We took no prisoners during our Veterans Day Weekend cruise down the rhythm & blues highway.
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Here’s your WRFG Route 66 Playlist for Sunday, November 10, 2019
Host: John
Birthdays: Blue Lu Barker was born Louisa Depont in New Orleans on November 13, 1913. She and her husband, Danny Barker are two of the unsung heroes of jazz and blues.
Gatemouth Moore was born Arnold Dwight Moore in Topeka, Kansas on November 8, 1913
LaVern Baker was born Delores LaVern Baker in Chicago on November 11, 1929
Song Artist Original Album or Single & Date
Thunderbird Maxwell Davis & His Rock’n’Roll Orchestra RPM Records 1955
I Cant Stop It Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy Specialty Records 1948
Ain’t It a Shame? Lloyd Price Specialty Records 1953
King Kong Big “T” Tyler Aladdin Records 1957
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore Piano Red Piano Red In Concert 1956
The C-Jam Blues Duke Ellington & His Orchestra His Master’s Voice (RCA) Records 1942
I’m Just a Lucky So and So Dr. John & the WDR Big Band Big Band Voodoo 2019
Oh Why? Little Richard Here’s Little Richard 1957
We’re Gonna Rock This Joint Four Charms Flatland Boogie 2000
Tweedle Dee LaVern Baker Atlantic Records 1955
I Cried A Tear LaVern Baker & King Curtis blues ballads 1959
Crying Won’t Help You Now B.B. “Blues Boy” King & His Orchestra RPM Records 1956
Somebody Got To Go Gatemouth Moore Gay Paree Records 1941
Did You Ever Love A Woman Gatemouth Moore Gilmore’s Chez Paree Records D-854 1944
Talkin’ To You Eye To Eye Roomful of Blues Raise a Ruckus 2008
Slow, Smooth & Easy Anita Tucker Capitol Records 1955
Strange Things Happening Etta James Modern Records 1956
Love Don’t Love Nobody Roy Brown DeLuxe Records 1950 Hoppin’ Mad Plas Johnson & His Orchestra Capitol Records 1957
8:00 a.m. Tribute to Blue Lu & Danny Barker
A Little Bird Told Me Blue Lu Barker Capitol Records 1948
Georgia Grind Blue Lou Barker w/ Danny Barker’s Flying Cats Decca Records 1939
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down Henry “Red” Allen & His Orchestra w/ Danny Barker & Luis Russell Vocalion Records 1937
Money Blues Laverne Baker Sings Bessie Smith 1958
Save The Bones For Henry Jones Ray Charles & Lou Rawls Just Between Us 1988
(In My) Solitude Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Sings 1952
Buddy Bolden’s Blues New Orleans’ Own Dukes of Dixieland & Jazz Master Danny Barker Salute to Jelly Roll Morton
Pearls Dirty Dozen Brass Band Jelly 1993
Now You’re Down In The Alley Maria Muldaur Don’t You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues Of Blue Lu Barker 2018
You Got The Right Key But The Wrong Keyhole Danny Barker & His Jazz Hounds Live At The New Orleans Jazz Festival 1998
Bring The Greenbacks When You Call Blue Lu Barker w/ Danny Barker & His Jazz Hounds Live At The New Orleans Jazz Festival 1998
Don’t You Make Me High (Don’t You Fee My Leg) Blue Lu Barker w/ Danny Barker’s Fly Cats Decca Records 1938
G.I. Jive Louis Jordan Decca Records 1944
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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