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
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WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 13
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
Apollo Jump Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra Decca Records 1943
I Don’t Dig It Big Joe Turner MGM Records 1949
Backstage at Stuff’s Count Basie Piano Rhythms 1947
Baby, I Don’t Cry Over You Billie Holiday w/ Tiny Grimes Decca Records 1946
Trouble In Mind The Duke Robillard Band They Called It Rhythm & Blues 2022
Heed My Warning Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1949
Squeeze Me Dinah Washington Sings Fats Waller 1957
Still Here Ben Levin Still Here 2021
I Want to Hug You John Lee Hooker Mr. Lucky 1991
Nuit Sauvage Sax Gordon Extreme Sax! 2021
Effie’s Boogie Effie Smith Aladdin Records 1946
She’s Dynamite B.B. King RPM Records 1951
Have A Good Time Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1951
Little Joe’s Boogie Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Specialty Records 1950
I’m Still In Love With You T-Bone Walker Comet Records 1948
Mean Old World Lou Rawls The Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions 1962-1970
TRIBUTE TO HOLLYWOOD FATS
Born Michael Leonard Mann in Los Angeles on March 17, 1954
Hollywood Fats was a guitar virtuoso. He was one of only a few West Coast blues musicians of his generation who incorporated jump blues into his sound.
He was active from the mid-1970s until his death in 1986.
Lonesome Hollywood Fats Band Hollywood Fats Band 1979
First recorded by Memphis Slim in 1961
Snakes James Harman Band w/ Kid Ramos & Hollywood Fats
Those Dangerous Gentlemen 1987
Nitwit Hollywood Fats Band
Blues Saturday, Monterey Jazz Festival – September 20, 1980
Have a Good Time Big Walter “Shakey” Horton Cobra Records 1956
Recorded by the Hollywood Fats Band in 1979
Kidney Stew Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson & The Hollywood Fats Band
Blues Saturday, Monterey Jazz Festival – September 20, 1980
One Mint Julep Rod Piazza w/ Junior Watson & Hollywood Fats Harpburn 1986
Rock This House Hollywood Fats Band Hollywood Fats Band 1979
HOLLYWOOD FATS RESOURCES
Biorgraphy @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Obituary – Los Angeles Times, Dec. 12, 1986
Rockhouse Ray Charles Atlantic Records 1958
Rock House Big Maybelle Savoy Records 1957
House Rocker Paul Williams & His Hucklebuckers Savoy Records 1948
Lonesome & Blue Annie Laurie Okeh Records 1952
Rough Weather Blues Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy Specialty Records 1948
Weather Man Sister Wynona Carr Specialty Records (unreleased)
Rock Mr. Blues Wynonie Harris King Records 1949
The Honey Dripper Charles Brown Honey Dripper 1996
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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