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.  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 APRIL 18, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Crosstown" Duke Ellington
"Put That Kiss Back Where You Found It" Benny Goodman
"And the Angels Sing" Glenn Miller
"Oh, Boy! What Joy We Had in Barefoot Days!" Johnny Long
"When I Go a-Dreamin'" Benny Goodman

"Baltimore" Frankie Trumbauer
"Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee" Enric Madriguera
"Big House Blues" Duke Ellington
"You Ought to Be in Pictures" Richard Himber
"On the Wrong Side of the Fence" Jan Garber

"I Won't Tell a Soul I Love You" Jan Savitt
"Me, Myself and I" Billie Holiday
"My Old Kentucky Home" Glen Gray
"Exactly Like You" Don Redman
"Zaggin' With Zig" Ziggy Elman

HOUR TWO

"'ay Now!" Count Basie
"Scoops Carry Mary" Earl 'Fatha' Hines
"Billboard March" Les Brown
"You're Laughing at Me" Fats Waller
"Boff Boff" Coleman Hawkins

"Blossoms" Tony Pastor
"Time Was" Charlie Spivak
"I Wish I Were Aladdin" Will Osborne
"We Mustn't Say Goodbye" Ivy Benson
"I'll Be Walkin' With My Honey" Sammy Kaye

"Our Delight" Fats Navarro
"Tangerine" Jimmy Dorsey
"Mississippi Flyer" Tex Beneke
"Your Socks Don't Match" Bing Crosby & Louis Jordan
"Forty Below" Shorty Rogers
"Yardbird Suite" Claude Thornhill