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 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

 

PLAY LIST FOR JULY 25, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Ooooo-Oh Boom!" Dolly Dawn
"Fur Trappers' Ball" Woody Herman
"Surprise Party" Frankie Carle
"Teen Angel" Benny Goodman
"Rugged Romeo" Duke Ellington

"Chicken Supper Strut" The Triangle Harmony Boys
"My Man in Caroline" Ben Selvin
"My Future Just Passed" Buddy Rogers
"It Might Have Been a Diff'rent Story" Richard Himber
"Easy Money" Fletcher Henderson

"But, Definitely!" Bunny Berigan
"35th and Calumet" Mezz Mezzrow
"Harlem Shout" Jimmie Lunceford
"Jam Fever" Frankie Newton
"It Ain't Necessarily So" Leo Reisman

HOUR TWO

"There's Nothing Like Music" Harry Leader
"Why Do I Lie to Myself About You?" Victor Silvester
"Brass Hats" Tommy Tucker
"Cool, Calm and Collected" Tommy Tucker
"Breathless" Ozzie Nelson

"A Sunday Kind of Love" Claude Thornhill
"Kinda Lonesome" Maxine Sullivan
"I'll Close My Eyes" Lou Preager
"Twilight Song" Claude Thornhill
"Last Night I Said a Prayer" Teddy Powell

"The Opener" Stan Kenton
"Bouncing Around" Alex Combelle
"Desert Serenade" Jerry Gray
"Somewhere a Voice is Calling" Jack Teagarden
"Let's Choo Choo Choo to Idaho" Kay Kyser
"Keen and Peachy" Woody Herman