Swing Shift

SOON CELEBRATING 30 YEARS!  ON THE AIR SINCE 1996!
Two Hours of Classic Big Band Memories Every Saturday!

SS1130.JPGRecord collectors Steve Laughery (left) and John Heyrend (right) bring you two hours of classic Big Band Jazz on KOMW's Swing Shift every Saturday morning from ten to noon. Hear ALL your favorites - Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Jack Teagarden, Louis Jordan, Claude Thornhill, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Guy Lombardo, Fats Waller, Bunny Berigan, The Andrews Sisters, The Boswell Sisters, The King Sisters, Fletcher Henderson, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Will Bradley, Ray McKinley, Dolly Dawn, Jimmie Lunceford, Stan Kenton, Les Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey ... and many more!  

   Be sure to tune-in each week for lots of fun, swingin'  music from the late 1920's, to the mid 1950's!





 

(Note: Here are the titles and artists for the next SWING SHIFT (or two).  As I'm sure we all know, both computers and DJs can make mistakes.  Also, although it rarely happens, the show could - for various reasons - be preempted)

 

PLAY LIST FOR DECEMBER 6, 2025

SWING SHIFT CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, PART TWO!

HOUR ONE

"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" Johnny Mercer with The Pied Pipers
"I Want You for Christmas" Dick Robertson
"Santa Claus is On His Way" Sammy Kaye
"It's Christmas Time Again" Margaret Whiting
"I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You" Bernie Cummins
"The Merry Christmas Waltz" Guy Lombardo

"Winter Draws On" Gracie Fields
"Le Noel des Petits Santons" Henri Alibert
"A Punch and Judy Show" Pete Mandell
"O, Holy Night" The Victor Salon Orchestra

"A Christmas Medley" Glenn Miller
"The Nutcracker Suite" Les Brown
"Christmas Dreaming" Frank Sinatra

HOUR TWO

"Santa Claus Express" Henry Hall
"Hello, Mr. Kringle" Kay Kyser
"Christmas in Killarney" Tommy Tucker
"Christmas Eve in Fairyland" Gracie Fields
"My Christmas Song for You" The Mills Brothers

"All Around the Christmas Tree" Raymond Scott
"Christmas Candles" Guy Lombardo with The Andrews Sisters
"Blue Christmas" Russ Morgan
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" Bing Crosby
"The Birthday of a King" David Rose with Judy Garland

"We Three Kings" Stan Kenton
"The Jolly Old Man (in the Bright Red Suit)" Vaughn Monroe
"Mistletoe Kiss" Russ Morgan
"Send Me Your Love for Christmas" Raymond Scott
"I'd Like to Hitch a Ride With Santa Claus" The Andrews Sisters
"I'm Spending Christmas With the Old Folks" Oscar Rabin

 

PLAY LIST FOR DECEMBER 13, 2025

SWING SHIFT CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, PART THREE!

HOUR ONE

"Dig That Crazy Santa Claus" Ralph Marterie
"Shake Hands With Santa Claus" Louis Prima
"Everybody's Waitin' for the Man With the Bag" Kay Starr
"Whatcha Gonna Get Me for Christmas?" Jan Garber
"The Fattest Man in Town" Bob Chester
"Too Fat for the Chimney" Jerry Colonna

"Christmas Medley" Stan Kenton
"T'was the Night Before Christmas" Martha Tilton and Harry Babbitt

"The Christmas Spell" Anne Shelton
"Midnight Sleigh Ride" The Sauter/Finegan Orchestra
"Song of the Sleigh Bells" June Hutton
"Holiday in Harlem" Chick Webb with Ella Fitzgerald
"Christmas Night in Harlem" Louis Armstrong
"Christmas Night in Harlem" Hal Kemp

HOUR TWO

"December Blue" Duke Ellington
"December" The Mills Brothers with Count Basie
"Jolly Jolly Jingle" Blue Barron
"Snowy White Snow and Jingle Bells" Vaughn Monroe
"In a Merry Mood" Barnabas Von Geczy
"My Birthday Comes on Christmas" Spike Jones

"The Toy Town Parade" The Piccadilly Revelers
"They Would Wind Him Up and He Would Whistle" Dick Powell (?)
"The Toy Trumpet" Raymond Scott
"The Toy Maker's Dream" Horace Heidt
"Toyland Waltz" Harry Horlick

"Picnic in the Wintertime" Boyd Raeburn
"Down t' Uncle Bill's" Hal Kemp
"The Christmas Story" Doris Day
"Tell Santy I Live in a Shanty" Frank Daily with Ann Lee Davies
"The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" Jimmy Ray with The Southern Serenaders
"Santa, Bring My Mommy Back to Me" George Hall with Dolly Dawn