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 SEPTEMBER 12, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Robin Hood" Les Brown
"This Little Icky Went to Town" Will Bradley/Ray McKinley
"An Old Flame Never Dies" Tommy Dorsey
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" Les Brown
"Paxonia" George Paxton

"I'd Rather Cry Over You" Paul Whiteman
"Everybody Loves My Girl" Ted Weems
"Hello, Gorgeous!" Buddy Rogers
"Hollywood Shuffle" The Jazz Wizards
"Headin' for Better Times" Ted Lewis

"In the Bag" Lionel Hampton
"The Devil is Afraid of Music" Glen Gray
"Turning the Town Upside Down" Jack Jackson
"La Paloma" The Merry Macs
"I'm in a Dancing Mood" Charlie Kunz
"West End Blues" Charlie Barnet

HOUR TWO

"You Gave Me the Runaround" Sonny Dunham
"How Little We Know" Eric Winstone
"Harlem Confusion" Bob Chester
"Goofus" Jimmie Grier
"I'd Rather Be Me" Ambrose

"On Green Dolphin Street" Dick Jurgens
"Concerto for Two" Dick Todd
"You Started Something" Tony Pastor
"Whip-Poor-Will" Tex Beneke
"Ev'ry Night About This Time" Art Kassel

"A Trumpeter's Lullabye" Ralph Marterie
"I'm Sorry for Myself" Tony Pastor
"Bugle Breaks" Duke Ellington
"So Far, So Good" Duke Ellington
"Take Care" Bob Chester
"Swingin' On Out" Ralph Marterie

 

PLAYLIST FOR SEPTEMBER 19, 2026

ANNUAL "GOODBYE SUMMER, HELLO FALL!" SPECIAL

HOUR ONE

"When Summer is Gone" Jack Hylton
"Goodbye to Summer" Greta Keller
"Summer's End" Geraldo/Al Bowlly
"Now That Summer is Gone" Red Novo/Mildred Bailey
"Summer Souvenirs" Larry Clinton/Bea Wain
"The Things We Did Last Summer" Stan Kenton

"Summer Sequence" (Parts 1 through 4) Woody Herman

"Stealin' Apples" Fletcher Henderson
"An Apple a Day" Ruby Newman
"You're the Apple of My Eye" Louis Armstrong/Velma Middleton
"In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" Midge Williams' Jazz Jesters
"Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" Glenn Miller/Tex Beneke/The Modernaires
"They Just Chopped Down the Old Apple Tree" Kay Kyser

HOUR TWO

"When Autumn Leaves Are Falling" Jack Denny
"Falling Leaves" Jimmy Dorsey
"When the Leaves Bid the Trees Goodbye" Victor Young
"Lullaby of the Leaves" George Olsen
"Like a Leaf in the Wind" Tommy Dorsey
"Autumn Leaves" Ray Anthony

"Autumn Nocturne" Charlie Spivak
"It Looks Like an Early Fall" Anson Weeks
"Early Autumn" Claude Thornhill
"Autumn Serenade" The Modernaires
"Autumn in New York" Richard Himber
"T'is Autumn" The King Sisters

"September Song" Ted Heath
"September in the Rain" Henry King
"I'll Always Remember September" Peter van Steden
"Indian Summer" Sidney Bechet