WRFG Route 66 Playlist and Podcast November 7, 2021

WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org

WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Flying Home Lionel Hampton Decca Record 1942
Route 66 King Cole Trio Capitol Records 1946
Rockin’ At The Philharmonic Chuck Berry One Dozen Berrys 1958
Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’ Ray Charles The Genius Of… 1959
Yes! I Know (What You’re Putting Down) Linda Hayes Hollywood Records 1953
One of Them Good Ones Buddy Johnson Decca Records 1945
You Ain’t Unlucky Veronica Lewis You Ain’t Unlucky 2021

LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – WEEK 56 OF 56

You Can’t Get That No More Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1945
Jordan’s 10th entry on the Billboard R&B Chart, “You Can’t Get That No More”
certainly struck a chord with war-weary America. The song stayed in the
Top 10 for 13 weeks, peaking at number two.

Love And Friendship Ben Levin Still Here 2021
All Around The World Little Willie John King Records 1955
Boppin’ At The Hop Rhythmtown-Jive Retrogroove Artifact 1991
Let the Good Times Roll Steve Tyrell Shades of Ray: The Songs of Ray Charles 2021
Ooh-Pop-A-Dah Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie Voodoo 1989
But I Was Cool Oscar Brown Jr. Sin & Soul …And Then Some 1961
V-Eight Baby Tommy Brown Savoy Records 1951

CASH BOX R&B TOP 10 – SOUTHSIDE OF CHICAGO
WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 8, 1947

10-Don’t You Think I Ought to Know Hadda Brooks Trio Modern Records
9-Big Legs Gene Phillips & His Rhythm Aces Modern Records 1947
8-Red Top Gene Ammons & His Sextet Savoy Records 1947
7-The Wildest Gal in Town Billy Eckstine MGM Records 1947
6-Don’t Take Your Love From Me Hadda Brooks Modern Records 1947
5-Early In The Morning Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1947
4-Bell Boy Boogie Todd Rhodes & His Orchestra Sensation Records 1947
3-Changable Woman Blues Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers Exclusive Records
2-Thrill Me Roy Milton & The Solid Senders Specialty Records 1947
1-Since I Fell For You Annie Laurie DeLuxe Records 1947

CASH BOX RESOURCES
Cash Box Archives @ radiohistory.com
Cash Box Archives @ archives.org

T-Bone Shuffle Amos Garrett Doug Sahm Gene Taylor Band Live in Japan 1991
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) T-Bone Walker
Black & White Records 1947
Dawn Patrol Haney’s Big House Herding Cats 2019
Texas Hop Pee Wee Crayton Modern Records 1948
Too Many Men Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1953

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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005

WRFG Route 66 Sunday October 31, 2021

WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org

WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2021

Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date

Drivin’ & Jivin’ Tiny Grimes Quintet Gotham Records 1949
Let’s Have A Party Amos Milburn w/ Noble “Thin Man” Watts & Mickey Baker
Aladdin Records 1953
Party Party The William Clarke Band w/ Hollywood Fats
Tip of the Top 1987
Party At My House Sandra Hall One Drop Will Do You
They Don’t Want Me To Rock No More
Ella Johnson w/ Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra (unreleased)
No Money Rob Stone, Elena Kato, & Hiroshi Eguchi Trio In Tokyo 2021
In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down Charles Brown Aladdin Records 1949
Gate Walks To Board Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Alright Again 1981

LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – Week 54 of 56

You Broke Your Promise Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1949
It wasn’t exactly a blockbuster hit, but “You Broke Your Promise” did make
the Billboard R&B Chart for two weeks, peaking at number three following
its release in April of 1949.
The song was written by Eddie Pola, Irving Taylor and George Wiles.
Wiles was a bandleader and songwriter sho is best remembered for composing
the theme song for Gilligan’s Island in the 1960s.

