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 AUGUST 22, 2026

HOUR ONE

"I Want My Share of Love" Larry Clinton
"Gotta Be Gettin'" Stan Kenton
"You" Tommy Dorsey
"A String of Pearls" Glenn Miller
"Half Step Down, Please" Coleman Hawkins

"Two Hearts on a Tree" Billy Cotton
"When I Take My Sugar to Tea" The Boswell Sisters
"All By Yourself in the Moonlight" Whispering Jack Smith
"Potato Head Blues" Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven
"Band Box Shuffle" Bennie Moten

"Thrilled" Hal Kemp
"A Room With a View" Russ Morgan
"Barroom Polka" Russ Morgan
"I Want to Be Happy" Benny Goodman
"I Can't Help It (If I Love You)" Henry Busse
"Scotch and Water" Stan Kenton

HOUR TWO

"Dr. Watson and Mr. Holmes" The Spirits of Rhythm
"Yours" Jimmy Dorsey
"You Rhyme With Everything That's Beautiful" Ambrose
"In an Old Dutch Garden" Dick Jurgens
"It's a Whole New Thing" Blue Barron

"Shadows on the Sand" Glenn Miller
"Here's My Heart" Jack Teagarden
"How Strange" Coleman Hawkins
"Your's is My Heart Alone" Claude Thornhill
"Let's Be Sweethearts Again" Blue Barron

"Palladium Party" Harry James
"Not Mine" Benny Goodman
"Easy Pickin'" Les Elgart
"Jeepers Creepers" The Mills Brothers
"That Lucky Old Sun" Jerry Gray
"Why Don't You Do Right?" Benny Goodman

 

PLAYLIST FOR AUGUST 29, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Five Guys Named Moe" Louis Jordan
"Who?" Benny Goodman
"Like a Leaf in the Wind" Tommy Dorsey
"I Swung the Election" Jack Teagarden
"Beau Night at Hotchkiss Corner" Art Kassel

"We're on the Highway to Heaven" Jackie Taylor
"The Teddy Bears' Picnic" Henry Hall
"Gee, But I'd Like to Make You Happy" The Boswell Sisters
"Yes, Sir! That's My Baby" The Coon/Sanders Nighthawks
"Me and Jane in a Plane" Jack Hylton

"Too Bad" Lou Preager
"Afraid to Say Hello" Charlie Barnet
"I Poured My Heart Into a Song" Artie Shaw
"Can't We Be Friends?" John Kirby
"Announcers' Blues" The Three T's
"San Francisco" Bunny Berigan

HOUR TWO

"One for the Book" Jimmie Lunceford
"Outside of That, I Love You" Teddy Powell
"Ebony Rhapsody" Les Brown
"Mandy" Claude Hopkins
"You Lucky People, You" Bob Chester

"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" Shep Fields
"Blue Prelude" Woody Herman
"Do I Worry?" The Ink Spots
"I'd Know You Anywhere" Glenn Miller
"Now You've Got Me Doing It" Freddy Martin

"That's Earl, Brother" Dizzy Gillespie
"Foozie" Randy Brooks
"G'bye Now" Ray Noble
"Song of the Wanderer" Buddy Morrow
"Cae, Cae" Enric Madriguera
"When You and I Were Young, Maggie" Will Bradley/Ray McKinley
"The Lady is a Tramp" The Dave Pell Octet