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 24, 2022
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
Topsy, Part 2 Cozy Cole Love Records 1958
This Little Girl Of Mine Ray Charles Atlantic Records 1955
I’ve Got A Feelin’ Big Maybelle Okeh Records 1952
Hoppin’ Mad Plas Johnson Capitol Records 1957
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Delbert McClinton Outdated Emotion 2022
Salt Port West Virginia
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Sings Louis Jordan 1973
Meet Me at No Special Place (And I’ll Be There at No Particular Time)
Nat King Cole Capitol Records 1947
Million Dollar Smile Catherine Russell Send For Me 2022
R.M. Blues Billy Price Alive and Strange 2017
My Gal’s A Jockey Big Joe Turner National Records 1946
See See Rider Helen Humes & Her All Stars Philo Records 1945
Lil’ Darlin’ Howard Roberts H.R. Is A Dirty Guitar Player 1963
Triple Threat Roland Kirk Triple Threat 1956
Yes I Know Annisteen Allen King Records 1953
Mystery Train Little Junior’s Blue Flames Sun Records 1953
WHAT’S HOT – TOP 10 R&B SONGS FOR LATE JULY 1947
Compiled from national and regional R&B charts
10-Them There Eyes
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders Roy Milton Records 1947
9-Summertime
Al Hibbler with Mercer Ellington Sunrise Records 1947
8-Baby, I Don’t Cry Over You
Billie Holiday w/ Bill Kyle & Trio Decca Records 1947
7-Old Maid Boogie
Eddie Vinson & Orchestra Mercury Records 1947
6-New Orleans Blues
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Charles Brown Exclusive Records 1947
5-Robbin’s Nest
Illinois Jacquet & His All Stars Apollo Records 1947
4-The Lady’s In Love With You
Nellie Lutcher Capitol Americana Records 1947
3-I Want To Be Loved (But Only By You)
Savannah Churchill Manor Records 1947
2-Oh, Lady Be Good!
Ella Fitzgerald Decca Records 1947
1-Jack, You’re Dead
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1946
Pinetop’s Boogie-Woogie Gene Taylor Gene Taylor 2003
Alimony Blues T-Bone Walker Imperial Records 1951
Twisted Annie Ross Specialty Records 1952
Please Send Me Someone To Love
Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1951
Lost Mind
The New Orleans C.A.C. Jazz Orch. w/Johnny Adams Mood Indigo 1996
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
Johnny Hodges With Billy Strayhorn & The Orchestra 1961
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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