WRFG’s Route 66 celebrates a 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, JULY 10, 2022
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
What’s the Word Thunderbird Red Prysock Mercury Records 1957
Roomin’ House Boogie Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1949
Crazy Crazy Effie Smith Decca Records 1953
It Can Never Be That Way
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Peacock Records 1949
Straighten Up & Fly Right Eddie Tigner Route 66 2001
King Thing Guy King Truth 2016
Mr. Blues Is Coming To Town Wynonie Harris King Records 1950
T-Bone Shuffle T-Bone Walker Capitol Records 1947
Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You Lyle Lovett 12 of June 2022
I Dare You, Baby Percy Mayfield Specialty Records 1953
Rag Mop Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers Specialty Records 1950
I Want To Cry Savannah Churchill Manor Records 1948
Good Day For The Blues Ruth Brown Ms. B’s Blues 2009
A Virus Called the Blues Charles Brown & Dr. John All My Life 1990
LOUIS JORDAN – 114TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION REDUX
Louis Thomas Jordan was born in Brinkley, Arkansas on July 8, 1908. He was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as “The King of the Jukebox”, Jordan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an
“early influence” in 1987. – Wikipedia
NOTE: The original Louis Jordan’s versions of all of this songs in this hour were
Top 10 R&B Hits for him between 1942 and 1951.
Don’t Worry ’bout That Mule
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1945
What’s The Use Of Getting Sober
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1942
Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door
James Brown Show Time 1964
I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
Louis Jordan I Believe In Music 1973
Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’
Shirley Horn You Won’t Forget Me 1990
Blue Light Boogie Taj Mahal Dancing the Blues 1993
(Ain’t It) Just Like A Woman B.B. King Spotlight On Lucille 1991
I’ll Never Be Free Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan Decca Records 1950
Early in the Morning Ray Charles The Genius Sings the Blues 1961
Let the Good Times Roll Linda Hopkins The Living Legend Live! 2006
Choo Choo Ch’Boogie Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Louie Louie Louie 2017
Stone Cold Dead In The Market Place (He Had It Coming)
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan Decca Records 1946
Caldonia Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1945
LOUIS JORDAN RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME
THE BLUES FOUNDATION
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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