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.  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 FEBRUARY 14, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Mmmm ... Mamie" Ray Anthony
"Are You Livin' Old Man?" Stan Kenton
"Blue Cellophane" Duke Ellington
"Jive at Five" Count Basie
"Flat Foot Floogie" Benny Goodman

"The Varsity Drag" George Olsen
"Smile, Darn Ya, Smile" Ben Selvin
"Sweet Thing" Fletcher Henderson
"Corn Fed!" Paul Specht
"When the Rest of the Crowd Goes Home" Ben Selvin

"What's Cooking?" Charlie Spivak
"Massachusetts" Gene Krupa
"Little Brown Jug" Glenn Miller
"Did I Remember?" Bunny Berigan
"Stomp Caprice" Duke Ellington

HOUR TWO

"I'm Thrilled" Glenn Miller
"It's Been So Long" Harry James
"Junior" Johnny Long
"What'll It Be?" Benny Carter
"Can I Help It?" Bob Crosby

"I Understand" Jimmy Dorsey
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love" Una Mae Carlisle
"Moon On My Pillow" Frankie Carle
"The Echo Said 'No'" Art Kassel
"Phantomesque" Coleman Hawkins

"Keb-Lah" Harry James
"Booglie Wooglie Piggy" Will Bradley/Ray McKinley
"Production in Melody" Earle Spencer
"Fiesta Time" Benny Goodman
"Dry Marterie" Ralph Marterie