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Playlist for May 26, 2006 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Current New Orleans Time: Sun, 9:51am
Show Host(s): The Minister of Swing

Playlist Date & Time: 5/26/2006 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Archived Playlist for The Minister of Swing

Undoubtedly my most memorable show. In studio guests the Under Secretary of Swing Maria and her Faithful Manservant Reg were in town celebrating their anniversary. They pulled titles and searched relentlessly for requested Cleo Brown (to no avail) who I hadn't heard of, but will now pick up at some point. I always appreciate suggestions for artists I do not yet know. That's how you learn, people. I've known these two since way back in the day when my jazz collection was in its infancy. Maria expanded my Cab Calloway collection and exposed me to Brit Ska band Madness. In turn I introduced her to the Mound City Blue Blowers and the nutty goodness of a Fats Waller organ solo. Good friends are always appreciated. Maria helps me with artists birthdays and without her help the show wouldn't be regularly tuned into in Hamburg. I took them thru the Lower 9 and we picked up some Loretta's pralines after. Friends like Maria and Reg make doing the show a pleasure and honour for me every week.

Playlist Tracks
Joe Jackson
"Rhythm Delivery"
Tucker Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
A&M
1998
Opening theme.
Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra
"Oh, What You Said"
1939-1940
Classics
2002
October 9, 1939.
Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra
"Opening and Theme"
Live at Southland and Meadowbrook 1940
Vernon
1999
January 23, 1940.
Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra
"Three Little Words"
Live at Southland and Meadowbrook 1940
Vernon
1999
January 23, 1940.
Bud Freeman and his Windy City Five
"The Buzzard"
1928-1938
Classics
1994
December 4, 1935.
Henry Red Allen and his Orchestra
"Nothing's Blue but the Sky"
1935-1936
Classics
1991
May 21, 1936. J.C. Higginbotham trombone, Red Allen trumpet.
Count Basie and his Orchestra
"GI Stomp"
1943-1945
Classics
1995
July 1943.
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
"Hollywood Hangover"
1945 vol. 2
Classics
1997
May 26, 1945.
Benny Goodman and his Sextet
"The Way You Look Tonight"
Peggy Lee In the Beginning
Pavillion
March 10, 1942. Peggy Lee vocal.
Jimmie Lunceford and his Harlem Express
"Blues in the Night"
The Uncollected Jimmie Lunceford
Hindsight
1944. Recorded for broadcast only for AFR.
The Goofus Five
"Vo-Do-Do-O Blues"
The Goofus Five
Timeless
1994
June 15, 1927. Rollini on bass sax and goofus.
Red Nichols and his Five Pennies
"Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble"
1929-1930
Classics
2004
July 3, 1930. Red Nichols trumpet, Glenn Miller and Jack Teagarden trombone, Benny Goodman clarinet and Gene Krupa drums.
Bennie Moten and his Kansas City Orchestra
"Small Black"
1929-1930
Classics
1991
October 23, 1929. Count Basie piano, Hot Lips Page trumpet.
Blue Rhythm Boys
"Red Devil"
1931
Classics
1992
April 28, 1931.
King Cole Trio
"Rock-A-Bye-Basie"
Nat King Cole Trio Transcriptions
Blue Note
2005
Jay McShann Orchestra
"Hootie Blues"
1941-1943
Classics
1994
April 3, 1941. Walter Brown vocal.
Billie Holiday
"Good Morning Heartache"
Priceless Jazz
GRP
1997
January 22, 1946.
Gene Krupa and his Orchestra
"Boogie Blues"
Krupa Story
Proper
1998
August 21, 1945. Anita O'Day vocal.
Midge Williams
"St. Louis Blues"
Complementary Tracks
Classics
1996
February 14, 1934. Accompanied by Columbia Jazz Orchestra made up of Japanese Musicians. Vocal in Japanese and English. Beginning of a set for my Under Secretary of Swing Maria and her faithful Manservant Reg who were in New Orleans celebrating their anniversary.
Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra
"Sweethearts on Parade"
