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Here’s the WRFG Route 66 Playlist for Sunday, November 22, 2020
Host: John
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
Blow Big Jay
Big Jay McNeely
Exclusive Records 1949
Money Honey
Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
Atlantic Records 1953
No Money Down
Chuck Berry
After School Session 1957
Don’t Save It Too Long (The Money Song)
Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends
Capitol Records 1950
Midnight Jump
Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
Miracle Records 1948
New Flying Home
Lloyd Glenn All Stars featuring Maxwell Davis
RPM Records 1951
Third Degree
Eddie Boyd & His Chess Men
Chess Records 1953
You Played On My Piano
Duke Robillard & Friends w/ Michelle “Evil Gal” Wilson
Blues Bash 2020
FEATURE: LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y
Beware
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Decca Records 1946
Jordan’s 17th entry onto the Billboard R&B Charts,
“Beware” was in the top five for nine weeks,
peaking at number two in May of 1946.
What Love Can Do
Candye Kane & Laura Chavez
Coming Out Swingin’ 2013
Blues for Yolande
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster 1957
Feelin’ Happy
Joe Turner & His Orchestra w/ Mickey Baker
Freedom Records 1950
Let The Good Times Roll Dr. John Gumbo 1972
Hucklebuck With Jimmy
The Five Keys
Aladdin Records 1951
Good Golly, Miss Molly
Little Richard
Little Richard 1958
8:00 AM BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO ETTA JONES
Blow Top Blues
Etta Jones & The Cedar Walton Trio
A Soulful Sunday – Live at the Left Bank 1972 (Released in 2019)
Evil Gal Blues
Barney Bigard & His Orchestra featuring Etta Jones
Black & White Records 1944
Long, Long Journey
Leonard Feather’s Esquire All-Americans with Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong His Master’s Voice Records (RCA) 1947
Salty Papa Blues
Barney Bigard & His Orchestra featuring Etta Jones
Black & White Records 1944
Born in Aiken, South Carolina on November 25, 1928, Jones grew up in Harlem & began her career with the Buddy Johnson Orchestra. Jones made her recording debut with Barney Bigard & his Orchestra on December 29, 1944. The session was produced by jazz critic Leonard Session, which featured four of his songs: “Blow Top Blues,” “Evil Gal Blues,” “Long, Long Journey,” & “Salty Papa Blues.”
One O’Clock Jump
Jack Parker & Etta Jones
Decca Records 1954
Fine & Mellow
Etta Jones
Etta Jones Sings Lady Day 2001
ETTA JONES RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
overview @ allmusic.com
biography @ allaboutjazz.com
Red Bank Boogie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Columbia Records 1945
Cadillac Baby
Roy Brown & His Mighty, Mighty Men
De Luxe Records 1950
3 O’Clock In The Morning Blues
Ike & Tina Turner
Outta Season 1969
Flip Flop And Fly
Downchild Blues Band
Downchild 50th Anniversary CD – Live @ The Toronto Jazz Festival 2020
Good Rockin’ Tonight
James Brown
Out Of Sight 1964
Greenbacks
Ray Charles
Ray Charles 1957
Send Me Some Money
Varetta Dillard
Savoy Records 1954
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Tag (You’re It)
Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Nine Lives 2005
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