Swing Shift

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, Fletcher Henderson, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Will Bradley, Ray McKinley, Dolly Dawn, Jimmie Lunceford, Stan Kenton, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey ... and many more!  

   Be sure to tune-in 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.  Or three).  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 OCTOBER 11, 2025

HOUR ONE

"Nagasaki" Gene Krupa
"Stuff Like That There" Betty Hutton
"Skymaster" Jimmy Mundy
"The Elks' Parade" Bobby Sherwood
"The Major and the Minor" Alvino Rey

"Choo Choo" Paul Whiteman
"The Shepherd of the Hills" Bert Firman
"You're Gonna Lose Your Gal" Jan Garber
"Swing Is In the Air" Jack Hylton
"Louisiana Hayride" Leo Reisman

"I Never Knew" The Chocolate Dandies
"Sugar is Sweet, and So Are You" Louis Prima
"It's the Rhythm in Me" Louis Prima
"I'll Bet You Tell That to All the Girls" Kay Kyser
"Hawaii Sang Me to Sleep" Jack Teagarden
"The Mayor of Alabam" The Three T's

HOUR TWO

"There's Gonna Be a Wedding in the Band" Joe Haymes
"So Long, Sarah Jane" Ambrose
"Stomping Room Only" Henry Busse
"The Pound-Your-Table Polka" Horace Heidt
"Somewhere" Gene Krupa

"A Friend of Yours" Frankie Carle
"Music, Maestro, Please" Kay Kyser
"Louise" Russ Morgan
"This is the Beginning of the End" Will Bradley/Ray McKinley
"For Tonight" Orrin Tucker

"Jay Bird" Lionel Hampton
"Pennies from Heaven" Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
"Sure Thing" Count Basie
"Kiss of Fire" Guy Lombardo
"Bolero in Boogie" Earle Spencer
"Good Bait" Dizzy Gillespie

 

PLAY LIST FOR OCTOBER 18, 2025

HOUR ONE

"Gabriel Meets the Duke" Erskine Hawkins
"Solid Mama" Earl Hines
"Amen" Woody Herman
"Saxa-Woogie" Louis Jordan
"Why'd Ya Make Me Fall in Love?" Benny Goodman

"Sunny Disposish" Jean Goldkette
"Along Came Love" Phil Harris
"Lonesome Lover" Isham Jones
"I'm On the Crest of a Wave" Paul Whiteman
"I Saw Stars" Joe Reichman

"Savoy Blues" Bob Crosby
"35th and Calumet" Mezz Mezzrow
"Way Back in 1939 A.D." Will Osborne
"Jam Fever" Frankie Newton
"Footloose and Fancy-Free" Henry King
"T'ain't Good (Like a Nickel Made of Wood)" Jimmie Lunceford

HOUR TWO

"Two Way Stretch" Raymond Scott
"Good Enough to Keep" Benny Goodman
"Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" Richard Himber
"I'm Satisfied" Harry James
"Day After Day" Artie Shaw

"If I Had a Ribbon Bow" John Kirby
"Sleepy Lagoon" Harry James
"There Must Be a Way" Charlie Spivak
"Don't Take Your Love From Me" Lou Preager
"To Me" Ziggy Elman

"You and I" Tommy Dorsey
"With You On My Mind" Glenn Miller
"Toolie Oolie Doolie" Woody Herman
"Hora Staccato" Frankie Masters
"Stomp and Whistle" Harry James

 

PLAY LIST FOR OCTOBER 25, 2025

SPECIAL SHOW!

THE SWING SHIFT'S HALLOWEEN BIG BAND BASH!

HOUR ONE

"Nightmare" Artie Shaw
"That Old Black Magic" Glenn Miller
"Hell's Bells" Sid Peltyn
"(Got the) Heebie Jeebies" The Boswell Sisters
"The Jitterbug" Judy Garland with Ken Darby Vocal Trio
"Trick or Treat" The Mellomen

"The Shivery Stomp" Frankie Trumbauer
"Dead Man Blues" Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
"I'm a Ghost" 1935 "Scrappy" Cartoon Soundtrack
"T'ain't No Sin (Dance Around in Your Bones)" George Olsen
"The Skeleton in the Closet" Putney Dandridge
"Dry Bones" Fats Waller

"Zombie" Gene Kardos (as Joel Shaw)
"Somebody Done Hoodoo'd the Hoodoo Man" Louis Jordan
"The Wobblin' Goblin" Rosemary Clooney
"Ol' Man Mose is Dead" Eddy Duchin with Patricia Norman
"Mysterious Mose" Jack Albin

HOUR TWO

"The Black Cat" Ozzie Nelson
"The Little Man Who Wasn't There" Mildred Bailey
"Spooks" Louis Armstrong
"The Headless Horseman" Billy Butterfield with Kay Starr
"With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" Rudy Vallee with Cyril Smith

"(I'm Looking for the) Ogo Pogo" Paul Whiteman
"Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bogey Man" Henry Hall
"The Boogie Woogie Man" Glen Gray
"The Yodeling Ghost" Bing Crosby with The Andrews Sisters
"Ghost of a Chance" Will Osborne
"Mr. Ghost Goes to Town" Louis Prima
"Everything Happens to Me" Spike Jones

"Haunted Nights" Duke Ellington
"Haunted Heart" Guy Lombardo
"The House is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)" Glen Gray
"The Haunted House" Ray Noble