If you feel like a little post-Thanksgiving boogie music, you’ll find just what you’re craving in Saturday’s installment of SWING ON THIS, where I’ve got not one, not two, but three mighty fine boogie recordings from Jim Boyd and His Men of the West, Ida Red, and Leon McAuliff (during that early ‘60s period when he dropped the “e” from his last name) and His Cimarron Boys.
Plus, an all-time favorite, circa 1938, from Roy Newman and His Boys, with vocalist Earl Brown explaining the reason he can’t dance, and Jana Jae’s version of a Bob Wills hit that features a peerless lineup of Oklahoma western-swing stars.
That and much more on our last broadcast of November 2021. So please tune in to radio station KWGS, 89.5 FM, at 7 p.m. Saturday, or pick us up live-streaming everywhere at publicradiotulsa.org. And thanks for listening!
1. “Memphis,” Bob Wills w/Mel Tillis
(for BILLY DEE ALLEN)
2. “Remember Me,” Shelby Eicher
3. “Drinkin’ and A-Thinkin’,” Smokey Rogers
(for WES & JEANNIE BENGE and the GLASS LIFTERS)
4. “Rockin’ in the Congo,” Hank Thompson
(for JIM HALSEY)
5. “Mule Boogie,” Jim Boyd
(for MIKE BARRON)
6. “Rock City Boogie,” Ida Red
7. “Eyes of My Heart,” Johnnie Lee Wills and All the Boys
8. “San Antonio Rose,” Belton Richard and the Musical Aces
(for CAROLE & JACK BENDER and AP MCQUIDDY)
9. “Swing Band in Heaven,” Stonehorse and Friends
10. “Water Baby Boogie,” Leon McAuliffe and His Cimarron Boys
(for HAMILL TIME)
11. “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” Jana Jae
(for ELVEN LINDBLAD)
12. “I Can’t Dance (Got Ants in My Pants),” Roy Newman and His Boys
(for DALE CLARK)
13. “I’ve Got Trouble in Mind,” Jimmie Revard and His Oklahoma Playboys
(for CAT & CHRIS BURTON)
14, “Jerri Again,” Billy Parker
15. “Teach Me Tonight,” Elizabeth McQueen & Jason Roberts
(for PETER & LAURA SALZYN)
16, “Pick Yourself Up,” Nashville Swing Band