Show Notes: 28 August 2011 - Colors of Swing

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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends – to borrow a line from Emerson, Lake, .... or was it Palmer? I’m not sure, but all that matters is that you are here at the Meridian Night Club for another edition of the Future of Retro Radio.  

Tonight’s show has been an experimental one – normally, musical director and band leader Bobby Marlette and I have our weekly meetings to discuss upcoming themes and musical selections, we listen to dozens of songs and albums, get our research man John Cameron-Cameron to look up information on artists past and present, we taste test the various Martini Time concoctions to make sure they are up to quality for our Friends of Swing Shift, and then we go about getting the live show ready for the audience that week.
  
This week, I made a dangerous executive decision that didn’t involve NATO.  I invited the audience to become a part of the show and suggest a song or artist that fit this week’s theme – Color.  It could be the title of the song, the subject or even the artist or composer's name.  I would go over the submissions with Bobby Marlette and we would choose the best fits for the show.  If your song was chosen then you would receive free tickets to a live taping and broadcast of the Swing Shift Radio Show and dinner for two on us here at the fabulous Meridian Night Club and Lounge.

The winner of the song requesting contest was Miss Lisa G of Powder Springs, with her request of Blue Skies by Lavay Smith and Her Red-Hot Skillet Lickers. Two colors in one submission.  Nice.

Here are the songs in the rundown for this week's edition:

• Black and White – Bellevue Cadillac
• Pink Cadillac – Paul Bascom
• Red Light! Indigo Swing
• Girl With The Crimson Hair – Imperial Swig Orchestra
• Blue Skies – LaVay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
• My Blue Heaven – Frank Sinatra
• Blues in the Night – Rosemary Clooney
• Orange Colored Sky – Natalie Col
• Jumpin’ at the Green Mill - The Mighty Blues Kings
• Brown Derby Jump – Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
• Sweet Georgia Brown – Ella Fitzgerald
• Mood Indigo – Nina Simone w/ G-Swing

Two of the bed pieces (instrumentals used during the host-speaking portions of the program) we played were:

• Sepia Bounce – Jay McShann
• Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White– Perez Prado

 
Our It's Martini Time segment was equally as colorful, the rich emerald hue brought by the Vodka Grasshopper, courtesy of Josh DuBois of Monkeysee.com.


So that's how the color wheel spins, my friends.  We'll see you on the episode of The Future of Retro-Radio - The Swing Shift Radio Show!

Tommy Cage

Don't forget to listen to us every week on WGUN 1010 AM Atlanta, Saturdays at 1pm or Sundays at 7pm!
If you like what you hear, drop me an e-mail: TommyCage@SwingShiftRadio.com - - Song requests or theme suggestions or requests for a particular beverage to be highlighted on "It's Martini Time!", it is the same address!