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.
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Today, we celebrate two true American musical greats, both with late April birthdays.
Born in Newport News, Virginia, on April 27, 1917, Ella Jane Fitzgerald was a
jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the “First Lady of Song”, “Queen of Jazz”,
and “Lady Ella”. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction,
phrasing, timing, intonation, and a “horn-like” improvisational ability,
particularly in her scat singing.
ELLA FITZGERALD RESOURCES
EllaFitzgerald.com (Official Site)
Biography @ Wikipedia
Discography @ discogs.com
Born in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 1899, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington
was a jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra
from 1923 through the rest of his life.
DUKE ELLINGTON RESOURCES
DukeEllington.com (Official Site)
Discography @ Discogs.com
Biography @ Wikipedia
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Wild Wig Big Jay McNeely & His Blue Jays Savoy Records 1949
TV Is The Thing This Year Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1953
Look What You’ve Done Count Basie Orchestra Swings the Blues 2023
I’ve Got a Woman Ray Charles Atlantic Records 1954
Let’s Rock A While Amos Milburn & His Chicken Shackers Aladdin Records 1951
I Sat & Cried Jimmy “T-99” Nelson Kent Records 1961
Take It And Git Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy Decca Records 1942
My Hat’s on the Side of My Head The Four Blazes United Records 1953
She’s Dynamite B.B. King R.P.M. Records 1951
I’m Beginning To See The Light
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
American Music Texas Style 1999
East of The Sun (and West of The Moon)
Catherine Russell
Send For Me 2022
Morning Glory
Big Joe Turner
Aladdin Records 1948
C Jam Blues
Tiny Grimes Swingtet
Blue Note Records 1946
Ella
Chick Webb w/ Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan
Decca Records 1938
Boogie At Midnight Roy Brown DeLuxe Records 1949
Ferocious Boogie Camille Howard Specialty Records 1950
Gabbin’ Blues Big Maybelle Okeh Records 1952
Cold, Cold Feeling T-Bone Walker Imperial Records 1951
How I Got Over Kid Ramos Strange Things Happening 2025
Main Stem
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
RCA Victor 1944
Take The “A” Train
Ella Fitzgerald
Twelve Nights In Hollywood 1961
I Like the Sunrise
Duke Ellington & Al Hibler
Liberian Suite 1947
Tonk
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
Victor Records 1946
Addi
Planet D Nonet
Echoes of Harlem: A Tribute To Duke Ellington, Vol. 2 2024
Caravan
Tony Bennett
Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool 1999
Rockin’ In Rhythm
Ella Fitzgerald
…Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book 1958
A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship)
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra w/Ray Nance
Victor Records 1943
Jeep’s Blues
Johnny Hodges
with Billy Strayhorn & The Orchestra 1961
Mack The Knife
Ella Fitzgerald
Berlin 1960
A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Ella Fitzgerald & The Chick Webb Orchestra
Decca Records 1938
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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