This Saturday night, western swing once again merges with the Great American Songbook and songs from the Big-Band Era, as SWING ON THIS begins with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys doing a Gershwin tune and ends with that fine new act Ida Red taking a shot at a Benny Goodman number. In between, another Goodwin hit gets the Spade Cooley treatment, and a big-band boogie-woogie classic comes your way via Asleep at the Wheel.
In addition to all of that, our glass-lifting tune for the evening is the biggest hit ever recorded by Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
And, sure, there’s lots more. So please tune in to KWGS, 89.5 FM, at 7 p.m. Saturday, or pick us up live-streaming over publicradiotulsa.org. It’s always great to have you along!
1. “Oh Lady Be Good,” Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
(for JACK & CAROLE BENDER and HAMILL TIME)
2. “Cool As A Breeze,” Maryann Price
3. “Cocktails for Two,” Spike Jones
(for JANE & STAN JOHNSON and the GLASS LIFTERS)
4. “Tulsa Time,” James Robert Webb
5. “Pull Down the Shades and Lock the Door,” Bill Boyd
6. “Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar),” Asleep at the Wheel
(for MICHAEL BATES)
7. “One Sweet Letter from You,” Spade Cooley and His Western Swing Dance Gang
8. “Too Many Irons in the Fire,” Billy Parker w/Cal Smith
9. “Farther Along/Smith’s Reel/Closing Theme,” Johnnie Lee Wills
(for CYNTHIA HACKATHORN)
10. “Rag Mop,” John T. Wills and the Sons of Swing
(for BONNIE PAIGE)
11. “Hear Me Now,” Leon McAuliffe
12. “There’s A Man That Comes to Our House,” Sweet Violet Boys
(for JIM & JACKIE KARSTEIN)
13. “I’ll Be Lucky Someday,” Tom Morrell and the Time-Warp Tophands
14. “Sweet Jennie Lee,” Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies
(for TIM SISNEY)
15. “Mission to Moscow,” Ida Red
(for ROSE SINCLAIR)