Big Band Bash
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Big Band Bash
The Sounds of the Great Big Bands from Yesterday and Today
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Metronome Magazine Part One
When I was in high school, my dad knew of my interest in the big bands. While out at his job, he found someone that was getting rid of several issues...
Remotes From WW2 Part Two (Artie Shaw) Repeat
This week I am continuing with part two of Big Band Remotes from World War 2 with two remotes from the Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands series. At th...
Remotes From WW2 Part One Repeat
On this week's show I would like to honor a request. A listener asked for some big band remotes that took place during World War 2. Most of the remote...
Bob Chester and Teddy Powell
This week we will be listening to and learning about two bands that I've never recently covered before: Bob Chester and Teddy Powell. This is a rebroa...
The Casa Loma Orchestra
This week we take a look back at the music and career of Glenn Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra. As an orchestra they predated Benny Goodman and the s...
1938-1939 Time Life - The Swing Era Part 2 Repeat
This is part two of the Time Life records set I started last week. These records were originally recorded in 1971 by Billy May and His Orchestra/Glen...
1938-1939 Time Life - The Swing Era Part 1 Repeat
This is another volume in Time Life records ambitious project called "The Swing Era". It was a ten volume set with three records included in each volu...
Spotlight on Tommy Dorsey - Repeat
Hello everyone. This week is a continuation of the two part series I started last week on the Dorsey brothers. This was a show I produces several year...
Spotlight on Jimmy Dorsey - Repeat
This week I have gone back into the collection and pulled out two shows that I did on Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. There is a lot a good music in these sho...
Glenn Miller - A Birthday Salute Part 2
Welcome to the second part of our Glenn Miller birthday celebration. March 01, 1904 is the birthday of the late Glenn Miller and to celebrate I've pic...
Glenn Miller - A Birthday Salute Part 1
March 01, 1904 is the birthday of the late Glenn Miller. Join me on this program as we celebrate his birthday. I've picked out some recordings that ar...
Black History Month Sampler Part Four
We conclude our celebration of Black History Month this week with a look at the big band of Jimmie Lunceford. Jimmie Lunceford's band differed from ot...
Black History Month Sampler Part Three
We wind up our celebration of Black History Month with some more assorted artists. The performers today are ones that I didn't get to on the previous...
Black History Month Sampler Part Two
We continue our celebration of Black History Month this week with more assorted bands and vocalists. Some of the artists on the show today include Ell...
Black History Month Sampler Part One
We start our celebration of Black History Month this week. Rather than focus on any one band or bandleader I have put together a sampler of bands. We...
Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert
January 16th 1938 is the date of the Benny Goodman concert at Carnegie Hall. This was the first concert given in the respectable concert venue by a sw...
Memories of the Swing Era Part 4
Hello everyone. I have to correct myself. There were four parts to this series. So, this week we are going to conclude the series from the Reader's Di...
Les Brown Part 2
Hello everyone. This is part two of a program I did on the great bandleader, Les Brown. Les passed away January 4, 2001. Since we just passed the anni...
Les Brown Part 1
As we return from the holidays, I want to feature the big band of Les Brown. Les passed away January 4, 2001. Since we just passed the anniversary of...
Martha Tilton - A Birthday Salute
This week we pay a birthday salute to Martha Tilton who was born on November 14th, 1915. After singing with the quartet Three Hits and a Miss, she joi...
Memories of the Swing Era Part 3
Hello everyone. This week we are going to conclude the series from the Reader's Digest Set, Memories of the Swing Era. Back in the 1960's and 70's Rea...
Memories of the Swing Era Part 2
Hello. This week we are going to continue with more selections from the Reader's Digest Set, Memories of the Swing Era. I tried to put together a vari...
Memories of the Swing Era Part 1
I recently came across a set of records in a Box Set from Reader's Digest Records called Memories of the Swing Era. There were several compilation set...
Songs by Anita O'Day
This week I am returning to a program I produced a few years ago. It was a program to honor a listener's request. It had been awhile since I featured...
Bunny Berigan - A Birthday Salute
Born on November 2, 1908, this trumpeter, despite the brevity of his career and his all-too-short life, remains one of the most compelling trumpet pla...
64 Assorted Songs Part 4
Greetings everyone. This week we conclude this series with part four of a potpourri show as I go through my collection by first names. I have quite a...
64 Assorted Songs Part 3
Well hello everyone. This week we continue with part three of a potpourri show as I go through my collection by first names. I have quite a collection...
64 Assorted Songs Part 2
Well hello everyone. This week we continue with part two of a potpourri show as I go through my collection by first names. I have quite a collection o...
64 Assorted Songs Part 1
Hello everyone. While going through my collection of big bands on my computer I have them stored in folders starting with their first name then last...
The Jerry Atkins Collection - Part Three
This week I am going to conlude the Jerry Atkins Collection series with a couple of albums each by Buddy Bregman, Stan Kenton and Gene Krupa. Jerry wa...
The Jerry Atkins Collection - Part Two Woody Herman
Hello everyone. This is part two of a series I call the Jerry Atkins Collection. Jerry had a show on Saturdays on the radio station I work at called T...
The Jerry Atkins Collection - Part One Les Brown
Jerry Atkins was a well known musician, jazz historian, and record collector who lived in Texarkana, Texas until his passing in 2010. His record colle...
Songs of the 1920's Part 4 Repeat
Hello everyone. On this week's show I am going to wrap up Songs of the 1920's. We'll conclude the alphabet and then I'll present some odds and ends. T...
Songs of the 1920's Part 3 Repeat
This week continues our look at the songs composed in the 1920s. We start with the letter N and go down to the Letter T. The puzzler is back this week...
Songs of the 1920's Part 2 Repeat
Welcome back to this four part series on songs of the 1920s. Today we cover songs from that decade that begin with the letter "E" and go all the way d...
Songs of the 1920's Part 1 Repeat
This was a repeat of a show from a few years ago. The 1920s were a decade filled with original songs by some of the leading composers of the era. I fo...
Two Kays - Kay Kyser and Sammy Kaye
This week I feature the two Kays, Sammy Kaye and Kay Kyser. Kay Kyser led a very successful swing orchestra although he didn't play an instrument. Sam...
Harry James Live 1943 - 1953
Harry James had a very popular band during the war years. The set of recordings I will be playng from this week are live recordings from the years of...
Theme Songs Part 2
This week we are going to continue listening to the many theme songs used by the big bands. Theme songs were usually the first song played by a band w...
Theme Songs Part 1
This week I am going to start a two part look at the theme songs of the big bands. Each band had a song or a theme with which they would open and clos...