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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Today’s featured artists is Willie Lee Perryman, known professionally as
Piano Red and later in life as Dr. Feelgood.
His simple, hard-pounding left hand and his percussive right hand, coupled with his cheerful shout, brought him considerable success over three decades.
The son of sharecroppers, Perryman was born near Hampton, Geogia on
October 19, 1911, Perryman was a self-taught pianist who played in the
barrelhouse blues style (a loud percussive type of blues piano suitable for noisy
bars or taverns). His performing and recording careers emerged during the
period of transition from completely segregated “race music” to rhythm and blues,
which was marketed to both white and black audiences. Some music historians
credit Perryman’s 1950 recording “Rocking With Red” for the popularization of
the term rock and roll in Atlanta. – wikipedia
Four songs Piano Red recorded at the old WGST radio station on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta made it into the national R&B Top 10. Those four songs
are featured on today’s show.
PIANO RED RESOURCES
Biography @ wikiepeida.org
Piano Red discography @ discogs.com
Dr. Feelgood discography @ discog.com
Piano Red interview (1962)
New Georgia Encyclopedia
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Red’s Boogie Piano Red RCA Victor 1950
Rockin’ with Red Piano Red RCA Victor 1950
Stormy Monday
Count Basie Orchestra & Bettye LaVette
Basie Swings the Blues 2023
Midnight Blues T-Bone Walker Black & White Records 1948
Daddy Daddy Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1952
Rag Mop Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers Specialty Records 1950
Money’s Getting Cheaper Jimmy Witherspoon Supreme Records 1947
Oh Chuck It (In A Bucket) Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends Capitol Records 1949
Hucklebuck The Calvin Owens Show Keeping the Big Band Blues Alive 2005
Nosey Joe Powerhouse w/ Bullmoose Jackson Nightlife 1975
Oh Babe! Wynonie Harris King Records 1950
Yes I Know Annisteen Allen King Records 1953
Big Dip Jimmy Forrest United Records 1951
Hug You, Kiss You, Squeeze You Duke Robillard Stomp The Blues Tonight 2009
What A Little Moonlight Can Do Nancy Wilson Something Wonderful 1960
Dokuro-Gal (Sacrifice for Count Dracula) Bloodest Saxophone Swing to Bop 2010
Just Right Bounce Piano Red RCA Victor 1951
Bald Headed Lena Dr Feelgood & The Interns Okeh Records 1963
Mr Moonlight Dr Feelgood & The Interns Okeh Records 1962
Sugar Baby Swing Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins Don’t Mess With Miss Watkins 2007
Come Rain Or Come Shine Art Blakey / The Jazz Messengers Moanin’ 1958
Old Devil Moon Robin McKelle Impressions of Ella 2023
Just a Lucky So & So Charles Brown Just A Lucky So And So 1994
Don’t You Know Ray Charles Atlantic Records 1954
Now Or Never Big Rhythm Combo Too Small To Dance 1997
It’s Wild Illinois Jacquet Aladdin Records 1948
The Ghost of Smokey Joe Cab Calloway Okeh Records 1937
My Man’s An Undertaker Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1954
I Put A Spell On You Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Okeh Records 1956
The Wrong Yo-Yo Piano Red RCA Victor 1951
Puttin on the Ritz
Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle
Young Frankenstein (Soundtrack) 1974
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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