort in the congenial chords of “Georgia on My Mind.”
Friday, October 16, 2026
This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood
Here’s a song that was very important to a young Marty Robbins back in 1956.
Marty was fresh out of the Navy at the end of World War II and working on a local TV show near his home in Arizona. That’s when an established star — West Virginia native Little Jimmy Dickens — discovered him and brought him to Columbia Records.
A few years later, Robbins recorded this song and it cemented a career that — over the next quarter century — would see him record more than 500 songs on 60 albums.
Friday, October 9, 2026
This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood
Whenever Michelle Hoge comes back to visit her old band mates, as she did last week, this tune is among the ones we trot out.
Friday, October 2, 2026
This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood
When Jim Rumbaugh and his sweet wife Donna dropped in at last week’s rehearsal, we drew them into our latest project.
Listen to Jim join in on singing the chorus as well as contributing a cool bit of harmonica on this century-old siren song of the Bahamas.
Friday, September 25, 2026
This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood
In the autumn of 1963, a new tune hit the charts that sparked the imagination of all of us aspiring young folksingers.
It was 63 years ago this month that radio stations throughout our part of the world seemed to hourly played Bobby Bare’s new song.
“500 Miles Away From Home” had a special meaning here, because Bobby was famously is of us, a native son of Ironton, Ohio.
Friday, September 18, 2026
This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood
As much as we try to use the rehearsals to work out arrangements to our regular tunes, we never drift too far away from The Flood’s original loose jam session vibe.
That means there’s always room for “sometimes kinda tunes," like this one, heads-up, top-down and just flat-out rattling and rolling into the sunset!