The Chill Is On Roomful Of Blues Let’s Have A Party 1979
Walkin’ Around Paul Williams & His Band featuring Wild Bill Moore
Savoy Records 1948
Fortune Tellin Man Dave Specter, Jesse Fortune
Six String Soul: 30 Years On Delmark 2021
My Heart’s Delight Dakota Staton w/Howard Biggs Orch. Capital Records 1954
Double – O Count Basie w/ Eddie Lockjaw Davis Atomic Basie 1958
Bean-A Re-Bop Coleman Hawkins All Stars Aladdin Records 1948
Be Baba Leba Helen Humes w/ Bill Doggett Octet Philo Records 1945
Boodie Green Tiny Bradshaw King Records 1950

IT’S HALLOWEEN

That Old Black Magic Louis Prima & Keely Smith Capitol Records 1958
I Put A Spell On You Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Okeh Records 1956
Walkin’, Talkin’ Haunted House Candye Kane Sister Vagabond 2011
Frenzy James Harman Band w/ Kid Ramos & Hollywood Fats
Thank You Baby 1983
Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard Tom Waits Blue Valentine 1978
She Made My Blood Run Cold Ike Turner Federal Records 1961
Send Me To The ‘Lectric Chair Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith 1958
Castin My Spell On You The Johnny Otis Show w/ Marci Lee Capitol Records 1959
It’s Your Voodoo Working Bloodest Saxophone feat. Jai Malano
Texas Queens 5 2019
Temptation Southside Johnny and Labamba’s Big Band
Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits 2008
Must Have Been the Devil Bill Stuve w/ Junior Watson Big Noise 1990
Haunted Sax The Night Caps Chess Records 1958
Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer Ella Fitzgerald w/ Sly Oliver & His Orchestra
Decca Records 1951
The Ghost of Smokey Joe Cab Calloway Okeh Records 1939
Halloween Spooks Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
The Hottest New Group in Jazz 1960
Puttin on the Ritz Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle Young Frankenstein Soundtrack 1974

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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005

WRFG Route 66 Playlist and Podcast Oct 24, 2021

WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org

WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2021

Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date

Okie Dokie Stomp Roomful Of Blues Let’s Have A Party 1979
Mr. Blues Is Coming To Town Wynonie Harris King Records 1950
Rain Down Rain Big Maybelle Okeh Records 1952
Night Crawlin’ Big John Greer Groove Records 1955
Around About Midnight The Robins Score Records 1949
Early In The Morning Roy Milton & His Orchestra Specialty Records 1953
I Can’t Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)
Tom Waits Small Change 1976
Let’s Have A Natural Ball B.B. & The Blues Shacks Breaking Point 2021
Sittin’ Here Drinking Christine Kittrell Tennessee Records 1952

LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y Week 54 of 56
What’s The Use Of Getting Sober Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Decca Records 1942
Written by Busby Meyers, “What’s The Use Of Getting Sober” was
Jordan’s second entry on the Billboard R&B Chart and his first number
one hit. The song was on the chart for a total of 14 weeks during
the latter half of 1942.

Blue Ross
The Three Tenor Saxes (Jimmy Cavallo, Pat Carey, Johnny Pennino)
Steppin’ Out Of Blue Monday 2006
Ain’t Nobody’s Business Jewel Brown featuring Bloodest Saxophone
Roller Coaster Boogie 2015
She Likes To Boogie Real Low Jimmy Sutton & The Four Charms
Triskaidekaphobia 2005
Good Rockin’ Tonight Little Willie Littlefield w/ The Big Town Playboys
Good Rockin’ Blues & Boogie: Live W/ The Big Town Playboys 1986 & 1989 (2021)
Love Don’t Love Nobody Roy Brown DeLuxe Records 1950
What’s Your Name Chuck Willis Okah Records 1953
Boogie Woogie Country Girl Jimmy ‘T99’ Nelson Rockin’ & Shoutin’ The Blues 1999

A 72nd BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO JUNIOR WATSON
Born Michael Watson in Tulare, California on October 15, 1949, “Junior” Watson
was a founding member of the Mighty Flyers and spent 10 years as a member of
the reconstituted Canned Heat. With hundreds of studio sessions to his credit,
Watson has played with an amazing number of blues greats including
Lynwood Slim, Big Mama Thornton, Charlie Musselwhite, James Harmon,
Kid Ramos, Kim Wilson, Hollywood Fats, and Candye Kane.

