A hot & humid Atlanta Sunday morning as we gassed up the ol’ Hudson for a cruise down the R&B highway.
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Here’s your Route 66 Playlist for Sunday, September 1, 2019
Host: John
Birthday: Dinah Washington was born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Augus 29, 1924.
Song Artist Original Album or Single & Date
All Night Long (Night Train) Rusty Bryant Dot Records 1954
Rockin’ & Jumpin’ Honey Brown w/ The Freddie Mitchell Orchestra Derby Records 1951
Rockin’ on Sunday Night The Treniers Okeh Records 1952
Summer Nights Ann Cole Baton Records 1958
Walking to New Orleans George Benson Walking to New Orleans: Remembering Chuck Berry and Fats Domino 2019
A Little Bird Told Me Maria Muldaur Don’t You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues Of Blue Lu Barker 2018
Jock-O-Mo Sugar Boy Crawford Checker Records 1953
The Way You Do Jimmy Nolen Federal Records 1956
Ain’t No Fun (When The Rabbit Got the Gun) The Cash Box Kings Hail To The Kings! 2019
Next Time You See Me Little Junior Parker with Bill Harvey’s Band Duke Records 1956
Sit Back Down Esther Phillips Decca Records 1954
The Work Song The Cannonball Adderley Quintet featuring Nat Adderley Them Dirty Blues 1960
Heavy Weight Baby Jimmy Crawford w/ Frank Motley & His Crew Specialty Records 1953
Natch’l Man Carmen Ghia & The Hotrods Flying Saucer Baby 2012
I Say That I Love You Johnny Guitar Watson King Records 1964
Hi-Yo Silver Harold Burrage Decca Records 1950
Gate’s Salty Blues Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Peacock Records 1949
Frankie & Johnny Boogie 1 Tiny Grimes & His Rocking Highlanders Gotham Records 1949
8:00 a.m. Tribute to Dinah Washington
Evil Gal Blues Lionel Hampton w/ Dinah Washington Keynote Records 1943
Blow Top Blues Lionel Hampton w/ Dinah Washington Decca Records 1947
What A Difference A Day Makes Coleman Hawkins Parrot Records 1953
I Don’t Hurt Anymore Blue Harlem w/ Imelda May Jump Jack Jump 2007
Double Dealing Daddy Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1952
Teach Me Tonight Count Basie & Joe Williams Count Basie Swings & Joe Williams Sings 1956
This Bitter Earth Aretha Franklin Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington 1964
A Slick Chick (On The Mellow Side) Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1946
Backwater Blues B.B. King One Kind Favor 2008
A Rockin’ Good Way Priscilla Bowman & The Spaniels Abner Records 1958
Baby Get Lost Donna Greene & The Roadhouse Daddies A Girl’s Gotta Have A Little Pleasure 2008
Am I Asking Too Much? Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1948
Ain’t Misbehavin’ Dinah Washington Dinah Washington Sings Fats Waller
(Baby) You Got What It Takes Buddy Guy & Joss Stone Born To Play Guitar 2015
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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