WEVL Spring Pledge Drive And SSS Special

WEVL 89.9 FM is the home of the SSS, and the station begins its Spring Pledge Drive tomorrow morning.  There will be nine days of special programming, including a special edition of the SSS on Wednesday, April 20 - "Night on the Town:  A musical tour through New York City in the Swing Era."  As a listener-supported, noncommercial station, WEVL relies heavily on pledge drives to keep operating, so mark you calendars, set your dial, get ready to call with your pledge, and enjoy.  Thanks.

Sunrise Serenade: Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet

Today's Sunrise Serenade was "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet" by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra.  Click on the song title to listen courtesy of Jazz On Line. 

Playlist For April 10, 2013

The playlist for the April 10, 2013 broadcast of the Swing Shift Shuffle has been added to the playlist filing cabinet. 

Travel Without Leaving Home

This article from the September 1936 issue of Mechanics and Handicraft, posted on Modern Mechanix, shows another example of how folks in the 1930's got away from it all.  This modern, streamlined RV even featured a built in canoe on the roof. 

Sunrise Serenade: Beale Street Mama

Today's Sunrise Serenade was "Beale Street Mama" by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra.  Click on the song title to listen courtesy of Jazz On Line. 

One Last Hop Before Tax Deadline

The Red Hot Lindy Hop lesson and session continues this Friday night at the Rumba Room.  Free lesson at 7:00 p.m.  Free admission before 7:00, and $5 cover at the door afterwards.  Lesson by Kirk and Jeska with music by Jeska.  Dress like you are going out!

Rumba Room

303 South Main

Memphis, TN 38103

The Tiger Rag progressive dance lessons and guided practice sessions are in full swing at the Madison Dance Studio in Minglewood Plaza, 1555 Madison Ave Memphis, TN 38104.  Learn more and register here. 

Sunrise Serenade: Smoke Rings

This morning's Sunrise Serenade was that old favorite of my unconscious, "Smoke Rings" by the Casa Loma Orchestra.  Click on the song title to listen courtesy of Jazz On Line. 

Look! It is "Hourman!" (Seriously!)

Once again, just when I think that the storylines for Golden Age comic books could not get any weirder, along comes "Hourman - Sixty Minute Crime Fighter," posted on Four Color Shadows.  Absenteeism was a big concern in war production during World War II, and Hourman adressed that concern by only fighting crime on his lunch hour, so he has to wrap everything up in sixty minutes to get back to his job.

Sunrise Serenade: Rose Room

This morning's Sunrise Serenade was "Rose Room" by the Benny Goodman Sextet.  Click on the song title to listen courtesy of Jazz On Line.

Boom Boom

In this 1936 Leon Schlessinger Looney Toons animated short, Porky Pig is a doughboy in the trenches during (apparently) World War I.  As its title suggests, there are lots of gratuitous bullets, bombs and booms in this fairly violent but light-hearted (?) cartoon.  From the Internet Archive, here is Boom Boom.