Boppish Junior Watson Jumpin’ Wit Junior 2012
My Country Man Candye Kane w/ Junior Watson Guitar’d & Feathered 2007
The Hucklebuck Canned Heat w/ Junior Watson Reheated 1989
Whoopin’ and Hollerin’ Lynwood Slim & Junior Watson Back to Back 2010
Party Girl The James Harman Band w/Junior Watson Extra Napkins 1985
Just Got Lucky Bill Stuve w/ Junior Watson Big Noise 1990
The Bounce The Mighty Flyers w/ Rod Piazza & Junior Watson
Radioactive Material 1981

JUNIOR WATSON RESOURCES
profile @ southcoasttoday.com
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
official website

Blue Devil Jump Jay McShann The Last Of The Blue Devils 1977
You Ain’t Goin’ To Heaven No How Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers
Exclusive Records 1946
That’s All Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Sims-Wheeler Vintage Jazz Band
The Sensational Sister Rosetta Tharpe from Carnegie Hall to Antibes 1960
I’ve Got a Woman Ray Charles Atlantic Records 1954
Georgia on My Mind Steve Tyrell Shades of Ray: The Songs of Ray Charles 2021
Black And Blue Dinah Washington Sings Fats Waller 1957
Church Street Boogie Kirk Fletcher I’m Here & I’m Gone 2005
W-O-M-A-N Etta James Modern Records 1955
Blue Monday Fats Domino Imperial Records 1956

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WRFG Route 66 Playlist and Podcast October 17, 2021

WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org

WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST & PODCAST FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2021

Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date

Swingo The Chris Corcoran Trio Listen up! 2015
Woke Up This Morning (My Baby She Was Gone) B.B. King RPM Records 1953
I Thought About You Southside Johnny Detour Ahead the Music of Billie Holiday 2018
Oh How I Miss You Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Specialty Records 1952
A Bird In The Hand (Red Cross) Tomcat Blake I’ve Been Wondering 1996
I Have News For You Roy Milton & his Solid Senders Specialty Records 1951
I’ll Drown In My Tears Lula Reed King Records 1951
Red Cross Tiny Grimes Quintet w/ Charlie Parker Savoy Records 1945

LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – WEEK 53 OF 56
We Can’t Agree Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 Decca Records 1947
You could call “We Can’t Agree” one of Louis Jordan’s “lesser” hits. Written by
Jordan and Wilhelmina Gray, the song was Jordan’s 41st entry on the Billboard
R&B Chart – but just barely – it charted in 14th place for the week ending on
September 11, 1948.

Round About Midnight Little Willie Littlefield w/ The Big Town Playboys
Good Rockin’ Blues & Boogie: Live With The Big Town Playboys 1986 & 1989 (2021)
Close To Midnight Nick Curran & The Nitelifes Nitelife Boogie 2001
More Blues At Midnight Willis Jackson & His Orchestra Apollo Records 1950
Let the Good Times Roll Linda Hopkins The Living Legend Live! 2006
Rocket 88 Rocket 88 w/ Hal “Cornbread” Singer Rocket 88
Live-Rotation Club Hanpver W. Germany 1981
Yes Indeed! Ray Charles In Person 1959
Live at Alonzo Herndon Stadium, Atlanta, GA, 5/28/1959
Strollin’ With Bones T-Bone Walker Imperial Records 1950

TRIBUTE TO CHUCK BERRY TO MARK HIS 95TH BIRTHDAY
Born Charles Edward Anderson Berry in Saint Louis on October 18, 1926

No Money Down Chuck Berry & The Newport Blues Band
Live at the Newport Jazz Festival 1958
Oh Maria Joe Alexander & The Cubans (Chuck Berry – guitar) Ballard Records 1954
Route 66 Chuck Berry New Jukebox Hits 1961
Mad Lad Sir Charles & HIs All Stars Apollo Records 1947
(Covered by Chuck Berry in 1960)
House of Blue Lights Chuck Berry Chess records (Unreleased) 1958
Rocking At the Philharmonic Ari Borger & Igor Prado Lowdown Boogie 2013
(Written & recorded by CB in 1958)
Nadine (Is It You) George Benson
(First single by CB following his release from prison in 1963)
Walking to New Orleans: Remembering Chuck Berry and Fats Domino 2019
You can’t catch me Chuck Berry After School Session 1957

