This week on SWING ON THIS, the multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and
composer Shelby Eicher drops by Studio D, where we play a couple of songs from the Tulsa Playboy CD and he gives us some nice backstory.
Other attractions this time around include a return of the Sweet Violet Boys with a “blue” tune from the ’30s that’s NOT “There’s A Man That Comes to Our House”; Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys doing a great Cindy Walker tune that wasn’t released until more than 40 years after it was recorded; and a Billy May big-band Hamill Time entry that features some pretty amazing steel guitar from Speedy West.
That and plenty more Saturday night at 7 p.m. on Tulsa radio station KWGS, 89.5 FM, and live-streaming everywhere at publicradiotulsa.org
1. “Don’t Count Your Chickens,” Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
(for CAT & CHRIS BURTON)
2. “Four in the Morning,” Eric Diamond
3. “Warm Red Wine,” Tulsa Playboys w/Wanda Jackson
(for DALE CLARK and the GLASS LIFTERS)
4. “Twin Guitar Boogie,” Leon McAuliffe
5. “Bubbles in My Beer,” Tulsa Playboys w/Roy Clark
6. “I Haven’t Got A Pot to Cook In,” Sweet Violet Boys
(for JIM & JACKIE KARSTEIN)
7. “This Must Be the Place,” Billy May w/Betty Hutton and Tennessee Ernie Ford
(for HAMILL TIME)
8. “Spanish Eyes,” Eldon Shamblin
9. “Sweet Little Girl of Mine,” Modern Mountaineers
10. “Room Full of Fools,” Billy Parker
11. “Surrey with the Fringe on Top,” Tom Morrell and the Time Warp Tophands
(for GAYLE & JIM)
12. “Don’t Be That Way,” Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys
(for JIM HALSEY and JACK & CAROLE BENDER)
13. “I Love Being Here with You,” Brazos Valley Boys
14. “San Antonio Rose,” Ready Steady Go
(for AP MCQUIDDY)
15. “Walkin’ in the Shadow of the Blues,” Buck Reams and the Range Riders