Show Notes: 5 September 2011 - Food, Glorious Food

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Summer time is coming to an end, and on this Labor Day Weekend, all of us here at Meridian Night Club wanted to pay homage to that most venerable of American Institutions – the backyard barbeque.  This is the time of year were we get that last weekend at the lake, beach, grandpa’s house and we gather with family and friends to eat and say good-bye to the warm sun and welcome the changing leaves of fall.

I want to send a thank you for this week’s theme to Scott Mensching of the Chicago based swing band, The Moon Rays.  The Moon Rays are one of my all time favorites for the way they embrace the classic sounds and play them true to form.  That’s not to say they don’t branch out to the wild and weird – they just do it with class.
They are also famous for their Halloween themed music - hence the graphic for the band.  We will play them a lot more the closer we get to All Saints Eve.  

But to get back to this week’s theme – Food, glorious food, the All American Buffet, our annual warm weather outdoor cook-out and even the “let’s just make reservations for dinner”.  My goal along with musical director Bobby Marlette and kitchen manager Amber Carroll was to come up with music representative of the bounty of our collective pantries.

Here is the run down for this weekend's program:

• Everybody Eats When They Come To My House – Cab Calloway
• Where’s My Gravy? – Steve Lucky and His Rhumba Bums w/ Miss Carmen Getit
• Cole Slaw – Jesse Stone
• Chicken Wing – Blues Jumpers
• Chicken Shack Boogie – Crescent City Maulers
• One Meatball – Andrew Sisters w/ Bing Crosby
• My Last Meatball – Ray Gelato
• Rubber Biscuit – The Blues Brothers
• Candy For Breakfast - Swingerhead
• Junk Food – The Camaros
• Frim Fram Sauce – Nat King Cole
• Crawfish Pie – Alien Fashion Show
• Restaurant – Dino Martinis

 Some of the bed music we played between songs was food themed as well:

• Boogie Woogie Barbeque – Bop Classics
• Diggin’ My Potatoes – New York Musicians
• Fish Market – Roy Eldridge

Our "It's Martini Time" recipe was offered by Josh DuBois of Monkeysee.dot com, a dessert styled libation, the Caramel Apple Martini.

That's about all for this update - if you want to have an input into our show, you can request a particular bartender/bar/restaurant/potable for "It's Martini Time", choose a theme or suggest a song/artist for us to highlight.  Just email me at TommyCage@SwingShiftRadio.com

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