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HERE’S THE WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2021
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
Willis Jackson & His Orchestra
Apollo Records 1950
Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Being Right?
The Knickerbocker All-Stars
Go Back Home to the Blues 2015
Drinkin’ by Myself
Wynonie Harris w/ Sun Herman “Sonny” Blount (a.k.a. Sun Ra)
Bullet Records 1946
Open The Door, Richard
The Three Flames w/ Tiger Hayes
Columbia Records 1947
A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO NAT “KING” COLE
Born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Alabama on March 17, 1919
Straighten Up & Fly Right
Eddie Tigner
Route 66 2001
Love For Sale The
Oscar Moore Quartet
Tampa Records 1955
Moore was the guitarist for the King Cole Trio
Route 66
King Cole Trio
Capitol Records 1946
NAT “KING” COLE RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
overview @ allmusic.com
Groovin’ with Grimes
Johnny Big Stone & the Blues Workers
Juke Joint Sessions Vol.1 2016
FEATURE: LOUIS JORDAN THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – WEEK 22
Hungry Man
Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five
Decca Records 1949
Louis Jordan’s version of “Hungry Man” didn’t makes it onto the national Billboard R&B charts, but it was a hot litte number in the jazz clubs along Central Avenue in Los Angeles. The song, written by Bobby Troup, was number six on the Cash Box Magazine’s What’s Hot In L.A. R&B chart for the week ending March 11, 1950. “Hungry Man” was the B-side of Jordan’s “Push Ka Pee Shee Pie (The Saga Of Saga Boy).”
Every Day I Have the Blues
Count Basie & Joe Williams
Count Basie Swings & Joe Williams Sings 1956
Ain’t Gonna Quit You Baby
Kid Ramos & Janiva Magness
Two Hands One Heart 1995
Have A Good Time
Ruth Brown with the James Quintet & Orchestra
Atlantic Records 1951
Mess Around
Ray Charles
Ray Charles 1957
Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
Aretha Franklin
Unforgettable. A Tribute to Dinah Washington 1964
Since We’ve Met
Mike Goudreau & the Boppin Blues Band
Sweet Blues 2016
8:00 A.M. FEATURE: ALADDIN RECORDS SURVEY – PART THREE
Eddie and Leo Mesner formed Aladdin Records (originally Phio Records) in Los Angeles in 1945, but 1948 was really the year that put the independent label on the map.
Blow Illinois Blow
Illinois Jacquet & His All Stars
Aladdin Records 1948
Riding With Jimmy
Jimmy “Baby Face” Lewis
Aladdin Records 1948
Bean-A Re-Bop
Coleman Hawkins All Stars
Aladdin Records 1948
Coleman Hawkins (ts); Miles Davis (tp); Kai Winding (tb); Howard Johnson (as);
Hank Jones (p); Curley Russell (b); Max Roach (d)
Washboard Blues
Crown Prince Waterford
Aladdin Records 1948
Blowin’ Red’s Top
Gene Ammons Quintet
Aladdin Records 1948
Morning Glory
Big Joe Turner
Aladdin Records 1948
It Took a Long Long Time
Amos Milburn
Aladdin Records 1948
A month after Milburn scored his first Top 10 hit with “Chicken Shack Boogie,” the flip side, “It Took A Long Long Time” became a hit on its own reaching number six on the Billboard R&B Charts in December of 1948.
Get Yourself Another Fool
The Charles Brown Trio
Aladdin Records 3020 1948
Brown’s first hit without the Johnny Moore Trio, “Fool” peaked at number
four on the Billboard R&B Charts in February of 1949.
ALADDIN RECORDS RESOURCES
history @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
Spontaneous Lunacy – Aladdin Records
Aladdin Records Story – Both Sides Now
Oh Yeah!
Chris Corcoran Band
Coolerator 2020
Walk Away
Southside Johnny w/ Tom Waits
Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits 2021 (Remixed & Remastered)
Looped
James Harman & Gene Taylor Band
Live In Germany 2012
That’s Better For Me
T-Bone Walker
Black & White Records 1948
A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO HOLLYWOOD FATS
Born Michael Leonard Mann in Los Angeles on March 17, 1954
Nitwit
Hollywood Fats Band
Blues Saturday, Monterey Jazz Festival – September 20, 1980
HOLLYWOOD FATS RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
overview @ allmusic.com
You Knock Me Out
Sax Gordon
You Knock Me Out 2000
My Man Called Me
Big Mama Thornton w/ Johnny Otis
Peacock Records 1957
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It)
Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Nine Lives 2005
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