Special Programs for January 11 thru January 15
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
The Short List: “The Hits”
The Short List continues its look at jazz tunes that became popular hits. This week, host Bob Naujoks visits songs that scored high on the pop charts and have become party of Great American Songbook. Tune in to hear songs and stories from
Al Hirt’s “Java,” Al Hibbler’s “Unchained Melody,” Ray Charles’s “Busted,” Ramsey Lewis’s “The ‘In’ Crowd,” and Bobby Darin’s “Beyond the Sea.”
Special Programs for January 4 thru January 9
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Short List: “The Hits”
The Short List continues its look at jazz tunes that became popular hits. This week, host Bob Naujoks visits songs that almost made it to Number One on the pop charts. Tune in for these “almost Number Ones:” Kenny Ball’s “Midnight in Moscow,” the Chris Barber Jazz Band’s “Petit Fleur,” Ray Charles’s “You Don’t Know Me,” Jimmy Dorsey’s “So Rare,” and Marvin Hamlisch’s “The Entertainer.”
Special Programs for December 21 thru December 26
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Short List: “The Hits”
The Short List begins a series about jazz tunes that became popular hits. There have been a number of significant jazz artists who have charted well. This week we look back at some Number One hits of the 1950s and 1960s – Acker Bilk’s “Stranger On the Shore
,” Louis Armstrong’s “Hello Dolly,” Ray Charles’s “Georgia On My Mind” & “Hit the Road Jack,” and Herb Alpert’s “This Guy’s in Love With You.”
Special Programs for December 14 thru December 19
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Licorice Stick 2: Irving Fazola
Irving Fazola was a master of the instrument, but not necessarily his life. He loved jazz, drinking, food and women … but not always in that order. His biggest claim to fame might be his years with the great swing band of Bob Crosby in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He was
DownBeat’s Poll Winner in 1940 and 1941. Faz was a professional musician at fifteen, and played in Glenn Miller’s early band.