Swing Shift

NOW CELEBRATING 30 YEARS!  ON THE AIR SINCE 1996!
Two Hours of Classic Big Band Memories Every Saturday!

SS1130.JPGRecord collectors Steve Laughery (left) and John Heyrend (right) bring you two hours of classic Big Band Jazz on KOMW's Swing Shift every Saturday morning from ten to noon. Hear ALL your favorites - Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Jack Teagarden, Louis Jordan, Claude Thornhill, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Guy Lombardo, Fats Waller, Bunny Berigan, The Andrews Sisters, The Boswell Sisters, The King Sisters, Fletcher Henderson, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Will Bradley, Ray McKinley, Dolly Dawn, Jimmie Lunceford, Stan Kenton, Les Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey ... and many more!  

   Be sure to tune-in each week for lots of fun, swingin'  music from the late 1920's, to the mid 1950's!





 

(Note: Here are the titles and artists for the next SWING SHIFT (or two).  As I'm sure we all know, both computers and DJs can make mistakes.  Also, although it rarely happens, the show could - for various reasons - be preempted)

 

PLAY LIST FOR MARCH 28, 2026

OUR ANNUAL "HELLO, SPRING!"/"HOLY COW, IT'S ALMOST APRIL!" SPECIAL

HOUR ONE

"Spring Song" Tommy Dorsey
"It Might as Well Be Spring" Sammy Kaye
"Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" Ralph Flanagan
"It Seems to Be Spring" The New York Syncopators
"Spring is Here" Al Donahue
"Spring is Here Again" Dell Lampe

"Suddenly It's Spring" Glen Gray
"It's Anybody's Spring" Bobby Sherwood
"Spring is Really Spring This Year" Larry Green
"It Happens Every Spring" Frank Sinatra

"The Rustle of Spring" Frankie Masters
"Soft as Spring" Jack Teagarden
"When You've Got a Little Springtime in Your Heart" Ray Noble
"When It's Springtime in the Rockies" Ben Selvin
"Vienna in Springtime" Jack Jackson
"Paris in the Spring" Geraldo

FIRST OUTRO ("Voices of Spring" Harry Horlick)

HOUR TWO

"Spring Cleaning" Ted Mack
"Spring Fever Blues" Chick Webb
"The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring" Don Redman
"Maybe It's the Spring" Bert Ambrose
"Green-Up Time" Frankie Carle
"Spring Will Be So Sad (When She Comes This Year)" Glenn Miller

"April Showers" Al Jolson
"April in Paris" Freddy Martin
"April in Portugal" Louis Armstrong
"April Played the Fiddle" Bing Crosby
"I'll Remember April" Woody Herman
"When April Comes Again" Jay Randell

"Swing Into Spring" Benny Goodman
"Something Came and Got Me in the Spring" Leslie Holmes
"Spring Magic" Charlie Spivak
"Spring, Spring, Spring" Johnny Mercer

SECOND OUTRO ("Younger Than Springtime" Stan Kenton)

 

PLAY LIST FOR APRIL 4, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Drive-In" Ray Anthony
"You're Different" Les Brown
"Step Up and Shake My Hand" Paul Whiteman with The Modernaires
"No, Baby, Nobody But You" Frankie Carle
"One Night Stand" Sammy Kaye

"Whad'ja Do to Me?" The Boswell Sisters
"The Sheik of Araby" Red Nichols
"What Have We Got to Lose?" Ben Bernie
"A Bench in the Park" Paul Whiteman
"Rockin' in Rhythm" Duke Ellington

"I'd Rather Listen to Your Eyes" Phil Harris
"Way Down Upon the Swanee River" Erskine Hawkins
"Small Fry" Mildred Bailey
"End of the World" Stan Kenton
"Sing, Baby, Sing" Ruby Newman
"Jack the Bellboy" Lionel Hampton

HOUR TWO

"Baby Knows Best" Henry Busse
"Daddy-O" Benny Carter
"Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street" Bob Crosby
"Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet" Boyd Raeburn
"Baltimore Rag" Ralph Flanagan

"Two Hearts That Pass in the Night" Orrin Tucker
"Dreamsville, Ohio" Charlie Spivak
"Here Comes the Night" Ray Herbeck
"Wishing Star" The Modernaires
"Having a Wonderful Wish (Time You Were Here) Shep Fields

"I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin'" Ella Fitzgerald
"When You Awake" Gene Krupa
"How Come?" Jack Teagarden
"It's a Wonderful World" Harry James
"CU-BA" Charlie Barnet
"Another One of Them Things" Tommy Dorsey