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 (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 AUGUST 1, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Hot Chestnuts" Woody Herman
"Mister Meadowlark" Glenn Miller
"A Little Rendezvous in Honolulu" Tommy Dorsey
"Paper Doll" The Mills Brothers
"Moton Swing" Billy Butterfield

"Our Bungalow of Dreams" Frankie Trumbauer
"Dinah" Red Nichols
"Mine, All Mine" The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
"Happy Feet" Paul Whiteman
"Doin' the Frog" Duke Ellington

"That's the Way" Sam Donahue
"T'Ain't Good (Like a Nickel Made of Wood)" Jimmie Lunceford
"T'Ain't No Use" Jimmy Dorsey
"You've Got to Eat Your Spinach, Baby" Bunny Berigan
"Till the Clock Strikes Three" Artie Shaw

HOUR TWO

"I Dug a Ditch" Henry Busse
"The Choo Choo Special" Eric Winstone
"Hour of Parting" Glen Gray
"Where's the Sun?" Fats Waller
"From the Vine Came the Grape" Ralph Flanagan

"Hear My Song, Violetta" Victor Sylvester
"You Made Me Love You" Harry James
"You Are the One" Gene Krupa
"Thinking of You" Kay Kyser
"My Own" Jan Savitt

"Quicksilver" Will Bradley/Ray McKinley
"Easy Does It" Ralph Marterie
"Hodge Podge" Bobby Sherwood
"Superman" Benny Goodman
"Hey, Pete, Let's Eat Mo' Meat" Dizzy Gillespie
"I Fell in Love With the Leader of the Band" Virginia O'Brien (with Tommy Dorsey)

 

PLAY LIST FOR AUGUST 8, 2026

HOUR ONE

"The Moon and the Willow Tree" Jack Teagarden
"Atlanta, GA" Woody Herman
"Siren Serenade" Gene Krupa
"Three at a Table for Two" Les Brown
"My Honey's Lovin' Arms" Benny Goodman

"No Strings" Fred Astaire
"Let's Misbehave" Irving Aaronson
"You're More Than All the World to Me" Ray Noble
"Jazzin' Babies Blues" The Jazz Wizards
"I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now" Jean Goldkette

"If You Build a Better Mousetrap" Hal McIntyre
"The You and Me That Used to Be" George Hall
"Morning Train" Lou Preager
"One Dozen Roses" Dick Jurgens
"Let Yourself Go" Glen Gray
"Vol Vistu Gaily Star" The Merry Macs

HOUR TWO

"Out of This World" Woody Herman
"The Love Bug Will Bite You" Teddy Hill
"The Boston Bounce" Victor Silvester
"I'm Gonna Make Believe" Frankie Carle
"Hollywood and Vine" Jimmie Grier

"Out on a Limb" Harry James
"Call of the Canyon" Guy Lombardo
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love" Freddy Martin
"Prairie Moon" Tommy Dorsey
"Silver Threads Among the Gold" Vaughn Monroe

"Overtime" Charlie Barnet
"Jack the Bear" Duke Ellington
"Jump for Joe" Kenny Graham
"It Had to be You" Alex Combelle
"Annie Annie Over" Charlie Ventura
"Something's Gotta Give" Mel Torme