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, OCTOBER 10, 2021
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
Calling All Comets Bill Haley & His Comets Rock’N’Roll Stage Show Part 1 EP 1956
Ooh Wee Walkie Talkie Dinah Washington w/ Gerald Wilson’s Orchestra
Mercury Records 1946
P.D.Q. Boogie Porky Cohen With Roomful Of Blues Rhythm & Bones 1996
Ain’t That A Shame? Fats Domino Imperial Records 1955
She Walked Right In/Honey Hush Bill Stuve Big Noise 1990
I’m Gonna Dig Myself A Hole Arthur Crudup RCA Victor 1951
(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1952
Cow Cow Boogie The Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Records 1943
LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – Week 52 of 56
That’ll Just About Knock Me Out Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5
Decca Records 1943
Jordan’s fifth entry on the Billboard R&B Chart, “That’ll Just About Knock Me Out,” didn’t exactly strike a home run, bit it did make it was number eight for one week
in October of 1943.
I’ll Never Be Free Annie Laurie & Paul Gayten & His Orchestra Regal Records 1950
Chains Of Love Joe Turner w/ Vann “Piano Man” Walls & Orchestra
Atlantic Records 1951
Tennessee Waltz Blues Sticks McGhee Atlantic Records 1951
Buzz Me Dave Specter w/ Barkin’ Bill Smith, Ronnie Earl
Six String Soul: 30 Years On Delmark 2021
Greenbacks Ray Charles Ray Charles 1957
Hit the Road Jack Steve Tyrell Shades of Ray: The Songs of Ray Charles 2021
If You Lose Your Money The James Harman Band Extra Napkins 1985
BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO JIMMY LIGGINS
Born James L. Elliott in Newby, Oklahoma on October 14, 1918. The family soon
moved to San Diego where, after a short career as a professional boxer, Liggins
became the driver for his older brother’s band, Joe Liggins and the Honey Drippers.
A master guitarist and a flamboyant showman, Jimmy Liggins scored a string of hits
in the late 1940s and early 1950s, then slowly faded from the music scene.
That’s What’s Knockin’ Me Out Jimmy Liggins & The Drops of Joy Orchestra
Specialty Records 1951
A local hit in Los Angeles in the spring of 1951,
I Ain’t Drunk Jimmy Liggins Aladdin Records 1954
Nite Life Boogie Nick Curran & The Nitelifes Nitelife Boogie 2001
Drunk The Formerly Brothers The Return Of The Formerly Brothers 2004
Ada From Decatur Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy Orchestra
Duplex Records 1960
I Can’t Stop It Kid Ramos w/ Lynwood Slim Two Hands One Heart 1995
Careful Love Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy Specialty Records 1949
JIMMY LIGGINS RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
profile @ spontaneouslunacy.net
Okie Dokie Stomp Sue Foley Pinky’s Blues 2021
We’re Gonna Rock, We’re Gonna Roll Wild Bill Moore Savoy Records 666 1948
Fore Day In The Morning Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men
De Luxe Records 1948
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Champion Jack Dupree & The Big Town Playboys
Good Rockin’ Blues & Boogie: Live… 1986 & 1989 (2021)
Chicken Shack Boogie Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1948
You Were Never Mine Janiva Magness Do I Move You? 2006
The Sun Went Down T-Bone Walker Imperial Records 1950
Hot Tamales Noble “Thin Man” Watts & His Rhythm Sparks Baton Records 1959
Hidin’ In The Sticks Paula Watson Supreme Records 1948
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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