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, MAY 8, 2022
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
Rib Joint Sammy Price, Mickey Baker, & King Curtis Rib Joint 1956
Please Hurry Home B.B. King R.P.M. Records 1953
Hole In The Wall Albennie Jones Decca Records 1949
Layin’ In The Alley Big Joe & The Dynaflows Layin’ In The Alley 1994
You Don’t Learn That In School King Cole Trio Capitol Records 1946
There Is No Greater Love Billie Holiday Decca Records 1947
Them There Eyes Roy Milton & his Solid Senders Roy Milton Records 1947
Good Rockin’ Tonight Wynonie Harris King Records 1948
Bits & Pieces Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Live From Austin, TX 2019
The Honeydripper Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Exclusive Records 1945
Fever Ray Charles & Natalie Cole Genius Loves Company 2004
I’d Rather Drink Muddy Water Lou Rawls Black & Blue 1963
The Jumpin’ Blues Magic Dick & Jay Geils Little Car Blues 1996
Let’s Have A Party Roomful Of Blues Let’s Have A Party 1979
Slippin’ & Slidin’ (Peepin’ & Hidin’) Little Richard Speciality Records 1956
WHAT’S HOT IN HARLEM – MOTHER’S DAY 1952
Cash Box Regional R&B Chart for May 10, 1952
#10 Mellow Blues Sonny Thompson King Records 1952
#9 Night Train Jimmy Forerrest United Records 1951
#8 Be Anything But Be Mine Wini Brown Mercury Records 1952
#7 Stolen Love The Larks Apollo Records 1952
#6 That’s What You’re Doing to Me The Dominoes Federal Records 1952
#5 Middle Of The Night The Clovers Atlantic Records 1952
#4 Trouble in Mind Dinah Washington Mercury Records 8269 1952
#3 Heavenly Father Edna McGriff Jubilee Records 1952
#2 Moody’s Mood For Love King Pleasure Specialty Records 1952
#1 5-10-15 Hours Ruth Brown Atlantic Record 1952
RESOURCES
Cash Box Magazine Archives
Splanky Count Basie Atomic Basie 1958
Drown in My Own Tears Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man… 1967
What’d I Say Steve Tyrell Shades of Ray: The Songs of Ray Charles 2021
Baby I’m Doin’ It Annisteen Allen King Records 1953
Nuit Sauvage Sax Gordon Extreme Sax! 2021
Weepin’ & Cryin’ Tommy Brown Regent Records 1951
T-Bone Shuffle T-Bone Walker Capitol Records 1947
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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