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The Sounds of the Great Big Bands from Yesterday and Today
When I was a youngster my dad bought a three record set called The Big Bands. In it were songs that went along with a book by George T. Simo...
I'm back from vacation and have some new programs under way. Here is the first, spotlighting one of my favorite big bands. Will Bradley was...
May 13th is the birthday of Woody Herman and if he were alive today that would have been his 100th birthday. We continue our celebration of...
May 13th is the birthday of Woody Herman and if he were alive today that would have been his 100th birthday. To celebrate this milestone we...
I am continuing this week with part two of Classic Artie Shaw Bluebird and Victor Sessions which has selected cuts from the Mosaic Record Co...
In 2011 I bought two 8 disc sets from the Mosaic Record Company. The first was dedicated to the Columbia sides of Benny Goodman which I pres...
This week I am going to continue with part two of the Mosaic box set, The Classic Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Session 1939 -19...
This week we will be listening to selections from a Mosaic Record Company set that I have called the Classic Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman...
This is part two of a program I did on Metronome Magazine. In the issue, there was a section devoted to record reviews. In part one, I start...
May 30, 1909 is the birthday of bandleader and clarinetist Benny Goodman. Instead of playing some of his hits which I've done in past progra...
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 sever...
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 ser...
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...
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 i...
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...
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 Orche...
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...
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 se...
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...
Welcome to the second part of our Glenn Miller birthday celebration. March 01, 1904 is the birthday of the late Glenn Miller and to celebrat...
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 recordin...
We conclude our celebration of Black History Month this week with a look at the big band of Jimmie Lunceford. Jimmie Lunceford's band differ...
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...
We continue our celebration of Black History Month this week with more assorted bands and vocalists. Some of the artists on the show today i...
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...
January 16th 1938 is the date of the Benny Goodman concert at Carnegie Hall. This was the first concert given in the respectable concert ven...
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 R...
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 passe...
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 anniv...
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 Mis...
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 an...
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 toget...
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 compi...
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...
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 t...
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 hav...
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...
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 co...
Hello everyone. While going through my collection of big bands on my computer I have them stored in folders starting with their first name t...
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...
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 a...
Jerry Atkins was a well known musician, jazz historian, and record collector who lived in Texarkana, Texas until his passing in 2010. His re...
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 a...
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...
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...
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...
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 instr...
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...
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 b...
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 ope...