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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Buddy Johnson is today’s featured artist. Born Woodrow Wilson Johnson
in Darlington, South Carolina on January 10, 1915, Johnson, a classically trained
pianist, led one of the most successful bands of the jump blues era. He made his
first records in the late 1930s and struck it big with “Let’s Beat Out Some Love,”
his first national R&B hit in 1943.
Together with his sister, Ella, Johnson scored 14 national R&B hits between
1943 and 1957 and wrote several songs that have become jazz standards
including “Since I Fell for You” and “Fine Brown Frame.”
BUDDY JOHNSON RESOURCES
Biorgraphy @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Discography of American Historical Recordings
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2024
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Rock On
Sax Gordon
Extreme Sax! 2021
I Don’t Want Nobody (To Have My Love But You)
Buddy & Ella Johnson
Mercury Records 1956
Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?
Count Basie & His Orchestra
RCA Victor 1949
Fine Brown Frame
Etta Jones
…Sings the Songs of Buddy Johnson 1998
Oh Babe! Wynonie Harris King Records 1950
Beef Stew Hal Singer Sextet Savoy Records 1949
Rain Down Rain Big Maybelle Okeh Records 1952
Mary Jo The Four Blazes United Records 1952
Call It Stormy Monday Nancy Wilson Something Wonderful 1960
Work Song Cannonball Adderley Quintet Them Dirty Blues 1960
My Gal’s A Jockey Big Joe Turner National Records 1946
That’s The Gal For Me Ivory Joe Hunter King Records 1949
Lady Be Good Taj Mahal Savoy 2023
My Time Is Expensive Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Peacock Records 1949
Ain’t It A Crime Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends Capitol Records 1950
That Old Black Magic Louis Prima & Keely Smith Capitol Records 1958
You Had Better Change Your Ways
Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra
Decca Records 1948
Let’s Beat Out Some Love
Buddy Johnson & His Band
Decca Records 1942
Bring It Home to Me
Kid Ramos w/ Janiva Magness
West Coast House Party 2000
Baby Don’t You Cry
Johnny Adams
One Foot in the Blues 1996
38th Street Blues B.B. King Spotlight On Lucille 1991
Confession Blues The Maxin Trio (Ray Charles) Down Beat Records 1949
God Bless The Child Billie Holiday Lady Sings The Blues 1956
Life Is So Peculiar Louis Jordan & Louis Armstrong Decca Records 1951
I Want A Big Butter And Egg Man
Roland Hanna / Carrie Smith
Black And Blue 1989 Original Broadway Cast) 1991
What A Wonderful World Harpdog Brown harpdogbrown.com 2021
Kansas City Lou Rawls Black & Blue 1963
Old Mother Hubbard Ella Fitzgerald Decca Records 1949
Since I Fell for You
Van Morrison
It’s Too Late to Stop Now…Volume IV 1973
That’s the Stuff You Gotta Watch
Cecil Gant
Gilt Edge Records 1947
Hittin’ On Me
Buddy & Ella Johnson
Mercury Records 1953
A Pretty Girl (A Cadillac and Some Money)
Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra
Mercury Records 1954
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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