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SWING SHIFT Program Guide
WINTER & SPRING 2012
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January 7, 2012 - Our regular mix. We start the new year
off right with another two hours of classic Big Band Jazz!
January 14, 2012 - SPECIAL SHOW! Steve and John play
just a very few of their all-time favorite Big Band recordings to
celebrate The Swing Shift's 16th Anniversary! Jack
Teagarden: "Swinging on the Teagarden Gate". Jan
Savitt: "720 in the Book". Larry Clinton: "The
Dipsy Doodle". Mel Torme & the Mel*Tones:
"That's Where I Came In". John Kirby: "Double
Talk". Glenn Miller: "Little Brown Jug".
Mills Blue Rhythm Band: "The Dancing Dogs". The
Andrews Sisters: "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy". Lucky
Millinder: "Savoy". Ted Heath: "Lady
Bird", and many, many more!
January 21, 2012 - More of our regular mix - two hours of memories
from The Big Band Era!
January 28, 2012 - Our regular mix. We keep swinging into
the new year with another two hours of favorite hits and forgotten
gems from the Swing Era!
February 4, 2012 - More of our regular mix - the best music from
the Swing Years!
February 11, 2012 - SPECIAL SHOW! Please join us for
our annual Valentine's Day Special (a little early this
year)! Two hours of your favorite Big Bands performing your favorite music
about Love and Romance! Larry Clinton: "Comes Love".
Ted Heath: Love is the Sweetest Thing". Billy Eckstine &
Sarah Vaughan: "You're Just in Love". Blue Barron:
"Heart and Soul". Jan Garber: "It's Love, Love,
Love!". Cliff Edwards: "Old Fashioned Love". Ozzie
Nelson: 'Head Over Heels in Love". Billie Holiday: "Easy
to Love". Francis Langford: "I'm in the Mood for
Love". Tex Beneke: "Cynthia's in Love", and many,
many more!
February 18, 2012 - Back to our regular mix - another two hours
of the music that helped get America through the Great Depression
and World War Two!
February 25, 2012 - Our regular mix - more great, swingin' sounds
from your favorite Big Bands!
March 3, 2012 - More of our regular mix - wonderful "memory
music" for the Swing Era!
March 10, 2012 - More of our regular mix - the best music from
the Swing Years!
March 17, 2012 - SPECIAL SHOW! Be sure to join us
for our annual "Goodbye Winter/Hello Spring/Happy St.
Patrick's Day/It's Baseball Season/Easter's On It's Way" program!
Maxine Sullivan: "Spring is Here". Kay Starr: "It
Happens Every Spring". Benny Goodman: "Spring Song".
Ray Herbeck: "Two Spring Tonics". Billie Holiday:
"Some Other Spring". Les Brown: "Joltin' Joe
DiMaggio". Count Basie: "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit
That Ball?". Ray Noble: "A Little Bit o' Blarney".
Bunny Berigan: "The Wearin' of the Green". Bob Strong:
"The Irish Washerwoman". Dean Hudson: "Danny
Boy", and many more!
March 24, 2012 - Our regular mix - more fun, swingin' sounds
from the glory days of the Big Bands!
March 31, 2012 - SPECIAL SHOW! Steve and John drag
out some of the silliest Big Band sounds you've ever heard for their
annual "April Fools' Day" show (one day early, this
year)! Listen for lots of fun tracks from Spike Jones and
Louis Jordan, as well as ... Guy Marks: "Loving You Has Made Me
Bananas". Guy Lombardo: "I'm My Own Grandpa". Betty
Johnson: "The Little Blue Man". Charlie Barnett: "The
Wrong Idea". Stan Freberg: "Wunnerful, Wunnerful".
Sammy Kaye: "Chickery Chick". Woody Herman: "The
Laughing Boy Blues", and plenty more!
April 7, 2012 - Regular mix - another two hours of your favorite
sounds from the fabulous Swing Era!