CHUCK BERRY RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
Chuck Berry (Official Website)
Chuck Berry – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Specters Walk Dave Specter Six String Soul: 30 Years On Delmark 2021
Caldonia Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Sings Louis Jordan 1973
Is You Is My Baby Veronica Lewis You Ain’t Unlucky 2021
Mr. Blues Is Coming To Town Wynonie Harris King Records 1950
I Can’t Wait Jimmy Adler Grease Alley 2015
All the Cats Join in Catherine Russell Inside This Heart of Mine 2010
Red Bank Boogie Count Basie & His Orchestra Columbia Records 1945
Hey Ba Ba Re Bop Parts 1 & 2
Wynonie Harris w/ The Hamptone All-Stars
Hamp-Tone Records 1946

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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005

WRFG Route 66 Playlist and Podcast October 10, 2021

WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org

WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2021

Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date

Calling All Comets Bill Haley & His Comets Rock’N’Roll Stage Show Part 1 EP 1956
Ooh Wee Walkie Talkie Dinah Washington w/ Gerald Wilson’s Orchestra
Mercury Records 1946
P.D.Q. Boogie Porky Cohen With Roomful Of Blues Rhythm & Bones 1996
Ain’t That A Shame? Fats Domino Imperial Records 1955
She Walked Right In/Honey Hush Bill Stuve Big Noise 1990
I’m Gonna Dig Myself A Hole Arthur Crudup RCA Victor 1951
(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1952
Cow Cow Boogie The Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Records 1943

LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – Week 52 of 56

That’ll Just About Knock Me Out Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5
Decca Records 1943
Jordan’s fifth entry on the Billboard R&B Chart, “That’ll Just About Knock Me Out,” didn’t exactly strike a home run, bit it did make it was number eight for one week
in October of 1943.

I’ll Never Be Free Annie Laurie & Paul Gayten & His Orchestra Regal Records 1950
Chains Of Love Joe Turner w/ Vann “Piano Man” Walls & Orchestra
Atlantic Records 1951
Tennessee Waltz Blues Sticks McGhee Atlantic Records 1951
Buzz Me Dave Specter w/ Barkin’ Bill Smith, Ronnie Earl
Six String Soul: 30 Years On Delmark 2021
Greenbacks Ray Charles Ray Charles 1957
Hit the Road Jack Steve Tyrell Shades of Ray: The Songs of Ray Charles 2021
If You Lose Your Money The James Harman Band Extra Napkins 1985

BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO JIMMY LIGGINS
Born James L. Elliott in Newby, Oklahoma on October 14, 1918. The family soon
moved to San Diego where, after a short career as a professional boxer, Liggins
became the driver for his older brother’s band, Joe Liggins and the Honey Drippers.
A master guitarist and a flamboyant showman, Jimmy Liggins scored a string of hits
in the late 1940s and early 1950s, then slowly faded from the music scene.

That’s What’s Knockin’ Me Out Jimmy Liggins & The Drops of Joy Orchestra
Specialty Records 1951
A local hit in Los Angeles in the spring of 1951,
I Ain’t Drunk Jimmy Liggins Aladdin Records 1954
Nite Life Boogie Nick Curran & The Nitelifes Nitelife Boogie 2001
Drunk The Formerly Brothers The Return Of The Formerly Brothers 2004
Ada From Decatur Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy Orchestra
Duplex Records 1960
I Can’t Stop It Kid Ramos w/ Lynwood Slim Two Hands One Heart 1995
Careful Love Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy Specialty Records 1949

JIMMY LIGGINS RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
profile @ spontaneouslunacy.net

Okie Dokie Stomp Sue Foley Pinky’s Blues 2021
We’re Gonna Rock, We’re Gonna Roll Wild Bill Moore Savoy Records 666 1948
Fore Day In The Morning Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men
De Luxe Records 1948
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Champion Jack Dupree & The Big Town Playboys
Good Rockin’ Blues & Boogie: Live… 1986 & 1989 (2021)
Chicken Shack Boogie Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1948
You Were Never Mine Janiva Magness Do I Move You? 2006
The Sun Went Down T-Bone Walker Imperial Records 1950
Hot Tamales Noble “Thin Man” Watts & His Rhythm Sparks Baton Records 1959
Hidin’ In The Sticks Paula Watson Supreme Records 1948

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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005

