Swing Shift

SOON 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 DECEMBER 13, 2025

SWING SHIFT CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, PART THREE!

HOUR ONE

"Dig That Crazy Santa Claus" Ralph Marterie
"Shake Hands With Santa Claus" Louis Prima
"Everybody's Waitin' for the Man With the Bag" Kay Starr
"Whatcha Gonna Get Me for Christmas?" Jan Garber
"The Fattest Man in Town" Bob Chester
"Too Fat for the Chimney" Jerry Colonna

"Christmas Medley" Stan Kenton
"T'was the Night Before Christmas" Martha Tilton and Harry Babbitt

"The Christmas Spell" Anne Shelton
"Midnight Sleigh Ride" The Sauter/Finegan Orchestra
"Song of the Sleigh Bells" June Hutton
"Holiday in Harlem" Chick Webb with Ella Fitzgerald
"Christmas Night in Harlem" Louis Armstrong
"Christmas Night in Harlem" Hal Kemp

HOUR TWO

"December Blue" Duke Ellington
"December" The Mills Brothers with Count Basie
"Jolly Jolly Jingle" Blue Barron
"Snowy White Snow and Jingle Bells" Vaughn Monroe
"In a Merry Mood" Barnabas Von Geczy
"My Birthday Comes on Christmas" Spike Jones

"The Toy Town Parade" The Piccadilly Revelers
"They Would Wind Him Up and He Would Whistle" Dick Powell (?)
"The Toy Trumpet" Raymond Scott
"The Toy Maker's Dream" Horace Heidt
"Toyland Waltz" Harry Horlick

"Picnic in the Wintertime" Boyd Raeburn
"Down t' Uncle Bill's" Hal Kemp
"The Christmas Story" Doris Day
"Tell Santy I Live in a Shanty" Frank Daily with Ann Lee Davies
"The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" Jimmy Ray with The Southern Serenaders
"Santa, Bring My Mommy Back to Me" George Hall with Dolly Dawn

 

PLAY LIST FOR DECEMBER 20, 2025

SWING SHIFT CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, PART FOUR!

HOUR ONE

"The Dixieland Band from Santa Claus Land" Jimmy Dorsey
"Does Santa Claus Sleep With His Whiskers Over or Under the Sheets?" Henry Hall
"Don't Wait 'til the Night Before Christmas" Eddy Duchin
"Santa Claus for President" Sammy Kaye
"May Every Day Be Christmas" Louis Jordan

"We Wish You the Merriest" Tex Beneke with The Modernaires
"A Savoy Christmas Medley" Debroy Somers
"Silent Night, Holy Night" Paul Whiteman
"Christmas Time" Vera Lynn

"Meet Me Under the Mistletoe" Dick Robertson
"I Wanna Do More Than Whistle (Under the Mistletoe)" Les Brown
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" Stan Kenton
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" Bing Crosby with The Andrews Sisters
"Greensleeves (What Child is This?)" Les & Larry Elgart
"If I Were Santa Claus" Guy Lombardo

HOUR TWO

"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" Tommy Dorsey
"He's a Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus" Tex Beneke
"Look Out the Window (The Winter Song)" Russ Morgan
"Old Saint Nicholas" Doris Day
"Christmas Bells at Even'tide" Gracie Fields

"The Merry Christmas Polka" The Andrews Sisters
"The Boogie Woogie Santa Claus" Lionel Hampton
"When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney" Billy Cotton
"The Only Thing I Want for Christmas" Eddie Cantor
"That's What I Want for Christmas" Dick Robertson

"Santa Claus Came in the Spring" Benny Goodman
"Silver Bells" Shep Fields
"I'm Going Home for Christmas" Sydney Lipton
"Christmas Island" Guy Lombardo with The Andrews Sisters
"The Christmas Song" Les Brown with Doris Day
"A Merry American Christmas" Dinah Shore
"White Christmas" Bing Crosby