WRFG’s Route 66 celebrates a time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended together, often in the same song. Our primary focus is on the music of the Jump Blues Era of the 1940s which blended into the early part of the Rock & Roll Era of the 1950s and on how those styles and artists have evolved over the years.
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Hollywood Fats is our featured artist this week. Born Michael Leonard Mann in
Los Angeles on March 17, 1954, Hollywood Fats was a guitar virtuoso. He was one
of only a few West Coast blues musicians of his generation who incorporated jump blues into his sound. Active from the mid-70s until is death in 1986, Hollywood Fats backed numerous veterans of the jump blues era including Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
and Roy Brown, and collaborated with James Harmon, Kid Ramos, Junior Watson,
and other California blues contemporaries.
HOLLYWOOD FATS RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
HollywoodFatsBand.com
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2025
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Barcarolle Boogie Camille Howard Specialty Records 1948
Lonesome
Hollywood Fats Band
Hollywood Fats Band 1979
I Don’t Dig It Big Joe Turner MGM Records 1949
Backstage at Stuff’s Count Basie Piano Rhythms 1947
Happy Anatomy Planet D Nonet Echoes of Harlem… 2024
Baby, I Don’t Cry Over You Billie Holiday Decca Records 1947
Trouble In Mind Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1952
Heed My Warning Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1949
Squeeze Me Dinah Washington …Sings Fats Waller 1957
I Want to Hug You John Lee Hooker Mr. Lucky 1991
Nuit Sauvage Sax Gordon Extreme Sax! 2021
Blue And Lonesome Memphis Slim Miracle Records 1949
Effie’s Boogie Effie Smith Aladdin Records 1946
I’m Still In Love With You T-Bone Walker Comet Records 1948
Rockhouse, Pt 2 Ray Charles Atlantic Records 1958
Rough Weather Blues Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy Specialty Records 1948
Weather Man Sister Wynona Carr Specialty Records (unreleased)
Let the Good Times Roll Tony Bennett w/ B.B. King Playing With My Friends… 2001
Caldonia
Hollywood Fats Band
Hollywood Fats Band 1979
Have a Good Time
Big Walter “Shakey” Horton
Cobra Records 1956
One Mint Julep
Rod Piazza w/ Junior Watson & Hollywood Fats
Harpburn 1986
Rock House Big Maybelle Savoy Records 1957
House Rocker (House Rockin) Paul Williams Savoy Records 1948
The Honey Dripper Charles Brown Honey Dripper 1996
Jumpin’ The Blues Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown American Music… 1999
Nervous Man Nervous Big Jay McNeely Federal Records 1953
Butcher Pete Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men DeLuxe Records 1949
Apollo Jump Lucky Millinder Decca Records 1943
Meet Me at No Special Place Nat King Cole Capitol Records 1947
Blueberry Hill Fats Domino Imperial Records 1957
The Storm Little Esther Phillips Federal Records 1952
Okie Dokie Stomp
Hollywood Fats Band Blues
Saturday, Monterey Jazz Festival – September 20, 1980
Snakes
James Harman Band w/ Kid Ramos & Hollywood Fats
Those Dangerous Gentlemen 1987
Kidney Stew
Hollywood Fats Band w/ Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
Road To Rio 1980
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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