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WXDU 88.7 FM
PO Box 90689
Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | |||
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Ethel Waters | Shine On, Harvest Moon | Cocktail Hour | Columbia River | ||||
Billie Holiday | Did I Remember? | Lady Day | Sony | love this song, couldn't fit it in during Billie Holiday tribute show a couple of weeks ago. This was recorded during the same 1936 session as "Summertime" and "No Regrets" and had Artie Shaw and Bunny Berigan in the band | |||
Artie Shaw w/ Gramercy Five | The Grabtown Grapple | Begin the Beguine | Membran | this song was written for Ava Gardner, Shaw's wife at the time. Grabtown was her hometown which was since been absorbed into Smithfield, NC | |||
Buddy Rich, Nat King Cole and Lester Young | I Want to Be Happy | Strike it, Rich! | Proper UK | inst. | |||
Ella Fitzgerald o/ Chick Webb | Wacky Dust | Stomping at the Savoy | Proper UK | ||||
Bunny Berigan | I Can't Get Started | An Introduction to Bunny Berigan | Best of Jazz | ||||
Benny Goodman Trio | Who? | Madhattan Room 20 Nov 1937 | otr-cat.com | live radio broadcast | |||
The Mills Brothers | Nevertheless | Mills Brothers: Anthology 1931-1968 | MCA | cannot find "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" by these guys!! Sorry, it's a great request! | |||
Ruth Etting | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | Love Me or Leave Me | ASV Living Era | hope this version will do instead | |||
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers | I Won't Dance | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at RKO | Rhino | "I Won't Dance" and "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" both premiered in the movie Roberta starring Fred and Ginger w/ Irene Dunne | |||
Duke Ellington | Ring Dem Bells | The Duke | Columbia | inst. | |||
Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters | Ol' Man River | Duke Ellington 100 Rare Sessions | feat. Duke Ellington on piano | ||||
Ella Fitzgerald | Oh, Lady Be Good | Essential Jazz | seminal scat performance, Ella was performing with Dizzy Gillespie and imitating the instruments with her voice | ||||
Eartha Kitt | Monotonous | Legendary | BMG | ||||
Henri Salvador | Que Si Que Non | Saint-Germain-Des-Pres | |||||
Frank Sinatra | All Of Me | Columbia Classics | Columbia | ||||
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong | Let's Call the Whole Thing Off | Ella and Louis Again | Verve | ||||
Sarah Vaughan | Whatever Lola Wants | Golden Hits | Mercury | ||||
Les Baxter | Whatever Lola Wants | Ultra-Lounge: Cha Cha De Amor | Capitol | inst. | |||
Anita O'Day | Tea For Two | Anita O'Day's Finest Hour | Polygram | rec live at Newport Jazz Festival, this performance can be seen in the movie Jazz On a Summer's Day | |||
Dinah Washington | Relax Max | The Swingin' Miss "D" | Emarcy | orchestra led by Quincy Jones | |||
Bobby Darin | Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey | As Long As I'm Singing | great request! | ||||
Sammy Davis Jr. o/ Sam Butera and the Witnesses | When the Feeling Hits You | When The Feeling Hits You? | Collector's Choice | ||||
Sammy Davis Jr. | I Married An Angel | All-Star Spectacular | Reprise | Sammy's so nice, I had to play him twice | |||
Roy Eldridge w/ Oscar Peterson Quartet | Little Jazz | Little Jazz Trumpet Giant | Proper UK | inst. | |||
Frank Sinatra & Ella Fitzgerald | Necessity | Frank Sinatra in Hollywood | |||||
Blossom Dearie | Just in Time | Blossom Dearie Sings Comden and Green | UMVD | ||||
Mel Torme | Old Devil Moon | Mel Torme in Hollywood | Verve | ||||
Nat King Cole | Route 66 | The Complete After Midnight Sessions | Essential Jazz Classics | ||||
Nelson Riddle | Theme from 'Route 66' | Music from a Bachelor's Den | DCC | ist. | |||
Vaughan Monroe | Kokomo, Indiana | Racing With the Moon | |||||
Glenn Miller Orchestra v/ Marion Hutton | Shh, It's a Military Secret | Till Then | History Channel | ||||
Kay Kyser Orch v/ Jack Martin | Strip Polka | A Strict Education in Music | ASV Living Era | ||||
Groucho Marx | Lydia the Tattooed Lady | At the Circus | Soundtrack Factory | written by Harold Arlen & Yip Harberg! | |||
Gus Arnheim & His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra v/ Bing Crosby | Ho Hum! | The Golden Age of American Sweet Bands | Jasmine | ||||
Benny Goodman Orchestra v/ Helen Ward | The Glory of Love | The Birth of Swing | Bluebird | ||||
Annette Hanshaw | Lovable and Sweet | Volume 6 1929 | Sensational | ||||
Artie Shaw Orchestra | No Regrets | Begin the Beguine | Membran | inst. | |||
Artie Shaw Orchestra | All I Remember Is You | Begin the Beguine | Membran | until next week! |