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This week’s show is mostly about swinging…and maybe some blues, too!

A proper way to swing into spring!!

• Helen Merrill
• Chet Baker
• Thelonious Monk
• Miles Davis
• Charles Mingus
• Johnny Hartman
• Benny Goodman
• Nat “King” Cole
• Mel Tormé
• Quincy Jones
• Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto
• Clockhammer
• Tito Puente
• The Afghan Whigs
• Curtis Mayfield
• Sly & The Family Stone
• John Coltrane
• Texas
• The Afghan Whigs
• Stevie Wonder
• Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins
• Ray Charles
• Count Basie
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Kate Bush
• Peter Gabriel
• David Allyn

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This year’s show features some new music I’ve never played before as well as some perfectly wonderful standard Irish fare. But, the entire show was “Made In Ireland” in one form or fashion!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone!

• Imelda May
• Iarla Ó Lionáird
• The Gloaming
• Bing Crosby
• Helen O’Connell
• The Chieftains
• Clannad
• Kane O’Rourke
• The Gloaming
• The Chieftains
• Emma Langford
• Villagers
• Glen Hansard
• Declan O’Rourke
• Afro Celt Sound System
• The Pogues
• Fonatines D.C.
• Mary Black
• Johnny Leary
• Paddy Kiloran
• Seosamh Mac An Iomaire
• Fiachna Ó Braináin
• The Lost Brothers
• Brendan Tallon
• One Morning In August
• Emma Swift
• SomeRiseSomeFall w/ John Blek
• Robert John Ardiff
• Gerr Walsh
• Arrivalists
• Bell X1 w/ The Dowery Strings
• Fiachna Ó Braináin
• Mary Courtney
• The Bothy Band
• Davy Spillane w/ Sinéad O’Connor
• Davy Spillane
• Stephen James Smith
• Colm Mac Con Iomaire
• Eileen Ivers
• Lankum
• Megon McDonough
• Hallie
• Clare Ó Riordan
• Hyland & Brunnock
• Van Morrison
• Hothouse Flowers
• U2
• Kane O’Rourke
• Afro Celt Sound System
• The Gloaming
• Joe Chester
• Alana Henderson
• Ed Sheeran
• Glen Hansard & Friends.

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This year’s Christmas episode is the longest show I think I’ve ever done…clocking in at 5 & a half hours. It’s intended to be enjoyed as you cook, bake, wrap presents, shop for presents or whatever it is you love to do during the holiday season!

ENJOY!

• Perry Como
• Andy Williams
• Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops
• Mel Tormé
• Perry Como
• George Winston
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Doris Day
• Bing Crosby
• Nat “King” Cole
• Tony Bennett
• Bobby Darin
• Pearl Bailey
• Bessie Smith
• John Lee Hooker
• Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
• Otis Redding
• Frank Wallace
• Ashley MacIssac
• Altan
• Loreena McKennitt
• Anuna
• Clannad
• Donal Lunney, Zoe Conway & Mairtin O’Connor
• Eimear Quinn
• Mick Flannery
• The Hedge Schools
• Walking On Cars
• Lisa Hannigan
• Judy Collins
• Damien Dempsey
• U2
• Nancy Lamott
• Mannheim Steamroller
• Andy Williams
• Vince Guaraldi
• Burl Ives
• Gene Autry
• Roy Orbison
• Bill Monroe
• Lyle Lovett
• Elvis Presley
• Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison
• Charlie Parker
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Lena Horne
• Jack Jones
• Frank Sinatra
• Harry Connick, Jr.
• Luciano Pavarotti
• Mario Lanza
• Julie Andrews
• Judy Garland
• Vic Damone
• The Philadelphia Orchestra
• Leontyne Price
• Nancy Wilson
• Guy Lombardo
• Maria Walsh
• John Coltrane

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This entire episode is Sammy Davis, Jr. singing about 15 tracks both in the studio in concert.

Earlier this week, I’d played & shared some Sammy Davis, Jr. on Instagram…and that inspired me to do this abbreviated show dedicated to the man & the legend…there was no myth about it…even though his skills were mythical.

ENJOY!

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This week’s episode is a mix of mostly live recordings by Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald…and backed up with some southern home cooking by Bob Wills, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings & more. I recorded it poolside in rural Texas!

ENJOY!

• Tony Bennett
• Frank Sinatra
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Count Basie
• Duke Ellington
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
• Waylon Jennings
• Willie Nelson
• Freddie King
• ZZ Top
• Stevie Ray Vaughan

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This is an episode dedicated to my folks…they’d have been together 56 years today.

• Mel Tormé
• Duke Ellington
• Nat “King” Cole
• Count Basie & His Orchestra
• Quincy Jones
• Grant Green
• Big John Patton
• Louis Armstrong
• Johnny Hartman
• George Gershwin
• John Denver
• Jeff Buckley
• Laura Nyro
• The 5th Dimension
• Frank Sinatra
• “Big” Joe Turner
• Bill Haley & His Comets
• Bobby Freeman
• Chuck Berry
• Anita O’Day
• Ella Fitzgerald
• The Afghan Whigs
• The Clancy Brothers
• Benny Goodman
• Bon Iver

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I wasn’t sure I was even going to do a show today, but this day 20 years ago changed everyone’s lives – Americans, for sure, but almost all of the rest of the world, too.

May there be peace soon…in our time.

• Duke Ellington
• Mel Tormé
• Nina Simone
• Duke Ellington
• Louis Prima
• Gene Krupa
• Lee Wiley
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Duke Ellington
• Laura Nyro
• Lara Downes
• Woody Herman
• Johnny Hartman
• Nat “King” Cole
• Nick Drake
• …And You Will Know Us…
• Lou Reed
• The Ramones
• U2
• Sinead O’Connor
• Billy Joel
• West Side Story
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Billy Bragg & Wilco
• Ellis Paul
• Elvis Costello
• Bruce Springsteen
• Eddie Vedder & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Frank Sinatra

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This week’s show is a short treatise…but it’s a fun treatise!

ENJOY!

• Nina Simone
• Sarah Vaughan
• Dinah Washington
• Helen Merrill
• Billie Holiday
• Anita O’Day
• Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Eliington
• Charlie Parker
• Les Paul
• Johnny Hartman
• Quincy Jones
• Nat “King” Cole
• U2
• Original Cast of ‘West Side Story’
• Clockhammer

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This week’s show is a tight & lively set…but, with a definite vibe for your summer occasions!

ENJOY!

• Frank Sinatra
• Nat “King” Cole
• Tony Bennett
• Big John Patton
• Arthur Prysock
• Johnny Hartman
• Amy Winehouse
• Count Basie
• Art Blakey
• Miles Davis
• John Coltrane & the Red Garland Trio
• Thelonious Monk Quartet
• Charles Mingus
• Aretha Franklin

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This week’s show is all aglow with the fireworks of the American songbook…and most of it being dedicated to America & the promise that we can be. I do also include one Canadian act who’s best know for some about women of the American persuasion!

Happy 4th of July, everyone!

• The Staples Singers w/ the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King
• Duke Ellington
• Matt Glaser & Jacqueline Schwab
• Woody Herman
• The Guess Who
• Grand Funk Railroad
• Hamilton
• 1776
• George Gershwin
• Bessie Smith
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Nat “King” Cole
• West Side Story
• 1776
• Hamilton
• John Phillips Sousa
• George Gershwin
• Bruce Springsteen
• Don McLean
• Neil Young
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Frank Sinatra
• Willie Nelson
• Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir
• Jay Unger, Paul Roebling & David McCullogh