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HERE’S THE WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR JANUARY 10, 2021
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
On My Own
Willis Jackson & His Orchestra
Apollo Records 1950
Take It Like A Man
The Knickerbocker All-Stars
Go Back Home to the Blues 2015
Hey Ba Ba Re Bop
Lionel Hampton
Decca Records 1945
House Party Tonight
Amos Milburn
Aladdin Records 1955
Back at the Chicken Shack
Chris Corcoran Band
Coolerator 2020
Hallelujah, I Love Him So
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (1962) 2020
Good Rockin’ Tonight
Gene “Mighty Flea” Conners
Sanctified 1981
FEATURE: LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – WEEK TWELVE
Cole Slaw (Sorgum Switch)
Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five
Decca Records 1949
Jordan’s 46th entry on the Billboard R&B Chart.
“Cole Slaw” charted for 10 weeks, peaking in 7th place in May of 1949.
Flip Flop And Fly
Downchild Blues Band
Downchild 50th Anniversary CD – Live @ The Toronto Jazz Festival 2020
Honky Tonk (vocal version)
Bill Doggett w/ Tommy Brown
King Records 1956
Low Society Blues
Lowell Fulson
Checker Records 1950
Romance In The Dark
Bettye LaVette
Blackbirds 2020
Ain’t That Love
Ray Charles
Ray Charles 1957
For Whom The Horn Honks
Sax Gordon
Have Horn Will Travel 1998
8:00 AM: BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO KID RAMOS
(b) David Ramos in Fullerton, CA on January 12, 1959
Kid Ramos’s guitar playing crosses a lot of genres, but this tribute
focuses on his jump blues songs in the Route 66 library.
Bring It Home to Me
Kid Ramos w/ Janiva Magness
West Coast House Party 2000 (Buddy Johnson)
I Wanna Hug Ya Kiss Ya Squeeze Ya
Big Rhythm Combo
Too Small To Dance 1997 (Bull Moose Jackson)
After stints with the James Harman Band and Roomful of Blues,
Ramos formed the Big Rhythm Combo with Lynwood Slim.
Big Fat Mamas Are Back In Style Again
Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats
King Records 1950
The Big Rhythm Combo covered this Bull Moose Jackson classic
on the one album they released under that name.
So Good to My Baby
Kid Ramos & Janiva Magness
Two Hands One Heart 1995 (T-Bone Walker)
Tell Me What’s The Reason
T-Bone Walker
Imperial Records 1953
Ramos covered “Tell Me What’s The Reason” on Two Hands One Heart.
I Can’t Stop It
Kid Ramos w/ Lynwood Slim
Two Hands One Heart 1995 (Jimmy Liggins)
KID RAMOS RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
overview @ allmusic.com
Kid’s Facebook page
I Ain’t Drunk
Jimmy Liggins
Aladdin Records 1954
Shake a Hand
Jimmie Vaughan w/ Lou Ann Barton
The Pleasure’s All Mine: The Complete Blues, Ballads and Favorites Sessions 2020
Just A Country Boy
Jimmy Witherspoon
Modern Records 1950
Hidin’ In The Sticks
Paula Watson
Supreme Records 1948
Bright Lights, Big City
Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Back Door Blues 1961
Bumpin’ Down The Highway
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne
Go, Just Do It! 2020
Blinded By Love
Johnny Adams
Johnny Adams Sings Doc Pomus: The Real Me 1990
Latin John Adams was born in New Orleans on January 5, 1932.
Blues Down Home
Dinah Washington
Mercury Records 1957
Everything I Do Is Wrong
B.B. King
RPM Records 1954
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It)
Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Nine Lives 2005
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