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 these styles
and artists have evolved over the years.
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Chuck Willis is our featured artist this week. Born in Atlanta, Georgia on
January 31, 1926, Harold “Chuck” Willis was an American blues, rhythm and blues,
and rock and roll singer and songwriter whose recording career spanned the jump
blues and rock and roll eras. His biggest hits, “C. C. Rider” (1957) and
“What Am I Living For” (1958), both reached No.1 on the Billboard R&B chart. He
was known as The King of the Stroll for his performance of the 1950s dance the stroll.
Surprisingly, Chuck Willis is not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Willis is tied with Michigan’s MC5 for the second most nominations (six) without earning induction.
CHUCK WILLIS RESOURCES
Biorgraphy @ wikepedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Spontaneous Lunacy
Marv Goldberg’s R&B Notebook
WRFG PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Mad Lad Chuck Berry Rockin’ at the Hops 1960
Love Don’t Love Nobody Roy Brown DeLuxe Records 1950
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On Big Maybelle Okeh Records 1955
Mad Love Muddy Waters Chess Records 1953
I Want A Roof Over My Head
Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five
Decca Records 1950
One Mint Julep The Clovers Atlantic Records 1952
I Wonder Catherine Russell Alone Together 2019
Our Delight Dave Clark & Floyd McDaniel Blues Swingers 2003
My New Chick Doc Pomus Savoy Records 1947
Fat Daddy Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1953
Destination Moon Nat King Cole Capitol Records 1951
Strange Things Happening Every Day
Valerie June
I Am Everything (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2023
Train Blues
Roy Milton & His Solid Senders
Speciality Records 1948
Walkin’ With Sid Arnett Cobb Apollo Records 1947
Jelly Jelly
Count Basie Orchestra & Billy Eckstine
Basie/Eckstine Inc 1959
What Love Can Do Candye Kane Coming Out Swingin’ 2013
It’s Too Late (She’s Gone)
Chuck Willis
Atlantic Records 1956
Don’t Deceive Me
Chuck Willis
Okah Records 1953
What’s Your Name
Doug Sahm
Juke Box Music 1989
Betty and Dupree
Brownie McGhee
Blues 1955
Blues At Sundown Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1946
Money Blues Camille Howard Specialty Records 1951
Big Fine Girl Jimmy Witherspoon Modern Records 1949
52nd Street Theme Dizzy Gillespie RCA Victor 1947
He’s Funny That Way Billie Holiday Clef Records 1952
Don’t Cry Baby
Tony Bennett
Playing With My Friends – Bennett Sings The Blues 2001
3 O’clock Blues B.B. King R.P.M. Records 1951
Satellite Colin James Colin …And The Little Big Band 2004
Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson King Records 1949
Feel So Bad
Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra
Ray Sings Basie Swings 1973
Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes
Van Morrison
Accentuate The Positive 2023
Going To The River
Chuck Willis
Okeh Records 1953
C.C. Rider
Chuck Willis
Atlantic Records
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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