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 JUNE 20, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Relaxin'" Harry James
"One O'Clock Jump" Count Basie
"The Golden Bullet" Count Basie
"Herman at the Sherman" Woody Herman
"Soft Winds" Erskine Hawkins

"The Road is Open Again" Dick Powell
"Hop Off" Fletcher Henderson
"Love is Good for Anything That Ails You" Orlando
"Stop Kidding" McKinney's Cotton Pickers
"Doggone, I've Done It" Harry Roy

"Everytime I Look at You" Glen Gray
"Wild Man of the Fishpond" Charlie Barnet
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" Eddy Duchin
"Just Floatin' Along" Artie Shaw
"Irresistible" Hal Kemp
"Bolero" Benny Goodman

HOUR TWO

"Shady Lady Bird" Benny Goodman
"If You Were But a Dream" Jimmy Dorsey
"Daddy from Georgia Way" Bob Chester
"Let's Jump" Elmer Fain
"Weasel Walk" Joe Morris

"In the Mission by the Sea" Horace Heidt
"Maria Elena" Jan Garber
"Knee Deep in Star Dust" Chuck Foster
"Prelude to the Dawn" Boyd Raeburn
"Midnight in Paris" Annunzio Mantovani

"Sweets" Stan Kenton
"In a Little Spanish Town" Virginia O'Brien, June Allison, et al
"The Best Man" Tommy Tucker
"Paper Picker" Jan Savitt
"I Should Have Kept on Dreaming" Gene Krupa
"Bright One" Chico O'Farrill

PLAY LIST FOR JUNE 27, 2026

HOUR ONE

"The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker" Kay Kyser
"I Ain't Hep to That Step, But I'll Dig It" Les Brown
"There'll Be Some Changes Made" Gene Krupa
"To a Sweet, Pretty Thing" Dolly Dawn
"A City Called Heaven" Will Bradley/Ray McKinnley

"There Ain't No Land Like Dixieland to Me" The Broadway Bellhops
"It's Not You" Jack Hylton
"Sunshine" Whispering Jack Smith
"Tishomingo Blues" Duke Ellington
"I'll See You in My Dreams" Red Nichols

"Idaho State Fair" Vaughn Monroe
"Kick It" Gene Krupa
"Bean Soup" Coleman Hawkins
"Rumba Rumba" Xavier Cugat
"Flo-Flo" Sam Donahue
"Phylisse" Charlie Barnet

HOUR TWO

"I've Got My Eyes on You" Bob Crosby
"Have You Changed?" Gene Krupa
"Constellation" Sam Donahue
"I've Got a One-Track Mind" Kay Kyser
"Love and Kisses" Wingy Manone

"Yesterthoughts" Glenn Miller
"Oh, Brother" Harry James
"How Lucky You Are" Charlie Spivak
"I Can Dream, Can't I?" The Andrews Sisters
"Smoke Dreams" Frankie Carle

"Let Me In" Blue Barron
"Connecticut" The Modernaires
"Mutiny in the Nursery" Glenn Miller
"Good Evening Friends Boogie" Pete Rugolo
"Love is Just Around the Corner" Georgie Auld