1939-1940
Classics
1991
April 25, 1939. Louis on trumpet and vocal. Another for Maria and Reg.
Harry James and his Orchestra
"Palms of Paradise"
1939-1940
Classics
1997
February 12, 1940. Franz Heines vocal. Celebrating Mayor Nagin and his Date Palms which I told Maria and Reg about on a tour.
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
"Bye Bye Blues"
1940
Classics
1991
June 27, 1940. Last in the Maria and Reg set. Maria had given me a Cab Calloway tape many moons ago and this was one of the songs on it.
Glenn Miller Orchestra
"Say"
The Complete Glenn Miller
GRP
Roy Eldridge and his Orchestra
"Christopher Columbus"
After You're Gone
MCA
1991
February 5, 1936. This is one of the songs we had to play in my high school marching band. If only we had Chu Berry on the tenor sax, John Kirby on string bass and the little giant on trumpet like this version!
John Kirby and his Orchestra
"By the Waters of the Minnetonka"
1938-1939
Classics
1994
October 28, 1938.
Raymond Scott Quintet
"At an Arabian House Party"
restless Nights and Turkish Twilights
Sony
1992
Fats Waller
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
1938
Classics
1996
August 28, 1938. Waller organ solo. Mad genius.
Mound City Blue Blowers
"What's the Reason (I'm not Pleasin' You?)"
1935-1936
Classics
1996
May 9, 1935. Red McKenzie comb and vocal.
Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra
"Finiculi Finicula"
Swingin' the Classics
Viper's Nest
1996
January 1942. Maria picked this out one. How could I not play it?
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
"Salt Pork, West Virginia"
Jivin' with Jordan
Proper
2002
July 16, 1945.
Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers
"Wild Man Blues"
1940
Classics
1991
June 4, 1940.
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
"Marching Along with Time"
1938
Classics
2000
April 27, 1938.
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
"Chantez-les bas"
1940
Classics
2000
September 7, 1940.
Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra
"Jumpin' Jehosephat"
Dorsey on V-Disc
Joyce
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
"Antidisestablishmentarianismist"
1947
Classics
1999
September 30, 1947. Ray Nance trumpet and vocal.
Red Allen and his All Stars
"Rosetta"
Sound of Jazz
Columbia
1957.
Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra
"Air Mail Special Pt. 1 and 2"
Lionel Hampton Story
Proper
2000
January 31, 1946.
Rex Stewart's Big Seven
"Diga Diga Doo"
1934-1946
Classics
1997
July 23, 1940.
Woody Herman and his Orchestra
"Summer Sequence Pt. 1-4"
Woody Herman Story
Proper
2000
December 27, 1947.
Ted Heath and his Music
"Father Knickerbopper"
You've Gone to My Head
Jasmine
2001
October 7, 1949.
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
"Salt Peanuts"
Dizzy Gillespie Ken Burns Jazz
Verve
2000
January 9, 1945. MOre bop than swing but a great number nonetheless.
Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
"And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine"
1940-1944
Classics
1995
May 20, 1944. Anita O'Day vocal.
Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra
"The Girl with the Pigtails in her Hair"
1939-1940
Classics
2002
September 10, 1939. Judy Ellington vocal.
Don Redman and his Orchestra
"Our Big Love Scene"
1933-1936
Classics
1990
November 14, 1933. Chick Bullock vocal.
Eddie's Hot Shots
"That's A Serious Thing"
Eddie Condon 1927-1938
Classics
1994
February 8, 1929. eddie Condon guitar, Jack Teagarden trombone and vocal.
Mezz Mezzrow and his Orchestra
"Free Love"
1928-1936
Classics
1993
November 6, 1933.
The Boswell Sisters
"Everybody Loves My Baby"
Bunny Berigan the Key Sessions
JSP
2003
February 24, 1932. The Boswells our featured New Orleans artist for the week. Bunny on trumpet.
Floyd Ray and his Orchestra
"3:00 in the Morning"
Tea Pad Songs
Stash
1976
February 1939. Closing theme.