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 JULY 11, 2026

HOUR ONE

"I Wouldn't Take a Million" Tommy Dorsey
"Rattle and Roll" Benny Goodman
"The Earl" Earl Hines
"This is It" Randy Brooks
"I Won't Go Home" Kay Kyser

"She Shall Have Music" Jack Hylton
"Navy Blues" Fred Waring
"Hole in the Wall" Red Norvo
"I'm Making Faces at the Man in the Moon" The Boswell Sisters
"Get Out and Get Under the Moon" Paul Whiteman

"Deep in a Dream" Artie Shaw
"Sweet Georgia Brown" John Kirby
"If What You Say is True" Jack Teagarden
"Farewell Blues" Glenn Miller
"Gin Mill Special" Erskine Hawkins
"It's a Lonely Trail" Russ Morgan

HOUR TWO

"Puddle Wamp" Tommy Dorsey
"I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder" Guy Lombardo
"The Moon is Always Bigger on Saturday" Orrin Tucker
"Dedicated to You" Ella Fitzgerald
"Stumpy" Coleman Hawkins

"In the Dark" Freddy Martin
"Last Call for Love" Tommy Dorsey
"Remember Me?" Tommy Dorsey
"Fit to be Tied" Will Bradley/Ray McKinley
"Candy" Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers

"Carle Meets Rossini" Frankie Carle
"El Rancho Grande" Tony Pastor
"Scottish Samba" Edmundo Ros
"Tuxedo Junction" Glenn Miller
"My Baby Likes to Bebop" Ella Fitzgerald
"The Trolley Song" The Pied Pipers

 

PLAY LIST FOR JULY 18, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Leap Frog" Les Brown
"Dark Eyes" Will Bradley/Ray McKinley
"I Have Eyes" Benny Goodman
"John's Idea" Count Basie
"Bob's Mob" Bobby Sherwood

"I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" Harry Roy
"There's Always Tomorrow" Jack Hylton
"Makin' Whoopee" Eddie Cantor
"I Won't Dance" Harry Roy
"Hum All Your Troubles Away" Zach White

"Sepia Panorama" Duke Ellington
"Sugar is Sweet, and So Are You" Louis Prima
"Shawny O'Shea" The Satisfiers
"The Mayor of Alabam'" The Three T's
"My Walkin' Stick" Ray Noble

HOUR TWO

"Remember" Glen Gray
"Dance Medley" Johnny Long
"Roller Skating on a Rainbow" Blue Baron
"Born to Lose" Tiny Hill
"Time Out" Jack Teagarden

"An Old Flame Never Dies" Tommy Dorsey
"Moon at Sea" Shep Fields
"Don't Blame Me" Shep Fields
"The Love That I Have for You" Vaughn Monroe
"At Least You Could Say Hello" Jack Teagarden

"Somehow" Bill Eckstine
"The Weasel Pops Off" Les Elgart
"Hot Toddy" Ralph Flanagan
"Last One" Chico O'Farrill
"Nellie's Nightmare" Buddy Rich