WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.
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WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2021
Song
Artists
Original Album or Single & Date
Blow Blow Blow Big Jay McNeely Imperial Records 1952
I Can’t Stop It Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy Specialty Records 1947
Country Boy Dave Bartholomew De Luxe Records 1947
Strange Things Happen Everyday Sister Rosetta Tharpe Decca Records 1944
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) T-Bone Walker
Black & White Records 1947
T-Town Twist Roy Milton w/ Johnny G. Rogers on guitar Specialty Records 1951
You Ain’t Unlucky Veronica Lewis You Ain’t Unlucky 2021
LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – Week 46
Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1945
The B side of “Caldonia,” Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door” was
Jordan’s 12th entry on the Billboard R&B Chart. It stayed on the national chart
for 10 weeks, peaking at number three in the summer of 1945.
Let The Good Time Roll Linda Hopkins w/ Mortonette Jenkins / Maxine Weldon
Wild Women Blues – Original Cast Recording 2003
Fool’s Paradise John Hammond w/ Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Trouble No More 1994
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Jimmy Witherspoon Baby, Baby, Baby 1963
Bluebird Charlie Watts Quintet From One Charlie 1991
Mr. Five By Five Freddie Slack & His Orchestra with Ella Mae Morse
Capitol Records 1942
Teardrops from My Eyes Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1950
‘Gator’s Groove Willis Jackson & His Orchestra Atlantic Records 1952
A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO MEMPHIS SLIM
Born John Len Chatman in Memphis, Tennessee of September 3, 1915
Nobody Loves Me (Every Day I Have The Blues Memphis Slim Miracle Records 1948
Memphis Slim’s reworking of the song by Pinetop Sparks became a blues standard. Four different versions of “Every Day I Have The Blues” reached the Top 10 on the Billboard R&B Chart including hits for Count Basie and B.B. King.
Rockin’ Chair Blues Big Bill Broonzy w/ Memphis Slim Okah Records 1940
Memphis Slim played piano on several of Big Bill Broonzy’s records beginning in 1940. He released his first records under his own name in 1942
Rockin’ the House Memphis Slim & The House Rockers Miracle Records 1947
The Comeback Lynwood Slim & The Igor Prado Band Brazilian Kicks 2010
I’m Lost Without You Janiva Magness Use What you Got 2004
Mother Earth Mother Earth Living with the Animals 1968
Messin’ Around With The Blues Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
Miracle Records 1948
Same Girl Sonny Boy Williamson II w/ Memphis Slim & Matt “Guitar” Murphy
Keep It To Ourselves 1963
MEMPHIS SLIM RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
Memphis Music Hall of Fame
Caravan Roomful Of Blues Hot Little Mama 1981
Elevator Boogie Mabel Scott w/ Charles Brown Exclusive Records 1948
Cryin’ Mercy Charles Brown w/ Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Aladdin Records 1954
Just a Game Jimmie Vaughan Baby, Please Come Home 2019
Heavy Juice Tiny Bradshaw & His Orchestra King Records 1953
Save The Bones For Henry Jones Ray Charles & Lou Rawls
Just Between Us 1988
Talk Is Cheap Sandra Hall Miss Red Riding Hood 2001
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Live 2005
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