April 14, 2012 - More of our regular mix - we keep swinging into
Spring with the best from the Big Band Years!
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BORN ON THIS DATE
February
7, 1882 - Pioneer Ragtime & Dixieland Jazz Clarinetist/Composer WILBUR
SWEATMAN. February 7, 1887 - Ragtime, Jazz, Pop &
Broadway Composer/Lyricist/Pianist EUBIE BLAKE (co-wrote "Memories of
You", "I'm Just Wild About Harry", many more). February
7, 1895 - Big Band Pianist/Leader IRVING AARONSON. February
7, 1929 - London-Born Jazz Clarinetist DAVE SHEPHERD (with Billie Holiday,
Gerry Mulligan, Teddy Wilson, others). HAPPY 83rd BIRTHDAY, DAVE! February
7, 1934 - Jazz, Swing, R&B, Blues and Soul Saxophonist KING CURTIS. February
8, 1899 - Blues & Jazz Guitarist/Vocalist LONNIE JOHNSON. February
8, 1916 - London-Born Jazz Saxophonist JIMMY SKIDMORE (with Humphrey
Lyttelton, George Shearing, Kenny Baker, others). February
8, 1919 - Big Band & Easy Listening Trombonist/Leader BUDDY MORROW. February
8, 1926 - Jazz Saxophonist PONY POINDEXTER (with Charlie Parker, Eric
Dolphy, Nat 'King' Cole, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, others). February
9, 1900 - Jazz & Big Band Bassist WALTER "Hoss" PAGE (with
Bennie Moten, The Kansas City Blue Devils, others). February
9, 1910 - Big Band & Jazz Trumpet Player PEANUTS HOLLAND (with Jimmie
Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, Charlie Barnet, others). February
9, 1913 - Boogie Woogie Pianist & Big Band Leader ERSKINE
BUTTERFIELD. February 9, 1927 - Jazz Saxophonist
& Clarinetist JOE MANERI. February 10, 1893 -
Comedian/Vocalist/Pianist JIMMY DURANTE (started out as a Ragtime &
Jazz Pianist. With The Original New Orleans Jazz Band). February
10, 1907 - Big Band Saxophonist & Arranger FOOTS THOMAS (with Jelly
Roll Morton, Cab Calloway, Don Redman). February 10, 1909
- Big Band Drummer/Leader CHICK WEBB. February 10,
1914 - Classical, Swing, Pop & Easy Listening Harmonica Player LARRY
ADLER. February 11, 1901 - Big Band Trombonist CLAUDE
JONES (with Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Cab Calloway, others). February
11, 1914 - Seattle-Born Big Band Pianist/Vocalist/Composer MATT DENNIS
(with Horace Heidt, Tommy Dorsey. Wrote/co-wrote "Everything
Happens to Me", "Angel Eyes", "The Night We Called It
a Day", others). February 11, 1922 - Jazz Bassist
BOB CARTER (with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Charlie Ventura, Shelly
Manne, others). February 12, 1912 - Big Band Saxophonist
PAUL BASCOMB (with Erskine Hawkins, Count Basie). February
12, 1914 - Big Band Saxophonist/Vocalist/Leader TEX BENEKE. February
12, 1923 - Jazz & Big Band Drummer ART MARDIGAN (with Woody Herman,
Pete Rugolo, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, others). February
12, 1926 - Jazz & Big Band Trumpet Player BUDDY CHILDERS (with Stan
Kenton, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Les Brown). February
13, 1900 - Traditional Jazz & Swing Trumpet Player/Vocalist/Leader WINGY
MANONE. February 13, 1903 - Jazz & Swing
Saxophonist/Leader LES HITE. February 13, 1912 -
Big Band Saxophonist ARTHUR ROLLINI (with Benny Goodman, others). February
13, 1921 - Jazz & Big Band Saxophonist WARDELL GRAY (with Earl Hines,
Benny Goodman, Count Basie, others).
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