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with Ken Heath
Big Band recordings of the 1930s and 40s, Friday nights, 6-9 pm, on WFWM(91.9 FM), Frostburg State University.

29/04/2024

Hey, Bing! Guess whose birthday it is, this coming Friday? It's YOURS! Another B.C., Bernie Cummins, is our "Orchestra on the Bandstand", but we're going to play at least ELEVEN records by The Ol' Groaner, including BING CROSBY's TOP TEN, on this week's show!

18/04/2024

Drummer DAVEY TOUGH and "The Mother of The Blues", MA RAINEY, both have birthdays, this Friday! Rainey will be our "Harmony Corner" feature, and Tough's work with Tommy Dorsey will be our "Orchestra on the Bandstand", along with samples of his work with several other bandleaders.

10/04/2024

TWO Big Band birthdays this Friday: JOHNNY DODDS("Our Orchestra on the Bandstand") and HELEN FORREST("Harmony Corner", plus wherever else we can fit in her big hits...with Shaw, Goodman, James, Haymes, and on her own!)!!!

03/04/2024

British bandleader RAY NOBLE was so popular in the U.S. that the "colonists" demanded that he and his singer, AL BOWLLY, come over to this side of the pond! Ray's our "Orchestra on the Bandstand", this week.

26/03/2024

JIMMY DORSEY will be our "Orchestra on the Bandstand" this coming Friday evening, as we'll play some never-before-on-our-show radio airchecks by him, from 1944, '45, and '50!

22/03/2024

From the opening scene of WVU Potomac State College's "Singin' In The Rain": my good friend(and castmate in several productions), Dani Whitlock, as "Dora Bailey", gossip columnist, with a side of ham(guess who, as Monumental Pictures head R.F. Simpson). If you're within range, please come see us and the rest of the gang, in a funny, heartwarming, family-friendly show(our last 3 performances are tonight, tomorrow night, and Sunday afternoon)!

18/03/2024

Two BIG birthdays this Friday: Baltimore's BLUE BARRON ("Orchestra On The Bandstand") & Big Spring, TX' HOYLE NIX(a king-sized TRIPLE "Cowboy Song of the Week", as yours truly loves both Hoyle and Jody's music and has the privilege of knowing the Nix family). This Friday, 6-9 p..m., on 91.9 and 96.3 FM(sorry, no stream available...'cept for where I go fishin'!).

12/03/2024

This coming Friday's HARRY JAMES' birthday! We'll feature some of his Autumn, 1939 recordings, along with a few airchecks, many of which star some skinny kid from Hoboken(that's "YOUNG Blue Eyes", standing at the mike, below).

01/03/2024

Another item popped up tonight, this one in my Facebook feed: many of you know that I'm a huge fan of Bela Lugosi. I met his son, Bela G. Lugosi, at the Stooges confab in 1995.

01/03/2024

This popped up in my cyber wanderings tonight...from many, many moons ago(35 years, to be exact): David "Curly" Knight and me as "Moe", hanging out with Three Stooges supporting actor Harold Brauer at the Stooges Fan Club Convention in Philadelphia, back in 1989. Photo courtesy of threestooges.net . The best part about those meetings were the people, and, since we impersonated, we got to visit with many Stooges co-stars. What stories! What wonderful, down-to-earth folks!

28/02/2024

GLENN MILLER's birthday anniversary is THIS Friday! THREE HOURS OF MARVELOUS MILLER MUSIC on this week's "Jukebox Friday Night", including requests and records from the beginning of 1941! 6-9 p.m., EST, Friday, only on WFWM Public Radio!

19/02/2024

This coming Friday's the anniversary of the birth of trumpeter/cornetist STERLING BOSE! "Jukebox Friday Night"'s going all out, featuring his work with JOE HAYMES as our "Orchestra on the Bandstand", along with playing records he made with BEN POLLACK, TOMMY DORSEY, BENNY GOODMAN, GLENN MILLER and more!
ALSO: One week from this Friday, on March 1, is our ANNUAL ALL-GLENN MILLER SHOW!!! Requests?

05/02/2024

This Friday's also the birthday of "The Texas Troubadour", ERNEST TUBB! "Jukebox"'ll celebrate by playing not one-not two, but THREE E.T. hits as our "Cowboy Song of the Week"!!!

