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 the Jump Blues and
Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
and artists have evolved over the years.
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WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2023
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Topsy, Part 2 Cozy Cole Love Records 1958
Juneteenth Jamboree Louis Jordan Decca Records 1940
Let The Good Time Roll Linda Hopkins Wild Women Blues 2003
No Rollin’ Blues Jimmy Witherspoon At The Monterey Jazz Festival 1960
I’ve Got A Right To Cry
Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers
Exclusive Records 1946
I Wonder Catherine Russell Alone Together 2019
Grass Is Getting Greener Cecil Gant Gilt Edge Records 1945
Sax Shack Boogie Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1950
Hold It
Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson w/ the Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Back Door Blues 1961
Summertime Little Esther Phillips Federal Records 1952
Li’L Dog Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra Decca Records 1947
Killer Joe Taj Mahal Savoy 2023
Please Be Kind Charles Brown Aladdin Records 1949
Jumpin’ At The Woodside
Johnny Otis Blues Band
Get On Up! (Live Chicago ’93) 2023
8:00 A.M.: HELEN HUMES AT 110
Born in Louisville, Kentucky on June 23, 1913, Helen Humes “was a teenage
blues singer, a vocalist with Count Basie’s band, a saucy R&B diva, and
a mature interpreter of the classic popular song.” – wikipedia
They Raided The Joint Helen Humes Mercury Records 1947
Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea
Count Basie & His Orchestra w/ Helen Humes Columbia Records 1940
Hey Ba Ba Re Bop Lionel Hampton Decca Records 1945
Be Baba Leba Helen Humes w/ Bill Doggett Octet Philo Records 1945
Written and recorded as a reply to Hampton’s “Hey Ba Ba Re Bop,”
“Be Baba Leba” was Humes’s first solo entry into national R&B Top 10.
Blues Ain’t Nothin’ But A Woman
Helen Humes
American Folk & Blues Festival (German TV) 1962
Sonny Terry (Harmonica), Brownie McGhee (Guitar), Willie Dixon (Bass),
Memphis Slim (Piano), Jump Jackson (Drums), and T-Bone Walker (Guitar).
HELEN HUMES RESOURCES
Biorgraphy @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Senor Blues Ray Charles My Kind Of Jazz 1970
Gonna Send You Back to Where I Got You From
Van Morrison
The Prophet Speaks 2018
Chicken Shack Eddie Tigner Route 66 2001
Flying Saucer The Solid Senders (Roy Milton) Specialty Records 1952
Nostalgia (The Day I Knew) Samara Joy Linger Awhile 2022
Twisted Annie Ross Specialty Records 1952
Honey Chile Fats Domino Imperial Records 1951
Strange Things Happening Every Day
Tracy Nelson
Life Don’t Miss Nobody 2023
(sign off)
(Tag) You’re It Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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