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The Desoto Hour 11/5/16

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Fall back with the Desoto Hour!

What’s new this Saturday night?

The Decade of the ’40s

  1. “Cruising Down the River” – The Crew-Cuts
  2. “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo” – Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
  3. “How High the Moon” – Pat Suzuki
  4. “Ballerina” – Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
  5. “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town” – Art Mooney

Billy May and His Orchestra – A Band Is Born!

  1. “There Is No Greater Love”
  2. “I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan”

Harry James and His Big Band – The King James Version

  1. “Traces”
  2. “Don’t Be That Way”
  3. “Sweet Georgia Brown”
  4. “Shiny Silk Stockings”
  5. “Blues Stay Away From Me”

Artie Shaw and His Orchestra – Back Bay Shuffle

  1. “It Had to Be You”
  2. “April in Paris”
  3. “Summertime”
  4. I Cover the Waterfront”
  5. “I Could Write a Book”
  6. “Back Bay Shuffle”

Shillelagh Law – 10/31/2016

  • A Stor Mo Chroi (The Love of My Heart) – Colm O’Donnell
  • Gwydion’s Song to Lleu – Emerald Rose
  • Coorie Doon – Matt McGinn
  • Factory Girls – Flogging Molly
  • Sister Gypsy – Blackmore’s Night
  • Sweet Viledee – Dervish
  • Witch’s Rune – S. J. Tucker
  • With Me Shillelagh Under Me Arm – Ruby Murray
  • The Lily of The West – The Chieftans & Mark Knopfle 
  • Vision Quest – Tempest
  • Wreck of the Julie Plante – Mustard’s Retreat
  • A Walk in the Irish Rain – Irish Descendants
  • Nancy The Tavern Wench (acoustic) – Alestorm
  • Ghost Dragon Attacks Castle – Carbon Leaf
  • The Jolly Roving Tar – The Irish Rovers
  • All For Me Grog – The Dubliners

House of Horrors Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

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This 2 hour of block of terror inducing music was as follows…

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The Desoto Hour 10/29/16

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Happy Halloween from The Desoto Hour!

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Benny Goodman – Air Play

  1. “Chicago”
  2. “Moten Swing”
  3. “You’re Blase”
  4. “I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams”
  5. “Stardust”
  6. “Russian Lullaby”

Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra – Volume II

  1. “Harlem Speaks”
  2. “Wild Mab of the Fish Pond”
  3. “Phyllysse”
  4. “The Gal From Joe’s”
  5. “Haunted Town”
  6. “Good-for-Nothin’ Joe”
  7. “Wings Over Manhattan”

Kyu Sakamoto – “Ue o Muite Arukou (Sukiyaki)”

Joe Haymes and His Orchestra – 1932-1935

  1. “Old Fashioned Love”
  2. “He’s the Life of the Party”
  3. “Pray for the Lights to Go Out”
  4. “Let’s Have a Party”
  5. “It’s About Time”
  6. “Ev’ry Little Bit of Me”
  7. “When I Put on My Long White Robe”
  8. “If It Aint’ Love”

Frank Sinatra – Swing Easy

  1. “Jeepers Creepers”
  2. “Taking a Chance on Love”
  3. “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
  4. “Lean Baby”
  5. “I Love You”
  6. “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter”

The Sounds That Swing

  1. “I Wish You Love” – Andre Kostelanetz
  2. “Fiddler on the Roof” – Village Stompers
  3. “The Girl From Ipanema” – The Glenn Miller Orchestra with Bobby Hackett
  4. “Bluesette” – Andre Previn
  5. “Brazil” – Percy Faith

Jazz Violins of the Forties

  1. “The Hot Canary” – Paul Nero
  2. “Pitzi-Cats” – Paul Nero
  3. “As the Crow Jumps” – Paul Nero
  4. “The Hep Hippo” – Paul Nero
  5. “Patches” – Joe Kennedy
  6. “Desert Sands” – Joe Kennedy

Charlie Parker – “Another Hair-do”

Shillelagh Law – 10/24/2016

  • Arthur McBride – Planxty
  • Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie? – Archie Fisher and Barbara Dickson
  • The Pretender Will Come No More – Smithfield Fair
  • Sound the Pibroch – John Allan Cameron
  • Bonnie Charlie – Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
  • The Demon Lover – Andy Irvine
  • The Fair Flower Of Northumberland – Dick Gaughan
  • Is There For Honest Poverty – Old Blind Dogs
  • The Lads O’ the Fair – Battlefield Band
  • Will Ye Go Lassie Go? – The High Kings
  • Spancil Hill – The Dubliners
  • Lament for the Molly Maguires – The Irish Rovers
  • Sober Again – Blood or Whiskey
  • Sunny Side Of The Street – The Pogues
  • Emerald City – The Tossers
  • Jig Runrig, The Ramnee Ceilidh – Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas