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How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? - Sat, 08/25/2012

The easiest way to get to Carnegie Hall is simply to sit back and let The Sound of Swing take you there. This edition of the program features two historic jazz performances at the renowned concert hall. You'll hear selections from Benny Goodman's ground breaking 1938 concert and more from Duke Ellington's 1947 concert.

  • Benny Goodman / Honeysuckle Rose
  • Benny Goodman / Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing)
  • Benny Goodman / One O'Clock Jump
  • Duke Ellington / A Johnny Hodges Medley
  • Duke Ellington / Bakiff
  • Duke Ellington / Theme Medley
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Suites - Sat, 08/18/2012

          

          

       

  
When Jazz made its way out of the brothels it became socially acceptable. It also became subject to critical evaluation on an academic level. Jazz musicians, certainly with the collusion of their audiences, began to see themselves as "artists," and there was a demand from musicians and fans alike that the music be respected on par with more “Classical” forms.

    
  • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra / Liberian Suite
  • Fats Waller / The London Suite
  • Charlie Parker / Yardbird Suite
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Sampling the 30's - Sat, 08/11/2012

          

          

       

  
repeat from 11/12/2011

    
  • Gene Krupa's Swing Band / I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
  • Gene Krupa's Swing Band / Mutiny In The Parlor
  • Gene Krupa's Swing Band / I'm Gonna Clap My Hands
  • Gene Gifford / Nothin' But The Blues
  • Gene Gifford / New Orleans Twist
  • Gene Gifford / Dizzy Glide
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Bands Within Bands - Sat, 06/02/2012

          

          

       

      
  • Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra / I'm In Another World
  • Cootie Williams and His Rug Cutters / Delta Mood
  • Rex Stewart and His Fifty-Second Street Stompers / San Juan Hill
  • The Benny Goodman Trio / After Hours
  • The Benny Goodman Trio / Mean To Me
  • The Benny Goodman Trio / Margie
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Nothing In Particular - Sat, 11/05/2011

          

          

       

      
  • Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang's Blue Five / Hey! Young Fella
  • Harlan Lattimore and His Connie's Inn Orchestra / Chant Of The Weed
  • Louis Armstrong / West End Blues
  • Bix Beiderbeck / Singin' The Blues
  • Eddie South and His Orchestra / Nagasaki
  • James P. Johnson / I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling
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How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?

        

              

          
by Steve Clark
Thu, June 2, 2011
        

                    

      

      
1938 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert
      
The answer to the old riddle “How do you get to Carnegie Hall” is not “practice, practice, practice.” On this Saturday’s (June 4) Sound of Swing, we’ll take you there via two jazz concerts. The first is the ground-breaking 1938 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert billed as “20 Years of Jazz.” American music critic and historian of the Metropolitan Opera, the late Irving Kolodin was one of the first American critics to really pay attention to phonograph records and the classical and jazz performances preserved on them.

        

    
 
  

  

    

        
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love

        

              

          
by Steve Clark
Tue, May 24, 2011
        

                    

      

      
Jonah Jones and Cab Calloway
      
At the time of this broadcast – on this day in 1927 – a virtually unknown airplane pilot named Charles Lindbergh in the Spirit Of St Louis was about 2/3 of the way through his 33 ½ hour non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris. Overnight, “All things Lindbergh” was the rage.

        

    
 
  

  

    

              
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Sat, 05/21/2011

          

          

       

  
At time of this broadcast on this day in 1927 a virtually unknown airplane pilot named Charles Lindbergh in the Spirit Of St Louis was about 2/3 of the way through his 33 ½ hour non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris. Overnight, “All things Lindbergh” was the rage. I mention this, because of a little dispute that has emerged centering on a song credited to Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields called “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.” There are claims that the original music was by Fats Waller, not Jimmy McHugh and the lyrics were by Andy Razaf, not Dorothy Fields.

    
  • Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra and Chorus / A Tribute To Captain Charles A. Lindbergh
  • Nat King Cole / I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  • Lillie Delk Christian and Louis Armstrong / I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  • Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards / I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  • Mary Dixon  / I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  • Louis Armstrong / I Can't Give You Anything But Love
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Stevedore Swing - Sat, 03/26/2011

          

          

       

  
Stevedores, Deck Hands, Exotic Ports-of-Call. In this program we cover the waterfront, and we go to sea. We find out about estibadors, dockers and the man-along-the-shore. Artificial Silk, Hopewell Hawaiians, Knots, Logs, The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea. Bone up on your nautical terms here: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/nautical-phrases.html

    
  • Lester Young Trio / I Cover the Waterfront  
  • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra  / Stevedore Stomp 
  • Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra / Dusky Stevedore 
  • Sonny Porter, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang / Deck Hand Blues 
  • Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra / Sailin’
  • Teddy Wilson (solo) / Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 
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Didn’t He Ramble...

        

              

          
by Steve Clark
Mon, March 21, 2011
        

                    

      

      
Page Wilson, Virginia Blue and Steve Clark
      
I found this photo while digging around in my desk after Page Wilson died last week. It was taken in the early days of the broadcast of the “Out of the Blue Radio Revue.” From left to right in the photo are Page, his daughter Virginia Blue Wilson, and Steve Clark.

        

    
 
  

    

  
      
  
  
  
  
  

   


  
  



  



                    

                  

                                  

              

            

                                      

                
	


		
	
		


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