Let’s call this weeks show “Two Stooges Looking For A Third… And Hoping It’s Not Shemp.”
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Here’s your WRFG Route 66 Playlist for Sunday, August 18, 2019
Hosts: John & Frankie Lee
Birthdays: Jackie Brenston was born in Clarkesdale, Mississippi on either Auguest 24, 1928 or 1930
Percy Mayfield was born in Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana on August 12, 1920
Song Artist Original Album or Single & Date of First Release
Let’s Jump Dud & Paul Bascomb De Luxe Records 1945
School day (Ring ring goes the bell) Chuck Berry After School Session 1957
I’m Waiting Just For You Annisteen Allen & John Carrol w/ Lucky Millinder Federal Records 1951
That’s The Stuff You Gotta Watch Buddy & Ella Johnson Decca Records 1944
Early in The Morning B.B. King The Blues 1960
Cutting The Monkey’s Tail The Nick Moss Band feat. Dennis Gruenling Lucky Guy! 2019
Once More Imelda May No Turning Back 2005
Baby, Please Come Home Jimmie Vaughan Baby, Please Come Home 2019
Good Rockin’ Daddy Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton & Angela Strehli Dreams Come True 1990
Telephone Baby The Johnny Otis Show Capitol Records 1959
Dawn Patrol Haney’s Big House Herding Cats 2019
Lonesome & Blue Annie Laurie & The Howard Biggs’ Orchestra Okeh Records 1952
Rocket 88 Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats Chess Records 1951
My Real Gone Rocket Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats Chess Records 1951
Flying Home Joe Houston Cash Records 1955
I Wanna Hug Ya, Kiss Ya, Squeeze Ya Bull Moose Jackson King Records 1955
Walkin’ Slowly Behind You Roomful of Blues Dance All Night 1994
Hot Weather Blues Mr. Sad Head RCA Victor 1951
8:00 am. Tribute to Percy Mayfield
Hit The Road, Jack Ray Charles ABC-Paramount Records 1961
Two Years Of Torture Percy Mayfield w/ Monroe Tucker & His Orchestra Hollywood Records 1949
Please Send Me Someone To Love Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1951
River’s Invitation Eddie Tigner Slippin’ In 2009
Strange Things Happening Guitar Slim ATCO Records (Recorded late 1950s)
Cry Baby Percy Mayfield Specialty Records 1951
The Danger Zone Freddie King Woman Across The River 1973
You’re In For A Big Surprise Johnny Adams Walking on a Tightrope – The Songs of Percy Mayfield 1989
Walking The Chalk Line Tiny Bradshaw King Records 1951
Lost Mind Percy Mayfield Specialty Records 1950
Annie Laurie Tiny Grimes Quintet Atlantic Records 1948
You Got To Have What It Takes Betty Hall Jones Capitol Records 1949
Three-Handed Woman Louis Jordan I Believe In Music 1973
Honey Hush Georgina Peach & The Savoys I’m on My Way 2019
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