WRFG Route 66 Playlist and Podcast October 3, 2021

WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org

WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2021

Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date

Mess Around Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters Rise Up 2020 (Ray Charles)
Blues For Sale Joe Lutcher & His Society Cats Specialty Records 1947
K & H Boogie Big Jay McNeely Exclusive Records 1949
Baby, What’s Wrong Jimmie Vaughan Baby, Please Come Home 2019
Okie Dokie Stomp Cornell Dupree Teasin’ 1974
5-10-15 Hours Ruth Brown Atlantic Record 1952
TV Mama Big Joe Turner & The Blues Kings w/ Elmore James Atlantic Records
Please Be Kind Charles Brown Aladdin Records 1949


LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – Week 51 OF 56
That Chick’s Too Young To Fry Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1946
Written by Tommy Edwards and Jimmy Hilliard, “That Chick’s Too Young To Fry”
was Louis Jordan’s 22nd entry on the Billboard R&B Chart. The song was in the
Top 10 for 11 weeks, peaking at number three.

Wine, Wine, Wine Champion Jack Dupree & The Big Town Playboys
Good Rockin’ Blues & Boogie: Live With The Big Town Playboys 1986 & 1989 2021
Hard Times Frank Bey w/ The Anthony Paule Band
You Don’t Know Nothing 2012 (Ray Charles)
Chicago Cha Cha Junior Watson & The Red Wagons Live From Outer Space 2011
Keeper Of My Heart Faye Adams Imperial Records 1957
The Things That I Used to Do Guitar Slim w/ Ray Charles (piano)
Specialty Records 1954
Tell Me How do You Feel James Booker
New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live! 1977 (Ray Charles)
Mad Lad Chuck Berry Rockin’ at the Hops 1960

RAY CHARLES BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION – WEEK TWO
Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany, Georgia on September 23, 1930

Night Time Is the Right Time Ray Charles & The Raylettes Atlantic Records 1958
Hey Now Ray Charles Swing Time Records 1952
What’d I Say Steve Tyrell Shades of Ray: The Songs of Ray Charles 2021
I Believe to My Soul Joss Stone Here & Gone 2008
Margie Maceo Parker & The WDR Big Band
Roots & Grooves: Tribute To Ray Charles 2007
Two Years Of Torture Monroe Tucker & His Orchestra w/ Percy Mayfield
Hollywood Records 1949
Weird Beard David Newman Ray Charles Presents David Newman – Fathead 1958
Georgia On My Mind Ray Charles The Genius Hits the Road 1960

Ray Charles Resources
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
official website @ raycharles.com

Bluebeard Blues Count Basie Orchestra Blues By Basie 1950
Baby You’re Always On My Mind Buddy & Ella Johnson & The Bee Jays
Decca Records 1952
Poison Ivy Rob Stone Trio In Tokyo 2021
Good Rocking Tonight Jimmy Cavallo w/ With Ron Spencer & Jumpstar
The Houserocker! 2002
Slippin’ & Slidin’ (Peepin’ & Hidin’) Little Richard w/ Lee Allen (sax)
Specialty Records 1956
The Wrong Yo-Yo Piano Red RCA Victor 1950

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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005

WRFG Route 66 Playlist and Podcast Sept. 26, 2021

WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org


WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date

Tonk (Ray Charles) WDR Big Band feat. Maceo Parker
A Tribute To Ray Charles (DVD) 2008
Rock Little Daddy Eunice Brown w/ The Freddie Mitchell Orchestra
Derby Records 1950
Real Pretty Mama Amos Milburn & His Aladdin Chickenshackers
Aladdin Records 1949
Jack, She’s On The Ball (Ray Charles) Sugar Ray Sweet & Swingin’ 1998
Bottoms Up Four Charms Flatland Boogie 2000
Everything’s Cool Babs Gonzales Apollo Records 1947
I’ve Changed Chuck Berry Chess Records 1955
Jumpin’ in the Morning (Ray Charles) Jools Holland & Ruby Turner
Sirens Of Song 2014

LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – WEEK 50 of 56

Texas & Pacific Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1946

Written by Jack Wolf Fine and Joseph E. Hirch, “Texas & Pacific”
was Louis Jordan’s 26th entry on the Billboard R&B Chart.
The song peaked at number one and was on the R&B chart for 15 week.
It also made it to number 20 on the pop chart and was ranked the
8th most played R&B song of 1947 in the magazine’s year-end survey.
Jordan and the Tympany Five also performed the song
in the 1947 motion picture, “Reet, Petite, and Gone.”

