Playlist for May 12, 2006 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Playlist Date & Time: 5/12/2006 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Archived Playlist for The Minister of Swing

Another full moon tonight.

Playlist Tracks

Joe Jackson "Rhythm Delivery" Tucker Original Motion Picture Soundtrack A&M 1988 Opening theme.
Gene Krupa and his Orchestra "Stop! The Red Lights On" Gene Krupa Story Proper 1998 August 18, 1941. Roy Eldridge trumpet. Anita O'Day vocal.
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra "Crescendo in Drums" 1939-1940 Classics 1991 July 17, 1939.
Cootie Williams and his Rug Cutters "Top & Bottom" Duke Ellington 1939 vol. 2 Classics 1994 June 22, 1939.
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five "Cole Slaw" Jivin' With Jordan Proper 2002 April 12, 1949. It never takes long before I get a request for Louis Jordan.
Count Basie and his Orchestra "'Ay Now" 1942 Classics 1993 January 21, 1942. Henry Nemo vocal.
Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five "Cross Your Heart" 1940 Classics 2000 September 3, 1940.
Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers "Shake It & Break It" 1940 Classics 1991 June 4, 1940.
Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra "I Got It" 1939-1940 Classics 1991 May 9, 1940.
Earl Hines and his Orchestra "Easy Rhythm" 1939-1940 Classics 1991 December 2, 1940.
Ella Fitzgerald "Rhythm and Romance" The Early Years Pt. 1 GRP 1992 October 12, 1935. Chick Webb and his Orchestra.
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra "The Goona Goo" 1936-1937 Classics 1996 January 7, 1937. Edythe Wright vocal. Bunnny Berigan trumpet. Bud Freeman tenor sax.
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra "Swingtime in the Rockies" The Birth of Swing BMG 1996 June 15, 1936.
Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra "Stop, Look and Listen" Stop, Look and LIsten Soundies
Billie Holiday and her Orchestra "Trav'lin' All Alone" 1937-1939 Classics 1991 September 13, 1937. Buck Clayton trumpet. Lester Young tenor sax.
The Harlem Footwarmers "Mood Indigo" Duke Ellington 1930 vol. 2 Classics 1991 October 30, 1930. requested Duke. My favorite song by my favorite artist.
Mills Blue Rhythm Band "Harlem After Midnight" 1933-1934 Classics 1993 August 31, 1933.
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra "New Goofy Dust Rag" 1929-1930 Classics 1991 July 18, 1929. Hot LIps Page trumpet.
Hot Lips Page and his V-Disc All-Stars "Sheik of Araby" 1944-1946 Classics 1997 December 6, 1944.
Jimmy Jones Big Four "Keeping Up with Jones" 1946-1947 Classics 2003 1947.
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France "Clouds" 1935 Classics 1993 July 1935. Requested Django for Maui.
Harry James and his Orchestra "Yes Indeed!" 1941 vol. 2 Classics 1999 June 30, 1941.
Glenn MIller and his Orchestra "Make Believe Ballroom Time" The Complete Glenn Miller BMG 1991
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra "Mr. Meadow Lark" 1940 Classics 2000 May 7, 1937.
Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five "Summit Ridge Drive" 1940 Classics 2000 August 3, 1940. Requested for Nita in Slidell.
Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra "He Walked Right In" 1937-1939 Classics 2001 May 7, 1937. Kathleen Long and Kurt Bloom vocal.
Fats Waller and his Rhythm "Copper Colored Gal" 1936 Classics 1994 September 9, 1936. Waller vocal and piano.
Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra "Blues to the Dole" 1934-1939 Classics 1993 July 19, 1939. Teagarden trombone.
Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters "On the Road to Mandalay" The Uncollected Jan Savitt 1939 Hindsight 1985 1939. Bon Bon vocal.
John Kirby and his Orchestra "Sweet Georgia Brown" John Kirby Promo Sound AG 1997 May 19, 1939.
Raymond Scott Quintette "Swing Swing Mother-In-Law" Microphone MUsic Basta December 1936.
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra "Hawaiian War Chant" Alive and Kickin' Rhino 1997 1942. From the film "Ship Ahoy"
Hazel Scott "Valse in" 1939-1945 Classics 2003 December 11, 1941.
Woody Herman and his Orchestra "The Crickets" Woody Herman Story Proper 2000 May 26, 1949.
Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra "'Taint What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" 1937-1939 Classics 1990 January 3, 1939. Suggested by Undersecretary of Swing Maria.
Erskine Hawkins and his Orchestra "No Soap/A Jitterbug Jamboree" 1938-1939 BMG 2002 May 14, 1949. Another fine selection by Maria.
Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra "Swing That Music" 1936-1937 Classics 1990 May 18, 1936.
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra "The Wildest Girl in Town" 1947 Classics 1999 September 29, 1937. Delores Parker vocal.
Illinois Jacquet and his All-Stars "Flying Home Pt 1 and 2" 1945-1946 Classics 1997 July 1945.
Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra "Stompology" The Lionel Hampton Story Proper 2000 April 14, 1937. Cootie Williams trumpet. Johnny Hodges and Mez Mezzrow reeds. John Kirby bass.
Count Basie and his Orchestra "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?" 1943-1945 Classics 1995 May 27, 1944. Jimmy Rushing vocal. V-Disc.
Fats Waller "Bouncin' On a V-Disc" Best of the War Years Stardust 2002 September 16, 1943. V-Disc.
Johnny Otis and his Orchestra "J.T. Stomp" Jubilee Sessions vol, 3 Hindsight 1996 With Ernie Bubbles Whitman introduction.
Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra "Arab Dance" Swing Time! Columbia 1993 June 17, 1947.
Ted Heath and his Music "Oliver Twist" You've Gone to My Head Jasmine 2001 May 4, 1949.
Stan Kenton and his Orchestra "The Nango" 1940-1944 Classics 1995 September 11, 1941.
Joe Jackson "The Car of Tomorrow, Today!" Tucker Original Motion Picture Soundtrack A&M 1988
The Morton Seven "Shake It" Jelly Roll Morton 1939-1940 Classics 1992 January 23, 1940.
Floyd Ray and his Orchestra "3:00 in the Morning" Tea Pad Songs Stash 1976 February 1939. Closing theme.