Swing Shift
NOW CELEBRATING 30 YEARS! ON THE AIR SINCE 1996!
Two Hours of Classic Big Band Memories Every Saturday!
Record 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. 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 MAY 30, 2026
HOUR ONE
"Apache Dance" Jan Garber
"Was It Worth It?" Johnny Long
"Put Some Money in the Juke Box" Les Brown
"Four or Five Times" Woody Herman
"March of the Mustangs" Bob Crosby
"Baby" Phil Harris
"Static Strut" Paul Specht
"Never Swat a Fly" McKinney's Cotton Pickers
"That Certain Feeling" Bert Firman
"Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!" Billy Cotton
"Rockin' the Town" The Hudson-DeLang Orchestra
"Green Eyes" Gene Krupa
"Opus Five" John Kirby
"Sleeper Jump" Ray Herbeck
"Three Guesses" Ruby Newman
"Der Fuehrer's Face" Spike Jones
HOUR TWO
"What'cha Gonna Do?" Jimmie Lunceford
"Feather Merchants' Ball" Teddy Powell
"Jumpin' in the Numbers" Skeets Tolbert
"This Can't Be Love" Horace Heidt
"Where in the World?" Larry Clinton
"Love is Never Out of Season" Tommy Dorsey
"It's Wonerful" Maxine Sullivan
"Love is a Merry-Go-Round" Artie Shaw
"It's Time for Tea" Jack Teagarden
"All This and Heaven, Too" Dick Todd
"Easy Living" Charlie Barnet
"Nails" Jimmy Heath
"Jivin' With Jack the Bellboy" Illinois Jacquet
"Midnight Curfew" Ray Anthony
"Skycoach" Ray Anthony
"The Nearness of You" Jimmy Dorsey