WRFG Route 66 Playlist and Podcast Dec. 19, 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.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org

WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR DECEMBER 19, 2021

Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date

Mina’s Blues Benny & the Fly-By-Niters Watch Yourself 2016
Walkin’ & Talkin’ Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1946
Fine Brown Frame Buddy Johnson Decca Records 1947
Ain’t That Dandy The Knickerbocker All-Stars Texas Rhody Blues 2016

BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO ALAN FREED
Albert James “Alan” Freed was born in Windber, PA on December 15, 1921. Freed coined the term “rock & roll” to describe the mix of jazz, blues, and R&B he began playing on his “Moon Dog House” show on WJW-AM in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952.

Airchecks of Alan Freed featuring
Lonely & Blue B.B. King RPM Records 1955
Whoopin’ The Blues Sonny Terry Capitol Records / Americana 1947
Mad Love Muddy Waters w/ Little Walter Chess Records 1953

ALAN FREED RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO EDDIE “CLEANHEAD” VINSON
American jump blues, bebop, and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter
Edward L. Vinson Jr. was born in Houston, Texas on Decenber 18, 1917.

Kidney Stew Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
Blues In The Night, Vol. 1: The Early Show1986
(Cherry) Red Blues Cootie Williams w/ Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
Hit Records 1944
Vinsonology Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson & the Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Back Door Blues 1961

EDDIE “CLEANHEAD” VINSON RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com

BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO PEE WEE CRAYTON
Blues and R&B guitarist and vocalist Connie Curtis Crayton
was born in Rockdale, Texas on December 18, 1914.

Texas Hop Pee Wee Crayton Modern Records 1948
My Idea About You Pee Wee Crayton Imperial Records 1955
Fiddle De Dee Kid Ramos w/ Lynwood Slim Kid Ramos 1999

PEE WEE CRAYTON RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com

I Can’t Stop It Ben Levin Still Here 2021
I Want You To Be My Baby Dana Gillespie
As Blue As I Can Be: Live 2020

XMAS CHEER, PART 2

Far Away Blues (Christmas Blues) Johnny Otis w/ Little Esther & Mel Walker
Savoy Records 1950
Boogie Woogie Santa Claus Mabel Scott Exclusive Records 1948
Merry Christmas, Baby Charles Brown W/ Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Exclusive Records 1948
Christmas Comes But Once A Year Amos Milburn King Records 1960
I Want My Baby For Christmas Jimmy Liggins
Specialty Records 1950
At the Christmas Ball Bessie Smith Columbia Records 1925
Let It Snow Colin James Little Big Band Christmas 2007
I’ll Be Home for Christmas The Count Basie Orchestra
A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas! 2015
I Want To Spend Christmas With You Roomful Of Blues
Roomful Of Christmas 1997
White Christmas Etta James 12 Songs of Christmas 1998
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Ray Charles
The Spirit Of Christmas 1985
Good Morning Blues Jimmy Rushing Listen To The Blues 1956
Pete’s Holiday Boogie Pete Johnson Swing Time Christmas 1995
Silent Night, Holy Night Sister Rosetta Tharpe Decca Records 1949
May Every Day Be Christmas Louis Jordan Decca Records 1951

(Sign off)

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