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 NOVEMBER 7, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Southern Scandal" Stan Kenton
"Traffic Jam" Artie Shaw
"Jennie" Duke Ellington
"Sweet Eloise" Glenn Miller
"Rockin' Rollers' Jubilee" Erskine Hawkins

"I'm Satisfied" Duke Ellington
"Marvelous" Ted Weems
"Let's Fly Away" Anson Weeks
"Rhythm Crazy" Horace Henderson
"Stockholm Stomp" Fletcher Henderson

"Listen to the Glissen" Will Osborne
"On the Outside Looking In" Harry Roy
"Wrappin' It Up" Benny Goodman
"Two Spring Tonics" Ray Herbeck
"So Many Times" Jack Teagarden
"It's Swell of You" Teddy Wilson

HOUR TWO

"Blue Light Blues" Benny Carter
"Cadillac Slim" Benny Carter
"Lackawanna Local" Ray Anthony
"Maybe" Bob Chester
"Strangers" Buddy Morrow

"Midnight Masquerade" Frankie Carle
"Snowfall" Claude Thornhill
"Do You Care?" Blue Barron
"Rainbow Rhapsody" Glenn Miller
"Time Was" Wayne King

"Lonesome Lover Blues" Billy Eckstine
"Smarty Pants" Dolly Dawn
"Charlie's Dream" Les Elgart
"Love on a Greyhound Bus" Guy Lombardo, et al.
"Fare Thee Well, Annie Laurie" Gene Krupa
"You're Easy to Dance With" Benny Goodman

 

PLAYLIST FOR NOVEMBER 14, 2026

HOUR ONE

"You Couldn't Be Cuter" Tommy Dorsey
"Artistry Jumps" Stan Kenton
"Off Limits" Jerry Gray
"Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen" The Andrews Sisters
"Night on the Shalimar" Jack Teagarden

"Goose Pimples" The Dixie Stompers
"Put It There" McKinney's Cotton Pickers
"Sweetie Dear" The New Orleans Feetwarmers (Sidney Bechet)
"Willie the Weeper" Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven
"Deep Hollow" B. A. Rolfe

"Jiveformation, Please" Cab Calloway
"Nothin's Blue But the Sky" Kay Kyser
"When I'm With You" Hal Kemp
"I'm Coming, Virginia" Will Bradley/Ray McKinley
"Igor" Woody Herman
"Gandy Dancer" George Hall

HOUR TWO

"Busse Bounce" Henry Busse
"Close to You" Ambrose
"An Old, Old Castle in Scotland" Artie Shaw
"Suicide Leap" Sam Donahue
"The Bad Humor Man" Jimmy Dorsey

"If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)" Jack Teagarden
"From Another World" Shep Fields
"Room Five Hundred and Four" Geraldo
"Stella by Starlight" Harry James
"To You, Sweetheart, Aloha" Guy Lombardo

"The Lady's in Love With You" Dolly Dawn
"Rumpus in Richmond" Duke Ellington
"Swinging on a Star" Freddie Slack (with The Brian Sisters)
"What a Deal!" Frankie Carle
"Basie English" Count Basie

 

COMING SOON!  OUR ANNUAL WINTER/CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR SPECIAL PROGRAMMING!