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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B.B. King is today’s featured artist. Born Riley B. Kings on a Mississippi plantation
on September 16, 1926. Known professionally as B. B. King, was a blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of
soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato, and staccato picking
that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. Wikipedia
B.B. KING RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
BLUES HALL OF FAME
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME
OFFICIAL RHYTHM & BLUES HALL OF FAME
(Bill) Clinton Digital Library
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2023
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Pop Corn Paul Williams & His Hucklebuckers Savoy Records 1948
She’s Dynamite B.B. King R.P.M. Records 1951
You Upset Me Baby The Knickerbocker All-Stars Open Mic At The Knick 2014
Cryin’ Won’t Help You Paul Carrack Don’t Wait Too Long 2023
So Alone Joe Liggins Specialty Records 1951
Just For A Thrill
Count Basie Orchestra & Carmen Bradford
Basie Swings the Blues 2023
One O’Clock Jump
Danny Jonokuchi & The Revisionists
Late Night Basie 2023
Let The Good Times Roll
Gene “Mighty Flea” Conners
Coming Home 1976
Come To Baby, Do! King Cole Trio Capitol Records 1946
I Need You Buddy Johnson Decca Records 1951
My Handy Man Helen Humes Let The Good Times Roll 1973
Sweet Georgia Brown Taj Mahal Savoy 2023
All Of Me Big Maybelle Savoy Records 1957
Flying Home Lionel Hampton Decca Record 1942
Lonely & Blue B.B. King R.P.M. Records 1954
Every Day I Have The Blues B.B. King R.P.M. Records 1955
Hot Burning Fever B.B. King & Calvin Owens True Blue 1993
Blue Turning Grey over You Catherine Russell Harlem on My Mind 2016
Jumpin’ Tonight Big Joe Turner Imperial Records 1950
Rockin’ The Boogie Hadda Brooks Modern Records 1945
The Calloway Boogie Cab Calloway Columbia Records 1947
Camilla’s Hop Joe Houston & Otis Grand The Return Of Honk! 1994
Hit That Jive Jack Four Charms Flatland Boogie 2000
Oops! Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Decca Records 1951
Save The Bones For Henry Jones
Ray Charles & Lou Rawls
Just Between Us 1988
Jump With Me Baby Lynwood Slim Hard to Kill 2014
Three O’Clock Blues Lowell Fulson Down Town Records 1948
Ain’t Nobody’s Business
Ruth Brown & B.B. King
The Blues Summit Concert 1993
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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