Do You Call That a Buddy B.B. King Confessin’ The Blues 1965
I’ll Wait for You Ruth Brown & The Eddie Condon Band Atlantic Records 1951
C.C. Rider Eddie Tigner Route 66 2001
Carryout Or Delivery Ben Levin Carryout Or Delivery 2020
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo Wynonie “Mr. Blues” Harris & the Johnny Otis All Stars
Philo Records 1945
Honky Tonk Part 1 Bill Doggett King Records 1956
Lonely Avenue (Ray Charles) Taj Mahal Phantom Blues 1996

RAY CHARLES BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION – WEEK ONE
Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany, Georgia on September 23, 1930

Hit The Road, Jack Ray Charles ABC-Paramount Records 1961
Kiss-A-Me Baby Ray Charles Swing Time Records 1952
Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand Hank Crawford From The Heart 1962
What Would I Do Without You Lizz Wright Grace 2017
Hey Now Roomful of Blues Dance All Night 1994
Talkin’ ‘Bout You/I Got A Woman John Scofield featuring Dr. John
That’s What I Say – Plays the Music of Ray Charles 2005
Charlesville Ray Charles & Milt Jackson Soul Brothers 1957
A Fool For You Ray Charles A Newport 1958

Ray Charles Resources
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
official website @ raycharles.com

Dolphin’s Theme Red Callender Sextette
Recorded in Hollywood Records 1951
The Frim Fram Sauce (Nat) King Cole Trio Capitol Records 1945
I’ll Never Be Free Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1950
Come Back To Me Baby Blues T-Bone Walker & Marl Young’s Orchestra
Mercury Records 1946
Blue Cadillac Dana Gillespie As Blue As I Can Be: Live 2020
Mona (I Need You Baby) Bo Diddley Checker Records 1957

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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005

WRFG Playlist and Podcast Sept. 19, 2021

WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org

WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date

The Huckle-Buck Lionel Hampton Orchestra Decca Records 1949
Bloodshot Eyes Jimmy Cavallo w/ With Ron Spencer & Jumpstar
The Houserocker! 2002
New Blow-Top Blues Dinah Washington Decca Records 1947
Tiny’s Tempo Seth Walker When It Rains It Pours 1997
I’ll Do Anything But Work Ray Charles Swing Time Records 1950
Rocking Blues Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1950
I’m Just a Lady’s Man Jimmy Witherspoon Modern Records 1950
Everyday I Have the Blues Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco
You’re Driving Me Crazy 2018

LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – Week 48

Teardrops From My Eyes Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1951

“Teardrops” was Louis Jordan’s 56th entry on the Billboard R&B Chart, and his second to last. It was on the Billboard chart for two weeks, peaking at number four.
Rudy Toom wrote the tune specifically for Ruth Brown, who had a breakthrough hit
with it in the fall of 1950. Jordan’s version features Bill Davis on organ.

Rock Me Baby Etta James Etta James: The Montreux Years 2021
Live At Casino Montreux, 11th July 1975
What Am I Living For Gene Taylor Live 605 Boogie 2008
Jumpin’ In The Morning Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
Miss Smith To You! 2009
Nite Life Boogie Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy Specialty Records 1947
Saturday Night Saturday Night (Four Nights Drunk)
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers w/ Frankie Ervin Modern Records 1953
No Bones Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson & Roomful of Blues
Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson & Roomful of Blues 1982

8:00 A.M. FEATURE: B.B. KING
Born Riley King in Benna, Mississippi on September 16, 1925

3 O’clock Blues B.B. King RPM Records 1951
King’s first national hit, “3 O’clock Blues was on the Billboard R&B Chart for 17 week including five at number one following its release in December of 1951.
Woke Up This Morning Ike & Tina Turner (unreleased) 1970
When B.B. King moved to Memphis, he joined up with a group of then unknown artists who called themselves the Bealstreeters who backed each other up on their various gigs. In addition to King, several other members went on to become stars including Johnny Ace, Bobby “Blue” Bland, and Ike Turner. Ike and Tina Turner recorded this version of King’s “Woke Up This Morning” in 1970. The song was not released at the time, but it was including in “Ike & Tina Turner’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 in 1988.
Miss Martha King B.B.King Bullet Records 1949
On his first recording, King was backed by the house band from the Plantation Inn
Club in West Memphis. The pianist, Phineas Newborn went on to play with
Lionel Hampton and Charles Mingus.
Everything I Do Is Wrong Kid Ramos Two Hands One Heart 1995
Jamming With Brubeck B.B. King Orchestra w/ Dave Brubeck
Live At Midem 1983 (released in 2020)

