This week we hear an African song that became a huge popular hit in North America in the 1950s that isn't called The Lion Sleeps Tonight and we discover one of the great musical talents of the swing era that almost nobody knows about (that's her in the picture). We'll also pair two records that are almost 100 years apart - one of Fats Waller's first recordings from the 1920s and new blues from LJ Mounteney.
Artist Title Bill Haley & His Saddlemen - Sundown Boogie The Cadets - I Got Loaded Art Gibson & His Mountain Melody Boys - Everybody's Sweetheart Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band - Skokiaan Fats Waller and His Buddies - The Minor Drag LJ Mounteney - Dirty Rat Doris Troy - Lazy Days Janis Martin - Billy Boy, My Billy Boy Big Mama Thornton - Cotton Picking Blues The Zion Travellers - I Got To Move Billy Jack Wills and his Western Swing Band, 1952-54 - Cadillac in Model 'A' Valaida Snow - High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm The "5" Royales - Too Much Lovin' (Much Too Much) Jimmy Lee And Artis - Let's Talk It Over Baby Hardrock Gunter - Birmingham Bounce Del Vikings - A Sunday Kind Of Love Wynona Carr - Jump Jack Jump Brad Suggs - 706 Union Buddy Holly - Blue Days, Black Nights Arthur Smith & His Crackerjacks - Hi-Lo Boogie