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 15, 2026

HOUR ONE

"Delightful Delirium" Artie Shaw
"I Was Doing Alright" Larry Clinton
"Knockin' at the Famous Door" Charlie Barnet
"Back Bay Shuffle" Artie Shaw
"I Go for That" Red Norvo

"Because My Baby Don't Mean 'Maybe' Now" Paul Whiteman
"So This is Susie" Ben Bernie
"Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away" Ben Selvin
"Cobble Stones" Ted Weems
"Oh! If I Only Had You" Ted Weems

"The Lord and Lady Whozis" Ambrose
"Zanesville, Zohio, ZZZ" Charlie Barnet
"You're in My Arms" Vera Lynn with Annunzio Montovani
"I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City" Johnny Mercer
"The Jitterbug" Larry Clinton

HOUR TWO

"Johnson Special" Abe Lyman
"Bottle Top" Joe Morris
"You Can Depend on Me" Orrin Tucker
"Three Little Sisters" The Andrews Sisters
"Don't Call Me Sweetheart Any More" Shep Fields

"Springtime in Charleston" Charlie Spivak
"I Never Loved Anyone" Claude Thornhill
"Can't Seem to Laugh Anymore" Bob Chester
"Solitude" Duke Ellington
"Yearning" Tommy Dorsey

"Any Old Time" Tony Pastor
"Don't Let the Doorknob Hitcha" Benny Goodman
"Ostrich Walk" Red Nichols
"Silver Moon" Buddy Morrow
"Piccadilly" Ted Heath
"Have You Got the Gumption?" Louis Jordan

 

PLAY LIST FOR AUGUST 22, 2026

HOUR ONE

"I Want My Share of Love" Larry Clinton
"Gotta Be Gettin'" Stan Kenton
"You" Tommy Dorsey
"A String of Pearls" Glenn Miller
"Half Step Down, Please" Coleman Hawkins

"Two Hearts on a Tree" Billy Cotton
"When I Take My Sugar to Tea" The Boswell Sisters
"All By Yourself in the Moonlight" Whispering Jack Smith
"Potato Head Blues" Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven
"Band Box Shuffle" Bennie Moten

"Thrilled" Hal Kemp
"A Room With a View" Russ Morgan
"Barroom Polka" Russ Morgan
"I Want to Be Happy" Benny Goodman
"I Can't Help It (If I Love You)" Henry Busse
"Scotch and Water" Stan Kenton

HOUR TWO

"Dr. Watson and Mr. Holmes" The Spirits of Rhythm
"Yours" Jimmy Dorsey
"You Rhyme With Everything That's Beautiful" Ambrose
"In an Old Dutch Garden" Dick Jurgens
"It's a Whole New Thing" Blue Barron

"Shadows on the Sand" Glenn Miller
"Here's My Heart" Jack Teagarden
"How Strange" Coleman Hawkins
"Your's is My Heart Alone" Claude Thornhill
"Let's Be Sweethearts Again" Blue Barron

"Palladium Party" Harry James
"Not Mine" Benny Goodman
"Easy Pickin'" Les Elgart
"Jeepers Creepers" The Mills Brothers
"That Lucky Old Sun" Jerry Gray
"Why Don't You Do Right?" Benny Goodman