We'll hear a track from a 1958 live recording of Ella Fitzgerald at the Hollywood Bowl, we'll do the Ookey Ook with the Penguins, and hear more great doo-wop from The Persuasions as they cover Frank Zappa's My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama.
UpFront Soul #2024.29 Playlist
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1)
Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Kashmere Stage Band "Do Your Thing [Instrumental]" from Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974 ENDRECHERI "FUNK TRON" from NARALIEN Fishbone's Angelo Moore "Our House" from Our House Omar "Bully" from The Man A Tribe Called Quest "I Left My Wallet in el Segundo" from People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm Soul Rebels Brass Band "Living for the City" from Nothing But Love - EP Us3 "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" from Hand on the Torch Clarence Frogman Henry "Ain't Got No Home" Jessie HIll "Oogsey Moo" The Cadets "Stranded in the Jungle" Louis Armstrong & Dave Brubeck "Summer Song" from The Real Ambassadors Dorothy Donegan "Mack the Knife" from The Many Faces Of Dorothy Donegan Ella Fitzgerald "Alexander's Ragtime Band" from Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook on Verve/Ume Kool and the Gang "Summer Madness" from Hit & Run (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Butcher Brown "Bedroom Time" from GrownFolk Candi Staton "Summer Time with You" Shabaka "Call it a European Paradox" from Afrikan Culture Abbey Lincoln "Throw It Away" from Compilation de Festival International de Jazz de Montreal - Edition 2008 Herbie Hancock feat. Joni Mitchell "The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)" from River: the Joni Letters Meklit "Waiting for Earthquakes" from We Are Alive Dorothy Ashby "Action Line" from Afro Harping Joan Armatrading "Travel So Far" from Back to the Night Tabukah "X" "Finger Toe" from Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970's Nigeria Kaleta & Super Yamba Band "Mr. Diva" from Medaho Third World "Lagos Jump" The Persuasions "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" from Frankly A Capella Oliver Morgan "Who Shot the La la" The Penguins "Ookey Ook" from The Penguins at Dootone Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night