B.B. KING RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
official website
B.B. King Museum & Delta Interpretive Center

It’s A Low Down Dirty Deal T-Bone Walker w/ the Al Killian Quintette
Black & White Records 1947
Chains Of Love Bobby “Blue” Bland Duke Records 1957
Blind Man Gregg Allman Low Country Blues 2011
Billy’s Boogie Blues Billy Wright Savoy Records 1949
Harpthrob Big Chico Big Chico Plays Rod Piazza 2021
Billie’s Blues Janiva Magness My Bad Luck Soul 1999
The Lip Louis Prima The Wildest! 1956
Oh Babe Roy Milton & His Solid Senders Specialty Records 1950
Information Blues Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown One More Mile 1983

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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005

WRFG Route Playlist and Podcast Sept. 12, 2021

WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org

WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST – SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date

New Orleans Shuffle Johnny Otis & His Orchestra Savoy Records 1949
She Winked Her Eye Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Peacock Records 1951
Open The Door, Richard Count Basie & His Orchestra RCA Victor 1947
Have You Lost Your Mind? Ben Levin Carryout Or Delivery 2020
They Call Me Big Mama Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton Peacock Records 1953
Goin’ Home Fats Domino Imperial Records 1952
Down Bound Train Chuck Berry After School Session 1957
You Don’t Learn That In School King Cole Trio Capitol Records 1946
B-Sharp You’ll See Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers Exclusive Records 1947

LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – Week 47

Tamburitza Boogie Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1950
Jordan’s 54th entry on the Billboard R&B Chart was number 10 for one week
in November of 1950, but was the 95th most played R&B song of 1950.
According to Wikipedia, “Croatian tamburitza is a folk song played with a tambura (cousins with Russian balalaika and the Italian mandolin) and is accompanied with
a dance. The origin is most commonly thought to be introduced from the Turks by
way of Bosnia between the 14th and 16th century..”

Mr Freddie’s Boogie Freddie Mitchell & His Orchestra Brunswick Records 1953
Chicken Shack Boogie Big Town Playboys Hole In My Pocket 1985
I Don´t Hurt Anymore Fontella Bass With Oliver Sain Orchestra
Bobbin Records 1962
Shake Baby Shake Jack Dupree Red Robin Records 1953
Shake Dance Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson & His Orchestra Atlantic Records 1953
Shake A Hand Igor Prado Band Recorded in MONO at Studio 8 (SP/Brazil) 2007
All Right, OK, You Win (I’m In Love With You) Diane Schuur Blues for Schuur 1997
Lost Mind Johnny Adams
Walking on a Tightrope – The Songs of Percy Mayfield 1989

BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO ROY BROWN
Roy James Brown was born in Kinder, Louisiana on September 10, 1925 (or 1920)

Good Rockin’ Tonight Roy Brown With Bob Ogden & His Orchestra
Deluxe Records 1947
The first of 14 national R&B hits Brown scored between 1947 and 1951
Hard Luck Blues Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men DeLuxe Records 1950
Brown’s biggest selling record, “Hard Luck Blues” spent 18 weeks on the Billboard R&B chart including three weeks at number one during the summer of 1950.
Traintime Blues Bill Stuve Say Man! 2000
Along About Midnight (aka Long About Midnight) The Knickerbocker All-Stars
Open Mic At The Knick 2014
Lollipop Mama Wynonie Harris King Records 1948
Written by Brown, “Lollipop Mama” was Harris’s fourth hit single.
Love Don’t Love Nobody Kid Ramos West Coast House Party 2000
Bar Room Blues Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men Deluxe Records 1951
Brown final hit before a brief comeback in 1957, “Bar Room Blues” was on the
national R&B chart for five weeks, peaking at number six at the end of 1951.

