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, MARCH 27, 2022
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
Big Boy Bill Jennings Quintet King Records 1955
Let The Good Times Roll Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1946
Leave The Light On The Love Light Orchestra Leave The Light On 2022
Don’t Save It Too Long (The Money Song) Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends
Capitol Records 1950
The Chill Is On Big Joe Turner Atlantic Records 1951
Have Horn Will Travel Sax Gordon Extreme Sax! 2021
Long Skirt Baby Blues T-Bone Walker Black & White Records 1948
Night Train James Brown Presents His Band – Night Train 1961
What’d I Say Beverly “Guitar” Watkins In Paris 2022
Hard Luck Blues Roy Brown DeLuxe Records 1950
Paradise Squat Count Basie Mercury Records 1952
Is You or Is You Ain’t My Baby Catherine Russell Alone Together 2019
Where’s The Money, Honey Chubby “Hip Shakin’ ” Newsome Regal Records 1951
Fathead David Newman Ray Charles Presents David Newman – Fathead 1958
A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO AMOS MILBURN
Joseph Amos Milburn was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Houston, Texas on April 1, 1927 and died there 52 years later. Wikipedia
Chicken Shack Boogie Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1948
Milburn’s first sond to reach the national R&B Charts
Bad, Bad Whiskey Amos Milburn & His Aladdin Chickenshackers
Aladdin Records 1950
Let Me Go Home Whiskey Snooks Eaglin New Orleans Street Singer 1959
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer John Lee Hooker Chill Out 1995
Milburn scored several hits with good-time songs about booze
House Party Junior Watson & The Red Wagons Live From Outer Space 2011
Hold Me Baby Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1949
I Want To Go Home Diane Schuur Blues for Schuur 1997
Written and recorded by Milburn and Charles Brown in 1959
I Done Done It Bloodest Saxophone feat. Jai Malano Texas Queens 5 2019
Greyhound Wynonie Harris King Records 1953
Walkin’ Blues Amos Milburn & His Chickenshackers Aladdin Records 1950
AMOS MILBURN RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
The Blues Foundation Inductees Bio
Overview @ spontaneouslunacy.net
38th Street Blues B.B. King Spotlight On Lucille 1991
Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’ Ray Charles The Genius 1959
Money Talks Roomful Of Blues Dressed Up To Get Messed Up 1984
Nosey Joe Dana Gillespie Blue Job 1982
The Deacon Moves In Little Esther & The Dominos Federal Records 1951
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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