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Here’s the WRFG Route 66 Playlist for Sunday, October 25, 2020
Host
John
Birthday
John
Mangum, Oklahoma
October 25, 1954
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
Mess Around
Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters
Rise Up 2020
Klroy Has Been Here
Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
Miracle Records 1947
Walk That Walk, Daddy O
Tina Davis & The Gene Nero Sextet
King Records 1949
Traintime Blues
Bill Stuve
Say Man! 2000
Drown in My Own Tears
Blue Harlem w/Imelda May
Talk to Me 2005
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Chuck Berry
New Jukebox Hits 1961
D Is For Denny
Kirk Fletcher
My Blues Pathway 2020
NEW FEATURE – Louis Jordan: The Hits from A to Y
Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Decca Records 1946
A number one hit for Mr. Jordan in 1946!
What a little moonlight can do
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (Lp) 1954
Senor Blues
Ray Charles
My Kind Of Jazz 1970
What I Put You Through
Sugar Ray & The Bluetones w/ Little Charlie Baty
Too Far From The Bar 2020
I Need a Man
Laura Tate
Live from El Paso 2020
Vout Orenee
Slim Gaillard & His Boogiereeners
Queen Records 1945
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Reads on the Road 1999
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Billboard Magazine’s Top 10 R&B songs in Atlanta, for October 25, 1954.
#10 Hurts Me to My Heart
Faye Adams
Herald Records 1954
#9 Oh, What a Dream
Ruth Brown
Atlantic Records 1954
#8 You Upset Me Baby
B.B. King
RPM Records 1954
#7 She’s The One
The Midnighters
Federal Records 1954
#6 Never Let Me Know
Johnny Ace
Duke Records 1954
#5 Shake, Rattle & Roll
Big Joe Turner
Atlantic Records 1954
#4 I’m Ready
Muddy Waters
Chess Records 1954
#3 Don’t Drop It
Wilbert Harrison
Savoy Records 1954
#2 Mambo Baby
Ruth Brown
Atlantic Records 1954
#1 Hearts of Stone
The Charms
De Luxe Records 1954
You can find the Territorial R&B Charts for October 25, 1954
on page 49 of Billboard Magazine’s issue for November 6, 1954.
Smack Dab In The Middle
Count Basie & His Orchestra w/ Joe Williams
Clef Records 1956
Goin’ To Chicago Blues
Lou Rawls w/ The Onzy Matthews Octet
Black & Blue 1963
Just For A Thrill
Aretha Franklin
The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin 1962
Have You Got The Gumption
Louis Jordan
Decca Records 1947
Play With Your Poodle
Dana Gillespie
Blue Job 1982
The Pick-Up
Etta James
Modern Records 1957
Drive Daddy Drive
Little Sylvia w/ Buddy Lucas & The Band of Tomorrow
Jubilee Records 1952
Crazy ‘Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
Billy “The Kid” Emerson
Vee Jay Records 1955
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Tag (You’re It)
Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Nine Lives 2005
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