Swing Shift

NOW 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.  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 JANUARY 24, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Get Off on a Fugue" Jack Teagarden
"Travelin' Mood" Frankie Carle
"Full Dress Hop" Gene Krupa
"The Blues I Like to Hear" Count Basie
"Boptized" Les Brown

"March of the Hoodlums" Lud Gluskin
"After All, You're All I'm After Now" McKinney's Cotton Pickers
"Take My Heart" Nat Brandwynne
"If I Had a Talking Picture of You" Jack Hylton
"Aristocratic Stomp" Paul Tremaine

"Washington Squabble" Henry Busse
"An Apple Blossom Wedding" Mitchell Ayres
"Waiting in Sweetheart Valley" Lou Preager
"Midnight Blue" Dick McDonough
"Heart of My Heart" Sam Donahue
"Wait 'til It Happens to You" The Charioteers

HOUR TWO

"The Answer is Love" Kay Kyser
"The Sheik of Araby" Benny Goodman
"In the Land of Make-Believe" Bob Chester
"Holiday for Strings" Spike Jones
"It's All Yours" Artie Shaw

"Annabelle" Gray Gordon
"Maybe You'll Be There" Ziggy Elman
"Here Comes the Night" Harry James
"Sweet as a Song" Horace Heidt
"Can't You Read Between the Lines?" Charlie Spivak

"Tomorrow" Charlie Spivak
"That Old Black Magic" Buddy Morrow
"I Got a Walkie Talkie" Bobby Sherwood
"Chew-Chew-Chew Your Bubble Gum" Chick Webb
"So You're the One" Helen O'Connell
"Hit the Road to Dreamland" Sauter/Finegan Orchestra