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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