WRFG Route 66 Playlist and Podcast Dec. 12, 2021

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 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2021

Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date

Jivin’ With Jack The Bellboy Illinois Jacquet Aladdin Records 1947
A&M Blues Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1948
Sparrow’s Flight Johnny Sparrow & His Bows & Arrows
Melford Records 1949
What Am I Living For? Rob Stone w/ Elena Kato & Hiroshi Eguchi Trio
In Tokyo 2021

BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE FOR BIG MAMA THORNTON

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was born in Arition, Alabama on
December 11, 1926

Hound Dog Big Mama Thornton with Kansas City Bill & His Orchestra
Peacock Records 1952
Thornton was the first artist to record “Hound Dog.” Her version of the Lieber & Stoller classic spent 14 weeks on the national R&B chart and sold over a half-million copies. The song was later recorded by a truck driver from Memphis.
Bear Cat Rufus Thomas Sun Records 1953
Thomas was a radio disc jockey in Nashville when he scored a smash hit
with his reply to “Hound Dog.”
My Man Called Me Big Mama Thornton w/ Johnny Otis Peacock Records 1957

BIG MAMA THORNTON RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com

Disk Jockey’s Nightmare Earl Bostic & His Orchestra King Records 1949
Lavender Coffin Lionel Hampton Decca Records 1949
Mingus Fingers ( Mingus Fingus) Charles Mingus Quartet
Dolphins Of Hollywood Records 1948
Romance Without a Finances Johnny Big Stone & the Blues Workers
Juke Joint Sessions Vol.1 2016
When I Grow Up T-Bone Walker Super Blues Live (1982) 2021
Cole Slaw (Sorgum Switch) Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Decca Records 1949
Key to the Highway Dinah Washington Back To The Blues 1963
Buddy’s Boogie Buddy Johnson Mercury Records 1957
Baby You Don’t Know Roy Milton & His Band Specialty Records 1953
Frankie Lee Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Specialty Records 1951

XMAS CHEER – PART 1

It’s Christmas Time Again (Spend, Spend, Spend) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Alligator Records’ Genuine Houserockin’ Christmas 2009
I Want a Man for Christmas Joan Shaw & The Danny Small Orchestra
Jaguar Records 1954
I Want A Present For Christmas J.B. Summers w/ Tiny Grimes
Gotham Records 1949
All I Want for Christmas Ray Charles The Spirit Of Christmas 1985
Silver Bells Fats Domino Christmas Gumbo 1993
Please Come Home For Christmas Charles Brown King Records 1960
Hooties Christmas Prayer Jay McShann w/ Duke Robillard
Still Jumpin’ The Blues 1999
Christmas Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
Alligator Records Christmas Collection 1992
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Etta James 12 Songs of Christmas 1998
Santa Claus, Do You Ever Get the Blues? Roomful of Blues
Roomful Of Christmas 1997

What’d I Say Steve Tyrell Shades of Ray: The Songs of Ray Charles 2021

BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO GUITAR SLIM
Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones was born in Greenwood, Mississippi on
December 10, 1926

The Things That I Used to Do Guitar Slim Specialty Records 1954
Guitar Slim’s best known song, “Things” was number one on the national R&B Chart for six weeks and sold more than a million copies. The record was arranged and produced by a then fairly unknown Ray Charles, who also played piano on the session.

GUITAR SLIM RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com

BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO TOM WAITS
Thomas Alan Waits was born in Pomona, California on December 7, 1949

Diamond In Your Mind Tom Waits & The Kronos Quartet Healing the Divide 2007
Wait’s intpretation of the Diamond Sutra was recorded live during a concert
honoring the Dali Lama.

TOM WAITS RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com

(sign off)

Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005