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).  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 8, 2025

HOUR ONE

"Southern Scandal" Stan Kenton
"Careless" Glenn Miller
"Jennie" Duke Ellington
"Boog It" Gene Krupa
"Rockin' Rollers' Jubilee" Erskine Hawkins

"Headin' for Better Times" Ted Lewis
"I'd Rather Be a Beggar With You" Chick Bullock
"The Flippity Flop" The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
"Here You Come With Love" Freddy Martin
"Learn to Croon" Jimmie Grier

"A Star Fell Out of Heaven" Hal Kemp
"There's a Lull in My Life" Teddy Wilson
"Impromptu Ensemble No. 1" Eddie Condon
"You Mean So Much to Me" Maxine Sullivan
"Meet Doctor Foo" Coleman Hawkins
"It's a Hundred to One" Dick Jurgens

HOUR TWO

"Strangers" Buddy Morrow
"Again, Again, Again" Lawrence Welk
"Busse Bounce" Henry Busse
"Zozoi" Claude Hopkins
"An Old, Old Castle in Scotland" Artie Shaw

"Congratulations" Frankie Carle
"You're Not So Easy to Forget" Claude Thornhill
"Devil May Care" Jack Teagarden
"Oui, Ma Cherie" Vaughn Monroe
"Blue and Sentimental" Count Basie

"Kissing Bug" Duke Ellington
"Coffee Time" Harry James
"Repetition" Neal Hefti
"Harlem Air Shaft" Duke Ellington
"Things to Come" Dizzy Gillespie
"You and Your Love" The Pied Pipers

 

PLAY LIST FOR FEBRUARY 15, 2025

HOUR ONE

"You Couldn't Be Cuter" Tommy Dorsey
"Kickapoo Joy Juice Jolt" Alvino Rey
"Off Limits" Jerry Gray
"I'm Going Mad for a Pad" Stan Kenton
"Night on the Shalimar" Jack Teagarden

"You've Got Me Picking Petals Off o'Daisies" The High Hatters
"Marvelous" Ted Weems
"Baby, Take a Bow" Nye Mayhew
"Rhythm Crazy" Horace Henderson
"Sweeping the Clouds Away" The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks

"A Weekend in Havana" Jan Savitt
"The Walter Winchell Rhumba" Xavier Cugat
"Free Love" Mezz Mezzrow
"Slider" Ray Anthony
"Symphony in Riffs" Benny Carter
"Lumby" Charlie Barnet

HOUR TWO

"The Bad Humor Man" Jimmy Dorsey
"Malibu" Benny Carter
"Because of You" Larry Clinton
"Fill-Up" Skeets Tolbert
"Confessin' the Blues" Jay McShann

"Fit to Be Tied" Will Bradley-Ray McKinley
"Please Be Kind" Maxine Sullivan
"Warm Valley" Duke Ellington
"Adios" Claude Thornhill
"The Rustle of Swing" Cab Calloway

"Dream a Little Dream of Me" Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
"Big Man on Campus" Les Elgart
"Wagon Wheels" The Dorsey Brothers
"Harlem Swing" Alex Combelle
"It's Never Too Late to Pray" Randy Brooks
"At Sundown" Artie Shaw