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 & R&B Era of the 1950s
and on how those styles and artists have evolved over the years. We also bring you
jazz from the era along with the occasional page from the Great American Songbook.
Listen to Route 66 Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 A.M. Eastern (U.S.) on
Atlanta’s WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is
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Billie Holiday is our featured artist. Born Eleanora Fagan in Philadelphia on
April 7, 1915, Holiday is considered one of the great musical talents of the
20th century. To learn more about Holiday’s turbulent life and brilliant but
troubled career, check out the Billie Holiday resources listed below.
BILLIE HOLIDAY RESOURCES
Biorgraphy @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Discography @ Jazz Discography Project
Lady Sings The Blues (Book) @ wikipedia.org
The Best Books About Billie Holiday @ Rolling Stone
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The Hunting of Billie Holiday @ Politico Magazine
You’ll find the playlist for our podcast on the MixCloud page for today’s show.
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2025
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
D.B. Blues
Lester Young & His Band
Philo Records 1945
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra w/ Billie Holiday
Brunswick Records 1935
Them There Eyes
Varetta Dillard
Savoy Records 1952
In My Solitude
Southside Johnny
Detour Ahead the Music of Billie Holiday 2018
When I Grow Too Old To Dream Roy Milton Miltone Records 1946
Night Train Louis Prima The Wildest! 1956
Weepin’ & Cryin’ Tommy Brown Regent Records 1951
Sugar Sweet Muddy Waters Chess Records 1955
Flying Home Lionel Hampton Decca Record 1942
Old Maid Boogie Eddie Vinson Mercury Records 1947
Old Devil Moon Sarah Vaughan Mercury Records 1954
April In Paris
Billie Holiday
All or Nothing at All 1959
Over The Rainbow Little Jimmy Scott Over the Rainbow 2001
Someday Sweetheart Joe Liiggins Exclusive Records 1946
Take The “A” Train Ella Fitzgerald …Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook 1957
Roomin’ House Boogie Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1949
No Name Boogie Jay McShann Down Beat Records 1948
Rocky Mountain Blues
Billie Holiday w/ the Tiny Grimes Sextet
Aladdin Records 1951
Crazy She Calls Me
Nat King Cole
Tell Me All About Yourself 1960
God Bless the Child
Carmen McRae
Sings Loverman & Other Billie Holiday Classics 1962
Jack, You’re Dead Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 Decca Records 1946
Please Hurry Home B.B. King R.P.M. Records 1953
Jumpin´jack Bloodest Saxophone Rhythm and Blues 2014
Baby Get Lost
Billie Holiday
Decca Records 1949
Yesterdays
Ray Charles
A Portrait Of Ray 1968
All of Me
Etta Jones w/ Houston Person
Sings Lady Day 2001
One of them good ones Buddy Johnson Decca Records 1945
Whoopin’ and Hollerin’ Lynwood Slim & Junior Watson Back to Back 2010
They Raided The Joint Helen Humes Let The Good Times Roll 1973
That’s Better For Me T-Bone Walker Black & White Records 1948
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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