Vintage Swinger: 1 March 2008

This vintage program, from a year after the previously program presented here, finds a very different situation. I had ended my nearly seven year association with Doo Wop Café Radio and was now co-owner of a new net radio station, Radio Odyssey. Somewhere along the way, I found out about Louisville Community Radio - WXBH.

After producing shows for Louisville Community Radio for about six months, I took a short hiatus from producing. You have to remember, not only was I doing live broadcast via Radio Odyssey, I was producing the All-New Dave Swinger Show for WXBH, The Friday Night Block Party and Rock Around The Mouse for Radio Odyssey. Of course, this had nothing to do with my full time job in retail. Frankly, I was burned out, but I kept on trucking for a couple more months. . .

01. Too Marvelous For Words - The King Cole Trio
02. Don't Speak - No Doubt
03. You Better Be My Baby - Johnny Mercury
04. She's Everywhere I Go - The Fabulous Harmonaires
05. Too Drunk To Drive - Hot Rod Lincoln
06. I Liked You Better - Li'l Bit & The Customatics
07. Red Prescription - Jamie Barnes
08. Paradise City - Fork in Socket
09. So I Can Live With Myself - Souls In Rhythm
10. Jumping Bean - Deke Dickerson & Larry Collins
11. Angle Eyes - The Jeff Healey Band
12. Rose of The Rio Grandé - The Harlemaires
13. Blow a Fuse - Betty Hutton
14. Puttin' On The Ritz - Taco
15. Unsaid - The Fray
16. Wave Goodbye - Blake Harvard
17. Milkshake Mademoiselle - Blair Carman
18. Before The Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender

Don Redman's Orchestra: Mickey Finn (1946)

Mickey Finn
written by Don Redman
performed by Don Redman's Orchestra
recorded 29 January 1946
released as Swan 7501 in May 1946

Don Redman, Bernie Peacock - alto saxes
Don Byas - tenor sax
Oran "Hot Lips" Page, Dick Vance, Harold "Money" Johnson - trumpets
Henderson Chambers - trombone
Bob Wyatt - piano
Cozy Cole - drums
all other personnel is unknown

This is one of two releases by Don Redman on a fairly obscure label. As a matter of fact, these recordings were so rare that the Classics label missed these titles (or simply couldn't find them to include them) when they were releasing the Chronological recordings of Don Redman!

An ad in the 25 May 1946 Billboard magazine lists 9 releases (7501-9) on Swan and one on the Pick-Up label (1001), both located at 1600 Broadway in New York. This was their first release. The earliest mention was from 23 March, under the Pick-Up banner, in an article about new disc making firms. They placed an ad in the 22 June issue advertising a new release (7510). And, finally an ad in the 14 December issue for two releases by The Stardusters (8000-1). They were still listed, in Billboard, as a "disk maker" on 31 May 1947 and, again, 24 January 1948. So, that makes one release on Pick-Up and 12 on Swan, all released between March and December 1946.

As for this recording, Hot Lips Page has the blistering solo after Cozy Cole makes room, of course!

Vintage Swinger: 24 March 2007

I thought it might be fun to share with you some classic programs from the past.

So, we roll back the clock to Saturday, 24th of March 2007. It is the All-New Dave Swinger Show LIVE on Doo Wop Café Radio! I am not really sure what happened but we have a co-host, Karl Childers, and a whole lot of french fried potaters! Also, Boston, Massachusetts is the answer to a "all fame but no fortune" trivia question that I did not gave an answer to in the first hour.

So, here it is, all 3 hours for your listening pleasure presented just as it happened.

Hour 1 (57:38):
01. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - The Orioles
02. The Twist - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
03. All Night Long - Joe Houston
04. Voo-Vee-Ah-Bee - The Platters
05. Jump Children - The Flamingos
06. White Clifs of Dover - The Checkers
07. He's Gone - The Chantels
08. Down The Aisle of Love - The Quin-Tones
09. BIGalow 6-200 - Brenda Lee
10. Daddy Cool - The Rays
11. I Want to Be Wanted - Brenda Lee
12. Cherie - The Jivers
13. Send Me Flowers - The Six Teens
14. It's Love Baby - Louis Brooks & The Hi-Toppers
15. Cherry Flip - Jimmy Sutton's Four Charms
16. Hey Little Schoolgirl - The Paragons
17. Baby Doll - The Crows
18. You Can't Trust a Woman - The Four Clippers



Hour 2 (1:01:23):
01. Rain - The Four Clippers
02. These Golden Rings - The Jive Five
03. Raindrops On a River - Sonny Parks
04. Flat Foot Floogie - Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers
05. My Honey's Lovin' Arms - Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers
06. Out of Sight, Out of Mind - The Five Keys
07. Be Anything But Be Mine - The Five Keys
08. It's Not Unusual - The Dells
09. Tell The World - The Dells
10. Corn Whiskey - The Cadillacs
11. Wishing Well - The Cadillacs
12. I Wonder Why - Dion & The Belmonts
13. Teen Angel - Dion & The Belmonts
14. Be Careful of The Stones That You Throw - Dion
15. She's Gone With The Wind - Fred Parris & The Scarlets
16. Joannie - The Bay Bops
17. You Are My Queen - The Casanovas
18. Mashed Potato Time - Dee Dee Sharpe
19. Sweet Potato - Marvin & Johnny



Hour 3 (56:47):
01. French Fried Potatoes and Ketchup - Doris Drew
02. Little Sister - Dwight Yoakam
03. Little Sister - Elvis Presley
04. Little Donna - The Rivieras
05. Your Way - The Legends of Doo Wop
06. Dear Lord - The Legends of Doo Wop
07. Rama Lama Ding Dong - The Edsels
08. Near You - The Cardinals
09. Cool Shake - The Del-Vikings
10. Chapel of Dreams - The Dubs
11. But I Do - Clarence Henry
12. A Teenager In Love - Dion & The Belmonts
13. Until The Real Thing Comes Along - Billy Ward & The Dominoes
14. Tell Me Why - The Belmonts
15. Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon
16. Don't Cry Darling - The Mystery Quartet
17. I Found a Love - The Falcons
18. Nitey Nite - The Majestics