Legends Mix

In today's mixed bag of goodies the stories are as varied as the music is. You'll get the child prodigy sensation of the mid-forties but also artists who were in their mid-forties or fifties when they recorded the song I play. You'll get one of the earliest Decca Rhythm & Blues records and one of four songs of Ray Charles that he recorded in Miami, after his succesful time in Seattle with Swing Time records, and before he signed with Atlantic. Blues that have been overlooked and long-time forgotten until the on-line music services re-released them - as soundfiles.

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Playlist

Wynonie Harris - Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
Lionel Hampton - Red Top
Sugar Chile Robinson - After School Blues
Meredith Howard - Just Kiss Me Once
Kirby Walker - When My Love Comes Tumbling Down
Lee Graves - Sixty Years and a Day
Laura Rucker - Cryin' The Blues
Julia Lee - My Man Stands Out
Prisonaires - That Chick's Too Young to Fry
Cats 'n Jammer Three - One Hundred Years from Today
Ravens & Dinah Washington - Hey Good Lookin'
Paul Bascomb - Mumbles Blues
Ray Charles - St. Pete Florida (I Found My Baby There)
Roosevelt Sykes - Ethel Mae Blues
Mel Walker - Unlucky Man
Todd Rhodes - Feathers

Outtro:

Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce

The following music served as background music during the spoken parts:

Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
Bill Doggett - Oof!
Buddy banks - Bank's Boogie
Illinois Jacket - Goofin' Off
Joe Houston - Flying Home
Lloyd Glen & his All-Stars - Jumpin' With Lloyd
Red Prysock - Monkey Business