ROY BROWN RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
Roy Brown page @ SpontaneousLunacy.net

Walkin’ With Mr. Lee
The Three Tenor Saxes (Jimmy Cavallo, Pat Carey, Johnny Pennino)
Steppin’ Out Of Blue Monday 2006
Fine Little Honey Dripper (My Sweet Little Honey Dripper)
Jimmy “T-99” Nelson & The Peter Rabbit Trio RPM Records 1951
It’s a Mean Old Man’s World Dinah Washington Back To The Blues 1963
Still In The Dark Big Joe Turner Freedom Records 1950
There Is Something On Your Mind Rob Stone s/ Elena Kato & Hiroshi Eguchi Trio
In Tokyo 2021
Just For A Thrill Ray Charles The Genius 1959
Do Unto Others Pee Wee Crayton Imperial Records 1956
Weepin’ & Cryin’ Tommy Brown & The Griffin Brothers Regent Records 1951
Laughing In Rhythm Slim Gaillard Mish Mash 1953

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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005

WRFG Route 66 Playlist and Podcast – Sept. 5, 2021

WRFG Route 66 celebrates a bygone time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the music of the Jump Blues
and Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
have evolved over the years.

Listen Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern on Atlanta’s
WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is streaming
worldwide over our free mobile app, TuneIn, radio.garden, and WRFG.ORG.

Please follow WRFG Route 66 on Facebook.
Check out our podcast page @ MixCloud.Com.

Contact: john.askins@wrfg.org

WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Song
Artists
Original Album or Single & Date

Blow Blow Blow Big Jay McNeely Imperial Records 1952
I Can’t Stop It Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy Specialty Records 1947
Country Boy Dave Bartholomew De Luxe Records 1947
Strange Things Happen Everyday Sister Rosetta Tharpe Decca Records 1944
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) T-Bone Walker
Black & White Records 1947
T-Town Twist Roy Milton w/ Johnny G. Rogers on guitar Specialty Records 1951
You Ain’t Unlucky Veronica Lewis You Ain’t Unlucky 2021

LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – Week 46

Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1945
The B side of “Caldonia,” Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door” was
Jordan’s 12th entry on the Billboard R&B Chart. It stayed on the national chart
for 10 weeks, peaking at number three in the summer of 1945.

Let The Good Time Roll Linda Hopkins w/ Mortonette Jenkins / Maxine Weldon
Wild Women Blues – Original Cast Recording 2003
Fool’s Paradise John Hammond w/ Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Trouble No More 1994
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Jimmy Witherspoon Baby, Baby, Baby 1963
Bluebird Charlie Watts Quintet From One Charlie 1991
Mr. Five By Five Freddie Slack & His Orchestra with Ella Mae Morse
Capitol Records 1942
Teardrops from My Eyes Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1950
‘Gator’s Groove Willis Jackson & His Orchestra Atlantic Records 1952

A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO MEMPHIS SLIM
Born John Len Chatman in Memphis, Tennessee of September 3, 1915

Nobody Loves Me (Every Day I Have The Blues Memphis Slim Miracle Records 1948
Memphis Slim’s reworking of the song by Pinetop Sparks became a blues standard. Four different versions of “Every Day I Have The Blues” reached the Top 10 on the Billboard R&B Chart including hits for Count Basie and B.B. King.
Rockin’ Chair Blues Big Bill Broonzy w/ Memphis Slim Okah Records 1940
Memphis Slim played piano on several of Big Bill Broonzy’s records beginning in 1940. He released his first records under his own name in 1942
Rockin’ the House Memphis Slim & The House Rockers Miracle Records 1947
The Comeback Lynwood Slim & The Igor Prado Band Brazilian Kicks 2010
I’m Lost Without You Janiva Magness Use What you Got 2004
Mother Earth Mother Earth Living with the Animals 1968
Messin’ Around With The Blues Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
Miracle Records 1948
Same Girl Sonny Boy Williamson II w/ Memphis Slim & Matt “Guitar” Murphy
Keep It To Ourselves 1963

MEMPHIS SLIM RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
Memphis Music Hall of Fame

Caravan Roomful Of Blues Hot Little Mama 1981
Elevator Boogie Mabel Scott w/ Charles Brown Exclusive Records 1948
Cryin’ Mercy Charles Brown w/ Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Aladdin Records 1954
Just a Game Jimmie Vaughan Baby, Please Come Home 2019
Heavy Juice Tiny Bradshaw & His Orchestra King Records 1953
Save The Bones For Henry Jones Ray Charles & Lou Rawls
Just Between Us 1988
Talk Is Cheap Sandra Hall Miss Red Riding Hood 2001
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Live 2005