Playlist Date & Time: 6/9/2006 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Archived Playlist for The Minister of Swing
The phone was ringing off the hook this week; always nice to hear from folks listening to the show. This week featured birthday tributes to Fred Waring, Cole Porter and Jimmie Lunceford with living legend and blues guitar virtuoso Snooks Eaglin picking out 2 of the 3 Lunceford numbers.
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Joe Jackson
Rhythm Delivery
Tucker Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
A&M
1988
Opening theme.
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Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra
The Complete Standard Transcriptions
Soundies
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Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
All in Favor of Swing Say
1939 vol. 3
Classics
2003
August 24, 1939. Edythe Wright vocal.
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Dick Jurgens and his Orchestra
There's A Brand New Picture in My Picture Frame
1937-1939
Hindsight
1977
Ronnie Kemper vocal.
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Fats Waller and his Rhythm
My Mommie Sent Me to the Store
1939-1940
Classics
1998
July 16, 1940.
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Sy Oliver and his Orchestra
Slow Burn
1945-1949
Classics
1998
January 9, 1947. Oliber was the longtime trumpeter and arranger for Jimmie Lunceford's Orchestra, later he took a job with Tommy Dorsey before forming his own band. This CD is remarkable and one of the best I've picked up in recent times. Unfortunately for the Oliver band, by the time many of these songs came out, the big band era was winding to a close.
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Glenn Miller Orchestra
Fresh as a Daisy
The Complete Glenn Miller
GRP
1991
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Count Basie and his Orchestra
Diggin' for Dex
1941
Classics
1992
July 2, 1941.
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Louis Prima and his Gleeby Rhythm Orchestra
Look Out
1940-1944
Classics
2001
March 4, 1940.
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Teddy Wilson
How High the Moon
1942-1945
Classics
1996
August 13, 1943. V-Disc.
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Benny Goodman Trio
Lady Be Good
The Complete Small Combinations
BMG France
1992
April 27, 1936. The Goodman trio was Goodman clarinet, Teddy Wilson piano and Gene Krupa Drums.
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Les Brown and his Orchestra
Invitation to the Blues
Sentimental Journey with Les Brown
Reader's Digest
1999
Doris Day vocal.
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Glenn Miller Orchestra
Pennsylvania 6-5000
The Complete Glenn Miller
GRP
1991
Requested Glenn Miller.
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Harry James and his Orchestra
Duke's Mixture
1941
Classics
1999
March 26, 1941.
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Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Everything but You
1945
Classics
1996
May 1, 1945. Joyce Sherrill vocal.
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Cootie Williams and his Orchestra
Red Blues
1941-1944
Classics
1995
January 6, 1944. Ediie Vinson vocal.
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Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians
Collegiate
Nipper's Greatest Hits of the 1920's
BMG
1990
April 4, 1925. Fred Waring was born in Tyrone, PA. June 9, 1900.
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King Oliver and his Orchestra
I've Got That Thing
1928-1930
Classics
1991
January 16, 1929. Walter Pichon vocal. Oliver was Louis Armstrong's mentor and is my favorite horn player.
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McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Will You, Won't You Be My Babe
1928-1930
BMG
1990
April 8, 1929.
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The Gulf Coast Seven
Keep Your Temper
Willie the Lion Smith 1925-1937
Classics
1992
November 5, 1925. Willie Smith piano. Jimmy Harrison trombone.
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Johnny Dodds and his Chicago Boys
Melancholy
1928-1940
Classics
1992
January 21, 1938. Dodds is my favorite clarinet player and a New Orleanian to boot.
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Phillipe Brun
Whoa Babe
Django Reinhardt 1937 vol. 2
Classics
1994
September 9, 1937. Brun trumpet, Django guitar.
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Willie Smith-Sidney Bechet Orchestra
Original Haitian Music Pt. 1-2
Bechet 1938-1940
Classics
1991
November 22, 1939. Really different stuff from Harlem stride pianist Wille the Lion Smith and New Orleanian Bechet.
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Fats Waller and his Rhythm
Swinga-Dilla Street
1939-1940
Classics
1998
January 12, 1940.
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Jonah Jones Sextet
12th Street Rag
1936-1945
Classics
1998
September 20, 1944. Jonah Jones trumpet.
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Stuff Smith and his Orchestra
I've Got You Under My Skin
1939-1944
Classics
1999
March 1940. Jonah Jones trumpet, Stuff Smith violin.
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Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
Jonah Joins the Cab
1940-1941
Classics
1992
March 5, 1941. Jonah Jones trumpet.
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Earl Hines and his Orchestra
Rhythm Rhapsody
1934-1937
Classics
1990
August 10, 1937.
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Gene Krupa and his Orchestra
Drum Boogie
Krupa Story
Proper
1998
January 17, 1941. For Mattie from Pat O's.
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Chick Webb and his Orchestra
Midnight in a Madhouse
Spinnin' the Webb
MCA
1994
December 17, 1937.
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Count Basie and his Orchestra
John's Idea
1936-1938.
Classics
1990
July 7, 1937.
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Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Suddenly it Jumped
1945-1946
Classics
1998
July 9, 1946.
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Raymond Scott Quintet
Oil Gusher
Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
Sony
1992
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Ilinois Jacquet
Jacquet in the Box
1945-1946
Classics
1997
January 7, 1946.
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Red Allen and his Orchestra
Down in Jungle Town
1937-1941
Classics
1992
May 28, 1940. requested for Algiers Point.
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Fats Waller
Tanglefoot
1929
Classics
1993
August 29, 1929. Pipe organ solo.
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Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
June 10th Jamboree
Jivin' with Jordan
Proper
2002
January 25, 1940. For all those celebrating Juneteenth this weekend.
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Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra
Jangled Nerves
1934-1937
Classics
1990
April 9, 1936.
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Lionel Hampton and his Septet
Blow Top Blues
Hampton Story
Proper
2000
May 21, 1945. Dinah Washington vocal.
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Django Reinhardt
Distraction
1941-1942
Classics
1996
April 16, 1942.
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Cole Porter
You're the Top
Nipper's Greatest Hits of the 1930's vol. 1
BMG
1991
October 11, 1934. Cole Porter's birthday was June 9, 1891.
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Martha Tilton
It's De-Lovely
The Complete Standard Transcriptions
Soundies
Tilton rose to fame as vocalist for Goodman's Orchestra, here doing another Cole Porter number.
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Billie Holiday
Easy to Love
Night and Day: The Cole Porter Songbook
Verve
1990
Another Cole Porter song.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Night and Day
Night and Day: The Cole Porter Songbook
Verve
1990
Closing out our Cole Poter birthday set.
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Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra
Time's A wastin'
1937-1939
Classics
1990
January 3, 1939. Requested by Snooks Eaglin for Jimmie Luncefor'd birthday set June 6, 2002.
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Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra
Whatcha Know, Joe
1940-1941
Classics
1992
July 9, 1940. My contribution to the Lunceford birthday celebration.
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Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchetsra
Well, All Right Then
1939
Classics
1990
May 17, 1939. Snooks picked this one to close the Lunceford set.
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Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra
Perdido Street Blues
1940-1942
Classics
1993
May 27, 1940. Our featured New Orleans artist for the week + Sidney Bechet playing as lagniappe.
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Floyd Ray and his Orchestra
3:00 in the Morning
Tea Pad Songs
Stash
1976
February 1939. Closing theme.
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