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You’ll find the one for this week at the bottom of this post.
This Sunday we spotlight band leader Lucky Millinder, who was born Lucious Venables
in Anniston, Alabama, on August 8, 1910. Millinder is said to have led
“the greatest big band of the R&B era.”
LUCKY MILLINDER RESOURCES
Biography @ Wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Biography @ All About Jazz
Millinder’s “Hello Bill” @ Jazz on Film
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2025
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Ram-Bunk-Shuns
Bill Doggett
Doggett Beat For Dancing Feet 1956
Shout, Sister, Shout!
Sister Rosetta Tharpe w/ Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra
Decca Records 1941
Every Day I Have the Blues Count Basie & Joe Williams MFP Records 1956
I’m Waiting For My Man Jazzified The Velvet Undergrounds 2025
Flying Home No 2 Lionel Hampton w/ Arnett Cobb Decca Records 1943
I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
Tony Bennett w/ Bonnie Raitt
Playing With My Friends – Bennett Sings The Blues 2001
Let the Good Times Roll
Tony Bennett w/ B.B. King
Playing With My Friends – Bennett Sings The Blues 2001
Big Boy Part 1 Jim Giuffre Modern Records 1952
Hard Working Man Blues Jay McShann w/ Jimmy Witherspoon Philo Records 1945
No Rollin Blues Jimmy Witherspoon Modern Records 1949
When the Lights Go Out Kim Wilson Tigerman 1993
Harlem Nocturne Oliver Sain Bobbin Records 1962
Stormy Monday / Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Van Morrison w/ Jimmy Witherspoon
A Night In San Francisco 1994
Teardrops from My Eyes
Ruth Brown
Atlantic Records 1950
Oh Babe!
Wynonie Harris w/ Lucky Millinder
King Records 1950
Shorty’s Got To Go
Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra
Decca Records 1945
Rock Me
Sister Rosetta Tharpe w/ Lucky Millinder
Decca Records 1938
Cleanhead’s Blues The Johnny Otis Show Live At Monterey! 1970
This Little Girl Of Mine Ray Charles Atlantic Records 1955
I’ve Got A Feelin’ Big Maybelle Okeh Records 1952
How Long Must I Wait For You?
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Decca Records 1948
Who Threw The Whiskey In the Well
Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra w/ Wynonie Harris & Bill Doggett
Decca Records 1945
I Know Who Threw The Whiskey (In The Well)
Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats
Queen Records 1946
Oop-Pop-A-Da
Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
RCA Victor 1948
Later For You Baby Guitar Slim Specialty Records 1954
The Hucklebuck Canned Heat Reheated 1989
Boogie Chillen John Lee Hooker Modern Records 1948
Cold, Cold Heart Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1951
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2025
PLAYLIST FOR THIS WEEK’S PODCAST
Ram-Bunk-Shuns – Bill Doggett
Shout, Sister, Shout! – Sister Rosetta Tharpe w/ Lucky Millinder
Oh Babe! – Wynonie Harris w/ Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra
Shorty’s Got To Go – Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra
Rock Me – Sister Rosetta Tharpe w/ Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra
I Want a Tall Skinny Papa – Marcia Ball
Cleanhead’s Blues – The Johnny Otis Show
This Little Girl Of Mine – Ray Charles
I’ve Got A Feelin’ – Big Maybelle
How Long Must I Wait For You? – Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Who Threw The Whiskey In the Well – Lucky Millinder w/ Wynonie Harris
I Know Who Threw The Whiskey (In The Well) – Bull Moose Jackson
Oop-Pop-A-Da – Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World) – Lucky Millinder
Tag (You’re It) – Little Charlie & The Nightcats
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