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PO Box 90689
Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Jordan | Jordan for President | Let the Good Times Roll | Bear Family | song describes 1952 presidental election | |||
| Edythe Wright | All In Favor of Swing Say Aye | 20 Greatest Female Jazz Vocalists 1936-1952, Vol. 2 | |||||
| Ella Fitzgerald o/ Chick Webb | Vote for Mr. Rhythm | Ken Burns Jazz | Columbia/Legacy | ||||
| Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra | I Swung the Election | 1935-1939 | Chronological Classics | ||||
| Groucho Marx | These Are the Laws of My Administration | Duck Soup | Soundtrack Factory | ||||
| Fred Astaire | Election Returns | The Packard Hour | otr-cat.com | ||||
| Fats Waller & His Rhythm | The Joint is Jumpin' | Complete Recorded Works Vol. 4 | JSP | ||||
| Benny Goodman Orchestra | Christopher Columbus | THe Birth of Swing | Bluebird | ||||
| Cab Calloway | F.D.R. Jones | Best of the Big Bands | |||||
| Duke Ellington Orchestra | Rockin' in Rhythm | The Duke | Columbia | ||||
| John Coltrane v/ Johnny Hartman | Autumn Serenade | John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman | Impulse! | great request for the season! | |||
| Bill Evans Trio | Autumn Leaves | Portrait in Jazz | Riverside | another great request! I've never played this version of this song! | |||
| Blossom Dearie | Moonlight Saving Time | Once Upon a Summertime | UMVD | ||||
| Sammy Davis Jr. | Meeting the President | At the Cocoanut Grove | Reprise | ||||
| Frank Sinatra | High Hopes (JFK Campaign Song) | On the Radio | Capitol | ||||
| Fred Astaire | Election Returns | The Packard Hour | otr-cat.com | ||||
| Kay Starr | If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) | Capitol Collector's Series | Capitol | RIP Kay Starr | |||
| Kay Starr | Wheel of Fortune | Capitol Collector's Series | Capitol | ||||
| Kay Starr | I've Got the World On a String | Spotlight On... | Capitol | Starr passed away on Thursday, she was 94! | |||
| Benny Goodman Orchestra | Solo Flight | The Original Guitar Hero | Sony | feat. Charlie Christian | |||
| Fred Astaire | Election Returns | The Packard Hour | otr-cat.com | ||||
| Fred Astaire | No Strings (I'm Fancy Free) | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at RKO | Rhino | ||||
| Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | Happy Days Are Here Again | The Golden Age of American Sweet Bands | Jasmine | rec. 1932, this was a campaign song for FDR | |||
| Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Campaign | I Like Ike | s/t | otr-cat.com | from the 1956 campaign | |||
| Pearl Bailey | Doin' the New Low Down | Naughty but Nice/Songs from the Bad Old Days | always happy to play Pearl Bailey! | ||||
| Peggy Lee | It's a Wonderful World | Things are Swingin' | Capitol | great request! glad you're back home! | |||
| Adlai Stevenson Presidential Campaign | It's Adlai to Me | s/t | otr-cat.com | from the 1956 campaign | |||
| Frank Sinatra | Here's to the Losers | The Reprise Collection | Reprise | great request! I think we're all losers this year | |||
| Woody Herman | Early Autumn | Complete Capitol Recordings of Woody Herman | Capitol | great request! | |||
| John Kennedy Presidential Campaign | Kennedy For Me | s/t | otr-cat.com | from the 1960 campaign | |||
| Fred Astaire | Election Returns | The Packard Hour | otr-cat.com | ||||
| Glenn Miller Orchestra v/ Marion Hutton | At the President's Birthday Ball | The Marion Hutton Collection | |||||
| Benny Goodman Orchestra v/ Martha Tilton | And the Angels Sing | Let's Dance | Big Band Jump | another great request! | |||
| Les Brown Orchestra v/ The Modernaires | The Milkman's Matinee | 45" | Coral | not strictly a request, but I know you like this song & I'm glad you're back! | |||
| Perry Como | One More Vote | The Definitive Perry Como Collection, Vol. 5 | BOFM | ||||
| Fred Astaire | Election Returns | The Packard Hour | otr-cat.com | ||||
| Pete Seeger | L'Internationale | Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits | it's political, it fits! | ||||
| The Six Jumping jacks | I Do Not Choose to Run | Flashbacks 2: Novelty Songs | Trikont | ||||
| Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians | Ike, Mr. President | 45" | Decca | from the 1952 campaign | |||
| Fred Astaire | Election Returns | The Packard Hour | otr-cat.com | ||||
| Noel Coward | I Like America | The Noel Coward Album | Sony | ||||