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)

 

PLAYLIST FOR OCTOBER 24, 2026

HOUR ONE

"On the Other End of a Kiss" Frankie Masters
"African Lament" Bob Strong
"South Rampart Street Parade" Bob Crosby
"The Frim-Fram Sauce" Les Brown
"Bone Dry" Louis Jordan

"A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid" The Washboard Rhythm Kings
"I'd Rather Be a Beggar With You" Chick Bullock
"In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town" Ted Lewis
"Here You Come With Love" Freddy Martin
"All of Me" Louis Armstrong

"Swell People" Dolly Dawn
"Five O'Clock Whistle" Ina Ray Hutton
"Devil's Holiday" Benny Carter
"Zooming at the Zombie" John Kirby
"Let's Take Up Where We Left Off" Henry Busse
"My Blue Heaven" Glenn Miller

HOUR TWO

"Sorry" Al Trace
"Blues to the Dole" Jack Teagarden
"To Me, You're a Song" Ralph Flanagan
"Teddy Bear Boogie" Teddy Powell
"Hey, Little Hen" Joe Loss

"I'll Just Close My Eyes (and Make-Believe It's You)" Anne Shelton
"Can't Get Out of This Mood" Kay Kyser
"I Won't Tell a Soul" Lawrence Welk
"It All Comes Back to Me Now" Jack Teagarden
"Gee, It's Good to Hold You" Woody Herman

"Ray's Idea" Dizzy Gillespie
"Dream" The Pied Pipers
"Barnyard Boogie" Louis Jordan
"Perfidia" Jimmy Dorsey
"Please, Opportunity" Ted Heath
"When You're in Love" Tony Pastor

 

PLAYLIST FOR OCTOBER 31, 2026

THE SWING SHIFT'S ANNUAL 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/Ken Darby Vocal Trio
"Trick of Treat" 1956 Donald Duck Cartoon Soundtrack

"Swamp Ghosts" Snooks Friedman
"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's Tympany Five
"The Wobblin' Goblin" Rosemary Clooney
"Ol' Man Mose is Dead" Eddy Duchin/Patricia Norman
"Mysterious Mose" Jack Albin
OUTRO: "Spooky Spooks" Prince's Orchestra

HOUR TWO

"The Black Cat" Ozzie Nelson
"The Little Man Who Wasn't There" Red Norvo/Mildred Bailey
"Spooks" Louis Armstrong
"The Headless Horseman" Billy Butterfield/Kay Starr
"With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" Rudy Vallee/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/Pee Wee Hunt
"The Yodeling Ghost" Bing Crosby/The Andrews Sisters
"Ghost of a Chance" Will Osborne
"Mr. Ghost Goes to Town" Louis Prima
"Everything Happens to Me (Lament by Frankenstein)" Spike Jones/Paul Frees

"Haunted Nights" Duke Ellington
"Haunted Heart" Guy Lombardo
"The House is Haunted (by the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)" Glen Gray/Pee Wee Hunt
"The Haunted House" Ray Noble
OUTRO: "Spooky Spooks" Prince's Orchestra