05/02/2024

This Friday's the birthday of BLANCHE CALLOWAY! We'll feature Cab's big sis as our "Orchestra on the Bandstand" on "Jukebox Friday Night"!

31/01/2024

One of the forgotten bandleaders, drummer VIC BERTON, is our featured "Orchestra on the Bandstand", this week!

24/01/2024

DUKE ELLINGTON is our featured "Orchestra on the Bandstand" on this week's show, as we play his recordings from the first half of 1941!

17/01/2024

He caught a lot of good-natured grief as "Bing's little brother", but BOB CROSBY, pictured here in his WW2 USMC uniform, alongside civvie Bing, was a pretty good singer in his own right, and fronted a doggone good Dixieland-flavored big band. For "Orchestra on the Bandstand" this week, we're going to play selections from a new(well, to us) compilation of, not necessarily big hits, but bigtime-enjoyable recordings of Bob's orchestra, many of which were composed by his bassist, Bob Haggart.

09/01/2024

We celebrate the birthdays of TWO outstanding performers on this week's show: the Kansas City stylings of JAY McSHANN as our "Orchestra on the Bandstand", and "America's Most Beloved Cowboy", TEX RITTER, on a double-sized "Cowboy Song of the Week"!

05/01/2024

To start off "Jukebox"' 27th year on WFWM Public Radio, we feature Coleman Hawkins as our "Orchestra on the Bandstand" this week!

11/12/2023

Due to the stipulations of my contract with WFWM Public Radio, my Christmas break starts this coming Saturday and runs through Jan. 1. Although I won't be posting about the show during that time, it will certainly be on the air! 12/22---Christmas Show; 12/29---"Orchestra on the Bandstand": Artie Shaw. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Holidays to all!!!

11/12/2023

CHICK WEBB from 1936 is this week's "Orchestra on the Bandstand", and that means plenty of ELLA FITZGERALD!

09/11/2023

The one-and-only CAB CALLOWAY is our featured "Orchestra on The Bandstand", this week!

30/10/2023

AHH-HAAAAA!!! BOB WILLS and His Texas Playboys get our mini-feature this week, leading off each hour of "Jukebox" with some of their most bigbandiest sounding numbers(y'know, Bob thought of his band as a jazz group!). And, yours truly is gonna go ape, and play SIX Bob Wills platters on this week's show! Yes, I like Western Swing! And, I like GLENN MILLER, too! He's got a pair of his big hits scheduled. Plus, FOUR requests for last week's "Orchestra on The Bandstand", LES BROWN! I'm really looking forward to this 'un!

30/10/2023

THE FOUR VAGABONDS have been rarely(if ever) featured on our show...we make amends with FOUR selections by this fine vocal group, this week on our "Harmony Corner"!

30/10/2023

"Swing and Sway with SAMMY KAYE" is our featured "Orchestra On The Bandstand" this week! We'll play his recordings, from his hit "I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen", leading up to the infamous recording ban imposed by he-who-gets-the-razzberries, as we feature Sammy in 1942. Below, Mr. Kaye and a "lucky" audience member, selected for the ork's gimmick "So You Wanna Lead A Band?"...

26/10/2023

He's cut off in this pic, but it's the best one I could find of DORIS DAY's first stint with LES BROWN, in 1940-41. This week, on "Jukebox", we'll feature Brown's recordings from 1940, with Day joining him and the not-yet-band-of-renown near the end of that year.

17/10/2023

"The Stokowski of Swing", JAN SAVITT(and His Top-Hatters, including, of course, GEORGE "BON BON" TUNNELL), is our featured "Orchestra on The Bandstand" this week, with his recordings from Spring and Summer of 1939, including the shuffle-rhythm swing of "720 In The Books"!

10/10/2023

Have you ever heard of bandleader HERBIE KAY??? Betcha heard of his wife, DOROTHY LAMOUR! For the first time ever on our show, his is the featured "Orchestra on the Bandstand"(along with a couple by the Missus), this week!

02/10/2023

LIONEL HAMPTON, with recordings he made in 1940, swings our way as our featured "Orchestra on the Bandstand" this week!

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